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Measurement invariance of the nine-item Internet Gaming Disorder Scale (IGDS9-SF) across Albania, USA, UK, and Italy
2018
The IGDS9-SF, which assesses Internet Gaming Disorder behaviors, has been validated in a number of countries (Portugal, Italy, Iran, Slovenia), although the psychometric equivalence of the instrument has been assessed only across Australia, the USA, the UK, and India. This research aimed at providing further cross-cultural insights into IGD by assessing the factorial structure of the IGDS9-SF in Albania and investigating its measurement invariance across Albanian, Italian, American, and British gamers. Multi-Group Confirmatory Factor Analyses were performed on a sample of 1411 participants from Albania (n = 228), USA (n = 237), the UK (n = 275), and Italy (n = 671). The CFAs confirmed the s…
Childhood Maltreatment, Pathological Personality Dimensions, and Suicide Risk in Young Adults
2018
Several studies have demonstrated that child maltreatment (psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, and neglect) may be a significant factor in the development of pathological personality traits that increase the risk for suicidal ideation and behavior from adolescence to adulthood. Currently, the challenge is to understand how different forms of early negative experiences render an individual prone to develop specific personality traits and, in turn, be more vulnerable to suicide risk. To understand the relationship between childhood maltreatment and personality dimensions in suicide risk, our study aims to explore the role of self-criticism and dependency, two different pathological per…
LA VERSIONE ITALIANA DELLA CECA (CHILDHOOD EXPERIENCE OF CARE AND ABUSE): L’INTERVISTA PER LA RILEVAZIONE EMPIRICA DELLE ESPERIENZE DI CURA ED ABUSO …
2011
La Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse–CECA (Bifulco et al. 1994), recentemente adattata per la popolazione italiana (Giannone, Schimmenti et al. 2011) è considerata il criterio gold standard per la rilevazione delle esperienze di cura ed abuso vissute in età infantile e adolescenziale. Si tratta di un’intervista retrospettiva semistrutturata, utilizzabile con soggetti giovani e adulti, che esplora le esperienze vissute fino ai 16 anni di età con i genitori ed altre figure significative. È ampiamente riconosciuto in letteratura come contesti relazionali ed esperienze infantili abbiano un ruolo determinante nella strutturazione del Sé (Bifulco e Moran 1998; Fonagy et al. 2002; Giannone et…
Esperienze di attaccamento e competenza emotiva nei minori abusanti
2014
Le relazioni interpersonali consentono ai bambini di apprendere quale significato attribuire alle emozioni, nonché quali modalità socialmente accettabili utilizzare; tra le variabili in grado di spiegare il comportamento dei minori abusanti appaiono particolarmente significative la scarsa competenza emotiva e l’insicurezza del legame di attaccamento. La valutazione della storia personale e dell’Adult Attachment Interview di due utenti dell’Ufficio di Servizio Sociale per i Minorenni (USSM) di Palermo accusati di un reato sessuale ha permesso di evidenziare una mancanza di intimità nelle relazioni che viene disfunzionalmente compensata attraverso la condotta abusante. L’analisi dei due casi …
La versione italiana dell’intervista CECA (Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse): caratteristiche psicometriche su campioni non clinici e clinici.
2011
La CECA (Childhood Experience of Care and Abuse: Bifulco et al. 1994) è un’intervista retrospettiva semistrutturata, utilizzabile con soggetti giovani e adulti, che esplora le esperienze vissute con i genitori e con altre figure significative nell’infanzia e nell’adolescenza. L’intervista CECA permette di ottenere misurazioni affidabili e utili, in termini clinici e di ricerca, sui contesti di sviluppo, le cure affettive e materiali ricevute e le eventuali esperienze di maltrattamento e abuso. L’uso dell’intervista CECA risponde all’esigenza di valutare aspetti oggettivi piuttosto che percezioni soggettive dell’esperienza precoce, avendo a disposizione un formato ampio di eventi su cui è po…
What does augment the risk to use cannabis on an everyday-basis in psychotic patients?
2017
Introduction There are strong enough evidences of the fact that risk of psychosis is augmented by cannabis use. In a recent analysis, the strongest predictor of case-control status was daily-skunk use, i.e. the ORs for skunk users increase with the frequency of use5. We know also that FEP who smoked cannabis in their lifetime are less neuropsychologically impaired i.e. they have better premorbid and current IQ6. In this study we wanted to test what augments the probability to be everyday users, taking into account premorbid social and academic adjustment and cognition as predictors, along with age at first cannabis-use and % of THC in cannabis used. Methods The sample was made of 834 First …
VALIDITY AND CREDIBILITY OF A CHILD’S TESTIMONY OF SEXUAL ABUSE: A CASE REPORT
2012
The allegation by a child victim of sexual abuse is, in many cases, the most important evidence of wrongdoing, especially in absence of medical or physical evidence or confes-sions of guilt. The Rorschach inkblot test is a projective personality assessment technique used to evaluate child witnesses. We report a case of three girls allegedly abused by the father, in which the psychometric evaluation with the Rorschach test did not give credibility to the testimony of the chil-dren. When interrogating a minor, it is very difficult to distinguish between a true and a lie. Indeed, many different elements can affect the dialogue, such as the child’s age, the events being discussed, interrogation…
Laryngopathies by vocal abuse: clinical multidisciplinary evaluation in workers at risk
2014
Background: Attention to vocal pathologies in occupational categories that provide for a continuous use and often abuse of phonation has grown in recent decades. Objectives: Aim of this study was to evaluate presence of laryngopathies by vocal abuse in subjects occupationally exposed, namely teachers and singers, compared with non-exercising jobs at risk, also checking if self-assessment tests and spectrographic signals could be predictive of disease observed with endoscopy. Methods: We therefore proceeded to enroll on a voluntary basis, after information campaign, subjects, which in addition to an ananmnestic framework, underwent a multidisciplinary evaluation, which included, besides a fi…
Manifold instances of proximity violence and proximity vulnerability of the migrant women
2020
Over the past few decades and up until 2017, Sicily has hosted increasing numbers of African fugitives into the European Union. Within this markedly multicultural context, the authors carried out a two-part qualitative research project, the first part consisting in participative observation of a number of sub-Saharan women hosted by some of the island’s refugee reception centres, victims of abuse, followed by a set of semi-structured interviews administered to them. The aim of the paper was to analyse some of the role positions found in gender dynamics among migrants, throwing light on possible processes by which mechanisms of submission to and normalisation of gender violence seem to have …
Victim to Victimizer: The Psychology of Isomorphism in a Case of a Recidivist Pedophile in Finland
1999
ABSTRACT An extreme case of a six victim, 38-year-old recidivist sex offender was selected for examining the isomorphic relationships between child sexual abuse trauma and adult sex offenses. This sex offender had victimized children of both sexes and an adult woman. Life history, letter, file, and the Adult Attachment Interview information were analyzed to seek the relations between childhood abuse experiences and adult offending. Both subjective reports and file data revealed that the man had experienced severe physical, psychological, and sexual abuse in childhood. His pattern of sexual offending against children was similar to his own experiences of sexual abuse by his father. The age o…