Antonella Macchia's research while affiliated with Università degli Studi G. d'Annunzio Chieti e Pescara and other places

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Mindfulness could be defined as the state of consciousness with which one pays attention at the present moment in a non-judgmental and in a non-intentional way. Several studies have shown the efficacy of mindfulness in treatments relating to psychological diseases. For this reason, mindfulness has become an integrated element of cognitive-behavior...
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Il termine mindfulness indica un’attenzione consapevole, intenzionale e non giudicante, rivolta al momento presente. Negli ultimi anni numerosi interventi psicoterapeutici ed educativi, in età infantile e adolescenziale, hanno proposto programmi basati sul nuovo costrutto, per promuovere un miglior benessere e la prevenzione della psicopatologia in...
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Mindfulness is a state of complete awareness of one’s thoughts, which is intentional, non-judgmental and present moment by moment. In recent years several psychotherapeutic and educational interventions in childhood and adolescence have proposed mindfulness-based programmes to promote better well-being and to prevent psychopathology in young subjec...
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Generally, depressed people tend to adopt submissive behavior, to have a low self-consideration in social comparison, which causes fear of a negative evaluation. A time-prolonged submission results into a development of depression. Likewise, from an evolutionary view, religious beliefs and attitudes have functional implications for social life: est...
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The aims of this study were to investigate the construct validity of the Other as Shamer scale (OAS) using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and to examine the psychometric properties of its Italian version in a sample of 687 nonclinical individuals. The CFA results indicated that the hypothesized hierarchical model (with 1 higher order factor and...
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There is growing debate on the use of drugs that promote cognitive enhancement. Amphetamine-like drugs have been employed as cognitive enhancers, but they show important side effects and induce addiction. In this study, we investigated the use of modafinil which appears to have less side effects compared to other amphetamine-like drugs. We analyzed...
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Rs-fMRI acquisition and statistical analysis. (DOC)

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... 7 İtalya'da 9-18 yaş aralığında olan çocuk ve ergenlerle yapılmış başka bir çalışmada ise Cronbach alfa katsayısının ölçek toplam puanı için 0,74 olduğu bulunmuştur. 8 Baumann ve ark. 9 10-19 yaş arası çocuk ve ergenle yaptıkları geçerlilik çalışmasında ise Cronbach alfa katsayısı tüm ölçek için 0,83 saptanmıştır. Çin'de ilkokul çocuklarında yapılmış bir çalışmada ise bu değeri 0,82 olarak tespit etmişlerdir. ...
... Their analysis relied on a dataset comprising 1336 participants, aged 11 to 18 years. In yet another study, Bartoccini et al. (2017) demonstrated that the most effective factor structure of the CAMM for children and adolescents consisted of 8 items. After conducting EFAs, Items 2 and 5 were removed from the final Italian version due to their poor psychometric characteristics . ...
... In questa prospettiva, un interessante corpus di ricerche ha individuato nella spiritualità e nella religiosità dei veri e propri fattori protettivi verso i disturbi mentali, soprattutto verso la depressione: la dimensione spirituale incrementerebbe il senso di ottimismo e di speranza e la ricerca di un senso da dare alla propria esistenza, perseguendo un obiettivo elevato e integrato e contrastando il senso di isolamento e di mancanza di motivazione, i sentimenti di delusione, disperazione e rabbia e di paura della morte, questi dati sono stati accentuati dal quadro pandemico (Bonelli et al., 2012;Carlucci et al., 2015;Gonçalves et al., 2015;Koenig et al., 2012;Moreira-Almeida et al., 2014;Tommasi et al., 2020). Inoltre, la spiritualità e la religiosità risulterebbero associate a un miglior benessere psi-cologico e a una maggiore soddisfazione per la vita (Bonelli et al., 2012;Koenig et al., 2012;Moreira-Almeida et al., 2014), rappresentando un fattore protettivo anche verso il suicidio (Kleiman & Liu, 2014). ...
... The Other As Shamer Scale (OAS; Goss et al., 1994) in its Italian version (Balsamo et al., 2015) is an 18-item self-report scale that aims to measure global judgments about how the self is evaluated by others. Each item is rated on a 5-point Likert-type scale, ranging from 0 (never) to 4 (almost always), with higher scores denoting greater external shame. ...
... It is becoming clearer that the drug is acting on dopaminergic transmission, and, like other psychostimulants, it has a risk of addiction. Yet, the long-term effects are still not completely explored (69). It has been reported that modafinil and armodafinil, which is an oral non-amphetamine wake-promoting agent, improve excessive daytime sleepiness symptoms and have little abuse potential (70). ...