Assessment of anxiety in older adults: a review of self-report measures

M Balsamo, F Cataldi, L Carlucci… - Clinical interventions in …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
With increasing numbers of older adults in the general population, anxiety will become a
widespread problem in late life and one of the major causes of health care access …

A multidimensional analysis of religious extremism

S Wibisono, WR Louis, J Jetten - Frontiers in psychology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Even though religious extremism is currently a hotly debated topic, it is often reduced to a
unidimensional construct that is linked to religious violence. We argue that the contemporary …

Demographic and attitudinal factors of adherence to quarantine guidelines during COVID-19: the Italian model

L Carlucci, I D'ambrosio, M Balsamo - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In Italy, a large outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) occurred from 2020
January 30, before the World Health Organization has stated that it is a pandemic. The …

Italians on the age of COVID-19: the self-reported depressive symptoms through web-based survey

M Balsamo, L Carlucci - Frontiers in psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected the Italian community.
The widespread use of quarantine had the desired impact of controlling the epidemic …

Further insights into the beck hopelessness scale (BHS): Unidimensionality among psychiatric inpatients

M Balsamo, L Carlucci, M Innamorati, D Lester… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Short versions of the Beck Hopelessness Scale have all been created according the
Classical Test Theory, but the use and the application of this theory has been repeatedly …

The relation between religion and well-being

AB Cohen, KA Johnson - Applied Research in Quality of Life, 2017 - Springer
This article reviews research on religion and well-being, focusing primarily on Western,
traditional religions. We provide some nuance, caveats, and future directions for further …

The negative relationship between reasoning and religiosity is underpinned by a bias for intuitive responses specifically when intuition and logic are in conflict

RE Daws, A Hampshire - Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
It is well established that religiosity correlates inversely with intelligence. A prominent
hypothesis states that this correlation reflects behavioral biases toward intuitive problem …

Measuring the sense of agency: a French adaptation and validation of the sense of agency scale (F-SoAS)

JC Hurault, G Broc, L Crône, A Tedesco… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the subject of growing attention. It corresponds to the capacity to
claim authorship over an action, associate specific consequences with a specific action, and …

Religious cognitions and well-being: A meaning perspective

CL Park - The happy mind: Cognitive contributions to well-being, 2017 - Springer
The vast majority of research on the topic of religion and well-being has focused on
behaviors (eg, service attendance, prayer), motivation (eg, intrinsic religiousness), or inner …

Time to believe: Disentangling the complex associations between time perspective and religiosity

P Łowicki, J Witowska, M Zajenkowski… - Personality and Individual …, 2018 - Elsevier
Previous research has demonstrated the essential role of time perspective (TP) for
numerous vital outcomes, such as health, social behaviors, and well-being. Surprisingly …