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Italian Network of Psychologists’ AssociationsThe 14
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European
Congress of Psychology
Milan, Italy 7-10 July 2015
The 14
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European
Congress of Psychology
Milan, Italy 7-10 July 2015
The 14
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Congress of Psychology
Milan, Italy 7-10 July 2015
The 14
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Milan, Italy 7-10 July 2015
The 14
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Milan, Italy 7-10 July 2015
The 14
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Milan, Italy 7-10 July 2015
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Keynote Speakers
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State of the Art
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Round Tables
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Symposia
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KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
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KEY001
THE INFLUENCE OF PRIMED GOALS ON ORGANIZATIONAL
BEHAVIOR
Gary P. Latham , University of Toronto, Toronto – Canada
There is a "replicability crisis" in social psychology regarding the effect of primed goals on behavior. In addition, the charge has been made that the effect, where it does exist, is so fragile as to be arguably irrelevant. This is not the case in organizational psychology. I will review field experiments as well as those conducted in laboratory settings showing that primed goals have an additive effect with consciously set specific, challenging goals on the performance of employees in call centers. Moreover, the effect lasted for a 4-day work week rather than seconds/minutes. The effect was also found for a primed learning goal where the participants initially lacked the knowledge to perform the task. Finally, data will be reviewed suggesting that goal setting theory explains the primed goal-performance relationship. These experiments include exact as well as conceptual replications.
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KEY002
VALUES AND PRO-ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIONS
Linda Steg, University of Groningen, Groningen – Netherlands
Why would people act pro-environmentally, even if this is associated with somewhat higher behavioural costs (e.g., money, time, or effort)? In this presentation, I will argue that various factors may motivate individuals to engage in such pro-environmental actions, and that values play a key role in this respect. I will elaborate on how values, and in particular biospheric values, encourage pro-environmental actions. Also, I will discuss factors that may activate or deactivate biospheric values, thereby increasing the likelihood of pro-environmental behaviour.
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KEY003
ACTION AND INTENTION UNDERSTANDING: THE NEURAL
MECHANISMS
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KEY004
ACTUAL VALUES AND ATTITUDES OF CZECH CHILDREN
Lenka Šulová, Charles University in Prague, Prague - Czech Republic
The paper introduces several interesting findings of a study conducted on 2,238 Czech children and adolescents in collaboration with the National Institute of Children and Youth Czech republic. The research project focused on identifying value orientations of 6-15 years old children. The central role played a family - the one in which a child lives, as well as the family the child itself is going to establish. What kind of partner and what kind of parent do children want to be? And do they want to become partners or parents at all? The survey was divided into five themes: 1. Family, 2. School , 3. Leisure, which was further divided into other sub-areas: Leisure time spent individually with parents, friends and Leisure time spent in an institution organized for leisure or informal education (institutions providing leisure activities), 4. Media, and these phenomena are essential socialization factors in children's life. The 5th part of the research is dedicated to life values and attitudes of children and adolescents. The paper will present selected results, explaining more general trends of contemporary children and adolescents.
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KEY005
PAYING TAXES IN A CLIMATE OF MUTUAL COOPERATION
Erich Kirchler, University of Vienna, Vienna - Austria
Tax evasion and aggressive tax planning by globally operating firms have brought taxation to the top of the international policy agenda. How to combat non-compliance? Besides the application of deterrence measures and the necessity of building an international consensus on developing instruments to control and influence the strategic behavior of multinationals, it is necessary to establish a sense in society that tax avoidance and tax evasion are wrong. Mutual cooperation between authorities and taxpayers must become the binding social norm. Identification of citizens and residents with the norm needs to be strengthened by establishing a synergistic interaction climate. Successful establishment of mutual cooperation depends on power of authorities and citizens’ trust in authorities. It is argued that manifestation of legitimate power corroborates trust in authorities. Also manifestation of coercive power can strengthen trust and a synergistic interaction climate. However, the use of coercive power is a double-edged sword bearing the risk of an antagonistic interaction climate of “cops and robbers”.
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KEY006
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE IN A WORLD OF CHANGE: UNRAVELLING
OUR SECRET TRAUMATIC ATTACHMENTS
Felicity de Zulueta. King’s College London, London - United Kingdom
Dr Felicity de Zulueta is an expert on attachment and the crucial role it plays in the traumatic origins of violence as well as in its prevention. She will begin by presenting the evidence that shows the huge importance of the first 2-3 years of life in child development. By linking these results with the high rates of domestic violence in our society, she will outline how damage to the vital processes of attunement and mentalisation in infancy leads to violence in the home and its transmission down the generations. Her ending however is one of hope as she presents us with a new empowering, effective and relatively low cost approach to healing the wounds of these traumatized families which is now used across the UK and is being promoted in Northern Europe, Mexico, Ecuador, Greece and Italy. This particular approach, which uses our current video devices, illustrates so well how modern technology married to the latest neuroscientific research can promote powerful change in the field of psychotherapy across the social divide.
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KEY007
HOW FAR CAN WE GET? A FUTURE PERSPECTIVE ON DIVERSITY
AND COLLABORATION IN PSYCHOLOGY
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KEY008
THE ORGANIZATION OF OBJECT KNOWLEDGE IN THE BRAIN:
DOMAINS AND ATTRIBUTES
Alfonso Caramazza, University of Trento, Rovereto – Italy; Harvard University, Cambridge - United States
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KEY009
RISK PSYCHOLOGY
Christine Roland-Lévy, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims – France
The presentation will deal with risk psychology, essentially from the perspective of social psychology. Besides a general introduction around the concept of risk and risk-taking a series of studies will be presented. Based on the Social Representation Theory, risk in general will be presented. The presentation will then develop around risk in the context of the financial and economic crisis. Examples of studies will also present risk-taking, with financial incentives around gambling. Finally, examples of the effects of risk-taking in sports will be presented.
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KEY010
THE VANISHING EFFECT OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY ON PERSONAL
VALUES: A STUDY OF PROTESTANTISM, CATHOLICISM, EASTERN
ORTHODOXY, ISLAM, JUDAISM, AND NON-AFFILIATION
Shalom H. Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem - Israel
Does people’s religion have an effect on what they consider to be the most important guiding principles in their lives? Does belonging to one religion or another lead to emphasizing different values? This talk will address these questions for the major Western religions. Most people, including many cross-cultural and cultural psychologists, think that religion has a profound effect on the value priorities of individuals. Some view religion as a critical source of value differences between nations and sub-national groups too. Are they right? I will tackle these questions with data from representative samples in over 30 countries, examining the value priorities of Roman Catholics, Protestants, Eastern Orthodox, Muslims, and Jews, and of those who profess no religion.
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KEY011
EMPOWERING COACHING: THE DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY AND
IMPACT OF A THEORY-BASED INTERVENTION TO PROMOTE
ADAPTIVE MOTIVATIONAL CLIMATES
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KEY012
SELF-REGULATION AS ORGANIZING INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT
IN CULTURAL CONTEXT
Gisela Trommsdorff, University of Konstanz, Konstanz - Germany
Self-regulation has usually been studied in Euro-American samples. This is a shortcoming which is even more disturbing when conceiving of the self as culturally bound. Therefore, I will present culture-psychological approach conceiving of self-regulation as organizing personality development in cultural contexts. The main focus is on the developmental conditions and the function of self-regulation for culturally appropriate developmental outcomes. The culture-psychological and developmental relevance of regulation will be underlined by selected studies. First, I will discuss different aspects of self-regulation (e.g., behavior and emotion self-regulation) and its functions for different domains of developmental outcomes (e.g., social competence and academic achievement). Second, I will focus on socialization conditions, including parenting and the cultural context, for the development of self-regulation. Further, I will relate the relevance of cultural values and modes of the self, e.g., the independent and interdependent self-construal, for specific goals of self-regulation and the cultural meaning of self-regulation. Based on empirical studies, associations of children`s self-regulation with socialization conditions are discussed suggesting a theoretical framework for the development and function of self-regulation in cultural context. I will conclude with questions on universal and culture-specific processes underlying self-regulation as organizing individual development. The general discussion combines the lens of culture with the lens of development.
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KEY014
MULTI-CULTURAL EXPERIENCES AND IDENTITIES:
PSYCHOLOGICAL DYNAMICS AND CONSEQUENCES
Verónica Benet Martínez, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona - Spain
This talk will review the psychological processes and consequences of being a multi-cultural individual and/or having multicultural experiences, while integrating relevant findings and theories stemming from cultural, personality, and social psychology.
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KEY016
REVEALING VOICE: THE CASE OF SEXUAL ORIENTATION
Anne Maas, University of Padova, Padua – Italy
It is often argued that discrimination of minority groups on the job market can be reduced through appropriate recruitment procedures, including the reliance on audio-only interviews. But does audio technology really prevent discrimination? I will argue here that voice contains a host of social information that affects impressions and inferences in a pervasive and largely automatic fashion. Using auditory gaydaras an example, I will show that people are greatly inaccurate in identifying sexual orientation on the basis of voice alone. Yet, they draw strong inferences from masculine vs. feminine and straight vs. gay sounding voice about the speaker’s traits, preferences, likely diseases, and leadership abilities. Voice may even change the very meaning of what is being said.
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KEY017
FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS: A LONG-LASTING SOURCE OF
WELL-BEING
Eugenia Scabini , Catholic University of Milan, Milan – Italy
In recent years, family has gained a prominent place in social sciences due to the rapid or even dramatic socio-demographic changes all over the world. In this scenario, what are the risk factors that may affect family well-being and the resources that the family can count on to fulfill its fundamental task, which is "to make human beings human"? The contribution involves two parts. The main findings regarding the link between family (i.e., couple and parent-child relationship) and well-being (i.e., physical and mental well-being) are presented in the first part, focusing on relationship quality, as well as on the constructs developed to examine it. The recent effort made by some scholars to pay attention to positive constructs (such as forgiveness and commitment) rather than negative constructs (such as conflict) allows a better understanding of the components of relationships in terms of relationship health. The second part of the contribution focuses on a perspective aimed not only at reaching a balance between the negative and the positive aspects of the relationships, but also at understanding the relationship “in itself” and promoting the good of the relationship. Fincham and Beach (2010) has proposed the idea of a true “positive relationship science” whose core construct is represented by “relationship flourishing”. In this regard, the “relational symbolic model” (Scabini & Cigoli, 2000) has provided new insights to the idea of “relationship flourishing” by identifying the specificities of “family relationship flourishing”. According to the “relational symbolic model”—whose core construct is “generativity”—the family is conceived as a multigenerational system. Generativity is an outcome of family relationships if these relationships realize their best potential; in the opposite case they produce degenerative outcomes. In this regard, generative well-being can be considered as a form of well-being produced by flourishing family relationships. Generative well-being occurs when family generativity (i.e., care and commitment towards the children) and social generativity (i.e., care and commitment towards the new generations) are connected to each other. Some research findings highlighting the two-fold role of family and social generativity are reported in the final part of the contribution.
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KEY018
HEALTH BEHAVIOUR CHANGE: CONSTRUCTS, MECHANISMS, AND
INTERVENTIONS
Ralf Schwarzer , Free University of Berlin, Berlin – Germany
Health-compromising behaviors are difficult to change. Theories assume that an individual’s intention to change is the best direct predictor of actual change. But people often do not behave in accordance with their intentions. This discrepancy between intention and behavior is due to several reasons. For example, unforeseen barriers could emerge, or people might give in to temptations. Therefore, intention needs to be supplemented by other, more proximal factors that might compromise or facilitate the translation of intentions into action. Some of these post-intentional factors have been identified, such as perceived self-efficacy and strategic planning. They help to bridge the intention-behavior gap. The Health Action Process Approach (HAPA) suggests a distinction between (a) pre-intentional motivation processes that lead to a behavioral intention, and (b) post-intentional volition processes that lead to the actual health behavior. In this presentation, studies are reported that examine the role of constructs, mechanisms, and interventions in the initiation and adherence to health behaviors (e.g., physical exercise, dietary behaviors, dental flossing). The general aim is to examine the effects of psychological constructs on health behavior change, based on various behaviors, time spans, and study participants from different countries.
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KEY019
TOWARDS STRESS-MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY: PERSPECTIVES
ON MEASURING AND ENHANCING THE HUMAN LIFE POTENTIAL
Anna B. Leonova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow - Russian Federation
The proposed hierarchical approach to construction of stress assessment and prevention programs integrates findings from three domains of contemporary stress research: ecological, transactional and regulatory paradigms (Leonova, 2003). Within this integrative framework, two complex psychological technologies – “Managerial Stress Survey” (MSS,) and “Individual Stress Resistance Promotion” (STRESIS) – have been developed and empirically validated (Leonova, 2007, 2012). We demonstrate how a rigorous implementation of this approach opens new perspectives on increasing human adaptation potential and wellbeing in different job/life situations. In particular, these technologies significantly enhance the motivational, self-regulatory and cognitive resources of the person.
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KEY020
TRANSFORMING EVIL INTO HEROISM
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KEYNOTE
SPEAKERS
INDEX
Latham Gary P. KEY001 Steg Linda KEY002 Rizzolatti Giacomo KEY003 Šulová Lenka KEY004 Kirchler Erich KEY005 de Zulueta Felicity KEY006 Roe Robert A. KEY007 Caramazza Alfonso KEY008 Roland-Lévy Christine KEY009 Schwartz Shalom H. KEY010
Duda Joan KEY011
Trommsdorff Gisela KEY012 Benet Martinez Verónica KEY014
Maas Anne KEY016
Scabini Eugenia KEY017 Schwarzer Ralf KEY018 Leonova Anna B. KEY019 Zimbardo Philip G. KEY020
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SA001
COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY AND SOCIAL WELL-BEING. ECPA
(EUROPEAN COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY ASSOCIATION) EFPA
ASSOCIATE MEMBER COMMUNITY PSYCHOLOGY STATE OF ART
Caterina Arcidiacono, Past President of ECPA (European Community Psychology Association), University of Naples Federico II, Naples – Italy
Community Psychology as well as the professional role of Community psychologists is a topic of increasing interest in our scientific domain. Community Psychology analyses the interaction among individual and social factors while proposing tools for social change as well as promoting justice, peace, democracy and social solidarity; it is a new discipline that pursues social transformative goals. Our question is why should psychology be interested in these objectives, given its natural inclination to study either individual well-being or psychic diseases. Our concern is to embed peoples’ individual, biological and psychological features in social context. Moreover, the aims and goals of Community psychology are to meet the changes of contemporary society. Being aware of the relationship between individuals and contexts, Community psychologists propose visions for the future of individuals, relationship and contexts by working as catalysts of social change and well-being. In that regard, Community psychologists propose visions, strategies and methods for working in health, social and educational contexts.The state of art proposed by ECPA (European Association of Community Psychology) will define goals and instruments of Community psychology to explore the need of specific training and development of peculiar competences. This state of art will also deepen what characterizes and makes the psychological competence peculiar for social well-being. How to act as experts on the interaction between individuals and contexts, and which contribution can psychology gain from the community psychology approach?Which professional training for the development of plans of action for Community psychologists in social setting as well as the dissemination of community psychology knowledge in the wider social field? An open debate on these subjects will be opened with all the audience.
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SA002
PSYCHOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON SUBSTANTIAL ORGANIZATIONAL
DEMOCRACY: INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL AND SOCIETAL OUTCOMES
Wolfgang G. Weber, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck – Austria
While several well-known research reviews focused upon moderate forms employees’ participation on the level of the workplace autonomy/control/decision latitude or the (self-managed/semi-autonomous) work group (see Theorell 2004 for a review), only little research exists on substantive democratic structures, where employees exercise influence over tactical or strategic decision-making in contemporary firms (for the latest, only limited, reviews see Freeman, 2007; Kruse, 2002). Concerning crucial predictors, the big majority of extant studies of organizational participation effects is based on restricted levels both of structurally anchored participation and employees’ individual participation in democratic decision making. In consequence, little is actually known about whether substantial organizational democracy, also compared to restricted levels of participation, is associated with potential outcomes like work motivation, value orientations, and organizational behaviour of employees, positively, and whether this may foster engaged citizenship orientations within and beyond the workplace (see Pircher-Verdorfer et al., 2013). This state of the art contribution intents to reduce this serious organizational psychological knowledge gap. Design/Methodology - Based on an empirically tested typology of high participative and democratic enterprises (Weber et al., 2008; e.g. representative democracies like workers’ cooperatives, democratic reform enterprises, and basis-democratic employee-owned self-governed firms), an extensive free category literature recherché using PsycINFO and related sources (PsycArticles, Psyndex etc.) provided several hundreds of publications (1975 – Sept 2014), out of which only 52 publications proved congruent with our strict criteria of in-/exclusion (democratic organizational features beyond workplace or work group participation, psychological correlates and outcomes, quantitative data analysis incl. significance testing). Results - The results indicate that structurally anchored organizational democracy and perceived individual participation in democratic decision making is linked differentially with nine areas of outcomes. For example, reviewing the respective studies revealed that mere employee ownership does not guarantee that corresponding workers perceive a high level of individual influence and participation in tactical or strategic decisions. Whether this is the case or not depends also on the concrete system of representative or direct organizational democracy and further factors (like the following). Both representative and direct participation are positively associated with ethical organizational climate which also seems to represent a mediator concerning outcomes like commitment and prosocial work behaviours. Further, perceived direct participation is much more frequently related to several indicators of satisfaction, job involvement, and organizational commitment (instrumental model sensu Klein, 1987) than pure employee ownership status (intrinsic model) as the majority of findings shows. Mixed results support Pateman’s (1970) spillover hypotheses, partially, which lets assume that several third variables may influence the positive interrelation between organizational democracy, prosocial work behaviours and civic orientations toward societal or cosmopolitan issues. Further, only a few existing findings concerning health factors in democratic enterprises do not provide a clear picture whether structurally anchored democracy on the level of the organization is related to indicators of stress and health or not. While the spillover hypothesis framework (Pateman, 1970; cf. Weber et al., 2009), Klein’s (1987) three motivation models of employee ownership, the three-component model of organizational commitment (Meyer et al., 1993), or the concept of (individual!) psychological ownership (Pierce et al, 1991; 2001) each were addressed by five publications or more, surprisingly, the literature recherché indicates that several
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prominent psychological theories or models that might prove highly relevant for the explanation of studied phenomena are nearly not considered within the reviewed studies (e.g., self-determination theory, theory of agency, activity/action theory, shared/distributed leadership and a lot of social-psychological concepts dealing with group and inter-group behaviour; for a discussion of possible theoretical advance in organizational participation theory see Weber & Jeppesen, 2014). Additionally, several methodological weaknesses were identified, e. g., complex constructs are often operationalised only superficially or questionably by means of a few or very heterogeneous items. Only a few longitudinal studies (which are not in accordance with present methodological standards) or multi-level studies were identified and nearly no quantifying process studies investigated the development of in-/dependent variables including their backlashs on democratic practices and structures. Further, we found a few hints on several mediators or moderators that need further investigation, like economic situation of the firm, ethically-oriented organizational climate, psychological ownership, attitudes toward participation, or work stress. Limitations - Because nearly all existing studies use cross-sectional design, findings of this review allow no causal inferences, on the one hand. However, because democratic structure or individually perceived participation were significantly associated with hypothesized outcomes in several of the subject areas considered, the possibility of causal effects of organizational democracy could not be falsified, on the other hand. Research/Practical Implications - Notwithstanding that, several findings provide hints how organizational structures and cultures can be improved to foster employees’ satisfaction with their organization, work motivation, affective and normative commitment, job involvement, or prosocial and civic orientations. Further, a lot of possible differences between democratically structured and conventional enterprises seem to be nearly not researched, e.g. concerning organizational resilience, moral competences, collective psychological ownership, innovativeness, collective artefacts and knowledge exchange, emotional work, burnout, mobbing. Several propositions will be presented for future research.
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SA003
EMOTION DYSREGULATION – MECHANISMS AND TREATMENT
Christian Schmahl, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg – Germany
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is characterized by severe functional impairments, a high risk of suicide, extensive use of treatment, harm to others, and high costs to society. Current theories view dysfunctions in emotion processing and social interaction as core mechanisms of BPD. This often leads to prototypical behavioral patterns such as non-suicidal self-injury, high-risk behavior, and impulsive aggression. Research on psychological and neural mechanisms of BPD points towards an interplay between dysfunctional information processing, impairments of fronto-limbic circuits, and learned maladaptive behaviors. This presentation will give an overview of the latest research on mechanisms of emotion dysregulation and disturbed social interaction in BPD. Further, it will delineate new avenues of treatment approaches for BPD which combine the understanding of neurobiological and psychotherapy mechanisms. Examples of this, which will be depicted in the presentation, are fMRI-based neurofeedback, effects of DBT on neural mechanisms of emotion regulation, and computer-based training of social interaction.
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SA004
COGNITIVE THERAPY: THE STATE OF ART
Antonio Semerari, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan – Italy
Cognitive psychotherapy has been recently witness to the development of many new techniques and interventions, which make uncertain the existence of a unified theoretical model. In order to clarify the state of art, we will distinguish between strategic goals and techniques and tactics in psychotherapy which help to pursue these goals. Traditionally, Standard Cognitive Therapy had two main strategic goals: patient’s awareness of his/her way of functioning, and cognitive changes. More recently the focus on the self-maintaining processes of many disorders has led to add further strategic goals: acceptancy and the development of functional skills. Therefore, the overall picture of the procedure and techniques can be currently attributed to four strategic goals: awareness of the process underlying different disorders, cognitive changes, acceptancy, development of functional skills. The possibility of the development of a unified approach will be discussed on this light.
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STIMULATING THE BRAIN, STIMULATING THE MIND
Giuseppe Vallar , University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan – Italy
In the last two decades, there has been an explosion of studies in healthy participants and neurological patients with focal lesions and neural dysfunctions, using non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS: transcranial Magnetic/ Electrical Stimulation, TMS, tES) techniques, in order to temporarily interfere with behavior, with the aim of elucidating the neurofunctional basis of cognition. More recently, NIBS have been used as adjuvant treatments for improving and rehabilitating neuropsychological deficits such as aphasia, apraxia, and unilateral spatial neglect. NIBS are currently also used for attempting to increase level of performance, and for modulating higher aspects of behavior in healthy participants. These diverse sources of evidence, firstly, further elucidate the multi-componential architecture of the mind, and its neural basis, as experimental psychology and neuropsychology have done since their inception in the second half of the 1800. Secondly, the increasing amount of evidence that NIBS may selectively modulate and improve aspects of behavior of patients with a variety of neuropsychological and neurological deficits, both alone, and as adjuvant to behavioral treatments, opens novel perspectives to neurorehabilitation. These issues shall be illustrated and discussed through the results of experimental studies concerning the effects of NIBS on motor planning and execution in healthy participants, on ideomotor apraxia in brain-damaged patients, and on deficits of visuo-motor adaptation to a displaced visual scene. The emerging pattern in adult humans is that behavior and its neural bases may be modulated by NIBS, both increasing and decreasing level of performance, through effects on the stimulated cortical areas, and a set of connected regions, showing a remarkable amount of behavioral and neural plasticity, while basically preserving the functional architecture of cognitive and sensorimotor processes.
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SA006
PSYCHO-ONCOLOGY: PRESENT AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS
Luigi Grassi, University of Ferrara; S. Anna Hospital, Ferrara - Italy
Over the last 30 years, a number of studies in psycho-oncology literature have indicated the need for a multidimensional approach to cancer, by taking into account the physical, psychological, interpersonal and spiritual implications determined by the disease and its treatment. At least 30-40% cancer patients and their families present in fact, emotional disorders that are associated to maladjustment, reduction of quality of life, longer rehabilitation time, poor adherence to treatment and abnormal illness behavior. Various types of psychosocial interventions have also been shown to be effective in reducing psychological symptoms and improving quality of life among cancer patients and their families. Psychosocial oncology, as the specialty aiming at studying the psychological, social and spiritual factors in cancer, has today a specific and unquestionable role, with psychosocial domains, including screening for distress, assessment and proper treatment, to be mandatorily integrated into routine care across the trajectory of cancer. Psycho-oncology has rapidly developed throughout the world and psycho-oncology services, programs and/or departments are available in most countries with the mission of providing specific activities in terms of clinical care, education and research. Guidelines and recommendations on psychosocial care in cancer have been also developed and endorsed by the national scientific societies of psycho-oncology (e.g. Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology; Italian Society of Psycho-Oncology) as well as national and international institutions (e.g. USA National Comprehensive Cancer Network Distress Management Panel; Council of the European Union Commission).
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SA007
EMDR TREATMENT OF TRAUMA AND PTSD IN BORDERLINE
PERSONALITY DISORDER: CLINICAL CONSIDERATIONS AND
ASSESSMENT FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF SYMPTOMATOLOGY
Dolores Mosquera, Institute for the Study of Trauma and Personality Disorders (INTRA-TP) - Spain
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) presents great challenges for clinicians. Patients with this diagnosis are known for being impulsive, reactive and highly sensitive. They often present with high risk behaviors, impulsivity, self-harming behaviors and a history of or risk of suicide attempts. PTSD and complex trauma issues need to be considered in the understanding and management of this population. Sometimes it can be difficult for clinicians to establish the connecting thread between the patient's symptoms (including the frequent difficulties they present in the therapeutic relationship) and the early environments in which they grew up, characterized by a high rate of attachment disruptions and severe traumatic events. People with BPD and a history of complex trauma have many difficulties with self-regulation and relating to others. The management of these self-self-regulation and relational difficulties are central aspects in the specific treatment of trauma and in general treatment of BPD. BPD symptoms can be treated effectively by reprocessing core targets with EMDR. The treatment of some of the most problematic symptoms such as impulsivity, self-harm, chronic emptiness, pathological idealization and dependence will be illustrated throughout clinical video examples.
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EMDR THERAPY 2015
Udi Oren, President of EMDR Europe Association
EMDR Therapy has come a long way since the publication of the first EMDR related article 26 years ago, to being integrated in to the WHO guidelines for the treatment of PTSD in 2013.. While pointing to several mile stones in its development, the lecture will focus on recent developments in the EMDR world: 1) the current support for the Adaptive Information Processing Model (the theoretical basis of EMDR Therapy),including the ACE study; 2) recent publications on EMDR Therapy focused research, including findings regarding major mental illnesses; 3) major developments in EMDR Therapy practice, including acute and group protocols; and 4) the spread of EMDR Therapy in the world. The lecture will end with a vision ofpossible future developments in the EMDR world and their potential impact on different areas includingmental health, health, education and world peace.
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STATE OF
THE ART
INDEX
Arcidiacono Caterina SA001 Weber Wolfgang G. SA002 Schmahl Christian SA003 Semerari Antonio SA004 Vallar Giuseppe SA005 Grassi Luigi SA006 Mosquera Dolores SA007
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RT001
HOW TO PROMOTE THE RESEARCH-PRACTICE TRANSFER: PANEL
DISCUSSION WITH THE EFPA-EAWOP STANDING COMMITTEE ON
WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
With the move towards evidence-based management, there has also been a push for improving the research-practice link in work and organizational psychology. One response to this push has been the establishment of the EFPA-EAWOP Standing Committee on Work and Organizational Psychology. Through this Standing Committee we hope to bridge the gap between science and policy (practice) by disseminating scientific findings in a comprehensible way to policy makers and regulators of the EU. The committee will provide a statement on how they see their role in supporting policy-making on issues related to individual and organizational factors impacting on worker‘s well-being and performance. This will be followed by a moderated discussion among the panel members on questions such as prioritizing topics, the speed-quality trade-off for providing information to policy-makers on short-term notice, the difficulty of providing general, simple, and exact evidence, and the implications on research, for instance focusing more on "wise interventions" (Walton, 2014). Finally there will be ample opportunity for the audience to interact with the panel.
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PROMOTING EVIDENCE-BASED PRACTICE IN PSYCHOLOGY
Evidence-based practice is a systematic approach to clinical problem solving which allows the integration of the best available research evidence with clinical expertise and patient values. The Board of Scientific Affairs has undertaken to explore the current state of affairs with regard to Evidence-based Practice in Psychology in all EFPA member states. As part of this work, the Board has adopted the following definition, an extension of the American Psychological Association’s (APA) definition for all areas of psychology: “Evidence-based practice in psychology (EBPP) is the integration of the best available research with shared professional expertise in the context of client characteristics, culture, and preferences”. The aim of this Roundtable Discussion is to stimulate debate and seek information and feedback around the following four broad areas: (1) Education / training at graduate / postgrad level: (a) Is EBPP part of graduate/postgraduate/professional training? If it is, how is this training conducted? (2) Promotion of EBPP: (a) What does the organization do? (b) In what ways is EBPP promoted in your country? (c) Do you anticipate or have encountered problems implementing EBP? (d) Are there working groups in your association to promote EBPP? (e) Does your organization have an agreed definition of EBPP? (f) Does our definition encapsulate yours? Where do you see deviations? (3) Regulation of EBPP: (a) Is the delivery of psychological services regulated? By whom and how? (4) Monitoring EBPP: (a) Does continued professional training (CPD), allowing clinicians to keep up with research in their field, exist in your country? (b) To what extent is CPD monitored? (c) Who monitors? (d) Does member association support members in their CPD?
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FINAL DRAFT OF THE INTERNATIONAL DECLARATION ON CORE
COMPETENCES IN PROFESSIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
The International Project on Competences in Psychology (IPCP) has worked for two years to achieve an international agreement on which core competences shall be included in what is now being called the “International Declaration on Core Competences in Professional Psychology”. The project started with a working conference in July 2013, with representation from major international and regional psychology associations, and from some national associations. The project has since then been discussed at several open meetings held in various sites globally, and been reviewed in two rounds of consultations in a Reference Group consisting of 275 colleagues from all over the world. A “Final Draft” of the Declaration will be presented and discussed. The process will then enter internal phases of consultations in the International Association of Applied Psychology (IAAP) and the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS). Hopefully the Declaration can be accepted by IAAP and IUPsyS in Yokohama 2016 in conjunction with the IPC2016 there.
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SUPPORTING PARENTS WITH EVIDENCE-BASED
INTERVENTIONS
E09. Health and clinical intervention - Positivity and well-being Convenor Lavinia Barone, University of Pavia, Pavia - Italy Presenters Femmie Juffer, Leiden University, Leiden - Netherlands
Francesca Lionetti, University of Pavia, Pavia - Italy George Downing, University of Paris 8, Paris - France
Maria Jose Rodrigo, University of La Laguna, Tenerife - Spain Discussant Maria Jose Rodrigo, University of La Laguna, Tenerife - Spain
Nowadays Europe is facing with major social challenges, as promoting inclusive, innovative and secure societies. For children's well-being, promoting a secure society is related to the promotion of the quality of family relationships. In this context there has been recently a change of perspective in program promoting the quality of the parent-child relationship from vulnerability to resources, with the aim of preventing potentially at risk contexts to became harmful conditions for the family and the child (Downing, 2007; Juffer et al., 2008; Rodrigo et al., 2012; Barone & Lionetti, 2013).
Meta-analytic inquiries report that preventive interventions on parenting are effective in enhancing parental sensitivity (Bakermans-Kranenburg et al., 2003) and in reducing children's social-emotional and behavioural problems. They thus act on one of the major children's social capital, i.e. the family, in order to promote social inclusion and adequate social relationships (Pettit & Collins, 2011), with major economic returns for the society and welfare (Heckman & Masterov, 2007).
As a witness of the increasing interest of Europe in prevention programs and practices, aiming at bridging the gap between science and practice, the main aim of the current symposium is to bring together the contribution in parenting program from four of the major European Countries, i.e. The Netherlands, France, Spain and Italy. Parenting program interventions for improving the parent-child relationship will be presented, and results sustaining their efficacy and/or effectiveness discussed.
ATTACHMENT-BASED-INTERVENTIONS: EVIDENCE FROM RESEARCH AND PRACTICE
Femmie Juffer, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marinus H. van IJzendoorn
Central to early-attachment based interventions is the assumption that a secure attachment relationship is an important basis for future development, especially in domains closely related to attachment, such as social behaviour. Thanks to attachment-based interventions, introduced in the current presentation, parents are supported to interact with their children in a sensitive way and to cope with emerging difficult behaviour.
VIDEO-INTERVENTION THERAPY FOR PARENT-INFANT, PARENT-CHILD AND COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS
George Dpwning
Video Intervention Therapy is one of the most widely practiced of today’s video-based methods. It is used in psychiatric services, substance abuse centers, home visiting programs, special programs for adolescent mothers, centers for autism and other disabilities, adoption and foster care, among other settings. This talk will give an overview with video illustrations.
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AN EVIDENCE BASED GROUP INTERVENTION PROGRAM FOR AT RISK FAMILIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN
Maria Jose Rodrigo, Miriam Alvarez, Sonia Byrne
We present the evaluation of ‘‘Growing up Happily in the Family’’ program for at-risk parents and their children aged 0–6 implemented in several Spanish Autonomic Communities. We also report the moderating effects of individual, family, neighborhood, group and facilitator characteristics on program results.
PROMOTING POSITIVE PARENTING: AN ATTACHMENT-BASED INTERVENTION WITH ADOPTIVE FAMILIES
Francesca Lionetti, Cinzia Alagna, Antonia Dellagiulia, Laura Rigobello, Lavinia Barone
An attachment-based intervention for adoptive families will be presented. The intervention is adapted from the Video-feedback Intervention to Promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline (Juffer et al., 2008) and currently extended to the adoption context, involving families of children who experienced multiple attachment ruptures.
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BASIC DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL JUDGMENT
A18. General issues and basic processes - Social judgment, impression formation, impression management
Convenor Patrizia Catellani, Catholic University of Milan, Milan - Italy
Presenters Andrea Abele , University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen - Germany
Bogdan Wojciszke, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Sopot - Poland Marco Brambilla, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan - Italy
Mauro Bertolotti , Catholic University of Milan, Milan - Italy
Nicole Hauke , University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen - Germany Patrizia Catellani, Catholic University of Milan, Milan - Italy
Research on the basic dimensions of social judgment greatly contributes to the advancement of our knowledge of self- and social perception, impression formation, stereotyping, information processing, and impression management through communication. This symposium presents recent developments in research on the basic dimensions of social judgment, connecting different areas of social cognition where these dimensions play a relevant role. In the first contribution the focus is on the definition and distinction of the basic dimensions and their components. Recent findings indicate that, within the broader domains of agency and communion, competence, assertiveness, sociability, and morality have distinctive importance in social judgments of others and of ourselves. The role of the basic dimensions in social interactions is then discussed, highlighting how the perspective taken by social actors influences their perception of others. The distinctive role of the morality sub-dimension in impression formation as well as in reputation monitoring is then focused on. Finally, the role of the basic dimensions and their components in communication and impression management are discussed, focusing on how each dimension can be affected by attacks and defences.
COMMUNION, AGENCY, AND SELF-ESTEEM. A LOOK FROM THE SUBCOMPONENTS
Andrea Abele & Nicole Hauke
Agency and communion are the fundamental dimensions of social judgment and agency dominates self-perception and self-esteem. We argue and show that agency (assertiveness and competence) and communion (morality and warmth) may be subdivided in two components with morality and assertiveness being more strongly related to self-esteem than warmth and competence.
THE DISTINCTIVE ROLE OF MORALITY IN SOCIAL JUDGMENT
Marco Brambilla
We investigated the distinct roles played by morality, sociability, and competence in forming impressions. Results show that morality and sociability make unique contributions to social judgment and that morality has a primary role over sociability and competence in the impressions that we form and the evaluations that we make of people.
HOW MUCH ARE WE CONCERNED IF OTHERS THINK WE ARE IMMORAL, COLD, INCOMPETENT OR UNASSERTIVE?
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We investigate if negative impressions that others form of the self lead to different concerns in dependence on the content of this negative impression. Since people are primarily interested in the communal traits of others, particularly in their morality, people should be especially concerned when others form a negative moral impression of them.
COMMUNION AND AGENCY AS BASIC DIMENSIONS OF SOCIAL COGNITION
Bogdan Wojciszke
The emergence of agency and communion as basic content dimensions of social cognition is explained as a consequence of two perspectives universally present in social interaction – the agent perspective (of a person who performs an action) and the recipient perspective (of a person at whom the action is directed and who experiences it outcomes).
THE EFFECTS OF ATTACKS AND DEFENCES ON AGENCY AND COMMUNION DIMENSIONS Patrizia Catellani & Mauro Bertolotti
We investigated how communication affects the perception of agency and communion, and their sub-dimensions. Results show that attacks and defences focusing on a person’s morality, sociability, competence, and assertiveness have different effects on social judgments, depending on the importance attributed to each dimension and the professional category the target belongs to.
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INTERGROUP CONFLICTS: CLASSIC THEORIES AND CURRENT
PROBLEMS
C05. Culture and society - Group processes and intergroup relations
Convenor Francesco Paolo Colucci, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan - Italy Presenters Keren Sharvit, University of Haifa, Haifa - Israel
Loris Vezzali, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Reggio Emilia - Italy Michael Skey, University of East Anglia, Norwich - United Kingdom
Monica Colombo, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan - Italy Simona Sacchi, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan - Italy Discussant Monica Colombo , University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan - Italy
Intergroup conflicts have the same importance today that Lewin attributed to them in 1946, but the current situation is profoundly different from what it was seventy years ago, and it is aggravated by a persistent phase of recession, not of development as in the post-war period. Intergroup conflict here does not denote the more general in-group/out-group bias, but rather real conflicts and the problem should be situated.
From the psychosocial point of view, this raises important issues that should be considered in order to understand intergroup conflicts: the problems of social identity and its relation to national identity, the perceived threat to security, the coping with distress from open conflict, the social perception in intergroup relations, the different methodological approach to this topic, and not least the intervention to implement contact between group. The symposium will discuss about these topics, building on the classic theories of Lewin, Allport, and Tajfel, and considering the contribution of recent theoretical and methodological developments.
A SENSE OF WHERE YOU BELONG IN THE WORLD: EXPLORING THE LINKS BETWEEN NATIONAL BELONGING AND ONTOLOGICAL SECURITY IN AN ERA OF MASS MOBILITY. Michael Skey
Recent debates around globalisation often overlook what 'thick' attachments to the nation offer. Using the concept of ontological security and data from a series of group interviews with members of the ethnic majority in England, I show how the take-for-granted idea of the nation continues to inform a wider sense of self, community and place.
THE ETHOS OF CONFLICT AND ITS ROLE IN COPING WITH DISTRESS IN INTRACTABLE CONFLICT
Keren Sharvit
The presentation will introduce the concept of Ethos of Conflict (EOC), which refers to a system of shared societal beliefs characterizing groups involved in intractable conflicts. The findings of the research program show that the EOC can serve as a barrier to collective guilt and shame in the face of harmful actions by one's ingroup.
INTERGROUP RELATIONS, NEW RACISM AND THE ETHNICIZATION OF SOCIAL CONFLICTS: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ACCOUNT.
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Monica Colombo
Critical discourse analysis has focused on the role exerted by the political elites and the media in the legitimization of xenophobia and ethnic dominance. Evidence of overt and covert forms of racist discourse will be presented. The implications of a critical discourse approach to the the study of interethnic relations will be discussed.
HOW PHILOSOPHY CAN INFORM PSYCHOLOGY: SUPEREROGATION AND SOCIAL PERCEPTION
Simona Sacchi, Andrea Manfrinati, Marco Brambilla, Francesco Paolo Colucci
We investigated the effect of an individual’s hypermoral behaviour on group perception. Study 1 showed that participants perceived a moral agent as positive as the hypermoral one but they perceived the moral agent’s group better than the hypermoral agent’s group. Study 2 and 3 showed the consistency of the results across different intergroup situations.
AN INNOVATIVE INTERVENTION TO IMPLEMENT EXTENDED CONTACT AND FOSTER THE DEVELOPMENT OF CROSS-GROUP FRIENDSHIPS AMONG YOUNG CHILDREN
Loris Vezzali, Sofia Stathi, Dino Giovannini
We conducted an extended contact longitudinal intervention aimed at increasing cross-group friendships among young children. The intervention fostered the intention to meet outgroup members. Ingroup/outgroup norms and behavioural intentions mediated the effects of the intervention on the formation of cross-group friendships.
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RESOURCE PROMOTION IN CHRONIC DISEASE ACROSS THE
LIFE SPAN: INDIVIDUAL AND RELATIONAL DIMENSIONS
E09. Health and clinical intervention - Positivity and well-being
E13. Health and clinical intervention - Psycho-oncology and psychological support in chronic disease Convenor Antonella Delle Fave, University of Milan, Milan - Italy
Presenters Ernst Bohlmeijer, University of Twente, Enschede - Netherlands Evangelos C. Karademas, University of Crete, Rethymnon - Greece Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara, University of Helsinki, Helsinki - Finland Marta Bassi, University of Milan, Milan - Italy
Ulrich Wiesmann, Greifswald University, Greifswald – Germany Discussant Giuseppe Masera, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan - Italy
In spite of World Health Organization’s recommendations, the biomedical approach to health is still prevailing in most countries and health services. Physical and mental health are prominently evaluated as absence of disease, rather than conditions of well-being. Patients are treated for their pathology, disregarding how their social and family contexts, as well as their psychological features and subjective experience can influence disease course and outcomes. At the same time, and somehow paradoxically, the increasing prevalence of chronic and degenerative diseases poses new challenges to health professionals and institutions. The increasing percentage of citizens of all ages living with chronic diseases, matched with welfare systems’ resource limitations demand the attention of policymakers and practitioners. In the last two decades, increasing efforts were devoted to the identification of environmental and psychological mechanisms underlying health-related behaviours, in order to promote the agency and responsibility of individuals in maximizing their own health, and detect personal and social resources that can support well-being in chronic disease.
This symposium aims at providing an overview of the most recent advancements in this domain. Presenters come from different research and professional backgrounds. The multiplicity of their perspectives will shed light on the complex and multifaceted needs and assets of the four main characters involved in the healthcare system: patients, physicians, caregivers, and educators. Moreover, the issue of resource promotion in chronic conditions will be analysed in the life-span perspective, through empirical evidence collected among children, adults and elderly people.
CHRONIC PATIENTS’ WELL-BEING AND PHYSICIANS’ INFORMATION SHARING
Evangelos C. Karademas
The Common Sense Self-regulation Model (CS-SRM) posits that chronic patients adapt better to illness if they develop adequate illness representations. The information provided by health professionals plays a crucial role in this process. Research findings clearly support the usefulness of CS-SRM based training among patients and practitioners.
MENTAL HEALTH IN CHRONIC DISEASE
Ernst Bohlmeijer
Positive psychology offers an evidence-based (public) mental health model that is complementary to the medical model. The primary focus is on enabling people with chronic diseases to live a pleasant, engaged and meaningful life. Evidence will be presented that mental health and mental illness are related but different continua, and related applications will be illustrated.
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HAPPINESS IN CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Lotta Uusitalo-Malmivaara
A summary of studies and correlates of happiness in special education (SEN) children compared with normally achieving children will be provided. The role of inclusive educational settings and social affiliation in improving SEN children’s subjective well-being will be highlighted, and implications for educational policy will be discussed.
A SALUTOGENIC ANALYSIS OF WELL-BEING IN OLD AGE
Ulrich Wiesmann
Resilience in the aging population is a growing concern for researchers and practitioners. Studies conducted from a salutogenic perspective among cognitively intact nursing home residents suffering from multiple chronic conditions showed that the sense of coherence mediates the resources-well-being relationship.
THE ILLNESS EXPERIENCE OF PATIENTS AND CAREGIVERS
Marta Bassi
Home-based health care in chronic conditions is increasingly encouraged in European countries. Findings from studies investigating illness perceptions and daily experience among patients and caregivers will be summarized. Their implications to design interventions promoting individual and family resources and well-being will be discussed.
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MANAGING AND ASSESSING WORK RELATED STRESS IN
EUROPE: STATE OF ART OF NATIONAL STRATEGIES
D4. Work and organization - Wellbeing at work
Convenor Sergio Iavicoli, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hygiene and Epidemiology, INAIL, Monte Porzio Catone; European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology (EAOHP) - Italy
Presenters Cristina Di Tecco , Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hygiene and Epidemiology, INAIL, Rome - Italy
José M. Peiró , University of Valencia, Valencia - Spain
Veronique Crutzen, , Service Public Fédéral Emploi, Travail et Concertation sociale, Brussels – Belgium
Discussant Malgorzata Milczarek, European Agency for Safety and Health at Work, Bilbao - Spain
The last decades have seen significant developments in the economic, political, technological and social landscape, that have had an impact on the nature of work and the way people perform job leading to the emergence of new risks for health and safety in the workplace, including work-related stress and its consequences for workers’ health (ILO, 2010; Kompier, 2006). Stress represents the second most frequently work-related health problem after musculoskeletal diseases. In Europe the overall costs due to mental health disorders, including those that are not directly linked to work, are estimated to be 240 billion Euros per year, less than the half of which are linked to direct costs, such as medical treatment, while the loss of productivity for companies accounts for nearly 136 billion euros, including sick day absences (EU-OSHA, 2014). Following the EU Framework Directive 89/391/EEC, the European Framework Agreement of 8 October 2004 prompted to the inclusion of work-related stress and psychosocial risks in the agenda of the main international research institutes and OSH bodies. Thus, several initiatives and approaches were over time developed to provide policy makers, employers, trade unions, experts and employees with theoretical frameworks and practical tools for assessing and managing work-related stress risk. As a clear signal of the growing interest in Europe on work-related stress, the current EU-OSHA campaign focuses on managing stress and psychosocial risks at work, running under the title “Healthy workplaces manage stress”. This symposium aims to offer a portrait of the state of art on the management of work related stress risk in Europe in order to identify needs and challenges to move towards the development of integrated monitoring systems for health and safety at Europe level.
THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK-RELATED STRESS RISK IN ITALY: THE INAIL’S METHODOLOGY
Sergio Iavicoli & Stavroula Leka
The international debate on work-related stress risk has been rapidly expanding over the last decades. This presentation offers an overview of experiences and research activities on psychosocial factors and work-related stress risk in Europe.
TOWARDS EFFECTIVE AND SUSTAINABLE PREVENTION OF PSYCHOSOCIAL RISKS IN BELGIAN ENTERPRISES
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The missions of the DG Humanization of Work of the Belgian FPS Employment and Labour consist, amongst others, in setting a legal framework to ensure the safety and the health of the workers and in promoting well-being at work. This presentation will show how the FPS Employment tries to fulfil its missions regarding the complex issue of psychosocial risks (PSR).
CHALLENGES IN THE PSYCHSOCIAL RISK ANALYSIS: SOME CONTRIBUTIONS FROM SPANISH PREVENLAB PSYCHOSOCIAL METHODOLOGY.
Josè Maria Peirò
Psychosocial risk analysis confronts a number of challenges. Issues such as objectivity, accuracy, determination of the severity of the risks the comprehensive coverage of the different facet of the organizations and the triangulation of methods and informants require consideration when developing instruments. In this presentation the Prevenlab-Psychsocial methodology will be presented and the way it has dealt with some of these important issues.
THE ITALIAN RESEARCH EXPERIENCES ON THE ASSESSMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF WORK-RELATED STRESS RISK: THE INAIL’S METHODOLOGY
Di Tecco Cristina
This presentation will show the Inail’s methodology for assessing and managing work-related stress developed according to the Italian framework for health and safety at work and tailored to the Italian context.
‘‘HEALTHY WORKPLACES MANAGE STRESS” – EU-OSHA CAMPAIGN
Malgorzata Milczarek
In April 2014, EU-OSHA launched a 2-year campaign ‘Healthy Workplaces Manage Stress’ to raise awareness of the growing problem of work-related stress. In 2015, brand-new data of the EU-OSHA survey ESENER-2 focusing on managing psychosocial risks across Europe is to be published. Main publications, activities and the first results will be presented.
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DEVELOPMENTAL AND BEHAVIOURAL IMPLICATIONS OF THE
CIRCULAR MODEL OF VALUES
C.6 Culture and society - Attitudes and Values
Convenors Eldad Davidov, University of Zurich, Zurich - Swizerland Jan Cieciuch , University of Zurich, Zurich - Swizerland Presenters Daniel Seddig , University of Zurich, Zurich - Swizerland
Henrik Dobewall , Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona - Spain Jan Cieciuch , University of Zurich, Zurich - Swizerland
Michele Vecchione , Sapienza University of Rome, Rome - Italy Sonia Roccas , The Open University of Israel, Raanana – Israel
Discussant Shalom H. Schwartz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem - Israel
In previous decades, research on values within social, personality, developmental and cross-cultural psychology has been greatly influenced by Schwartz’s (1992) value theory. Schwartz (1992; Schwartz et al., 2012) defined values as transsituational goals of varying importance, which serve as guiding principles in the life of a person or a group. Values differ from one another in terms of their motivational meaning and form a circular structure. Values are considered as one of the most important factors that influence our behavior. A fresh impetus for the value research has been provided by the refined theory of values proposed by Schwartz and colleagues (2012).
In our symposium we will discuss the behavioral and developmental implications of the value theory. Michele Vecchione with co-authors will present an 8-year longitudinal study on values and discuss various aspects of value stability and change over time in early adulthood. Jan Cieciuch with co-authors will present a longitudinal study on values in childhood and propose a preliminary outline of the model of value development, based on the Schwartz’s theory of values. Henrik Dobewall and Toivo Aavik will present the 3-year longitudinal stability in self- and other-rated values and argue that other-reports of values are not less stable across time than self-rated values or than other-ratings of traits. Daniel Seddig will present a longitudinal study on hedonism and leisure activities as predictors of perceived school problems among adolescents. The last presentation addresses the problem of value-behavior relations. Sonia Roccas and Lilach Sagiv will present direct and indirect mechanisms through which values affect behavior in various life-domains, and discuss personal attributes, situational factors and cultural contexts as moderators of value-behavior links.
STABILITY AND CHANGE OF BASIC PERSONAL VALUES IN EARLY ADULTHOOD: A 8-YEAR LONGITUDINAL STUDY
Michele Vecchione, Guido Alessandri, Anna Doring, Shalom H. Schwartz
The present study focuses on stability and change of basic personal values through young adulthood, from age20 to 28 years. A sample of 270 young adults (54% females) with a mean age of 20.46 years (SD = .50) completed the Portrait Values Questionnaire at three time points, each separated by an interval of 4 years. We analyzed patterns of change within and between persons. Results: A medium-to-high rank-order stability was observed for all ten values, comparable to that reported in the literature for personality traits. The mean-level importance of conservation values (security, tradition, conformity) and self-transcendence values (benevolence, universalism) increased over time and remained stable for openness to change values (direction, stimulation, hedonism). Among self-enhancement values, the importance of power values decreased while the importance of achievement showed a slight decrease. No gender differences were found in the rate of change of the ten values. A
