Research Area
Active Research fields
- Effects of the Sense of community, social support and resilience on integration, health and satisfaction of life of migrants
- Reciprocity Systems and prosocial behavior
- Multilingual Families and management of emotions
- Participative democracy processes and children
- Adoptive parenting and family climate and school climate
- Mixed Families and parenting support
Research projects of the last 5 years
1. TALES Project - Erasmus+ Key Action2, Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices/Strategic partnership-adult education. (form hash code A2B93CA834E335E8)
Project aims to support multilingual families, helping them to create a favourable environment for language learning and well-being. This aim will be achieved by developing an innovative tool (app) for parents and their children to be used for language related emotion mapping within the family, contributing to the improvement of well-being, social inclusion and language learning of the family members. http://www.talesathome.eu/
2. Research Project “Efectos del sentido de comunidad, la resiliencia, el apoyo social y los recursos sobre la integración, la salud y la satisfacción vital de los immigrantes”
(http://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/dipsicologia).
3. Research Project: “Reciprocity Sistems and Prosocial Behavior”
http://www.unipa.it/dipartimenti/dipsicologia).
Collaborations
- Collaboration with University of Malaga (see the agreement, signed 10 december 2014, between Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences and Grupo de Investigación “Calidad de vida e intervención comunitaria y organizacional” - HUM-590), about Research Project: “Efectos del sentido de comunidad, la resiliencia, el apoyo social y los recursos sobre la integración, la salud y la satisfacción vital de los immigrantes”.
- Collaboration with University of Malaga (see the agreement, signed 10 december 2014, between Department of Psychological, Pedagogical and Educational Sciences and Grupo de Investigación “Calidad de vida e intervención comunitaria y organizacional” - HUM-590), about Research Project: “Reciprocity Sistems and Prosocial Behavior”.
- Collaboration with Universities of Malaga and Huelva, for transnational project "Agorà Infantil", about partecipation democraty process.
- Collaboration with Italian Network of Service Learning and Community Engagement.
- Collaboration with SIPCO (Italian Society of Community Psychology)
- Collaboration with Network of Palermo Città educativa.