Publications by authors named "A Sperati"
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- - School teachers often experience significant stress and burnout, which can lead to psychological and financial issues in their profession.
- - The study investigates how the trait of sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) influences burnout levels among teachers, finding that those with higher SPS are more susceptible to burnout, especially during stressful times.
- - Positive school climates can help reduce burnout in highly sensitive teachers, highlighting the importance of tailored support programs that consider individual differences in stress responses.
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- The study investigates how a mother's mindfulness affects her relationship with her child by focusing on her ability to manage negative emotions during parenting.
- It involved 635 mothers of young children, who filled out questionnaires to assess their mindfulness, relationship quality, and emotional control.
- Results indicate that better emotional control partially explains how mindfulness impacts the mother-child bond, with the effect being stronger in mothers of older children.
Introduction: As captured by the individual trait of Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS), highly sensitive children perceive, process, and responds more strongly to stimuli. This increased sensitivity may make more demanding the process of regulating and managing emotions. Yet, developmental psychology literature also showed that other variables, as those related to the rearing environment, are likely to contribute to the process of regulating emotions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChildren differ in their environmental sensitivity (ES), which can be measured observationally or by self-report questionnaire. A parent-report scale represents an important tool for investigating ES in younger children but has to be psychometrically robust and valid. In the current multistudy, we validated the parent-report version of the Highly Sensitive Child (HSC-PR) scale in Italian children, evaluating its factorial structure (Study 1, = 1,857, 6.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To study the use of the Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire (CSHQ) to evaluate sleep problems dimensions, norm values, and association of sleep problems with behavioral problems in Italian preschoolers.
Design: Sleep dimensions in CSHQ were investigated via parallel and principal component analyses, norm and at-risk values were investigated by exploring the association between CSHQ and the CBCL sleep problems scale, and bivariate associations between CSHQ and internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems were computed.
Participants: A total of 725 mothers of preschool children (mean age = 4.