Publications by authors named "Sarracino F"

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  • The study explores the link between trust and compliance with COVID-19 restrictions across ten European countries from March 2020 to January 2021, using data from Twitter, Google mobility, and Oxford policy.
  • It challenges previous assumptions by introducing a novel, time-sensitive measure of compliance, assessing how mobility behavior relates to containment policies.
  • Findings reveal that compliance fluctuates over time and that higher trust in others is associated with greater compliance levels, emphasizing the need to foster trust within communities.
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In this paper we check whether social capital changes the association of subjective well-being with own income and social comparisons. We use panel data from Germany and publicly available data from three international surveys, for a total of nearly 500,000 respondents from industrial countries. Results show that the association of own income and social comparisons to subjective well-being weakens for individuals with high social capital.

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We use daily happiness scores (Gross National Happiness (GNH)) to illustrate how happiness changed throughout 2020 in ten countries across Europe and the Southern hemisphere. More frequently and regularly available than survey data, the GNH reveals how happiness sharply declined at the onset of the pandemic and lockdown, quickly recovered, and then trended downward throughout much of the year in Europe. GNH is derived by applying sentiment and emotion analysis-based on Natural Language Processing using machine learning algorithms-to Twitter posts (tweets).

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A series of crises, culminating with COVID-19, shows that going "Beyond GDP" is urgently necessary. Social and environmental degradation are consequences of emphasizing GDP as a measure of progress. This degradation created the conditions for the COVID-19 pandemic and limited the efficacy of counter-measures.

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Trust is an important correlate of well-being, and it plays an important moderating role against adversity. But does this conclusion also hold during pandemics? We address this question by investigating the role of interpersonal and institutional trust for well-being, as measured by five proxies, during the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia. We also examined age and gender differences in the relationship between trust and well-being, and tested the protective role of trust among individuals whose well-being might be at risk during the pandemic.

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Background: Healthcare rehabilitator skills can be grouped into hard and soft skills. Hard skills are specific and teachable, which can be defined and measured, while soft skills are less tangible and more difficult to quantify. The aim of this study is to investigate the level of knowledge of soft skills among Italian healthcare rehabilitators, and how they were acquired.

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  • Game addiction is recognized as a significant public health issue, especially among pre-adolescents and adolescents, necessitating attention to identify those at risk and provide support.
  • A study involving 622 students found that 1.93% exhibited pathological gaming behavior, with higher rates seen using Monothetic analysis (37.46%) compared to Polythetic analysis (4.50%).
  • Results indicated that males displayed higher rates of gaming disorders, with increased daily gaming time and frequency correlating to addictive behaviors, while higher education levels tended to correlate with lower levels of addiction.
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We investigate whether relative age (i.e. the age gap between classmates) affects life satisfaction and health in adolescence.

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Composite structures are designed to mimic the morphology and mechanical properties of natural ligaments. Filament winding technology has been implemented in order to obtain a composite material based on a polyurethane matrix (HydroThaneTM ), reinforced with degradable and non-degradable fibers. The mechanical properties of the matrix and fiber have been analysed to define the optimal type, volume ratio and winding angle of the reinforcement.

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