Adolfo Di Crosta

TL;DR: Gender (female), lower perceived economic stability, higher neuroticism, and fear and consequences of contagion were predictors of high PTSD symptomatology, extending the understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the population's mental health.

TL;DR: In this article, a fine-grained approach was adopted to disentangle between necessities and non-necessities during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy and found that consumer behavior toward necessities was predicted by anxiety and COVIDrelated fear, whereas consumer behaviour toward nonnecessities were predicted by depression, personality traits, perceived economic stability and self-justifications for purchasing.

TL;DR: The current literature shows the existence of a relation among psychological distance and pro-environmental and resilient behaviors applied to climate change, and more studies are necessary to explore the possible presence of further psychological variables involved in the relation within psychological distance, mitigation, and adaptation in environmental contexts.

TL;DR: Older adults showed lower negative emotions than young and middle-aged adults and were more confident about COVID-related information received, more favorable toward the restrictive measures, and perceived lower underestimation of the emergency compared to the other age groups.

TL;DR: Results indicated that the HA level predicts attentional bias toward virus-related objects, which is double mediated by the belief of contagion and by the consequences of contagions as assessed through a recent questionnaire developed to measure the fear for COVID-19.