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Showing papers by "Claudio Sica published in 2017"

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Validation of the Italian Versions of the Flourishing Scale and of the Scale of Positive and Negative Experience

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Laura Giuntoli1, Francesco Ceccarini1, Claudio Sica2, Corrado Caudek2•
University of Padua1, University of Florence2
01 Jan 2017-SAGE Open
TL;DR: Researchers are divided between those who consider well-being as a single global construct and those who maintain the need to keep the hedonic and eudaimonic components of wellbeing separate.
Abstract: Researchers are divided between those who consider well-being as a single global construct and those who maintain the need to keep the hedonic and eudaimonic components of well-being separate. Dien...

53 citations

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Facial expression movement enhances the measurement of temporal dynamics of attentional bias in the dot-probe task

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Corrado Caudek1, Francesco Ceccarini2, Claudio Sica1•
University of Florence1, University of Padua2
01 Aug 2017-Behaviour Research and Therapy
TL;DR: Attentional bias to emotional face stimuli was measured with dynamic and static images of realistic human faces in 97 college students who underwent either a positive or a negative mood-induction prior to the experiment to highlight the importance of using ecologically valid stimuli in attentional bias research.

21 citations

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Intolerance of uncertainty, not just right experiences, and compulsive checking: Test of a moderated mediation model on a non-clinical sample.

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Gioia Bottesi1, Marta Ghisi1, Claudio Sica2, Mark H. Freeston3•
University of Padua1, University of Florence2, University of Newcastle3
01 Feb 2017-Comprehensive Psychiatry
TL;DR: It is highlighted thatNJREs were a mediator of the relationship between IU and checking behaviors; nonetheless, in connection with medium levels of IU, NJREs no longer mediated the path and IU did not emerge to moderate the mediation.

18 citations

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Anxiety sensitivity and obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: Further evidence of specific relationships in a clinical sample

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Andrea Poli, Gabriele Melli1, Marta Ghisi2, Gioia Bottesi2, Claudio Sica3 •
University of Pisa1, University of Padua2, University of Florence3
15 Apr 2017-Personality and Individual Differences
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the role of anxiety sensitivity (AS) dimensions in OCD, focusing on different types of OCD symptoms, and found that the symmetry dimension was mainly predicted by the social AS dimension and, to a lesser extent, by obsessive beliefs.

17 citations

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The Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire: Measurement invariance and relations to anxiety and depression across 10 countries

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Ryan Y. Hong1, John H. Riskind2, Mike W.-L. Cheung1, Esther Calvete3, Zahira González-Díez3, Ayse Altan Atalay4, Doris Curzik5, Nataša Jokić-Begić5, Adriana del Palacio-Gonzalez6, Ljiljana Mihić7, Nikola Samac7, Claudio Sica8, Yoshinori Sugiura9, Safal Khatri2, Evan M. Kleiman10 •
National University of Singapore1, George Mason University2, University of Deusto3, Koç University4, University of Zagreb5, Aarhus University6, University of Novi Sad7, University of Florence8, Hiroshima University9, Harvard University10
01 Jun 2017-Journal of Anxiety Disorders
TL;DR: The Looming Maladaptive Style Questionnaire shows promise as a measure with cross-cultural generalizability and opens new avenues for its use in diverse cultural settings.

13 citations

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Cognitive vulnerabilities in parents as a potential risk factor for anxiety symptoms in young adult offspring: An exploration of looming cognitive style.

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John H. Riskind1, Claudio Sica2, Gioia Bottesi3, Marta Ghisi3, Todd B. Kashdan1 •
George Mason University1, University of Florence2, University of Padua3
01 Mar 2017-Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
TL;DR: The findings suggest that it may prove fruitful to consider parental vulnerabilities such as looming cognitive styles in comprehensive Cognitive vulnerabilities, anxiety, and depressive symptoms in comprehensive cognitive and interpersonal models of anxiety.

13 citations