Elena Trombini

TL;DR: Findings suggest a hypothetical risk profile linked to boredom proneness in adolescence, conceived as a personality trait, in adolescents’ free time, and its involvement in more extreme behaviors, such as binge drinking and addictive Internet use, which may represent ways to cope with the search for additional stimuli.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the short-term effects on several physiological (arterial pressure and heart rate) and psychological (anxiety and aggressiveness) indexes of playing violent and non-violent videogames in young adults.

TL;DR: The effects of environmental and structural features of two different neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) settings on the time course of psychological distress in mothers of preterm infants were investigated.

TL;DR: This paper examined the validity of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire-Child Form (TEIQue-CF) and investigated its relationship with Big Five factors and cognitive ability, concluding that TEIQue is a reliable measure of Trait EI that is partially determined by all five factors but independent of cognitive ability.

TL;DR: In this article, the impact of lockdown measures on quality of life (QoL) in a large Italian sample was investigated, in order to investigate possible differences in QoL levels related to both demographic and pandemic-specific variables.