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The instability resulting from major changes in recent decades has fostered a climate of uncertainty and risk that has had repercussions in terms of unemployment, social inequality, and precariousness. To cope with this phenomenon, especially in the context of career transitions, individuals have had to activate multiple psychological resources. In particular, these resources are required in the transition from academic life to the world of work and in the propensity and courage to make certain choices. In our study, we examined two main hypotheses: the mediating effect of courage and proactive personality in the relationship between career adaptability and university satisfaction in a sample of 657 (336 Italian and 321 Spanish) psychology students attending their final year of studies; through a multigroup analysis, the comparison of the two different subsamples, coming from different cultural contexts: Italian and Spanish. The results suggest important differences between these two groups.

In recent years, a pivotal challenge in safeguarding mental health and ensuring worker safety has been the focus on identifying and empowering protective factors while addressing psychosocial risk factors in response to the stresses encountered in daily life. Coping strategies have emerged as a central point in this context. The development and validation of a scale measuring coping strategies during particularly risky situations, such as those experienced by certain professions during the pandemic, could represent a significant step toward a deeper understanding of the mechanisms governing the utilization of coping strategies. The study was conducted on a sample of 872 individuals (398 men, 474 women) recruited toward the end of the pandemic, primarily involving workers who found themselves managing risky situations. The results, revealed a four-factor first-order structure and two second-order factors, indicating distinct dimensions of coping strategies employed by individuals when facing negative life events perceived as high-risk. Additional validation included a gender invariance analysis, confirming the scale was similarly perceived by both genders. Convergent validity was assessed by correlating the CORE's (Coping Orientations to Risky Events) subscales and higher-order factors with the Brief COPE scale's approach and avoidance coping components, ensuring they measured the same constructs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Background Design Results Conclusion COVID‐19 overwhelmed all healthcare workers, especially nurses, who worked tirelessly in patient care in extremely stressful situations. Italy, with its hospital overcrowding and staff shortages, exacerbated these negative consequences.A three‐wave prospective longitudinal‐design was adopted to use validated scales to examine the trend of stress, anxiety, depression and resilience on the professional quality of life of nurses who worked during the pandemic. During an 8‐month period, a sample of 411 individuals was recruited and surveyed three times.Resilience showed an increasing positive trend from the first to the third wave, increasing its effects on the outcomes and demonstrating its important protective role. The compassion fatigue showed progressively higher scores in the three waves, indicating greater workload perception and greater difficulty in managing the patients' perceived stress. Burnout increased in the first compared to second waves but decreased significantly in the third wave, due to the effect of resilience on burnout that was significantly stronger in the third wave.Our findings align with the literature about the role of resilience and emphasize the importance of investing in strategies aimed at developing resilience in healthcare workers and providing prevention and assistance to them in terms of job demands and unsustainable stressors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Individual work performance can be defined as individual behaviour capable of generating value and a competitive advantage for the organization. Furthermore, this construct is linked to other fundamental variables that constitute worker well-being, such as job satisfaction and engagement. Although important, a complete measure of individual work performance is still lacking in the Italian context. The objective of this work is to validate the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire (IWPQ) within the Italian organisational context. The IWPQ is a multi-dimensional construct consisting of task performance, contextual performance, and counterproductive work behavior. To investigate the psychometric properties of the Italian IWPQ, 1053 participants were enrolled, whose ages ranged between 19 and 69 years. EFA, CFA, and MCFA analyses were performed to test the structural factors of the IWPQ. The results supported the validity of the IWPQ in the Italian context; the final structure consisted of 17 items. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis showed that the factor solution was invariant across both gender and occupational categories and found evidence of metric, uniqueness, scalar, and structural invariance. Convergent validity was also tested and demonstrated. Adequate studies on the importance of individual performance can be used to better understand and distinguish the different components affecting performance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The gender gap is a current topical issue. Sexist assumptions that manifest as gender stereotypes are partially responsible for these inequalities. The ambivalent sexism theory argues that hostile sexism refers to explicitly antagonistic sexist attitudes, while benevolent sexism refers to apparently positive but implicitly malevolent attitudes. There has been evidence reported that benevolent sexism is detrimental to women's personal and professional well-being, implies lower levels of career aspiration and impacts task performance. This study is aimed at examining the impact that the experience of benevolent and hostile sexism could have on performance and job satisfaction. A total of 402 female workers were enrolled. The results showed that an experience with benevolent sexism significantly decreased the positive relationship between work engagement, psychological capital and organisational support and outcomes. Conversely, hostile sexism only reduces job satisfaction in its interaction with work engagement and organisational support. Moreover, through a multi-group analysis, possible differences across age were examined in the theorised model. Here, the younger generation seems to be more affected and experience more benevolent sexism than the older generation, which is seen both in individual moderators and in their interactions with predictors. This study is helpful for a deeper comprehension of contemporary sexism, offering also suggestions for equality policies' design. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The belief that men are the new victims of sexism and anti-male bias is gaining traction globally. The concept of reverse sexism, called the belief in sexism shift, is a new and particularly insidious form of contemporary anti-female sexism that combines the prejudice of hostile sexism with the subtlety of modern sexism. Facilitating the cross-cultural study of a rising form of sexism, in this paper, we provide an Italian translation of the BSS and examine its psychometric properties. In Study 1, we confirmed that the Italian BSS scale has the same uni-dimensional factor structure as the English version. In Study 2, we established that the Italian BSS scale measures the same construct among women and men. In Study 3, we found that the Italian BSS scale was a better predictor, compared to other measures of sexism, of numerous perceived career constraints. Subsequently, explorative analyses revealed that BSS escalated the effect of perceived career constraints on perceived job satisfaction and development opportunities among women and men. Together, our results suggest that BSS is a prevalent form of sexism in Italy that has the potential to negatively affect women and men. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Luxury brands are gradually going green. The new fronteria of the luxury market is in fact marked and voted towards environmental sustainability. The new generation of consumers, the so-called neogreen, do not want to renounce either the quality or sophistication of the products they use, but, today more than ever, they are attentive to be more sustainable in their consumption. Therefore, with a more aware and conscientious consumer, the notoriety and prestige of the brand are not enough to be a guarantor to the consumer but become more important psychological and managerial variables. The luxury fashion sector, more than others, seems to be turning more and more to the green sector and to find useful strategies to make loyal customers and generate brand love. The purpose of this study is therefore to integrate brand attachment as an antecedent of brand love and affective commitment and brand trust as mediators between brand love and loyalty. Participants are recruited in Italy within luxury brand clothing outlets that embrace a sustainability strategy (Gucci, Vuitton, Prada). The questionnaire is administered during the act of purchase and the total number od partecipant is 165 (121 female, 44 male), with an average age of 35.51 (SD = 12.9). Results of the study suggest some important considerations. Both self expressive brand and brand attachment are good antecedents for brand love, and are able to strengthen the relationship of love with the brand; in relation to mediation, instead, the relationship between Brand Love and Loyalty was mediated by Commitment, while Brand love mediated the relationship between Commitment and Trust. These results lead to important managerial considerations, especially for the fashion sector. Marketing strategies must focus on a ideological and symboliic change, in order to allow consumers to love and to be loyal to the new green brands, recognizing themselves in them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to explore the relationships between the consumer brand identification (CBI) construct and the antecedent factor of the determinant of choice (Drivers): Desire, Subjective norms, Attitude toward act and Behavioral intention. In particular, the research presents different implications on the identification and brand of the brand loyalty literature in the context of the hotel industry. Sicily is a rich land and a place of great tourist destination. It is important to define the reasons and possibilities that a luxury hotel industry can have in the territory. The study involved 271 customers (125 male, 146 female), mainly aged between 26 and 45 years (71.3%). In reference to reasons to why customers were travelling, the 47% mentioned culture and 32% leisure. Half of them have university degree (51.3%). Finally, 32% of customers chose a five-star luxury hotel, while the remaining (68%), a four-star hotel. The results confirm previous studies that consider the phenomenology of the consumer's interaction with brands and the three addictional antecedents factor as predictive of consumer brand identification. We found that Desire, Subjective norms and Attitude toward act have had a positive impact on Behavioral intention through CBI. The Path diagram shows how the brand identification of customers who choose luxury hotel in Sicily is able to mediate the relationship between the antecedents (drivers) and the outcome in terms of intention to re-purchase the product. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Although the great importance that craft beer has had in recent times, the number of studies on it is still very scarce compared to those on wine. The first part of this paper explain that microbreweries and craft beer itself, are imbued with local community/culture and that the production of this product is particularly tied to the territory and its cultural and simbolic heritage. In detail, this study represents a first exploration of the psychological factors that influence the purchase and intensity of consumption of this product. Results emerged reveal a close relationship between the consumption of craft beer and purely social reasons, and confirm the current consumers trend that favor and prefer natural and green products, healthy eating, environmental sustanaibility and in general have healthy lifestyle. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aims to explore the attitude of residents towards the phenomenon of tourism. Specifically, the study aims to highlight the factors that can affect, positively or negatively, the relationship between residents and tourists. The geographical context of the study is the Iblei tourist district.The Iblei tourist district was founded in 2010. Its mission is to promote, develop and promote the integrated tourism offer of the Ibleo territory. The study involved 320 residents, the scales used are: the Tourism Impact Attitude Scale-TIAS (Lankford and Howard, 1994), the Satisfaction with Life Scale-SWLS (Diener et al., 1985) and the affective and evaluative attitude of residents towards tourism (Osgood et al., 1957). The results show how the satisfaction with the quality of life perceived by the resident is able to mediate the relationship of dependence between the attitude he has towards tourism and the global attitude in terms of utility and affection towards the phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Consumer behavior literature havetraditionallyfocused on the positive aspect of consumptions, ignoring the negative forms and related implications, Ourcontributiontry a first conceptualization of the entirephenomenon, focusing in detail on predictormotives (reasonsinfluencing consumers and leadthem to feelings of hatredagainst the brands), and negative behavioral outcomes, iethoseparticularactions of consumers in response to and as a result of the Brand Hatephenomenon. The study was conducted on a sample of 122 consumers whom defined themselves as haters of specific brands and we used a self-reported questionnaire, composed by three different scales: Brand Hate Scale, Motivations Scale and Behavioral Scale. Results emerged are very interesting not only in an academic way but also for a better planning of a corporate strategies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]