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CHIARA MENEGHETTI

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Structure

Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale - DPG

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 8 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276911

E-mail

chiara.meneghetti@unipd.it

PERSONAL INFORMATION
Nome: CHIARA MENEGHETTI
Position: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Office Telephone number: (+39) 049 8276911
Fax number:(+39) 049 8276600
Email: chiara.meneghetti@unipd.it

Institutional responsibilities and activities
University responsibilities
Since 2019: Member of the University Guidance and Tutoring Committee
Since 2018: Member of the University Inclusion and Disability Committee

Departmental responsibilities
Since 2017: Vice-president and member of the Accreditation and Assessment Team of the Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive psychology and psychobiology, School of Psychology (University of Padova)

Activities
Research:
Since 2017: Research scientist on the PhD course in Psychological Sciences (University of Padova)

Post-lauream:
Since 2013: Director of the Masters course (I level) on “Learning Tutorship”; General Psychology Department, University of Padova, Italy.

Clinical field:
Since 2020 (January): Scientific coordinator (together with Professor Carretti) of the SAP-AS (Service of Psychological Help – Learning and Study) within SCUP (University Centre for the Clinical psychological services, https://www.scup.unipd.it).


Teaching activities
Courses (School of Psychology, University of Padova)
Since a.a. 2017-2018:
Spatial cognition (M-PSI/01; 6 CFU: 42 hours): Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Science; course held in English.

Since a.a. 2013-2014:
Psychology of personality and individual differences (M-PSI/01; 6 CFU: 42 hours): Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Psychology and Psychobiology

Since a.a. 2012-2013:
Classics of Psychology (6 CFU; 42 hours): Bachelor’s degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques.

Since a.a. 2017-2018:
Teacher on the course “Psychology of Strategic and Motivated Learning” (M-PSI/01) within the Pathways for fulfilling the access requirements (24 CFU) to the public examination for being admitted to the three-year pathway of initial education, training and placement in the role of teacher; University of Padova.

Erasmus reference person:
Since 2013-now: Erasmus reference person for the University of Oviedo (Spain), University of Cyprus (Cyprus) and University René Descartes, Paris (France).


Publications
Over 100 international and national publications (Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=b6F32CIAAAAJ&hl=it; Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=6602124418; Web of Science: https://app.webofknowledge.com/author/search-results/913d84b6-c8aa-4ec8-99a0-44eff5e9b42c)

Editing and revision activities:
Editorial board: Spatial Cognition & Computation
Topic editor:
Special issue: “Individuals With Down Syndrome” in Brain Sciences
Special issue: “Wayfinding and Navigation: Strengths and Weaknesses in Atypical and Clinical Populations” in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Since 2012: ad hoc revisors for a series of international journals

Membership of scientific societies
Since 2010: Member of Research Network “Spatial Learning Network” (http://spatiallearning.org/)
Since 2013: Associate Member of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) http://www.psychologicalscience.org/
Since 2012: Associate Member of Association of Italian Psychology (AIP) – Experimental section-.
2008-2012 and since 2017: Associate Member of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology (http://escop.eu/)


Notices

Director of the Master (I level) in “Tutor dell’ apprendimento” (Learning tutorship)
http://www.unipd.it/tutordell%E2%80%99apprendimento


Teacher of master (II level) “Psicologia architettonica e del paesaggio”
http://www.unipd.it/psicologia-architettonica-paesaggio

Teacher of master (II level) in “Psicologia dell’invecchiamento”
http://masterinvecchiamento.psy.unipd.it/


More info at:
http://dpg.unipd.it/en/wmlabs/people

Office hours

  • Friday from 12:30 to 14:30
    at Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, via Venezia 8 (5° piano; stanza 021)
    Il ricevimento verrà svolto in presenza o in modalità da remoto via zoom (https://unipd.zoom.us/j/81104797840)

Teachings

Publications

10 selected pubblications (last five years):


1. Miola, L., Muffato, V., Sella, E., Meneghetti, C., Pazzaglia, F. (2024). GPS Use and Navigation Ability: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 102417; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2024.102417.
2. Muffato, V., Miola, L., Pazzaglia, F. Meneghetti, C. (2024). Differences in wayfinding inclinations among women and men: A matter of personality and affect, not just gender. Current Psychology. 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-024-06628-8. IF 2023: 2.5 (Q2: Psychology, multidisciplinary).
3. Feraco, T., Casali, N., Carbone, E., Meneghetti, C., Borella, E., Carretti, B., Muffato, V. (2024). Soft skills and their relationship with cognitive reserve and life satisfaction in adulthood and older age. European Journal of Ageing, 21 (1) 25. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-024-00820-2
4. Feraco, T., Pellegrino, G., Carretti, B., & Meneghetti, C. (2024). The Italian Behavioral, Emotional, and Social Skills Inventory (BESSI-I). Journal of personality assessment, 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2024.2335912 IF 2023: 2.8 (Q2: PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL; PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL.
5. Casali, N., Meneghetti, C., Tinti, C. Re, A. M., Sini, B., Passolunghi, M. C., Valenti, A., Montesano, L., Pellegrino, G., Carretti, B. (2024). Academic Achievement and Satisfaction Among University Students With Specific Learning Disabilities: The Roles of Soft Skills and Study-Related Factors. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 57(1), 16-29 https://doi.org/10.1177/00222194221150786. IF 2023: 2.4 (Q1: Education, Special).
6. Casali, N., Feraco, T., Meneghetti, C. (2023). Keep going, keep growing: A longitudinal analysis of grit, posttraumatic growth, and life satisfaction in school students under COVID-19. Learning and Individual Differences, 105, 102320. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102320. IF 2022: 3.6 (Q1, psychology, educational)
7. Muffato, V., Miola, L., Pazzaglia, F. Meneghetti, C. (2023). Trajectories across healthy adult lifespan on sense of direction, spatial anxiety, and attitude in exploring places. Frontiers in Psychology. 14:1240873. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1240873. IF 2022: 3,80 (Q1, psychology, multidisciplinary).
8. Miola, L., Meneghetti, C., Pazzaglia, F., van der Ham, I. (2023). Gender-related differences in environment learning: Examining task characteristics and spatial beliefs. Learning and Individual Differences, 106: 102342. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102342. IF 2022: 3.6 (Q1, psychology, educational)
9. Meneghetti, C., Murroni, V., Borella, E., Melendugno, A., Carbone, E., Goldin, G., Cavalli, R., Basso A., Pazzaglia, F. (2023). Psychological impacts of intervention to improve a therapeutic garden for older adults with dementia: A case study conducted at a care facility. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14:1183934 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1183934. IF 2022: 4.7 (Q2, Psychiatry).
10. Casali, N., Ghisi, M., Rizzato, R, Meneghetti, C., De Beni, R. (2022). Validation of the “Study-Anxiety” Questionnaire: a scale for the initial assessment of university students seeking psychological help. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2, 44(4), 1158–1168 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-022-09982-8. IF 2021: 2.645; Q3 (Psychology, Clinical).

Research Area

The main research topics, of potential interest also for PhD projects, concern:

- Navigation and environment: learning about environments (in real context or in virtual environment), strategies, skills, use of aids (e.g. GPS)

- Motor activity and sport (eg orienteering) and spatial skills

- Cognition, metacognition, self-regulated learning strategies and academic (primary, secondary) and academic (university) success

- Soft-skills, study and learning strategies


Major international collaborations
Since 2017: Department of Basic Psychology I in UNED (Madrid-Spain); prof. María José Contreras and María Rosa Elosúa
Since 2016: Bournemouth University (United Kingdom); Prof. Jan Winer
Since 2014: Sport Science Department; University di Regensburg (Germany); Prof. Petra Jansen
Since 2008: Psychology Department; University of Cyprus (Cyprus); Prof. Marios Avramides
Since 2006 Psychology Department; University René Descartes (Paris V; France); Prof. Valerie Gyselinck

Thesis proposals

Topics for bachelor and master's theses.
The proposed theses are experimental (data collection).

Thesis topics for projects in the start-up phase (October 2024):
- Navigation and strategic use of GPS
- Spatial texts and representation of the environment
- Orientation, cognitive skills, navigation
- sport, health, well-being, environment
- environment, regenerativeness and representation of the environment
- Soft-skills, personality traits, learning and academic success


General themes of the thesis topics:
Spatial cognition and environmental psychology:
1. Learning the environment through navigation (real or virtual reality) and representation characteristics
2. The role of visuospatial skills, beliefs and personal characteristics in learning environmental information
3. Visual-spatial skills, motor and sports skills
4. Pro-environmental and sustainability attitudes and behaviors in relation to other environmental variables of approach to the environment
5. Characteristics of the environment (natural, built) and mental representations
7. Environment, well-being and regenerativeness

Learning and individual differences:
8. Cognition, motivation and strategies for success in STEAM subjects (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics)
9. Motivational beliefs, metacognition, self-regulated learning strategies and academic success (in primary, secondary schools and universities)
10. Soft-skills, personality disposition, study skills and academic success (in primary, secondary schools and universities)