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UGHETTA MICAELA MARIA MOSCARDINO

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Position

Professoressa Associata

Structure

Dipartimento di Psicologia dello Sviluppo e della Socializzazione - DPSS

Address

VIA VENEZIA, 1 - PADOVA

Telephone

0498276527

E-mail

ughetta.moscardino@unipd.it

Notices

Research topics for doctoral students:

- Culture, parenting and children's socio-emotional development
- Psychological adjustment among children and youth with a migration background
- Effects of exposure to man-made or natural disasters on the mental health of children, adolescents, and their families
- Risk factors and resilience processes in refugees and asylum seekers

Office hours

  • Wednesday from 13:30 to 15:30
    at Studio e sede: terzo piano - DPSS, via Venezia 8
    Dear students, my office hours take place remotely (via the zoom platform) until further notice. To make an appointment, please email me reporting your name, surname, and type of request (e.g., Erasmus, exams...) up to 1 day before the scheduled date (i.e., every Wednesday). Based on the order of arrival of the requests, I will send you an email with the time of the appointment and further instructions on how to connect with the 'Zoom' videoconference system. Thanks for your collaboration! ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Gentili studentesse e studenti, il ricevimento si svolgerà in forma telematica fino ad ulteriore comunicazione. Per fissare un appuntamento durante l'orario di ricevimento, vi chiedo di inviarmi una email (ughetta.moscardino@unipd.it) entro il giorno prima specificando nome, cognome e motivo della richiesta (es. Erasmus, richiesta di tesi). A seconda dell'ordine di arrivo delle richieste provvederò a inviare a ciascuno di voi un orario per l'appuntamento e ulteriori istruzioni per connettersi al sistema di videoconferenza 'Zoom'. Grazie per la vostra collaborazione!

Teachings

Publications

Selected publications

1) Ceccon, C., Schachner, M. K., M., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., & Moscardino, U. (2024). Promoting Adolescents’ Cultural Identity Development: A Pilot Study of the Identity Project Intervention in Italy. Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/cdp0000643
2) Ceccon., C., & Moscardino, U. (2024). Psychological Distress Among Unaccompanied Immigrant Minors in Times of COVID-19: The Role of Friendship Attachment Style and Intolerance of Uncertainty. Journal of Adolescence, 96(1), 81-97.
3) Ceccon, C., Schachner, M. K., Lionetti, F., Pastore, M., Umana-Taylor, A., & Moscardino, U. (2023). Registered Report: Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controlled trial. Child Development, 94(5), 1162-1180.
4) Juang, L. P., Umaña-Taylor, A. J., Schachner, M. K., Frisén, A., Hwang, C. P., Moscardino, U., ... & Syed, M. (2023). Ethnic-racial identity in Europe: Adapting the identity project intervention in five countries. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 20(6), 978-1006.
5) Ceccon, C. & Moscardino, U. (2022). Psychosocial impact of COVID-19 and lockdown on West African asylum seekers in Italy: A mixed-methods study. Transcultural Psychiatry, 59(6), 782-796.
6) Lionetti, F., Spinelli, M., Moscardino, U., Ponzetti, S., Garito, M. C., Dellagiulia, A., , Aureli, T., Fasolo, M., & Pluess, M. (2022). The Interplay Between Parenting and Environmental Sensitivity in the Prediction of Children’s Externalizing and Internalizing Behaviors During COVID-19. Development and Psychopathology, 1-14. doi:10.1017/S0954579421001309.
7) Moscardino, U., Musso, P., Inguglia, C., Ceccon, C., Miconi, D., & Rousseau, C. (2022). Psychological Correlates of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Resistance in the Young Adult Population in Italy. Vaccine, 40(16), 2379-2387.
8) Moscardino, U., Dicataldo, R., Roch, M., Carbone, M., & Mammarella, I.C. (2021). Parental stress during COVID-19. A brief report on the role of distance education and family resources in an Italian sample. Current Psychology, 40, 5749-5752.
9) Moscardino, U.*, Scrimin, S.*, Lionetti, F., & Pluess, M. (2021). Environmental sensitivity and cardiac vagal tone as moderators of the relationship between family support and well-being in low-SES children: An exploratory study. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 38(9), 2772-2791.
10 ) Feng, X., Harkness, S., Super, C.M., Welles, B., Bermudez, M., Bonichini, S., Moscardino, U., Zylicz, O. (2020). Parents' Concepts of the Successful School Child in Seven Western Cultures. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 170, 143-170.
11) Moscardino, U., Miconi, D., & Carraro, L. (2020). Implicit and explicit self-construals in Chinese-heritage and Italian nonimmigrant early adolescents: Associations with self-esteem and prosocial behavior. Developmental Psychology, 56(7), 1397.
12) Scrimin, S., Patron, E., Peruzza, M., & Moscardino, U. (2020). Cardiac vagal tone and executive functions: Moderation by physical fitness and family support. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 67, 101120.

Research Area

- Culture, parenting and children's socio-emotional development
- Psychological adaptation among children and youth with a migration background
- Effects of exposure to man-made or natural disasters on children and families' mental health
- Risk factors and resilience processes in refugees and asylum seekers

Thesis proposals

- Culture, parenting, and child development
- Cultural identity and psychological adjustment among youth with an immigrant background
- Mental health in children, adolescents, and families exposed to disasters (natural or man-made)
- Application of the mixed-methods approach within (cross-)cultural research