Psychosocial factors, forms of participation and citizenship

Research lines of the group documented by publications in the period 2019-2023

1.  Factors and processes underlying young people's civic and political participation
2. Interventions to promote the active citizenship of young people in school and community contexts
3. Sense of community, participation and well-being

Head

Elvira Cicognani, Full Professor

ERC Sectors

 SH Social Sciences and Humanities

• SH4_5 Social and clinical psychology
• SH4_11 Education: systems and institutions, teaching and learning

Scientific Disciplinary Sector: M-Psi/05

Selected publications of the group for the period 2019-2023

1. Tzankova, I., Prati, G., Eckstein, K., Noack ,P., Amnå, E., Motti-Stefanidi, F., Macek, P., Cicognani, E. (2020). Adolescents’ Patterns of Citizenship Orientations and Correlated Contextual Variables: Results From a Two-Wave Study in Five European Countries. Youth & Society, https://doi.org/10.1177/0044118X20942256
2. Prati, G., Mazzoni, D., Guarino, A., Albanesi, C., & Cicognani, E. (2020). Evaluation of an active citizenship intervention based on youth-led participatory action research. Health Education & Behavior, 47(6), 894-904. https://doi.org/10.1177/1090198120948788
3. Albanesi, C., Prati, G., Guarino, A., Cicognani, E., (2021). School Citizenship Education Through YPAR: What Works? A Mixed-Methods Study in Italy, JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT RESEARCH, 1, pp. 1 – 35. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211035564
4. Zani, B., Albanesi, C., Cicognani, E., Guarino, A., Tzankova, I. (2022). Mobilising critical consciousness in educational contexts: a Community Psychology approach. In Kagan, C., Akhurst, J., Alfaro, J., Lawthorm, R., Richards, M., & Zambrano, A. (Eds), The Routledge International Handbook of Community Psychology. Routledge, London & New York.
5. Tzankova, I.I., O’Sullivan, C., Facciuto, A.I., Sacchetti, L., Fini, F., Cicognani, E., Setti, A. (2023). Engagement with Nature and the Home Environment: Wellbeing and Proenvironmental Behavior among Irish and Italian University Students during the COVID-19 Emergency. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20, 14July 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20146432
6. Guarino, A., Barbieri, I., Compare, C., & Albanesi, C. (2023). Facilitating assets-based development in rural communities through service-learning. Community Development Journal, 58(3), 512-538. https://doi.org/10.1093/cdj/bsac017

Funding for the period 2019-2023

 International Projects

• RURAL 3.0 (2019-2021)
• UNICORN (2019-2021)
• SYNCRONY (HE) (2023-2027)

 National Projects

• FISR-COVID (2020)
• PRIN 2022 E-Clic Engagement for climate change and environmental sustainability: (how does it work/change) online, offline or onsite?”
• PRIN 2022 “Deviant behaviors and violence in young people after COVID-19: sign of the times or consequence of the pandemic?”

Active National and International Collaborations for the period 2019-2023

International collaborations

•  Annalisa Setti, School of Applied Psychology, UCC

Unibo collaborations

• Iana Ivanova Tzankova, RTD b), Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Educazione “G.M.Bertin”

 Editorial activities in the period 2019-2023

• Psicologia di comunità
• Psicologia della salute

Fellow in scientific academies and / or executive committees of scientific associations for the period 2019-2023

 Cinzia Albanesi

• European Community Psychology Association (ECPA);
• EASLHE (European Association Service Learning in Higher Education)

Elvira Cicognani

• European Association for Research on Adolescence (EARA);
• Associazione Italiana di Psicologia - Sezione di Psicologia Sociale