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SARA IANNATTONE
UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA. ITALY
Sara Iannattone is a licensed clinical psychologist and research fellow at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova (Italy). She obtained her PhD in Clinical Psychology with a dissertation examining risk and protective factors of body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms in adolescence. Her research lies within adolescent clinical psychology, with a primary focus on transdiagnostic factors implicated in the onset and maintenance of mental disorders, including intolerance of uncertainty, boredom, and emotion dysregulation.
In parallel, she is actively involved in the development and validation of psychometrically robust self-report instruments for the assessment of psychopathological symptoms and associated risk and protective factors. Her work also extends to the investigation of critical clinical phenomena in adolescence, such as social withdrawal and self-harming behaviors, as well as personality functioning and maladaptive personality traits. She has authored more than 30 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals, including 21 as first or corresponding author.
Into the Adolescent Mind: New Perspectives on Cognitive, Emotional, and Contextual Processes Shaping Psychological Well-Being and Adjustment
Adolescence is a pivotal phase marked by rapid changes that heighten vulnerability to psychological maladjustment while simultaneously offering a strategic window for early detection and intervention. Accordingly, understanding the mechanisms that shape psychological well-being during this period is essential. Against this backdrop, the present symposium provides an integrative perspective on adolescent functioning by bridging cognitive, emotional, and contextual domains across diverse populations and methodological approaches.
Together, the contributions aim to disentangle key processes associated with psychological well-being and (mal)adjustment, with the overarching goal of informing theoretical models, assessment strategies, and targeted interventions. Specifically, Anna Malerba investigates the dimensionality of an occasion-specific measure of Intolerance of Uncertainty (IU) through latent state-trait modelling. Furthermore, the study explores longitudinal associations between occasion-specific IU, academic well-being, and uncertainty-reducing behaviors, offering insights into how context-sensitive variations in IU may impact adolescents’ everyday functioning.
Sara Iannattone examines the associations between Fear of Missing Out (FoMO), IU, and boredom, particularly focusing on the mediating role of boredom. This contribution extends the conceptualization of FoMO beyond its traditional framing within problematic Internet use, highlighting additional mechanisms that may contribute to its development and maintenance in adolescence. Ilaria Colpizzi presents longitudinal evidence testing whether low self-esteem constitutes a necessary condition for the development of eating disorder symptoms among adolescent girls. By adopting necessity logic, this study refines the understanding of vulnerability pathways to disordered eating, underscoring how identifying necessary conditions may open new avenues for early detection, prevention, and personalized interventions in adolescence.
Finally, Roberta M. Incardona examines psychological well-being among pediatric oncohematology patients and their parents, with the aim of better understanding family adjustment in the context of cancer. Specifically, this contribution explores how illness-related clinical variables, including diagnosis and time since diagnosis, interact with parental psychological symptomatology to influence adolescent patients’ well-being and adaptation to illness.
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