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EOIJ Research Article Jan 31, 2025
Impact of Self-Esteem Training on Individuals with Disabilities Aged 17-30
Vaccaro M*, Bollo M, Aiello N, Macmillan K, Vaccaro P, Iona T, Fruci GM and Agnesone M

Several studies showed that higher levels of self-esteem are correlated with lower levels of anxiety and of depression, and higher satisfactory interpersonal relationships such as…

Disability Self-esteem Public
EOIJ Research Article Jan 27, 2025
Effects of a Psychotherapeutic Pathway Based on Mindfulness, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Creative Contact with Nature in People with Mild Intellectual Disability
Vaccaro M*, Nicolosi D, Aiello N, Macmillan K, Vaccaro P, Iona T, Fruci GM, and Agnesone M

Mild intellectual disability is characterized by a limited ability to adapt to novel situations and difficulties in managing emotions. Common challenges faced by individuals with …

Disability ACT Mindfulness
EOIJ Research Article Oct 10, 2023
Preliminary Study on the Factors Influencing the Inception of Romantic Relationships in Adolescence
Vaccaro M*, Agnesone M, Locati E, Vaccaro P , Lucia F, Aiello N, Macrì F and Bollo M

Based on literature that highlighted the importance of romantic relationships in adolescence and highlighted that parental attachment may play a decisive role in the development of…

Adolescence Romantic Relationships Safety
EOIJ Research Article May 17, 2023
Beyond the Tag A Parent Training Experience in the Healthcare Field
Vaccaro M*, Landollina E, Spadini S, Bollo M, Vaccaro P, Sinigaglia C, Fruci GM, Aiello N, Monaci P and Bonansea A

Behavioral difficulties related to internalizing neurodevelopmental disorders represent one of the main areas of work in clinical practice within pediatric services (Steiner & …

Parent Training ADHD DOP
EOIJ Research Article Sep 6, 2021
Are you Really Social? Put your Smartphone Down. Using Nudge to Reduce the Frequency of use of Smartphones in Pub and Restaurants
Vaccaro M* and Bisagni M

To escape uninteresting conversations during an aperitif or a lunch break, in pubs and restaurants, people prefer to communicate with their smartphone rather than with those sittin…

Smartphone Salience Nudge
EOIJ Research Article Aug 4, 2021
Informative Feedback: A Help to Change People's Behaviour
Vaccaro M* and Bisagni M

Evolved from the portable phone, the smartphone has assumed significant importance in the lives of many people to make them increasingly dependent, conditioning interests and activ…

Feedback Pub Nudge
EOIJ Research Article Oct 14, 2020
Assessment of the Psychological Well-Being of Teachers in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Vaccaro M* and Lombardo G

The Covid-19 pandemic has led to changes in the habits of human beings with repercussions on psychological well-being from an emotional and affective point of view. So far, researc…

ProQOL Quality of Life Teachers
EOIJ Research Article Oct 14, 2020
The Impact of the Pandemic on the Quality of Life of Healthcare Professionals
Lombardo G* and Vaccaro M

The state of international public health emergency, declared on January, 30th 2020 has seen an increase in frequency and intensity of health workers in the workplace to support CO…

ProQOL Quality of Life Healthcare Professionals
EOIJ Review Article Apr 27, 2020
How Much are Aware of the Effects of Smartphone use in Daily Activities?
Vaccaro M*

The aim of the article is to highlight the consequences that the presence of the smartphone has induced in people’s lives in daily activities such as driving, sleeping and study…

Smartphone Phubbing Nomofobia
EOIJ Review Article Apr 22, 2020
The Use of the Smartphone, A Nice Paradox: Functional and Dysfunctional at the Same Time
Vaccaro M*

Article’s aim is to create a parallel between the functionality and the dysfunctionality in the use of the smartphone to prevent abuse of the device. The increase in the frequency …

Smartphone Functional Behavior
EOIJ Investigation Paper Nov 25, 2019
A Gentle Push to Reduce the Frequency of Smartphone Use in Corporate Meetings
Vaccaro M*, Venanzi P, Bisagni M, Pozzi F and Moderato P

In order to address the problem of the high frequency of smartphone usage during company meetings, a nudge intervention was developed in a Lombardy company to reduce its usage The…

Smartphone Corporation Nudge
EOIJ Investigation Paper Nov 25, 2019
Functionality of the Nudge to Reduce the Frequency of Use of Smartphones in a School Context
Vaccaro M*, Bisagni M, Pozzi F and Moderato P

The Nudge techniques concern every aspect in the architecture of the choices that alters, in a simple and economic way, the behavior of people in a predictable way without the use…

Smartphone School Nudge
EOIJ Research Article Jan 9, 2019
No Waste by Default: Nudging to Prevent Food Waste in Restaurants
Cesareo M*, Oppo A, Lopes ME, Vaccaro M, Stoyanova PS, Pozzi F and Moderato P

Nudge techniques concern any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people's behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their ec…

Food Waste Nudge Default Rule
EOIJ Research Article Apr 17, 2019
Less Sugar by Default: A Nudge Methodology to Reduce Sugar Consumption in a Coffee Bar
Massimo Cesareo*, Magdalena Edyta Lopes, Annalisa Oppo, Paolina Stoyanova, Marianna Vaccaro, Mariateresa Volpe, Francesco Pozzi and Paolo Moderato

The present study aimed to reduce the sugar intake among the customers who purchased coffee in a coffee shop inside a gym in Catania, Italy. We hypothesised that people would frame…

Sugar Nudge Default Rule