Federica Sciacca

Clinical and social psychology, phenomena related to the virtual world such as new addiction (smartphones, online-games and internet addiction), cyberbullying, individual and psychosocial correlates of internet use and social networks , fake news and gullibility, religious orientation and secularism.

1. De Pasquale C, Sciacca F, Hichy Z (2015) Smartphone Addiction and Dissociative Experience: An investigation in Italian adolescents aged between 14 and 19 years. Int J Psychol Behav Anal 1: 109. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.15344/2455-3867/2015/109
2. De Pasquale, C., Sciacca, F., & Fronte, V. (2016). Gaming Addiction: An Investigation in Italian Adults in Avola. Psychology, 7, 1248-1255. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/psych.2016.79127
3. De Pasquale, C., Sciacca, F., & Hichy, Z. (2016). Validation of the Italian version of the dissociative experience scale for adolescents and young adults. Annals of general psychiatry, 15, 31. doi:10.1186/s12991-016-0120-4
4. De Pasquale, C., Sciacca, F., & Hichy, Z. (2017). Italian Validation of Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version for Adolescents and Young Adults (SAS-SV). Psychology, 8, 1513-1518. https://doi.org/10.4236/psych.2017.810100
5. De Pasquale, C., Dinaro, C., & Sciacca, F. (2018). Relationship of Internet gaming disorder with dissociative experience in Italian university students. Annals of general psychiatry, 17, 28. doi:10.1186/s12991-018-0198-y
6. De Pasquale, C., Veroux, M., Pistorio, M.L., Papotto, A., Basile, G., Patanè, M., Veroux, P., Giaquinta, A., Sciacca, F. (2019) Return to work and quality of life: psychosocial survey after kidney transplantation. Transplantation Proceedings, 51, 153-156.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2018.04.083
7. De Pasquale, C., Sciacca, F., Conti, D., Dinaro, C. & Di Nuovo, S., (2019) Personality and dissociative experiences in smartphone users. Life Span and Disability XXII, 1, 129-146.
8. De Pasquale, C., Pistorio, M. L, Veroux, M., Sciacca, F., et al.  (2019) Nonverbal Communication and Psychopathology in Kidney Transplant Recipients. Transplantation Proceedings,Volume 51, Issue 9. Pages 2931-2935, ISSN 0041-1345, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.transproceed.2019.05.021.
9. De Pasquale, C., Angelica, A., & Sciacca, F. (2019) Teaching Skills and Life skills of the Teacher in a Multicultural School Context in Liana M. Daher, Augusto Gamuzza, Anna Maria Leonora and Adam K. Gogacz, Multi(Inter)cultural School in Inclusive Societies? An Interdisciplinary Approach. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN-13:978-1-5275-4458-1
10. De Pasquale, C., Marinella, C., Sciacca, F., Pistorio, M.L., Dinaro, C. (2019) Binge eating disorder and bariatric surgery: A case report. Acta Medica Mediterranea. 35: 2911. DOI: 10.19193/0393-6384_2019_6_454
11. Hichy, Z., Di Marco, G., & Sciacca, F. (2020) Dataset on the relations between religious and secular attitudes, Data in Brief, Volume 28, 104925, ISSN 2352-3409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2019.104925.
12. Di Marco, G., Hichy, Z., & Sciacca, F. (2020) Dataset on the relationship between psychosocial resources of volunteers and their quality of life, Data in Brief, Volume 30, 105522, ISSN 2352-3409, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2020.105522
13. Sciacca, F. (2020) XIII EAGT Gestalt Conference. An Experiental Exploration: the Fertile Void and Creative Indifference. Quaderni di Gestalt (ISSN 1121-0737, ISSNe 2035-6994), XXXIII, 1/2020, doi:10.3280/GEST2020-001011
14. Hichy, Z., Sciacca, F., Di Marco, G., & De Pasquale, C. (2020) Effects of religious orientation and state secularism on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. Heliyon; 6(8): e04798. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e04798
15. Di Marco, G., Mangione, M., Hichy, Z., & Sciacca, F. (2020). Tra affettività e diffidenza: un confronto tra le rappresentazioni sociali del cibo italiano e del cibo etnico. Annali della Facoltà di Scienze della Formazione, Volume 19, Pages 67-76. http://dx.doi.org/10.15169/unict-asdf.19.2020.5
16. De Pasquale, C., Sciacca, F., Martinelli, V., Chiappedi, M., Dinaro, C., Hichy, Z. (2020) Relationship of Internet Gaming Disorder with Psychopathology and Social Adaptation in Italian Young Adults. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health, 17(21), 8201; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17218201.
17. Hichy, Z., Di Marco, G., & Sciacca, F. (in press). Values, secularism, and attitude towards gay and lesbian civil rights. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology.