Ricerc@Sapienza

The aim of this article is to provide an overview of the social experience of second generation young immigrants of Islamic belief. In the first part of the article are outlined some relevant contributions based on analysis of the cultural everyday practices in which the real meaning of 'being a Muslim” in Italy is embodied. The second part reports on the results of research still underway carried out in two main cities of the south of Italy where social conditions have worsened due the long economic crisis.

Healthy ageing has been associated to a positivity bias (i.e., greater psychological well-being and
reported positive emotions). We investigated to what extent this positivity bias also applies to
prioritizing positive information under emotional competition. Old and young adults performed a
word-face interference task, in which they responded to the valence of positive and negative targetwords while ignoring happy or angry distractor-faces that could be affectively congruent or

In recent year public awareness and mobilization against sexual harassment and other forms of violence against women (rape, domestic violence, stalking) have increased, thanks also to digital media activism and mass media attention. Yet gendered violence still continues to be one of the most serious human rights violations in the world today, deeply rooted in everyday life and directed not only against women, but also against men and the sexual minority identities.

Negli adolescenti e nei giovani adulti, la salute sessuale e riproduttiva è un bene prezioso, da tutelare e proteggere; tuttavia, sin troppo spesso la letteratura scientifica trascura questa importante fase della vita. Scopo di questa rassegna è discutere delle principali problematiche della sessualità dei giovani, identificando i fattori di rischio, approfondendo il ruolo di Internet e le possibili ricadute sulla salute sessuale.