Remote Psychological Counseling: Student Satisfaction during the Pandemic COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic forced universities to rethink a new setting for psychological couseling dedicated to students, namely the reformulation of the service in remote mode. This study aimed to investigate the “satisfaction” construct of students who have benefited from the Psychological Counseling service of the University of Bari during the period of the first wave of the pandemic by COVID-19. The study analyzed quanti-qualitatively the satisfaction questionnaire given to students at the end of the path. Such a tool explores the following sub-dimensions related to lived experience: positive aspects;negative aspects;opinions and suggestions for change. The students’ responses were analyzed through Automatic Sentiment Analysis and Critical Discourse Analysis. The results showed that the Uniba Psychological Counseling service has been a real opportunity, especially in the period of lockdown due to the pandemic, for its strengths related to the professionalism of operators and the quality of service. © 2021 Franco Angeli Edizioni. All rights reserved.

L'efficacia del counseling universitario durante la pandemia da Covid-19. Un'indagine pilota sul benessere degli studenti

Covid-19 pandemic and its following confinement measures had a strong impact on individual's well-being especially on undergraduate university students. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of a counseling intervention on university students during the first stage of the current pandemic (march-october 2020). The authors investigated this issue by assessing self-reported measures of Psychological Well-Being, Emotion-Regulation, and Perceived Self-Efficacy, in a sample of 49 (37 females) students requiring access to the Counseling Service of the University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Italy. A series of repeated-measures ANOVA 2x2 was performed considering both the pre-post factor and gender as independent variables on each of the self-reported measures. Results showed a significantly increased Psychological well-being, use of functional Emotion-Regulation strategies, and Perceived Self- Efficacy in the sample. © 2021 Franco Angeli Edizioni. All rights reserved.

To be a tiktoker in covid-19 era: An experience of social influence

Social networks are able to interface technological innovation and communication with socialitythus redesigning the forms, practices, purposes of access and its relationship with everyday lifeespecially at a time when technology becomes the only way to feel part of a social group, like the COVID-19 period. The general objective of the research is to understand the experience ofruition of the social network Tiktok in the sample of participants, heterogeneous and representative of the reference population. The aim is to assess how the user or the entire sociagroup lives the experience of the social because it is assumed that the result of the above experience can become a new form of social influence. The study aims to answer the following research questions: 1. How do people experience this new social media? 2. Is fun the new form of social influence? The methodology used is quantum-qualitative. It is, in fact, proposed first a Netnographic Analysis of observation and description of the social, and then use an automatiContent Analysis supported by Diatextual Analysis (the qualitative part). The results allow to theorize a different form of social influence, or “fun”, which becomes characteristic of the socianetwork and the period. © 2021 by authors;licensee OJCMT.

Informative Contagion: The Coronavirus (COVID-19) in Italian journalism

The spreading of new Coronavirus in addition to becoming a global phenomenon, following the declaration of a pandemic state, has generated excessive access to information, phenomenon named "Infodemia" (Cinelli et al., 2020). The general purpose of the exploratory study is to investigate how the coronavirus situation is described from the journalistic communication. Starting from La Repubblica online, as a reference journalistic magazine, the study assumes that if the circulation of information helps to create a social representation of the phenomenon, the excessive accessibility to sources of information (infodemia) can be modulated by the "how" the phenomenon is described by the journalists. The methodology proposed is quanti-qualitative (mixed method). A Content Analysis (Mayring, 2004) with the SketchEngine software (Thomas, 2016) is carried out first. In support, a Diatextual Analysis (Papapicco & Mininni, 2019) was carried out. The results show the presence of the contrast vision about COVID-19 situation in Italy.