ABSTRACT
At the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, the Bologna Local Health Unit Prevention and Protection Service began to receive a number of various requests. From this, the idea of setting up a programme for colleagues emerged, and a phone number was established to address the needs of operators. After an initial evaluation, operators were referred to specific professional figures. The service's psychologists dealt with the requests received by offering different types of interventions. This report presents and discusses the results of this experience regarding the operators who used the service, the interventions implemented and the feedback received. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Italian) All'inizio della pandemia da COVID-19 sono iniziate a pervenire numerose richieste di diversa natura presso il Servizio Prevenzione e Protezione dell'AUSL di Bologna. Da questi elementi e nata l'idea di pianificare un percorso dedicato ai colleghi attraverso l'istituzione di un numero telefonico per l'accoglienza dei bisogni degli operatori. A una prima accoglienza si rimandava a figure professionali specifiche. Gli psicologi del Servizio hanno preso in carico le richieste pervenute offrendo diverse tipologie di interventi. Nel presente elaborato sono presentati e discussi i risultati di questa esperienza relativi ai lavoratori che hanno usufruito del servizio, gli interventi attuati e i feedback ricevuti. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
ABSTRACT
Economic inequality is a collective issue that affects all citizens. However, people often fail to support redistribution strategies aimed at redressing inequality. In this work we investigated personal optimism and collective pessimism as psychological processes that contribute to hampering vs. promoting the demand for redistribution. Our prediction was that support for redistribution would require both a pessimistic economic outlook at the collective level and the perception of being economically disadvantaged. In two studies, one of which pre-registered, Italian participants (Study 1: N = 306; Study 2: N = 384) were led to feel relatively poor or rich, rated their perceived control over either their personal or the nation's future and estimated either personal or national economic and general future risks. To measure support for redistribution, participants were invited to allocate their desired level of taxation to each of the five tax brackets included in the Italian personal income tax. Results showed that participants were optimistic about their personal future, but pessimistic about the fate of their nation. This difference was explained by respondents' greater perceived control over personal future than over the nation's future. Importantly, greater pessimism about national economic risks led to greater support for progressive taxation only for participants who felt relatively poor.