معرفی
Gioia Bottesi is an Associate Professor at the Department of General Psychology, University of Padova. Her research focuses on trans-diagnostic vulnerability factors underlying emotional disorders, particularly intolerance of uncertainty and emotional dysregulation, with cross-cultural analyses across clinical and non-clinical populations. She examines dimensional models of personality disorders including maladaptive traits (DSM-5 Section III) and psychopathy (Triarchic Model), and develops assessments/treatments for anxiety and obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders.
Her work emphasizes adolescent mental health, investigating sociocultural influences on body image, the role of digital media (e.g., Instagram) in appearance concerns, and psychopathy correlates in community samples. She explores interventions like mobile app-based therapies for OCD-related stigma and transdiagnostic group interventions targeting intolerance of uncertainty. Recent studies include longitudinal analyses of uncertainty processing in adolescents and cross-cultural comparisons of symptom comorbidity patterns.
Key contributions involve advancing psychometric tools (e.g., Italian validation of assessment scales) and applying network analysis to understand psychological symptom interconnections. Her research bridges clinical and developmental psychology, addressing both individual-level mechanisms and broader societal impacts on mental health.
No specific grants or student advisees are listed in available materials. Collaborative projects include multinational studies on physical activity behavior models and Italian consensus conferences on psychological therapies for anxiety/depression.
