Publications

In this section, our aim is to provide interested readers of our webpage with convenient access to a curated selection of our most recent works and articles.

Mathematical Psychology

Spoto, A., Stefanutti, L., & Vidotto, G. (2015). An iterative procedure for extracting skill maps from data. Behavior research methods, 48(2), 729-741.

Noventa, S., Stefanutti, L., &Vidotto, G. (2014). An Analysis of Item Response Theory and Rasch Models Based on the Most Probable Distribution Method. Psychometrika, 79(3), 377-402.

Noventa, S., Stefanutti, L., &Vidotto, G. (2014). A derivation of the polytomous Rasch model based on the most probable distribution method. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 17, 377-402.

Spoto, A., Stefanutti, L., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Considerations about the identification of forward-and backward-graded knowledge structures. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 57(5), 249-254.

Spoto, A., Vidotto, G., & Stefanutti, L. (2013). Skill map based knowledge structures: some considerations about their identifiability. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 42, 73-80.

Donadello, I., Spoto, A., Sambo, F., Badaloni, S., Granziol, U., &Vidotto, G. (In press). ATS-PD: an Adaptive Testing System for Psychological Disorders. Educational and Psychological Measurement

Donadello, I., Spoto, A., Sambo, F., Badaloni, S., Granziol, U., & Vidotto, G. (2016). ATS-PD An Adaptive Testing System for Psychological Disorders. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 0013164416652188.Spoto, A., Stefanutti, L., & Vidotto, G. (2015). An iterative procedure for extracting skill maps from data. Behavior research methods, 48(2), 729-741.Noventa, S., Stefanutti, L., &Vidotto, G. (2014). An Analysis of Item Response Theory and Rasch Models Based on the Most Probable Distribution Method. Psychometrika, 79(3), 377-402.Noventa, S., Stefanutti, L., &Vidotto, G. (2014). A derivation of the polytomous Rasch model based on the most probable distribution method. Spanish Journal of Psychology, 17, 377-402.Spoto, A., Stefanutti, L., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Considerations about the identification of forward-and backward-graded knowledge structures. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 57(5), 249-254.Spoto, A., Vidotto, G., & Stefanutti, L. (2013). Skill map based knowledge structures: some considerations about their identifiability. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 42, 73-80.Donadello, I., Spoto, A., Sambo, F., Badaloni, S., Granziol, U., &Vidotto, G. (In press). ATS-PD: an Adaptive Testing System for Psychological Disorders. Educational and Psychological Measurement

Risk perception, cognition and road safety

Tagliabue, M., & Sarlo, M. (2015). Affective components in training to ride safely using a moped simulator. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 35, 132-138.

Vidotto, G., Tagliabue, M., &Tira, M. D. (2015). Long-lasting virtual motorcycle-riding trainer effectiveness. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1-10.

Tagliabue, M., Da Pos, O., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2013). The contribution of attention in virtual moped riding training of teenagers. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 57, 10-16.

Tagliabue, M., & Sarlo, M. (2015). Affective components in training to ride safely using a moped simulator. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 35, 132-138.Vidotto, G., Tagliabue, M., &Tira, M. D. (2015). Long-lasting virtual motorcycle-riding trainer effectiveness. Frontiers in psychology, 6, 1-10.Tagliabue, M., Da Pos, O., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G. (2013). The contribution of attention in virtual moped riding training of teenagers. Accident Analysis & Prevention, 57, 10-16.

Health Psychology

Anselmi, P., Vidotto, G., Bettinardi, O., & Bertolotti, G. (2015). Measurement of change in health status with Rasch models. Health and quality of life outcomes, 13(1), 1-7.

Bettinardi, O., Vidotto, G., Moroni, L., Pedretti, R. F., Maini, M., Rosi, A., & Bertolotti, G. (2015). Measuring change in rehabilitative cardiology: reliability of a short questionnaire to assess an outcome. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 78(2), 97-104.

Bertolotti, G., Michielin, P., Vidotto, G., Sanavio, E., Bottesi, G., Bettinardi, O., & Zotti, A. M. (2015). Metric qualities of the cognitive behavioral assessment for outcome evaluation to estimate psychological treatment effects. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 11, 2449-2460.

Ferrari, R., Vidotto, G., Ferraro, T., Tosato, F., & Milite, D. (2015). Recovery Expectations and Quality of Life after Revascularization Treatments. British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, 5(11), 1431-1440.

Passarelli, M., &Vidotto, G. (2015). Predictors of Interest in Sexual and Sentimental Relationships among Gay Males Attachment, Sex Drive, Attitudes toward Sex and Internalized Homophobia. Men and Masculinities

Partinico, M., Corà, A., Ghisi, M., Ouimet, A. J., Visentin, M., & QPM Group. (2014). A New Italian Questionnaire to Assess Caregivers of Cancer Patients' Satisfaction With Palliative Care: Multicenter Validation of the Post Mortem Questionnaire-Short Form. Journal of pain and symptom management, 47(2), 298-306.

Ferrario, S. R., Vidotto, G., Monti, M., & Risso, C. (2014). Short time, few available resources and need for measuring the strain in parents of children with chronic diseases: Utility of the Family Strain Questionnaire, Short Pediatric Form. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 4(3), 79-85.

Ferrari, R., Vidotto, G., Muzzolon, C., Auriemma, S., & Salvador, L. (2014). Neurocognitive deficit and quality of life after mitral valve repair. The Journal of heart valve disease, 23(1), 72-78.

Anselmi, P., Vidotto, G., Bettinardi, O., & Bertolotti, G. (2015). Measurement of change in health status with Rasch models. Health and quality of life outcomes, 13(1), 1-7.Bettinardi, O., Vidotto, G., Moroni, L., Pedretti, R. F., Maini, M., Rosi, A., & Bertolotti, G. (2015). Measuring change in rehabilitative cardiology: reliability of a short questionnaire to assess an outcome. Monaldi Archives for Chest Disease, 78(2), 97-104.Bertolotti, G., Michielin, P., Vidotto, G., Sanavio, E., Bottesi, G., Bettinardi, O., & Zotti, A. M. (2015). Metric qualities of the cognitive behavioral assessment for outcome evaluation to estimate psychological treatment effects. Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment, 11, 2449-2460.Ferrari, R., Vidotto, G., Ferraro, T., Tosato, F., & Milite, D. (2015). Recovery Expectations and Quality of Life after Revascularization Treatments. British Journal of Medicine and Medical Research, 5(11), 1431-1440.Passarelli, M., &Vidotto, G. (2015). Predictors of Interest in Sexual and Sentimental Relationships among Gay Males Attachment, Sex Drive, Attitudes toward Sex and Internalized Homophobia. Men and MasculinitiesPartinico, M., Corà, A., Ghisi, M., Ouimet, A. J., Visentin, M., & QPM Group. (2014). A New Italian Questionnaire to Assess Caregivers of Cancer Patients' Satisfaction With Palliative Care: Multicenter Validation of the Post Mortem Questionnaire-Short Form. Journal of pain and symptom management, 47(2), 298-306.Ferrario, S. R., Vidotto, G., Monti, M., & Risso, C. (2014). Short time, few available resources and need for measuring the strain in parents of children with chronic diseases: Utility of the Family Strain Questionnaire, Short Pediatric Form. Journal of Nursing Education and Practice, 4(3), 79-85.Ferrari, R., Vidotto, G., Muzzolon, C., Auriemma, S., & Salvador, L. (2014). Neurocognitive deficit and quality of life after mitral valve repair. The Journal of heart valve disease, 23(1), 72-78.

Other publications

Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Altoè, G., Razzetti, E., Melli, G., & Sica, C. (2016). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 in an Italian Community Sample. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 160-173.

Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Re, A. M., Cerea, S., & Mammarella, I. C. (2016). Socioemotional Features and Resilience in Italian University Students with and without Dyslexia. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 478-487.

Canale, N., Vieno, A., Pastore, M., Ghisi, M., & Griffiths, M. D. (2016). Validation of the 8-item Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale (ATGS-8) in a British population survey. Addictive behaviors, 54, 70-74.

Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Novara, C., Bertocchi, J., Boido, M., De Dominicis, I., & Freeston, M. H. (2015). Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS-27 e IUS-12): due studi preliminari. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 21(3), 345-365.

Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Altoè, G., Conforti, E., Melli, G., & Sica, C. (2015). The Italian version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21: Factor structure and psychometric properties on community and clinical samples. Comprehensive psychiatry, 60, 170-181.

Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Ouimet, A. J., Tira, M. D., & Sanavio, E. (2015). Compulsivity and Impulsivity in Pathological Gambling: Does a Dimensional–Transdiagnostic Approach Add Clinical Utility to DSM-5 Classification?. Journal of GamblingStudies, 31(3), 825-847.

Sica, C., Bottesi, G., Orsucci, A., Pieraccioli, C., Sighinolfi, C., &Ghisi, M. (2015). “Not Just Right Experiences” are specific to obsessive–compulsive disorder: Further evidence from Italian clinical samples. Journal of anxiety disorders, 31, 73-83.

Sica, C., Drislane, L., Caudek, C., Angrilli, A., Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., & Ghisi, M. (2015). A test of the construct validity of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure in an Italian community sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 82, 163-168

Muzzolon, C., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G.(2015). Why choose a temporary employment? International Journal of Manpower, 36(8), 1146-1163.

Gatta, M., Spitaleri, C., Balottin, U., Spoto, A., Balottin, L., Mangano, S., &Battistella, P. A. (2015). Alexithymic characteristics in pediatric patients with primary headache: a comparison between migraine and tension-type headache.The journal of headache and pain, 16(1), 1-7.

Cerea, S., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., & Ghisi, M. (2014). Indagine preliminare inerente le caratteristiche fenomenologiche della tricotillomania in un gruppo clinico. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 20(3), 319-341.

Giuliano, M., Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., Prunetti, E., & Ghisi, M. (2014). Disregolazione comportamentale e Disturbo Borderline di Personalità: valutazione di impulsività, aggressività e compulsività in un gruppo clinico. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 20(2), 123-146.

Mammarella, I. C., Ghisi, M., Bomba, M., Bottesi, G., Caviola, S., Broggi, F., &Nacinovich, R. (2014). Anxiety and depression in children with nonverbal learning disabilities, reading disabilities, or typical development. Journal of learning disabilities, 1-10

Re, A. M., Ghisi, M., Guazzo, E., Boz, F., &Mammarella, I. C. (2014). Psychopathological problems in university students with dyslexia. Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo, 18(2), 279-290.

Gatta, M., Spoto, A., Serena, L., Penzo, M., Paolo, T. C., & Battistella, P. A. (2014). Impulsiveness, Behavioral Disorders and Alcohol Misuse in Teenage Students in Northern Italy. Journal of Psychological Abnormalities in Children,3(3), 1-6.

Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., Sanavio, E., & Freeston, M. H. (2013). Is performance on the go/nogo task related to not just right experiences in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder?. Cognitive therapy and research,37(6), 1121-1131.

Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., Ouimet, A. J., & Sanavio, E. (2013). Prevalence, phenomenology and diagnostic criteria of hair-pulling in an Italian non-clinical sample: A preliminary study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2(1), 22-29.

Sica, C., Caudek, C., Bottesi, G., De Fazio, E., Ghisi, M., Marchetti, I., & Orsucci, A. (2013). Fathers' “not just right experiences” predict obsessive–compulsive symptoms in their sons: Family study of a non-clinical Italian sample. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2(3), 263-272.

Ghisi, M., Novara, C., Buodo, G., Kimble, M. O., Scozzari, S., Natale, A., Sanavio E., & Palomba, D. (2013). Psychological distress and post-traumatic symptoms following occupational accidents. Behavioral Sciences, 3(4), 587-600.

Gatta, M., Toffoli, E., Spoto, A., Salmaso, A., Canetta, E., Toldo, I., Battistella P.A, & Boniver, C. (2013). Temperament and psychopathological vulnerability in children with idiopathic epilepsy: a case control study. Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, 2(4), 229-237.

Passarelli, M., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Un nuovo strumento per misurare l'interesse in una relazione sentimentale stabile. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 19(1).

Sanavio, E., Bertolotti, G., Bettinardi, O., Michielin, P., Vidotto, G., & Zotti, A. M. (2013). The Cognitive Behavioral Assessment (CBA) Project: Presentation and Proposal for International Collaboration. Psychology, Community & Health, 2(3), 362-380.

Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., Razzetti, E., Sica, C., Frost, R. O., & Ghisi, M. (2016). Investigation of the Phenomenological and Psychopathological Features of Trichotillomania in an Italian Sample. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 1-12.Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Altoè, G., Razzetti, E., Melli, G., & Sica, C. (2016). Factor Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 in an Italian Community Sample. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 160-173.Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Re, A. M., Cerea, S., & Mammarella, I. C. (2016). Socioemotional Features and Resilience in Italian University Students with and without Dyslexia. Frontiers in psychology, 7, 478-487.Canale, N., Vieno, A., Pastore, M., Ghisi, M., & Griffiths, M. D. (2016). Validation of the 8-item Attitudes Towards Gambling Scale (ATGS-8) in a British population survey. Addictive behaviors, 54, 70-74.Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Novara, C., Bertocchi, J., Boido, M., De Dominicis, I., & Freeston, M. H. (2015). Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS-27 e IUS-12): due studi preliminari. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 21(3), 345-365.Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Altoè, G., Conforti, E., Melli, G., & Sica, C. (2015). The Italian version of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21: Factor structure and psychometric properties on community and clinical samples. Comprehensive psychiatry, 60, 170-181.Bottesi, G., Ghisi, M., Ouimet, A. J., Tira, M. D., & Sanavio, E. (2015). Compulsivity and Impulsivity in Pathological Gambling: Does a Dimensional–Transdiagnostic Approach Add Clinical Utility to DSM-5 Classification?. Journal of GamblingStudies, 31(3), 825-847.Sica, C., Bottesi, G., Orsucci, A., Pieraccioli, C., Sighinolfi, C., &Ghisi, M. (2015). “Not Just Right Experiences” are specific to obsessive–compulsive disorder: Further evidence from Italian clinical samples. Journal of anxiety disorders, 31, 73-83.Sica, C., Drislane, L., Caudek, C., Angrilli, A., Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., & Ghisi, M. (2015). A test of the construct validity of the Triarchic Psychopathy Measure in an Italian community sample. Personality and Individual Differences, 82, 163-168Passarelli, M., &Vidotto, G. (2015). Predictors of Interest in Sexual and Sentimental Relationships among Gay Males Attachment, Sex Drive, Attitudes toward Sex and Internalized Homophobia. Men and MasculinitiesMuzzolon, C., Spoto, A., & Vidotto, G.(2015). Why choose a temporary employment? International Journal of Manpower, 36(8), 1146-1163.Gatta, M., Spitaleri, C., Balottin, U., Spoto, A., Balottin, L., Mangano, S., &Battistella, P. A. (2015). Alexithymic characteristics in pediatric patients with primary headache: a comparison between migraine and tension-type headache.The journal of headache and pain, 16(1), 1-7.Cerea, S., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., & Ghisi, M. (2014). Indagine preliminare inerente le caratteristiche fenomenologiche della tricotillomania in un gruppo clinico. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 20(3), 319-341.Giuliano, M., Bottesi, G., Cerea, S., Prunetti, E., & Ghisi, M. (2014). Disregolazione comportamentale e Disturbo Borderline di Personalità: valutazione di impulsività, aggressività e compulsività in un gruppo clinico. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 20(2), 123-146.Mammarella, I. C., Ghisi, M., Bomba, M., Bottesi, G., Caviola, S., Broggi, F., &Nacinovich, R. (2014). Anxiety and depression in children with nonverbal learning disabilities, reading disabilities, or typical development. Journal of learning disabilities, 1-10Partinico, M., Corà, A., Ghisi, M., Ouimet, A. J., Visentin, M., & QPM Group. (2014). A New Italian Questionnaire to Assess Caregivers of Cancer Patients' Satisfaction With Palliative Care: Multicenter Validation of the Post Mortem Questionnaire-Short Form. Journal of pain and symptom management, 47(2), 298-306.Re, A. M., Ghisi, M., Guazzo, E., Boz, F., &Mammarella, I. C. (2014). Psychopathological problems in university students with dyslexia. Psicologia clinica dello sviluppo, 18(2), 279-290.Gatta, M., Spoto, A., Serena, L., Penzo, M., Paolo, T. C., & Battistella, P. A. (2014). Impulsiveness, Behavioral Disorders and Alcohol Misuse in Teenage Students in Northern Italy. Journal of Psychological Abnormalities in Children,3(3), 1-6.Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., Sanavio, E., & Freeston, M. H. (2013). Is performance on the go/nogo task related to not just right experiences in patients with obsessive compulsive disorder?. Cognitive therapy and research,37(6), 1121-1131.Ghisi, M., Bottesi, G., Sica, C., Ouimet, A. J., & Sanavio, E. (2013). Prevalence, phenomenology and diagnostic criteria of hair-pulling in an Italian non-clinical sample: A preliminary study. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2(1), 22-29.Sica, C., Caudek, C., Bottesi, G., De Fazio, E., Ghisi, M., Marchetti, I., & Orsucci, A. (2013). Fathers' “not just right experiences” predict obsessive–compulsive symptoms in their sons: Family study of a non-clinical Italian sample. Journal of Obsessive-Compulsive and Related Disorders, 2(3), 263-272.Ghisi, M., Novara, C., Buodo, G., Kimble, M. O., Scozzari, S., Natale, A., Sanavio E., & Palomba, D. (2013). Psychological distress and post-traumatic symptoms following occupational accidents. Behavioral Sciences, 3(4), 587-600.Gatta, M., Toffoli, E., Spoto, A., Salmaso, A., Canetta, E., Toldo, I., Battistella P.A, & Boniver, C. (2013). Temperament and psychopathological vulnerability in children with idiopathic epilepsy: a case control study. Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy, 2(4), 229-237.Passarelli, M., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Un nuovo strumento per misurare l'interesse in una relazione sentimentale stabile. Psicoterapia Cognitiva e Comportamentale, 19(1).Sanavio, E., Bertolotti, G., Bettinardi, O., Michielin, P., Vidotto, G., & Zotti, A. M. (2013). The Cognitive Behavioral Assessment (CBA) Project: Presentation and Proposal for International Collaboration. Psychology, Community & Health, 2(3), 362-380.

Functional Measurement

Formal Psychological Assessment (FPA)

Serra, F., Spoto, A., Ghisi, M., &Vidotto, G. (2015). Formal Psychological Assessment in evaluating depression: a new methodology to build exhaustive and irredundant adaptive questionnaires. PloSone, 10(4).

Serra, F; Spoto, A; & Vidotto, G. (2015). A formal approach to assist clinical evaluation of psychological disorders. A procedure based on “items content” – “diagnostic criteria” relations. 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, Singapore

Serra, G., Demontis, F., Serra, F., De Chiara, L., Spoto, A., Girardi, P., Vidotto, G., & Serra, G. (2014). Memantine: New prospective in bipolar disorder treatment. World Journal of Psychiatry, 4(4), 80-90.

Spoto, A., Bottesi, G., Sanavio, E., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Theoretical foundations and clinical implications of formal psychological assessment. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 82(3), 197-199.

Bottesi, G., Spoto, A., Freeston, M. H., Sanavio, E., &Vidotto, G. (2015). Beyond the score: clinical evaluation through formal psychological assessment. Journal of personality assessment, 97(3), 252-260Serra, F., Spoto, A., Ghisi, M., &Vidotto, G. (2015). Formal Psychological Assessment in evaluating depression: a new methodology to build exhaustive and irredundant adaptive questionnaires. PloSone, 10(4).Serra, F; Spoto, A; & Vidotto, G. (2015). A formal approach to assist clinical evaluation of psychological disorders. A procedure based on “items content” – “diagnostic criteria” relations. 4th Annual International Conference on Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology, SingaporeSerra, G., Demontis, F., Serra, F., De Chiara, L., Spoto, A., Girardi, P., Vidotto, G., & Serra, G. (2014). Memantine: New prospective in bipolar disorder treatment. World Journal of Psychiatry, 4(4), 80-90.Spoto, A., Bottesi, G., Sanavio, E., & Vidotto, G. (2013). Theoretical foundations and clinical implications of formal psychological assessment. Psychotherapy and psychosomatics, 82(3), 197-199.

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