Relevant Publications
2023-24
Mancini, A.D., Sowards, S., Blumberg, A., Lynch, R., Fardella, G., Maewsky, N., & Prati, G. (2024). Media exposure related to COVID-19 is associated with worse mental health consequences in the United States compared to Italy. Anxiety, Stress & Coping, 37(3), 348-360. https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2023.2299983
Mancini, A.D., Chapman, C., Kadir, A., Model Z., & Prati, G. (2024). Adaptive and maladaptive pathways of COVID-19 worry on well-being: A cross-national study. (under revision). https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/h8y4c
Prati, G. & Mancini A.D. (2023). Happiness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy: A population-based study. International Journal of Risk Reduction. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2023.103711
Shilton.T, Mancini A.D., Perlstein, S., DiDomenico, G.D., Visoki, E., Greenberg, D., Brown, L.A., Gur, R.C., Gur, R.E., Waller, R.E., & Barzilay, R. (2023). Contribution of risk and resilience factors to anxiety trajectories during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal study. Stress & Health, 39(4), 927 – 939. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.3233
Prati, G., & Mancini A.D. (2023). Social and behavioral consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic: Validation of a Pandemic Disengagement Syndrome Scale (PDSS) in four national contexts. Psychological Assessment, 35(11), 1041–1053 https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/pas0001213
2021-22
Mancini A.D. & Prati, G., (2022). A comparison of mental health outcomes in the United States and Italy at different levels of cumulative COVID-19 prevalence. Clinical Psychological Science (Special Issue on COVID-19 Pandemic and Mental Health), 10(6), 1027 –1043. https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026221074678
Prati, G., & Mancini A.D. (2023).The psychological impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns: A review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies and natural experiments. Psychological Medicine, 51, 201-211. [Altmetric score = 624] https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291721000015
Mancini, A.D., Westphal, M., & Griffin, P. (2021). Outside the eye of the storm: Can moderate hurricane exposure improve social, psychological, and attachment functioning? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 47(12), 1722-1734. https://doi.org/10.1177/0146167221990488
2016-20
Mancini, A.D. (2020). Heterogeneous mental health consequences of COVID-19: Costs and benefits (PDF). Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practices, and Policy, 12, S15–S16. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000894
Mancini, A.D. (2019) When acute adversity improves psychological health: A social-contextual framework. Psychological Review, 126, 486-505. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/rev0000144
Mancini, A.D., Littleton, H.L., Grills, A.E. (2016). Can people benefit from acute stress? Social support, psychological improvement, and resilience after the Virginia Tech campus shootings. Clinical Psychological Science, 4, 401-417. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/2167702615601001