Relevant Publications

2023-26

Mancini, A.D., *Roizer, R., *Fardella, G., *Kadir, A., & *Model, Z. (in press) Natural disaster, social cohesion, and prosociality: A natural experiment. American Psychologist. 

Crane M.F., Scopano, L., Forbes, D., Gucciardi, D., Van Bergen, P., Karin, E., Mancini, A.D., Kalisch, R., & Kangas, M. (2026). Adaptation in context: a qualitative investigation of self-insight and resilience capacity development in emerging adulthood. Adversity and Resilience Science. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/402976724

Gataviņš, M. M., Tran, K. T., Visoki, E., Moore, T. M., Hoffman, K. W., Shilton, T., Schultz, L.M., Almasy, L., Mancini, A.D., & Barzilay, R. (2025). Adolescent depressive symptom trajectories from before to after the COVID-19 pandemic. JAMA Network Open, 8(12), e2545987-e2545987. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41324960/

Pang, B., Zhang, J., Mancini, A. D., Chi, X., & Prati, G. (2025). Social disengagement in post-pandemic China: A translation, validation and cross-cultural comparison of the Pandemic Disengagement Syndrome Scale. Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 31(1), e14279. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39778052/

Prati, G., & Mancini, A.D. (2024). Trajectories of depressive symptoms and subjective well-being before and after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic: Two six-year longitudinal studies. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 178, 322-330. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39191202/

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. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 65(6), 1000-1009. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38924550/

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