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  1. Six reasons for confusion about the trait of high sensitivity

    Article • Current Psychology, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  2. Integrating mother and father ratings of child environmental sensitivity and links to adjustment.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, November 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  3. Environmental sensitivity, supportive parenting, and the development of attachment and internalizing problems

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, October 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  4. Maternal mindfulness buffers parenting in highly sensitive mothers

    Article • Current Psychology, August 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  5. Is environmental sensitivity relevant to understand parenting? Observational studies with mothers of young children.

    Article • Journal of Family Psychology, April 2025, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  6. Short Report: Environmental Sensitivity in Children is Associated with Visual Working Memory and Visual Search Performance

    Article • March 2025, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  7. Adolescents’ Well-Being and Democratic Parenting: Does Environmental Sensitivity Matter?

    Article • Healthcare, March 2025, MDPI AG

    Maria Grazia Lo Cricchio, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  8. Observer-rated environmental sensitivity and its characterization at behavioral, genetic, and physiological levels

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, January 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  9. Being Naturally Connected: The Role of Environmental Sensitivity in Building Resilience in the Climate Crisis 

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  10. Assessing Environmental Sensitivity in the Primary School Context: The Development and Validation of the Highly Sensitive Child in School Scale (HSC – School)

    Article • December 2024, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  11. Evolution of the Concept of Sensitivity and its Measurement: The Highly Sensitive Person Scale-Revised

    Article • December 2024, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  12. The role of environmental sensitivity in the experience and processing of emotions: implications for well-being

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, July 2024, Royal Society Publishing

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  13. Longitudinal Profiles of Cultural Identity Processes and Associations with Psychosocial Outcomes Among Adolescents Participating in the Identity Project in Italy

    Article • Journal of Youth and Adolescence, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  14. Maternal dispositional mindfulness and mother–child relationship: The mediating role of emotional control during parenting

    Article • Child Care Health and Development, April 2024, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  15. A Relevant Role for Dopamine Transporter Gene in Highly Sensitive Persons under Stressful Conditions: Focus on Genetic and Epigenetic Regulation

    Article • February 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  16. Individual traits are associated with pro‐environmental behaviour: Environmental sensitivity, nature connectedness and consideration for future consequences

    Article • People and Nature, February 2024, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  17. Beyond for Better and for Worse: Expanding Environmental Sensitivity into a Post-Traumatic Growth perspective

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  18. The role of Environmental Sensitivity in the Experience and Processing of Emotions: Implications for Wellbeing

    Article • November 2023, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  19. Is parents’ Sensory Processing Sensitivity relevant to understand their parenting? Observational studies with mothers of young children

    Article • November 2023, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  20. Beyond for Better and for Worse: Expanding Environmental Sensitivity into a Post-Traumatic Growth perspective

    Article • July 2023, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  21. Investigating sensitivity through the lens of parents: validation of the parent-report version of the Highly Sensitive Child scale

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, December 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  22. Family Functioning, Identity Commitments, and School Value Among Ethnic Minority and Ethnic Majority Adolescents

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  23. The Effect of Environment on Psychological Outcomes of the Highly Sensitive Person: A Systematic Scoping Review

    Article • September 2022, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  24. Investigating Sensitivity through the Lens of Parents: Validation of the Parent-Report Version of the Highly Sensitive Child scale

    Article • May 2022, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  25. Protective and risk activities for emotional and behavioural well‐being of children and adolescents during the COVID‐19 lockdown

    Article • Child Care Health and Development, March 2022, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  26. The interplay between parenting and environmental sensitivity in the prediction of children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors during COVID-19

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  27. The Temperament Trait of Environmental Sensitivity is Associated with Connectedness to Nature and Affinity to Animals

    Article • January 2022, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  28. Is premature birth an environmental sensitivity factor? A scoping review protocol

    Article • BMJ Open, October 2021, BMJ

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  29. The role of environmental sensitivity in the development of rumination and depressive symptoms in childhood: a longitudinal study

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  30. Environmental sensitivity and cardiac vagal tone as moderators of the relationship between family support and well-being in low SES children: An exploratory study

    Article • Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, June 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  31. The Children's Sleep Habits Questionnaire: Identification of sleep dimensions, normative values, and associations with behavioral problems in Italian preschoolers

    Article • Sleep Health, June 2021, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  32. Trust predicts COVID-19 prescribed and discretionary behavioral intentions in 23 countries

    Article • PLOS One, March 2021, PLOS

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  33. On the role of moderators on children’s sleep health in response to COVID-19

    Article • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, February 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  34. Improving the Measurement of Environmental Sensitivity in Children and Adolescents: The Highly Sensitive Child Scale–21 Item Version

    Article • Assessment, January 2021, SAGE Publications

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  35. Development and Psychometric Properties of a New Self-Report Questionnaire Measuring Attachment in School-Age Children: The Attachment in Middle Childhood Questionnaire (AMCQ)

    Article • Assessment, December 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  36. Verbal - prosodic association when narrating early caregiving experiences during the adult attachment interview: differences between secure and dismissing individuals

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, December 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  37. Mind-Mindedness and Parenting Stress: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Cohort of Mothers of 3-Month-Old Full-Term and Preterm Infants

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, October 2020, MDPI AG

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  38. The latent structure of the adult attachment interview: Large sample evidence from the collaboration on attachment transmission synthesis

    Article • Development and Psychopathology, October 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  39. Parenting Stress During the COVID‐19 Outbreak: Socioeconomic and Environmental Risk Factors and Implications for Children Emotion Regulation

    Article • Family Process, September 2020, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  40. Cognitive inflexibility and over‐attention to detail: The Italian validation of the DFlex Questionnaire in patients with eating disorders

    Article • European Eating Disorders Review, September 2020, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  41. Early impact of COVID-19 lockdown on children’s sleep: a 4-week longitudinal study

    Article • Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  42. What Happens at a Dental Surgery When the Patient is a Child with Autism Spectrum Disorder? An Italian Study

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  43. People Differ in their Sensitivity to the Environment: An Integrated Theory and Empirical Evidence

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  44. Parents' Stress and Children's Psychological Problems in Families Facing the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2020, Frontiers

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  45. Replication of the existence of three sensitivity groups in a sample of German adolescents

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, May 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  46. Assessment of sensory processing sensitivity across the lifespan

    Article • January 2020, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  47. Parents and Children Facing the COVID-19 Outbreak in Italy

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  48. The Pregnancy Anxiety Questionnaire Revised-2

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, November 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Dr Antonio Dellagiulia, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  49. Observer-rated environmental sensitivity moderates children’s response to parenting quality in early childhood.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, August 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  50. Sensory Processing Sensitivity and its association with personality traits and affect: A meta-analysis

    Article • Journal of Research in Personality, August 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  51. Psychometric properties of the Highly Sensitive Child scale across developmental stage, gender, and country

    Article • Current Psychology, April 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  52. Using Harter and Likert Response Formats in Middle Childhood: A Comparison of Attachment Measures

    Article • Assessment, March 2019, SAGE Publications

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  53. Sensory Processing Sensitivity in the context of Environmental Sensitivity: A critical review and development of research agenda

    Article • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, March 2019, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  54. Examining Ecological Constraints on the Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment Via Individual Participant Data Meta-analysis

    Article • Child Development, November 2018, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  55. The key role of positive parenting and children’s temperament in post-institutionalized children’s socio-emotional adjustment after adoption placement. A RCT study

    Article • Social Development, August 2018, Wiley

    Professor LAVINIA BARONE, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  56. Attachment histories and futures: reply to Vicedo’s ‘Putting attachment in its place’

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, August 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  57. The development of parental monitoring during adolescence: A meta-analysis

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Antonio Dellagiulia, Dr. Mette Ranta, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  58. Testing an Attachment-Based Parenting Intervention-VIPP-FC/A in Adoptive Families with Post-institutionalized Children: Do Maternal Sensitivity and Genetic Markers Count?

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, February 2018, Frontiers

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  59. Dandelions, tulips and orchids: evidence for the existence of low-sensitive, medium-sensitive and high-sensitive individuals

    Article • Translational Psychiatry, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  60. Vantage sensitivity: a framework for individual differences in response to psychological intervention

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  61. Environmental sensitivity in children: Development of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale and identification of sensitivity groups.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  62. When One Shape Does Not Fit All: A Commentary Essay on the Use of Graphs in Psychological Research

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, September 2017, Frontiers

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  63. Measuring attachment security via the Security Scale: Latent structure, invariance across mothers and fathers and convergent validity

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, April 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Vincenzo Calvo, Ughetta Moscardino, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  64. A matter of attachment? How adoptive parents foster post-institutionalized children’s social and emotional adjustment

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Professor LAVINIA BARONE, Professor Jonathan Green, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  65. Measurement Properties of the Experiences in Close Relationships-Revised (Child Version) in Italy.

    Article • European Journal of Developmental Psychology, March 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr. Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  66. Short‐Term Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Mentalization‐Based Techniques in Major Depressive Disorder patients: Relationship among alexithymia, reflective functioning, and outcome variables – A Pilot study

    Article • Psychology and Psychotherapy Theory Research and Practice, November 2016, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  67. Using Item Response Theory to Explore the Psychometric Properties of the Italian Version of the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure (CAMM)

    Article • Mindfulness, September 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  68. Evidence of Factorial Validity of Parental Knowledge, Control and Solicitation, and Adolescent Disclosure Scales: When the Ordered Nature of Likert Scales Matters

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, June 2016, Frontiers

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  69. Parenting and headache children's behavioral problems

    Article • Infant and Child Development, December 2015, Wiley

    Professor LAVINIA BARONE, Prof Francesca Lionetti

  70. Parenting Stress: The Roles of Attachment States of Mind and Parenting Alliance in the Context of Adoption

    Article • Parenting, April 2015, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  71. Attachment in institutionalized children: A review and meta-analysis

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, April 2015, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  72. When the Primary Caregiver is Missing: Investigating Proximal and Distal Variables Involved in Institutionalised Children's Adjustment

    Article • Child Abuse Review, January 2015, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti , Dr Antonio Dellagiulia, Professor LAVINIA BARONE

  73. What promotes secure attachment in early adoption? The protective roles of infants’ temperament and adoptive parents’ attachment

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, September 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  74. Mothers who murdered their child: An attachment-based study on filicide

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, September 2014, Elsevier

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  75. Maternal-fetal attachment and its correlates in a sample of Italian women: a study using the Prenatal Attachment Inventory

    Article • Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, February 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti , Dr Antonio Dellagiulia

  76. Attachment and social competence: a study using MCAST in low-risk Italian preschoolers

    Article • Attachment & Human Development, July 2012, Taylor & Francis

    Prof Francesca Lionetti

  77. Attachment and emotional understanding: a study on late-adopted pre-schoolers and their parents

    Article • Child Care Health and Development, August 2011, Wiley

    Prof Francesca Lionetti