Research: Happiness and socio-emotional well-being of children and adolescents
PERSONAL INFORMATIONS
Name: Izzo, Flavia
Telephone: +39 3276646651
Email: flavia.izzo@uniroma1.it
Nationality: Italian
Birth: 07/14/1994
WORKING EXPERIENCE
• Date (from-to): December 2020 - In progress
• Name and address of employer: Doctoral School in Social Psychology, Development and Educational Research
• Type of business or sector: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Type of employment: PhD student
• Main duties and responsibilities: Structuring of a research project aimed at investigating the happiness and socio-emotional well-being of children aged between 6 and 13 years.
The research activity consists of the design of the material to be administered and the creation of interviews on happiness for parents and children and the administration of tools concerning family functioning and the well-being of pre-adolescent children in the family and school context.
• Date (from-to): April 2021 - November 2021
• Name and address of employer: Master in Developmental Psychodiagnostics
• Type of business or sector: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Type of employment: Classroom tutor
• Main duties and responsibilities: Information and coordination activities for the Master in Developmental Psychodiagnostics: connection between teachers and students with communication of information relating to training activities, preparation of materials necessary for classroom work, management of teaching materials and activities in the Moodle platform
• Date (from-to): September 2020 - February 2021
• Name and address of the employer: Asilo nel bosco - Il Pappagallo, Lanuvio
• Type of company or sector: Kindergarten and after-school school
• Type of employment: Educator
• Main duties and responsibilities: Structuring of activities according to the method of outdoor education, which is a set of training practices that are based on the use of the external environment as a privileged space for the experiences of boys and girls.
The activities, mainly carried out outside, were functional to the discovery of nature and the first learning of numbers and colors. Furthermore, the structuring of an environment of conviviality and sociality that would lead children to full interaction with each other was also central.
• Dates (from-to): September 2019 - September 2020
• Name and address of employer: Department of Development and Socialization Processes
• Type of business or sector: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Type of employment: Professional training and research activity
• Main duties and responsibilities: Collaboration in two research projects: the first concerning the family functioning and psychological well-being of adolescents; the second deepened the study of risky behavior in adolescence of sexting, which refers to the exchange of messages, photos or videos with sexually provocative or explicit content;
The research activities allowed to deepen the relationship between parenting, family functioning and adolescent adaptation, which led to the Italian validation and adaptation of tools for measuring parenting and parenting.
• Date (from-to): July 2018-July 2019
• Name and address of employer: Department of Development and Socialization Processes
• Type of business or sector: University of Rome La Sapienza
• Type of employment: Research activity for master's thesis and excellence path
• Main duties and responsibilities: Bibliographic research of articles and texts on homogenization and coming out of children. Administration of research tools concerning the well-being of lesbian and gay people, in terms of minority stress, reactions to coming-out and risk and protective factors in adolescence and in adulthood of persons belonging to sexual minorities.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
• Date (from-to): October 2020 - In progress
• Name and type of educational or training institution: Doctoral School in Social Psychology, Development and Educational Research
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Date: September 2019 - September 2020
• Name and type of education or training institution: Internship carried out at the Department of Psychology of Development and Socialization Processes
University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Date: October 2017 - July 2019
• Name and type of education or training institution: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in "Psychology of Typical and Atypical Development" with a path of excellence
• Level in the national classification: 110/110 cum laude
• Date: September 2014 - September 2017
• Name and type of education or training institution: University of Rome "La Sapienza"
• Qualification awarded: Degree in "Psychology and Health"
• Level in the national classification: 107/110
• Date: 2008 - 2013
• Name and type of education or training institute: "Blaise Pascal" scientific high school, Pomezia
• Qualification awarded: Scientific high school diploma
• Level in the national classification: 85/100