Silvana Mula

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXV
email: silvana.mula@uniroma1.it
building: via dei Marsi, III piano
room: 328




supervisor: Prof. Antonio Pierro

Research: Antecedents and consequences of the desire for tightness in organizations

Her research activities focus on the epistemic, motivational, and cultural processes that shape people's attitudes and behaviors in different life domains, particularly within organizational contexts and across different cultures. Her current research examines the causes and consequences of the desire for cultural tightness-looseness within teams and organizations, primarily with respect to power and leadership, self-regulatory focus at work, epistemic motivations, creativity and innovation, and counterproductive work behaviors.

11/2019 - 11/2022
Ph.D. in Social Psychology, Developmental Psychology, and Educational Research -Social Psychology curriculum - Department of Social and Developmental Psychology, Sapienza, University of Rome
Thesis title: Antecedents and consequences of the desire for tightness in organizations.


08/2022 - 11/2022
Winner of a casual work contract at the Department of Developmental and Social Psychology
Title: “Motivational antecedents and organizational consequences of the desire for tightness-looseness in work contexts”.

11/2021
Winner of the research funding "Progetti per Avvio alla Ricerca - Tipo 1" - Sapienza

04/2020 - to date
Official member of the PsyCorona team (https://psycorona.org/), an international research group with the aim of investigating the psychological factors involved in the responses to the COVID-19 pandemic

08/2020
Qualification for the profession of Psychology

08/2019 - 10/2019
Winner of a research grant at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy
Title: "Parental planning, self-objectification, and academic career: a survey on university students"
Scientific Responsible: Prof. Cristina Cabras
University of Cagliari, Cagliari (Italy)

03/2019 - 03/2020
Post-graduate training internship at the Department of Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy
Department of Psychology, University of Cagliari, Cagliari (Italy)

02/2019
Master's Degree in Developmental Psychology and Social-Work Processes with 110/110 cum laude
Thesis title: "Sexually objectifying work environments and consequences on psychological and working well-being".
University of Cagliari

01/2018 - 07/2018
Didactic tutor for the teaching of Language Development and Communication Psychology
University of Cagliari, Master's Degree Course in Developmental Psychology and Social-Work Processes

03/2016
Bachelor's Degree in Psychological Sciences and Techniques
Thesis title: "Psychological violence at work: a theoretical analysis of the mobbing phenomenon"
University of Cagliari


Research products

  • 11573/1663520 - 2023 - Antecedents and consequences of desire for cultural tightness in organizations (07a Tesi di Dottorato)
    Guido BENVENUTO, Antonio PIERRO, SILVANA MULA
  • 11573/1664207 - 2023 - Addressing the effect of concern with Covid-19 threat on prejudice towards immigrants: The sequential mediating role of need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness. (01a Articolo in rivista)
    FLAVIA ALBARELLO, SILVANA MULA, FEDERICO CONTU, CONRAD BALDNER, ARIE KRUGLANSKI, Antonio PIERRO
  • 11573/1616524 - 2022 - Intentions to be vaccinated against COVID-19: the role of prosociality and conspiracy beliefs across 20 countries (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1617902 - 2022 - Predictors of adherence to public health behaviors for fighting COVID-19 derived from longitudinal data (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1640841 - 2022 - Using machine learning to identify important predictors of COVID-19 infection prevention behaviors during the early phase of the pandemic (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1616505 - 2022 - Concern with {COVID}-19 pandemic threat and attitudes towards immigrants: The mediating effect of the desire for tightness (01a Articolo in rivista)
    SILVANA MULA, DANIELA DI SANTO, ELENA RESTA, CONRAD BALDNER, Antonio PIERRO
  • 11573/1616546 - 2022 - Justice beliefs and cultural values predict support for COVID-19 vaccination and quarantine behavioral mandates: a multilevel cross-national study (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1658014 - 2022 - Sexually objectifying work environments and affective commitment in a sample of Italian waitresses: The mediating role of anxiety and job satisfaction (01a Articolo in rivista)
    SILVANA MULA
  • 11573/1640826 - 2022 - COVID-19 stressors and health behaviors: A multilevel longitudinal study across 86 countries (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1658013 - 2022 - I don't care why you do it, just don't! Reactions to negative and positive organizational deviance partly depend on the desire for tightness of prevention-focused employees (01a Articolo in rivista)
    SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO
  • 11573/1616537 - 2021 - Politicization of COVID-19 health-protective behaviors in the United States: longitudinal and cross-national evidence (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1615962 - 2021 - Lockdown lives: a longitudinal study of inter-relationships among feelings of loneliness, social contacts, and solidarity during the COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020 (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1616535 - 2021 - The role of values in coping with health and economic threats of COVID-19 (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1616530 - 2021 - The Mediational Role of Desire for Cultural Tightness on Concern With COVID-19 and Perceived Self-Control (01a Articolo in rivista)
    SILVANA MULA, DANIELA DI SANTO, Antonio PIERRO
  • 11573/1550587 - 2021 - Lives versus Livelihoods? Perceived economic risk has a stronger association with support for COVID-19 preventive measures than perceived health risk (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1555605 - 2021 - Trust in government regarding COVID-19 and its associations with preventive health behaviour and prosocial behaviour during the pandemic: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1555597 - 2021 - Cooperation and Trust Across Societies During the COVID-19 Pandemic (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1492116 - 2021 - Associations of risk perception of COVID-19 with emotion and mental health during the pandemic (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1616514 - 2021 - ‘We are all in the same boat’: How societal discontent affects intention to help during the COVID-19 pandemic (01a Articolo in rivista)
    ELENA RESTA, SILVANA MULA, CONRAD BALDNER, DANIELA DI SANTO, VERONICA ENEA, Antonio PIERRO
  • 11573/1408516 - 2020 - Relationship among Sexually Objectifying Work Environments, Job Satisfaction, Anxiety, and Affective Commitment in a Sample of Italian Restaurant Waitresses (04f Poster)
    SILVANA MULA
  • 11573/1491964 - 2020 - Intergenerational Conflicts of Interest and Prosocial Behavior During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (01a Articolo in rivista)
    DANIELA DI SANTO, SILVANA MULA, Antonio PIERRO, ELENA RESTA
  • 11573/1408518 - 2018 - The Morra game as testbed for automatic and controlled cognitive processing in an ecological setting (04d Abstract in atti di convegno)
    rachele FANARI, SILVANA MULA

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