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Alessio Tesi, PhD.

Ricercatore in Psicologia Sociale, Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche.

e-mail: alessio.tesi@unipi.it

Incarichi di Insegnamento (a.a. 2024/2025)

Insegnamento di Psicologia Sociale (CdL 39)(9 CFU).

Principali interessi di ricerca:

Studio dei processi psicologico-sociali legati alla creazione e al mantenimento di disuguaglianze sociali nelle comunità e nei contesti organizzativi.
Benessere organizzativo in contesti professionali socio-sanitari e di servizio sociale, con particolare attenzione alla complessità dei nuclei sociali e culturali delle organizzazioni, in termini di analisi delle richieste e risorse organizzative e personali che contribuiscono all’adeguato funzionamento di tali contesti.
Valutazione degli outcomes psicologico-sociali in progetti mirati a ridurre la povertà educativa.

Produzione Scientifica (selezione di pubblicazioni recenti):

Tesi, A (in press). Social Dominance Orientation in a Motivational Framework: A Focus on Organizational Setting. Trend in Psychology.
Di Santo D., Tesi, A., Aiello, A. & Pierro, A. (2025). Deepening the relationship between the need for epistemic certainty and people’s compliance with social power: the moderating role of work unit tightness. Social Science. 14(1), 32
Di Santo, D., Tesi, A., Aiello, A. & Pierro, A. (2024). The Job Can Kill You Or Make You Stronger: The Role Of Passion In Job Demands, Work Motivational Imbalance, And Work-Life Conflict. Testing, Psychometric, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 31 (4), 487-500.
Tesi, A., Baroncelli, A., Facci. C., Ciucci., E., & Aiello, A. (2024). Trait Authenticity as an “Enzyme” for Personal Resources and Work Engagement: A Study among Teachers within the Framework of the Job Demands-Resources Model. European Review of Applied Psychology.
Tesi, A., Di Santo, D., Aiello, A. (2024). Academic Motivation of Students Experiencing Person-Environment Misfit in Social Work Educational Settings: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation. European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe14020018
Tesi, A., Di Santo, D., Aiello A. (2023). The Pathway between Social Dominance Orientation and Drop out from Hierarchy-Attenuating Contexts: The Role of Moral Foundations and Person-Environment Misfit. Behavioral Sciences. 13(9), 712. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs13090712
PM, N., Mukundan, S. P., Jose, G., Tesi, A., & Alias, R. (2023). Future of work–apprehensions and excitement of management graduates. Higher Education, Skills and Work-Based Learning. doi: 10.1108/HESWBL-08-2022-0181
Aiello, A., & Tesi, A. (2023). “Does this setting really fit with me?”: How support for group‐based social hierarchies predicts a higher perceived misfit in hierarchy‐attenuating settings. Journal of Applied Social Psychology. doi:10.1111/jasp.12949
Tesi, A., Aiello, A., & Pratto, F. (2022). How people higher on social dominance orientation deal with hierarchy-attenuating institutions: the person-environment (mis) fit perspective in the grammar of hierarchies. Current Psychology, 1-14. doi: s12144-022-03627-5
Tesi, A., Aiello, A. (2021). La valutazione del benessere organizzativo: lo “Strumento Integrato per la Valutazione del Benessere Organizzativo” (S.I.V.B.O.) nel framework teorico del modello “Job Demands-Resources”. Psicologia della Salute, 2, 139-157. doi: 10.3280/PDS2021-002009.
Tesi, A. (2021). A Dual Path Model of Work-Related Well-Being in Healthcare and Social Work Settings: The Interweaving Between Trait Emotional Intelligence, End-User Job Demands, Coworkers Related Job Resources, Burnout, and Work Engagement. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.660035.
Tesi, A. (2021). Moving forward to social workers’ work engagement: Framing the regulatory modes and the job demands-resources model. Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health, 36(2), 146-158. doi: 10.1080/15555240.2021.1931260.
Tesi, A., & Aiello, A. (2021). “Uncertainty” beyond perceived employability among dropouts of the educational system: The Role of Big Five Personality Traits, Need for Closure and System Justification Beliefs. Psicologia Sociale, 2, 209-224. doi: 10.1482/100096.
Di Santo, D., Tesi, A., Aiello, A., & Pierro, A. (2020). The relationship between need for closure and compliance to harsh power tactics in high demanding jobs: A Study conducted among firefighters and social workers. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 50(10), 599-606. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12698.
Tesi, A., Pratto, F., Pierro, A., & Aiello, A. (2020). Group Dominance in Hierarchy-Attenuating and Hierarchy-Enhancing Organizations: The Role of Social Dominance Orientation, Need for Cognitive Closure, and Power Tactics in a Person–Environment (Mis)Fit Perspective. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 24(2), 102-114. doi: 10.1037/gdn0000117.
Aiello, A., Passini, S., Tesi, A., Morselli, D., & Pratto, F. (2019). Measuring support for intergroup hierarchies: Assessing the psychometric proprieties of the Social Dominance Orientation₇scale. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology 26(3), 373-383. doi: 10.4473/TPM26.3.4.
Tesi, A., Aiello, A., Pratto, F., & Pierro, A. (2019). The spiral of oppression in work organizations: Framing social dominance theory and the interpersonal power interaction model. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 26 (3), 363-372. doi: 10.4473/TPM26.3.3.
Tesi, A., Aiello, A., Morselli, D., Giannetti, E., Pierro, A., & Pratto, F. (2019). Which people are willing to maintain their subordinated position? Social dominance orientation as antecedent to compliance to harsh power tactics in a higher education setting. Personality and Individual Differences, 151. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2019.04.045.
Tesi, A., Aiello, A., & Giannetti, E. (2019). The work-related well-being of social workers: Framing job demands, psychological well-being and work engagement. Journal of Social Work, 19(1), 121-141. doi: 10.1177/1468017318757397.
Tesi, A., (2018). Social media addiction and individual differences: The role of Big-Five Personality Traits, Behavioral Inhibition/Activation Systems and Loneliness. Psychological Bullettin (BPA), 282, 32-44. doi: 10.26387/bpa.282.3.
Aiello, A., Tesi, A., Pierro, A., & Pratto, F. (2018). Social dominance and interpersonal power: Asymmetrical relationships within Hierarchy-enhancing and Hierarchy-attenuating work environments. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 48 (1), 35-45. doi: 10.1111/jasp.12488.
Aiello, A., & Tesi, A. (2017). Psychological Well-Being and Work Engagement among Italian Social Workers: Examining the Mediational Role of Job Resources. Social Work Research, 41(2), 73-84. doi: 10.1093/swr/svx005.
Aiello, A., & Tesi, A. (2017). Emotional job demands within helping professions: psychometric properties of a version of the Emotional Job Demands Scale. Testing, Psychometrics, Methodology in Applied Psychology, 24, 167-183. doi: 10.4473/TPM24.2.2.
Giannetti, A., & Tesi, A. (2016). Benessere lavorativo in operatori sociali: le richieste e le risorse lavorative e personali emerse da una indagine esplorativa. Psicologia Della Salute, 2, 5-26. doi: 10.3280/PDS2016-002001.

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