I governi e le organizzazioni sanitarie internazionali ribadiscono da tempo l’importanza dell’attivazione di processi di partecipazione al fine di coinvolgere cittadini e stakeholders sui temi riguardanti la salute e il benessere delle comunità. La partecipazione dei cittadini negli interventi di promozione della salute può rafforzare l'empowerment, migliorare la salute generale e ridurre le disuguaglianze. In coerenza con queste premesse, la Regione Emilia-Romagna ha promosso e finanziato un programma estensivo biennale “Guadagnare salute in contesti di comunità”, con lo scopo di promuovere processi partecipativi sui temi di sani stili di vita attraverso un lavoro intersettoriale, interdisciplinare e con il forte coinvolgimento delle comunità locali. Il programma ha previsto la realizzazione di 6 progetti che hanno coinvolto diversi territori della Regione. Analizzare e valutare la partecipazione dei cittadini e la sua efficacia, all’interno queste progettazioni, è molto complesso anche per le diverse posizioni dei decisori e degli operatori sanitari sul concetto stesso di partecipazione e coinvolgimento della comunità. A tale scopo sono stati realizzati due studi quali-quantitativi. Il primo studio qualitativo ha cercato di approfondire la natura delle rappresentazioni della partecipazione all’interno di 17 dirigenti e funzionari che hanno coordinato e implementato a livello regionale e locale i progetti di comunità regionali finanziati. Nel tentativo di indagare le relazioni di una specifica partecipazione di qualità e per le ambiguità emerse dal primo studio e dalla letteratura (Dowling et al.,2004; Granner&Sharpe, 2004; Aveling&Jovchelovitch,2013) il secondo studio ha cercato di comprendere in che modo l’esperienza di una qualità della partecipazione, delle collaborazioni interdisciplinari e della percezione di contribuire a livello decisionale possa essere in relazione con il senso di comunità, l’empowerment, la soddisfazione per la partecipazione e l’intenzione a continuare a partecipare. Gli studi confermano le importanti relazioni tra la partecipazione di qualità e precisi outcome e aprono la strada a futuri approfondimenti specifici. / Citizens’ participation in health promotion interventions, in order to strengthen community empowerment, improve overall health and reduce inequalities is a central assumption of community health psychology and for the most important health organizations and Governments. The study of citizens’ participation and its effectiveness is quite complex also for the different positions about the meaning itself of participation and about which kind of participation’s experience can be useful for who is involved. These issues so far not been explored among health workers, health’s partnership and citizens involved in community-based health project. In the north of Italy, the Emilia-Romagna Region has promoted and funded an extensive two-year program "Gaining health in community settings" with the aim to promote participatory processes on health issue of through work across sectors, interdisciplinary and with the strong involvement of local communities and citizens. In order to understand the representations, ideas and meanings attributed to participation in the health promotion intervention, from who promotes designs and facilitates participatory processes will be presented a qualitative study carried out on 17 interviews of managers and health care professionals who have contributed to the planning and implementation of various community projects. Also, as pointed out by different authors (Dowling et al., 2004; Granner & Sharpe, 2004;Aveling & Jovchelovitch, 2013) it has become increasingly necessary to shift the focus from a general participation to specific processes involved in a quality participation and their possible relation. Starting from these premises was investigated through a questionnaire to 234 participants, active in the design and implementation of these projects, which processes are involved in who have a higher "quality participation" participatory experiences. Specifically, the relationship of quality participation processes have been investigated with the sense of community, empowerment, the perception of efficacy, the satisfaction of the participation and the intention to continue to participate.

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Questa ricerca parte dall’approccio dialogico alle rappresentazioni sociali proposto da Marková (2003), assumendo che obbedienza e disobbedienza sono entrambe costituite da dimensioni socialmente costruttive e distruttive e che la loro interazione si riflette sugli atteggiamenti verso la democrazia. L’ipotesi principale è quella che obbedienza e disobbedienza non si escludano a vicenda, bensì che un’interazione bilanciata tra atteggiamenti favorevoli verso sia l’obbedienza sia la disobbedienza possa promuovere atteggiamenti prodemocratici a livello individuale e un incremento della democrazia a livello societale, come suggerito anche dalle teorie politologiche di Dahl (1999). La ricerca è stata sviluppata in due studi. Il primo è rappresentato da un’analisi cross-culturale condotta su dati provenienti dal World Values Survey ed è suddiviso in tre sottostudi: il primo indaga il rapporto tra la disobbedienza, le dimensioni distruttiva e costruttiva dell’obbedienza e gli atteggiamenti nei confronti della democrazia; il secondo si centra sulle differenze tra le due dimensioni opposte della disobbedienza (costruttiva e distruttiva), mettendo in evidenza come alcuni aspetti della disobbedienza siano legati ad atteggiamenti prodemocratici; il terzo si occupa, invece, di indagare a livello societale gli effetti della diffusione della disobbedienza costruttiva sul livello di democrazia di una nazione, mettendo in evidenza che, sotto determinate circostanze, la disobbedienza può essere intesa come un fattore protettivo per la democrazia. Il secondo studio si basa su un’inchiesta tramite questionari somministrati ad un campione di studenti universitari delle Università di Bologna ed Helsinki. Questo studio ha avuto la finalità di approfondire, da un punto di vista delle rappresentazioni sociali, come la dinamica tra obbedienza e disobbedienza si intrecci agli atteggiamenti verso la democrazia e verso l’assunzione di responsabilità nei confronti della società. I risultati suggeriscono che obbedienza e disobbedienza siano in rapporto di complementarietà, e non di reciproca esclusione, integrandosi l’una con l’altra in maniera disgiunta (Lefkowitz, 2007): laddove l’obbedienza rappresenta un atteggiamento responsabile nei confronti della società e di tutte le sue parti costitutive, la disobbedienza è uno strumento di controllo e azione politica nei confronti dell’autorità. Inoltre a livello societale i risultati mostrano che laddove le disobbedienza costruttiva si diffonde in una società, successivamente aumenta il suo livello di democrazia o, perlomeno, non diminuisce. Ciò suggerisce che la diffusione di una disobbedienza che coinvolge anche gli aspetti costruttivi dell’obbedienza possa rappresentare un fattore protettivo nei confronti della democraticità delle istituzioni e delle libertà politiche e civili.

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The present dissertation focuses on the two basic dimensions of social judgment, i.e., warmth and competence. Previous research has shown that warmth and competence emerge as fundamental dimensions both at the interpersonal level and at the group level. Moreover, warmth judgments appear to be primary, reflecting the importance of first assessing others’ intentions before determining the other’s ability to carry out those intentions. Finally, it has been shown that warmth and competence judgments are predicted by perceived economic competition and status, respectively (for a review, see Cuddy, Fiske, & Glick, 2008). Building on this evidence, the present work intends to further explore the role of warmth and competence in social judgment, adopting a finer-grained level of analysis. Specifically, we consider warmth to be a dimension of evaluation that encompasses two distinct characteristics (i.e., sociability and morality) rather than as an undifferentiated dimension (see Leach, Ellemers, & Barreto, 2007). In a similar vein, both economic competition and symbolic competition are taken into account (see Stephan, Ybarra, & Morrison, 2009). In order to highlight the relevance of our empirical research, the first chapter reviews the literature in social psychology that has studied the warmth and competence dimensions. In the second chapter, across two studies, we examine the role of realistic and symbolic threats (akin economic and symbolic competition, respectively) in predicting the perception of sociability and morality of social groups. In study 1, we measure perceived realistic threat, symbolic threat, sociability, and morality with respect to 8 social groups. In study 2, we manipulate the level and type of threat of a fictitious group and measure perceived sociability and morality. The findings show that realistic threat and symbolic threat are differentially related to the sociability and morality components of warmth. Specifically, whereas realistic threat seems to be a stronger predictor of sociability than symbolic threat, symbolic threat emerges as better predictor of morality than realistic threat. Thus, extending prior research, we show that the types of threat are linked to different warmth stereotypes. In the third and the fourth chapter, we examine whether the sociability and morality components of warmth play distinct roles at different stages of group impression formation. More specifically, the third chapter focuses on the information-gathering process. Two studies experimentally investigate which traits are mostly selected when forming impressions about either ingroup or outgroup members. The results clearly show that perceivers are more interested in obtaining information about morality than about sociability when asked to form a global impression about others. The fourth chapter considers more properly the formulation of an evaluative impression. Thus, in the first study participants rate real groups on sociability, morality, and competence. In the second study, participants read an immigration scenario depicting an unfamiliar social group in terms of high (vs. low) morality, sociability, and competence. In both studies, participants are also asked to report their global impression of the group. The results show that global evaluations are better predicted by morality than by sociability and competence trait ascriptions. Taken together the third and the fourth chapters show that the dominance of warmth suggested by previous studies on impression formation might be better explained in terms of a greater effect of one of the two subcomponents (i.e., morality) over the other (i.e., sociability). In the general discussion, we discuss the relevance of our findings for intergroup relation and group perception, as well as for impression formation.

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In many communities, supplying water for the people is a huge task and the fact that this essential service can be carried out by the private sector respecting the right to water, is a debated issue. This dissertation investigates the mechanisms through which a 'perceived rights violation' - which represents a specific form of perceived injustice which derives from the violation of absolute moral principles – can promote collective action. Indeed, literature on morality and collective action suggests that even if many people apparently sustain high moral principles (like human rights), only a minority decides to act in order to defend them. Taking advantage of the political situation in Italy, and the recent mobilization for "public water" we hypothesized that, because of its "sacred value", the perceived violation of the right to water facilitates identification with the social movement and activism. Through five studies adopting qualitative and quantitative methods, we confirmed our hypotheses demonstrating that the perceived violation of the right to water can sustain activism and it can influence vote intentions at the referendum for 'public water'. This path to collective action coexists with other 'classical' predictors of collective action, like instrumental factors (personal advantages, efficacy beliefs) and anger. The perceived rights violation can derive both from personal values (i.e. universalism) and external factors (i.e. a mobilization campaign). Furthermore, we demonstrated that it is possible to enhance the perceived violation of the right to water and anger through a specifically designed communication campaign. The final chapter summarizes the main findings and discusses the results, suggesting some innovative line of research for collective action literature.