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Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a serious impact on the mental health and well-being of people worldwide. Method: The authors conducted an observational pilot study, considering two patient cohorts: the first sample of 20 non-COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU from September 2019 to September 2020 and the second sample of 26 COVID-19 patients admitted to the ICU from October 2020 and April 2021. Participants were contacted for a telephone interview within six months after discharge. Results: The quality of life, calculated through the SF-12, of patients admitted for COVID- 19 in 2020-21 is worse than the sample discharged from the ICU in the previous period, 2019-2020. Conclusions: The quality of life indices that emerged in both the pandemic and prepandemic eras were lower than average, but when comparing the two cohorts, the indices collected in the pandemic era were lower.

The purpose of this literature review is to highlight the relationship between technostress and conflict, which is having great resonance in various fields, including economics, sociology and psychology. The theme has different declinations, becoming a polysemic concept and applicable, in a broad sense, in any sphere of our lives. We need only think of the extent to which technology pervades our lives, for example wearable devices for health monitoring, work that is carried out entirely through technological devices, leisure time that is increasingly devoted to online activities, the opening up of the metaverse and artificial intelligence in the world of work. By using knowledge graphs and bibliometrics, the aim of the paper was to systematically analyse (qualitatively and quantitatively) and synthesise literature that addresses the relationship between conflict and technostress. We discuss the main research topics, current challenges and the status of studies on the topic, in order to provide a reference for researchers conducting related studies, laying the foundation for possible areas of future development and empirical analyses.

Gli scenari sociali attuali sono profondamente cambiati e questi mutamenti hanno trasformato le singole soggettività. È aumentata l’incertezza, la precarietà, l’attesa negativa del futuro e questo mina il benessere individuale, creando un clima diffuso di instabilità. La rivoluzione digitale, inoltre, ha trasformato la realtà, facendola divenire una caleidoscopica e istantanea successione di eventi di difficile elaborazione cognitiva. In questi contesti effimeri e instabili, la psicologia positiva aiuta gli individui a ritrovare il proprio benessere, attraverso una costruzione cognitiva di esso. In altri termini, nell’ambiente contemporaneo nel quale ci sono sempre meno certezze, costruire mentalmente dei punti fermi, attraverso una visione positiva di se stessi, degli altri e della realtà, costituisce la base ideale sulla quale edificare il proprio benessere. Affinché questo possa accadere, i bambini fin dalle prime fasi della loro vita devono essere educati a coltivare il benessere e a sviluppare la resilienza, intesa come capacità di elaborare e superare gli eventi critici. In questo agire educativo i contesti scolastici e familiari hanno un ruolo determinante. Nello specifico, la scuola deve educare le nuove generazioni a sviluppare quelle peculiarità che consentono ad ognuno di stare bene con se stesso, con gli altri e nell’ambiente in cui vive.

This work presents an estimate of social security contribution evasion (SSCE) for different job categories and job sectors in Italy, among 1995 and 2016. The evasion is computed as share of the work-force that did not pay social security contribution, not as monetary evasion. The author finds a stationary trend in the size of the SSCE over time, and some significative differences in the different sectors and in the different Italian regions. The average SSCE for Italy in the 1995-2016 period is 0.149, an evasion of around 15 percent of the workforce in the social security contributions of a representative sample of Italian population, calculated on over 26,000 observations. SSCE is a well-known issue all around the world. It is a highly sensitive topic, and it is been suggested that given the aging of the population and the increasing flexibility of the work, its importance is going to increase. It is particularly interesting in a country such as Italy, where there is a huge underground economy that affects the country. Even though economists have studied the determinant and the effect of tax evasion (Allingham and Sandmo, 1972) since half a century, very few works have specifically focused on the implication of contribution evasion for social security schemes (Bailey, 2001; McGillivray, 2002) and on the determinants of contribution evasion (Bailey, 1997), especially with a quantitative approach. This work aims to contribute to the literature on SSCE, which has his own specificities that makes it different from tax evasion, offering a series of descriptive statistics on SSCE in Italy in the last twenty years. The two main goals of this study are to estimate SSCE in Italy for the different job categories, in different work sectors and in all the Italian regions between 1995 and 2016 and to provide some insights about the main causes of SSCE. In a nutshell, the findings of the author show that the highest SSCE is among self-employed and temporary worker active in the household services, building and agriculture sectors. Instead for the geographical distribution concerns, Southern Italian regions register a higher SSCE than Centre and North of Italy. The trend over the period 1998-2016 of SSC evasion is pretty much stable, while there is a gap with the 1995 estimate.