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Overview

Cesare Maffei is affiliated with Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Italy. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with significant contributions to clinical psychology alongside work in psychiatry, mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, philosophy, and epidemiology.

The scientist's research spans several main topics, including:

  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Maffei include:

  • Dissociation and emotion regulation strategies: A meta-analytic review, 2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Is craving a risk factor for substance use among treatment-seeking individuals with alcohol and other drugs use disorders? A meta-analytic review, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Mindfulness Effects on Mind Wandering and Autonomic Balance, 2021, Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback
  • Dialectical behaviour therapy skills training for the treatment of addictive behaviours among individuals with alcohol use disorder: the effect of emotion regulation and experiential avoidance, 2020, The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse
  • Investigating predictive factors of dialectical behavior therapy skills training efficacy for alcohol and concurrent substance use disorders: A machine learning study, 2021, Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Frequent publication venues for Maffei's work include:

  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Journal of Clinical Psychology
  • Substance Use & Misuse
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research

Maffei collaborates regularly with several co-authors, notably:

  • Marco Cavicchioli
  • Mariagrazia Movalli
  • Pietro Ramella
  • Giulia Vassena
  • Anna Ogliari

Best Publications

  • Interrater reliability and internal consistency of the structured clinical interview for DSM-IV axis II personality disorders (SCID-II), version 2.0.

    Cesare Maffei;Andrea Fossati;Ilaria Agostoni;Alessandra Barraco

  • Borderline personality disorder and childhood sexual abuse: A meta- analytic study

    Andrea Fossati;Fabio Madeddu;Cesare Maffei

  • Reliability and Validity of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 (PID-5): Predicting DSM-IV Personality Disorders and Psychopathy in Community-Dwelling Italian Adults

    Andrea Fossati;Robert F. Krueger;Kristian E. Markon;Serena Borroni

  • On the Dimensionality of the Attachment Style Questionnaire in Italian Clinical and Nonclinical Participants

    Andrea Fossati;Judith A. Feeney;Deborah Donati;Michela Donini

  • History of childhood attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms and borderline personality disorder: a controlled study.

    Andrea Fossati;Liliana Novella;Deborah Donati;Michela Donini

  • Low-Dose Clozapine in Acute and Continuation Treatment of Severe Borderline Personality Disorder

    Francesco Benedetti;Laura Sforzini;Cristina Colombo;Cesare Maffei

  • The three-factor model of schizotypal personality: invariance across age and gender

    Andrea Fossati;Adrian Raine;Ilaria Carretta;Barbara Leonardi

  • Influence of the serotonin transporter promoter gene and shyness on children's cerebral responses to facial expressions

    Marco Battaglia;Anna Ogliari;Annalisa Zanoni;Alessandra Citterio

  • Brief communication : Criterion validity of the personality diagnostic questionnaire-4+ (PDQ-4+) in a mixed psychiatric sample

    Andrea Fossati;Cesare Maffei;Maria Bagnato;Deborah Donati

  • Post-surgery Adherence to Scheduled Visits and Compliance, More than Personality Disorders, Predict Outcome of Bariatric Restrictive Surgery in Morbidly Obese Patients

    Antonio E. Pontiroli;Andrea Fossati;Paola Vedani;Monica Fiorilli

  • Predicting borderline and antisocial personality disorder features in nonclinical subjects using measures of impulsivity and aggressiveness.

    Andrea Fossati;Ernest S. Barratt;Ilaria Carretta;Barbara Leonardi

  • Multigroup confirmatory component and factor analyses of the Italian version of the aggression questionnaire

    Andrea Fossati;Cesare Maffei;Elena Acquarini;Antonella Di Ceglie

  • Latent structure analysis of DSM-IV borderline personality disorder criteria.

    Andrea Fossati;Cesare Maffei;Cesare Maffei;Maria Bagnato;Maria Bagnato;Deborah Donati;Deborah Donati

  • Relations of proactive and reactive dimensions of aggression to overt and covert narcissism in nonclinical adolescents.

    Andrea Fossati;Serena Borroni;Nancy Eisenberg;Cesare Maffei

  • Alexithymia and attachment insecurities in impulsive aggression.

    Andrea Fossati;Elena Acquarini;Judith A. Feeney;Serena Borroni

  • Impulsivity, aggressiveness, and DSM-IV personality disorders.

    Andrea Fossati;Ernest S. Barratt;Serena Borroni;Daniele Villa

  • The Big Five Inventory (BFI): Reliability and Validity of its Italian Translation in Three Independent Nonclinical Samples

    Andrea Fossati;Serena Borroni;Donatella Marchione;Cesare Maffei

  • Reliability and validity of the Italian version of the Temperament and Character Inventory-Revised in an outpatient sample

    Andrea Fossati;C. Robert Cloninger;Daniele Villa;Serena Borroni

  • A Cross-Cultural Study of the Psychometric Properties of the Reactive-Proactive Aggression Questionnaire among Italian Nonclinical Adolescents.

    Andrea Fossati;Adrian Raine;Serena Borroni;Alice Bizzozero

  • Tracking the hypersensitive dimension in narcissism: Reliability and validity of the Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale

    Andrea Fossati;Serena Borroni;Federica Grazioli;Lorenzo Dornetti

  • An international perspective on assessment of negative and positive symptoms in schizophrenia.

    Massimo Moscarelli;Cesare Maffei;Bruno M. Cesana;Paolo Boato

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea Fossati
Andrea Fossati Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Judith A. Feeney
Judith A. Feeney University of Queensland
Marco Battaglia
Marco Battaglia Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Robert F. Krueger
Robert F. Krueger University of Minnesota
Kristian E. Markon
Kristian E. Markon University of Iowa
Francesco Benedetti
Francesco Benedetti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University
Kim L. Gratz
Kim L. Gratz University of Toledo
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania
Benedetta Vai
Benedetta Vai IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele
Sara Poletti
Sara Poletti Vita-Salute San Raffaele University

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