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Overview

Marcantonio M. Spada is affiliated with London South Bank University in the United Kingdom. Their research predominantly focuses on the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with significant contributions to Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Applied Psychology, and Education.

The researcher's work covers a variety of main topics, including:

  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions
  • Mental Health Research Topics

Recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Marcantonio M. Spada include:

  • Modelling the contribution of the Big Five personality traits, health anxiety, and COVID-19 psychological distress to generalised anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review, 2020, Clinical Psychology Review
  • The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale: Development and psychometric properties, 2020, Psychiatry Research
  • Social norms and e-motions in problematic social media use among adolescents, 2020, Addictive Behaviors Reports
  • Social anxiety and Internet gaming disorder: The role of motives and metacognitions, 2020, Journal of Behavioral Addictions

Marcantonio M. Spada collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Gabriele Caselli
  • Ana V. Nikčević
  • Claudia Marino
  • Giovanni Mansueto
  • Sara Palmieri

Their research has been published extensively in several venues, notably:

  • Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy
  • Journal of Behavioral Addictions
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

Marcantonio M. Spada has also contributed to book publications, with one title published by Frontiers Media:

  • Addictive behaviors among youth and adolescents in the digital age, 2024

Best Publications

  • An overview of problematic internet use.

    Marcantonio M. Spada

  • The associations between problematic Facebook use, psychological distress and well-being among adolescents and young adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Claudia Marino;Claudia Marino;Gianluca Gini;Alessio Vieno;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review.

    Daniel L. King;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Natacha Carragher;Joel Billieux

  • A comprehensive meta-analysis on Problematic Facebook Use

    Claudia Marino;Gianluca Gini;Alessio Vieno;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • Modelling the contribution of the Big Five personality traits, health anxiety, and COVID-19 psychological distress to generalised anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.

    Ana V. Nikčević;Claudia Marino;Daniel C. Kolubinski;Dawn Leach

  • Metacognition, perceived stress, and negative emotion

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Ana V. Nikčević;Giovanni B. Moneta;Adrian Wells;Adrian Wells

  • Measuring metacognitions associated with emotional distress: Factor structure and predictive validity of the metacognitions questionnaire 30

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Changiz Mohiyeddini;Adrian Wells;Adrian Wells

  • Metacognition in addictive behaviors

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Gabriele Caselli;Ana V. Nikčević;Adrian Wells

  • The role of metacognitions in problematic Internet use

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Benjamin Langston;Ana V. Nikčević;Giovanni B. Moneta

  • Metacognitions, emotions, and procrastination

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Kalliopi Hiou;Ana V. Nikcevic

  • The COVID-19 anxiety syndrome scale: Development and psychometric properties.

    Ana V. Nikčević;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • The Relationship among Metacognitions, Attentional Control, and State Anxiety

    Marcantonio M. Spada;George A. Georgiou;Adrian Wells

  • The Desire Thinking Questionnaire: Development and Psychometric Properties

    Gabriele Caselli;Marcantonio M. Spada;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • A triphasic metacognitive formulation of problem drinking.

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Gabriele Caselli;Adrian Wells;Adrian Wells

  • Metacognitions, emotion and alcohol use

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Adrian Wells

  • Rumination as a predictor of drinking behaviour in alcohol abusers: a prospective study

    Gabriele Caselli;Claudio Ferretti;Mauro Leoni;Daniela Rebecchi

  • Modeling the contribution of personality, social identity and social norms to problematic Facebook use in adolescents.

    Claudia Marino;Claudia Marino;Alessio Vieno;Massimiliano Pastore;Ian P. Albery

  • Metacognition as a mediator of the relationship between emotion and smoking dependence

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Ana V. Nikčević;Giovanni B. Moneta;Adrian Wells;Adrian Wells

  • Cyberchondria: Examining relations with problematic Internet use and metacognitive beliefs.

    Thomas A. Fergus;Marcantonio M. Spada

  • Metacognition as a Mediator of the Effect of Test Anxiety on a Surface Approach to Studying

    Marcantonio M. Spada;Ana V. Nikcevic;Giovanni B. Moneta;Judy Ireson

Frequent Co-Authors

Gabriele Caselli
Gabriele Caselli London South Bank University
Ana V. Nikčević
Ana V. Nikčević Kingston University
Adrian Wells
Adrian Wells University of Manchester
Alessio Vieno
Alessio Vieno University of Padua
Gianluca Gini
Gianluca Gini University of Padua
Thomas A. Fergus
Thomas A. Fergus Baylor University
Michael Pascal Hengartner
Michael Pascal Hengartner Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Martial Van der Linden
Martial Van der Linden University of Geneva
Ståle Pallesen
Ståle Pallesen University of Bergen
Merete Nordentoft
Merete Nordentoft University of Copenhagen

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