Anna Rosa Donizzetti

Professor Anna Donizzetti

Small Group Project 2021-22

Establishing the European Consortium of Social and Systematic Research on Positive Ageing

With Gaël Brulé & Laurent Sovet & Vincenza Capone & Miriam Sang-Ah Park & Stephen Badham

With an ever increasing number of older adults in society, it is imperative we look for ways to promote positive ageing and better quality of life for older adults. More specifically, we aim to establish positive ageing as a more well-defined concept based on sociocultural and personal meaning associated, which we believe would lead to a more holistic and meaningful understanding than the biomedical explanations. We thus approach the topic of positive ageing with the view that it refers to maintaining a positive attitude, feeling good and keeping fit and healthy in old age.

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Areas of interest

Social Psychology Health Ageing Well-being

Cohort

FG7

Biography

Anna Rosa Donizzetti is Associate Professor of Social Psychology, Social Psychology of Health and Communication, and Wellbeing in Real and Virtual Contexts in the Department of Humanities at the University of Naples Federico II, where she holds the National Scientific Habilitation as Full Professor. Her research focuses on ageing processes from a psychosocial perspective, the promotion of elderly wellbeing, and the study of ageism — its manifestations and its consequences for individual and population health. She has participated in numerous national and international projects on health promotion and prejudice towards older people, and has published widely across these areas and in related fields including health behaviours, risk perception, and cancer screening participation.

Biographical details correct as of 24.04.26