Call for paper - n. 1/2025

The Journal of Community Psychology invites researchers, practitioners, and scholars to submit contributions for a special issue dedicated to the profound transformation currently affecting our living environments. These environments are increasingly hybrid and characterized by the widespread diffusion of digital technologies. The importance of soft skills and emotional intelligence, the large-scale spread of artificial intelligence (AI), and sustainability issues call for a rethinking of living environments and the way we inhabit and interact with them. This special issue aims to explore how, alongside innovation and new adaptation processes, it is also necessary to ensure the protection and defense of rights for the future of younger generations, promoting a dialogue between technology and psychological well-being.

Topics:

• The role of artificial intelligence in the psychological well-being of children and adolescents;
• The influence of digital technologies and AI for soft skills, emotional intelligence and parental relationship;
• Implications of using AI in vulnerable educational and psychological contexts;
• Sustainability in the context of digital education and its impact on future generations;
• The protection of children’s rights in the digital age (privacy, security, and equitable access to technologies);
• Psychological approaches to foster healthy and mindful use of digital technologies among young people;
• The role of universities in supporting young people and improving civic responsibilities during technological transformation processes.

• Kind of contributions: theoretical and methodological discussions, as well as empirical studies, providing a psychological analysis of onlife environments and clarifying the role of psychology in the promotion of wellbeing of future generations, in an interdisciplinary perspective within the framework of community psychology.

  Articles must comply with the journal’s guidelines, available at:

  https://journals.francoangeli.it/public/rpcoa/rpcoa-norme.pdf

  Contributions must be submitted in English. Only original articles that have not been submitted to other journals will be considered.

  Deadline: authors wishing to participate are invited to send an abstract (Max 500 words) by 30 April 2025 to cinzia.novara@unipa.it specifying “abstract review of community psychology” in the subject line.

• The deadline for submitting full papers will be on the 30 May 2025.

  The speakers who participated in the in-depth seminar for the dissemination of the first results of the project ‘Children as Vulnerable Users of IoT and AI-based Technologies: A Multi-level Interdisciplinary Assessment (CURA) PRIN 2022’, held in Palermo on April 3, 2025, are invited to submit their contributions specifying in the subject ‘contribution Community Psychology Journal (charge free)’, according to the same deadlines mentioned above.