Donatella Di Corrado

She graduated in Philosophy from the University of Catania, discussing a thesis entitled "Quality of Life in Chronic Diseases" at the Institute of Psychology in collaboration with the Institute of Internal Medicine of the Vittorio Emanuele Hospital. She was awarded a scholarship in "Historical, Philosophical, Pedagogical and Psychological Sciences" to attend specialization courses in the USA (2000-2001). She attended the Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah (USA), the Institute of Psychology at Keene State College (USA), and the Department of Psychology at Stanford University, California (USA) in collaboration with Professor Albert Bandura, Ph.D. She carried out research at the Institute of Internal Medicine and Medical Therapy of the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery and at the Institute of Gynecology at the University of Catania.

In February 2006 she obtained a PhD from the Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Catania and after 12 years of research activity, in 2018 she became Associate Professor for the Scientific Disciplinary Sector M-EDF/01, Methods and Didactics of Motor Activities, at the University of Enna “Kore”, where since 2021 she has been Coordinator of the Master's Degree Course in Sciences and Techniques of Preventive and Adapted Motor Activities.

Donatela Di Corrado's research focuses on imagery, mood states, human perception, emotions, health, and attention in sport. She currently conducts research at the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education, University of Catania; the Department of Physiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Catania; the Department of Psychology, University of Trieste; the Department of Psychology, University of Naples Federico II; and the Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin.

Since 2019, she has been Scientific Director on behalf of the Department of Human and Social Sciences (KORE University of Enna) of the Joint Research Program entitled “ Sport: motor, physiological and psychological aspects ”.