Team / Contributors
Lecturer
Degree in Sociology (2008) from the Università del Salento (Italy), Master in Occupation, Market and Environment at the Università di Bologna and PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, with the thesis Personal networks in the labor market. Resources, mechanisms and inequalities in the youth environment.
He is currently working as a lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Geneva. He has also been a Senior Researcher SNF at the University of Lausanne (2018-2021) and a Visiting Scholar at the University of Buenos Aires (2016). He is a member of the Swiss Centre of Expertise in Life Course Research LIVES.
University of Geneve
+41 (0) 22 379 89 03
Areas of specialization
His research addresses with an interdisciplinary approach issue related to labor markets, leisure, mental health, life courses and social inequalities, especially among young people. His main theoretical and methodological expertise is in social capital theory and social network analysis. He is currently interested in the influence of the digital world on the mobilization of social capital. In particular, the influence of time spent with others in leisure on social support and psychological health, comparing face-to-face and online interactions.
Selected bibliography
Vacchiano, M., Hollstein, B., Settersten, R., & Spini, D. (2024) Networked Lives: Probing the Influence of Social Networks on the Life course. Advances in Life Course Research
Vacchiano, M., De Bel, V. & E. Widmer (2024). Being Your Own Boss: Network Determinants of Young People’s Orientations towards Self-Employment. R&R in Social Indicator Research
Vacchiano, M., Politi, E., & Lüders, A. (2023). The COVID-19 pandemic as an existential threat: evidence on young people’s psychological vulnerability using a Multifaceted Threat Scale, PLoS ONE
Vacchiano, M., & Valente, R. (2021) Did the Screens Win? An Autoregressive Model Linking Leisure, Relatedness and Mental Health. Computers in Human Behavior.
Vacchiano, M. (2021). Nine Mechanisms of Job-Searching and Job-Findings Through Contacts Among Young Adults, Sociological Research Online.
