*2.2. Participants*

In total, 1750 participants joined the research; 72.7% were female (N = 1273), and the age ranged from 18 to 85 years (M = 36.81; SD = 13.56).

In total, 24.7% of the sample was from the north of Italy, 57.1% from Central Italy and 18.2% were from the south; 47.3% of the sample was single, 44.1% married, 4.7% in a civil union, 1.6% separated, 1.7% divorced and 0.6% widowed (shown in Table 1).


**Table 1.** Demographic characteristics of the sample classified by living together patterns.

Regarding the educational degree, 10.1% of the sample had a middle school diploma, 6.1% a professional diploma, 28.8% a high school diploma, 16.1% has a bachelor's degree, 23.8% a master's degree, and 14.3% had a post-graduate degree, while 0.8% had a different degree.

In total, 25.7% of the sample were students, 12.1% were unemployed, 58.7% were workers and 3.5% were retired.
