Researcher

SHORT CV

Anastasia Charalampi is a researcher at the Institute of Political Research of the National Centre for Social Research (EKKE), specializing in "Methods and Techniques of Political/Social Research". She holds a BA from the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her Master’s thesis as part of the two-year postgraduate program of the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University and, in 2018, completed her doctoral dissertation in the same department with honors. Her publications and research interests focus on issues of political/social research methodology and attitude scaling.

She is a member of the research team for the 12^th Round of the European Social Survey (ESS). She has served as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of Social Policy at Panteion University (academic years 2021-2022 and 2022-2023). Her research involvement includes projects such as “KETHI study – Women in family and work in Greece Today: New conditions/New challenges for gender equality” (EKKE), JustReDI (EKKE), “Evaluation of the social impact of gambling in Greece today” (EKKE), RaRE (ΕΚΚΕ), "Gender Discrimination in Multiple Crises" (EKKE), "Safe At Work" (Panteion University), "Sexual Harassment in the Workplace of the Public Sector" (Koinoniko Polykentro of the Greek Civil Service Confederation), "Greece and Southern Europe: Exploring Political Trust in Institutions, Social Trust, and Human Values, 2002-2017" (EKKE), the European pilot survey Eurograduate (Panteion University), Negotiate (Horizon2020, University of Basel), and the research project Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (University Mental Health Research Institute, EPIPSI). Additionally, she has worked as a Scientific Associate at EPIPSI.

She is the first author of papers published in peer reviewed international and national journals and chapters in peer reviewed collective works. She has presented her research at peer reviewed international, regional and national conferences and workshops. Furthermore, she is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology and serves as a reviewer for the Icelandic Research Fund and international journals such as Communications in Statistics: Case Studies Data Analysis and Applications, Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Addictive Behaviors, Frontiers in Psychology etc.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Issues of political/social research methodology
• Attitude scaling
• Investigation of multidimensional constructs
• Measurement of wellbeing
• Mixed-Methods Surveys
• Factor Analysis
• Assessment of psychometric properties
• Regression Analysis
• Mediation Analysis

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• Charalampi, A. & Michalopoulou, C. (2025). Modeling functioning as a determinant of wellbeing: A mediation analysis. In Y. Dimotikalis & C. H. Skiadas (Eds), Data Analysis and Related Applications 5: Models, Methods and Techniques (pp. 35-51). iSTE-WILEY. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781394401604.ch3
• Charalampi, A., Michalopoulou, C., & Richardson, C. (2020). Validation of the 2012 European Social Survey measurement of wellbeing in seventeen European countries. Applied Research in Quality of Life, 15(1), 73-105. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11482-018-9666-4
• Charalampi, A., Michalopoulou, C., & Richardson, C. (2025). Exploring measurement invariance: Political trust in national institutions across social groups. In C. H. Skiadas & C. Skiadas (Eds), Quantitative Methods and Data Analysis in Applied Demography – Volume 2: Data, Models, Risk and Surveys (pp. 253-268). The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis 58. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-82279-7_20
• Charalampi, A., Tsouparopoulou, E., Tsiganou, J., & Michalopoulou C. (2021). Creating overall measurements of constructs for comparative research: A methodological study. Ask: Research and Methods, 30(1), 25-56. https://doi.org/10.18061/ask.v30i1.0002