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Psychometric validation of the Spanish Gaming Disorder Test (GDT): Item Response Theory and Measurement Invariance Analysis
Get PDFGaming Disorder (GD) has been recently added to the eleventh revision of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) by the World Health Organization (WHO), as such, psychometrically sound psychological measures are required to assess this disorder. The objective of this study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Spanish Gaming Disorder Test (GDT) by assessing its dimensionality, reliability, convergent validity, and associations with other variables of importance through polytomous Item Response Theory (IRT) and Measurement Invariance (MI) analysis across genders. To achieve this, a sample of 538 gamers (42.94% female, meanage = 23.29 years, SD = 7.24) was recruited. The results obtained supported a one-factor structure for the Spanish GDT with adequate reliability and convergent validity. Furthermore, satisfactory goodness of fit in the partial credit model (PCM) with more precise scores at high trait levels to assess GD was found, and strict invariance across genders was supported. These findings attest to the suitability of the Spanish GDT for clinical assessment and research on disordered gaming beyond community samples
The Dangers of Setting up an Autonomous Process in the Mind
No full textAn audio piece commissioned by Artangel for the installation And She Built a Crooked House by Gemma Anderson-Tempini. A collage piece that draws on sources identified by Dr Mark Blacklock's research into historical texts explicating ideas of the fourth dimension from the late-nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. It responds to and illuminates the installation pieces throughout the building at Burton Grange, highlighting concepts drawn from the cultural histories of the fourth dimension and string theory that have informed them
State-enabled killing of same-sex-attracted people: a legal pluralist account
Get PDFIn eleven countries, same-sex sexual intimacy is punishable by death. Applying a legal pluralistic framework, we argue that“state-enabled killing” of same-sex-attracted people occurs in at least twenty-three countries. State-enabled killings range from extra-
judicial and quasi-judicial killings, where state actors carry out the killing, through instances where the state retrospectively authorizes, through bias or lawful excuses to homicide, the killing of same-sex-attracted people by private actors, to cases where the state permits or endorses forms of so-called“conversion therapy” that can lead to death. We contend that a narrow focus on the death penalty as the only genuine form of state-enabled killing of
same-sex-attracted people is analytically unwarranted and strategically dubious in terms of law reform advocacy. Critical legal pluralism allows us to pursue the practical and normative implications of hypothesizing a functional equivalence between the death penalty and these other forms of state-enabled killing
The long-term impact of Multi-Systemic Therapy: an experiential study of the adolescent-young adult life transition
Get PDFThis qualitative study examines the possible long term impact of Multi-systemic therapy (MST) as young people experience the transition from adolescence to young adulthood. MST is an intensive intervention aimed at reducing antisocial behavior among young people.
Interviews were conducted with 32 young people aged 16-22 years at their 48-month follow-up as part of the Systemic Therapy for At Risk Teens (START) evaluation trial in the UK. Sixteen participants had received MST while sixteen received management as usual (MAU). Interviews addressed participants’ current life experiences and were analysed with interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA). The inductive qualitative analysis data were transformed into numerical data. Interview extracts were coded as either forward-looking and hopeful (‘mature’) or static and frustrated (‘stuck’). Among males, significantly more mature outcomes were found among participants who had received MST compared with MAU. No differences were seen between the female groups. A detailed qualitative commentary shows how the constructs mature and stuck are manifest across the four domains.
The findings suggest that working with an MST therapist during adolescence helped young men cultivate more mature, forward-looking viewpoints and life activities four years later when transitioning into adulthood. Findings are discussed in relation to relevant theory and practical applications
International & supranational organisations
Get PDFBook synopsis: The Routledge Handbook of Language Policy and Planning is a comprehensive and authoritative survey, including original contributions from leading senior scholars and rising stars to provide a basis for future research in language policy and planning in international, national, regional, and local contexts.
The Handbook approaches language policy as public policy that can be studied through the policy cycle framework. It offers a systematic and research-informed view of actual processes and methods of design, implementation, and evaluation.
With a substantial introduction, 38 chapters and an extensive bibliography, this Handbook is an indispensable resource for all decision makers, students, and researchers of language policy and planning within linguistics and cognate disciplines such as public policy, economics, political science, sociology, and education
The governmentality of tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and possibilities for post-2020 sustainability governance
Get PDFContinued conversion of tropical forests to agriculture risks jeopardizing planetary integrity. The UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets to halt deforestation by 2020, alongside other global measures for zero deforestation, were not achieved. Applying a governmentality lens, we aim to better understand global governance mechanisms for tropical forests and sustainable food systems, and identify opportunities to improve them post 2020. We rely on data from global measures, institutions, and interviews with public and private actors working on tropical forest and food policy to undertake a discourse analysis of the (i) SDGs and other global measures on forests and food systems, (ii) contexts of the institutions studied, and (iii) implementation of global measures relating to forests and sustainable food systems. Our analysis reveals six discursive themes: (1) Policy framing of tropical forests – a token effort (2) Deceptive interlinkages, (3) Participation of the usual suspects, (4) Insufficient stakeholder representation, (5) Cleaning up supply chains and, (6) A green recovery. The themes show how the promotion and reproduction of neoliberal values of tropical forests consistently inhibit conservation, negatively impacting on planetary integrity. We identify opportunities to shift towards a new governmentality for informing international efforts on tackling tropical deforestation post-2020
Moral and political philosophy
Get PDFThis chapter describes some of the areas of interaction and overlap between philosophy and social anthropology, as these are reflected in contemporary moral and political philosophy
Lengths of Involutions in Finite Coxeter Groups
Get PDFLet W be a finite Coxeter group and X a subset of W . The length polynomial L_W,X (t) is defined by L_W,X (t) = ∑ x∈X t^{l(x)}, where l is the length function on W. If X = {x ∈ W : x^2 = 1} then we call L_W,X(t) the involution length polynomial of W . In this article we derive expressions for the length polynomial where X is any conjugacy class of involutions, and the involution length polynomial, in any finite Coxeter group W . In particular, these results correct errors in the literature for the involution length polynomials of Coxeter groups of type Bn and Dn
Re-orienting the gaze: visualising refugees in recent film
Get PDFThis chapter centralizes questions of visibility regarding contemporary refugee movement by focusing on recent filmmaking by and about refugees. The visual works explored here suggest a shifting refugee imaginary which tackles head on the complex representational politics of the human rights regime and positions refugees as active agents rather than passive objects of pity. I chart the ways in which recent fiction and non-fiction film re-frame the often-objectifying humanitarian gaze of news media and subvert the politics of affect that works on feelings of both fear and compassion among settled or citizen audiences. My analysis of this visual landscape considers how effective these varied strategies are for moving beyond a representational politics perpetually caught between visibility and occlusion, between the demand for rights framed by humanitarian regimes and the right to evade interpolation as figures of either vulnerability or threat
The Cumbre Nueva collapse (La Palma, Canary Islands): new age determinations and evidence of an isotopic excursion
Get PDFEpisodic giant landslides characterize the history of intraplate oceanic volcanic islands, disrupting the gradual accumulation of eruptive products during shield-building stages. On La Palma (Canary Islands), the giant Cumbre Nueva collapse, which ended volcanic activity at the Paleo-Cumbre Nueva rift, formed the 11 km wide “Caldera de Taburiente” collapse embayment. Lavas erupted before and after this collapse have been studied, and 40Ar/39Ar ages of groundmass separates from key flows are presented, particularly from the small post-collapse Bejenado volcano that grew within the collapse scar. The new data constrain the age of the Cumbre Nueva collapse to between 519±20 ka and 529±12 ka (2) and confirm that it occurred during a period of rapid re-surfacing of the island. This study has also constrained the duration of activity of the post-collapse Bejenado volcano, and the results indicate that this was also brief (529±12 ka to 491±16 ka). Starting just before the time of the collapse, the radiogenic isotope compositions of the lavas shifted temporarily to more depleted compositions, perhaps indicating that an isotopically distinct magma source was being tapped. However, an isotopic excursion of similar magnitude also occurred later in the post-collapse activity, suggesting that the changes in isotope composition of the magma source continued during after the collapse
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