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Interpersonal task- and relationship-focused conflicts. How they are dealt with, and the relationship of conflict management with empathy.
No full textThe study - partially supported by CARIPARO foundation - focuses on interpersonal conflicts - often distressing. People(N 492) narrated personal conflict events (E) following prompt questions - e.g., what happened, with whom, why, how E ended,whether protagonist P talked about E with others, reflected on E, and whether sharing or reflecting changed the appraisal of E.Participants also judged the adequacy of behavioral responses to work-setting events depicting interpersonal problematic situations -e.g., your boss tells you the work you did is bad and you need to redo it. The results obtained from content analysing the narratives showed that the majority of conflicts, both task- and relationship-focused, involving work-related and personal-life domains, were not solved when they happened, or ended with pseudo solutions - e.g., silence 27%, fictitious solution 41%); 12% led to a relationshipbreak. Although most people shared E, to vent emotions (67%) or get someone else's perspective (33%), only a minority changedtheir evalutation of E. Likewise, most people thought back on E after it ended (93%), but not all modified their evalutation - if they did, it was for a variety of reasons, such as, because P empathised with the opponent, or saw its own behaviour as inadequate. Finally, E was talked about later on mostly with one's own partner, with friends, and with family. Factor analyses of the behavioral responsesto the work scenarios showed that an empathy dimension characterized those responses that displayed emotional intelligence. The analysis of the relationship between conflict-variables and empathy-level showed that several aspects of how people deal with conflict events were significantly influenced by empathy-level. In sum, the study confirms the psychological complexity of conflict management, both at work and in personal lives, and shows that emotional competence is an important individual feature in howconflicts are handled. The study also shows that our understanding of causes and effects of emotion-loaded events, e.g. conflicts,might be crucially aided by employing a qualitative method -narrative production and analysis - which then can be used together withmore traditional assessment methods to arrive at a greater understanding of psychological issues
How people evaluate, and deal with, interpersonal task- and relationship-focused conflicts.
No full textThe study focuses on conflicts - often a source of extreme emotions. People (N 128) narrated personal conflict events (E) following 5 prompt questions: 1. what happened, with whom, why, how E ended, 2. whether the E protagonist P talked about E with others and why, 3. if P reflected on E, what thoughts P had, 4. if P shared E, did the sharing make P change the appraisal of E, and how, 5. if P reflected on E, did P change the appraisal, of E and how. The results obtained from content analysing the narratives showed that the majority of conflicts, both task- and relationship-focused, involving work-related and personal-life domains, were not solved when they happened (44%), or ended with pseudo solutions (e.g., silence 12%, fictitious solution 11%); 8% led to a relationship break. Although most people shared E (88%), to vent emotions (35%) or get someone else's perspective (55%), only a minority changed their evalutation of E (43%). Likewise, most people thought back on E after it ended (94%), but only a few modified their evalutation (30%) - if so, because P empathised with the opponent, or saw its own behaviour as inadequate. Explicit mention of specific emotions was unfrequent - except for anger, but only in about 25% of E. In sum, the results show that an indirect and dynamic approach, that exploits personal narratives, is helpful to understand causes and effects of intense emotions
Performance of One-Way Reinforced Concrete Slabs with Externally-Bonded FRP Strengthening
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Surfactant-free synthesis of mesoporous and hollow silica nanoparticles with an inorganic template
No full textA surfactant-free synthesis of mesoporous and hollow silica nanoparticles is reported in which boron acts as the templating agent. Using such a simple and mild procedure as a treatment with water, the boron-rich phase is selectively removed, affording mesoporous pure silica nanoparticles with wormhole-like pores or, depending on the synthetic conditions, silica nanoshells
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
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