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Psychological distress, coping and locus of control among patients undergoing IVF treatment: gender differences
No full textOptimism and its impact on mental and physical well-being
Full text linkMany studies have been carried out about the effectiveness of optimism as a psychological phenomenon, leading to various theoretical formulations of the same concept, conceptualized as "disposition", "attributional style", "cognitive bias", or "shared illusion". This overview is an attempt to explore the "optimism" concept and its relations with mental health, physical health, coping, quality of life and adaptation of purpose, health lifestyle and risk perception. Positive and negative expectations regarding the future are important for understanding the vulnerability to mental disorders, in particular mood and anxiety disorders, as well as to physical illness. A significant positive relation emerges between optimism and coping strategies focused on social support and emphasis on positive aspects of stressful situations. Through employment of specific coping strategies, optimism exerts an indirect influence also on the quality of life. There is evidence that optimistic people present a higher quality of life compared to those with low levels of optimism or even pessimists. Optimism may significantly influence mental and physical well-being by the promotion of a healthy lifestyle as well as by adaptive behaviours and cognitive responses, associated with greater flexibility, problem-solving capacity and a more efficient elaboration of negative information. © Conversano et al
Aspetti psicosociali relativi alla diagnosi e al trattamento dei disturbi della fertilità [Psychosocial aspects in diagnosis and treatment of fertility diseases]
No full textL'intento del presente lavoro è quello di descrivere le implicazioni dei disturbi della fertilità e del percorso di PMA in un' ottica psicosociale. La condizione legata a un disturbo della fertilità può compromettere il normale funzionamento dell'individuo, negli ambiti della relazione di coppia, sociale e lavorativo, che spesso vengono alterati non solo a causa della diagnosi ma anche a seguito delle procedure mediche volte alla risoluzione del disturbo stesso. Ai fini della corretta pianificazione di un intervento è necessario comprendere il vissuto dell'infertilità sul versante personale, di coppia e socio-familiare. Scopo principale dell'approccio integrato, infatti, è quello di assicurarsi che i pazienti comprendano le implicazioni delle loro scelte di trattamento, che ricevano un adeguato sostegno emotivo e che possano far fronte in modo sano alle conseguenze dell'esperienza dell'infertilità.The aim of this paper is to describe the implications of fertility diseases and treatment (Medically Assisted Reproduction) from a psychosocial point of view. The individual functioning in relationships, social and working areas can be impaired, not just by the diagnosis, but also by medical procedures of the treatment. For the planning of a correct intervention it is necessary to understand feelings regarding the infertility from a personal aspect, in the socio-domestic sphere and within the sphere of the two people involved as a couple. The main purpose of the integrated approach is to ensure that patients understand the implications of the choices of their treatment, receive adequate emotional support and learn to cope with infertility consequences
“Cognitive-Behavioral therapy of chronic lumbar pain”, 6th International Congress of Cognitive Psychoterapy ICCP
No full text“Alessitimia, locus of control e coping in pazienti con diabete di tipo 1”, V° Congresso Nazionale del Gruppo per la Ricerca in Psicosomatica (GRP), Foligno 10-11/10/ 2008.
No full text“Aspetti emozionali del benessere psicologico in pazienti con diagnosi di infertilità”, V° Congresso Nazionale del Gruppo per la Ricerca in Psicosomatica (GRP), Foligno 10-11/10/ 2008.
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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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