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Family stress, resources and perceived efficacy in parents of children with disabilities. Duchenne Muscular Distrophy vs Intellectual Disability.
No full textIntervento in chiave psicoanalitica e valutazione del funzionamento emotivo su Adolescenti Anoressiche e Genitori
No full textIndividuo e gruppo nel processo terapeutico. Contributo preliminare alla costruzione di uno strumento.
No full textEmotional competence and psychosocial adjustment. A Research Intervention in primary schooled children
No full textEmotional competence allows the expression and regulation of the emotions: learning to modulate one's own reactions by considering the social context allows to respond empathically to others. A good emotional competence, in particular during childhood, help to gain better social interactions and expressing feelings reduces the behavioural problems of children by increasing their well-being. It seems therefore important to carry out interventions that promote emotional competence, especially in contexts where children meet and live, first of all the school. The prime aim of this study was in fact to analyse, with the purpose to enhance, the relationship between emotional competence and psychosocial adjustment, evaluating these constructs in an environment, such as the school, where children are constantly in contact with each other. Two meetings have been scheduled during the school hours in the classrooms and several activities have been submitted. 314 children of the fourth and fifth primary class (8-9 years) from seven different schools in the Northern Italy participated. The first meeting began with a moment of introduction to make children familiar with researchers: everyone said his/her name and his/her favourite colour, explaining why. This activity allowed creating a positive atmosphere in order to feel free in sharing thoughts and emotions. An excerpt from the beginning of the Disney-Pixar "Inside Out" (2015) was proposed since the movie shows the emotions of the protagonist, a young girl named Riley. This technique allowed introducing the features of emotions in a familiar and cute way. Every child compared the seen emotions with his/her private ones and shared his/her thoughts, explaining them to the mates. After that, children filled in the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ; [1]) in order to evaluate critic and positive areas related to psychosocial adjustment. Meanwhile the referring teachers of every class filled in the proxy report version of SDQ for every single student. During the second meeting the final scene of Inside Out was shown in order to make children explore the importance of negative emotions and the possibility to live them along with different kinds of emotions experienced in the same situation. Children told each other their related experiences. The Emotional Basic Knowledge Interview (ICEB - 2, [2]) was then submitted to evaluate global emotional and specific basic emotion (Fear, Joy, Sadness and Anger) competences. Before leaving each other, researchers gave children a rhyme on emotions as a present to remind them and their teachers what they have done together. The results of the study showed that emotional competence was strongly connected to psychosocial adjustment. Specifically, emotional competence and prosocial behaviour were positively related, while negative correlations emerged between children's emotional competence and global difficulties, mainly concerning peer problems. This confirms the relationship between emotional competence and psychosocial adjustment because children who experience less difficulty and better interactions are just those who feel emotionally competent. Increasing interventions focused on improving emotional education in schools may therefore have a pivotal role since schools are the privileged context where children have the opportunity to meet and confront with each other
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
Emotion Regulation and Parental Bonding in Families of Adolescents With Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
Full text linkParental bonding and emotional regulation, while important to explain difficulties that may arise in child development, have mainly been studied at an individual level. The present study aims to examine alexithymia and parental bonding in families of adolescents with psychiatric disorders through different generations. The sample included a total of 102 adolescent patients with psychiatric disorders and their parents. In order to take a family level approach, a Latent Class Analysis was used to identify the latent relationships among alexithymia (Toronto Alexithymia Scale), perceived parental bonding (Parental Bonding Instrument) and the presence of adolescent internalizing or externalizing psychiatric symptoms (Youth Self-Report). Families of internalizing and externalizing adolescents present different and specific patterns of emotional regulation and parenting. High levels of adolescent alexithymia, along with a neglectful parenting style perceived by the adolescent and the father as well, characterized the families of patients with internalizing symptoms. On the other hand, in the families with externalizing adolescents, it was mainly the mother to remember an affectionless control parental style. These results suggest the existence of an intergenerational transmission of specific parental bonding, which may influence the emotional regulation and therefore the manifestation of psychiatric symptoms
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
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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