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Perceived congruent and incongruent attachment to parents and adolescent sex motives
No full textSexual motivations are one of the underlying psychosocial factors which
influence sexual expression. Individuals are sexually motivated for a variety of reasons.
For example, some may engage in sexual activity for intimacy needs, while others may
behave sexually to increase self-confidence. Understanding sexual motivations becomes
particularly important during adolescence, as motivations are likely to guide socio-sexual
development during subsequent years of adulthood. Attachment theory explains that
diverse motivations are cultivated as a result of attachment styles. Existing research uses
the adult-adult attachment model to assess sex motives. This thesis extends previous
research (e.g. Schachner, D.A. & Shaver, P.R., 2004) by analyzing the link between
parent-adolescent attachments and sex motives. More specifically, this research addresses
the question of whether adolescents' perceived congruent and incongruent attachment
styles to parents are related to five sex motives: intimacy, enhancement, self-affirmation,
peer and partner approval sex motives. The "incomplete buffering hypothesis"
(Verschueren & Marcoen, 1999, p. 185) guides hypotheses concerning incongruent
attachment styles. The incomplete buffering hypothesis refers to the partial averaging of
incongruent attachments. The combination of one secure attachment to one parent buffers
the effects of an insecure attachment to the other parent.
Two hundred and forty-four adolescents from a Vancouver secondary school were
administered the Sex Motives Scale (SMS; Cooper, Powers, & Shaprio, 1998), five
additional sex motive items (Schachner & Shaver, 2004) and the Adolescent Attachment
Questionnaire (AAQ; West, Rose, Spreng, Sheldon-Keller, & Adam, 1998).
Cluster analyses did not produce theoretically justifiable preoccupied classifications. Given that the preoccupied group could not be included in ANOVA
models; post hoc analyses enabled further exploration between the relationship of
adolescents' perceived maternal and paternal attachment security and sex motives by
means of Ordinary Least Square (OLS) hierarchical regressions.
Findings from ANOVA tests indicate that adolescents' perceived attachments to
parents were significantly related to their intimacy and self-affirmation sex motives,
where the latter generally supports the buffering hypothesis. Results from post hoc
analyses indicate interaction effects between maternal and paternal attachment security
on intimacy and enhancement sex motives, and a main effect between paternal
attachment and self-affirmation sex motives. T-tests found adolescent males score
significantly higher than adolescent females on enhancement and peer approval sex
motives. Both ANOVA and regression analysis found unexpected findings where males
score higher on self-affirmation sex motives than females. The results are discussed in
regards to the theoretical implications of multiple attachment organizations as well as the
practical implications for adolescent sexual health.Education, Faculty ofEducational and Counselling Psychology, and Special Education (ECPS), Department ofGraduat
A Study of Ontario Full-day Kindergarten Educators’ Responses to Children’s Emotions
Get PDFIt is well documented that children’s negative behaviours and emotions are stressors for educators (Jennings Greenberg, 2009). The ways educators respond to children’s dysregulation are dependent, in part, on their social emotional competencies (SECs) (Jennings Greenberg, 2009) and a contributing factor in socializing children’s emotional development (Morris et al., 2013). In this dissertation, I examine the relationship between Ontario Full-Day Kindergarten (FDK) educators’ emotion regulation strategies, dispositional mindfulness, and their contingent responses to children’s negative behaviours. A total of 47 FDK educators, both Registered Early Childhood Educators (RECEs) (n=13) and Ontario Certified Teachers (OCTs) (n=34) working within a large school board in Ontario, completed an online survey measuring two emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal and emotion suppression), dispositional mindfulness, and their positive and negative responses to children’s negative emotions. The descriptive statistics show educators used more cognitive reappraisal than emotion suppression strategies and also reported a lack of both pre-service education and professional development training in relation to stress and coping in FDK classrooms. Regression analysis resulted in a significant relationship between educators’ cognitive reappraisal and their positive responses to children’s negative emotions. Dispositional mindfulness was an insignificant variable within the model of educators’ emotion regulation and contingent responding.
The relationship between educators’ cognitive reappraisal and their positive responses to children’s negative emotions is addressed within the broader literature on educators’ SECs, and within the prosocial classroom model (Jennings Greenberg, 2009). I re-examine psychometric and Buddhist conceptualizations of dispositional mindfulness to explain its non-significance within this study. The implications of the study findings are discussed within their practice and policy implications, specifically around pre-service education and professional learning opportunities, and future research in both education and parenting fields is addressed. Understanding educators’ SECs, and specifically cognitive reappraisal as skills that underlie mental health in general, which contribute to socializing children’s emotions, drives the need for more research and skill building in this area.Ph.D
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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