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The Career Pattern of Ndea Elementary School Counselors
No full textThe focus of the study is on the 13-year career pattern of the individuals who were trained as elementary school counselors in 1965-67 under the National Defense Education Act at the University of Illinois. Also, the study is an attempt to provide information as to whether the intent of the federally-funded training program was accomplished. The major questions are as follows: (1) What was the nature of career pattern development of the subjects after training? How many times did they change occupations? (2) Were there any relationships between parents' education and occupation and those of the subjects? (3) Was there any relationship between age and mobility? (4) Had there been discrimination barriers in getting hired? (5) What were the elements of satisfaction and dissatisfaction for school counselors and those who left counseling? (6) What were the commonalities and differences between subjects on their scholastic aptitude, interest and personality tests?The sample was composed of 46 subjects from a population of 60 NDEA participants. The Career Pattern Questionnaire, an instrument developed by the researcher, and the Miller Analogies Test (MAT), Strong Vocational Interest Blank (SVIB), and Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) were the primary data sources used in the study. The subjects were classified into sub-groups on the bases of current job, education level, and entry or non-entry to elementary school counseling. Chi-square and analysis of variance, ANOVA, were used to analyze the data.The results indicate that 65 percent of the subjects entered elementary counseling following preparation. Some of them switched to other occupations in the last 13 years. Of those 30 entry individuals, 8 remained as elementary counselors, 3 re-entered teaching, 9 switched to occupations related to counseling, and 10 became administrators. Sixteen individuals earned additional degrees after the Institute. Most of those with doctoral degrees switched to the university setting.Over time there was less mobility for the elementary school counselors because there was a greater congruency between job expectation and job satisfaction. There was no relationship between age and occupational mobility, the level of schooling of parents, their occupation and those of the subjects. Sex, age and race were barriers for subjects in getting hired. For counselors, the opportunity to enter people's lives, help them to solve problems, and have contact with children and parents were important factors of satisfaction. Those who left counseling were dissatisfied with varied administrative demands, the lack of understanding, lack of support, and finally, working conditions.There were no aptitude differences between sub-groups, but some interest and personality differences were found. Those who entered elementary counseling following preparation, and those who did not enter, differed on the SVIB Psychologist, Veterinarian, and Specialization level and on the MMPI Hysteria (Hy) scale. Elementary counselors, administrators, and those in occupations related to counseling differed on the SVIB Psychologist and Specialization level, and on the MMPI Masculinity-Feminity (MF). Those who earned an additional degree, and those who did not earn one, differed on the SVIB Physician, Osteopath, and Purchasing Agent and on the MMPI Lie (L) and Paranoia (Pa) scales. Those who responded and those who did not respond to the study differed on SVIB Industrial Teacher, Vocational Teacher, CPA, Sales Manager, Advertising Man, and Specialization scales and also on the MMPI Psychopathic (Pd) scale.The research concluded that the number of individuals who were trained as elementary counselors and who committed themselves to the field was minimal. Also it is concluded that the school counseling position was an entry job for many of those individuals who desired to work at the institutional setting.Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-12T19:56:16Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1
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Investigating the Effectiveness of Positivism Group Psychotherapy in Depression, Stress and Anxiety of Dialysis Patients
Get PDFThe aim of conducting this research was to investigate the effectiveness of positivism group psychotherapy in depression, stress and anxiety of dialysis Patients referring to Modarres hospital in Iran. This is a quasi-experimental study with pre- and post-tests. The research sample included 26 patients (13 patients in the experimental and control groups). The patients in the experimental group took part in six weeks of group sessions for one and a half months. The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) was utilized for data collection. The obtained results showed that positivism group psychotherapy is effective n reduction of depression, stress, and anxiety of dialysis patients. Therefore it is recommended that oncologists use the positivism group psychotherapy to reduce depression, stress, and anxiety of dialysis patients
Investigating the Effectiveness of Positivism Group Psychotherapy in Life Expectancy and Psychological Well-Being of Cancer Patients
Get PDFThe aim of conducting this research was to investigate the effectiveness of positivism group psychotherapy in life expectancy and psychological well-being of cancer patients referring to Taleghani hospital in Tehran, Iran. This is a quasi-experimental study with pre- and post-tests. The research sample included 26 patients (13 patients in the experimental and control groups). The patients in the experimental group took part in six weeks of group sessions for one and a half months. The Adult Trait Hope Scale and Ryff’s psychological well-being scale were utilized for data collection. The results showed that positivism group psychotherapy was effective in promoting life expectancy and psychological wellbeing of cancer patients. Therefore it is recommended that oncologists use the positivism group psychotherapy to increase life expectancy and promote psychological well-being of cancer patients
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
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