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La misura dell’autoefficacia nella gestione delle emozioni positive negli adolescenti. Un contributo alla validazione del PSEMPAQ
No full textSocial Dominance Orientation and Perceived Similarity modulate the attracting power of the gaze of politicians on their electors. An fMRI study
No full textAlthough automatic, gaze-following (GF) behavior has found to be modulated by the interaction between the ideology of the onlooker and the political affiliation of the observed model. Here, we investigated the neural correlates of in-group political affiliation using a GF paradigm. During fMRI scanning, right- and left-wing participants were requested to make saccadic movements with respect the instruction given by a central fixation point (FP). The FP was located on the face of Italian political leaders (Berlusconi, Bersani) or either opinion-makers (Vespa, Floris) (respectively of a centre-right or centre-left coalition) and gazing at the same (congruent) or different (incongruent) location. After scanning, we acquired a measure of personality Perceived Similarity and a Social Dominance Orientation (SDO) score for each participant. In keeping with our previous findings, behavioral data showed higher interference for in-group more than out-group political affiliation in right wing participants. Furthermore, the SDO scores predicted this in-group effect. The analysis of the Incongruence-related BOLD signal (IE: incongruent>congruent) revealed a significant activation of left Frontal Eye Field, right Supra-Marginal Gyrus (rSMG) and right Middle Cingulate Cortex (rMCC). ROI analysis showed that the in-group vs. out-group Perceived Similarity score predicted rSMG and rMCC activations associated with the IE of in-group. In other words, participants perceiving themselves as ‘similar to in-group’ demonstrated greater engagement of rSMG and rMCC as a function of IE for in-group personage. Finally, we found an interaction between SDO and the group in predicting the rSMG activity for the IE of in-group v. out-group personage
How people feel about their job: effects of regulatory mode on positivity and job satisfaction (Como se sienten las personas sobre su trabajo?: los efectos del modo regulatorio en la positividad y la satisfaccion laboral)
No full textThe main goal of the present study was to analyse the effects of regulatory modes (i.e., assessment and locomotion) on both positivity and job satisfaction. Furthermore, we explored the mediating role of positivity in the relationship between regulatory modes and job satisfaction. In order to test our hypotheses, we recruited employees (N = 563) from 8 Italian organizations, and obtained their individual (a) scores on the Regulatory Mode Scale, (b) ratings of positivity, and (c) overall job satisfaction. Two separate moderated multiple regression analyses were run to test the main effect and the interactions of the regulatory modes on the two outcome measures. In line with our hypotheses, the results revealed that assessment negatively predicted both positivity and job satisfaction, whereas locomotion positively predicted those variables. Furthermore, the results showed that employees showing a specific self-regulation pattern (i.e., the combination of high assessment and low locomotion) experienced lower positivity and lower job satisfaction. Finally, using a mediated moderation analysis, it was found that the relationship between regulatory modes and job satisfaction was significantly mediated by positivity
Determinantes psicosociales de la satisfacción con la vida: un análisis comparativo entre Bolivia e Italia/ Psychosocial determinants of satisfaction with life: a comparative analysis in Bolivia and Italy
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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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