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Life satisfaction linked to different independence-from-parents conditions in Italian emerging adults
Full text linkThe transition toward adulthood in Italy lasts longer than in other countries with respect to living with the family of origin, starting work, and gaining economic independence. This study aimed to analyse the transition to adulthood in Italian youths by exploring these developmental tasks. The first aim was to analyse gender and age differences in these developmental tasks. Given that these tasks are not necessarily achieved at the same time, the second aim was to establish if it might be possible to identify different clusters of individuals according to their residential, economic and employment conditions. The third aim was to explore life satisfaction in different clusters. 191 Italian emerging adults (65 males) aged 20–30 years (M = 24.40) completed the Satisfaction with Life Scale and a specific questionnaire assessing residential independence, economic autonomy, and job stability. Results showed no gender differences in the three developmental tasks. However, older participants reported a higher level of independence. Cluster analysis identified three different groups: ‘totally dependent’, ‘partially independent’ and ‘totally independent’ from parental family, differently composed in terms of partnering. These groups do not differ in life satisfaction levels. Results are discussed focusing on different independence-from-parents conditions that characterize Italian emerging adults
Proprietà psicometriche della versione Italiana del Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire: dati preliminari
No full textLa fusione cognitiva è uno dei processi chiave del modello ACT. Il Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire (CFQ; Gillanders et al., 2014) è un questionario self-report sviluppato per misurarla. Nel presente studio si indaga la struttura fattoriale, la consistenza interna, la validità di costrutto e incrementale della versione italiana del CFQ. 158 soggetti sono stati reclutati dalla popolazione generale e, oltre alla versione italiana del CFQ, hanno compilato una batteria di questionari per misurare costrutti relazionati (tendenza a sopprimere pensieri indesiderati, evitamento esperienziale e inflessibilità attentiva) e variabili di outcome (depressione, ansia e soddisfazione di vita). Gli item della versione italiana riflettono una struttura fattoriale unidimensionale e una buona consistenza interna. Alti livelli di fusione si associano moderatamente ad alti livelli di depressione e ansia e a bassa soddisfazione di vita. Tutte le correlazioni sono statisticamente significative, quelle tra fusione e i costrutti relazionati vanno nella direzione sperata, oscillano fra moderate e forti e sono statisticamente significative. Il contributo del CFQ per spiegare le variabili di outcome -dopo che gran parte della varianza è stata spiegata dai costrutti relazionati - è statisticamente significativo (eccetto in due delle tre equazioni che predicono soddisfazione di vita), con incrementi della varianza spiegata tra il 2% e il 14%. I risultati, in linea con la letteratura, supportano la struttura unidimensionale, consistenza interna, validità di construtto e incrementale del CFQ e suggeriscono la versione italiana come strumento utile per misurare la fusione cognitiva nella popolazione generale italiana
Psychometric properties of the Adult Autism Subthreshold Spectrum (AdAS Spectrum: A study with a non-clinical sample
No full textIntroduction: The Adult Autism Subthreshold Spectrum (AdAS Spectrum; Dell’Osso et al., 2017) has been developed to assess the wide spectrum of autistic-like clinical and non-clinical features in adults. Nevertheless, its psychometric properties have been analyzed with clinical individuals until now. This study was aimed at investigating the dimensionality, reliability, and validity of the instrument in a non-clinical sample. Method: Participants were 395 Spanish undergraduated students (60% males; mean age of 21.1 years, SD = 2.6), who completed the AdAS Spectrum, the Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ), and the Empathy Quotient (EQ). Results: A confirmatory factor analysis supported the seven-factor structure of the questionnaire. Internal consistency was excellent for the total score and acceptable for five factors. Test-retest reliability over a 4-week period was good. Higher AdAS Spectrum scores significantly correlated with higher AQ and lower EQ scores, supporting the validity of the scale. Conclusion: Overall, findings support the psychometric properties of the AdAS in a non-clinical sample. Future research is warranted to further examine the psychometric properties of the scale in the general population
The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire-7: Measurement invariance of the Italian version across general and clinical samples
No full textIntroduction: According to the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), cognitive fusion (CF) refers to the tendency to get caught up in the content of thoughts so that it dominates over other sources of behavioral regulation such as contextual contingences. Rigid forms of CF take a central role in the development and maintenance of psychopathology. The Cognitive Fusion Questionnaire – 7 items (CFQ-7; Gillanders et al., 2014) is the most widely used tool to assess CF. Several studies have attested its good psychometric properties in different cultures. The aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties of the Italian version of CFQ-7 by confirming its characteristics in terms of dimensionality, reliability, and invariance across general and clinical samples. Method: The general sample was composed of 258 university students (70% females, mean age = 24.30, SD = 10.01), and the clinical sample consisted in 107 university students (61% females, mean age = 23.82, SD = 3.04) who were affected by clinical levels of psychological distress according to the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS). Both the samples attended the School of Psychology of the University of Pisa. Results: the unidimensional structure was confirmed (CFI=.98, TLI=.97, RMSEA=.06) in the general sample, and the internal consistency reliability estimate was .88 (95% CI [.85 - .90]). Invariance of the factor structure across the general and clinical group was obtained, by reaching the level of measurement residuals equivalence. Conclusions: Findings showed that the CFQ-7 can be adequately used to measure CF in research and clinical settings in the Italian populatio
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
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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