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No full textThe role of reasoning processes and identity formation in decision making styles
No full textFollowing Berzonsky’s socio-constructivist model, literature on identity formation has focused on its psychosocial correlates in terms of reasoning processes and decision styles in late adolescence and youth. For instance, Berzonsky and Ferrari (1996) analyzed the relationships between identity styles and decision processes styles: informational-oriented individuals relied on a vigilant decisional strategy, normative-oriented individuals adopted an automatic strategy in problem solving, and diffuseavoidant-oriented individuals were characterized by a pre-decisional panic, low cognitive confidence, procrastination, and maladaptive decisional strategies such as avoidance or excuse making. Recently, Ber- zonsky et al. (2013) investigated the association between identity formation and cognitive processes, i.e., intuitive and rational, according to Epstein et al.’s dual model (1996), showing that the informational style was positively associated with rational and intuitive reasoning; the normative style was positively correlated with intuitive reasoning processes; and the diffuse-avoidant style was associated negatively with intuition. In the light of these results and given the limited inves- tigations exploring simultaneously these constructs, the main goal of the present study was to assess the interrelationships between identity formation, reasoning processes and decision-making styles. 405 school and university students (Mage = 19.82, F = 366) completed a questionnaire including socio-demographic section, Identity Style Inventory 5, Rational-Experiential Multimodal Inventory, and Gen-eral Decision Making Style Inventory. Findings from structural equation modeling showed that the hypothesized model fit data well, χ2 = 549.85 gdl = 281, p < .05, SRMR = .06, CFI = .92, RMSEA = .05. In other words, informational and diffuse- avoidant styles played a mediational role on the relationship between reasoning processes and decision-making styles
Perchè occuparsi della morte?
No full textIl volume si propone di esplorare, dalla prospettiva sociologica, il tema della morte. Della morte ci si accorge solo in pochi e partico- lari momenti, mentre lo speciale momento storico favorisce lo svilup- po di una rinnovata riflessione su tale evento, tornato prepotentemen- te alla ribalta. Gli scritti affrontano il tema assumendo che la morte è sì un fatto biologico, ma anche un’esperienza fortemente interconnessa con le rappresentazioni socioculturali caratteristiche dell’hic et nunc di ogni società. I contributi, poi, osservano la morte da specifiche ango- lazioni come il rapporto con la fine della vita dei dolenti nelle relazio- ni di cura, il trapasso dei migranti, la morte al tempo dei social media e la dimensione rituale del decesso che delineano il variegato orizzon- te culturale di tale evento
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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