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A Latent Class Analysis of Male Perpetrated Intimate Partner Violence: Associations With Emotion Regulation and Heavy Episodic Drinking
No full textMen’s perpetration of intimate partner violence (IPV) is an exigent public health crisis. Considerable research has been conducted to understand the etiology and risk factors associated with male-perpetrated IPV, such as emotion regulation (ER) and heavy episodic drinking (HED). Traditionally, research examining the relationship between evidenced-based predictors and IPV have used variable-oriented approaches. More recent advances in statistical methods now offer opportunities to take person-centered approaches to that can further augment how researchers conceptualize male-perpetrated IPV. Namely, such methods will enhance researcher’s understanding of the heterogenous nature of men’s perpetration of IPV and how these subgroups may differ in evidence-based predictors such as ER an HED. Little research has examined the relationships between the heterogenous nature of men’s IPV perpetration, ER, and HED. AS such the current study aims to address this gap in the literature through the use of latent class analysis. The current data comes from a larger study that aimed to examine the relationship between alcohol intoxication and IPV between heterosexual couples. A final sample of 330 men’s data were used in the current study, which consisted of their responses to measures of IPV perpetration, ER, and frequency of engaging in HED. Latent class analysis was suggestive of a three-profile solution, representing a low likelihood, moderate, and high likelihood classes. Further these groups were found to have significant differences in ER and HED, where the high likelihood class exhibited more ER deficits and engaged in more HED than the other two classes. The moderate class also displayed more ER deficits and engaged in more HED than the low likelihood class. The current study further adds to the growing literature that is suggestive of the heterogenous nature of men’s IPV perpetration. Further given the differences in these classes in ER and HED, prevention or intervention programs may want to consider tailoring their program to classes different needs.Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)Psycholog
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
Distraction Attenuates the Association between Trait Disinhibition and Reactive Physical Aggression
Full text linkResearch has implicated biased attention allocation as a proximal mechanism in the association between trait disinhibition and physical aggression. The current study tested a laboratory-based intervention manipulation that targets this putative cognitive mechanism by incentivizing a shift of attention from a provoking stimulus to a neutral stimulus during a laboratory aggression paradigm. Participants were 119 undergraduate men. The sum/difference method of hierarchical linear regression indicated that distraction from strong emotional stimuli attenuated the association between trait disinhibition and reactive physical aggression. This study is the first to provide experimental evidence of (a) the relation between trait disinhibition and reactive physical aggression, and (b) a potential method for attenuating this association. These findings contribute to the broader literature by supporting biased attention allocation toward emotional cues as a mechanism for the relation between trait disinhibition and a variety of risk-taking behavior.Master of Arts (MA)Psycholog
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
Perceptions of Sexual Minoritized Women’s Sexual Orientation and Masculine Gender Expression as Predictors of their Experience of Enacted Stigma and Problematic Drinking
Full text linkMinority Stress Theory posits that health disparities, such as the disproportionate development of problematic drinking, among sexual minoritized people are attributable to lifelong, experienced stressors such as enacted stigma. Researchers have examined downstream processes of stigma (i.e., what happens after stigma is experienced); however, there is little research on upstream processes (i.e., what leads to the experience of stigma in the first place). The present study sought to examine perception accuracy and perceived masculine gender expression as potential antecedents to experienced stigma and resultant problematic drinking among sexual minoritized women. Two samples of participants were recruited: 180 cisgender sexual minoritized and heterosexual women “targets” and 75 cisgender heterosexual men and women “raters.” Results indicated perception accuracy and perceived masculine gender expression were not significantly related to enacted stigma or problematic drinking. However, in accordance with Minority Stress Theory, greater experience of enacted stigma was associated with greater problematic drinking.Master of Arts (MA)Psycholog
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
“Writing all this is helping me justify my plan and to see the futility of continuing:” An Exploratory Study on the Use of Neutralization Techniques in Incel Manifestos
Full text link“Incels”, or involuntary celibates, are a self-described, largely anonymous online community of men who embrace and promote a deeply misogynistic worldview. This study explored how Incels use “neutralization techniques” (first identified in research by Sykes and Matza, 1957) through a thematic analysis of Incel manifestos, personal diaries, online blogs, and police interviews. Analysis revealed that violent Incels use a variety of neutralization techniques to justify their crimes. Entitlement was found to be the biggest rationale behind their views and actions. A new theme also emerged from the data centered around the belief that life is futile and nothing can improve their lives. This study has the potential to help us understand the psychological procedures that allow Incels to mobilize to violence and can help us assemble a more comprehensive picture of their worldview and psychology.Master of Arts (MA)Psycholog
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