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Centering Parent Voice: Exploring Parents’ Needs and Preferences Using Online Parenting Information
Get PDFParenting is the process of nurturing and fostering the physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development of a child to adulthood and across the lifespan (Brooks, 2012). Parental knowledge of parenting, parental skills, and parental self-efficacy are protective factors for reducing instances of child abuse and neglect (Ridings et al., 2017; Sanders et al., 2018) and promoting children’s emotional, social, and cognitive competencies (National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine [NASEM], 2016). Evidence-based parenting programs (EBPP) have been demonstrated to be effective for producing desired outcomes in well-controlled studies (Olds et al., 2003; Prinz et al., 2009). Program effectiveness in real-world conditions, however, does not achieve the same results. One of the primary challenges is low parental participation rates (Eisner & Meidert, 2011; Heinrichs et al., 2005). Parenting programs will not have their desired impact unless parents participate (Lundahl et al., 2006; Wagner et al., 2000). Potential solutions to enhance parent engagement include gender-specific parenting interventions, incorporating peer support components, and utilizing the internet for online dissemination of parenting interventions. Despite parents’ low participation in parenting programs, parents seem motivated to receive information and support in their parenting roles, as indicated by their behavior on the internet (Baker et al., 2017; Duggan et al., 2015). One approach to explore enhancing parent engagement in parenting programs involves centering the perspective of users (i.e., parents). Specifically, it is possible to observe the nature of parent information seeking and sharing online. While extant studies have delved into parents’ online discourse, their limitations, including sampling constraints and a narrow focus on researcher selected topics, hinder a comprehensive understanding of parents’ diverse needs and interactions online. Informed by human-centered design (HCD) principles, this multi-method dissertation project explored traces of parents’ online behavior to understand their information needs and preferences for engaging with online parenting content utilizing two different approaches. Specifically, this dissertation explored a dataset of parenting posts from 2019-2022 using the computational approach of unsupervised machine learning to identify (a) the nature and prevalence of topics parents discuss online, (b) whether topics differed in mother-centric and father-centric forums, and (c) whether topics changed since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Next, this dissertation examined a dataset of popularized posts and comments (N=180) using qualitative content analysis to explore (a) the content parents popularize on online parenting forums, (b) the types of interactions and emotions present, and (c) whether content and interactions differed in mother-centric and father-centric forums.
This project yielded several key findings across studies. Using computational unsupervised machine learning techniques, the aggregated topic model (N=130,226 posts) revealed the extent to which parent-centered topics, such as postpartum depression/ anxiety and work-family interface were common. Child-centered topics were predominantly related to perinatal care issues. Additionally, there was a modest overlap between the types of topics discussed by parents and those in parenting frameworks and established EBPP. Second, mother-centric and father-centric models produced similar topics related to early childcare and varying topics that might be rooted in gendered differences in parenting roles. Third, although there were similarities between the pre and post-COVID models, the latter highlighted topics, like challenges in parent mental health and child entertainment/education recommendations, that were potentially exacerbated by the pandemic. As for the qualitative content analysis portion of the study, parents shared a range of parenting challenges and successes with a preference for storytelling over explicit advice-seeking. Second, various positive interactions emerged in popularized comments and appear to be providing peer support. Third, users in audience-specific forums (mother-centric and father-centric) had distinct content and interaction styles, highlighting gendered differences in parenting roles.
Examining parents’ discourse and interactions online has multiple implications for research, practice, and policy. Researchers can leverage the observations of parents’ preferred topics and format for future phases of HCD to inform the development and testing of both mixed audience (i.e., tailored to all parents) and audience-specific interventions (i.e., tailored to mothers and fathers separately). Practical implications call for the expansion of services to meet the growing demand for online parenting information and support. Practitioners are encouraged to refine online interventions to focus on parents’ preferred topics, supplement interventions with parent-centered services (i.e., focus on parents’ well-being and capacity to parent), and adopt role-specific peer support models. Finally, policy implications suggest exploring family-friendly policies (e.g., flexible work hours, subsidies for early childcare), advocating for bills that provide child savings accounts for lower/moderate-income families, and improving the funding and access of perinatal education programs to better support expectant parents during the transition into parenthood. Ultimately, this work is intended to inform the development of parent-centered interventions that are engaging and accessible with the overarching goal of promoting child and family well-being
Centering Parent Voice: Exploring Parents’ Needs and Preferences Using Online Parenting Information
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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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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