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The role of affects and emotional styles in the relationship between parents and preschool children
No full textEvidenze di efficacia del Metodo MExTE
No full textIntroduzione. Il riconoscimento del ruolo centrale delle emozioni dell’insegnante nella vita scolastica suggerisce lo sviluppo di attività di formazione centrate sul benessere e la competenza socio-emotiva di questo professionista. Presentiamo le prime evidenze di efficacia del “MExTE”, un corso di formazione di 20 ore rivolto ad insegnanti di scuola primaria e media, finalizzato a potenziare la loro competenza socio-emotiva. L’azione è stata supportata economicamente dal Piano Educativo Zonale della Zona Pistoiese (a.s. 2015-2016, 2016-2017). Metodo. Lo stile emotivo degli insegnanti verso le emozioni dei bambini ed il livello di autoefficacia come socializzatori emotivi sono stati misurati con il Crèche Educator Emotional Styles Questionnaire-CEESQ (Ciucci, Baroncelli, e Toselli, 2015). Risultati. Analisi test-retest nei due gruppi di insegnanti (sperimentale=14; controllo=14) hanno rivelato effetti modesti ma significativi: lo stile coaching (accettazione e sostegno delle emozioni degli alunni) rimane stabile nel gruppo sperimentale mentre diminuisce nel controllo. Lo stile dismissing (rifiuto delle emozioni degli alunni) aumenta nel gruppo di controllo ma non subisce modifiche nel gruppo sperimentale. La self-efficacy come socializzatore emotivo aumenta significativamente nel gruppo sperimentale. Conclusioni. Queste prime evidenze su dati parziali suggeriscono che il metodo “MExTE” appare una via promettente per sostenere la competenza emotiva negli insegnanti
The unique and interactive effects of callous-unemotional traits and internalizing emotion problems in the association to adolescents' generalized problematic Internet use
No full textThe present study was realized to explore the unique and interactive effects of callous-unemotional traits (i.e., CU traits) and internalizing emotion problems in the association to generalized problematic Internet use (i.e., GPIU). 608 community sample adolescents (272 girls, mean age = 16.70 years, DS = 1.66 years) were recruited. Unique positive associations between CU traits and GPIU and between internalizing emotion problems and GPIU emerged. Moreover, these associations were qualified by a significant interaction term between CU traits and internalizing emotion problems: CU traits were positively associated to GPIU in adolescents high (vs. low) in internalizing emotion problems. In other terms, the likeability to have high levels of GPIU was quite low in adolescents low in internalizing emotion problems, irrespectively of their level of CU traits; in contrast, adolescent students high in internalizing emotion problems showed higher levels of GPIU if they were also high on CU traits. These preliminary results allow us to speculate that there may be different patterns to GPIU in adolescence, with individuals high in both CU traits and internalizing emotion problems (i.e., the so-called secondary variant of CU traits) presenting cumulative risk factors for the development of an unhealthy approach to the use of the Internet medium
The boundaries between personal life and professional role: a proposal to apply some principles of the Structural Family Therapy by Salvador Minuchin to teachers
No full textThe aim of the present study was to apply some principles of the Structural Family Therapy by Salvador Minuchin to teachers. Specifically, we considered the teacher as a system consisting of two communicating subsystems - one pertaining to personal characteristics and skills, and one pertaining to characteristics and skills related to the professional role - and we explored the boundaries between personal life and professional role, proposing the existence of three types of boundaries that are in line with the original classification by Minuchin: rigid, diffuse, and clear. Moreover, through a semi-structured interview, we conducted an initial empirical investigation about the perception and the representation of the boundaries between personal life and professional role in a sample of 9 kindergarten, primary, and middle school teachers (M professional experience = 16.33 years, SD = 9.60 years). The emerged results, even if limited in number, encouraged the development of further dimensional assessment strategies, as well as the development of training courses on teachers' emotional and relational competence in which they can reflect on the importance of clear boundaries that allow an adaptive exchange of information between personal and professional areas
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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