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Measuring psychological inflexibility in university students: the Italian version of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for University Students (AAQ-US).
No full textIntroduction: Psychological Inflexibility (PI) has emerged as a useful construct for explaining a broad range of psychological problems and poor academic functioning in university students. However, measures of general PI are not sensitive enough to detect associations of PI with academic outcomes. To address this gap, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire for University Students (AAQ-US) was developed. The AAQ-US measures PI in specific university contexts. This study focused on the adaptation into Italian and validation of the AAQ-US. Methods: Participants were two independent samples of Italian university students (Sample 1: N = 118, 67.8% females; M = 23.21yrs, SD = 5.16; Sample 2: N = 190, 72.1% females, M = 22.71yrs, SD = 3.62). In addition to the AAQ-US, participants completed measures of mental health outcomes and academic functioning. Results: Factor analysis supported the unidimensionality of the scale. Internal consistency was excellent. Higher AAQ-US scores were significantly related to higher general psychological inflexibility, anxiety, depression, and procrastination, and to lower life satisfaction, number of exams passed, and grade average, supporting the convergent and concurrent validity of the questionnaire. Discussion: The AAQ-US also proved incremental validity for predicting both academic and mental health outcomes, above and beyond measures of general psychological inflexibility, even though the effects were stronger for academic outcomes. Findings from this study showed that the Italian version of the AAQ-US is a valid and reliable questionnaire for measuring psychological inflexibility in university contexts
Psychological inflexibility processes in patients with depressive and anxiety disorders.
No full textPI occurs when behavior is rigidly guided by internal events (e.g., thoughts, feelings, memories) rather than personal values or direct contingencies. Six processes have been hypothesized to contribute to PI: experiential avoidance, cognitive fusion, attachment to the conceptualized self, attentional rigidity, lack of values clarity, and actions that are inconsistent with one’s values. This study explored PI processes as transdiagnostic factors relevant to anxiety and depressive disorders. Methods: Participants were psychiatric outpatients with anxiety (n = 51; 68.6% female, Mean age = 34.5 yrs; SD = 15.5) and depressive disorders (n = 49; 61.2% females, Mean age = 40.9, SD = 17) as primary diagnoses, and 87 healthy adults (control group; 64.4% female; Mean age = 37.8 yrs; SD = 17.8). Patients were recruited at the Psychiatric Units of the Santa Chiara Hospital of Pisa (Italy). Participants completed the Multidimensional Psychological Flexibility Inventory. Results: Results from ANCOVA analyses showed that both clinical groups differed from healthy adults in PI processes related to fusion, attachment to conceptualized self, and inactivity/actions that are inconsistent with values, while the differences between the clinical groups in these processes were not statistically significant. Further, depressive patients showed poorer acceptance and attentional abilities when compared to both anxiety and control groups, while patients with anxiety disorders showed more difficulties concerning values when compared to the other comparison groups. Discussion: Findings support different PI processes as transdiagnostic factors for anxiety and depressive disorders. They also suggest some specificities for each diagnostic group that may be relevant for psychological interventions
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
I problemi internalizzanti in adolescenza: ruolo di mediazione dell’Inflessibilità Psicologica all’interno della relazione genitore-figlio
No full textI problemi internalizzanti (i.e., sintomi depressivi, ansiosi e/o somatici) sono molto frequenti durante il periodo dell’adolescenza, in particolar modo nel range di età che va dai 15 ai 19 anni e nel genere femminile. Un importante fattore che è stato visto incrementare il rischio di insorgenza delle difficoltà internalizzanti nei ragazzi è l’Inflessibilità Psicologica degli stessi e dei loro genitori. Ad oggi solo uno studio ha indagato in un campione costituito da coppie genitori-figli la relazione tra Inflessibilità Psicologica dei genitori e/o dei figli e il distress psicologico nei figli. Tuttavia, le ridotte dimensioni del campione e l’utilizzo di una misura di Inflessibilità Psicologica nei genitori specifica per la genitorialità hanno rappresentato dei limiti importanti in tale lavoro.
Il presente studio si pone l’obiettivo di indagare – stratificando per il genere ed utilizzando una misura di Inflessibilità Psicologica generale nei genitori: a) le relazioni tra Inflessibilità Psicologica delle madri e dei figli e le difficoltà internalizzanti degli adolescenti; b) se la relazione tra l’Inflessibilità Psicologica delle madri e i problemi internalizzanti è mediata dall’Inflessibilità Psicologica dei figli.
Hanno partecipato allo studio 81 coppie madri-figli/e, con adolescenti di età compresa tra 14 e 20 anni. Le madri hanno compilato un questionario finalizzato a misurare l’Inflessibilità Psicologica generale, mentre i figli/e hanno compilato due questionari progettati per misurare l’Inflessibilità Psicologica generale e i problemi internalizzanti.
Le analisi di correlazione e di regressione mostrano che l’Inflessibilità Psicologica nelle ragazze (e non nei ragazzi) correla positivamente e predice in modo significativo i problemi internalizzanti. L’Inflessibilità Psicologica nelle madri, invece, non correla e non predice in modo significativo i problemi internalizzanti né nei ragazzi né nelle ragazze. Inoltre – solo nelle figlie femmine – l’Inflessibilità Psicologica nelle madri correla positivamente e in modo significativo con l’Inflessibilità Psicologica nelle adolescenti. Dalle analisi di mediazione, infine, è emerso che l’Inflessibilità Psicologica delle figlie (e non dei figli) media parzialmente l’effetto dell’Inflessibilità Psicologica delle madri sui problemi internalizzanti delle adolescenti. Quindi, la relazione tra l’Inflessibilità Psicologica delle madri e i problemi internalizzanti nelle figlie è mediata parzialmente dall’Inflessibilità Psicologica delle adolescenti. Per quanto riguarda invece i figli maschi, a causa degli ampi intervalli di confidenza – probabilmente dovuti alle ridotte dimensioni del campione – i risultati sono di difficile interpretazione
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
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
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