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Parent Dispositional Mindfulness and its Links to Adolescent Disclosure, Mother-Adolescent Conflict, and Adolescent Hostile Attribution Bias
Get PDFMindfulness, defined as the nonjudgmental awareness of and attention towards present experience, has become a popular subject of research in recent years. Higher mindfulness levels have been linked to a number of positive correlates, including lower stress and effective coping skills (e.g. Weinstein, Brown, Ryan, 2009). Despite increasing attention on the link between mindfulness and its impact on parenting, there is a shortage of literature focusing on the indirect pathways by which this link is facilitated. The goal of this thesis was to examine the indirect link between parents’ mindfulness and their adolescent children’s disclosure, mother-adolescent conflict, and adolescents’ hostile attribution bias. Mediating parent factors considered were parental stress, adolescent perceptions of parents’ perspective taking, and parental perceptions of balanced control over caregiving failure. Adolescents between the ages of 9.5 and 12 and their mothers and fathers participated in this study (N = 127). First, path analysis was used to test the links between mothers’ mindfulness and both adolescent children’s disclosure and mother-adolescent conflict, through mothers’ stress and perspective taking. Results indicated that mindful mothers experienced lower levels of stress, which was related to greater perspective taking as seen by their adolescent children. In turn, greater adolescent-perceived maternal perspective taking was related to both adolescents’ greater disclosure to mothers and lower mother-adolescent conflict intensity. Second, using mediation, mothers’ and fathers’ mindfulness were tested for their links to their adolescent children’s hostile attribution bias through their perceptions of balanced control over caregiving failure. Results indicated that neither mothers’ nor fathers’ perceived balance of control over caregiving failure mediated between their mindfulness and their adolescent children’s hostile attribution bias. My thesis results suggest that mothers’ mindfulness may be related to their stress level, which is associated with mother-adolescent relationship quality. However, the present results are limited, and further investigation of father characteristics and longitudinal methods are required.Ph.D
Parent Dispositional Mindfulness and its Links to Adolescent Disclosure, Mother-Adolescent Conflict, and Adolescent Hostile Attribution Bias
No full textMindfulness, defined as the nonjudgmental awareness of and attention towards present experience, has become a popular subject of research in recent years. Higher mindfulness levels have been linked to a number of positive correlates, including lower stress and effective coping skills (e.g. Weinstein, Brown, Ryan, 2009). Despite increasing attention on the link between mindfulness and its impact on parenting, there is a shortage of literature focusing on the indirect pathways by which this link is facilitated. The goal of this thesis was to examine the indirect link between parents’ mindfulness and their adolescent children’s disclosure, mother-adolescent conflict, and adolescents’ hostile attribution bias. Mediating parent factors considered were parental stress, adolescent perceptions of parents’ perspective taking, and parental perceptions of balanced control over caregiving failure. Adolescents between the ages of 9.5 and 12 and their mothers and fathers participated in this study (N = 127). First, path analysis was used to test the links between mothers’ mindfulness and both adolescent children’s disclosure and mother-adolescent conflict, through mothers’ stress and perspective taking. Results indicated that mindful mothers experienced lower levels of stress, which was related to greater perspective taking as seen by their adolescent children. In turn, greater adolescent-perceived maternal perspective taking was related to both adolescents’ greater disclosure to mothers and lower mother-adolescent conflict intensity. Second, using mediation, mothers’ and fathers’ mindfulness were tested for their links to their adolescent children’s hostile attribution bias through their perceptions of balanced control over caregiving failure. Results indicated that neither mothers’ nor fathers’ perceived balance of control over caregiving failure mediated between their mindfulness and their adolescent children’s hostile attribution bias. My thesis results suggest that mothers’ mindfulness may be related to their stress level, which is associated with mother-adolescent relationship quality. However, the present results are limited, and further investigation of father characteristics and longitudinal methods are required.Ph.D
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
English Canadian stereotyping of ethnic groups: The implications of warmth and competence stereotypes for intergroup affect, behaviour and attitudes
Get PDFThis study examined the stereotypes, affect, behaviours and attitudes held by 167 English Canadian university students toward 16 ethnic groups. Participants completed a questionnaire which assessed their perceptions of each group’s competence and warmth (derived from the Stereotype Content Model; Fiske et al., 2002), affective and behavioural reactions toward each group (derived from the Behaviors and Intergroup Affect from Stereotypes Map; Cuddy et al., 2007), acculturation attitudes with regards to each ethnic group, as well as a measure of their general attitude toward immigration. Cluster analyses indicated that English Canadians, Ukrainians, Italians, British, and Germans were regarded as highly competent and warm, Korean and Chinese immigrants as competent but less warm, and Jamaican, Filipino and East Indian immigrants as warm, but less competent. Moderately low competence, low warmth stereotypes were given to a mix of ethnic groups, including Mexicans, Somalis, Pakistanis, Iranians, and French Canadians. Aboriginals were stereotyped as least competent and least warm. Generally, stronger stereotypes of competence and warmth were associated with greater support of immigration and more positive emotional and behavioural reactions toward the ethnic group, but these associations varied by cluster. Consistent with previous research, path analyses suggested that emotional reactions predicted behavioural reactions. For the acculturation attitudes, only a negative relationship between the multiculturalism orientation and passive harm could be found. These results suggest avenues for studying the different patterns of discrimination that ethnic minorities experience in intercultural settings
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
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