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The performance evaluation system of the Ministry of labour and social policies: an analysis of inspection activity.
No full textFor several years it has become the practice of Public Administration quality assessment as part of the institutional activities carried out by offices to improve public services by monitoring the produc- tion process. The Ministry of Labour and Social Policies has adopted a system of ‘‘quality assess- ment’’ based on indicators selected as representative of the inspection carried out in decentralized offices. This scoring system – called Project Quality – is defined by three ‘‘synthetic indicators’’ de- termined periodically by the 92 Provincial Labour Directorates (in Italian: Direzioni Provinciali del Lavoro – DPL) operating in the country. It does indeed have a rating system that defines a ranking between the offices. This paper presents the results of the research in order to analytically describe the performance level with a different model and also suggesting the possible influence exerted by the ‘‘local context variables’’, i.e., those relating to the geo-socio-economic differentials, in explain- ing the efficiency of inspection. The data are analyzed according to the variable inspection and lo- cal was formalized through a second-order structural equations model
Rappresentazioni delle relazioni familiari: un contributo metodologico tramite il test del disegno della famiglia.
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The role of cultural factors in differentiating pathological gamblers
No full textIt is recognised that cultural factors play a role in the onset and continuation of several mental health problems. However, there is a significant lack of empirical studies investigating the relationships between cultural factors and gambling behavior. This study assessed whether the subjective cultures through which subjects interpret and enact their experience of the social environment play a major role in increasing (or decreasing) the probability of pathological gambling. Participants, recruited in three different contexts (public health services for the treatment of addiction, casino, undergraduate course) were subjected to the South Oaks Gambling Screen (SOGS) (Lesieur and Blume in Am J Psychiatry 144(9):1184–1188, 1987), in order to identify a group of pathological gamblers—and with the Questionnaire on the Interpretation of the Social Environment (QUISE) (Mossi and Salvatore in Eur J Educ Psychol 4(2):153–169, 2011)—in order to detect their subjective cultures. The study compares pathological group (scoring >5 on SOGS, n = 34) and a healthy control group (scoring <1 on SOGS, n = 35). One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare groups on QUISE scores of subjective culture. Moreover, a logistic regression was applied in order to esteem the capability of the QUISE scores to differentiate between pathological gamblers and control. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that pathological group expresses different subjective cultures compared with no gambler subjects. The theoretical and clinical implications of the results are discussed
Una ricerca sulle relazioni familiari interiorizzate mediante il disegno sulla famiglia
No full textStudied the relation of age, sex, and family member importance using family drawing tests. Human Ss: 5,619 normal male and female Italian school-age children and adolescents (aged 6-13 yrs). Ss were asked to draw a picture of their families. The drawings were evaluated according to age, sex and centrality of Ss, size, sex, age, proportions, perspective, details and identity of family members in the drawing. Statistical tests were used. (English abstract) (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved
Lo sviluppo della psicologia per la scuola. Una ricerca pilota per la rilevazione e l’utilizzo dei giudizi di soddisfazione delle famiglie
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Educational subcultures and dropping out at higher education. A longitudinal case study
No full textThe paper tests longitudinally the hypothesis that educational subcultures in terms of which students interpret their role and their educational setting affect the probability of dropping out of higher education. A logistic regression model was performed to predict drop out at the beginning of the second academic year for the 823 freshmen of a three-year bachelor degree in psychology at an Italian university. The model uses both measures of students' educational subculture and incoming levels of knowledge and skills. The probability of dropping out was used as dependent variable. Results show that the probability of dropping out is significantly associated with students' educational subculture – but not with their incoming level of knowledge and skills. Our results suggest the need to recognize the meaning as a legitimate variable of research and of intervention in the field of educational succes
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