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Is “Unconsummated Marriage” still an appropriate term? A snapshot of reality
Full text linkThe most shared definition of Unconsummated Marriage (UM) refers to “the failure to perform successful sexual intercourse at the beginning of
the marriage. UM usually occurs in the first few nights of marriage and so it is frequently referred to as “honeymoon impotence” or “wedding night
impotence”. In the Middle-Eastern (MES) and Western (WS) societies, sexuality follows different patterns in terms of meaning and rules. Moreover
the evolution of societies all around the world created new contexts and kinds of relationship. This could hamper a correct taxonomy of such sexual
dysfunction where a social variable seems crucial.
Aim: To analyze and review data on UM all around the world, to understand if in different societies it refers to the same situation.
Method: A review of published literature on UM from 1970 to date, was conducted.
Results: Substantial difference emerged from MES to WS. In MES, sexuality is allowable only in marriage, while in WS sexuality and relationship are
not strongly linked. This could suggest that the term “marriage” is unable to cover the phenomenon in such different countries. Moreover, the average
time before the consultation, causal attribution and prevalence are very different in Western and Middle Eastern countries.
Conclusion: We found that the term “first attempts dysfunction” could be better used to describe male, female or both difficulties related to
ignorance about sexuality or state/performance anxiety. On the other hand over the individual category of sexual dysfunctions, we suggest a new term
as “Unconsummated relationship”, where individual difficulties toward sexuality are involved creating a couple’s dysfunction.
Keywords: Unconsummated marriage; Honeymoon impotence; White marriage; Vaginismus; Infertilit
Verso una tassonomia più precisa delle diverse condizioni incluse nei termini “Matrimonio Bianco” o “Matrimonio non consumato"
No full textIntroduzione ed obiettivi:
Il termine “matrimonio bianco” (MB) o “matrimonio non consumato” si riferisce ad una serie di situazioni molto diverse fra loro in termini sia di durata, da poche ore ad anni, sia di eziologia, organica, psicologica, femminile, maschile o di entrambi, sia ancora di contesto sociale in cui si verifica, dalle società più libere in ambito sessuale a
quelle più normative in cui i rapporti sessuali sono ammessi solo all’interno del matrimonio. Inoltre, il contesto sociale sempre più multiculturale, pone i clinici di fronte a nuove sfide mettendo in evidenza la necessità di una tassonomia più precisa e specifica, nei casi come il MB in cui gli aspetti culturali sono centrali.
L’obiettivo del presente lavoro è quello di raccogliere e analizzare i dati in letteratura sul MB, per individuare la terminologia più adatta a descrivere, nelle diverse situazioni non solo l’impossibilità del rapporto, ma anche le caratteristiche eziologiche temporali e culturali, in modo da favorire una comunicazione più efficace fra professionisti
degli ambiti medici, psicologici e sociali.
Materiali e metodi
Attraverso i server PUBMED, Psych-article e Psych-info, è stata condotta una revisione della letteratura pubblicata sul MB relativa a diverse aree del mondo. Risultati
L’analisi dei diversi casi di MB ha confermato la variabilità delle condizioni ricadenti in questa categoria. I maggiori elementi di distinzione sono risultati: “il tempo prima della consultazione”, da un giorno nei paesi mediorientali a una media di 5 anni nei paesi occidentali; “l’eziologia”, dallo spettro ansioso a quello fobico e “il contesto culturale di
riferimento”, dalle società più libere a quelle fortemente normative.
Conclusioni
Le differenze emerse dalle analisi suggeriscono che le variabili considerate (tempo prima della consultazione, eziologia
e contesto culturale di riferimento) possono essere utilizzate efficacemente per individuare condizioni diverse con peculiari necessità e strategie di intervento.
In tal senso abbiamo trovato che il termine "Disfunzione erettile nei primi tentativi di coito” potrebbe descrivere meglio le disfunzioni derivanti da difficoltà maschili relative ad ansia da prestazione e/o ignoranza sulla sessualità, e che, "Relazione non consumata" potrebbe descrivere meglio le situazioni in cui delle difficoltà tendenzialmente stabili, come la DE, l’ EP severa o il vaginismo, sono coinvolte nella creazione di una disfunzione sessuale di coppia
Italian Versions of the 12-Item Sexual Distress Scale (SDS) and the 5-Item Sexual Distress Scale-Short Form (SDS-SF): Psychometric Properties
No full textThe study aimed to analyze the psychometric properties of the Italian versions of the 12-item Sexual Distress Scale (SDS) and the 5-item Sexual Distress Scale-Short Form (SDS-SF). A total sample of 2291 adults (1361 women, 930 men) participated through a web survey completing the SDS, the FSFI, the IIEF, the PANAS and the SCL-90-R. The results supported the adequacy of both the SDS and SDS-SF factor structures, good reliability (respectively, alpha = .96 and .92), discriminant validities and strong associations with satisfaction, fear, depression, and psychoticism. SDS and SDS-SF may facilitate the assessment of sexual distress for both clinical and research purposes
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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