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Pobre, submissa e trapaceira: representações sociais de mulher cigana no Brasil e na Itália
No full textEm diferentes contextos e nacionalidades, como Brasil e Itália, inúmeros episódios de banimento e práticas discriminatórias contra integrantes da etnia cigana têm sido verificados, fortalecendo as relações de conflito entre os universos cigano e não cigano. Conhecer a dinâmica constitutiva de tal campo representacional apresenta-se como importante questão a ser explorada para fins de promoção de políticas públicas e programas de intervenção. Espera-se que os resultados gerados possam auxiliar na desmistificação dos estereótipos negativos largamente difundidos no pensamento social hegemônico, núcleo de preconceito e de discriminação social contra essa etnia
Child Well-Being Scales (CWBS) in the assessment of families and children in home-care intervention: an empirical study
No full textThis paper reports research carried out in Italy designed to investigate the usability of Child Well-Being Scale (CWBS) for the outcome evaluation of home-care interventions for vulnerable families and children in need. Using a pre- and post-test design, the study traces the changes in 18 vulnerable families and 23 children in need included in a programme of home-care intervention over a period of 11 months. All the families and children were assessed twice: at intake and at the end of the intervention (after 6 months). Furthermore, 10 families and 11 children had a longer intervention and were assessed three times. Moreover, two focus groups involving 13 home-care workers and 11 face-to-face interviews were used to collect practitioners' points of views on CWBS.
The results generally support the idea that families' and children's situation improved over time, as shown by an improvement in almost all of the considered dimensions after 6 months and after 11 months. Specifically, the families improved more on household adequacy in the long term while children on the child performance dimension improved in the short term.
Practitioners reported that CWBS was an aid to multi-professional decision-making, as the systematic evaluation of the subscales was a practical base upon which to activate shared decision-making during the casework
Social Representations of the War in Italy during the Russia/Ukraine Conflict
Full text linkSocial representations of the war, anchored in historical experience and cultural values, play a mo-tivational role in justifying collective behavior. Following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the re-search delves into the meanings associated with war through a social representation approach. Employing Doise’s sociodynamic approach, researchers identify the semantic field linked with war and analyze its organizing principles, revealing the variability of representations. In total, 313 Ital-ian participants (female = 241, 75.4%; age range = 18–74) completed a questionnaire featuring a free association task with the word “war”, providing demographic and political and religious ori-entation data. Lexical correspondence analysis, utilizing Spad-t software, highlights three polarized themes: the emotional dimension aroused by war, media-conveyed imagery, and the underlying causes of conflict. The social anchoring analysis projects variables such as gender and political ori-entation onto a factorial plane. Finally, cluster analysis dissects psychological anchoring, identify-ing four distinct groups characterized by their descriptions of war: effects, reasons, emotions, and images. Theoretical and practical implications are discussed
sj-sav-1-pac-10.1177_18344909231170097 - Supplemental material for COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-sav-1-pac-10.1177_18344909231170097 for COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey by Monica Pivetti, Francesca-Giorgia Paleari, Irem Ertan, Silvia Di Battista and Esra Ulukök in Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology</p
sj-sav-2-pac-10.1177_18344909231170097 - Supplemental material for COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey
No full textSupplemental material, sj-sav-2-pac-10.1177_18344909231170097 for COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccinations: A conceptual replication study in Turkey by Monica Pivetti, Francesca-Giorgia Paleari, Irem Ertan, Silvia Di Battista and Esra Ulukök in Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology</p
An exploration of social representations of the Roma woman in Italy and Brazil: Psychosocial anchoring to emotional reactions
Full text linkThis study investigates the content of the system of representations of Roma women as they emerge from a free-association task, collected from a sample of university students in Italy and Brazil. Available data on the situation of Roma women show that they experience greater social exclusion than the Roma men and the women of the majority community, especially in accessing employment, education, health and social services. The sample consists of 643 participants (mean age 22.9), 50.4% of whom are Italians and 74.3% female. Data were collected via a free-association task, the prompt word being “Gypsy woman”. SPAD-T software ran a lexical correspondence analysis, extracting two factors. We defined the first axis: “The mysterious Roma woman vs. The Outcast Roma woman”, and the second axis: “The seer Roma woman vs. Different sides of Roma woman”. Moreover, psychosocial anchoring to the emotional reactions towards Roma people was studied, showing how different groups of individuals, characterized by specific emotional reactions to Roma people, were attuned to certain social representations of the Roma woman. The implications of these results are discussed in terms of the role played by Roma women in traditional Roma and western societies
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
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