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Perceptions About How Racism Contributes to the Development of Borderline Personality Disorder
No full textThis dataset contains the raw responses for the open-ended surveys that participants completed that details their demographic information and their responses about emotional vulnerability, environmental invalidation, racism, and Borderline Personality Disorde
Secure Attachment with Parents as a Moderator between Child Sexual Abuse and the Development of Borderline Personality Features
Full text linkThe aim of this study was to examine the association between child sexual abuse (CSA) and borderline personality (BPD) features and examine attachment security with parents as a moderator on that among college women. A total of 453 participants completed the study, of which 29 had experienced CSA. Participants completed a self-report questionnaire measuring a history of CSA and felt stress from it, attachment security measured through attachment anxiety and avoidance and parental bonding, and BPD features. CSA victims showed higher level of BPD features than non-CSA victims. Among CSA victims, attachment insecurity with the mother and BPD features were positively correlated. These findings suggest the importance of clinical interventions that maintain or cultivate secure attachment with the mother after experiencing CSA. Limitations in terms of sample size and construct measurement are discussed
Perceptions about how racism contributes to the development of borderline personality disorder
No full textDue to the high risk and subjective pain associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD), it is important to understand the contributing factors to this disorder in order to mitigate the effects of these factors and treat BPD effectively. Research around the contribution of racism to different mental health disorders has been growing, but to date, no research has examined the effects of racism on the development of BPD. The present study seeks to address this by using Linehan’s (1993) biosocial theory as the theoretical framework. Eleven adult participants who self-identified as people of color and who met the study’s criteria for BPD completed open-ended surveys that inquired about participants’ experiences with emotional vulnerability, environmental invalidation, racism, and borderline personality disorder. Using an exploratory grounded theory approach, two researchers analyzed each of these responses together and co-developed a codebook of axial codes based on chunks of relevant data, or open codes, found within the responses. Once the axial codes were determined, they were grouped into five themes derived from the axial codes. The five themes derived from the data were: emotional vulnerability, invalidation, experiences of racism, consequences of racism, and positive outcomes. Notably, all eleven respondents endorsed experiences within these themes, with the variation among axial codes illuminating the different ways in which racism seems to contribute to the development of BPD. The responses analyzed in this study suggest that racism can be invalidating in several ways. The study provided insight into how different aspects of emotional vulnerability interact with racism and may lead to the development of several BPD symptoms. Though this study is a beginning step in finding empirical support for the theoretical idea that racism contributes to the development of BPD, the qualitative data found in this study suggests associations between different factors within these variables. The suggestion of these associations can provide direction for future research that aims to further understand the association among emotional vulnerability, racism, and BPD, which can eventually inform treatment that addresses and mitigates the effects of racism among people diagnosed with BPD.Psy.D.Includes bibliographical reference
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
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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