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La vita è come un romanzo...Teorie implicite del cambiamento evolutivo nei racconti di transizione
No full textLa generazione dei giovani senza lavoro: Transizioni all'età adulta in condizioni di precarietà, disoccupazione e sottoccupazione.
No full textHappy, un-happy story: le emozioni nella transizione scuola-universita'
No full textObiettivo della ricerca è esplorare, nella ricostruzione narrativa del sé, il tono emotivo e le modalità di interpretazione della storia personale dei giovani nella transizione scuola-università.In particolare, assumiamo che la ricostruzione narrativa del sé, per il “disorientamento” che caratterizza questo passaggio (Aleni Sestito, Menna, 2003), possa stimolare narrazioni fortemente connotate da un punto di vista emotivo e caratterizzate dalla rievocazione di analoghe esperienze di turning point del passato. Pertanto ipotizziamo: H1: che le storie di vita, elaborate nel corso della transizione considerata, facciano riferimento a memorie autobiografiche inerenti turning point rievocati dal soggetto per orientarsi;H2: che le storie elaborate alla fine della scuola superiore (tempo 1 della transizione) si caratterizzino per un tono narrativo prevalentemente negativo, e che i turning point rievocati facciano riferimento ad emozioni negative (tristezza/sconforto, preoccupazione/apprensione);H3: che le storie elaborate all'inizio del primo anno di università (tempo 2) si caratterizzino per un tono narrativo prevalentemente positivo e che i turning point rievocati facciano riferimento ad emozioni positive (gioia, eccitazione/entusiasmo)
Rappresentazione di sé e creatività nella prima adolescenza: uno studio sulle differenze di genere
No full textLa ricerca fornisce un contributo agli studi inerenti la relazione tra rappresentazione di sé e creatività nella prima adolescenza. Hanno partecipato alla ricerca 160 soggetti (età media =13 anni) frequentanti l’ultimo anno di scuole medie inferiori della Campania. Sono stati utilizzati due strumenti self-report per la valutazione delle dimensioni della rappresentazione di sé (SPP, Harter 1998) e della creatività (TPC, Williams, 1993). I risultati emersi forniscono un tassello interessante alla comprensione delle relazioni tra le dimensioni considerate. Da un punto di vista generale, sembra che il valore personale globale, cui corrisponde una valutazione positiva della propria persona, oltre che al sentirsi accettati e apprezzati dagli altri, sia legato a caratteristiche personali inerenti le dimensioni della creatività prese in esame
The undefined identity of the young italian:prolonged emerging adulthood in precarious work conditions
No full textThis research explores the trajectories of personal and professional development, focusing on the acquisition of a sense of adulthood by italian emerging adults, who appear to be excluded or at the margins of productive world. The not adequate supply of employment opportunities consistent with the training, in the Italian context, results in new forms of insecurity, unemployment and underemployment. The research aims to identify strategies that could promote interventions for educational institutions according to the new needs brought about by changes in the socio-economic context.
The study refers to the literature on the processes of identity development (Erikson, 1968; March, 1980, Harter, 1988), with particular regard to the commitment making and both the ruminative and active moratorium (Luyckx, Goossens, Soenens, 2006) in emerging adulthood (Arnett, 2000, 2004). It also refers to the narrative identity (Bruner, 1994; Smorti, 1997), and in particular to issues of agency in the autobiographical productions (McAdams, 2004).
The hypothesis is that the peculiar problems of integration in the work context could represent risk factors in emerging adults and inhibit an effective opportunity to consolidate their identity and take on adults' roles and status.
More specifically, we assume that some identity dimensions are important resources for the resolution of developmental tasks inherent the transition to adulthood and the construction of satisfactory career paths. We hypothesize that these could be a sort of identity capital (Côté, 200), that emerging adults could have or not, and that they could invest in the new labor market.
Method
Measures
We have used a narrative approach, focusing on the processes of meaning attribution to first work experiences. In particular, the textual data analysis was focalized on narrative identity (McAdams, 1996, Bauer & McAdams, 2004), investigated by the autobiographical narration of personal experiences of job research of italian emerging adults. We selected 80 stories (autobiographical narratives) from a big stories’ database produced in response to a stimulation of a daily newspaper about the youth labor market in Italy.
Participants
The participants were 80 Italian emerging adults, whose narratives were randomly selected from the general database. They were aged from 25 to 32, they had an high level of post secondary education and were unemployed or occasional workers.
Analysis of textual data
Textual data were analyzed with qualitative and quantitative analysis of lexical content, using Alceste software (Reinert, 1993). In particular we performed: 1. Factor analysis of lexical correspondences, 2. Cluster analysis.
Results and Discussion
Factor analysis of lexical correspondences identified two factors explaining the multiplicity of told experiences: ‘professional identity’ on one hand and ‘personal identity’ on the other hand. In the variety and multiplicity of events that divided the corpus of stories, personal identity and professional identity appeared as distinct components, difficult to harmonize in a synthesis.
The Cluster Analysis also identified peculiar worlds, or universes of meaning: Relational Context, Curriculum, Working conditions, Balance of the experiences.
In summary for all participants, as assumed, insecurity, instability, underemployment, unemployment seem to hinder the process of achieving independence and autonomy and the recruitment of adult roles. These difficulties create disappointment, feelings of inadequacy, helplessness, dissatisfaction, distrust, anger
Il "posto degli altri" nel racconto di se' durante la transizione all'eta' adulta
No full textLo studio che qui presentiamo fa parte di una più ampia ricerca sui processi di costruzione dell'identità, indagata attraverso la narrazione del Sé: durante la transizione suddetta ci pare ipotizzabile che la configurazione del sistema sé/altro si vada modificando, dal momento che i soggetti sono indotti a realizzare, sia internamente sia nella pratica dei rapporti, una ristrutturazione delle loro relazioni che va nella direzione di una progressiva autonomia dall'altro. L'obiettivo del nostro lavoro è duplice ed articola un interesse focalizzato su aspetti di contenuto con uno più propriamente metodologico. Sul fronte dei contenuti, lo studio vuole in particolare individuare, all'interno delle narrazioni di Sé, le tracce della riconfigurazione del sistema sé-altro ipotizzata, analizzando il differente posto assegnato ai diversi altri in funzione delle specifiche traiettorie di vita scelte (scuola/lavoro). Sul versante metodologico, lo studio si propone di sperimentare, all'interno dell'approccio narrativo al sé, metodologie di “lancio” e conduzione dell'intervista e di analisi del contenuto soddisfacenti rispetto agli obiettivi proposti
Redefinition of self-other system in adulthood: a narrative approach
No full textThe aim of this study was to analyse the relational identity formation processes during transition school - university/work in emerging adults (Arnett, 2004).Different theoretical approaches have emphasized the role of context and significant others in self-construction and the role of individual's interpretation of context and further mediating events that may be associated with identity status resolutions ( Erikson, 1968; Harter, 1985; Damon & Hart, 1988; Kroger,& Haslett, 1988; Meeus, 1994; Andersen, Chen, Miranda, 2002). In particular the search investigated if different trajectories of transition (to university or work) and different steps of transition (Time1:school-end/ Time2:beginning of university/school) have an impact on redefinition of self relational system. We used a narrative approach (Bruner, 1995; McAdams, 1995; 1996; Smorti, 1997): to 16 emerging adults (from 18 to 22 years) from an Italian country (Naples) (50% male and 50% female) was assessed the life-stories interview (Mc Adams, 1995). Both the content and lexical structure were examined in qualitative analyses.The open-ended responses were coded by two coders, jointly, using the N-vivo software (Richards, 2000), with a index of agreement on differences of 87%. The results showed a different configuration of the self-other system in function of the trajectories of transition, in conformity with our hypothesis. The transition trajectory impact was more evident in the dimension of the affective and relational peers system. The role played by the transition, in the subjects belonging to T2 step of transition, was more complex and had much more than just one dimension
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
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