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Profiles of citizenship orientations among Italian youth
No full textWithin the academic and public debate on citizen involvement, several authors have pointed out that, rather than spurning from apathy, the contemporary tendency of increasing political disconnection may have more to do with transformations of citizens’ relationship with the public sphere towards more non-institutionalized and individualized forms of engagement (Dalton, 2004; Hooghe & Dejaeghere, 2007; Schudson, 2006). Low levels of civic and political activity are not necessarily indicative of complete disengagement, but could be accompanied by an interest and latent involvement stemming from either a “stand-by” monitorial attitude (Amnå & Ekman, 2014; Schudson, 1998) or from an attitude of distrust and need of critical supervising (Geissel, 2008; Rosanvallon, 2008). The present research aims to contribute with empirical evidence to a more articulate understanding of these civic and political orientations among young people in Europe.
We examine, by means of latent profile analysis, different patterns of citizenship orientations identified by levels of civic and political participation, political interest and trust in institutions and in the political process. Furthermore, we investigate how these different groups can be characterized socio-demographically and in terms of political self-efficacy and value-based attitudes toward democracy, nationalism and tolerance.
The study is part of the Catch-EyoU project and uses the Italian questionnaire data with a sample of 1554 respondents from two age groups – adolescents (15 – 19 years old, 50.3%) and young adults (20 – 26 years old, 49.7%). The results suggest the existence of different profiles of young European citizens – from completely disengaged, through passive monitorial and critical positionings, to the active “dutiful” or critical citizens. Our findings contribute to the theoretical conceptualizations of the different ways of relating to the political sphere among youth, which can be useful in the promotion of civic development
Scheidung: Verläufe und Determinanten der psychischen Adaptation
No full textEheliche Trennungen und Scheidungen gehören zu den häufigsten und zugleich schwierigsten biografischen Transitionen des mittleren Erwachsenenalters. In der Scheidungsforschung sind vor allem die negativen Auswirkungen der Scheidung gut belegt. Allerdings gibt es grosse individuelle Unterschiede bei der psychischen Adaptation, die noch nicht genügend verstanden werden. In diesem Beitrag sollen zunächst die Auswirkungen einer Scheidung sowie die individuellen Unterschiede bei der psychischen Adaptation ausgeleuchtet werden. Des Weiteren interessieren die Determinanten, die zu den unterschiedlichen Adaptationsverläufen führen
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
CATCH-EyoU: Exploiting European data and testing the integrated theory of youth active EU citizenship: ICCS subset re-analysis
No full textThis document was created within the research project Constructing AcTive CitizensHip with European Youth: Policies, Practices, Challenges and Solutions (CATCH-EyoU) funded by European Union, Horizon 2020 Programme, Grant Agreement No 649538. Work Package 4 of this project (Exploiting European data and testing the integrated theory of youth active EU citizenship) is focused on the re-analysis of existing European data. In this document, we describe the steps through which the working dataset for re-analysis was created from the International Civic and Citizenship Education Study data (ICCS, 2009)
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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