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New directions in couple identity research
No full textIn couple relationships, each partner’s self-concept extends beyond individual boundaries, and both the partner and the relationship become part of oneself. Such extended identity is referred to as couple identity, and manifests as the perception of being a unit rather than a single individual. Social psychology research has given increasing attention to the theme of couple identity, providing evidence of the beneficial effects of couple identity on both partners’ well-being. Some issues, however, remain unclear, especially regarding the definition and operationalization of couple identity, and the factors that may explain or be associated with its development and maintenance. Five contributors will present current research on couple identity, illustrating new ways of operationalization and investigating unexplored associations of couple identity with partners’ individual characteristics and relational processes. These studies stem from different theoretical approaches and include different types of participants (partners in short-term and long-term relationships, and partners facing important life transitions) and research design (experimental, cross-sectional, longitudinal). The overall picture emerging from this symposium is that couple identity is an important component of the couple relationship experience, and it is associated with diverse aspects of partners’ psychological and relational functioning. Besides adding new knowledge on couple identity, this symposium will derive implications for both research and interventions
Generatività nella buona e nella cattiva sorte: Coping diadico e capitalizzazione
No full textIl presente capitolo, perciò, intende a) presentare i processi di coping diadico e capitalizzazione come due modalità di rilancio generativo del legame e b) riportare i risultati delle ricerche condotte all’interno del Centro di Ateneo Studi e Ricerche sulla Famiglia su questi due processi
If You Are Happy for Me, You Are Part of Me! Couple Identity and Capitalization
No full textIn couple relationships, partners establish a new identity within the relationship (i.e., couple identity), which is crucial for their relational well-being. Despite the importance of couple identity, little is known about how it emerges as a consequence of partners’ relational behaviors. Among relational behaviors, in recent years the way in which couple members respond to the partner’s fortune (i.e., capitalization responses) has been considered an important facet of couple relationship functioning. Two studies investigated the role of capitalization responses in shaping couple identity. In particular, we tested the association between couple identity and capitalization responses (active-constructive, passive-constructive, active-destructive, and passive-destructive), and the mediating role of couple identity in the link between capitalization responses and relationship quality. A daily diary study (N = 57 stable couples) revealed that on days women and men perceived their partner’s response as active-constructive and on days men perceived their partner’s response as active-destructive, they reported higher levels of couple identity. On the contrary, on days women perceived their partner’s response as active-destructive or passive-destructive they reported lower levels of couple identity. A longitudinal two-wave study (N = 278 stable couples) showed that couple identity mediated the link between the active-constructive and passive-destructive responses and relationship quality for both women and men. In conclusion, couple identity is shaped in partners’ interactions. Particularly, partner support (or absence of support) in good times appears to influence how partners’ perceive themselves as a unit
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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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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