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Putting the Social Back in Social Anxiety: Presentation and Preliminary Testing of a Structurally Informed Ecological Model
No full textWithin the United States, neoliberal systems of economic exploitation and oppression act as structural determinants of health, contributing to social anxiety inequitably across individuals. In order to situate current cognitive behavioral research on and limits of treatment for social anxiety within a framework that transcends immediate psychological processes, the current study had two primary aims: (1) offer a theoretically grounded and structurally informed ecological model of social anxiety etiology and maintenance, and (2) empirically examine the relation between social vulnerabilities (e.g., peer victimization, identity-based discrimination) and social anxiety, the mediating role of cognitive mechanisms (negative social self-beliefs and public self-consciousness) in this relation, and the moderating role of neoliberal ideology on the relation between social vulnerabilities and cognitive mechanisms of social anxiety. The second aim of this project was tested using structural equation modeling based on cross-sectional data from a diverse online sample (N = 246). Results of the study supported previous research on the positive relation between social anxiety and its cognitive mechanisms as well as social vulnerability and social anxiety. Negative social self-beliefs fully mediated the relation between social vulnerability and social anxiety, while public self-consciousness partially mediated the relation between social vulnerability and social anxiety. Contrary to our hypotheses, neoliberal ideology (as measured by system justification) moderated the relation between social vulnerability and negative social self-beliefs in the opposite direction than expected, such that at high levels of neoliberal ideology, the relation between social vulnerability and negative social self-beliefs was significantly weaker than at low levels of neoliberal ideology. Neoliberal ideology did not moderate the relation between social vulnerability and public self-consciousness. Across both aims of this project, we identified, through theoretical and empirical exploration, broader ecological determinants of social anxiety and its associated psychological mechanisms to address philosophical limitations in leading psychological theories conceptualizing social anxiety that largely ignore structure. Furthermore, these results have implications for current treatment of social anxiety by identifying opportunities for structural and social intervention that transcend and complement traditional psychotherapies
Addressing the White Problem Critically: An Exploratory Latent Profile Analysis of Racial Attitudes
No full textFrom a critical racial consciousness perspective, engaging in antiracist critical reflection and action is an important step for White people towards ally development and racial justice. Models of White racial identity development have posited complex schemas and processes of cognitive, affective, and behavioral characteristics and ambivalence that are affected by one’s other identities and environment. The purpose of this study was to explore models of heterogeneity of White affective and cognitive racial attitudinal patterns among a sample of White Americans (N = 531) using a person-centered statistical approach, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA). This study uses cross-sectional baseline data from a larger intervention study of White ally development (Hochman & Suyemoto, 2020). We used LPA to identify and evaluate latent subgroups and test hypotheses about their differences in demographics, self-reported experiences of oppression, and behavioral engagement in antiracist action using a series of indicators categorized within four thematic domains of White racial attitudes: Empathic Connection in Cross-Racial Relationships, Affective Awareness of White Privilege, Blatant Colorblind Racial Attitudes, and Awareness of Structural Inequality.
Our analysis yielded four profiles of White racial attitudes – Lower Racial Consciousness, Incongruous, Ambivalent, and Higher Racial Consciousness – that represent increasing endorsement of critical reflection around Whiteness and racism. These profiles overlap with existing models of White racial attitudes, including White racial identity theory (Helms, 2020), White racial consciousness (Rowe et al., 1994), White dialectics (Todd & Abrams, 2011), and White ally development (e.g., Broido, 2000). In particular, the Incongruous and Ambivalent profiles indicate evidence for the tensions and internal contradictions White people often experience when relating to their Whiteness and to racism. Furthermore, profiles associated with higher levels of critical racial consciousness contained significantly more women and trans participants, non-heterosexual participants, and participants who had more friendships with people of color. Additionally, profiles associated with higher levels of critical racial consciousness had significantly higher scores on behavioral outcomes and intentions associated with confronting racial discrimination and White privilege. These results suggest possible areas for targeted antiracist intervention, including incorporation of affective components and increased awareness of structural inequality
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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