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Servizio sociale e immigrazione. Una panoramica delle ricerche
Full text linkIl capitolo propone una rassegna dei risultati delle principali ricerche empiriche svolte in ambito italiano relativamente al rapporto tra servizio sociale e persone immigrate, mettendone in luce alcuni temi prevalenti, che vengono approfonditi nel dettaglio, sia dal punto di vista degli utenti, sia da quello dei professionisti. Le considerazioni e le tematiche che emergono in questo capitolo fanno quindi da background al percorso di ricerca che viene presentato all’interno del volume
Assistenti sociali ed emozioni. Uno studio esplorativo
No full textIl ruolo delle emozioni nella pratica del lavoro sociale, definito un «emotionally demanding work» (Dwyer, 2007), proprio per le implicazioni emotive che la relazione con gli utenti suscita, può sembrare ovvio e incontestabile. Nonostante la sua rilevanza, però, a questa dimensione del lavoro non sempre viene riservato un adeguato approfondimento, sia a livello istituzionale che nella letteratura scientifica, lasciandone spesso la gestione al singolo professionista (ibidem). Le ricerche presenti, soprattutto in ambito internazionale, evidenziano tuttavia la capacità delle emozioni di essere fonte di informazione e conoscenza (Morrison, 2007), soprattutto per quanto riguarda i processi valutativi e decisionali (Ingram, 2013; Kanasz, Zielińska, 2017) e, facendo ricorso al concetto di emotional labor (Hochschild, 2013), aprono la riflessione sulle possibili strategie di gestione dell’impatto emotivo della professione (MoesbyJensen, Nielsen, 2015). A partire da questi presupposti, i risultati che vengono presentati in questo contributo riguardano la modalità di gestione delle emozioni nella pratica professionale degli assistenti sociali, rilevata attraverso la domanda di un’intervista (parte di una ricerca qualitativa più ampia) sottoposta a 30 professionisti che operano in altrettanti servizi sociali comunali in Veneto. Si tratta di una ricerca esplorativa, i cui risultati non possono essere generalizzati, ma che possono tuttavia mettere in luce – all’interno della logica di carattere categoriale che guida la ricerca non-standard (Marradi, 1996; Nigris, 2003) – alcune tematiche emergenti relative al modo in cui i professionisti fanno fronte alle emozioni che il lavoro sociale comporta. I risultati evidenziano un quadro in cui le emozioni, sia positive che negative, rivestono un ruolo di notevole importanza per gli intervistati, che fanno, in primis, riferimento alla necessità di un costante lavoro su se stessi, volto a percepirle, riconoscerle e affrontarle, non solo per il proprio benessere personale e professionale, ma anche per poterle utilizzare come strumento di conoscenza (Della Valle, 1989). Accanto al tema, trasversale, di questo lavoro interiore, le strategie di gestione spaziano dal riconoscimento dell’utilità del confronto tra colleghi, alla richiesta di una supervisione spesso non presente all’interno dei servizi (Allegri, 2013), all’utilizzo della formazione come strumento di riflessività professionale (Sicora, 2005)
Using the age at onset may increase the reliability of longitudinal asthma assessment.
No full textRecently, self-reported asthma was combined with reported age of onset to investigate the disease's natural history. To assess the validity of reported results, we investigated the reliability of the method. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTINGS: The European Community Respiratory Health Survey was a longitudinal study with interviews in 1991/93 and in 2000/02. Lifelong asthma and age of asthma onset were assessed through self-administered questionnaires. Responses of 10,933 participants in the follow-up were combined to separate true from false incident cases. The repeatability of questions was assessed and the bias in cumulative incidence (CI) estimation was quantified. RESULTS: Age at onset had excellent reliability (mean difference between the two interviews=-0.20, weighted kappa=0.88) allowing the differentiation of false and true incident cases. Given this information, lifelong asthma question's reliability was very high (agreement=0.96, kappa=0.83). Misclassified subjects had respiratory conditions similar to the asthmatics. Baseline asthma was underreported and, if ignoring the onset age, the CI was severely overestimated (observed 5.82%, actual 3.02%). CONCLUSION: Questionnaire-based longitudinal studies make more reliable estimates possible when all the retrospective information is used: the reported age of onset plays a key role and should be accounted for when investigating the natural history of diseases
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
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