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“It’s More Complicated Than That!”: The Influence of Multiple Presenting Problems on Youth Outcomes in Formal Mentoring Programs
No full textYouth who are referred to youth mentoring programs often face mental health, behavioral, social and academic struggles that can affect program outcomes. Although researchers have acknowledged the role of individual and environmental risks on relationship effectiveness, the impact of youth presenting problems has not been investigated consistently. In this study, I drew on a large-scale evaluation of 30 mentoring programs (n = 1,845 youth participants, 54.9% females, mean age = 12.3) to create profiles of mentees based on their patterns of presenting problems. Latent profile analyses using four indices of presenting problems—academic challenges, behavioral challenges, mental health challenges, and social challenges—showed that a three-profile solution best fit the data. These three profiles were marked by varying intensities of overall presenting problems and were labeled High (high level of symptoms across domains), Moderate (moderate level of symptoms across domains) and Low (low level of symptoms across domains). Results showed that female and White mentees were more likely to be in the High profile. Furthermore, youth in the High profile experienced more environmental stressors. ANOVA results showed that at a one-year follow-up, youth in the High profile continued to have higher levels of emotional symptoms, conduct problems and peer problems than their counterparts. However, results from paired sample t-tests indicated that youth in all three profiles showed a significant decrease in depressive symptoms, emotional symptoms, and conduct problems, as well as a significant increase in self-worth at the one-year follow up. The magnitude of change was largest in the High profile (d = 0.36) followed by the Moderate profile (d = 0.25), and lastly the Low profile (d = 0.12). The results highlight the variability of effectiveness in youth mentoring programs at different levels of initial presenting problems, with youth presenting more severe initial problems having larger potential for improvement. Implications for mentoring programs, including adopting a targeted approach to match risk levels with appropriate mentoring interventions will be discussed
Agreements and Discrepancies in Perceptions of Mentoring Relationship Quality: A Multi-Informant Investigation
No full textMentoring relationship quality (MRQ) is an important indicator of program effectiveness and is associated with a number of youth psychosocial and academic outcomes. However, evaluations of MRQ have largely relied on reports of a single informant’s perceptions and have failed to acknowledge that mentoring exists within larger ecological contexts in which various stakeholders may hold different views. In particular, few studies have included assessments of youth, mentors’, and parents’ perceptions of the relationship, and even fewer have examined the extent to which these perceptions converge, and whether patterns of convergence (or lack of convergence) in MRQ are associated with differential youth outcomes. To bridge these gaps in knowledge, this study draws on data from a large-scale, multi-wave evaluation of mentoring programs (n = 1,882, 57.5% females, mean age = 12.4) to examine the dynamic profiles of youth, mentor and parent MRQ ratings. Three-step latent profile analyses showed that a six-profile solution best fit the data. The largest profile (42.9%, i.e., Congruent) showed positive congruence in youth, parent, and mentor MRQ ratings. Results indicated that mentor-mentee matches in the Congruent profile lasted longer than those in the other profiles. Youth in this profile also experienced better outcomes, including fewer depressive and emotional symptoms than the other profiles. Compared to the Congruent profile, mentors in the profile in which mentors perceived more negative MRQ than both parent and youth (i.e., Divergent-M(-)) were less likely to have received training. In contrast, mentors in the profile in which both parent and youth perceived more negative MRQ than the mentor (i.e., Divergent-PY(-)) were more likely to utilize mentor support groups. These results suggest that different dyads may have different post-match training and support needs. Broadly, this study highlights the importance of taking a systemic perspective (i.e., accounting for multiple stakeholders) in the assessment of MRQ. Triangulation of MRQ responses is also recommended when assessing associations between MRQ and mentoring effectiveness
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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