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The perception of physical health status in obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis
No full textBackground: Physical Health Status is a neglected outcome in clinical practice with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) and a systematic review is lacking. Objective: The current study presents the first systematic review and meta-analysis summarizing the evidence on (a) perceived Physical Health Status, Bodily Pain and Role Limitations due to Physical Problems in patients with OCD compared with controls, (b) age, gender, severity of OCD symptoms, study publication date, study methodological quality as moderators of perceived Physical Health Status. Methods: Case-control studies were included if they (a) compared OCD patients with healthy/general population participants as controls, and (b) used validated self-report instruments. Two reviewers searched electronic databases, contacted corresponding authors, and examined reference lists/conference proceedings/theses. Results: Fourteen studies were included. A large significant negative effect size without publication bias showed that controls reported higher perceived Physical Health Status than patients with OCD. Medium and small effect sizes favouring controls emerged for Role Limitations due to Physical Problems and Bodily Pain, respectively. Higher age, females percentage, and publication date were associated with larger effect sizes; higher OCD severity and methodological quality were associated with smaller effect sizes. Conclusion: Perceived Physical Health should be evaluated and addressed by clinicians during treatment, particularly with older, female and less severe patients. Lifestyle interventions might be implemented
The roles of stressful life events and religiosity in adolescent depression. [Il ruolo degli eventi di vita stressanti e della religiosità nella depressione adolescenziale]
No full textReligiosity, the extent to which an individual is committed to the religion he/she
professes, may be a protective factor against depression. Although in the Italian
socio-cultural context religion is a predominant feature of society, the role of
religiosity as a psychological buffer against depression in adolescence is understudied.
The present study explored (a) the association between recent stressful life
events and depressive tendencies and (b) whether higher religiosity could be a
predictor of lower depressive symptomatology controlling for the effects of
stressful events in a sample of Italian adolescents. Two hundred seventy-five
adolescents completed the Children’s Depression Inventory and two
questionnaires measuring religiosity and perceived stressful events, respectively.
Fifteen percent of the sample reported depressive tendencies above clinical
thresholds. Having experienced school problems and parents’ separation
was associated with higher depressive symptomatology. When religiosity was added
in the logistic model, the effects of the stressors became non-significant, and a
significant effect of religiosity emerged (β= -0.55, p= 0.01). Adolescents with
higher religiosity reported lower depressive tendencies, irrespective of the stressors’
type. Religiosity might be a psychosocial buffer against depression in adolescence
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
Corone e mitrie infamanti nelle pratiche giudiziarie bassomedievali. Brevi spunti a partire dal caso veneziano
No full textVictimization and sentimental relationships during COVID-19 pandemic [Vittimizzazione e relazioni sentimentali durante la pandemia da COVID-19]
Full text linkCovid-19 pandemic has been hard for all of us. Isolation and social distancing, particularly, have damage the quality of interpersonal relationships. Starting from these considerations the authors questioned what is the impact of the sanitary emergency on the sentimental relationships. Considering that this aspect was already present in the scientific literatures, the authors have narrowed it down to victimization which had not yet appeared in these terms. So, the aim of this study is to evaluate, inside the adult population, if the couples sentimental relationships are different between victimized and not. At last was evaluated if the anxiety, depression and stress moderate the relationship with the victimization. © 2022 Author(s). This is an open access, peer-reviewed article published by Pensa Multimedia and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Rassegna Italiana di Criminologia is the official journal of Italian Society of Criminology
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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