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Designing and validation of adult socioemotional competences inventory (SECI)
Get PDFSe presenta la construcción y validación de un Inventario para medir las Competencias Socioemocionales en adultos (ICSE). De acuerdo a Bisquerra Alzina (2003), tales competencias se definen como un conjunto de conocimientos, capacidades, habilidades y actitudes necesarias para comprender, expresar y regular apropiadamente los fenómenos emocionales. Dado que no existe consenso acerca de las variables que conforman las competencias socioemocionales, se efectuó un análisis de las dimensiones que los principales autores en el tema han investigado, a fin de integrar aquellas que resultaron comunes en los diferentes planteos teóricos. En función de este criterio se definió operacionalmente el concepto como un constructo multidimensional conformado por las siguientes dimensiones: asertividad, autoeficacia, autonomía, conciencia emocional, comunicación expresiva, empatía, optimismo, prosocialidad y regulación emocional. El proceso de construcción del ICSE siguió los lineamientos de la International Test Commission y comprendió: (a) definición conceptual y operacional del constructo, (b) elaboración de los ítemes, (c) análisis de la validez de contenido, (d) prueba piloto, (e) análisis y selección de reactivos y (f) estudio de las propiedades psicométricas de la versión depurada. Se obtuvieron evidencias favorables acerca de la discriminación de los ítemes, validez factorial, validez concurrente y consistencia interna del instrumento. Este inventario puede cubrir un vacío importante ya que no existen instrumentos diseñados y validados para medir este construc to, aportando así una herramienta valiosa, tanto pa ra ser utilizada en actividades de investigación como en programas de intervención y prevención.This study focuses on the design and validation of a psychometric instrument to assess Socioemotional Competences (SECI) in adults. According to Bisquerra Alzina (2003) such competences are defined as knowledge, abilities and attitudes necessary to understand, express and properly regulate emotions. Previous studies show positive association between socio-emotional competences and better academic and professional performance, higher levels of psychological and physical well-being and more satisfying interpersonal relationships (Bisquerra Alzina & Pérez Escoda, 2007; Pérez Escoda, Bisquerra, Filella, & Soldevila, 2010). Levy-Leboyer (1997) states that competences integrate aptitudes, knowledge and personality traits expressing behavior repertoires shown in people’s efficacy coping with specific situations. Therefore, assessment and training of such com - petences represent an important psychological topic. Though there is no agreement on which are the socio-emotional competences to be included, it is possible to analyze those considered by the main authors and researchers in the international liter - ature in the area. After analyzing different theoretical frameworks, nine competences were found to be in common to most of them: assertiveness, self-efficacy, autonomy, emotional awareness, expressive communication, empathy, optimism, pro-social behavior and emotional regulation. This construct, defined as a multidimensional concept, lacks of an instrument to operationalize and assess the whole set of socio-emotional competences in our local context. The Socio-emotional Compe - tences Inventory (SECI) was designed and built according to the International Test Commission Guidelines and included the following steps: (a) Conceptual and operational definition of the con - struct, as described above, (b) Elaboration of items, following recommendations on clarity, simplicity and comprehension, (c) Analysis of content valid ity, (d) Pilot test, (e) Depuration of items of low discrimination, and (f) Analysis of psychometric properties of the final version. Content validity (Step C) was obtained through agreement among judges method: 18 judges with expertise in psychometrics grouped items con - sider ing the nine competences definitions. They were also required to judge clearness of each item, syntactic correctness and adequacy to target population. Percentage of agreement was calculat - ed to depurate the first set of items. For the pilot test (Step D) a preliminary version of SECI was administered to 446 participants from Buenos Aires, ages between 18 and 55 (M = 26, SD = 7); same proportion of men and women. Items of low discrimination (under .30) were eliminated (Step E). A factors analysis was performed and items with loads under .30, as well as those not loading in any factor or in more than one, were eliminated, producing a final version of 72 items. To evaluate psychometric properties of SECI (Step F) this final version was administered to a new sample of 509 participants from Buenos Aires (M = 29, SD = 10, same proportion of men and women). A new factors analysis was performed and nine factors were found, in correspondence with the nine proposed competencies, showing evidence of construct validity. This final version proved to be reliable with an average alpha of .72. Evidence of concurrent validity was also obtained through significant and positive correlations between eight scales of SECI and other valid instruments that assess equivalent constructs. Expected significant differences according to gender in specific compe - ten cies (as suggested by previous studies) were considered evidence of external validity. In conclusion, the empirical data obtained in this study proved internal consistency, items discrim ination as well as factorial, content, external and con - current validity of the SECI. These findings support SECI as a psychometric valid and reliable instrument to be used with non-clinical population. It also can be useful for research and intervention purposes in different psychological areas, where socio-emotional competences should be assessed.Fil: Mikulic, Isabel Maria. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; ArgentinaFil: Crespi, Melina Claudia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Oficina de Coordinación Administrativa Saavedra 15. Centro Interdisciplinario de Investigaciones en Psicología Matemática y Experimental Dr. Horacio J. A. Rimoldi; ArgentinaFil: Radusky, Pablo David. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Psicología; Argentin
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.
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Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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