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A Handbook of Visual Methods in Psychology: Using and Interpreting Images in Qualitative Research: Second Edition
Full text linkThis comprehensive volume explores the set of theoretical, methodological, ethical and analytical issues that shape the ways in which visual qualitative research is conducted in psychology. Using visual data such as film making, social media analyses, photography and model making, the book uniquely uses visual qualitative methods to broaden our understanding of experience and subjectivity.
In recent years, visual research has seen a growing emphasis on the importance of culture in experience-based qualitative methods. Featuring contributors from diverse research backgrounds including narrative psychology, personal construct theory and psychoanalysis, the book examines the potential for visual methods in psychology. In each chapter of the book, the contributors explore and address how a visual approach has contributed to existing social and psychological theory in their line of research.
The book provides up-to-date insights into combining methods to create new multi-modal methodologies, and analyses these with psychology-specific questions in mind. It covers topics such as sexuality, identity, group processes, child development, forensic psychology, race and gender, and would be the ideal companion for those studying or undertaking research in disciplines like psychology, sociology and gender studies
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Bursting Bubbles of Interiority: Exploring space in experiences of distress and rough sleeping for newly homeless people
Full text linkHomelessness is an increasing problem in the UK, which intersects in multiple ways with experiences of mental distress. Within the term ‘homeless’ are contained people in a variety of living situations, including those living in temporary accommodation (hostels, couch surfing, B&Bs) as well those sleeping rough. The latter category is the least common, but on the rise. Between 2010 and 2017, rough sleeping more than doubled in England and Wales, with just under a quarter of total rough sleepers concentrated in London (MHCLG, 2018). Loopstra et al. (2016) argue that the combination of recession and austerity has pushed homelessness upwards, with cuts in welfare spending on social care, housing services and income support for older people most clearly associated with this rise. Of new rough sleepers, around 70 per cent have a mental health diagnosis (NHS Confederation, 2012). This is not just a UK phenomenon; a 2009 population based study in the United States similarly found mental health diagnoses to be three to four times more prevalent in the homeless population (Shelton, Taylor, Bonner, & van den Bree, 2009). This relationship is multifaceted. Both mental health problems and homelessness are argued to be inter-related outcomes of lives characterised by adversity, trauma and abuse (Kim, Ford, Howard, & Bradford, 2010). The relationship is also bidirectional; a distress and mental health crisis can lead to people leaving their homes, while homelessness, with its accompanying insecurity and potential for trauma, can also precipitate, deepen or trigger further mental health problems
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Full text linkBursting bubbles of interiority: Exploring space in experiences of distress and rough sleeping for newly homeless people
Full text link© 2019 selection and editorial matter, Laura McGrath and Paula Reavey individual chapters, the contributors. Homelessness is an increasing problem in the UK, which intersects in multiple ways with experiences of mental distress. Within the term ‘homeless’ are contained people in a variety of living situations, including those living in temporary accommodation (hostels, couch surfing, B&Bs) as well those sleeping rough. The latter category is the least common, but on the rise. Between 2010 and 2017, rough sleeping more than doubled in England and Wales, with just under a quarter of total rough sleepers concentrated in London (MHCLG, 2018). Loopstra et al. (2016) argue that the combination of recession and austerity has pushed homelessness upwards, with cuts in welfare spending on social care, housing services and income support for older people most clearly associated with this rise. Of new rough sleepers, around 70 per cent have a mental health diagnosis (NHS Confederation, 2012). This is not just a UK phenomenon; a 2009 population based study in the United States similarly found mental health diagnoses to be three to four times more prevalent in the homeless population (Shelton, Taylor, Bonner, & van den Bree, 2009). This relationship is multifaceted. Both mental health problems and homelessness are argued to be inter-related outcomes of lives characterised by adversity, trauma and abuse (Kim, Ford, Howard, & Bradford, 2010). The relationship is also bidirectional; a distress and mental health crisis can lead to people leaving their homes, while homelessness, with its accompanying insecurity and potential for trauma, can also precipitate, deepen or trigger further mental health problems
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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