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Classification of professional values based on motivational content: An exploratory study on Italian Adolescents
Full text linkThis study applies a multidimensional scaling (MSD) technique to investigate the structural validity of the Work Values Inventory for Adolescents with a sample of Italian students. The MSD results indicated the presence of two underlying orthogonal dimensions: individuality versus sociality and conservation versus exploration. Implications for future research are also discussed. © 2011 The Author(s)
Italian Validation of the Adolescent Friendship Attachment Scale: The Short form
No full textThe aim of the present study is to validate a short form of the Adolescent Friendship Attachment Scale that evaluates best friend’s attachment considering three styles: Secure, Anxious, and Avoidant. The scale demonstrated adequate internal consistency. Confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the three-factor structure as found in the long form
Values Similarity between Parents and Adolescents: A Preliminary Investigation among Italian Adolescents
No full textThe goal of the present study was to investigate the roles gender and the content of basic and work values play in the values similarity between parents and adolescents. 160 high school Italian adolescents, age ranging from 17 to 19, and their parents had to respond to Work Values Inventory for Adolescents (WVI-A). The Work Values Inventory for Adolescents is designed to measure six dimensions: conservation, exploration, individuality, sociability, hedonistic values and self-actualization. They were also asked to respond to the Portrait Values Questionnaire (PVQ), which is designed to measure ten-dimensions: self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, achievement, power, security, conformity, tradition, benevolence, and universalism. Significant correlations were obtained between mother-father's values. Basic values (Security, Conformity and self direction) and work values (Self-actualization, and Individuality) were more closely related between fathers and sons, while basic values (Tradition and Benevolence), and work values (Self-actualization, conservation, exploration and Individuality) were related between fathers and daughters. Self-direction and achievement (basic values), and exploration and individuality (work values) were more closely related between mothers and sons. There was no relationship between mothers' values and their daughters
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
“Why Did You Want to See Me?”: Teachers’ Reactions to a Student’s Request as a Function of Teachers’ Personal Early Experiences of Attachment
No full textIntroduction. This study analyzes the relationship between teachers’ parenting experiences and their emotional, cognitive and behavioral reactions to a hypothetical student’s request to speak to them, expressed in short or detailed from. Method. This research is using the Perrine and King procedure, which was originally intended for students, and was modified for teachers. Self-report questionnaires were administered to a sample of 395 female teachers. Results. The results showed a significant relationship between a teacher’s parental bonding experiences and their behavioral and emotional reactions to students’ requests. The optimal parenting group reported more positive emotional and behavioral reactions, while the Affectionate control group presented more negative emotional responses than the other groups. Discussion. Our contribution could suggest to include an ample space for reflection on teachers’ personal histories, as they have been elaborated by themselves, and on the influence that the latter could have on expectations and interpretations of students’ behavior
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
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