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Metacognition, borderline pathology and psychotherapeutic change: A single-case study
No full textThe aim of this study is to analyze whether: (a) a specific type of metacognitive
deficit is present in a patient with Borderline Personality Disorder; (b) a metacognitive
improvement can be detected during the psychotherapy treatment; (c) if this improvement
can be indicative of the effectiveness of psychotherapy itself. A single case
study has been conducted; metacognitive deficits have been measured with the Metacognition
Assessment Scale (MAS). In line with the hypothesis, the results show a global
and progressive improvement of meta-cognitive functions. We conclude in agreement
with the current literature, the existence of a major deficit in Differentiation and Integration
subfunctions (belonging to Self-reflexivity), compared to Characterization and
Relation between variables subfunctions (belonging to Metacognitive monitoring)
Metacognition Mediates the Relationship Between Maladaptive Personality Traits and Levels of Personality Functioning: A General Investigation on a Nonclinical Sample
No full textThe impaired ability to reflect on one's own state of mind and that of others (called metacognition or mentalization) is a central feature of personality disorders (PDs). Metacognition involves different specific abilities, which can be selectively impaired with different PDs and personality maladaptive traits. Moreover, research in the field of PDs has indicated that personality features and metacognitive abilities are associated with the severity of personality pathologies. In this study, we tested a mediation model of the interactions between these variables on predicting levels of personality functioning in a sample of adults taken from the general population (N = 775). Results showed that the relationship between personality traits and personality functioning is partially mediated by metacognitive abilities. These findings support the hypothesis that metacognition plays a significant role in predicting the levels of impairment in personality functioning. These findings have several clinical implications
Countertransference, transference and personality pathology: An empirical study
No full textThe aim of this study is to investigate the relation between transference and countertransference patterns and personality pathology.
A sample of 30 randomly selected patients has been assessed by their cognitive psychotherapists with a battery of instruments including 1) the Shedler-Westen Assessment Procedure-200 (Westen, Shedler, 1999a) for personality traits and disorders; 2) the Countertransference Questionnaire (Betan et al., 2005) for countertransference patterns, 3) the Psychotherapy Relationship Questionnaire (Bradley et al., 2005) for transference patterns; and 4) the Symptom Check List Revised (Derogatis, 1983), to assess levels of psychopathology.
Preliminary results suggest that countertransference and transference dimensions emerging in the therapeutic relationship are not arbitrary: clinicians’ responses to patients with specific types of personality pathology occur in coherent and predictable patterns (Dimaggio et al., 2007)
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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