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Comparison in Classrooms: The Relationship between Narcissistic Traits and Academic Social Comparison in University Students through the Lens of Gender
No full textIndividuals possessing narcissistic traits often evaluate themselves based on how well they compare against others. This study explored the relationship between two dimensions of narcissistic traits and two types of academic social comparisons, specifically the association of vulnerable narcissism with upward academic social comparison and grandiose narcissism with downward academic social comparison. It also examined gender differences among these four key variables. The research used three self-report measures including The Academic Social Comparison Scale, Narcissistic Personality Inventory 13, and The Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale to gather data from 400 undergraduate students (227 females and 173 males) belonging to 14 universities across Pakistan. The data was analyzed using SPSS Version 23. The results indicated a significant moderate positive relationship between both sets of variables, with vulnerable narcissism causing a 26% variance in upward academic comparison and grandiose narcissism causing a 14.2% variance in downward academic comparison. Additionally, significant gender differences were found for grandiose narcissism (t (398) = 2.68, p = 0.008) and downward academic social comparison (t (398) = 3.77, p = 0.000) but not for vulnerable narcissism (t (398) = 0.51, p = 0.612) and upward academic social comparison (t (398) = -1.81, p = 0.070). These results lend support to the integration of narcissism spectrum model and social comparison theory and suggest that comparison processes play an imperative role in maintaining narcissists’ feelings of entitlement and superiority
Justice in the Age of Social Media: A Study of Digital Activism on Twitter and Facebook
No full textSocial media is the place of protest and communication as people of Pakistan connect digitally. This thesis will examine the use of social media platforms, Twitter and Facebook, as avenues of public participation on violent crime reporting in Pakistan. This study employs the cases of the Natasha Danish Murder Case, which occurred in 2024, and the Shahrukh Jatoi Murder Case, which took place in 2012, through qualitative content analysis to illustrate how crime-related discourse is discussed by users and digital activism is carried out. Based on the theoretical foundations of the media framing theory (Entman, 1993), this study establishes three main thematic framings. The first is the legal and judicial criticism, the second is the appeals to social justice, and the third is the moral and religious interpretations. Findings indicate that social media users contribute to discourse in a very active manner through affirming or challenging the class privilege, gender-based violence, and institutional failure. The posts in support of elite impunity and the failure of judges garnered the most interactions, indicating the level of frustration among people and the need for system reform. The paper highlights the participatory aspect of the digital platforms where meaning(s) are not only created by news media but also in the form of user-generated posts and comments. It also discusses ways in which echo chambers lead to moral panic, public polarization, and ideas related to justice and the judicial system in the country
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.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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