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Considering the effects of touch at the intrapersonal, interpersonal and intergroup level: A review
No full textIndividuals possess an innate capacity to communicate and understand non-verbal cues (i.e., touch). In addition, touch affects individuals at the intrapersonal level (e.g., physiological reactions) and at the interpersonal level (e.g., impression formation, pro-social behavior). Recent studies testify to the effects of touch also at the intergroup level (e.g., improvement of outgroup attitudes). The present review will discuss the effects of touch on a wide range of situations, and differently from past reviews, special attention will be given to the effects of touch (also in its indirect form, i.e., imagined physical contact) at the intergroup level
Masculinity and Leadership Effectiveness (Self-)Perceptions: The Case of Lesbian Leaders
No full textIn line with the gay glass ceiling effect, sexual minorities are often target of discrimination within work-related contexts, thus potentially undermining their wellbeing at work. For gay men, discrimination may partially be attributed to gay men’s stereotypical feminine perception, which does not fit with the stereotypically masculine traits required for leadership positions. Yet, when considering lesbian women, the masculine stereotypical view associated with them may come to represent an advantage in work-related contexts, especially when compared to heterosexual women. In Study 1, N = 303 heterosexual participants rated a lesbian vs. a heterosexual woman as a job candidate on stereotypical gender (masculine vs. feminine) traits as well as leadership effectiveness. Results showed that being lesbian was associated with higher levels of masculinity (but not femininity), which in turn was related to high leadership effectiveness. In Study 2, N = 268 lesbian and heterosexual women rated themselves on the same measures. Results showed that both groups associated masculine traits with enhanced leadership effectiveness. These studies provide a better comprehension regarding how lesbian women may be perceived in work-related contexts and shed light on the role played by gender stereotypical perceptions in shaping both heterosexual and lesbian perceptions of leadership effectiveness
Emotions at primary school: Negative achievement emotions and their relation with emotional competencies in ethnic minority and majority students
No full textScarce attention has been paid to ethnic minority students' emotions and related competencies at school. Nevertheless, theoretical frameworks such as the control–value theory underline the importance of achievement emotions for students' performance and well-being. We involved minority (n = 63) and majority (n = 103) students attending the first, third, and fifth grade of primary school. We assessed negative achievement emotions (anxiety, anger, embarrassment, boredom, and hopelessness), emotion understanding, and emotion regulation. Factorial analyses supported the goodness of the structure of a questionnaire measuring the five achievement emotions in Italian and mathematics and its invariance across minority and majority students. Analyses of variance indicated that minority students felt more intense anger, embarrassment, and boredom for Italian and anxiety and embarrassment for mathematics. Path analyses revealed that emotion understanding and emotion regulation were significantly related to achievement emotions. Findings are discussed for their theoretical and applied relevance in promoting well-being at school among minority and majority students
Facing the unpredictable: how Bicultural Identity Integration affects biculturals’ response to the Covid-19 pandemic
No full textResearch on biculturalism has recently focused on the concept of bicultural identity integration (BII), namely the degree to which bicultural individuals perceive their cultural identities as compatible and overlapping. BII has been found to be positively associated with psychological adjustment. Based on this evidence, the present study aimed at investigating whether BII could also be related to how bicultural individuals cope with emergency situations (specifically, Covid-19 emergency). Four hundred and fourteen bicultural individuals residing in Italy participated in an online study. Participants completed a questionnaire including measures of BII, psychological adjustment and Covid-19-related distress. Results found that while blendedness was only weakly negatively related to Covid-19-related distress, perceived harmony was strongly and negatively associated to stress linked to the Covid-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the relation between perceived harmony and Covid- 19-related distress was fully mediated by psychological adjustment. Implications of results will be discussed
Bicultural identity integration and well-being among bicultural children: A longitudinal study
No full textWe conducted a longitudinal study focuysing on bicultural identity integration and well-being among bicultural children
Together to welcome, together to exclude: Intergroup contact as an antecedent of collective and interpersonal behaviors pro and against migrants
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Bicultural Identity in Childhood: Preliminary Validation of the Bicultural Identity Integration Scale for Children (BIIS-C)
No full textObjective: In the present study, we adapted and validated the Bicultural Identity Integration Scale for Children (BIIS-C). Method: 259 bicultural children (119 males, 140 females; Mage = 11.07, SD = 1.24) were providedwith a questionnaire. Based on adult versions of the scale, we tested the factorial structure of a set of 11nonreversed items tapping into harmony (vs. conflict; six items) and blendedness (vs. compartmentalization;five items) dimensions. Results: A two-factor model was compared with a one-factor model. In line withresearch on adults, results showed that the two-factor model (with nine items) fitted the data better than the onefactormodel. The two dimensions yielded reliable scores and were correlated in the expected direction withpersonality variables, acculturation attitudes, and perceived discrimination. Conclusions: The BIIS-C providesvalid and reliable scores for research on biculturalism in childhoo
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
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