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AN EXAMINATION OF THE IMPACTS OF CHILDHOOD TRAUMA ON HEALTHY INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN COLLEGE-AGED AFRICAN AMERICANS
Get PDFFor African Americans, the dynamics of relationships are rooted in childhood experiences of unconditional love, restraint, and respect. These experiences help individuals form their understanding of how relationships function. Experiencing healthy relationships has an enduring impact on social development and interpersonal relationships. However, regarding studies on childhood trauma and intimate relationships, there is insufficient literature that includes African American samples as the primary foci of the research. Due to gaps in extant literature, the present study aims to explore whether experiences of healthy intimate relationship in African Americans are associated with childhood trauma (neglect, emotional, sexual, and physical abuse). Using the concept of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs; Felitti & Anda, 1998), the present study examined the extent to which trauma experienced in childhood serves as a predictor of healthy intimate relationship experiences, using a novel measure, the Healthy Intimate Relationship Assessment (HIRA; Shepard, 2019). Psychometric properties regarding the HIRA were explored to determine factor loadings and reliability. The study measured whether gender or counseling moderated the relationship between ACEs and healthy relationship factors as well. Findings suggest that 1) higher reported ACEs scores were associated with lower HIRA scores on the trust, honesty, and communication subscales, 2) participants that endorsed higher ACEs abuse and neglect clusters scores reported experiencing less trusting, honest, and communicative intimate relationships as outlined in the HIRA measure, and 3) gender and counseling experience did not attenuate the association between ACEs and HIRA scores. Implications of adverse childhood experiences on experiences in adult intimate relationships are discussed as well as future directions to consider when exploring similar research
Blossoming in the Margins: An autoethnographic and narrative exploration of fat Black women’s storied lives through Sista Circles
No full textThis work sought to understand: 1) What it means to be a fat Black woman from their storied vantage point; 2) how these messages shaped their relationship with self and others; and 3) what messages they would like to share with their younger selves— while interweaving my lived experiences and perspectives. Through these narratives, personal reflections, and observations of Sista Circles (Gatica-Perez, 2006; Palmer, 2021; Tedlock, 1991), this project incorporated multimethod qualitative approaches, combining narrative (Bhattacharya, 2013; Connelly & Clandinin, 1990; McClish-Boyd & Bhattacharya, 2021; 2023) and autoethnographic inquiry (Adams et al., 2017; Boylorn & Orbe, 2014; Chawla & Atay, 2014; Holman Jones, 2016) to enrich the utility of Sista Circles as a counter-space for healing (Johnson, 2015; McLane-Davison et al., 2018) and share counternarratives of fat Black women’s experiences.
The four women identified as 1) woman (all using she/her pronouns), 2) Black or Black biracial [one of the knowledge bearers was Afro-Caribbean (Cape Verdean)], and 3) between the ages of 26-33 years old (M=28.5). The Sista Circles for the Blossoming in the Margin Project convened for five consecutive weeks, exploring their storied lives from the past (girlhood) to the present (womanhood) and revisiting their childhood through a narrative therapy-informed reflection activity, letter writing (Gehart, 2017; White & Epston, 1990). Leveraging narrative analysis, analysis of narrative, and affectivity and embodiment in fieldwork, stories of forgiveness, patience, acceptance, love, self-discovery, relational repair, personal autonomy, community, and resistance bloom. In close, I offer a rich discussion and implications of this work
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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