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Benessere percepito nell’ambiente di lavoro: sviluppo di una scala multidimensionale in una prospettiva di ergonomia sociale
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Well-being has become a central concern in work and organizational psychology. Traditionally, work psychology literature has identified different levels of analysis of this construct, taking into consideration both the organizational and the socio-physical environment of workers. In particular, a variety of environmental factors emerged as key components in promoting – or reducing – satisfaction and well-being: noise, lighting quality, microclimatic conditions, view through the windows, space organization and control. Interestingly, the workers’ well-being was frequently considered as a subjective response to all of these environmental conditions, usually defined through objective measures, or manipulated in experimental studies. In this respect, a psychological analysis of how the environment is perceived by workers, and how perceptions can affect satisfaction and well-being is still needed.
In this study we developed a multidimensional scale focusing on subjective perceptions, and referring to important environmental features influencing well-being in the workplace. The scale considers the workplace as a relationship of sub-places (personal desk, meeting rooms, areas for breaks, etc.) and facilities which can concur to promote or preclude well-being. The psychometric properties of the scale (number and reliability of factors), and the relationships between perceived environmental features and satisfaction were tested on a sample of 214 workers in different workplace typologies. Results outlined the presence of 6 dimensions of environmental quality, with a good internal consistency and a good predictive power on satisfaction in the workplace
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
Le rappresentazioni del mondo del lavoro nelle fasce giovanili: applicazione di un metodo grafico
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This study focused on the planning and management of direct communication regarding the “culture of prevention” for new generations. The present research is part of the broad range of studies on “Social Representations” (SR, Moscovici 1984) and has its origins in the research planned within the 2006 “European Week”, promoted by the European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. The study’s main aim was to define the “images” or shared Representations by the people interviewed on the topic of the “work world”, using a particular non-verbal (icons/visual) technique as a part of the method. Two hundred young people aged between 18 and 24 were interviewed, approximately balanced for sex, not yet working or with little or minor work experience.
In order to study reliable SR, interviewees were asked to make a drawing illustrating how they “visualized” themselves in the work world. The content was then analyzed by assigning them to specific categories, established beforehand by independent judges. This marked out attributes and qualities of the work world, which were then applied in the next stage, in which independent judges assessed (Cohen’s K 0.84) the various representations. Results show that eight main categories of SR emerged, differently oriented according to two main dimensions: (a) positive (socialization, opening to others, well-being, usability) and (b) negative (precariousness, disorientation, isolation, withdrawn behaviour)
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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