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Vocal behaviour affects the expression of empathy in trained and untrained speakers
No full textEstablishing trust in counselling professions relies on empathy, yet the acoustic and perceptual aspects of empathic communication remain underexplored. In a two-part study, 10 trained female counsellors and 10 untrained female speakers read sentences in their normal, most empathic, and least empathic voices. Overall, speakers exhibited slower speech, higher initial pitch, greater pitch variation, and higher mean pitch in empathic voices, with differential use of cues with training. A playback task with 207 listeners, unaware of speakers' identities, found both trained and untrained speakers received higher empathy ratings for empathic voices. The study suggests adults can intentionally modify their vocal behaviour to convey empathy, hinting at the potential learnability of this skill. Further research directions on the role of vocal behaviour in empathic communication are proposed
A Mixed Methods Investigation into Internalised Homophobia and Self-Harm in a Lesbian Population
No full textIntroduction: Internalised homophobia has been associated with maladaptive coping and higher levels of psychological distress. Self-harm within a lesbian population isunder researched, specifically in relation to internalised homophobia. The study aimed to determine whether internalised homophobia is a predictor of self-harm in lesbians. Method: All participants (N = 148) were over 18, assigned female at birth, and identified as lesbian. Participants completed the self-report questionnaire online. The study implemented a mixed method design comprised of a cross-sectional correlational design and a qualitative design. Results: A Pearson r correlation identified an insignificant weak, positive relationship between IH and self-harm. A simple linear regression identified depression as a significant predictor of self-harm. Through thematic analysis three themes were identified: influence of sexuality on self-harm, importance of (L)GBTQ+ community, and negative societal perceptions. Conclusion: Internalised homophobia is not a predictor of self-harm in lesbians. However, through thematic analysis, internalised homophobia was identified as a subtheme of self-harming behaviours. The strengths and limitations of the study are addressed alongside suggestions for future research.
Keywords: Internalised Homophobia, Self-Harm, Lesbian, Mental Health
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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
Exploring lesbian internalised homophobia and self-harming: A thematic analysis
Full text linkBackground: Internalised homophobia has been associated with maladaptive coping and higher levels of psychological distress. Self-harm within a lesbian population is under researched, specifically in relation to internalised homophobia. The study aimed to explore whether internalised homophobia influences self-harming and coping mechanisms in a lesbian population.
Method: All participants (N = 103) were over 18 (M = 22.87, SD = 6.9) assigned female at birth, and identified as lesbian. The study implemented a qualitative design through an online questionnaire which asked 6 open-ended questions regarding sexuality, coping mechanisms and internalised homophobia. Results: Through thematic analysis three themes were identified: the role of sexuality on self-harm, importance of LGBTQ+ community, and negative societal perceptions which were explored in relation to relevant literature.
Conclusion: Through thematic analysis, internalised homophobia was identified as a sub-theme of self-harming behaviours. The LGTBQ+ community was found to be a protective factor from maladaptive coping behaviours through belonging and shared culture. Participants highlighted there were negative societal perceptions regarding the LGBTQ+ community in general, but also their struggles with self-harm and mental health. The strengths and limitations of the study are addressed alongside suggestions for future research
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
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
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