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The promotion of self-regulation through parenting interventions
Full text linkThe capacity for a parent to self-regulate their own performance is argued to be a fundamental process underpinning the maintenance of positive, nurturing, non-abusive parenting practices that promote good developmental and health outcomes in children. Deficits in self-regulatory capacity, which have their origins in early childhood, are common in many psychological disorders, and strengthening self-regulation skills is widely recognised as an important goal in many psychological therapies and is a fundamental goal in preventive interventions. Attainment of enhanced self-regulation skills enables individuals to gain a greater sense of personal control and mastery over their life. This paper illustrates how the self-regulatory principles can be applied to parenting and family-based interventions at the level of the child, parent, practitioner and organisation. The Triple P-Positive Parenting Program, which uses a self-regulatory model of intervention, is used as an example to illustrate the robustness and versatility of the self-regulation approach to all phases of the parent consultation process
A test of the effectiveness of the SafeYou program in four countries. A randomised control trial
No full textResearch-led educational interventions have been recommended as an effective way to tackle doping use across levels and types of sport, and WADA has made significant investment in promoting related efforts. The SAFE YOU Anti-doping Education Program was developed through the collaborative efforts of academic experts, athletes, anti-doping practitioners and policy-makers from five European countries with the support of the European Commission's Erasmus+ funding between 2015-2019, and consists of theory-informed and evidence-based diverse and novel offline and online resources for anti-doping education (problem-based learning scenarios, case studies from real athletes, and web-based resources, such as an interactive decision-making support tool). Although the SAFE YOU project has been commented by the European Commission and achieved a "European Success Story" status, its anti-doping educational resources have not been extensively examined in competitive sport. Project SAFE YOU aims to empirically investigate, for the first time, the effectiveness of the SAFE YOU Anti-Doping Education Program among competitive athletes from four countries: United Kingdom, Greece, Romania and Cyprus. Specifically, SAFE YOU aims to: a) Level up the knowledge and psychological skills of competitive athletes with respect to doping use. b) Support competitive athletes in making informed choices about doping. b) Empower athletes to become "clean sport champions" and lead the way for others. SAFE YOU responds to WADA's 2020 Social Science Research Grant Program strategic priority to increase and enhance research-led anti-doping education by upscaling an existing research-led anti-doping educational program and evaluating its effectiveness across four countries with different traditions, legacy and resources in anti-doping education. Through an international consortium of expert academics and National Anti-Doping Organizations, SAFE YOU Anti-doping education program will be examined and the project will provide anti-doping practitioners and policy-makers with valuable resources for the implementation of evidence-based and empirically-tested anti-doping education
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
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
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