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Food attitudes across adolescence
No full textThis study investigated the relations between age and individuals’ food attitudes; gender, weight status, and body satisfaction were explored as moderators. It was hypothesized that there would be an overall negative correlation between age and food attitudes with older participants having less healthy attitudes about food; this relation was expected to be stronger for girls than boys. Adolescents (N = 1107, Mage = 15.58 years) from a public high school completed self-report questionnaires assessing their age, gender, weight status, body satisfaction, and food attitudes. The results showed that older adolescents experienced greater pleasure from food, while adolescents’ weight status predicted decreased pleasure from food and increased weight concerns. Further, the study’s findings revealed that there was a smaller difference in weight concerns for younger versus older boys regardless of weight status, whereas there was a significantly greater difference in weight status for younger versus older girls, regardless of weight status. These results show that an adolescent’s weight concerns are dependent not only on their weight status and age but also their gender. It is hoped that these findings lead to the creation of interventions to address food attitudes that may contribute to ameliorating the current obesity epidemic among adolescents.M.A.Includes bibliographical referencesby Arielle Samantha Wolinsk
Statistical fit and factor structure of the food-life questionnaire in emerging adult undergraduate students
Get PDFThe Food-Life Questionnaire (FLQ) is a psychometrically sound measure of beliefs and attitudes towards food that was initially developed and validated for use with a general adult population; however, the psychometric properties of the measure have yet to be examined in an emerging adult population. The constructs captured by the FLQ are particularly relevant in emerging adulthood, because it is a time of increased risk for the development of disordered eating attitudes and behaviors. Using data from a large, demographically diverse sample of emerging adult undergraduate students (n = 679), the current study evaluated the fit of the original five-factor structure of the FLQ and compared fit in male versus female respondents. Results from confirmatory factor analyses suggested relatively poor fit of the data with the original five-factor FLQ factor structure in the full and separate male and female samples. The present study, therefore, also proposes a modified version of the FLQ based on findings from a follow-up exploratory factor analysis (EFA). More research is needed to statistically validate the revised FLQ in different populations, including a clinical population with disordered eatin
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
Feasibility And Acceptability Of A Self-Paced, Online Workshop Targeting Self-Compassion Skills For Emerging Adults With Disordered Eating
Get PDFThe present paper includes two studies that explored the relevancy of self-compassion to emerging adults, expectancies of having a self-compassion mindset on disordered eating, and the prospective and concurrent acceptability and feasibility of a self-paced, online workshop targeting self-compassion skills for emerging adults with disordered eating. Study 1 was a cross- sectional study examining emerging adults’ understanding of self-compassion, expectancies of having a self-compassion mindset on disordered eating, and the feasibility and prospective acceptability of a proposed self-paced, online workshop targeting self-compassion skills for emerging adults with disordered eating. Study 1’s findings were incorporated into the design and implementation of the workshop evaluated in Study 2. Study 2 was a concurrent feasibility and acceptability study of a workshop targeting self-compassion skills for emerging adults with disordered eating. Study 1 found that emerging adults understood the concept of self-compassion and saw its actual importance in their lives and perceived lives of their inner circles (peers, parents). Furthermore, emerging adults with disordered eating expected self-compassion to positively impact their disordered eating symptoms. Even with this understanding, indifference about participating in a workshop that would help build self-compassion skills existed. Study 2 found that an online, self-paced workshop was both feasible and acceptable to emerging adults with disordered eating. Both studies suggest that a workshop building self-compassion skills is important to emerging adults and could be protective for those with disordered eating. Future work to examine the efficacy of building self-compassion skills using a self-paced, online format for emerging adults with disordered eating is warranted
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
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