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A Study On The Relationship Between Gratitude And Subjective Well-Being
Full text linkRasa bersyukur merupakan sebahagian daripada kekuatan manusia yang dapat memampan tekanan dan mengekalkan kesejahteraan subjektif individu. Ia boleh menjadi satu pilihan pendekatan bantu-diri untuk pelajar-pelajar universiti dalam menangani tekanan harian mereka. Walau bagaimanapun, pendekatan mengkaji rasa bersyukur yang ada adalah terlalu umum dan tidak memberi tumpuan terperinci pada sumber timbulnya perasaan bersyukur. Kajian ini meneroka peristiwa yang boleh mencetuskan rasa bersyukur dalam kalangan pelajar universiti di Malaysia. Kajian turut menilai sifat bersyukur dan kesejahteraan subjektif. Selain itu, kajian ini meneliti hubungan antara sifat bersyukur, kekerapan dan keamatan peristiwa yang mencetuskan rasa bersyukur, dan kesejahteraan subjektif. Kajian ini dijalankan dalam dua fasa: Kaedah penyelidikan Fasa 1 berbentuk kualitatif, Fasa 2 berbentuk kuantitatif. Pendekatan persampelan yang digunakan ialah persampelan bertujuan. Dalam Fasa 1, temu bual separa berstruktur dijalankan dengan 30 pelajar ijazah sarjana muda dari sebuah universiti awam. Fasa ini digunakan untuk meneroka peristiwa yang dapat mencetuskan perasaan bersyukur. Dalam Fasa 2, kertas soal selidik diedarkan kepada 837 pelajar ijazah pertama dari sebuah universiti awam dan universiti swasta.
Gratitude is a part of human strengths that buffer stress and prolong subjective well-being. It can be an option for self-help approach to assist university students in coping with their daily stressors. Nevertheless, current approach to studying gratitude is too general and has not looked into sources of gratitude in detail. The present study examined events that can trigger gratitude among university students in Malaysia. This study also assessed dispositional gratitude and subjective well-being. Furthermore, this study investigated the relationship between gratitude disposition, frequency and intensity of gratitude-triggering events, and subjective well-being. The study was conducted in two phases: Phase 1 was qualitative in design, Phase 2 was quantitative in design. The sampling approach used was purposive sampling. In Phase 1, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate students from a public university. This phase was utilised to explore the gratitude-triggering events. In Phase 2, questionnaires were distributed to 837 undergraduate students from a public university and private university
Understanding gratitude: Starting from its conceptualisations.
Full text linkThe study of gratitude has been started since decades ago. This single word “gratitude” has been defined in many different ways. Apparently, this is rather confusing for new researchers to understand gratitude from diverse perspectives
What makes you feel grateful? A qualitative study to examine gratitude-eliciting events
Full text linkAlthough many studies focusing on benefits of gratitude, only a few researchers have looked
into factors of gratitude.These studies also tend to focus on the experience of gratefulness
towards others’ help but not on the more comprehensive sources of gratefulness.Therefore,
the aim of the present study is to examine all possible events or situations that can potentially
elicit one’s gratefulness.Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 30 undergraduate
students from a public university in Malaysia.The participants were asked to list down the
events that could elicit their gratefulness.In addition, they were asked to indicate the most
frequently occurring events and the events that elicited highest level of gratitude.The
findings identified 7 domains and 25 categories (under the 7 domains) that developed from
a total of 780 events reported by the participants.Findings showed that gaining something especially getting help from family would make people feel most grateful and it happens frequently.Furthermore, staying connected with people was also reported as happening
frequently, which may be attributed to human’s motivation to maintain relationship with
others.Moreover, individuals felt most grateful for others’ welfare and thank God for others related events.This implies that the members from collectivist culture (e.g., Malaysia) value others welfare over their own welfare.Lastly, the events were organised into a simpler version that consist of only 96 events that serve as a guideline for future researchers to develop measurement on gratitude-eliciting events.The limitations of present study and recommendations for future research were discussed
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
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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