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Personality characteristics and vulnerability to burnout: An explanatory hypothesis of teachers' distress
No full textResearches and interventions on burnout focused primarily on organizational and cultural context, showing their predictive capabilities on that construct. Individual factors had been studied mostly in terms of coping strategies and of locus of control, but it is still relatively unknown how the personality and the relational aspects affect the health of the professionals and their work outcomes, as pointed out by many researchers. This research aims to shed light on this aspects using the Personal Meaning Organizations model (Guidano and Liotti, 1983), trying to show its applicability outside of the clinical context in which it was formulated and developed in origin. The hypothesis of the authors is that different patterns of meaning attribution are related to specific vulnerability to the various aspects that contribute to generate the burnout. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Questionnaire for the evaluation of Personal Meaning Organizations (QSP) were submitted to a sample of 566 teachers from 14 Italian schools. The results show significant differences between the four Organizations in the scores of the Emotional Exhaustion and Personal Accomplishment scales of the MBI, while the dimension of Depersonalization is related to the number of years of work experience. The authors believe therefore that it is important for the teachers' wellbeing to propose training and interventions programs that take into account the individual differences in relational and intrapsychic functioning. © FrancoAngeli
Personality characteristics and vulnerability to burnout: An explanatory hypothesis of teachers' distress
No full textResearches and interventions on burnout focused primarily on organizational and cultural context, showing their predictive capabilities on that construct. Individual factors had been studied mostly in terms of coping strategies and of locus of control, but it is still relatively unknown how the personality and the relational aspects affect the health of the professionals and their work outcomes, as pointed out by many researchers. This research aims to shed light on this aspects using the Personal Meaning Organizations model (Guidano and Liotti, 1983), trying to show its applicability outside of the clinical context in which it was formulated and developed in origin. The hypothesis of the authors is that different patterns of meaning attribution are related to specific vulnerability to the various aspects that contribute to generate the burnout. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Questionnaire for the evaluation of Personal Meaning Organizations (QSP) were submitted to a sample of 566 teachers from 14 Italian schools. The results show significant differences between the four Organizations in the scores of the Emotional Exhaustion and Personal Accomplishment scales of the MBI, while the dimension of Depersonalization is related to the number of years of work experience. The authors believe therefore that it is important for the teachers' wellbeing to propose training and interventions programs that take into account the individual differences in relational and intrapsychic functioning. © FrancoAngeli
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
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