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Laura Nota

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The Use of Latent Semantic Analysis in the Positive Psychology: A Comparison with Twitter Posts

2017

In the last decade, the positive psychology and specifically the 'Positive Youth Development' (PYD) give efforts to positive aspect and strength that performance as protective factors of adjustment problems and psycho-social well-being, such as courage. To better understand the definition of courage in Italian context, 1199 participants were involved in the present study and we asked them to answer to the following question "Courage is...". The participant's definitions of courage were analyzed with the Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), in order to study the "fundamental concepts" arising from the population. An analogous comparison with Twitter posts has been also carried out.

education.field_of_studyLatent Semantic Analysis Text Analysis methodology Courage Positive psychologyLatent semantic analysisComputer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesPopulation050109 social psychologyContext (language use)02 engineering and technologyCouragePositive psychologyOrder (business)Latent Semantic Analysis0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering020201 artificial intelligence & image processing0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPositive psychologyeducationPositive Youth DevelopmentSocial psychologyCouragemedia_commonText Analysis methodology
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An Examination of the Structure of the Career Decision Self-Efficacy Scale (Short Form) Among Italian High School Students

2013

This study aims to evaluate the factor structure of Career Decision Self-Efficacy scale-short form in a sample of Italian high school adolescents. confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the degree to which a one-factor structure and a five-factor structure provided the best fit. In view of available research the five-factor structure was expected to provide the best fit. Moreover, factorial invariance in males and females was tested. It was expected to be invariant across groups. As expected the five-factor structure showed a better fit than the one-factor model and the factorial invariance resulted invariant across boys and girls.

Factorial invarianceSelf-efficacyOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Managementcareer decision makingself-efficacy beliefAssessment instrumentcareer decision making self-efficacy beliefs assessment instrumentsFactor structureConfirmatory factor analysisassessment instrumentsGoodness of fitSelf efficacy scaleSettore M-PSI/06 - Psicologia Del Lavoro E Delle OrganizzazioniCareer decisionPsychologySocial psychologyGeneral PsychologyApplied PsychologyJournal of Career Assessment
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