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Self-Control in Daily Life
2016
In this daily diary study, we investigated the flexibility-enhancing effects of positive affect on the self-reported success of self-control strategies followed in daily life; 297 participants completed a 13-day daily diary that included measures of positive affect, desire, and habit strength as well as three self-control strategies (i.e., monitoring, distraction, and stimulus control). We found specific effects of positive affect on self-control strategies: Individuals with higher positive affect were most successful when following a strategy of distraction (e.g., thinking about something else), particularly when faced with strong tempting desires. These results reinforce the idea that po…
Common Core in Danger? Personalized Information and the Fragmentation of the Public Agenda
2021
The diversification of information sources has reignited the controversy on media-induced fragmentation endangering social integration. The media's capability to set the public agenda and create issues as a common core is a pivotal part of the public sphere and contributes fundamentally to society's cohesion. Algorithm-driven sources like social media that personalize content to the preferences of individuals and their social networks are considered agents of fragmentation of the public sphere. Politically extreme individuals relying on them may be particularly vulnerable to losing touch with society's common core. We employ an innovative operationalization of fragmentation on the individu…
«L’ESALTAZIONE DEL VERO E LA PROSOPOPEA DELLE FORZE INANIMATE»:L’ALTROVE DI ORIO VERGANI
2020
The fact that Orio Vergani, journalist, writer and reporter, was, as Montale suggested, "a daily reader of life" is testified to by the "alluvial mass" of writings through which he unravels an itinerary of adhesion to Fascism lived, close to the Second World War, in a problematic way and marked by a pervasive conscientious turmoil in his inventive and diaristic writing. From the recurring knots that permeate the inventive plot of the stories in the posthumous volume "Storie per quattro stagioni" (Stories for four seasons), from 1920 onwards, a restless inner journey is sketched out, culminating, between 1950 and 1959, in the sharp diaristic 'narration' of Misure del tempo (Measures of the t…
Daily rhythms of young children in the 24/7 economy : A comparison of children in day care and day and night care
2017
The study explored temporal variation in children’s moods and compared children in regular day care with those in day and night care in Finland. To examine variation in children’s experiences, a mobile diary was used. The participants comprised 32 young children and their parents and day care personnel. Adults evaluated children’s moods three times daily over 1 week. A clear weekday–weekend rhythm was found among children in day care, who displayed more negative moods, due to frequent hurried mornings. Children in day and night care had more irregular mood rhythms. Boys were evaluated as displaying more negative moods than girls. peerReviewed
A Mobile Diary Method for Studying Children’s and Adolescents’ Emotions : A Pilot Study
2015
Researching children’s and adolescents’ emotions from their own perspectives possesses special requirements for the data collection tools used. In this study, children’s and early adolescents’ emotions were investigated using a mobile diary method. The article describes and evaluates this data collection method and presents empirical results on fluctuation in the emotions of children and adolescents (n = 60, aged 7–14 years). The data, in the form of short text messages, were collected over one week. Every evening, children received seven questions on their emotions. Multilevel modeling was used to analyze the data. The results illustrate the potential of the mobile diary method with childr…
You have a Message from Illi! : The Mobile Diary in Researching Children’s Daily Experiences
2017
Thus far, daily diary studies have mostly focused on adults and adolescents, while only a few have researched young children. In this methodological article, we introduce and evaluate a mobile diary application, “You have a message from Illi”, designed to capture young, under-school-age children’s daily experiences at home and in day care, in the context of a 24 h economy where parents work nonstandard hours and child care is arranged accordingly. We also compare childrens’ mood ratings reported by both the children themselves and adults. Children recruited either from day care centers (N = 15) or day and night and care centers (N = 17) carried smartphones with them for 1 week and reported …
Corylus avellana: A Source of Diarylheptanoids With α-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity Evaluated by in vitro and in silico Studies
2022
Corylus avellana hard shells, green leafy involucres, leaves, and male flowers have shown to be a source of diarylheptanoids, a class of natural products with promising biological activities. Cyclic diarylheptanoids, named giffonins, were isolated from the Italian cultivar “Tonda di Giffoni.” Even if many efforts have been made to establish the chemistry of these compounds, little is known about their biological properties. Herein, the inhibitory effects of diarylheptanoids isolated from C. avellana byproducts against α-glucosidase enzyme were evaluated. Molecular docking experiments disclosed the establishment of several key interactions between all the screened diarylheptanoids and the pr…
Hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapian muutosprosessien merkitys masennuksen hoidossa : terapiaistuntojen välissä sovellettujen prosessien yhteys hoitot…
2013
Masennus on maailmanlaajuisesti yksi yleisimmistä toimintakykyä alentavista mielenterveyden häiriöistä. Yleisimmin sairautta hoidetaan lääkkeillä tai psykoterapialla ja useissa terapiasuuntauksissa kotitehtäviä käytetään hoitoa tukevana elementtinä. Kotitehtävien tavoitteena on siirtää terapiassa opittuja taitoja asiakkaan arkielämään. Hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapia on osoittautunut tehokkaaksi hoitomuodoksi masennuksen hoidossa ja sen käyttö onkin yleistynyt viime vuosina. Hyväksymis- ja omistautumisterapian tavoitteena on asiakkaan psykologisen joustavuuden kasvattaminen, johon pyritään kuuden eri muutosprosessin avulla. Terapiassa käytetään paljon kotitehtäviä, jotka keskittyvät pros…
Plant Specialized Metabolites in Hazelnut (Corylus avellana) Kernel and Byproducts: An Update on Chemistry, Biological Activity, and Analytical Aspec…
2019
Abstract Corylus avellana (hazelnut) is one of the most popular tree nuts on a worldwide basis. The main products of C. avellana are kernels, a nutritious food, with a high content of healthy lipids, contained in a hard shell. In recent years, along with the ongoing research carried out on hazelnut kernels, a growing interest has been addressed to the hazelnut byproducts including hazelnut skin, hazelnut hard shell, and hazelnut green leafy cover as well as hazelnut tree leaf. These byproducts deriving from the roasting, cracking, shelling/hulling, and harvesting processes have been found as a source of “phytochemicals” with biological activity. The aim of this review is to provide a compre…
Un’autobiografia in forma di curriculum. “Asterusher” di Michele Mari
2020
A recent expanded edition of the book Asterusher by Michele Mari (2015 and 2019) suggests some reflections on the completeness of autobiographical discourse. The composition of the autobiographical phototext, with a systematic tripartite form and inspired by the tradition of the emblem, is identical in the two versions. The addition of some pages has not changed the original structure of the volume but asks questions about the possibilities of revision and/or completion of an autobiographical narrative, about the possibilities of rewriting an autobiography in the form of a diary, almost like a “curriculum” with continuous updating.