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Psychometric testing of the Norwegian version of the questionnaire Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU-24)
2018
Bjørg Dale,1 Gro Frivold2 1Centre for Caring Research, Southern Norway, University of Agder, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Grimstad, Norway; 2University of Agder, Faculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Grimstad, Norway Introduction: The questionnaire, Family Satisfaction in the Intensive Care Unit (FS-ICU-24), was developed to assess relatives’ satisfaction with care and involvement in decision-making processes when a close family member stays in the ICU Aim: This study was aimed at describing the translation and exploring the psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the questionnaire. Methods: The study design was a cross-sectional survey. After trans…
Assessment of Burden Among Family Caregivers of Schizophrenia: Psychometric Testing for Short-Form Zarit Burden Interviews
2018
Objective: Although various short forms of Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) have been developed, there is a lack of standard psychometric testing and comparison among them. The study aims to examine the psychometric properties of ten short versions of the most frequently used ZBI among a sample of schizophrenia caregivers and to find the one with the best performance.Methods: Cross-sectional door-to-door survey of ZBI-22 and a series of validated instrument data from 327 family caregivers of schizophrenia patients in a Chinese rural community were conducted from October 2015 to January 2016. Reliability was assessed using McDonald's omega coefficient (ω). Validity including concurrent validity,…
Cultural Adaptation of the Modified Version of the Conflicts Tactics Scale (M-CTS) in Mexican Adolescents
2019
Several scales are used in Dating Violence studies assuming cross-cultural invariance and equivalence of the measures without making the proper validation in the intended populations. This study focuses on the importance of adapting existing dating violence psychological instruments (as the widely recognized Modified Version of the Conflict Tactics Scale, M-CTS) in diverse adolescent populations adjusting to international validation procedures that ensure the cultural fit of the instrument and the measurement invariance of the construct. We sought to adapt the M-CTS in Mexican adolescents (N = 1861; 57.5% woman) following the ITC Guidelines for Translating and Adapting Test. We made an anal…
Gratitude Questionnaire–20 Items (G20): A Cross-Cultural, Psychometric and Crowdsourcing Analysis
2020
The use in psychology of crowdsourcing platforms as a method of data collection has been increasing in popularity because of its relative ease and versatility. Our goal is to adapt the Gratitude Questionnaire–20 Items (G20) to the English language by using data collected through a crowdsourcing platform. The G20 is a comprehensive instrument that takes in consideration the different basic processes of gratitude and assesses the construct’s cognitive, evaluative, emotional, and behavioral processes. We test the psychometric properties of the English version of the G20 with a Prolific (ProA) user sample. We assess the adequacy of the G20 for the crowdsourcing population in its English version…
Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union concerning the value of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
2022
In this publication, I comment you on Article 6 of the Treaty on European Union concerning the value of the Charter of Fundamental Rights
Il dirigente pubblico e i suoi poteri alla luce della riforma Madia
2018
L'a. descrive il tormentato iter di riforma della dirigenza pubblica e ne mette in luce i profili problematici quali la partecipazione alle trattative sindacali e la valutazione del personale.
Una pubblica amministrazione al servizio dei cittadini. Il ruolo della dirigenza pubblica
2022
Il saggio prende avvio dalla considerazione che il ruolo manageriale della dirigenza è attanagliato dalla persistenza di tutta una serie di vincoli normativi e di responsabilità diffuse che ostacolano, pur quando possibile, una gestione improntata a canoni simili a quelli della dirigenza privata. Nello sviluppo del testo l'A. indica le ricette per sciogliere questi nodi problematici secondo quanto condiviso dalla maggioranza degli esperti della materia. La linea guida dovrebbe essere costituita dalla realizzazione in concreto del suddetto principio di distinzione, soprattutto rafforzando la dirigenza pubblica sul piano strutturale. Si tratta, infatti, di agire, anzitutto, su tutte le porosi…
Il dirigente pubblico e i suoi poteri alla luce della riforma Madia
2019
La dirigenza pubblica vive, da diverso tempo, vicende alquanto tormentate. È noto che ad essa è stato attribuito un ruolo centrale da parte del legislatore che ha avviato la stagione riformatrice apertasi all’inizio degli anni novanta del secolo scorso. Tuttavia, nonostante i molteplici ritocchi dello statuto della dirigenza effettuati nel corso degli anni, restano e non sono mai stati sciolti tanti nodi, di vario genere e determinati da diverse fonti, che ostacolano l’effettiva possibilità per la dirigenza di svolgere le funzioni assegnate nel modo migliore: e cioè, comportandosi come un vero e proprio manager. D’altra parte, la presenza di una dirigenza che si muova in un’ottica manageria…
Defense against predators incurs high reproductive costs for the aposematic moth Arctia plantaginis
2020
Abstract To understand how variation in warning displays evolves and is maintained, we need to understand not only how perceivers of these traits select color and toxicity but also the sources of the genetic and phenotypic variation exposed to selection by them. We studied these aspects in the wood tiger moth Arctia plantaginis, which has two locally co-occurring male color morphs in Europe: yellow and white. When threatened, both morphs produce defensive secretions from their abdomen and from thoracic glands. Abdominal fluid has shown to be more important against invertebrate predators than avian predators, and the defensive secretion of the yellow morph is more effective against ants. Her…
Diversity in warning coloration: selective paradox or the norm?
2019
Aposematic theory has historically predicted that predators should select for warning signals to converge on a single form, as a result of frequency-dependent learning. However, widespread variation in warning signals is observed across closely related species, populations and, most problematically for evolutionary biologists, among individuals in the same population. Recent research has yielded an increased awareness of this diversity, challenging the paradigm of signal monomorphy in aposematic animals. Here we provide a comprehensive synthesis of these disparate lines of investigation, identifying within them three broad classes of explanation for variation in aposematic warning signals: …