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The present study explores the factorial structure and the degree of measurement invariance of 12 divergent thinking tests. In a large sample of German students (N = 1328), a three-factor model representing verbal, figural, and numerical divergent thinking was supported. Multigroup confirmatory factor analyses revealed that partial strong measurement invariance was tenable across gender and age groups as well as school forms. Latent mean comparisons resulted in significantly higher divergent thinking skills for females and students in schools with higher mean IQ. Older students exhibited higher latent means on the verbal and figural factor, but not on the numerical factor. These results suggest that a domain-specific model of divergent thinking may be assumed, although further research is needed to elucidate the sources that negatively affect measurement invariance.

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Fortuna

10.1093/oso/9780198786566.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Daniele Miano

Keyword(s):

Middle Ages ◽

Historical Development ◽

Conceptual Analysis ◽

Dominant Role ◽

Age Groups ◽

New Approach ◽

Good Fortune ◽

Gender And Age ◽

New Meanings ◽

And Gender

This book focuses on the Latin goddess Fortuna, one of the better known deities in ancient Italy. The earliest forms of her worship can be traced back to archaic Latium, and she was still a widely recognized allegorical figure during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The main reason for her longevity is that she was a conceptual deity, and had strong associations with chance and good fortune. When they were interacting with the goddess, communities, individuals, and gender and age groups were inevitably also interacting with the concept. These relations were not neutral: they allowed people to renegotiate the concept, enriching it with new meanings and challenging established ones. The geographical and chronological scope of this book is Italy from the archaic age to the late Republic. In this period Italy was a fragmented, multicultural and multilinguistic environment, characterized by a wide circulation of people, customs, and ideas, in which Rome played an increasingly dominant role. All available sources on Fortuna have been used: literary, epigraphic, and archaeological. The study of the goddess based on conceptual analysis will serve to construct a radically new picture of the historical development of this deity in the context of the cultural interactions taking place in ancient Italy. The book also aims at experimenting with a new approach to polytheism, based on the connection between gods and goddesses and concepts.

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Different patterns of behavioural and emotional difficulties through adolescence: The influence of prosocial skills

Anales de Psicología ◽

10.6018/analesps.32.3.225031 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 33 (1) ◽

pp. 48 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Javier Ortuño-Sierra ◽

Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero ◽

Sylvia Sastre i Riba ◽

José Muñiz

Keyword(s):

Age Groups ◽

Cluster Solution ◽

Emotional Difficulties ◽

Prosocial Skills ◽

School Based ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Behavioural Patterns ◽

Cluster Composition ◽

Strengths And Difficulties ◽

Internalizing Difficulties

The main purpose of the study was to examine the cluster composition of the analysis on the effect of gender and age of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in a large school-based sample of high school adolescents ranging from 14 to 18 years old (N = 1474). In order to do this, a K-means iterative cluster analysis was performed. A five-cluster solution turned out to be the most parsimonious in the differentiation of emotional and behavioural patterns. A five-cluster solution yielded the following patterns: “No difficulties and high prosocial scores” (n = 418; 28.36%), “high difficulties and low prosocial scores” (n = 239; 16.21%), “high on hyperactivity, low on the rest of the difficulties subscales, and high in prosocial capabilities” (n = 302; 20.49%), “high on emotional and peer problems, relatively low on conduct and hyperactivity, and high in prosocial capabilities” (n = 275; 18.66%), and finally “hyperactivity problems and average in the others difficulties subscales, and in prosocial capabilities” (n = 239; 16.21%). This cluster solution was replicated attending to the same gender and age groups. Nevertheless, differences in the distribution of the cluster composition suggest that difficulties differ by gender and age. The results allow for the conclusion that men reveal a greater number of problems of an externalizing nature whereas women indicate a greater degree of problems with internalizing difficulties and prosocial skills.

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The pediatric patient at a maxillofacial service: eye prosthesis

Brazilian Oral Research ◽

10.1590/s1806-83242006000300012 ◽

2006 ◽

Vol 20 (3) ◽

pp. 247-251 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Beatriz Silva Câmara Mattos ◽

Maria Cecília Montagna ◽

Clemente da Silva Fernandes ◽

Antonio Carlos Lorenz Sabóia

Keyword(s):

Statistical Significance ◽

Age Groups ◽

Age Group ◽

Significance Level ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Child Patient ◽

Eye Prosthesis ◽

School Of Dentistry ◽

Prosthetic Eye ◽

Orbital Region

Congenital absence or loss of the ocular globe during childhood causes psycho-social and cosmetic disorders and compromise the normal development of the orbital region. The literature relating to congenital or acquired etiology, due to trauma or disease, demonstrates the necessity of prevention and early detection in order to minimize the sequelae and disturbances in orbital growth. Installation of an eye prosthesis is essential to the rehabilitation process, so as to produce satisfactory development of the region. In order to characterize a profile of the child patient with this condition, a survey was carried out at the Prosthetic Eye sector, Out-patient Clinic, Discipline of Maxillofacial Prosthodontics, School of Dentistry, University of São Paulo (FOUSP), during the period from 1988 to 2003. The 124 (14.02%) patients within the age group of 0-13 years registered for ocular prosthesis were divided into a first group of 64 patients (51.62%) with 0-7 years, and a second group of 60 patients (48.38%) with 8-13 years. Fifty nine were girls and 65 were boys. No statistical significance was observed regarding the distribution of genders in the two analyzed age groups (p = 0.069). However, there was statistical significance at the level of 0.01 in relation to etiology, with higher prevalence of congenital and pathological disturbances in the younger group and traumatic occurrences in the older group. The etiology also presented variation according to the gender, at the significance level of 0.05, where girls presented three times less trauma than boys in the older age group. The necessity of prosthetic ocular repair was evenly distributed along the childhood period and the eye losses that required prosthetic treatment equally affected both genders. However, the etiology of eye loss varied according to the considered gender and age bracket.

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Use and traditional knowledge of Byrsonima crassifolia and B. coccolobifolia (Malpighiaceae) in a Makuxi community of the Roraima savanna, northern Brazil

Acta Amazonica ◽

10.1590/1809-4392201600796 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 133-140

Author(s):

Rodrigo Leonardo Costa de OLIVEIRA ◽

Veridiana Vizoni SCUDELLER ◽

Reinaldo Imbrozio BARBOSA

Keyword(s):

Age Groups ◽

Indigenous Communities ◽

Ethnobotanical Study ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Adult Men ◽

Fruit Species ◽

Byrsonima Crassifolia ◽

Gender And Age ◽

Northern Brazil ◽

Indigenous Land

ABSTRACT Byrsonima crassifolia and B. coccolobifolia, popularly known as mirixis, muricis, mantecos or nances, are common fruit species in the Amazonian savannas. Their fruits are used in the preparation of juices and other beverages, while the other parts of the plants are used for different purposes in some indigenous communities. The aim of the present ethnobotanical study was to investigate the knowledge and traditional uses of mirixis in the Darora Indigenous Community, of the Makuxi ethnicity, in the São Marcos Indigenous Land, state of Roraima, northern Brazil. The knowledge on these species among the residents was analyzed considering their gender and age. A survey was carried out by means of semi-structured interviews with 60 respondents (36 men and 24 women), between 18 and 84 years of age. Data from the interviewees was compared between genders and two age groups (< 40 and ≥ 40 years of age). Ethnobotanical indices (Informant diversity value; Informant equability value) were calculated, and no significant differences were found in the diversity of uses between genders (U = 283.0000, p > 0.05) and age groups (U = 359.5000, p > 0.05), indicating that the knowledge on the species is evenly distributed among residents. Results show that both species are used for different purposes in the food, fuelwood and medicinal categories in the Darora Community, and this knowledge is widely shared among adult men and women of all ages.

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