Work symbolic motive scale: development and validation of a measure of affective investment at work

Fregonese, Chiara; Caputo, Andrea; Langher, Viviana

doi:10.1504/ijwoe.2018.097156

“…Concerning theoretical implications, the present study underlines the relevance of personal interests and motivations in decisions for postgraduate psychotherapy training, with status achievement and reassuring membership in the psychotherapy profes-sional community as main underlying expectations (Carlsson et al, 2011;. In this regard, future studies could inspect the role of different symbolic and affective motives, such as achievement, affiliation, power and autonomy (e.g., Fregonese, Caputo, & Langher, 2018a), in undertaking psychotherapy training and taking up psychotherapy as a career. As well, the use of constructs of career adaptability and reparation could be fruitful to understand to what extent such choices are actually oriented to develop personal resources and knowledge or involve defensive patterns to remedy a defective professional identity as psychologists (Caputo et al, 2020;Langher, Caputo, Nannini, & Sturiale, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

Why do Italian psychology graduates dream of becoming psychotherapists?

Caputo

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Mastrantonio

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The role of potential motivations for psychotherapy training is receiving growing attention in the context of psychotherapy research. The present study examines the entire decision-making process for undertaking psychotherapy training in Italian psychology graduates. This is a quali-quantitative study using mixed methods and recruiting from a convenience sample. An on-line questionnaire - with open-ended questions about problem/need recognition, information search, alternative evaluation, purchase, and post-purchase outcomes - was administered to psychology graduates interested in, undertaking or having already completed psychotherapy training (as types of respondents), overall including 549 participants (86 % females, Mage = 36.27 years). The strategy of analysis consisted of computer-aided text analysis (by using T-Lab software) and content analysis for examining responses and identifying the main themes for each open-ended question. Then, a cluster analysis was performed for grouping respondents from the previously detected themes. Three different clusters of participants were detected (respectively composed of 14.6 %, 51.2 % and 34.2 %) that were different by age, F (2, 455) = 11.878, p < .001, and type of respondents, χ² (4, N = 459) = 27.588, p < .001. Such clusters were mainly featured by different key factors for selecting a psychotherapy school, orientation preferences and motivations for psychotherapy training (p < .05, at 95 % confidence level). Overall, the results highlighted the perception of a gap in previous academic training, a reduced focus on professional development and the use of rigid strategies as critical issues related to the decision to undertake psychotherapy training.

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“…Concerning theoretical implications, the present study underlines the relevance of personal interests and motivations in decisions for postgraduate psychotherapy training, with status achievement and reassuring membership in the psychotherapy profes-sional community as main underlying expectations (Carlsson et al, 2011;. In this regard, future studies could inspect the role of different symbolic and affective motives, such as achievement, affiliation, power and autonomy (e.g., Fregonese, Caputo, & Langher, 2018a), in undertaking psychotherapy training and taking up psychotherapy as a career. As well, the use of constructs of career adaptability and reparation could be fruitful to understand to what extent such choices are actually oriented to develop personal resources and knowledge or involve defensive patterns to remedy a defective professional identity as psychologists (Caputo et al, 2020;Langher, Caputo, Nannini, & Sturiale, 2016).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 81%

¿Por qué los licenciados en psicología italianos sueñan con convertirse en psicoterapeutas? Un estudio sobre la toma de decisiones para emprender la formación psicoterapéutica

Caputo

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Langher

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et al. 2020

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“…For smooth functioning of various organisations and institutions, mother-friendly atmosphere is highly desirable. The following studies depict the empirical study on work organisation and emotions: Fregonese et al (2018) proposed a conceptualisation and an operational measure for affective investment and symbolic motives at work. The work-symbolic motive scale (Work-SMS) score gave a general measure of affective investment.…”

Section: Text-based Approachesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Human emotion detection based on questionnaire and text analysis

Ghosh

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Sinha

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2019

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Human emotions have been described by some theorists as discrete and consistent responses to internal or external events which have a particular significance for the organism. Emotions are the topic of extensive research in the recent times. However, state of the art describes that most of the approaches on emotion detection have been designed on the basis of complex and costly approaches like physiological features, brain signals, etc. The present article presents a simple and cost-effective emotion detection model by combining questionnaire and text analysis-based approaches and then combining the probability scores of two different classifiers (support vector machine and artificial neural network) using Dempster-Shafer theory (DST). In the present work, DST has been used effectively in combining multiple information sources which provides incomplete, imprecise, and biased knowledge. Experimental results show that the proposed system outperforms all existing emotion detection systems available in the literature.

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Work symbolic motive scale: development and validation of a measure of affective investment at work

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Why do Italian psychology graduates dream of becoming psychotherapists?

Why do Italian psychology graduates dream of becoming psychotherapists?

¿Por qué los licenciados en psicología italianos sueñan con convertirse en psicoterapeutas? Un estudio sobre la toma de decisiones para emprender la formación psicoterapéutica

Human emotion detection based on questionnaire and text analysis

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