Technical Report, Wellesley College Department of Psychology (5th ed.), 2023

Identity orientations refer to the relative importance or subjective value that individuals place on various identity attributes or characteristics when constructing their self-definitions (Cheek, 1989). The development of the Aspects of Identity Questionnaire began with items that were judged to represent the domains of personal and social identity (Cheek & Briggs, 1981, 1982). Further psychometric analyses indicated that certain items originally scored on the social identity scale (e.g., "Being a part of the many generations of my family") were tending to cluster on a third factor representing communal or collective identity. Therefore, the Social Identity Orientation scale was revised to more explicitly focus on William James’ (1890) conceptualization of the social self, and a new third scale for Collective Identity Orientation was developed (Cheek, Underwood, & Cutler, 1985) and then expanded (Cheek, Tropp, Chen, & Underwood, 1994). Neither the social nor collective scales focus on intimate relationships with close friends or romantic partners, so a fourth scale for Relational Identity Orientation (“Being a good friend to those I really care about”) was added to the AIQ-IV (Cheek, Smith, & Tropp, 2002). The name Social Identity scale was changed to the Public Identity Orientation Scale by Cheek and Cheek (2018). That completed development of the AIQ-IV containing Personal, Relational, Public(Social), and Collective Identity Orientation Scales.

Family Court Review, 2005

In child protection cases, the mental health evaluator is required to have a broad range of expertise in family violence and child and adult psychological issues. This article reviews epidemiological as well as other qualitative and quantitative data to provide an empirical foundation by which to understand the problem of family violence, the characteristics of abusers and victims, and the consequences to the child who is a witness to or victim of family violence. Forensic evaluation guidelines and recommendations for structuring child protection evaluations are addressed.

What is it to see a stove as world (als Welt) and why does the early Wittgenstein use such a curious example to describe what it means to see something as significant (Bedeutend)? I argue that Wittgenstein's odd choice can be best understood in the light of a conceptual relation between value and semantic meaning. To that purpose, I draw attention to his use of the word Bedeutung to denote value, and to the direct connection he draws between seeing as world and seeing with the whole logical space. To see a stove as Bedeutend, I conclude, is to see it in the background of the propositional contexts in which a stove figures meaningfully. My topic is the relation between semantic meaning and value. By value I do not mean arithmetical value, nor monetary value, but the significance or importance that things can come to have for us.

Background and aims: This two-study research was designed to define and predict profiles of compulsive sexual behavior (CSB) among non-clinical population of adolescents, and aimed to fill gaps in the current research. Methods: In Study 1 (N = 1,182), we examined the profiles of CSB among adolescents using latent profile analysis. Results revealed the following three clusters: abstainers, sexual fantasizers, and individuals with CSB. In Study 2 (N = 618), we replicated this classification and examined differences between the clusters in Big Five personality traits, locus of control, attachment orientations, loneliness, age, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), residence quality, use of pornography, and sex-related online activities. Results: Adolescents classified into different clusters significantly differed in personality traits, loneliness, age, SES, use of pornography, and sex-related online activities. Specifically, individuals with CSB had external locus of control, anxious attachment, greater loneliness, higher frequency of pornography use, and more sex-related online activities than the other groups. Discussion: The current research expands the knowledge about CSB by providing a more individualized approach to understanding CSB among adolescence.

Energies

The growing attention to sustainability and life cycle issues by European and international policies has recently encouraged the adoption, in the construction sector, of environmental labels able to quantify the impacts on environment associated with the fabrication of several building materials, e.g., their embodied energy and carbon. Within this framework, since walls represent a large percentage of building mass and therefore of embodied impacts, this article collects and analyzes nearly 180 Environmental Products Declarations (EPDs) of wall construction products such as masonry blocks and concrete panels. The data related to the primary energy (renewable and non-renewable) and the global warming potential extracted from the EPDs were compared firstly at the block level (choosing 1 kg as functional unit), enabling designers and manufacturers to understand and reduce the impacts from wall products at the early design stage. As the design progresses, it is therefore necessary to ev...

MIDM, 2024

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