Cross-validation of the reduced form of the food craving questionnaire -trait using confirmatory factor analysis

Objective: The Food Craving Questionnaire-Trait (FCQ-T) is commonly used to assess habitual food cravings among individuals. Previous studies have shown that a brief version of this instrument (FCQ-T-r) has good reliability and validity. This article is the first to use Confirmatory factor analysis to examine the psychometric properties of the FCQ-T-r in a cross-validation study. Method: Habitual food cravings, as well as emotion regulation strategies, affective states, and disordered eating behaviors, were investigated in two independent samples of non-clinical adult volunteers (Sample 1: N = 368; Sample 2: N = 246). Confirmatory factor analyses were conducted to simultaneously test model fit statistics and dimensionality of the instrument. FCQ-T-r reliability was assessed by computing the composite reliability coefficient. Results: Analysis supported the unidimensional structure of the scale and fit indices were acceptable for both samples. The FCQ-T-r showed excellent reliability and moderate to high correlations with negative affect and disordered eating. Conclusion: Our results indicate that the FCQ-T-r scores can be reliably used to assess habitual cravings in an Italian non-clinical sample of adults. The robustness of these results is tested by a cross-validation of the model using two independent samples. Further research is required to expand on these findings, particularly in children and adolescents

El teatro musical de Arena y Opinião: popular, histórico y auténticamente brasileño

In the 1960s, a handful of Brazilian plays, presented as musicals, re-examined national historical figures. In these plays, the lines articulated by the actors carry as much weight as the musical notes and rhythms performed by the musicians. In Arena Conta Zumbi (1965), Arena Conta Tiradentes (1967), and Dr. Getúlio, Sua Vida e Sua Glória (1968), theatre troupes perform the life and historical times of prominent national heroes. The protagonists are characters whose lives are well known by all: King Zumbi of Palmares, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, also known as Tiradentes, and former president Getúlio Vargas. The directors —Augusto Boal, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Alfredo Dias Gomes, and Antônio Ferreira Gullar— do not detract from the protagonists’ historical importance, but they do strip away superfluous details and information that have made these mythical figures appear saintly and virtuous and not the human beings that they were. Music creates a distance that allows the audience to better understand the implications of their actions and contributions to the national stage. These plays criticized the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time and had considerable influence on the Brazilian theatre of the future

El teatro musical de Arena y Opinião: popular, histórico y auténticamente brasileño

In the 1960s, a handful of Brazilian plays, presented as musicals, re-examined national historical figures. In these plays, the lines articulated by the actors carry as much weight as the musical notes and rhythms performed by the musicians. In Arena Conta Zumbi (1965), Arena Conta Tiradentes (1967), and Dr. Getúlio, Sua Vida e Sua Glória (1968), theatre troupes perform the life and historical times of prominent national heroes. The protagonists are characters whose lives are well known by all: King Zumbi of Palmares, Joaquim José da Silva Xavier, also known as Tiradentes, and former president Getúlio Vargas. The directors —Augusto Boal, Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, Alfredo Dias Gomes, and Antônio Ferreira Gullar— do not detract from the protagonists’ historical importance, but they do strip away superfluous details and information that have made these mythical figures appear saintly and virtuous and not the human beings that they were. Music creates a distance that allows the audience to better understand the implications of their actions and contributions to the national stage. These plays criticized the Brazilian military dictatorship of the time and had considerable influence on the Brazilian theatre of the future

La recontextualización de Antígona en el teatro argentino y brasileño a partir de 1968

La recontextualización de Antígona en el teatro argentino y brasileño a partir de 196

The Transmission Acoustic Scattering Problem for Bi-Spheres in Low-Frequency Regime

An acoustically soft sphere covered by a penetrable eccentric spherical shell disturbs the propagation of an incident plane wave field. It is shown that there exists exactly one bispherical coordinate system that describes the given geometry. The incident wave is assumed to have a wavelength which is much larger than the characteristic dimension of the scatterer and thus the low-frequency approximation method is applicable to the scattering problem. The incomplete R-separation of variables in bispherical coordinates and the normal differentiation involved in the transmission boundary conditions lead to a three-term recurrence relation for the series coefficients corresponding to the scattered fields. Thus, the potential boundary-value problem for the leading low-frequency approximations is reduced to infinite tridiagonal linear systems, which are solved analytically

The influence of prior practice and handedness on the orthogonal Simon effect

When stimuli are arranged vertically and responses horizontally, right-handed participants respond faster with right responses to stimuli presented above fixation and with left responses to stimuli presented below fixation, even when stimulus position is task-irrelevant (orthogonal Simon effect). The aim of the present work was twofold. First, we assessed whether the orthogonal Simon effect evident in right-handed participants is present also for left-handed participants (Experiment 1). Second, we investigated whether for both groups of participants the orthogonal Simon effect is influenced by the stimulus-response (S-R) mapping used for an orthogonal spatial S-R compatibility task performed 5 min before (Experiment 2). Our results showed that the orthogonal Simon effect significantly differed in the two groups, with left-handers showing an advantage for the up-left/down-right mapping (Experiment 1). Interestingly, the orthogonal Simon effect was strongly influenced by prior practice regardless of the participants\u2019 handedness (Experiment 2). These results suggest that the short-term S-R associations acquired during practice can override the long-term, hardwired associations established on the basis of handedness

Does a look of fear prompt to act? The effects of gaze and face emotional expression on manipulable objects

Gaze direction is an important social cue for understanding the intentions of other people. Indeed, interacting with others requires the ability to encode their current focus of attention in order to predict their future actions. Previous studies have showed that when asked to detect or identify a target, people are faster if shown a gaze oriented toward rather than away from that target. Most importantly, there is evidence that the emotion conveyed by the face with the averted gaze matters. We further tested the interplay between gaze and face emotion in the context of manipulable objects to understand whether and to what extent other people's gaze influences our own actions toward objects. Participants judged whether a target graspable object was upright or inverted after viewing a face cue with a central or averted gaze. Importantly, the target's handle could be oriented toward the gazed-at location or the opposite side such that gaze and handle were corresponding or non-corresponding in space. Furthermore, we manipulated the expression of the cue by using neutral and fearful faces. Results showed a handle-response (H-R) compatibility effect (i.e., a facilitation when the response key is on the same side as the object's handle) only with fearful cues with a central gaze