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Zira Hichy
Researcher at University of Catania
Publications - 48
Citations - 519
Zira Hichy is an academic researcher from University of Catania. The author has contributed to research in topics: Secularism & Anxiety. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 43 publications receiving 360 citations.
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Italian Validation of Smartphone Addiction Scale Short Version for Adolescents and Young Adults (SAS-SV)
TL;DR: In this article, a validated version of Smartphone Addiction Scale for Adolescent (SAS-SV) in Italian languages is presented, which is a 10-item, monodimensional, self-administered questionnaire, which was validated using a large Korean sample.
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Facial Expressions and Ability to Recognize Emotions From Eyes or Mouth in Children
TL;DR: The findings seem to indicate that children correctly recognize basic facial expressions when pictures represent the whole face, except for a neutral expression, which was recognized from the mouth, and sadness, which came from the eyes.
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Reconsidering 'virtuous circle' and 'media malaise' theories of the media: An 11-nation study
James Curran,Sharon Coen,Stuart Soroka,Toril Aalberg,Kaori Hayashi,Zira Hichy,Shanto Iyengar,Paul Jones,Gianpietro Mazzoleni,Stylianos Papathanassopoulos,June Woong Rhee,Hernando Rojas,David Rowe,Rod Tiffen +13 more
TL;DR: This article explored the split between those who see the media as politically alienating and others who see media as encouraging greater political involvement and found that men and elites are overwhelmingly represented in public affairs news.
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Metacognitive Strategies and Work Motivation in Teachers: An Empirical Study
TL;DR: In this paper, a study was conducted to verify the relationship between the use of metacognitive strategies in teaching and work motivation in primary and secondary Italian schools, and the results showed positive correlations between met-acognitive attitude work motivation and satisfaction.
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Effects of basic human values on host community acculturation orientations.
TL;DR: Testing the effects of four high-order values on host community acculturation orientations towards immigrants showed that personal values are related to the adoption of accults, and the values that mostly impacted on accults were self-transcendence and conservation.