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Università della Svizzera italiana

A psychometric analysis of the Daily Drinking Questionnaire in a nationally representative sample of young adults from a Mediterranean drinking culture

Piumatti, G. ; Aresi, G. ; Marta, E.

In: Journal of ethnicity in substance abuse, 2021, p. 1-19

Aims: To examine psychometric properties of the Daily Drinking Questionnaire (DDQ) in a Mediterranean “wet” drinking culture. Methods: Three studies were conducted using random samples drawn from a representative sample of Italian young adults (N¼5,955; females ¼ 62%; mean age ¼ 27): Study 1 explored the factorial structure of weekly alcohol consumption; in Study 2 multi-group...

Università della Svizzera italiana

Text mining for online mental health state and personality assessment

Ríssola, Esteban A. ; Crestani, Fabio (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2021 ; 2021INFO009.

Advances on psycho-linguistics have evidenced that the ways in which people use words could act as a reliable source to assess a wide array of behaviours. Language use acts as an indicator of the individuals’ current mental state, personality and even personal values. In this thesis, we focus on language analysis to study two closely related processes which encompass integral components of...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

Direct to Consumer Advertising: The Case for Greater Consumer Control

Guessous, Idris ; Dash, Chiranjeev

In: Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015, vol. 30, no. 4, p. 392-394