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📄 social_science

How Do Faculty Come to Identify with Voluntary Interdisciplinary Teaching- Scholarship Communities? An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study

This explanatory sequential mixed-methods study of a Chinese medical university reveals that faculty identification with voluntary interdisciplinary teaching-scholarship communities is a dynamic process driven by academic belonging, practical rewards, and emotional connections, which are facilitated by supportive organizational conditions but constrained by power asymmetries and resource scarcity.

Leyuan Xiang, Shengjun Yu, Tingli Zhang2026-07-17
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Collective well-being and the role of the public sector: a complex nexus between innovation and inequality

Through a mixed-methods analysis of 176 initiatives, this paper identifies three distinct patterns of AI adoption in Italian public administration—centralized internal learning, citizen-facing communication, and internal analysis—and demonstrates how their varying degrees of organizational embeddedness influence decision-making autonomy, impact, and governance.

Bruna BRUNO2026-07-17
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The Mediating Role of Maladaptive Perfectionism in the Association Between Problematic Instagram Use and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students

This study of 362 medical students reveals that maladaptive perfectionism partially mediates the relationship between problematic Instagram use and suicidal ideation, indicating that excessive Instagram use increases suicide risk both directly and by fostering perfectionistic tendencies.

Amir Hosein Mohaghegh, Saeid Sharifi Rahnemo, Safura Yaghmaei2026-07-17
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The Association Between Diary Writing and Mental Well-Being Among Lebanese Young Adults: Evidence From a High-Adversity Context

This cross-sectional study of 385 English-speaking Lebanese young adults found no significant association between diary writing and mental well-being, suggesting that the positive effects of personal writing observed in Western contexts may not apply within this high-adversity Middle Eastern setting.

Clara Stephan, Sylvie Amadouny, Nadine Zalaket2026-07-17
📄 social_science

Christian Nationalism and Anticipated Costs of Addressing White Privilege as Predictors of Prototypicality Threat and Opposition to Racial Reparative Policies among White Americans

This study of 222 White Americans finds that opposition to racial reparative policies and feelings of prototypicality threat are primarily driven by anticipated costs of addressing White privilege and Christian nationalist beliefs, particularly among White men, rather than by demographic characteristics alone.

Marlena Debreaux, Sheretta Butler-Barnes, Dominique Tunzi, Eleanor Seaton, Pamela Martin, Seanna Leath, Mykah Doolin2026-07-17
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Navigating the First Racial Encounter: Qualitative Insights and Systemic Interventions for White Mothers and their Biracial Children

This qualitative phenomenological study of 24 interviews with Black-White biracial adults and their White mothers reveals that communication gaps and reactive rather than proactive racial socialization often hinder children's identity development and mental well-being, underscoring the need for clinicians to address these systemic factors in their practice.

Nicole S. McKinney Nicole S. McKinney, Maureen P. Davey Maureen P. Davey, Roberta Waite Roberta Waite2026-07-17
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Participative Leadership and Youth Employability in Sidama Public TVET Colleges, Ethiopia: Explanatory Sequential Mediation by Staff Commitment, Industry Linkage, and Cooperative Training.

This mixed-methods study of 14 public TVET colleges in Sidama, Ethiopia, reveals that participative leadership significantly enhances youth employability primarily by fostering industry linkages that facilitate high-quality cooperative training, while finding that staff commitment alone does not directly predict employment outcomes.

Ashenaf Argata Yona2026-07-17
📄 social_science

Transformational Leadership and Youth Employability in Ethiopian Tvet: A Meta-Ethnographic Systematic Review of Industry Linkages, Cooperative Training, and Skills Development

This meta-ethnographic review of Ethiopian TVET reveals that transformational leadership indirectly influences youth employability by shaping the quality of industry linkages, which are often hindered by institutional constraints and a vision–practice decoupling, ultimately necessitating a context-dependent TL–ILC framework to bridge the gap between policy and implementation.

Ashenaf Argata Yona2026-07-17✓ Author reviewed ⓘ
📄 social_science

The Role of Experiential Learning and Transfer of Learning in the Development of Teacher Training Institutions as Learning Organizations: A Study of Teacher Training Institutions in Jaipur District

This study of teacher training institutions in Jaipur District utilizes PLS-SEM analysis to demonstrate that while Organizational Learning directly fosters institutional development as Learning Organizations, this process is significantly strengthened by Experiential Learning as a mediator and supported by the direct application of skills through Transfer of Learning, despite the latter not acting as a significant moderator.

Minaxi Acharya2026-07-17