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Cold War Legacies and the Intergenerational Transmission of Female Poverty in Mainland Southeast Asia

Drawing on diverse historical and ethnographic sources, this article argues that Cold War-era geopolitical interventions in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam institutionalized path-dependent, gendered poverty regimes that continue to shape women's access to education, property, and labor markets across three generations, a claim most strongly supported by longitudinal data from Vietnam.

CHUNYUAN YANG, JINGLAI ZOU2026-09-22

📄 social science

Visual Thinking Strategies as a Means of Mobilizing Theory of Mind in Nursing Education: A Qualitative Analysis of a Pedagogical Approach

This qualitative study demonstrates that Visual Thinking Strategies effectively mobilize Theory of Mind in nursing education by fostering diverse social cognition inferences, particularly regarding uncertainty and multiperspectivity, through the co-construction of meaning.

Pedro Mendonça2026-09-22

📄 social science

Linguocultural and Cognitive Images of Characters in Mukhtar Auezov’s Early Short Prose: Binary Oppositions Analysis

This study employs a binary opposition framework and a novel digital corpus of 1,412 MOOC participant reflections to analyze how Mukhtar Auezov's early short prose constructs unresolved tragic character dynamics that contemporary readers actively reinterpret through the lens of tradition, identity, and post-Soviet trauma.

Svetlana Urazgaliyeva, Kanseit Abdezuly, Mohamed Nor Azhari Azman, Gulzhaina K. Kassymova, Akzharkyn Abuova, Aliya O. Be (…)2026-09-22

📄 social science

‘London Goodbye’: How Russian Social Media Users Perceive the Securitisation of English

Drawing on securitisation theory and an analysis of social media comments, this paper argues that the Russian state's efforts to securitise English as part of its geopolitical confrontation with the West have largely failed to achieve public acceptance, instead provoking widespread delegitimisation and rejection of these policies.

Natalia Wright2026-09-22

📄 social science

The Rise and Fall of “Democracies vs. Autocracies”: Europe, China and the Transmission of a US Strategic Narrative

This paper analyzes the "democracies vs. autocracies" binary as a US strategic narrative under the Biden administration, tracing its origins, transmission to Europe, and reception in China to explain its eventual decline.

Duncan Freeman, Ágota Révész2026-09-21

📄 social science

Education , Income and Well-being: An Empirical Study from Rural China

Using 2023 China Comprehensive Social Survey data, this study demonstrates that rural education significantly enhances subjective well-being both directly and indirectly through increased household income, while health status positively moderates the relationship between income and well-being.

FengXiaohui Feng, Gu Chunyuan Gu, Cai Na Cai, Yan Huiyang Yan2026-09-21

📄 social science

A Latent Profile Analysis of High-Risk Children’s Problematic Sexual Behavior

This study utilized latent profile analysis on 689 high-risk children to identify six distinct subtypes of problematic sexual behavior characterized by varying combinations of interpersonal acts, maltreatment histories, and co-occurring symptoms, thereby highlighting the heterogeneity of these presentations to inform more targeted identification and treatment strategies.

Claudia Campbell, Rachel Wamser2026-09-21

📄 social science

Understanding dynamic learning profiles in AI-supported environments in Vietnam: Evidence from a three-wave latent transition analysis

This longitudinal study of 725 Vietnamese undergraduates reveals that successful adaptation to AI-supported learning is characterized by high self-efficacy and metacognitive regulation with low cognitive offloading, a stable "Optimal" profile that consistently yields higher academic performance than maladaptive patterns of over-reliance on AI.

Manh Tuan Kim, Thi My Loc Nguyen, Trung Tran, Thi Thanh Nghiem, Thi Khuyen Mai2026-09-21

📄 social science

Curiosity, Growth Mindset, and Science Achievement: The Mediating Role of Creative Self-Efficacy in PISA 2022 Data from Kosovo

Using PISA 2022 data from Kosovo, this study reveals that while socioeconomic status is the strongest predictor of science achievement, curiosity and creative self-efficacy serve as key motivational drivers, whereas growth mindset effects appear culturally contingent with a counterintuitive negative indirect pathway through creative self-efficacy.

Fidelis Chinedu Onwunyili, Ifenyinwa Obi, Malik M. Wali Awan2026-09-21

📄 social science

Re-politicising the Interfaith: Diaspora Muslim Youth, Religious Authority, and the Remaking Ofjewish–Muslim Encounter After October 7

This article argues that the events following October 7, 2023, have catalyzed a generational rupture in Western diaspora interfaith relations, where digitally networked Muslim youth are re-politicizing Jewish–Muslim encounters by reframing solidarity with Palestine as a devotional commitment that challenges institutional consensus models and demands a pluralism grounded in contestation rather than the suppression of political disagreement.

Iqbal Akhtar2026-09-21

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