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The psychosocial impact of the existential threat on Kiribati international students in China

Using a qualitative, social constructionist approach, this study reveals that Kiribati international students in China experience profound eco-anxiety and grief regarding their climate-threatened homeland, which they navigate through culturally grounded coping strategies and collective activism, highlighting the need for institutional support that recognizes their agency within transnational contexts.

Lazarus Obed Livingstone Banda, Eretia Mwaene, Jane Thokozani Banda, Chigonjetso Victoria Banda2026-07-31

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The Psychology of Machine Intelligence: Evaluating the Necessity of Artificial Intelligence in Everyday Smart Devices and Automated Systems

This study investigates the psychological implications of pervasive AI integration in daily life by analyzing how constant reliance on automated systems affects human productivity, satisfaction, and creative independence, ultimately questioning whether such convenience enhances human potential or subtly conditions individuals at the cost of their individuality.

Swarnajit Bhattacharya2026-07-31

📄 social_science

Institutional Trust and Household Adaptation to Earthquake Risk: Insights from Post-Disaster Communities in Bantul Regency

This study of 300 households in Bantul Regency reveals that disaster knowledge, experience, and risk perception drive earthquake preparedness by fostering institutional trust, while education and expenditure increase willingness to pay for risk mitigation despite experience reducing it.

Suryanto Suryanto, Muhammad Rizal Anggit Putra, Sepviana Nur Kumala, Hizkia Setya Simangunsong, Sri Widiyantoro, Fitri R (…)2026-07-31

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The Influence of Believability, Credibility and Trust on Social Shopping Intention in Vietnam: The Mediating Role of Subjective Norms

This study of 376 Vietnamese Generation Z consumers reveals that while trust directly drives social shopping intention, credibility influences it indirectly through subjective norms, and believability exerts both direct and indirect effects, highlighting the distinct roles of psychological trust and social consensus in social commerce.

Thi-Trang Tran, Ly-Minh-Tri Tran, Khoa Nguyen, Hoang-Nhut Nguyen, Thi-Phuoc-Loc Nguyen, Thai-Anh-Tai Chau2026-07-31

📄 social_science

Critical Slowing Down, Not Intensity, of Collective Anger Predicts Surges of Social Movement Activity

By analyzing 60 million #BlackLivesMatter tweets, this study demonstrates that the increasing persistence of collective anger, rather than its intensity, serves as a reliable early warning signal for predicting surges in social movement activity.

Daan Vandermeulen, Eran Halperin, Amit Goldenberg2026-07-31

📄 social_science

Cultural Responsiveness and Locus of Control: Pathways to Success Insights from a Systematic Review of Inclusive Higher Education Practices

This systematic review of thirty peer-reviewed articles proposes the CRLoC paradigm, demonstrating that culturally responsive practices in higher education moderate students' locus of control to foster greater academic agency, resilience, and success.

Eva Meizara Puspita Dewi, Fattah Hanurawan, Nur Eva, Fonny Dameaty Hutagalung2026-07-30

📄 social_science

AI discourse in Chinese and German-speaking news media before and after ChatGPT: sentiment analysis and sentiment-informed topic modelling

This study employs a mixed-methods framework combining sentiment analysis, topic modeling, and Critical Discourse Analysis on a corpus of 30,000 news articles to reveal that while Chinese media predominantly frame AI positively around national development, German media adopt a more ambivalent stance balancing optimism with critical scrutiny, reflecting their distinct sociopolitical contexts before and after the emergence of ChatGPT.

Kuanyong Qiu, Luxuan Mao, Jiayi Li, Miaoyuan Li, Martin Luginbühl2026-07-30

📄 social_science

Psychological–Spiritual Resource Profiles and Well-Being Among Nursing Personnel: A Latent Profile Analysis

This study utilized latent profile analysis on 203 Pakistani nurses to identify four distinct psychological–spiritual resource profiles, revealing that well-being varies significantly across these groups and suggesting that interventions should be tailored to specific combinations of motivation, commitment, self-efficacy, and workplace spirituality rather than applied generally.

Ruqia Safdar Bajwa, Isha Zafar2026-07-30

📄 social_science

Evaluating the Empirical Relevance of Clustering in Survey-Based Social Research

This paper introduces Cross-Validated Prediction Accuracy (CVPA), a novel metric that evaluates the empirical relevance of survey-based clustering by measuring its ability to predict independent real-world outcomes, demonstrating that this approach effectively distinguishes socially meaningful groups from mathematically compact ones and performs comparably to expert manual clustering while benefiting from transformer-based embeddings.

Leena Farhat, Simon Willcock, William Teahan2026-07-30

📄 social_science

Proposed Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence Integration in Zimbabwe's Higher and Tertiary Education Sector

Addressing the critical regulatory void in Zimbabwe's higher education sector, this study utilizes a qualitative multiple case study design to propose a context-specific, eight-dimensional AI policy framework that aligns with national and international strategies to guide ethical, equitable, and effective AI integration.

Colletor T. Chipfumbu, Fainos Chokera, Edward Mudzimba, Terrence Kwarayi, Theo Tsokota2026-07-30

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