📄 social science

Exploring the Interplay of Mindfulness Workload and Organisational Support in Employee Wellbeing

This study argues that while mindfulness aids individual stress regulation, its effectiveness is significantly limited by systemic workplace barriers like stigma and competitive culture, necessitating an integrated approach that combines personal resilience training with structural workload management and supportive leadership to truly enhance employee wellbeing.

Bhuvan Israni, Tarun Israni2026-10-21
📄 social science

Search in Transition: A Mixed-Methods Study of LLMs and Search Engines in English Test Preparation

This mixed-methods study reveals that university students preparing for English language tests strategically combine LLMs for efficiency and search engines for verification, with those employing a balanced hybrid approach achieving the highest accuracy despite longer task completion times, ultimately supporting a new interface model for trustworthy AI-mediated learning.

Tarek Rahman, Md Shaharia Hossen, Mark Protik Mondol, Jannatun Noor Mukta2026-10-21
📄 social science

Tutorbot pilot study: learning support, feedback and assessment in a crisis intervention module

This pilot study in a South African psychology module demonstrates that while AI-powered tutorbots effectively provide multilingual, formative scaffolding for concept clarification and assessment preparation, their Socratic questioning style can cause frustration, indicating they are best used as bounded supplementary tools rather than replacements for human clinical supervision.

Caroll Hermann, Martin Chanza2026-10-21
📄 social science

A Pilot Evaluation of a Brief School-Based Bullying Prevention Programme in Secondary Education: Changes in Bullying, Cyberbullying and Self-Esteem

This pilot study of a brief school-based psychoeducational intervention for 13 Year 9 students found favorable descriptive trends in reducing bullying and cyberbullying, though the small sample size, lack of a control group, and non-significant statistical results preclude definitive conclusions about its effectiveness.

Maria Bellmunt Borràs2026-10-21
📄 social science

Policy incoherence as a barrier to sustainable industrial transformation in the Chinese furniture industry

This study reveals that policy incoherence, specifically the conflicting fire safety and environmental standards requiring contradictory workshop designs, creates institutional fragmentation that hinders sustainable industrial transformation in China's furniture industry despite firms' willingness and technical capacity to comply.

Jinglin Ding, Suhaiza Hanim Mohamad Zailani, Wentong Chong2026-10-21
📄 social science

Stakeholder Perspectives on the Revision of the EU Tobacco Products Directive: A Census-Level Thematic Analysis of a Public Consultation using a Large Language Model

This study utilizes a large language model to conduct a census-level thematic analysis of 682 technical submissions to the EU's 2026 tobacco product revision consultation, revealing a predominant stakeholder consensus favoring regulatory flexibility and tobacco harm reduction that challenges the prevailing political narrative of precautionary restriction.

Konstantinos Farsalinos2026-10-21
📄 social science

Toward a Decorative Grammar of Chinese Lacquerware in the National Palace Museum Taipei

This paper presents an evidence-aware, relation-based workflow that analyzes 509 Chinese lacquerware objects from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, to construct a descriptive decorative grammar comprising 71 motif classes and 2,054 canonical spatial relations while maintaining a clear distinction between observable structural patterns and historical iconographic interpretation.

Peng Yue, Xiao Zhang, Jia Hou2026-10-20
📄 social science

Body-Image, Sociocultural, and Media-Related Correlates of Cosmetic-Procedure Consideration: A Network Analysis of Iranian Adults with Prior Procedure Experience

This cross-sectional network analysis of 697 Iranian adults with prior cosmetic procedure experience reveals that while body-image, sociocultural, and media factors are interdependent, physical appearance perfectionism acts as a key bridge construct and social acceptance is the strongest direct correlate of considering additional procedures, though the findings remain hypothesis-generating due to the study's design.

Helia Zare Bidaki, Mehdi Akbari, Sajjad Bagheri2026-10-20