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Examining Health and Well-Being Through Recreational Rugby: A Phenomenological Perspective on Leisure Participation in Türkiye

This phenomenological study of 11 male recreational rugby players in Türkiye reveals that while participants face intrapersonal, interpersonal, and structural constraints, these barriers are effectively mitigated by psychological benefits, social solidarity, and institutional support, ultimately framing rugby as a vital avenue for character development, social belonging, and health promotion.

Ali Çağrı Gücal, Rıfat Kerem Gürkan, Sevdanur Bozkurt2026-09-11

📄 social science

Development and Initial Validation of the Mindfulness Operationalisation of Eastern Techniques (MOET): A Theory-Driven Extension of Mindfulness Assessment Based on Patañjali's Aṣṭāṅga Yoga

This study introduces and provides initial validation for the Mindfulness Operationalisation of Eastern Techniques (MOET), a 54-item multidimensional self-report instrument grounded in Patañjali's Aṣṭāṅga Yoga that expands Western mindfulness assessment by incorporating ethical, embodied, and spiritual dimensions alongside attentional and acceptance-based factors.

Esther Nena Moszeik2026-09-11

📄 social science

Spatial Inequality of Socioeconomic Services at the Upazila Scale: A GIS-Based Assessment for Sustainable Regional Planning in Coastal Bangladesh

This study employs a multiscalar GIS-based framework to reveal hidden socioeconomic and service inequalities across Bagerhat District's upazilas in coastal Bangladesh, demonstrating that local-level analysis uncovers critical disparities in water, housing, and education that district-wide aggregates obscure, thereby advocating for place-sensitive planning to support sustainable regional development.

Shovon Das2026-09-11

📄 social science

Negative emotional determinism as a protective factor against psychopathological symptoms

This study introduces negative emotional determinism as a novel, pattern-level metric of emotional regularity that uniquely predicts lower future depressive and anxiety symptoms and mediates the link between emotion dysregulation and psychopathology, outperforming traditional moment-to-moment measures like emotional inertia.

Xiaoqing Zhu, Xiaohui Luo, Yunhong Shen, Yinqi Zhang, Yuyin Wang2026-09-11

📄 social science

Career decision-making self-efficacy after a discipline-specific career course for art and design students: a single-group, three-wave explanatory mixed- methods evaluation

This single-group, three-wave mixed-methods evaluation found that a discipline-specific career course for Chinese art and design students significantly increased career decision-making self-efficacy immediately and maintained gains at six weeks, though the uncontrolled design prevents definitive causal attribution while student interviews highlighted the roles of feedback and competing tasks in sustaining or attenuating these effects.

Hang Mao, Jinyong Wu, Longfei Feng2026-09-11

📄 social science

Trust as research infrastructure: realigning research funding with the realities of rural and Indigenous health research

This paper argues that competitive health research funding models are structurally misaligned with the relationship-dependent realities of rural and Indigenous health research, and proposes treating trust as essential research infrastructure supported by specific policy reforms to ensure equitable, community-driven scholarship.

Anurag Singh, Lauren Currie, Carolyn Canfield, Pedro Tavares Queiroz Almeida, Erin Barker, Sonya Cressman, Charles Helm (…)2026-09-11

📄 social science

Archival Agency, Gender, and the Double Diaspora: A Critical Reassessment of Ruby of Cochin: An Indian Jewish Woman Remembers

This paper offers a critical autoethnographic and historical analysis of Ruby Daniel's memoir, *Ruby of Cochin*, to demonstrate how her narrative disrupts Ashkenazic and male-dominated Jewish historiography by centering the gendered, caste-divided, and "double diaspora" experiences of a Cochin Jewish woman through the lens of folk songs, colonial service, and life in Israel.

ANILKUMAR P2026-09-11

📄 social science

Another Argument in Favor of (Hybrid) Exceptionalist Realism on Fictional Characters

This paper advances the argument from parity of generation to support a moderate form of exceptionalist realism, positing that connected names in fiction-involving sentences refer to fictional surrogates rather than ordinary real individuals, a position the author suggests aligns with Kripke's later views.

Alberto Voltolini2026-09-11

📄 social science

Arguing Without Saying: Metaphor and the Reconstruction of Multimodal Arguments in Advertising

This article analyzes three iPhone commercials using pragma-dialectical theory to demonstrate that multimodal metaphors in advertising contribute to persuasion through localized, temporally articulated, and mode-specific argumentative moves that require dynamic reconstruction to be fully understood.

Zhangjingwen Jia, Lotte van Poppel2026-09-11

📄 social science

Sports Betting Participation, Perceived Consequences, and Mental Health Among U.S. College Students: A Multilevel Analysis

Using a large, multi-institutional dataset, this study finds that while sports betting participation among U.S. college students is not independently associated with most mental health issues, those who perceive negative consequences from gambling experience significantly worse mental health and lower treatment utilization, suggesting that campus interventions should prioritize addressing perceived harm rather than mere participation.

Pedro Hernandez2026-09-11

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