📄 social science

Principals' Leadership Styles and Teacher Job Satisfaction in Secondary Schools: Identifying Patterns and Levels in Kombolcha City

This study in Kombolcha City reveals that secondary school principals predominantly exhibit ineffective laissez-faire leadership, which correlates with lower teacher job satisfaction and a significant self-perception gap, thereby highlighting the urgent need for transformational leadership training to improve teacher retention and satisfaction.

Melese Mengesha Beshah, Awol Ejigu Ayele, Dawit Tsegaye Melaku2026-09-11
📄 social science

The Architecture of Apathy: Understanding the Pathway Towards the Normalization of Harassment in Social Virtual Reality

This pre-registered study of 183 Social Virtual Reality users reveals that harassment normalization is primarily driven by subjective social norms rather than individual attitudes, critiquing current platform designs for privatizing safety and advocating for a shift toward collective "Architectures of Care" that prioritize community-led boundary signaling over individualized safety tools.

Aleksandra Zheleva, Florence2026-09-11
📄 social science

Retributive or Restorative Justice toward Education and Health Non-Civil Disobedience Movement (Non-CDM) Participants in Post-Conflict Myanmar

Through qualitative interviews with Myanmar's Mae Sot diaspora, this study reveals a preference for a nuanced, victim-centered justice framework that distinguishes between retributive prosecution for high-level collaborators and conditional restorative reintegration for low-level non-CDM civil servants, while introducing the concept of "Pha-Yel-Thee" workers to challenge binary transitional justice theories.

Minn Myoh Minn Oo2026-09-11
📄 social science

It’s Not What You Do, it’s What I Expect: The Role of Perceivers’ Predictions in Shaping Social Perception

Using representational similarity analysis and linear mixed models across two independent samples, this study demonstrates that perceivers' prior predictions are the most influential factor in shaping social judgments of trustworthiness and likeability, exerting a stronger impact than facial attributes, emotional expressions, or contextual scenarios.

Carlos Ventura-Bort, Pilar Segarra, Pablo Ribes-Guardiola, Anita Deak, Mathias Weymar, Rosario Poy2026-09-11
📄 social science

Why Does Digital Resource Application In Reading Instruction Vary? A Structural Analysis of Primary School English Teachers’ Practices

Using PLS-SEM analysis of 106 primary school English teachers, this study reveals that while positive attitudes exist, the effective application of digital resources in reading instruction is significantly constrained by environmental factors and moderate perceived applicability, highlighting the need for improved infrastructure and pedagogical alignment to drive meaningful digital transformation.

Caixia Zhang, Yuanyuan Shi2026-09-11
📄 social science

Identity-Driven Passion Refinement: A Process Model for the Ontological Transition of Specialist-Learners in Cross-Disciplinary Education

This study proposes a process model of Identity-Driven Passion Refinement, demonstrating how postgraduate specialist-learners in cross-disciplinary education navigate ontological tensions to harmonize competing professional and entrepreneurial identities, thereby transforming individualistic career motives into a pro-social orientation of Entrepreneurial Stewardship.

Muhammad Nizam Zainuddin2026-09-10