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Rethinking Innovative Practice Competence in Professional Degree Education: An Integrated Student– Dual-Mentor–Practice-Base Framework

This study proposes and validates an integrated student–dual-mentor–practice-base framework demonstrating that innovative practice competence in professional degree education emerges from the interplay of learner agency, mentoring capability, and organizational affordances, with mentor effectiveness being significantly amplified when embedded within a supportive practice environment.

Zhengsong Zhou, Mingxing Li, Xiaomeng Chi, Muhammad Amir, Yamin Hu, Jie Gao2026-10-20

📄 social science

Perceived Parental Rejection, Bullying Perpetration, and Peer Victimization: The Moderating Role of Self-Control

This study of Pakistani schoolchildren reveals that perceived parental rejection significantly predicts both bullying perpetration and peer victimization, while self-control acts as a protective moderator that weakens these negative associations.

Areej Nasir, Hassan Iqbal, Rabia Iftikhar2026-10-20

📄 social science

Profiles of generative AI chatbot use for schoolwork and achievement among Indonesian 15-year-olds: A latent class and multilevel analysis of PISA 2025 data

Analyzing PISA 2025 data from 14,168 Indonesian 15-year-olds, this study identifies four distinct generative AI chatbot usage profiles and finds that while rare users score slightly lower in science and reading than selective users, intensive use is not associated with reduced achievement, suggesting schools should focus guidance beyond just frequent users.

Umar Yeni Suyanto, Nur Rahmi Akbarini, Febrika Yogie Hermanto, Indra Febrianto, Dilla Octavianingrum2026-10-20

📄 social science

Resilience as Community-Making: Migrant Receptivity in Declining Towns

Drawing on qualitative research across Germany, Ireland, and Spain, this article reconceptualizes resilience as a process of community-making to analyze how declining European towns navigate migrant receptivity through functional and relational configurations, ultimately framing migrant incorporation as a contested social practice rather than a fixed institutional outcome or economic remedy.

Iris Egea, Denis Zeković2026-10-20

📄 social science

Multimodal Generative AI Chatbots for Enhancing Scientific Research Skills: A Self-Determination Theory-Based Mediation Model

This study demonstrates that multimodal generative AI chatbots, particularly those using video summaries, significantly enhance scientific research skills among Omani teacher qualification students by reducing cognitive load and fostering autonomy, competence, and relatedness through Self-Determination Theory-based mechanisms.

Sami AlMazrouii2026-10-20

📄 social science

Varieties of Nationalist Frames and Support for High-skill Immigration in a Developmental Setting

This paper demonstrates that in developing contexts like China, framing nationalism around either learning from or competing with advanced nations can effectively increase public support for high-skilled immigration, challenging the conventional view that nationalist sentiments inherently drive exclusion.

Xinyi Jiang, Li Shao2026-10-19

📄 social science

Age at First Marriage for Females in Yemen: Determinants and Demographic Effects

Using 2013 National Health and Demographic Survey data, this study reveals that the average age of first marriage for Yemeni females is 17.5 years, a practice heavily influenced by illiteracy, family size, and wealth that significantly impacts reproductive behavior and child mortality, thereby necessitating targeted awareness campaigns to address early marriage.

Yaser Mohammed Shaaban, Mohammed Rajab Al-Zahrani, Amani Mohammed AlJohani2026-10-19

📄 social science

Are Pink Robots for Girls? Children’s Gender-Related Toy Preference Toward Robotic Toys

This study of Japanese children aged 3–5 reveals that traditional gender-based toy preferences persist even when robotic toys are modified to appear more girl-oriented, as boys favored robots over dolls while girls continued to prefer dolls, with only a weak shift toward robots observed when they were designed with girl-specific features.

Mako Okanda2026-10-19

📄 social science

Green Human Resource Management Practices and the Just Transition: Advancing SDG 8 and SDG 13 — A Qualitative Content Analysis of Schneider Electric

This qualitative single-case study of Schneider Electric analyzes employee-generated content and corporate disclosures to demonstrate how Green Human Resource Management practices, framed by the AMO model and a just transition, simultaneously advance Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 13 while revealing both synergies and tensions in their implementation.

Shu Yang, Sharmila Devi Ramachandaran, Rejaul Karim, Urvesh Chaudhery2026-10-19

📄 social science

Pilgrimage Economy and Rural Socio-Economic Change: Evidence from Tikarmafi, Uttar Pradesh, India

This study of the Shreemat Paramhans Ashram in Tikarmafi, Uttar Pradesh, reveals that the local pilgrimage economy relies more on the volume of repeated visitor flows and small-scale transactions than on high individual spending, highlighting the need for community-focused infrastructure and vendor organization in rural pilgrimage centers.

Shankar Kumar Lal¹, Sadhna Srivastava²2026-10-19

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