📄 social science

A Spatial and Community-Level Examination of Gun Violence: Accounting for Racial Composition and Structural Inequality in Micro-Place Research

This study analyzes 689 shooting incidents in Wilmington, Delaware, from 2019 to 2024, revealing that firearm violence is highly concentrated in predominantly Black and economically disadvantaged micro-places, underscoring the critical role of racial composition and structural inequality in driving spatial disparities in gun violence.

Karen F. Parker, Stefan Nguyen2026-10-19
📄 social science

Developmental Process and Structural Dynamics of Sustainability Consciousness in Job-Hunting University Students: A Path Analysis Approach

This study utilizes structural equation modeling on 366 Japanese job-hunting students to demonstrate that cognitive understanding and empathy drive sustainability consciousness by directly shaping career values and proactive initiative, with value orientation serving as a significant mediator that explains 65.5% of the variance in behavioral engagement.

Takumi Imada, Ami Saito, Hitomi Ito, Daiki Kato, Takashi Tsuruta, Mihoko Tsuruta, Aya Futamura2026-10-19
📄 social science

Digital Community Partnerships and Their Role in Enhancing Intellectual Security Among Youth in the Era of Digital Transformation

This descriptive study utilizing a social survey of 38 professionals found that high-level digital community partnerships significantly enhance youth intellectual security through awareness and skill development, despite facing obstacles like funding and infrastructure limitations that require targeted recommendations for improvement.

Mohammed Hussein Mohammed saleh2026-10-19
📄 social science

Visualizing Cumulative Consequences: Addressing Distance from Effect and Lack of Awareness in Online Commenting

This paper presents a seven-week field study of a browser-based system that visualizes comments on a persistent virtual tree to reduce psychological distance and increase awareness of cumulative consequences, finding that it significantly increased positive and decreased neutral commenting while highlighting the need for randomized controlled trials to confirm causal efficacy.

Osaruiyobo Giwa, Sunjun Kim2026-10-19
📄 social science

Parental Psychological Distress and Child/Adolescent Mental Health Across Two Decades: A Time-Varying Analysis of the UK Millennium Cohort Study

Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, this time-varying analysis reveals that the associations between parental psychological distress and child mental health problems are not uniform but instead vary significantly by the child's age, the specific type of psychopathology (internalizing vs. externalizing), the parent's gender, and the child's sex, with maternal distress being more influential in early childhood and paternal distress becoming more critical for boys' internalizing problems during adolescence.

hao wu, yuanyuan gao, yidie lai, libin zhang2026-10-18
📄 social science

Knowledge Transfer as Contested Practice: Professional Hierarchy and the Mechanisms of Electronic Patient Record Implementation in an NHS Hospital Trust

Drawing on a longitudinal case study of Electronic Patient Record implementation in an NHS hospital, this paper argues that knowledge transfer in professionalized healthcare settings is a contested practice where technical and managerial goals clash with clinical realities, leading to system abandonment due to a mismatch between declarative system design and procedural clinical knowledge, compounded by the reinforcement of existing professional hierarchies.

Firas Masri2026-10-18
📄 social science

From heritage recognition to value reproduction: making cultural value legible in Hong Kong heritage management

This paper introduces the concept of "value legibility" and utilizes a combined FRP-AHP framework to analyze 18 Hong Kong heritage projects, revealing a significant gap where the physical forms of recognized heritage are more easily assessed and sustained than the relational and practice-based dimensions essential for reproducing cultural value over time.

Chenrui Mao, Bowen Qiu, Jing Zhang, Tris Kee2026-10-18