📄 social_science

Women's empowerment and unpaid care work in Mali

Using data from the 2023–2024 Mali Demographic and Health Survey, this study demonstrates that women's empowerment significantly reduces unpaid care work and promotes economic participation, highlighting the need for policies that enhance women's access to education, resources, and decision-making while fostering a more equitable redistribution of domestic responsibilities.

Yaya SIDIBE, Ndiack FALL, Fousseny DIALLO, Mamady SISSOKO2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Post-Olympic functional transitions: Comprehensive analysis of temporary and permanent accommodation models in contemporary mega-events

This study analyzes the post-Olympic functional transitions of 39 accommodation models, revealing that while most villages successfully convert to residential, student, or mixed-use developments, achieving sustainable territorial transformation requires balancing economic regeneration with social inclusion to mitigate gentrification and displacement.

Valerio della Sala2026-09-02
📄 social_science

SEPI-SIM: An Educational Architecture for Longitudinal Competency Development in Simulation-Based Health Professions Education

The paper introduces SEPI-SIM, a four-phase educational architecture that integrates competency-based education, simulation, programmatic assessment, structured feedback, and learning analytics to transform fragmented educational activities into a coherent longitudinal system for evidence-informed decision-making in health professions education.

Hugo Berríos-Arvey, Evelyn Cisterna-Vega2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Perception spillover shapes social licence trajectories in emerging industries

This paper demonstrates that the social licence of emerging industries, such as seaweed aquaculture, is critically shaped by perception spillover from established sectors, where positive associations can bolster support while negative ones erode it, highlighting the need for governance strategies that leverage favorable links and mitigate adverse ones.

Scott Condie, Corrine Condie, Scott Spillias2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Bridging the Digital Divide: The Role of Digital Literacy of Coastal Women in Sustainable Development in Tangerang Regency

This quantitative study of 1,108 coastal women in Tangerang Regency demonstrates that digital literacy significantly drives sustainable development by enhancing technology acceptance and women's empowerment, with these relationships further strengthened by social capital, thereby offering a unified theoretical framework for addressing the digital divide and advancing the SDGs.

Toddy Aditya, Arif Ginanjar, Korry El Yana, Sukma Aditya2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Environmental responsibility and uneven institutional accountability in Pakistani secondary-school English textbooks

This study employs critical discourse analysis on Grade 9 and 10 English textbooks in Punjab, Pakistan, to reveal that while environmental themes are present, they frequently obscure institutional accountability through nominalization and a lack of explicit governance framing, thereby failing to connect personal ethics with concrete regulatory duties and collective participation.

Irfan Abbas, Khalid Ahmed, Muhammad Nadeem Chohan, Aasia Nusrat, Ahmed Basyoni2026-09-02
📄 social_science

Determinants of Emotional Intelligence and its Association with Psychological Well-Being among mid-adolescents in southern India: a Cross-Sectional study

This cross-sectional study of 2,040 mid-adolescents in Mysuru, India, reveals that emotional intelligence is significantly influenced by socioeconomic and familial factors such as school type, residence, and family relationships, and while it shows a weak positive correlation with psychological well-being, specific groups like government school students, rural residents, and boys are identified as priority targets for social and emotional learning interventions.

Jesymol Joy, Renuka M, Sheeba Pakkan, B M Suraj2026-09-02
📄 social_science

What do you want to be when you grow up? Self-objectification, math competence, and scientific high-school choice among adolescents

This research demonstrates that among Italian adolescents, higher levels of self-objectification are indirectly linked to reduced interest in pursuing scientific high-school tracks by negatively impacting observed math performance and math self-efficacy, regardless of gender.

Chiara Pecini, Luca Andrighetto, Ludovica Calderone, Gian Antonio Di Bernardo2026-09-02