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Perfectionism and Burnout Among Basketball Referees The Mediating Roles of Self-Esteem and Coping Strategies

This study utilizes Structural Equation Modeling to demonstrate that while adaptive and maladaptive perfectionism differentially predict burnout among basketball referees, these relationships are significantly mediated by self-esteem and cognitive avoidance coping strategies, highlighting the critical role of psychological factors in officiating career sustainability.

Xia Pengjie, Tong Yao, Ma Luhong, Tian Hongmei, Shamsulariffin Bin Samsudin2026-08-11
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Policy, Pedagogy, and Power: Shifting Approaches to Early Reading Instruction in Victoria, Australia 

This study analyzes the shift in Victoria's early reading policy from the flexible, teacher-adaptive Literacy Teaching Toolkit to more rigid, centrally controlled resources like Phonics Plus, arguing that institutional pressures for consistency and a specific reading-science evidence base have narrowed teachers' professional autonomy and interpretive space.

Bree Hurn, Helen Cozmescu, Martina Tassone, Linda Gawne2026-08-11
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Social Media Use, Distress, and Smartphone-Related Behavioral Dysregula- tion Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood

This 2024 German study of 2,042 individuals aged 14–29 found that while psychological distress and smartphone-related behavioral dysregulation are consistently linked across adolescence and emerging adulthood, the specific associations between social media platforms and these outcomes vary by age, with adolescents showing the most diverse and significant platform-specific effects.

Nina Kolleck, Keith Goldstein, Klaus Hurrelmann2026-08-11
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The Epistemology of SSLOO: Workload Periodization, Symbiotic Pauses, and Socio-Technical Supercompensation in High-Complexity Legal Practices

This paper proposes the Symbiotic System for Legal Operation and Organization (SSLOO), an epistemological framework that applies exercise physiology and cognitive load principles to high-complexity legal practices, utilizing periodized workload management and symbiotic pauses to prevent AI hallucinations and cognitive exhaustion while achieving a state of human-AI analytical supercompensation.

Anderson Siqueira Lourenco2026-08-11
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Towards a Relational Model of the Holocaust Geolocalized Approaches to Perpetration, Complicity, and Knowledge

This article proposes Historical Network Analysis (HNA) as a complementary methodological framework for Holocaust research that integrates diverse archival sources into geolocalized relational models to reconstruct the spatial, institutional, and knowledge contexts of persecution, complicity, and historical awareness, thereby revealing structural patterns that narrative historiography alone cannot fully capture.

Fabian Schmidt2026-08-11
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Timing Matters: Age of Onset in Online Child Sexual Solicitation and Abuse and Young Adults’ Well-Being

Using a nationally representative German sample of young adults, this study identifies that while offline childhood maltreatment is the primary predictor of reduced well-being, specific online child sexual solicitation and abuse experiences—particularly unwanted exposure to sexualized material at age 13—also significantly impact long-term psychological health, highlighting early-to-mid adolescence as a sensitive developmental period.

Ann-Christin Haag, Katrin Chauviré-Geib, Emily Piesch, Miriam Rassenhofer, Jörg M. Fegert2026-08-11
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Participative Leadership and Youth Employability in Public TVET Colleges: Explanatory Sequential Mediation by Staff Commitment, Industry Linkage, and Cooperative Training

This study utilizes an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design to demonstrate that participative leadership significantly enhances youth employability in Ethiopian public TVET colleges primarily by strengthening industry linkages and cooperative training, while revealing that staff commitment does not serve as a significant mediator in this relationship.

Ashenaf Argata Yona, Mesfin Molla Demissie2026-08-11
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School Dropout in Rural India: A Survival Analysis Approach

Using a survival analysis of 2017–18 National Sample Survey data, this study identifies that female students, Scheduled Tribes, Muslims, and economically disadvantaged children in rural India face the highest risk of school dropout due to factors such as financial constraints, domestic responsibilities, and institutional challenges, underscoring the need for targeted retention policies.

S.M. Jawed Akhtar Akhtar, Shahid Kaleem Kaleem, Mohammad Ibrahim Athar, Tahawwar Husain2026-08-11
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Subtitling Across Borders: Inference, Relevance, and Audience Access in Global Nature Documentary Translation

This study evaluates the English-to-Indonesian subtitling of Netflix's *Our Planet: Migrations* using the Audience-Centred Subtitling Adequacy (ACSA) framework, finding that while overall quality is high, adequacy losses primarily occur in the pragmatic alignment of stance and ecological register, thereby supporting a relevance-theoretic view of subtitling as constrained pragmatic inference.

Baharuddin Baharuddin, Lalu Ali Wardana, Lalu Jaswadi Putera, Desi Herayana, I Gusti Agung Ayu Sasmitha Dewi Anggita Pra (…)2026-08-11