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Mastery Imagery and Autonomous Motivation in Collegiate Wushu Taolu Athletes: A Function-Specific Examination of Sport Imagery Use

This cross-sectional study of 298 Chinese collegiate wushu taolu athletes reveals that among various function-specific imagery types, only motivational general-mastery (MG-M) imagery serves as a significant, independent positive predictor of autonomous motivation, highlighting its unique role in fostering self-determined drive within competitive martial arts.

Zhang Fan, Nurwina Anuar, Nur Shakila Mazalan2026-07-31

📄 social science

A pilot study of exploring the use of an EFL speaking application called SBuddy

Guided by Design and Development Research Type 1 and the ADDIE and MUSIC models, this pilot study presents the development and evaluation of SBuddy, a GenAI-powered mobile app that effectively enhances EFL learners' speaking skills, motivation, and confidence through personalized, unrestricted conversational practice.

Kamla Al Amri, Muna Aullad Thani2026-07-31

📄 social science

Access to cognitive maps is dynamically shaped by social identity

This study demonstrates that social identity acts as a flexible gating mechanism that dynamically controls access to distinct cognitive maps, allowing individuals to organize relational knowledge and navigate shifting social contexts through the context-dependent reactivation of identity-specific representations.

Grit Hein, Luca Kaiser, Yang Xu, Mona Garvert2026-07-31

📄 social science

The Development of Pedagogical Approaches to Enhance Listening and Speaking Skills in Language Learning

This study employs a Design and Development Research framework to create and validate a structured pedagogical framework that effectively enhances listening and speaking skills in Malaysian Tamil primary education by addressing the limitations of traditional, examination-oriented teaching practices.

Thilagam Birma, Ravindaran Maraya, Selvajothi Ramalingam2026-07-31

📄 social science

Pairwise Go/No-Go Magnitude Comparison with Spatially Arranged Arabic Digits and Turkish Number Words

This study demonstrates that while pairwise go/no-go magnitude comparison tasks reliably engage relative numerical magnitude processing, they do not consistently produce a general small-left/large-right spatial compatibility effect, with such spatial patterns emerging only under specific task conditions and stimulus types.

Şimal Yenigüllü, Ezgi Gür, Merve Bulut, Hakan Çetinkaya, Seda Dural2026-07-31

📄 social science

Designing Small Urban School Grounds for Nature-Based Learning: A Framework for Fostering Children's Connectedness with Nature

This paper presents a theoretically informed design framework, developed and refined through interdisciplinary synthesis and pilot applications in Maltese primary schools, which provides practical guidance for transforming constrained urban school grounds into effective nature-based learning environments that foster children's connectedness with nature through ecologically purposeful design, sensory-rich affordances, and strong stakeholder support.

Desirée Falzon, Elisabeth Conrad2026-07-31

📄 social science

Migration Trajectories of Hadiya Returnees: A Comparative Mixed-Methods Analysis of the Ethiopia–South Africa Migration Corridor

This mixed-methods study reconstructs the migration trajectories of 634 Hadiya returnees from South Africa, revealing that their movements are structured, socially organized systems dominated by a Southern Corridor route and shaped by economic inequality, broker guidance, and safety concerns rather than spontaneous individual decisions.

Temesgen Yaecob, Eshetu Gurmu2026-07-31

📄 social science

Does Missing Information Influence Purchase Intention? Mediating Role of State Epistemic Curiosity

This study demonstrates that missing information in pre-launch teaser advertising positively influences purchase intention primarily by triggering state epistemic curiosity, which acts as a significant mediator, rather than through a direct negative effect as previously hypothesized.

Ahmad Toriqur Rizqi, Muhammad Fajar Wahyudi Rahman, Ratih Amelia, Fresha Kharisma2026-07-31

📄 social science

Body Weight Dissatisfaction, Social Appearance Anxiety, and Restrained Eating in Chinese Mother-Son and Mother-Daughter Dyads

This cross-sectional study of 351 Chinese mother–adolescent dyads reveals that body weight dissatisfaction and social appearance anxiety are significantly linked to restrained eating both within individuals and across the dyad, with distinct gender-specific patterns showing stronger cross-partner influences in mother–daughter relationships compared to mother–son relationships.

Lilin Long, Ting Wang, Yunyi Cheng, Peiyi Wang, Wesley R. Barnhart, Jason M. Nagata, Gui Chen, Jinbo He2026-07-31

📄 social science

The Longitudinal Relationship Between Family Sports Behavior Environment and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Middle School Students: The Mediating Role of Short Video Addiction and Depression

This longitudinal study of 968 middle school students reveals that a positive family sports behavior environment significantly reduces non-suicidal self-injury by sequentially decreasing short video addiction and depression.

Ruotong Yang, Guiqing Gao, Rui Zhang, Jiahui Rong, Xinchao Gao2026-07-31

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