566 papers
Drawing on semi-structured interviews with 12 Chinese PhD students, this study analyzes how traditional cultural values—specifically reverence for authority, face-saving, harmony, and endurance—compel doctoral students to adopt silence and avoidance strategies when facing supervisor-student conflicts.
This quantitative study of 255 female secondary students in Mogadishu, Somalia, reveals that time spent on household chores and gendered domestic responsibilities significantly negatively impact girls' academic performance, explaining 72% of the variance in their outcomes, while physical and mental fatigue showed no direct statistical significance.
This study investigates how state governance designs, specifically fiscal autonomy and punitive oversight, influence the stability and balance of student achievement across subjects and grades in the U.S., finding limited evidence that fiscal autonomy independently reduces achievement dispersion while suggesting a modest role for punitive oversight in mitigating internal performance imbalances.
This study utilizes multi-group structural equation modeling to reveal that while teacher support fosters growth mindset in both competitive and regular students, the impact of growth mindset on mathematics achievement differs significantly: for regular students, it operates entirely through indirect psychological pathways, whereas for competitive students, it also exerts a direct positive effect on academic scores.
This study employs a user-centred design approach to identify and address specific usability barriers—such as physical interaction, navigation, trust, and comprehension—faced by Swedish seniors using digital postboxes, ultimately demonstrating that actively involving this demographic throughout the design process significantly enhances interface accessibility and user experience.
This study investigates cross-cultural differences in emotional coherence between subjective experience and physiological responses during music listening, finding that Western participants generally exhibit higher coherence than Eastern participants, particularly in response to negative music.
This quantitative study of 1,105 Indian college students reveals that while men endorse the "Man Box" more than women, contemporary Indian masculinity is characterized by a hybrid integration of traditional and transformative values rather than polarization, offering a significant opportunity to promote healthy masculinities by leveraging the strong endorsement of positive traits like caring and emotional expression.
This article employs a corpus-assisted discourse analysis of four speeches delivered during King Charles III's 2026 state visit to the United States to demonstrate how the constitutional monarch and populist President Trump utilized distinct discursive cultures—legal-constitutional versus ancestral-civilisational—to frame their "Special Relationship," while also identifying Charles's use of "veiled directives" as a strategic evolution in royal rhetoric under populist pressure.
A cross-sectional study of 408 undergraduate students at Bayero University Kano reveals that academic overload, financial difficulties, and performance concerns are primary stressors contributing to moderate nervousness, depressive symptoms, anxiety, and sleep disturbances, highlighting an urgent need for targeted mental health interventions.
Drawing on data from 353 students at a Ghanaian public university, this study demonstrates that green skills development is driven by interconnected institutional initiatives, curriculum integration, and campus culture, which collectively enhance students' environmental knowledge and pro-environmental behaviors.