566 papers
This preregistered field experiment reveals that while hiding Instagram engagement metrics reduces passive content consumption and increases perceived social support, its impact on overall well-being is moderated by neuroticism, benefiting highly neurotic users while offering little to no advantage—or even a slight cost—to less neurotic users.
This mini literature review argues that achieving sustainable clean water access depends less on physical infrastructure alone and more on strengthening local government capacity, fostering collaborative governance, and implementing equitable financing mechanisms to overcome institutional fragmentation and political interference.
This systematic literature review utilizes bibliometric analysis to identify the psychological, financial, and structural challenges facing Master's and PhD students, ultimately advocating for holistic institutional reforms—including structured mentorship, equitable funding, and mental health resources—to foster academic resilience and equitable knowledge production.
This study proposes a Systems Thinking-based framework that utilizes tools like Causal Loop Diagrams and Participatory Systems Mapping to analyze the dynamics of informal settlements, identify leverage points, and develop effective, sustainable policies through stakeholder engagement and continuous evaluation.
This study examines how Central Asia navigates the shifting dynamics of the New Cold War through economic competition and hybrid warfare, proposing strategies like trade diversification and cybersecurity strengthening to maintain regional autonomy and stability amidst the competing interests of the US, China, and Russia.
Grounded in CAAI theory and a leave-no-trace perspective, this study empirically investigates how nature connection influences environmental empathy behavior among outdoor adventurers in China through a chained mediation model involving ecological affect and place attachment, aiming to address ecological damage and promote sustainable industry development.
Drawing on interviews and satirical examples from Chinese social media, this paper introduces the concept of "expressive engineering" to explain how users collaboratively construct, encode, and stabilize indirect political satire through a four-stage process to navigate risks while fostering group safety and shared understanding.
This longitudinal mixed-method study demonstrates that the Nitte Gram Panchayat's decentralized Material Recovery Facility model achieves socio-technical and behavioural sustainability through significant improvements in waste segregation and collection, economic viability, and social inclusion driven by community involvement, institutional trust, and local governance.
This longitudinal constructionist case study of five Kyoto Seika University students tracks their evolving mental models and distinct positions on AI as a creative collaborator over 25 months, revealing a five-part spectrum of stances and identifying specific mechanisms where AI scaffolding fails to support realization.
This multi-site qualitative study demonstrates that managing Islamic Religious Education through local wisdom functions as an effective cultural bridge mechanism for fostering intercultural sensitivity in vocational tourism schools by integrating indigenous Sasak values into curriculum, governance, and pedagogy, with outcomes varying across distinct ecological and pedagogical contexts.