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📄 social_science

The Effect of Parental Acculturation Strategies on Children's Stress

Contrary to conventional acculturation theory, this study of nearly 2,000 South Korean multicultural families found that parental marginalization was unexpectedly associated with lower adolescent stress, while factors like parental absence, bullying, and low self-esteem emerged as significant predictors, suggesting that family dynamics and communication are more critical than acculturation strategies alone in shaping children's psychological well-being.

Eunjeong Kang, Minah Baek2026-08-27
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Emergent institutional ageism and the protection-autonomy paradox in Romanian residential long-term care: a systems- informed qualitative documentary analysis

Through a systems-informed qualitative documentary analysis of Romanian regulatory frameworks, this study reveals a protection-autonomy paradox where well-intentioned safety and accountability measures inadvertently foster "emergent institutional ageism" by prioritizing procedural compliance over substantive resident choice and governance.

Sorina Corman¹, Dana Zamfirescu-Mareș¹2026-08-27
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Hegemony of Harm: How ‘Disciplining and Correction’ Sustains Violence against Women in Tanzania

This qualitative study conducted in Tanzania reveals that violence against women is sustained not merely as individual acts of abuse but as a socially normalized expression of patriarchal hegemony, where the framing of violence as "discipline" or "correction," combined with institutional failures and intersecting socio-economic factors, reinforces gender inequality and hinders effective prevention.

Alexander Mwijage Ishungisa, Elias Bukundi, Doroth Mushi, Alphoncina Kagaigai, Emmy Metta, Mucho Mizinduko, Bruno Sunguy (…)2026-08-27
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Effects of Linguistic Experience on Subordinate- and Superordinate-Level Picture Naming: Evidence from Mandarin and Zhuang

This study demonstrates that native speakers' long-term morphological experience with language-specific word orders (subordinate-first in Mandarin vs. superordinate-first in Zhuang) transiently shapes the early automatic activation of hierarchical concepts during picture naming, though these effects diminish as semantic integration progresses.

HuaWei Hu, YuZhuo Yan2026-08-27
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Reinterpreting the Transition: A Text-Analytic Approach to Territorial Political Agendas in Spain’s Multilevel Climate Governance

Using structural topic modeling of over 10,000 parliamentary speeches from Spain's Autonomous Communities, this paper demonstrates that multilevel climate governance triggers "political reinterpretation," where statewide parties systematically adapt their environmental agendas to local territorial contexts, often prioritizing regional incentives over national organizational uniformity.

Onsel Gurel Bayrali, Yasemin Irepoglu Carreras2026-08-27
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Partial measurement limits the cumulative evidence for behavioural theories of climate adaptation

A review of 222 studies reveals that behavioural theories of climate adaptation are rarely measured comprehensively or reproducibly, as researchers favor easily measurable constructs over policy-relevant ones, thereby limiting the ability to reliably pool evidence and test theoretical validity.

Sungju Han, Samuel RUFAT, Mariana de Brito, Paul Hudson, Victor Santoni, Sofiia Skipor, Lisa Köhler, Elsa Giffard, Emanu (…)2026-08-27
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Event-Aligned Learning Analytics for Instructor Priority Review: Preceding Performance Signals and Task-Progression Interruption in a Large-Scale Online Course

This study demonstrates that analyzing interpretable within-task performance signals preceding task-progression interruptions in large-scale online courses enables instructors to prioritize resource-constrained reviews at critical transition points, effectively identifying over half of subsequent student interruptions by focusing on a small fraction of the at-risk population.

Zhaohong Zuo2026-08-27