📄 social science

Negative but Not Toxic: How Contextual Political Journalism Channels Public Anger in Comment Sections

By analyzing over 188,000 comments on The Washington Post's political blog, this study reveals that contextual political journalism shapes audience engagement by concentrating participation in specific articles and channeling predominantly negative, yet non-toxic, public anger toward political issues rather than interpersonal conflict.

Yinglei HE, Cheng LIU, Wenbo CUI, Xianhang XU2026-10-09
📄 social science

From Automation to Collaboration: Human–AI Work in Hospitality and Its Implications for Employees, Competencies, Well-Being and Organisational Transformation—A Scoping

This scoping review of 49 empirical studies reveals that the hospitality industry is shifting from simple AI automation to complex human-AI collaboration, a transition that yields both positive outcomes like empowerment and learning and negative ones like technostress and insecurity, ultimately calling for a human-centered framework that balances AI capabilities with employee well-being and organizational support.

Swati Haridas Deshani, Preeti Agrawat2026-10-09
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Students’ Knowledge and Understanding of Environmental Citizenship

This study reveals that Level 100 Social Studies students in Ghana generally possess low-to-average levels of environmental citizenship knowledge and understanding, with no significant gender difference in knowledge but a statistically significant gap where male students demonstrate higher understanding than females, highlighting an urgent need to integrate environmental citizenship content and gender-responsive strategies into the university curriculum.

Alfred Kuranchie, Benard Owusu, Victoria Akolbila2026-10-09
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The Extension of Attachment Theory into School Contexts and Adolescent’s Social and Emotion Skills Development: A Regional Comparative Study

Using data from 46,973 fifteen-year-old students across China and 13 other countries, this study employs machine learning to reveal that student-perceived school experiences—particularly engagement, school belonging, and teacher–student relationships—are the dominant predictors of social and emotional skills, with culturally differentiated patterns indicating that while engagement consistently supports development, belonging and relationships require higher activation thresholds among Chinese adolescents.

Qinghua Wei, Ruoyuan Wang, Tong Zhou, Yi Liao, Xiaoyu Cheng, Ji Ma, Cheng Zhang, Wei Chen2026-10-09
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Teachers' perspectives on the transition of students with disabilities from resource classes to general classrooms in Nepal

This qualitative study of 22 teachers in Nepal reveals that the transition of students with disabilities from resource to general classrooms is hindered by intuition-driven practices, inadequate professional preparation, and systemic failures, ultimately threatening the effectiveness of the country's inclusive education model.

Yadav Acharya, Basu Dev Kafle, Ram Chandra Giri, Pitambar Acharya2026-10-09
📄 social science

Non-self ocean literacy: a Buddhist-informed account of how ocean issues come to matter differently to different people

This article introduces "Non-Self Ocean Literacy" (NSOL), a conceptual framework grounded in Buddhist non-self theory that explains how psychological processes and social conditions shape the varying degrees of personal relevance individuals assign to ocean issues, thereby offering a new basis for education, policy, and public engagement.

Chih-Cheng Lin2026-10-09
📄 social science

Whom Is the Magazine For? The Collective-to-Individual Shift in Korean Periodical Foundings, from Ideology and Public Causes to Everyday Life and Private Interest, 1900–2025

By analyzing 20,890 inaugural issues of Korean periodicals from 1900 to 2025, this study reveals that the shift from collective to individual orientation occurred in two distinct phases: a market-driven transformation in 1988 where readers became buyers, followed by a cultural rupture in 2010 where national addresses were replaced by private interests, demonstrating that individualization involved the stacking of new addressees over old rather than a gradual replacement.

Jungho Suh, Jang-Suk Lee2026-10-09
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Education as a Foundation for Peace and State-Building: Examining the Socioeconomic and Geographic Determinants of Educational Inequality in Somalia

Using nationally representative data from the Somalia Health and Demographic Survey 2020, this study demonstrates that educational inequality in Somalia is primarily driven by socioeconomic and geographic disparities rather than individual characteristics, framing these educational deficits as critical indicators of uneven institutional inclusion and challenges to state-building and peace in fragile contexts.

Burhan Hassan Warsame, Abdinasir Abdullahi, Abdirasak Dahir Sulub, Hassan Sheikh, Mohamed Mohamud Hussein2026-10-09