📄 social science

Trauma-Informed Teaching in Educational Settings: A Systematic Literature Review of Teacher Practices Promoting Students' Emotional Resilience and Academic Success

This systematic literature review of 48 studies identifies key teacher practices and support systems that, when integrated with social-emotional learning, significantly enhance students' emotional resilience and academic achievement while highlighting the critical need for improved teacher preparation and whole-school support frameworks.

MA Muazar Habibi, Jundu Muhammad Mufakkirul Islami2026-10-09
📄 social science

Contextual Novelty Modulates the Directionality Between Motivation and Pleasure in Daily Life

This study utilizes ecological momentary assessment to demonstrate that while intrinsic motivation generally predicts pleasure more strongly than extrinsic motivation, the specific impact of motivation on consummatory pleasure is uniquely modulated by contextual novelty, whereas anticipatory pleasure is primarily driven by stable individual differences and a bidirectional relationship with intrinsic motivation.

Dingding Duan, Lijing Niu, Ruibin Zhang2026-10-08
📄 social science

“I would not be a burden on a robot.” A scoping review of older adults' ‘lonely-emotional complexes’ when using Social AI (SAI)

This scoping review of 16 studies reveals that older adults' engagement with Social AI is shaped by complex "lonely-emotional complexes" involving diverse emotions and forms of loneliness, suggesting that SAI's effectiveness as a loneliness intervention is complicated by factors like ambivalence, privacy concerns, and the risk of deepening collective loneliness rather than offering a straightforward solution.

Yutao He, Roger Patulny, Dahye Kim2026-10-08
📄 social science

Designing a motion-controlled game framework to develop bodily–kinesthetic intelligence in deaf and hard-of-hearing children

This study presents the development and evaluation of the MBD framework, a universal-design-informed motion-controlled game called "My Super Power," which successfully enhances bodily–kinesthetic intelligence in deaf and hard-of-hearing children through Kinect-based full-body interaction and vibrotactile rhythm cues.

Jicheng Sun, Xina Jiang, Ziqi Gao, Yinuo Li, Xuan Zheng, Wen Zhou, Zihan Gao, Anthony Fung2026-10-08
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Comparing employment and disability outcomes among United Kingdom and United States Armed Forces veterans by race and ethnicity

This study compares employment and disability outcomes for racial and ethnic minority veterans in the United Kingdom and United States, revealing significant cross-national disparities that challenge the effectiveness of uniform veteran support strategies and highlight the need for targeted interventions for underserved groups.

Adriane Clomax, Aarya Menon, Laura Beltran Figueroa, Sharon A. M. Stevelink, Amber R. McKenzie2026-10-08
📄 social science

Bridging academic and societal knowledge in higher education: A Habermasian approach of transdisciplinary knowledge co-production

This paper argues that addressing complex societal challenges requires higher education to move beyond internal academic integration toward genuine transdisciplinary knowledge co-production, using a Habermasian framework to reposition society as a legitimate partner rather than a passive recipient in the knowledge creation process.

Amar Nath, Sumit Kumar Pandey2026-10-08