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Exacerbate or Alleviate? The Dual-Pathway Mechanism of Job Crafting in the Relationship Between Work Motivation and Job Burnout Among Primary and junior school Teachers

Based on survey data from 480 Chinese teachers, this study reveals that intrinsic motivation reduces burnout through promotion-focused job crafting while extrinsic motivation exacerbates it via prevention-focused job crafting, with both pathways being significantly stronger for novice teachers than for experienced ones.

Rentao Miao, Yaru Su2026-10-22

📄 social science

A Response Surface Analysis of the Interplay between Foreign Language Hope, Hopelessness, and Learner Engagement

Using response surface analysis on 457 university learners, this study reveals that while foreign language engagement is highest when hope significantly outweighs hopelessness, the presence of strong hope can effectively compensate for and mitigate the detrimental effects of concurrent hopelessness.

EL MAKKI AMIRI2026-10-22

📄 social science

Infinite Happiness Is Not Enough: A Dantean Objection to Pascal’s Wager

This paper argues that Dante's depiction of the *ignavi* in the *Inferno* challenges Pascal's Wager by demonstrating that eternal outcomes involve non-welfare dimensions like agency and moral standing, thereby undermining the assumption that infinite happiness alone guarantees the rational dominance of salvation.

Ivan Catanzaro2026-10-22

📄 social science

Explaining the Childbearing Experiences of Female Medical Students during Their Academic Years: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study

This interpretive phenomenological study explores the lived experiences of female medical students who became mothers during their academic years, revealing that rigid educational structures create significant role conflicts and mental health strains, while also offering opportunities for personal growth, thereby highlighting the urgent need for institutional policies and support systems to balance their dual roles.

Neda Rashidi, Sahar Keshvari, Fateme Biabani, Leila Kalani, Marzieh Beigom Bigdeli Shamloo2026-10-22

📄 social science

Digital Mediation, Selfhood, and Hybrid Agency: A Minimal Three-Dimensional Framework

This paper proposes a minimal three-dimensional framework distinguishing cognitive integration, self-representational mediation, and agential distribution to clarify how digital technologies reorganize thinking, selfhood, and control without necessitating a unitary "digital consciousness" or collapsing distinct philosophical questions.

Saida Agzamkhodjayeva2026-10-22

📄 social science

Safer Homes without Fuller Jails: Women's Rights, Alcohol Prohibition and Rights-Based Social Work in Bihar

This article critiques Bihar's alcohol prohibition policy for reducing intimate partner violence while disproportionately criminalizing marginalized communities, proposing a rights-based social work framework that achieves women's safety through non-punitive state duties rather than carceral enforcement.

Sachin Kumar Singh, Navya Naveli2026-10-22

📄 social science

Rethinking The Problem of Nomological Harmony

The author argues that the problem of nomological harmony should be divided into laws-contents and laws-initial conditions issues, demonstrating that the former either does not arise or reduces to the latter, thereby limiting the evidential significance of nomological harmony as an independent argument for third-factor explanations like theism or axiarchism.

Tarik Tijanovic2026-10-22

📄 social science

Untimely Metamorphoses: compressed, relational and suspended time in the life-course transitions of incarcerated man and women in Chile

Based on qualitative interviews with incarcerated men and women in Chile, this paper argues that time in the life course is not merely a chronological scaffold but a contested, uneven dimension characterized by "untimely metamorphoses," where multiple developmental transitions are compressed into abrupt, premature, and cumulative biographical windows.

Liza Zuñiga2026-10-22

📄 social science

Delinquent development in a multi-year cohort of institutionalized boys and girls: shape and predictors of delinquent trajectories from age 18 to 30

Using Dutch register data on nearly 37,000 former institutionalized youth, this study reveals that while employment and cohabitation consistently reduce offending for both men and women, the desistance effect of parenthood is gender-specific (significant for women but not men) and that most individuals follow low-frequency or desisting trajectories, with chronic high-frequency offending remaining a distinct, predominantly male subgroup.

Judith R. Nijensteen, Victor R. Geest2026-10-22

📄 social science

Identifying industry structure and industrial relevance of commercial historic cultural districts using functional co-location networks

This study develops a data-driven framework utilizing Point-of-Interest data and network analysis to classify commercial historic cultural districts into seven industry structure types and identify four underlying industrial relevance mechanisms, thereby offering actionable guidance for optimizing functional mixes and preventing heritage erosion in revitalization efforts.

Lin Yuan, Ding He2026-10-22

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