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Psychological Empowerment and Employee Behaviour: Examining its Protective Role against Organizational Deviance and its Motivational Role on Creative Behaviour

This study of 489 employees at King Faisal University reveals that psychological empowerment, particularly through the dimensions of meaning and competence, significantly fosters innovative work behavior and mitigates organizational cynicism within Saudi higher education, suggesting that aligning with national vision and enhancing self-efficacy are more effective than autonomy for driving creativity in this collectivist context.

Hussam K. Aldawsari2026-10-06

📄 social science

The Social and Cultural Push Behind Indians Moving Abroad

This paper examines the complex interplay of social and cultural factors driving young, first-generation Indian migrants to the West, moving beyond isolated individual issues to analyze the balance between push and pull dynamics and their willingness to return.

Prashasti Sharma, Nidhi Bansal2026-10-06

📄 social science

Is Consensus a Cue for Quality or Compromise?

This paper argues that bipartisan support generally signals high policy quality rather than undesirable compromise to most citizens, a finding supported by a social learning model and a nationally representative survey experiment showing that cross-party backing improves perceived policy quality by 4.2 percentiles, with negative backlash limited to a small minority who strongly oppose compromise.

Marli Dunietz, Matthew Tarpey2026-10-06

📄 social science

Distinguishing the dynamics of DEI: How diversity undermines government capacity under the pretense of equity and inclusion

This study utilizes PLS-SEM analysis of global data to argue that while diversity alone negatively impacts government capacity and state power, these adverse effects are reversed when diversity is integrated with equity and inclusion, ultimately demonstrating that government capacity, rather than DEI itself, is the primary driver of national development and stability.

Bing Wang2026-10-06

📄 social science

Does Context redefine the Helix? A Systematic Literature Review of the Quintuple Innovation Helix in Multiple International Contexts

This systematic literature review of 426 publications (2015–2025) reveals that while the Quintuple Innovation Helix model effectively integrates sustainability and digital transformation into innovation systems, significant methodological and thematic divergences exist between Chinese scholarship, which prioritizes quantitative efficiency and talent cultivation, and international research, which emphasizes sustainability transitions and theoretical pluralism, alongside shared limitations regarding power dynamics and conceptual operationalization.

ELIAS CARAYANNIS, VASILII EROKHIN, STEFFEN PREISSLER, LEONA ALBERTIN2026-10-06

📄 social science

Female Students’ Motivation to Learn Atomic Orbitals and Hybridisation

This study of 304 female chemistry students in Ghana reveals that self-regulated motivation is significantly associated with their performance in learning atomic orbitals and hybridisation, suggesting that educators should adopt instructional strategies to strengthen this motivation to improve chemistry learning and support Sustainable Development Goal 5.

Joyce Delali Mawutor, Kenneth Adu-Gyamfi2026-10-06

📄 social science

Engaging with complexity in global health education: a qualitative exploratory study of an interdisciplinary challenge-based, design- thinking-inspired workshop in primary health care

This qualitative study of an interdisciplinary design-thinking workshop in global health education reveals that while challenge-based learning effectively helps students engage with complex, systemic health issues, its educational value depends on navigating key pedagogical tensions related to scaffolding, depth, and the balance between fictionalized problem-solving and real-world contextualization.

Martin Bortz, Theresa Anna Stetter, Stefan Bien, Luise Lotte Kramer, Jeannine Schuebel, Henna Riemenschneider2026-10-06

📄 social science

Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Future Realisation of Sustainable Development Goal 4 in Higher Education

This qualitative study employs a futures literacy perspective to argue that while generative AI holds potential to advance Sustainable Development Goal 4 in higher education, its actual contribution to inclusive and equitable educational futures depends not on mere technological adoption, but on how institutions intentionally integrate, contextualize, and pedagogically guide its use.

Zuleika Suliman2026-10-06

📄 social science

Designing Ethnoscience Learning for Sustainability and Creative Thinking in Elementary Science

This study utilized Educational Design Research to develop and validate a Galendo-based Ethno-Education for Sustainable Development module for Grade V elementary science, demonstrating that integrating local culture with scientific reconstruction and project-based learning effectively enhances students' sustainability reasoning and creative thinking while yielding seven key design principles.

Ghullam Hamdu, Agus Wedi, Puti Hera Febiyan, Ade Yulianto, Deni Hadiana, Nunung Nindigraha2026-10-06

📄 social science

Place, Marriage, and Fertility: Evidence from a Planned City in Lowest-Low-Fertility Korea

This study reveals that Sejong, South Korea's planned administrative city with the nation's highest fertility rate, achieves its demographic advantage primarily through elevated marriage rates rather than increased fertility among married couples, suggesting that urban design and institutional contexts significantly influence nuptiality behavior.

Changkeun Lee, Sehoon Kim2026-10-06

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