2920 papers
This paper introduces the Drive-to-Design (D2D) Framework, an analogy-based pedagogical model that conceptualizes research design as a motor-vehicle journey to help higher education students better understand and integrate abstract, interdependent methodological concepts.
This paper introduces and validates the APSIT index, a new two-dimensional measure of issue-based affective polarization grounded in social identity theory, which reveals that while outgroup hostility drives democratic costs across all issue camps, ingroup love among supporters can partially offset these negative effects.
This documentary study evaluates Nigeria's Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as a tool to combat ghost workers, concluding that while it achieved significant initial successes in reducing personnel costs and clearing fake employees, its overall impact on curbing corruption remains limited due to implementation challenges such as agency resistance and technical failures.
This cross-sectional study of Iranian older adults reveals that while real-life social network size is the strongest predictor of social and overall loneliness, virtual social network use independently helps alleviate emotional loneliness, suggesting that digital communication should complement rather than replace face-to-face interactions in interventions.
Three years after the 2023 Türkiye earthquakes, this study found that posttraumatic growth coexists with persistent psychological distress and PTSD symptoms among survivors, with self-compassion and resilience serving as protective moderators that weaken the link between growth and general distress but not between growth and PTSD.
This paper argues that the Subaltern Studies school fails to explain the persistence of Dalit social alienation despite political gains because it overlooks everyday non-colonial domination, a dynamic illustrated by the Bahujan Samaj Party's trajectory in Uttar Pradesh, where upper-caste hegemony, sustained through ideological absorption in civil society rather than coercion, ultimately reabsorbed and displaced the party's anti-caste mobilization.
This paper challenges the notion that weather is a primary barrier to active mobility in Indian cities, arguing instead that urban form and inadequate infrastructure are the true determinants of non-motorised transport rates, thereby framing investment in climate-responsive NMT infrastructure as a critical imperative for equity and safety.
This article introduces the concept of "constitutional latency" to describe the intermediate state of subjects like migrants and future generations who are normatively affected by constitutional orders yet institutionally deferred, arguing that constitutional legitimacy depends not on eliminating this condition but on ensuring it remains contestable rather than hardening into exclusion.
This cross-sectional quantitative study of 300 female academics reveals that invisible academic labor and AI-enabled workload significantly undermine work-life balance and indirectly hinder career progression, while institutional surveillance shows no significant impact on job satisfaction, highlighting the urgent need for universities to rethink workload distribution and AI governance in the digital age.
This paper utilizes historical-qualitative analysis and conflict theories to reframe Igbo–Nigerian relations as a persistent nation-state conflict driven by political marginalization and historical grievances, arguing that durable stability requires constitutional reforms, inclusive federalism, and institutional safeguards to address deep-seated ethnic exclusion.