📄 social science

Negative Affect Links Negative Feedback to Cognitive and Motivational Engagement

This study utilizes a micro-process perspective and PSI theory to reveal that negative feedback triggers a dual-pathway mechanism where immediate negative affect and task-focused rumination can simultaneously drive cognitive and motivational engagement, despite the feedback's direct tendency to reduce it, though mindfulness was found not to moderate these specific responses.

Loreen Hennemann, Silja Kotte, Florian Scharf2026-10-22
📄 social science

Examining the Influence of Digital Public Service Transformation on perceived Socioeconomic Development: Evidence from Gimbi Town Administration, West Wollega

This quantitative study of 350 citizens in Gimbi Town, Ethiopia, demonstrates that all five dimensions of digital public service transformation—specifically accessibility, availability, efficiency, usefulness, and responsiveness—exert a statistically significant positive influence on perceived socioeconomic development, with accessibility emerging as the strongest predictor.

Ebisa Terfa, Chibsa Mulugeta, Ayana Yohaness2026-10-22
📄 social science

Comparing Knowledge Gain and Retention Among Dental Students in a Public Sector University: Jigsaw Versus Traditional Lecture: A Mixed- Method Study

This mixed-method study at a Pakistani dental university found that while the Jigsaw cooperative learning method and traditional lectures resulted in comparable knowledge acquisition and retention among third-year students, participants perceived the Jigsaw approach as more engaging and beneficial for developing collaborative and professional skills.

Amber Saeed, Tazeen Shah, Shafaque Fatima, Syeda Kausar Ali2026-10-22
📄 social science

The Evolutionary Self: Adaptive Prioritization as a Framework for Personality Structure and Change

This paper proposes the "Evolutionary Self" framework, which conceptualizes personality as a dynamic system of adaptive prioritization that coordinates competing demands across three key domains—Opportunity–Protection, Control–Accommodation, and Connection–Self-Reliance—to explain how individual differences are organized into coherent patterns of behavior and change.

Brian Donnelly2026-10-22