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Mapping Allied-Health Education in Maharashtra: Program Distribution, Regional Gaps, Professional Alignment and Opportunities for Collaborative Development

This study maps allied-health education in Maharashtra to reveal a geographically concentrated capacity with significant regional disparities and information gaps, while highlighting the potential for State Public Universities to collaborate with MUHS under the MAHASHAKTI Network to address distribution challenges and align with the new NCAHP regulatory framework.

Abhijeet Jagtap2026-08-19

📄 social_science

Emotional Intelligence, Academic Stress, and Subjective Well-Being among University Students in North Macedonia

This study of 240 university students in North Macedonia reveals that emotional intelligence serves as a protective factor, significantly reducing academic stress and enhancing subjective well-being, with notable variations observed across age and gender groups.

Zebide Nezamedin Ibraimi2026-08-19

📄 social_science

Global Research Landscape of Family Therapy – A Bibliometric Analysis (1958 to 2025)

This bibliometric analysis of 9,847 publications from 1958 to 2025 reveals that family therapy research has experienced steady growth with a 7.97% annual increase, reflecting the field's intellectual maturity and sustained academic interest over six decades.

Yatheesh Bharadwaj, Rakshita Poojari, Sivaranjini M, Sateesh R Koujalgi, Rakesh N S2026-08-19

📄 social_science

How People’s Appreciation of Installation Art Is Affected by the Environment and their Information about the Artworks

This study investigates how interactive environments and contextual information influence audience appreciation of installation art, finding that virtual settings and detailed background knowledge significantly enhance aesthetic emotions, immersion, and comprehension compared to physical interactions with limited information.

Wenhan ZHANG, WEN Minjie, Xing FANG, ZHENG Da2026-08-19

📄 social_science

The Longitudinal Influence Between School Sports Atmosphere and Non-Suicidal Self-Injury Among Adolescents: The Chain Mediation Effect of Perceived Teacher Justice and Body Shame

This longitudinal study of 1,493 Chinese adolescents reveals that a positive school sports atmosphere significantly reduces non-suicidal self-injury both directly and indirectly through the independent and chained mediating effects of perceived teacher justice and body shame.

Xiying Wang, Jinming Xing, Linxiao Ma, Qiaochu Ma, Yongbin Zhai2026-08-19

📄 social_science

Understanding Reading Processes in Minority Bilingual Classrooms: Evidence from Teachers and Classroom Contexts

This qualitative case study of ten primary school teachers reveals that minority bilingual students face significant reading comprehension challenges due to linguistic barriers and insufficient instructional support, highlighting an urgent need for targeted teacher training, adapted materials, and flexible assessment strategies.

Zekiye Çağımlar, Ebuzer Duyu2026-08-19

📄 social_science

Failure-Tolerant and Success-Celebrating Organizational Cultures: Effects on Employee Motivation and Job Satisfaction

This study demonstrates that organizational cultures which celebrate success and treat failure as a learning opportunity—rather than imposing negative consequences—significantly enhance employee job satisfaction and autonomous motivation while reducing amotivation.

Kitti Kiss2026-08-19

📄 social_science

What Really Drives Teachers to Learn? Insights from an Explainable Machine Learning Approach

This study utilizes explainable machine learning (XGBoost) on survey data from 472 Chinese teachers to reveal that school leadership and learning conceptions are the primary drivers of professional learning motivation, while also uncovering how factors like teaching experience and work pressure differentially influence these drivers across subgroups.

Xin Zhang, Mingyu Yang2026-08-18

📄 social_science

Extractive Landscapes and Discursive Violence in African and South Asian Fiction: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis

This study employs a corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis framework to examine how four postcolonial novels from Africa and South Asia narratively frame extractive harm and environmental injustice, revealing that damaged landscapes function as social archives of unequal burden while highlighting regional differences primarily in witness orientation rather than intensity.

Ruilin Zhao2026-08-18

📄 social_science

Asymmetries of Vulnerability: How Party Lines Shape Racialized Online Violence Against Women in the 2024 U.S. Election

This study analyzes over 700,000 tweets from the 2024 U.S. congressional elections to demonstrate that partisan identity intersects with race and gender to create asymmetric vulnerabilities to online violence, specifically targeting Democratic women of color and white Republican women with elevated levels of abuse compared to their counterparts.

Jungmin Han, Müge Finkel, Dhanaraj Thakur, Steven Finkel, Firat Duruşan, Erdem Yörük2026-08-18

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