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Exploring Physiotherapy Students' Perceptions of a Virtual Orientation Programme for Preparing first year Students for Simulated Placements: An Explanatory Sequential Mixed-Methods Study

This explanatory sequential mixed-methods study demonstrates that a virtual orientation programme effectively prepares first-year physiotherapy students for simulated placements by reducing uncertainty and building confidence through a developmental pathway of cognitive, affective, and behavioural scaffolding.

Anurag Bhatnagar, Holly Nicholson2026-10-01

📄 social science

Institutionalizing Policy Diagnosis: Diagnostic Capacity Between Problem Framing and Instrument Choice

This article proposes "diagnostic capacity" as an institutionalized system-level capability that transforms individual abductive reasoning into a repeatable policy process, enabling the systematic preservation of causal accounts, evidence-based discrimination, and the flexible adjustment of policy instruments before they become rigid.

John Bryan2026-10-01

📄 social science

I, Creative Cyborg: An Autoethnographic Account of Poietic Rumination, GenAI, and the Act of Academic Research

Through an autoethnographic account of writing an MA dissertation, this paper argues that while GenAI serves as a peripheral tool for academic tasks, it cannot replace the essential cognitive core of "poietic rumination," urging researchers to reserve this reflective process for themselves to ensure genuine intellectual engagement.

Ray Grewal2026-10-01

📄 social science

Rebuilding Academic Trust in the AI Era: An Integrated Education Governance and Institutional Marketing Framework

This study proposes and empirically validates a multidimensional institutional governance framework comprising ethical transparency, algorithmic accountability, digital AI literacy, and adaptive AI governance, demonstrating that robust governance mechanisms significantly enhance institutional trust and perceived ethicality, which in turn drive students' sustainable AI behavioral intentions and strengthen university brand equity in the Generative AI era.

Marwa Khairallah2026-10-01

📄 social science

Zeroth Estate: Journalism as a Constitutive Laboratory of Sovereignty in the Ottoman Collapse of 1919

This article introduces the "Zeroth Estate" framework to argue that during the 1919 Ottoman collapse, journalism functioned as a pre-institutional generator of sovereignty by synchronizing divergent temporal regimes of deceleration and acceleration across Istanbul and Anatolia, thereby constituting political authority through discourse prior to institutional consolidation.

İbrahim Emre Günay2026-10-01

📄 social science

Visuospatial sequence reproduction and basketball decision- making across experience levels: a cross-sectional study

This cross-sectional study reveals that experienced basketball players demonstrate superior on-ball decision-making and faster spatial sequence reproduction compared to recreational and non-basketball athletes, while highlighting that the association between completion time and decision-making performance is significantly influenced by experience level and sensitive to statistical multiplicity adjustments.

Xi'ao Wang2026-10-01

📄 social science

Sexual Victimisation in Ghanaian Senior High Schools: Student Wellbeing and the Resilience of School-Based Child Protection Systems

This qualitative study of Ghanaian senior high schools reveals that structural barriers and systemic gaps in child protection, rather than just individual behaviors, undermine student wellbeing and disclosure, prompting the author to advocate for a shift from individual responsibility to institutional resilience through a proposed five-level, gender-responsive protection model.

Prince Osei-Yeboah2026-10-01

📄 social science

Cyberbullying Against Educators and School Personnel: Prevalence, Sources, and Associations with Psychological Distress and Occupational Outcomes

This national study of over 10,000 U.S. school personnel reveals that 13% experience cyberbullying from various sources including parents, students, and colleagues, which significantly predicts increased psychological distress and intentions to leave their jobs, underscoring the need for targeted organizational interventions.

Shizuka Yanagii, Susan D. McMahon, Taylor Swenski, Jared Hunt, Kailyn Bare Villarreal, Rosa Garcia, Andrew Martinez, Eri (…)2026-10-01

📄 social science

Hope in the Virtual Classroom: Agency, Pathways, and Classroom-Management Efficacy Among Iranian EFL Teachers

This quantitative study of 150 Iranian EFL teachers reveals that higher levels of hope, particularly the agency component, are significantly and positively associated with greater online classroom-management efficacy, suggesting that fostering goal-directed psychological resources can enhance teachers' professional functioning in virtual environments.

Ebrahim K. Haghighi, Ali Taghinezhad2026-10-01

📄 social science

Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy in International Settings: A Systematic Review of Evidence, Effectiveness, and Cultural Considerations

This systematic review of 18 international studies confirms that Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is effective in improving relationship satisfaction and reducing distress across diverse global contexts, yet highlights a critical gap in explicit cultural adaptations and theory-informed modifications for non-North American populations.

Ronald Asiimwe, Yike Tang, Chi-Fang Tseng2026-10-01

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