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Relational Mismatch in the Loneliness Experiences of Filipino University Students Living Away From Home

This qualitative study of 14 Filipino university students living away from home reveals that their loneliness stems from a relational mismatch between expected familial care and lived separation, which is culturally mediated by values like *hiya* and *pabigat* and navigated through specific coping strategies, suggesting that universities should implement low-pressure, continuous support systems to address these unique vulnerabilities.

Nova Cabias, Aime Guarino2026-09-30

📄 social science

Sustainable Leadership in Practice: Ethics, Empathy, and Culture as Drivers of Long-Term Impact

This chapter argues that sustainable leadership relies on ethical values, empathy, and intentional culture-building rather than mere metrics, offering practical frameworks and case studies to demonstrate how inner capabilities and shared integrity drive long-term organizational and social impact.

RINKAL Sharma, Nishi Tyagi Tyagi2026-09-30

📄 social science

Active learning approaches to improve retention of financial accounting concepts

This exploratory qualitative study demonstrates that incorporating active learning techniques, such as collaborative projects and case studies, significantly improves Grade 11 learners' long-term retention of financial accounting concepts and critical thinking skills compared to traditional rote memorization.

Ajuma Walusa, Olushola Adebayo Olatunji2026-09-30

📄 social science

Divergent social support patterns: A phenomenological exploration of intergenerational interaction between primiparas and two extended family groups in the Chinese postpartum cultural context

This phenomenological study of 29 Chinese primiparas reveals that inadequate postpartum support manifests through distinct, culturally driven patterns: active, confrontational deprivation from in-laws versus passive, recessive withdrawal from natal parents, highlighting the need for culturally informed family-centered care.

Yiping Nan, Qiuping Jia, Lei Yang, Yan Gao, Miao Zhang, Ying Zhang, Song Yang, Jingyi Yang, Jiatong Hou, Xiaomei Li, Yon (…)2026-09-30

📄 social science

Visually similar prints expose a benchmark validity gap in computational art history

This paper demonstrates that visual retrieval benchmarks in computational art history often yield misleadingly high accuracy by omitting historically distinct but visually similar print copies, thereby revealing a critical validity gap that necessitates candidate pools including confusable alternatives to distinguish between mere design recurrence and genuine historical relations.

Jiongming Fang2026-09-30

📄 social science

From Transit Corridor to Criminal Infrastructure: The Institutionalisation of West Africa in the Transatlantic Cocaine Supply Chain

This article argues that West Africa's role in the transatlantic cocaine trade is best understood not merely as a geographic transit zone or a result of state weakness, but as a durable "criminal-infrastructural institutionalisation" where illicit networks embed themselves locally and adaptively to maintain supply chain connectivity despite enforcement pressures, necessitating a shift in policy from route interdiction to targeting the underlying brokerage and financial mechanisms.

Idris Mohammad Sanusi Said2026-09-30

📄 social science

Legitimacy and Intervention in De-Judicialized Human Rights Governance: Comparing ASEAN and the Arab League

By comparing ASEAN and the Arab League through an input–process–output legitimacy framework, this paper argues that despite lacking regional human rights courts, these organizations' divergent intervention strategies—from ASEAN's consensus-driven diplomacy to the Arab League's occasional robust political action—are shaped not by judicial absence but by context-specific legitimacy construction and political bargaining.

CHUNYING LI, Abdul Muein Bin Abadi2026-09-30

📄 social science

Urban Challenges of Vehicle Fleet Growth in The Latin American Context Based on Global Research

This study employs a mixed-methods approach to analyze the structural causes and consequences of vehicle fleet growth in Latin America, identifying urban sprawl and public transport deficiencies as primary drivers of environmental pollution and traffic congestion within a comprehensive sustainable mobility framework.

Pedro Jiménez-Pacheco, Enrique Flores-Juca, Jéssica Chica Carmona2026-09-30

📄 social science

Booster or Barrier? Meritocratic Beliefs and Chinese Youth’s Subjective Well-being: Parallel Mediating Roles of Self-efficacy and Subjective Social Status, and Gender Heterogeneity

Drawing on CFPS data and PLS-SEM analysis, this study reveals that meritocratic beliefs act as a "booster" for Chinese youth's subjective well-being through the parallel mediation of self-efficacy and subjective social status, with distinct gender-specific mechanisms where self-efficacy drives outcomes more strongly for males while subjective social status plays a compensatory, fully mediating role for females.

Zan Li2026-09-30

📄 social science

From Linguistic Heritage to Language Governance: Translating Classical Arabic Authority into Saudi Arabia’s 2026 National Language Policy

This article analyzes Saudi Arabia's 2026 National Language Policy through a Historical Repertoire–Policy Translation Framework, arguing that classical Arabic traditions function not as direct institutional antecedents but as selectively recontextualized repertoires of linguistic authority that shape contemporary governance via institutional continuity, ideological genealogy, and functional analogy.

Alia Amir, Tariq Elyas, Rizwan-ul Huq2026-09-30

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