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Socioeconomic Transitions and Grassroots Resilience in Modern India through Empirical Analysis of Youth Aspirations and Welfare Delivery in Semiurban Uttar Pradesh

This convergent mixed-methods study of semiurban Uttar Pradesh reveals that grassroots actors serve as critical social capital buffers, mitigating youth examination stress and bridging digital divides in welfare access while highlighting the need for decentralized psychological support and digital assistance in India's rapidly modernizing society.

MOHD NADEEM2026-09-29

📄 social science

Online consumption and affective experience moderate live streaming users’ loneliness: A nationwide survey in China

Based on a nationwide survey of 9,311 Chinese users, this study reveals that while live-streaming immersion generally correlates with increased loneliness, this relationship is reversed and becomes protective for users who exhibit higher tendencies toward online consumption or stronger affective experiences.

Michael Shengtao Wu, Yingying Wang, Tulips Yiwen Wang, Yanming Ren, Haifang Ma, Zhiyi Liu, Kaiping Peng2026-09-29

📄 social science

Impact of Information Overload on Cognitive Fatigue, Psychological Well- Being and Academic Outcomes

This quantitative study of 121 undergraduate engineering students reveals that prolonged digital learning induces techno-stress, which significantly correlates with cognitive fatigue, attention difficulties, and psychological strain, ultimately impairing academic well-being.

KAROLINE KENNETH KATHY, SAKTHI PRASATH2026-09-29

📄 social science

Faculty Evaluation Systems Shape Teaching Motivation in Chinese Tertiary Education Evidence from Henan Province

Based on a quantitative study of 400 university teachers in Henan Province, this paper demonstrates that evaluation fairness, transparency, feedback, and criteria clarity collectively account for 95.6% of teaching motivation in Chinese tertiary education, with criteria clarity emerging as the most influential factor.

Li Yaxin, Khalid Ahmed, Tursunova Dilfuza Shavkatovna, Ruqia Saba Ashraf, Niaz Ali, Muhammad Haroon Rasheed2026-09-29

📄 social science

Algorithms Against the Earth's Rhythms: Time, Acceleration, and Extractivism in Platform Capitalism

This article argues that the artificial, continuous temporality imposed by platform algorithms disrupts essential biological and planetary rhythms, creating a dual crisis of subjective exhaustion and material extractivism that demands ethical, pedagogical, and ecological limits to algorithmic acceleration.

Michel Filgueira, Lafaiete Martins2026-09-29

📄 social science

Regulation of Energy through Music Listening and the Influence of Diurnal Energy Levels

This study analyzes over 11,000 natural listening episodes to demonstrate that the diurnal energy cycle significantly moderates how individuals use music for self-regulation, with the success of these regulatory efforts depending on the alignment between the listener's goals and their current energy trajectory.

William Randall, Anastasios Mavrolampados, Suvi Saarikallio, Rory Kirk, George MacKerron, Petri Toiviainen2026-09-29

📄 social science

The Effect of AI-Driven Digital Acoustic Feedback on Emotion Regulation among Vocal Learners: The Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy

This longitudinal study of 171 Chinese vocal learners demonstrates that while AI-driven emotion-congruent instrumental feedback and standard hedonic corrective feedback yield similar machine scores, only the former enhances perceived authenticity and physiological engagement, revealing a significant decoupling between algorithmic metrics and human emotional experience that is mediated by self-efficacy and modulated by musical valence.

Hui Zheng, Jing Li2026-09-29

📄 social science

Ethical Leadership and Workplace Deviant Behaviors in Ethiopia evidence from Addis Ababa Public Organizations

This mixed-method study of Addis Ababa's public sector reveals that ethical leadership, particularly people-centered decision-making and fairness, significantly reduces workplace deviant behaviors, suggesting that organizational integrity depends on leaders' ability to foster participative and just environments rather than employees' inherent moral failings.

Melkamu Moshago, Tesfaye Hirphasa2026-09-29

📄 social science

Tracing the conceptualisations of evil: A philosophical examination of serial killers as moral evil

This paper philosophically examines the conceptualizations of moral evil by mapping secular theories of evil action and character against the phenomenon of serial killers, aiming to move beyond sensationalism and determine whether the abstract concept of evil offers a more profound social understanding of their criminality.

Suganya Saravanajothi, Rashmi Rekha Borah2026-09-29

📄 social science

Neither North nor South: How the Global East Remains Invisible in Development Studies Journals

This paper reveals that scholars from the "Global East"—a semi-peripheral category of post-socialist societies—are systematically marginalized in Development Studies journals, evidenced by their near-absence from editorial boards and minimal representation among authors across all journal tiers, a pattern driven by both supply-side constraints and demand-side boundaries that exclude their experiences from the field's mainstream.

Zdeněk Opršal2026-09-29

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