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Relationship between Dimensions of Perfectionism and Self-Compassion with Health-Promoting Behaviors in Medical Students

This 2024 study of 286 medical students reveals that higher levels of self-compassion and lower levels of maladaptive perfectionism significantly predict better health-promoting behaviors, suggesting that interventions targeting these psychological traits could effectively improve student health and prevent burnout.

Omid Parvizi Fard, Aliakbar Parvizifard, Aliakbar Forughi, Mehran Norouzian2026-08-07
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A Three-wave Longitudinal Study on Parental Autonomy Support : An Intermediary Model of Father Presence and basic Psychological Needs in Primary School Students

This three-wave longitudinal study of Chinese primary school students reveals that while father presence serves as a stable family resource positively associated with parental autonomy support and basic psychological need satisfaction at the between-person level, it is the reciprocal dynamic between parental autonomy support and need satisfaction that drives psychological adjustment at the within-person level.

Zhenguo Wang, Duangrat Luangon, Zengming Ge, Yeqing Zhou2026-08-07
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Beyond the Facade of Participation: Unmasking the Mechanisms of Control and Manipulation in Ethiopia's Electoral Process

This qualitative study argues that despite holding five general elections between 1995 and 2015, the EPRDF maintained an authoritarian regime in Ethiopia by employing systematic control and manipulation tactics—such as arrests, resource manipulation, and infiltration of opposition groups—that undermined electoral legitimacy, fairness, and the nation's overall democratic development.

Gizachew Asrat, Tizazu Ayalew2026-08-07
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Imagining Climate Change Promotes Pro-Environmental Motivation and Donation Behavior

Two preregistered experiments demonstrate that instructing individuals to generate vivid mental imagery while reading about climate change effectively increases their psychological proximity to the threat, thereby strengthening pro-environmental intentions and real-world donation behavior compared to standard information provision.

Tomasz Zaleskiewicz, Agata Sobkow, Julie Ji, Lewend Mayiwar, Jakub Traczyk2026-08-07
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Counsellor review of artificial intelligence recommendations improves feasibility adjusted career fit and reduces socioeconomic disparity

This two-study research demonstrates that while AI career recommendations optimized for accuracy can widen socioeconomic disparities and suggest infeasible pathways, integrating human counsellor review significantly improves feasibility-adjusted career fit and reduces inequality by preserving student agency and ensuring recommendations align with practical constraints.

Karan Gupta2026-08-07
📄 social_science

You Have More Data Than You Think: Optimizing Machine Learning in Tabular Social Science Datasets Through Augmentation and Linkage

This paper details how the authors achieved top performance in the Predicting Fertility data challenge by employing two data engineering strategies—time-shift data augmentation to increase sample size and partner linkage to expand feature sets—demonstrating their effectiveness for optimizing machine learning on tabular social science datasets.

Hanzhang Ren, Emily M. Cantrell2026-08-07
📄 social_science

Perceived School Support and Self-Reported Digital Civic Responsibility Among Vocational Health Professions Students in China: A Cross-Sectional Study

This cross-sectional study of Chinese vocational health students found a strong positive association between perceived school support and self-reported digital civic responsibility, though the authors caution that common method bias and poor discriminant validity likely inflate this correlation, rendering the findings hypothesis-generating rather than causal.

Yang Li, Bingzhong Xu, Qiufeng Liu2026-08-07