📄 social science

Career indecision among adolescents in German prevocational programmes

Drawing on the Career Resources Model and survey data from 1,389 German adolescents, this study reveals that career knowledge, skills, and management activities significantly reduce career indecision, while also demonstrating that social inequalities in indecision are largely mediated by disparities in these career resources upon program entry.

Robin Busse, Susan Seeber, Elisabeth Maué, Stephan Schumann, Ina Mitze, Samya Arbes-Krebs, Larissa Erben, Julia Haas, Ta (…)2026-09-23
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Challenges and strategies for the transformation of traditional Chinese intangible cultural heritage sports courses in universities—a data mining-based study

This data mining-based study quantitatively analyzes the transformation of 83 national-level intangible cultural heritage traditional sports programs into Chinese university curricula, revealing significant barriers in dissemination, regional locking, and disciplinary thresholds that cause a structural fracture between inheritance and revitalization, and proposes targeted strategies such as interdisciplinary collaboration and standardized resource support to facilitate differentiated policy implementation.

Yuxi Jin, Maolin Zhang, Ya Gao, Yuhua Ma, Nan Bi, Jiatong Li2026-09-23
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Internalized Racism and Psychological Distress in Asian American College Students: The Moderating Properties of Perceived Social Support

This study of 201 Asian American college students confirms that internalized racism positively predicts depression and anxiety, while revealing that perceived social support acts as a complex moderator that buffers distress at low to moderate levels of racism but may paradoxically exacerbate anxiety at high levels, challenging the assumption that social support is universally protective.

Steven Sanders, Lorelei Inaba, Emily Nguyen, Karena Meinhardt, Juan Hu2026-09-23
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Bridging the Digital Divide: A Case Study on the Guided Adoption of Free Educational Applications in Low-Resource Rwandan Schools

This qualitative case study of a Rwandan reintegration program demonstrates that expert-mediated adoption of existing global educational applications, rather than custom-built local software, effectively bridges the digital divide by overcoming technical barriers and serving as a sustainable force multiplier to decouple student progress from teacher shortages.

Shashikala Mahadevappa, Silvia Figueira2026-09-23
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Fragmented Reading and Cognitive Processing Orientations in Chinese Higher Education: A PLS-SEM Study of Cognitive Breadth and Depth

Based on a PLS-SEM analysis of 916 Chinese university students, this study finds that content, temporal, and attentional dimensions of fragmented digital reading significantly and negatively predict both cognitive breadth and depth, with attentional fragmentation emerging as the strongest detrimental factor, though the cross-sectional design limits causal inferences.

Li Na, CALEB CHIDOZIE CHINEDU, Atif Saleem, Patience Princess Nkwocha2026-09-23
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What happens in between walking and intermodality

Using GPS data from Geneva, this study reveals that the often-overlooked intermediate phases of intermodal trips, such as waiting times and walking behaviors, exhibit significant heterogeneity across contexts, challenging the validity of average transfer assumptions in transport models and highlighting their critical role in shaping travel choices.

Florian Masse, Nicola Ortelli, Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Ravalet, Daniel J. Reck2026-09-23
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Type Token Welfare Separability Reorients the Ethics of AI Deployment

This paper argues that determining the moral weight of AI deployment acts does not require identifying the specific locus of AI mentality, but rather relies on a "Type–Token Welfare Separability" framework that distinguishes between welfare-relevant properties at different levels to establish that modifying model weights poses greater ethical risks than terminating individual instances.

Chun Yin Kong2026-09-23
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The Brief Happiness Scale: Assessing Subjective Happiness in Children and Adolescents

This study develops and validates the Brief Happiness Scale (BHS) for Turkish adolescents, confirming its unidimensional structure and partial measurement invariance across gender, school level, and academic achievement, while also revealing that school, family, and community belonging significantly mediate the relationship between psychological distress and happiness.

Gökmen Arslan, Murat Balkıs2026-09-23