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Community-Based Fire Management (CBFiM) integrates local governance and ecological stewardship, yet the social drivers shaping its effectiveness remain poorly understood. This study examines the relationships among leadership perception, community participation, and surface fuel conditions in two community forests in Lampang Province, northern Thailand: Ban Pong and Ban Rong Ta. Forest floor fuel data were collected through destructive fuel sampling during the 2025 dry season, and social data were gathered through structured questionnaires measuring leadership perception using the Crew Member Perceived Leadership Scale and participation across seven fire management activities. Ban Rong Ta showed lower fuel loads but higher fire occurrence (nine fire detections recorded in 9 of 10 study years), lower leadership perception across all dimensions, and reduced participation in activities. The brigade–community participation gap reflects patterns documented across Southeast Asian community forestry programs, pointing to a structural challenge in fire governance. These findings suggest that awareness and informational participation alone do not reduce wildfire risk, and that integrating social and ecological indicators is essential for designing effective community-based fire governance systems. Full article

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disproportionately affects women and often disrupts work, intimate relationships, and reproductive life. Although stigma is increasingly recognized in chronic illness, less is known about how it is experienced among women with SLE in China. Using an interpretive phenomenological design informed by health stigma theory, this qualitative study examined how stigma was produced, experienced, and managed in the everyday lives of 20 Chinese women living with SLE. Data were generated through semi-structured online interviews, chosen because of participants’ geographic dispersion and health-related constraints, and analyzed using an iterative thematic approach. The findings show that stigma operated through interconnected forms: visible bodily stigma linked to treatment-related appearance changes, invisible-symptom stigma that demanded ongoing credibility work, institutional stigma in employment, and gendered stigma in intimacy and motherhood. Participants responded through concealment, selective disclosure, and narrative labor: the work of presenting themselves as credible, responsible, and morally worthy despite social devaluation. These findings suggest that SLE stigma is not only interpersonal but also institutional and gendered, highlighting the need for stigma-sensitive clinical communication, workplace support, and reproductive counseling for women living with chronic illness. Full article

Background and Objectives: Oral health is an important component of overall health, including in children, since dental caries is the most frequent oral health condition in this demographic. It affects children’s daily performance and can lead to complications ranging from moderate discomfort to highly disabling problems, which are reflected in their quality of life. Validating instruments that provide reliable information to measure how oral health impacts children’s quality of life will help prioritize the management of these problems through personalized treatments. The aim of this study was to perform transcultural adaptation and Spanish validation of a POQL instrument in children aged 6 to 12 years who attended the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez (UACJ), and to establish an association between the presence of carious lesions and the quality of life of children. Materials and Methods: We conducted a validation study involving a sample of 379 children aged 6 to 12 years who were attending the Pediatric Dentistry Clinic at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez. The instrument, adapted into Spanish, was applied to measure oral health-related quality of life, and the clinical diagnosis of caries was established using the ICDAS II system. Results: The mean age of the children was 8.51 years ± 1.64; 50.4% were boys and 49.6% girls. A total of 45.9% of the children presented caries with ICDAS II codes 5 and 6, corresponding to a severe stage with advanced tooth destruction, and 52% of the children reported their perception of their oral health-related quality of life as good. In the bivariate statistical analysis, the chi-square test showed no relationship between moderate and severe ICDAS II stages and the children’s perception of their quality of life, resulting in a very low Spearman correlation. Conclusions: The findings suggest that this instrument may represent a reliable and valid tool for use in children aged 6 to 12 years. The observed association between different degrees of carious lesions and children’s quality of life may reflect the close relationship between oral health and important psychosocial domains, including physical, emotional, and social development, which constitute the core dimensions evaluated by the POQL instrument. Full article

This study investigates how user-generated content (UGC) and perceived experience of destination-generated social media content (DGC) shape satisfaction, destination image, and electronic word-of-mouth (eWOM) intention in lesser-explored tourism destinations. A dual-content model grounded in the stimulus-organism-response (SOR) framework is tested using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) with data from 300 tourists who interact with destinations’ social media. Results reveal that UGC exerts limited influence on satisfaction, destination image, and eWOM intention, which diverges from much prior literature but is consistent with the scarcity and lower trustworthiness of UGC in small destinations. In contrast, perceived experience of DGC strongly enhances destination image and eWOM intention, highlighting the relevance of pre-visit digital experiences. In addition, moderation analysis shows that openness to experience significantly influences selected relationships, with stronger effects observed among tourists who are lower in openness. The findings underscore the importance of integrating pre-visit digital interactions and individual differences into destination marketing models and provide practical insights for destination management organizations (DMOs) in lesser-known destinations, emphasizing the strategic value of high-quality official content to compensate for limited UGC. This research advances destination marketing literature by jointly examining UGC and DGC and by introducing perceived experience of DGC and personality as key explanatory elements. Full article

Social mobility is a central indicator of socioeconomic development. It indicates the improvement of an individual’s socioeconomic position across generations. Recently, welfare policies, education, and redistribution schemes have received increasing attention from the academic community as they affect social mobility outcomes. Despite the growing volume of literature, there is an inadequate linkage between research on social mobility and social policy. This study uses a bibliometric analysis of 389 Scopus-indexed articles to examine research on social mobility and social policy from 1990 to 2025. The findings highlight the relationship between the impacts of policy interventions on social mobility. Performance analysis and science mapping are used, which provide insight into publication trends and leading contributors and reveal the intellectual and conceptual structures of the research field. Studies are concentrated in developed economies such as the United States and the United Kingdom. Further, in the science mapping analysis, co-word analysis is followed by bibliographic coupling, which reveals emerging trends and promising themes. The study provides a comprehensive synthesis of the conceptual and intellectual evolution of social mobility research, offers insights for policymakers and highlights the future direction of interdisciplinary research. Full article

Endogenous growth theory explains the asymmetric dynamic relationship between economic and social development through human capital accumulation and innovation, institutional quality, and demand channels. The objective of this paper is to assess the dynamic relationship between social and economic development in developing countries, where institutional imperfections and development instability create the most pronounced asymmetries. A composite social development index, obtained using the entropy method, operationalizes social development as the expansion of human capabilities in three dimensions: health, education, and material security. A panel vector error correction model (PVECM), estimated using the generalized method of moments (GMM) on panel data from 18 countries in Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa for the period 2001–2023, revealed asymmetric dynamic relationships: improved social indicators are associated with a short-term slowdown in economic indicators and more favorable economic dynamics in the medium term. In contrast, economic growth is accompanied by a positive lagged response in social development, although the short-term response may reflect the costs of social adjustment. The influence of control variables confirms the positive role of agglomeration for economic development, revealing the social costs of rapid urbanization and demographic pressure on social development. Estimates of the error correction coefficients indicate a slow adaptation of the system to long-term equilibrium, high inertia, and institutional rigidity of macrosocial processes. Impulse response functions confirm the dynamic and delayed nature of the interaction between economic and social development and positive shocks in the medium term. The obtained empirical results substantiate the need for institutional regulation of policy decisions on human capital accumulation and innovation, as well as social reforms. Full article

Objective: This study examined the relationships between the developmental stages of children aged 6–72 months and their parents’ psychological resilience and psychological well-being. Method: The study was designed as a descriptive and correlational survey. The sample included a total of 184 children aged 6–72 months, as well as their parents, who visited Sinop Atatürk State Hospital. Data were collected face-to-face using the Personal Information Form, the Early Developmental Stages Inventory (EGE), the Psychological Well-being Scale (PWBS), and the Psychological Resilience Scale for Adults (PRS). The data were analyzed using the independent samples t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient, and simple and multiple linear regression analyses. Results: According to the study’s results, most children (92.4%) were found to be at a normal level in terms of overall development; importantly, personal-social skills had the highest rate of developmental delay (19.0%). Comparative analyses showed that the psychological resilience and psychological well-being scores of parents of children with typical development were higher than those of parents of children with developmental delays. Correlation analysis revealed a moderate positive relationship (r = 0.330, p < 0.001) between the Early Developmental Stages Inventory score and the Psychological Well-being Scale, and a weak positive relationship (r = 0.154, p < 0.05) between the Psychological Resilience Scale and the Early Developmental Stages Inventory score. Regression analyses suggest that psychological well-being and resilience are associated with child development outcomes. Discussion and Conclusions: The findings of this study indicate that there are meaningful associations between parents’ psychological well-being and resilience levels and children’s early developmental outcomes. Children whose parents reported higher psychological well-being and resilience tended to demonstrate more favorable developmental profiles in several developmental domains. These results suggest that parental psychological characteristics may be relevant factors associated with early childhood developmental outcomes and should be interpreted within broader ecological and contextual frameworks. Full article

Positive teacher–student relationships in early childhood predict stronger academic and social–emotional outcomes, whereas conflictual or dependent relationships contribute to children’s stress and behavioral and academic difficulties. While prior research emphasizes teachers’ observable relational behaviors, fewer studies explore the internal emotional and cognitive processes that shape these relationships. This mixed-methods study examined how preschool teachers’ emotion socialization practices (i.e., emotion coaching and dismissing) and their classroom expressions of positive and negative emotions relate to their mental representations of their relationships with students. Quantitative analyses tested whether teachers’ emotional expressiveness moderated associations between their emotion socialization practices and relational representations. Complementing these analyses, qualitative narrative interviews with an independent teacher sample explored how educators described their emotional expressiveness, emotion-related practices, and perceived relationships with students. Informed by emotion socialization theory, attachment theory, and the prosocial classroom model, findings highlight the interplay of teachers’ emotional beliefs, regulation, and relational schemas in shaping classroom climate. Our integration of quantitative and qualitative insights provides a more comprehensive understanding of teachers’ emotional functioning and underscores the importance of supporting educators’ relational and emotional competencies to enhance classroom quality and student well-being. Full article

With rapid urbanization, community-level governance has become an important aspect of urban sustainability, increasing the need to understand how non-traditional actors participate in local affairs. Although food delivery riders possess a unique spatial proximity to local neighborhoods, empirical research on their willingness to participate in community governance remains limited. This study examines the relationship between policy perception (cognition, trust, and gain) and riders’ willingness to participate in community governance, analyzing the parallel mediating roles of institutional, social, and spatial embeddedness. Survey data from 441 food delivery riders in Beijing were analyzed using ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions and bootstrap-based mediation analysis. The results show that policy cognition, trust, and benefit perceptions positively predict participation willingness. Furthermore, institutional, social, and spatial embeddedness significantly mediate this relationship, with social embeddedness showing the largest indirect effect. Heterogeneity and dimensional analysis indicate that policy gain is associated with basic volunteering but lacks a significant relationship with high-tier advice-giving. The findings suggest that sustaining high-tier civic participation depends on normative institutional trust and value identification within rights-protective frameworks. Full article

Inspired by the limited research regarding the interrelationships among Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance, common institutional investors and open innovation, this study adopts stakeholder theory and social network theory as the analytical framework to examine this issue. This study uses data from China’s A-share listed firms between 2018 and 2024, comprising 25,440 firm-year observations. Fixed-effects OLS models are employed to estimate the main relationships. Empirical findings demonstrate that ESG performance significantly promotes open innovation among Chinese companies. Furthermore, the moderating results indicate common institutional investors strengthen the positive association between ESG performance and open innovation. Further analysis confirms that each of the three dimensions of ESG can independently drive open innovation, yet the moderating effect of common institutional investors positively regulates only the relationships between social performance and open innovation as well as between corporate governance performance and open innovation, while exerting no significant impact on the relationship between environmental performance and open innovation. Overall, this study underscores the positive effects of ESG practices by focusing on the perspective of open innovation and integrating common institutional investors, which provides insights for enterprises to optimize their ESG practices and enhance their open innovation capabilities by virtue of external governance. Full article

In this paper, we examine the evolving conception of the “other” in relation to human happiness, drawing on Paul Ricoeur’s philosophical account and empirical findings from the Harvard Study of Adult Development. Ricoeur situates happiness in three interrelated threads: individual fulfilment, friendship with those near to us, and just relations with distant others. The Harvard Study corroborates the significance of relationality for well-being, showing that strong social ties enhance longevity and life satisfaction. However, contemporary digitalisation and the proliferation of AI humanoid social robots challenge traditional notions of the “other.” Individuals increasingly form “meaningful” attachments, emotional bonds, and even romantic relationships with technological artefacts, raising the question of whether these non-human entities can contribute to happiness in a Ricoeurian sense. While the above dynamics are now proliferating, we argue that AI and social robots cannot be considered as the “other” in the Ricoeurian sense. Although these technologies can be considered as a virtual other, we do not defend that position in the current paper. In this paper, we explore the tensions regarding the authenticity, moral status, and ethical implications of AI and social robots in relation to human happiness. We conclude by proposing a re-evaluation of relationality, moral consideration, and the ethical frameworks underpinning human–technology interactions in the pursuit of human flourishing and happiness in the Ricoeurian sense. Full article

As global education steps into a new era marked by core literacy and sustainable development, teacher literacy has become a critical pillar for fulfilling United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 4 (SDG 4) and advancing Education for Sustainable Development (ESD). Guided by the Educator Spirit and based on the logical framework of dual professional roles and four professional relationships, this study constructs a teacher literacy model for Chinese teachers in the new era, which consists of seven dimensions: disciplinary literacy, general literacy, learning support literacy, holistic education literacy, communication and collaboration literacy, development and improvement literacy, and teacher ethics literacy. Adopting systematic literature review and international comparative research methods, this study integrates mainstream international teacher literacy frameworks issued by the European Union, OECD, UNESCO, the United States and Australia with China’s educational policies and practical experience to establish the proposed model. It further elaborates how the model directs sustainability-oriented teacher education, facilitates transformative teaching approaches, boosts interdisciplinary teaching practice, highlights social justice and global citizenship awareness, and embeds sustainable development principles into curriculum design and teaching practice. This model can effectively tackle prevailing practical dilemmas including teachers’ weakened professional identity, vague professional development paths, unitary evaluation systems, inadequate digital teaching competence, insufficient interdisciplinary integration capacity, deficient ESD literacy and inefficient collaborative education mechanisms. It can systematically support teachers in carrying out sustainability-oriented teaching, innovating curriculum design, conducting transformative teaching and promoting students’ sustainable learning while practicing social justice and educational equity and cultivating global citizenship awareness in educational scenarios. It also provides a theoretical basis and practical guidance for promoting the transition of Chinese teachers toward high-quality, professional and sustainable development, and also offers localized solutions with distinctive Chinese characteristics and universal international implications for the implementation of global ESD initiatives and the achievement of SDG 4. Full article

Background: Adolescents with type 1 diabetes (T1D) face considerable psychosocial demands that may increase vulnerability to diabetes-specific disordered eating behaviors. This study investigated the relationships among diabetes-specific disordered eating behaviors, social anxiety, social appearance anxiety, and psychological resilience in adolescents with T1D. Methods: This cross-sectional and correlational study included 176 adolescents diagnosed with T1D. Data were obtained using the Diabetes Eating Problem Survey-Revised (DEPS-R), the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A), the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS), and the Child and Youth Resilience Measure (CYRM-12). Results: The mean age was 14.16 ± 2.73 years; 51.1% were male, and 63.1% had a disease duration of ≥3 years. Elevated levels of diabetes-specific disordered eating behaviors were observed in 85.8% of participants. Mean scores were 36.06 ± 15.26 (DEPS-R), 58.86 ± 12.90 (SAS-A), 48.82 ± 12.09 (SAAS), and 35.17 ± 10.61 (CYRM-12). Disordered eating behaviors showed positive correlations with social anxiety and social appearance anxiety and negative correlations with psychological resilience (all p < 0.001). Regression analyses indicated that social anxiety remained independently associated with disordered eating behaviors, whereas social appearance anxiety and psychological resilience did not. Psychological resilience was inversely related to both anxiety measures. Conclusions: Diabetes-specific disordered eating behaviors are common in adolescents with T1D and are closely linked to social anxiety-related factors. Social anxiety appears to be a key associated variable. Although psychological resilience was not independently related to disordered eating behaviors, it showed inverse associations with social anxiety. These findings support integrating routine psychosocial screening and targeted interventions into multidisciplinary diabetes care. Full article

Artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly permeates organizational work, yet research on AI–human collaboration remains fragmented and lacks a unified structure. This study provides a comprehensive bibliometric mapping of AI–human collaboration by examining its intellectual foundations and emerging research fronts across multiple disciplines. Using document co-citation and bibliographic coupling analysis, the study examines how research on AI–human collaboration has evolved and where it is heading. Data were collected from the Scopus database. A total of 2178 primary documents and 15,078 secondary documents were retrieved and analyzed using VOSviewer (1.6.20) software to visualize the thematic interconnectedness. Results from document co-citation revealed five significant research clusters underlying AI–human collaboration research, including psychological and social foundations of AI; organizational applications of AI in higher education; ethical–cognitive foundations of generative AI; AI literacy and educational transformation; and behavioral foundations of AI adoption. The bibliometric coupling results identified four active research fronts: AI governance, ethics, and humanization; AI–customer relationship management (CRM) adoption, capabilities, and organizational performance; anthropomorphic AI and consumer emotional response; and AI conversational agents and consumer experience dynamics. These findings suggest a thematic shift from technology-centered automation toward collaborative and human-centered integration. The study contributes theoretically by synthesizing insights across organizational behavior, psychology, and information systems to clarify the intellectual structure of this emerging domain. It also outlines implications for leaders designing AI-enabled workplaces that prioritize collaboration, ethical alignment, and adaptive capacity. Full article

The increasing number of end-of-life (EOL) products has raised new challenges for sustainable manufacturing, especially when recycling efficiency, structural modularity and worker well-being must be considered simultaneously. From the perspective of symmetry and asymmetry in mechanical product design, this study proposes a Design for human-centric Modular Recycling (DFHMR) approach to improve EOL product recycling while reducing ergonomic risks in disassembly operations. In the proposed framework, functional similarity, structural correspondence and spatial association among components are used to characterize symmetry-oriented modular relationships, whereas asymmetric factors such as disassembly difficulty, carbon emissions, recycling profit and worker-related ergonomic risks are incorporated to describe the heterogeneity of practical recycling processes. A multi-objective optimization model is developed to maximize green disassembly performance and intra-module relevance while minimizing inter-module coupling and human-factor risks. To solve the constrained modular design problem, an enhanced social engineering optimizer (SEO) is introduced to balance global exploration and local exploitation. A turbo reducer case study is conducted to validate the proposed model, and comparative experiments with several multi-objective optimization algorithms demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the enhanced SEO. The results indicate that the DFHMR framework can provide decision-makers with a set of balanced modular recycling schemes, offering a practical reference for symmetry-oriented, sustainable and human-centered mechanical design under Industry 5.0. Full article