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Turnover Intention Among ICT Professionals in Brazilian Public Organizations SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Lucio Camilo Oliva Pereira, Nina Braga Cavalcanti de Albuquerque, Rodrigo de Souza Valle, Sandra Regina Freitas da Silva Morgado de Gois, Antonio Augusto Goncalves
This study investigates turnover intentions within the context of Brazilian public organizations, focusing on Information and Communications Technology professionals. Moreover, the research highlights the factors influencing turnover intentions and underscores the critical role of remote work and compensation satisfaction, particularly salary, in shaping these intentions. The desire for the flexibility
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Determinants of Online Teaching and Learning Effectiveness for Statistical Concepts and Calculations Subjects During the COVID-19 Movement Control Order (MCO) SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Cheam Chai Li, Azyanee Luqman
In today’s fast-paced ICT-driven world, understanding the factors influencing the effectiveness of online teaching and learning is paramount, especially during the Movement Control Order (MCO) when physical educational activities are restricted. Assessing the efficacy of undergraduate students under these circumstances can be particularly challenging, and the resulting conclusions may vary depending
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Anti-Corruption Efforts in the Healthcare Sector During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Malaysia SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Nurfarizan Mazhani Mahmud, Intan Salwani Mohamed, Roshayani Arshad, Amizahanum Adam
The Covid-19 pandemic has had an irreversible impact on the global economy and industries, particularly in the healthcare sector. The rush to respond to the pandemic, particularly in terms of getting treatment and vaccines and technology to market, has created a huge opportunity for undisclosed corruption and misconduct in the research and development and procurement processes. Effectively responding
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Exploitative Leadership and Vertical Knowledge Withholding: Examining Multiple Mediational Effects SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Komal Khalid, Saima Aftab
This study analyzes the relationship between employee’s perceptions of exploitative leadership and their vertical knowledge withholding and the mediating roles of employee’s perception of job insecurity, organizational injustice, and hostile attribution bias. A time lag study was conducted to test hypotheses by data collection in three phases from the 402 employees working in three service sectors
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Parental Stress Related to Caring for a Child With Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Benefit of Mindfulness-Based Interventions for Parental Stress: A Systematic Review SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Merve Yesilkaya, Ernesto Magallón-Neri
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) tend to exhibit more severe challenging behaviors than typically developing children and those with intellectual or other disabilities. This study aimed to review the stress levels of parents of individuals with ASD, and the use of mindfulness to decrease parental stress. The following variables of Autism, Stress, Parenting, Family, and Mindfulness were
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Does Institutional Ownership Moderate the Relationship Between Audit Committee Composition and Audit Report Lag: Evidence From Saudi SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Hamid Ghazi H Sulimany
This research explores the moderating effect of institutional ownership on the relationship between audit committee attributes and audit report lag. The paper sampled data from 102 Saudi non-financial listed firms from 2012 to 2021. The data was analyzed using a fixed effect regression, while the generalized method of moments approach (GMM) was employed for robustness check. The research finding strongly
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Development of a Risk Assessment Tool for Social Services Using a Modified Delphi Technique SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Elena Ferri-Fuentevilla, Rocío Muñoz Moreno, Ana Vallejo Andrada, Octavio Vázquez Aguado
The pandemic caused by covid-19 has revealed an enormous vulnerability in health, economic and social terms. We are facing a new unprecedented environmental and socioeconomic reality, which poses a challenge for risk control and management. This forces a methodological effort to be made in all areas in the creation of models for the prevention and prediction of existing impacts, risks, and potential
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The Influence of the Satisfaction of the Master’s Training Environment on the Increment of Research Skill: An Empirical Study from Central China SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Xiaoyu Li, Pengcheng Yang, Yudong Gao, Linfang Jing
With the increase in master’s degree enrollment in China, ensuring the realization of value-added research skills of master’s degree students with limited educational resources has become an urgent problem. We developed hypotheses and tested the mediating effect of academic passion (AP) in the role of training environment satisfaction (TES) on research skill increment (RSI) and the moderating role
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Probabilistic Graph Model Based Recommendation Algorithm for Material Selection in Self-directed Learning SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Zhiyong Qiu, Yingjin Cui
Faced the vast amount of information, choosing the appropriate materials is a prerequisite for effective self-directed learning. The recommendation algorithm is a kind of intelligent technology that can accurately locate the required information which the users care about most. However, many recommendation techniques experience can not be trained adequately in scenarios with small sample data and extremely
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Understanding Agency Within Context: The Case of Breeding Cooperatives Program for Transforming Small Ruminant Value Chain in Ethiopia SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Wole Kinati, Elizabeth C. Temple, Derek Baker, Dina Najjar, Reta Hailu
The role of agency in women’s empowerment, whether individual or collective, has long been at the center of feminist discourse. Although, highly context dependent, studies on agency are less contextualized. Based on mixed methods, we generated in-depth understandings of what constitutes agency in livestock-based institutions, and associated contextual factors across three regions. Agency, the ability
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Understanding the Rivalry Among Telecommunication Companies in the Cross-Border Patent Infringement: An Evolutionary Social Network Analysis SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Chenqian Xu, Cheng Hu
Understanding the rivalry in infringement-litigation dynamics is critical for firms in the telecommunication industry. While the number of cross-border patent disputes in these years has surged owing to the globalized economy, the existing literature primarily focuses on patent disputes among telecommunication companies in the national jurisdiction. Hence, to capture the rivalry in the telecommunication
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A Systematic Review of Technology Innovations in Housing Management in Scotland SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Haochen Ding, Jinghong Sun
The global housing management sector is being transformed by digital innovations, especially those introduced by property technology start-ups, or PropTech. These entities are reshaping the dynamics between property owners, tenants, and housing management processes. As scholarly literature expands on this subject, our study focuses on assessing the impact of such digital interventions on housing management
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The Model of Worker’s Quality of Life During Covid-19 Pandemic: The Role of Perceived Organizational Support (POS), Digital Literacy, Covid-19-Related Workplace Policy, Quality Culture, and Safety Culture SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Winda Widyanty, Dian Primanita Oktasari, Sugeng Santoso, Sik Sumaedi, Medi Yarmen, I Gede Mahatma Yuda Bakti, Mochammad Fahlevi, Mohammed Aljuaid, Sebastian Saniuk
The quality of life (QoL) of workers during the Covid-19 pandemic is an important issue that must be considered. Unfortunately, research related to the QoL of workers during the Covid-19 pandemic for the non-health sector is still very limited. Moreover, no one has comprehensively investigated QoL involving not only the perceived threat of Covid-19, Covid-19-related workplace policy, and job insecurity
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Investigating the Transition Upgrading Paths of Manufacturing Enterprises From an Energy Source Perspective SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Xiaowei Xu, Liangqun Qi, Xueyuan Wang, Jianyu Sun, Yingying Xu
As the manufacturing industry is the foundation of the national economy, many countries have made concerted efforts to promote the transition upgrading of manufacturing enterprises from political, industrial, and academic circles. This study employed content analysis to explore the transition upgrading factors for manufacturing enterprises from an energy source perspective. With the help of FsQCA (Fuzzy-sets
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How Overconfident Financial Knowledge Hinders Retirement Planning? Mediating Analysis and Heterogeneity of Retirement Funding Sources SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Fuzhong Chen, Yingchao Fan, Guohai Jiang, Jinwei Chen
Under the background of general financial knowledge confidence and insufficient retirement planning, this study investigates the relationship between overconfident financial knowledge and consumer retirement planning. Using data from the National Financial Capability Study, this study employs probit regressions and finds that consumers with overconfident financial knowledge are less likely to have
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Assessing the Vitality of a Local Chinese Community Language: Cantonese in Ipoh, Malaysia SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Wei Zhou, Lay Hoon Ang
Malaysia is a multilingual and multiethnic country with a substantial population of ethnic Chinese, who use standardized languages such as Malay, English, and Mandarin, as well as various Chinese dialects in their daily lives within and beyond Chinese communities. Cantonese is a community language that significantly impacts the lives of local Chinese in the city of Ipoh, Malaysia. This study aims to
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Moving Through the Storm: A Longitudinal Study on IT-Based Agile Organizational Crisis Response SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Juanjuan Ou, IpKin Anthony Wong
This research integrates the theoretical strands of crisis management and organizational agility to improvise a process in which organizations expedite their IT-based solutions to cope with mega disruptions, carried out through two studies. Using corpus linguistics as an analytical approach with data collected from press releases from 10 US retail conglomerates, our findings point to the transition
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A Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling Exploration of EFL Learners’ Perceptions of What Contributes to the Readability of Model Paragraphs SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Tuyen Thanh Nguyen, John R. Baker, Thao Quang Le
This study investigated what features undergraduate EFL learners perceive as affecting the difficulty of model paragraphs. Four hundred and seventy-five Vietnamese undergraduates participated in a partial least squares structural equation model design. They ranked five paragraphs from easiest to most difficult and responded to a 10-point Likert questionnaire regarding 11 features (titles, paragraph
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Derivation of Key Attributes and Clusters of Korean Taekwondo Policies and Systems on Social Media: Comparative Big Data Analysis Based on Regime Change SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Sung-Un Park
This study analyzed the key attributes and clusters of policies and systems of Korean Taekwondo based on Park Geun-Hye and Moon Jae-in’s regime changes using big data, including 8,030 data points on social media over a period of 8 years. Frequency analysis, term frequency inverse document frequency analysis, and degree centrality analysis were performed using TEXTOM 4.5. In addition, a convergent and
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Customer Experience, Loyalty, and Churn in Bundled Telecommunications Services SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Hugo Ribeiro, Belem Barbosa, Antonio C. Moreira, Ricardo Rodrigues
The telecommunications industry is highly competitive, as operators engage in fierce attacks, especially in bundled services, to acquire new customers originating high churn rate. The objective of this paper is to gain a comprehensive understanding of the factors influencing the switching of operators for bundled services among telecom operators. The paper includes a quantitative study with 3,004 customers
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Monetary Integration Across West Africa: Is the Region Ripe for a Monetary Union? SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Olajide Oyadeyi
This study investigates the possibility of forming a monetary union across West Africa. This was achieved by employing the structural VAR framework. Data on real GDP, inflation, and exchange rate were used to represent supply, monetary, and demand shocks from the period 1986 to 2020. The impulse response and variance decomposition results showed that shocks affecting the West African region are idiosyncratic
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Role of Social Support in the Relationship Between Career Self-Efficacy and Psychological Distress Among Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Liridona Jemini-Gashi, Naime Hoxha
Throughout the COVID 19 pandemic, young people have experienced numerous changes in their routine. This has affected their health and well-being in all dimensions as well as academic life, including their career planning and decision-making process. We explored the role of social support in the relationship between career self-efficacy and psychological distress in young people. High school students
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High-Frequency Vocabulary: Moving From Recognition to Recall Level on Quizlet SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Paul Sevigny, Lindsay Mack, Lance Stilp, Maiko Berger
This study expands arguments calling for a more rigorous approach to high-frequency vocabulary list-based learning in EFL learning environments. Test and flashcard item designs were validated through quantitative (midterm and final test) and qualitative (survey) results to explore the impact of digital flashcards designed to build recall-level comprehension on both timed gap-fill and traditional multiple-choice
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Does Consumer’s Happiness and Other Emotions Signaling Affect Seller’s Prices? Theory and Evidence From Six Field Studies SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Guy Barokas, Arie Sherman
The factors that determine the prices of goods and services are within the core inquiry of economic science. Do consumer’s emotions affect seller’s selling prices? The current study explores this issue through six field studies. The first four studies focus on happiness, demonstrating for the first time that happiness signals affect the prices of products and services. Happy customers are offered to
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Decent Work, Employee Satisfaction, and the Mediating Role of Social Courage in Reducing Turnover SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Mete Kaan Namal, Cenk Tufan, Ibrahim Sani Mert, Korhan Arun
This study investigates the relationships between decent work, job satisfaction, workplace social courage, and intent to quit among job and career counselors in Turkiye’s IT sector employment agency. The research data was obtained from 408 job and career counselors at an IT sector employment agency in Turkiye. Partial least squares-based structural equation modeling was used to test the hypothesized
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Miscommunication and Mismatched Expectations: Challenges in an EFL Writing Center SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Lindsay Mack
Recently writing centers are expanding to Asian higher education contexts. However, there is a scarcity of research from writing centers in Asian settings and from non-native English speaker (NNES) tutor perspectives. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to enrich understandings of the challenges and expectations perceived by NNES tutors during tutoring writing sessions with intermediate level Japanese
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Assessing Teacher Competencies in Public Schools of Pakistan: A Pathway for Improving the Effectiveness of Professional Development Programs for Teachers SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Usama Kalim, Saira Bibi
Professional development (PD) programs are considered as essential for improving the teacher quality and performance in schools. Despite introducing several PD programs, the teachers’ quality in the public schools is a matter of concern for Pakistan. It has become a challenge for policymakers and school leaders to design PD programs which can be effective for all teachers. PD programs in Pakistan normally
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Self-directed Learning Ability and Shadow Education Expenditures: A Comparison of Impact on Student Achievement in Korea During COVID-19 SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Jisung Yoo
This study examines the impact of students’ self-directed learning (SDL) ability and parental expenditures for shadow education, and other factors, on academic achievement in South Korea during the pandemic. Busan Education Longitudinal Study panel data for 2019 (pre-COVID) and 2020–2021 (COVID) were utilized. National exam scores of middle and high school students in Korean, English, and math subject
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Understanding Migrant School-Aged Children’s Education in Public Schools Thailand: Teachers’ Perspectives and Classroom Narratives SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-13 Tipaya Peungcharoenkun, Budi Waluyo
Despite Thailand’s popularity as a destination for migrant laborers from neighboring Southeast Asian countries, little research has been conducted on the education of migrant school-aged children in Thailand’s public schools. However, knowledge in this area is important for improving Thailand’s education policy and curriculum for migrant children and addressing issues related to Thailand’s migrant
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Is Face-to-Face Scrambled Teaching Practice Supervision Effective Amidst Natural Disasters and Pandemics? The Teaching Practice Students’ Perspectives SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Lazarus Obed Livingstone Banda, Jin Liu, Wenhui Zhou, Jane Thokozani Banda
With the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals in place, the quality of teacher education is a global concern. With so much talent mobility and brain circulation, any migration of low-quality educators from one region will affect the quality of education in the destination part of the global village. The study examined how the interplay in the aftermath of the cyclones, COVID-19, supervisors’
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Student Teachers’ Perceptions and Application of Questionnaire Survey in an EFL Context SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Pingping Hu, Honglei Xu
Although questionnaire surveys are widely applied in second-language research, there is still little research on the application of questionnaire among early career researchers. Problems such as the lack of details concerning why the questionnaire survey is adopted, how the questionnaire is constructed, and how the survey is administered and reported are prevalent in student teachers’ research proposals
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Research Productivity and Publishing Trends in Publicly Funded Social Work and Psychology Schools in India: A Bibliometric Analysis SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Bhoomika N. Jadhav, E. P. Abdul Azeez, Nishtha Mishra, A. P. Senthil Kumar
There is a growing emphasis on research across disciplines, and higher educational institutions’ research productivity (RP) is a matter of serious consideration. However, a knowledge gap exists in RP in research productivity in social science disciplines in India. In this context, the present study aimed to (1) understand the RP of social work and psychology schools at publicly funded central universities
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Understanding Cambodian Provincial University Students’ Perspectives on Cambodia’s Vision to Become a Knowledge-Based Society SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Kimkong Heng
This study examines the perspectives of Cambodian provincial university students about Cambodia’s vision to transform itself into a knowledge-based society. The study employed a qualitative approach to gather data to answer three research questions. Based on in-depth interviews with 21 university students from three provinces, including Battambang, Siem Reap, and Svay Rieng, it was found that Cambodian
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Validation of Hungarian Version of Teacher Responsibility Scale in Pre-Service Teachers SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 József Balázs Fejes, Tibor Vígh, Attila Rausch, Tímea Mezei, Beáta Szenczi
Several instruments measure teacher responsibility, but none is available in Hungarian. Thus, this study aimed to adapt a Hungarian version of the Teacher Responsibility Scale (TRS) developed by Lauermann and Karabenick and validate it. The sample was pre-service teachers ( N = 296). The results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses supported the hypothesized structure of the Hungarian version
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Averting the Old Age Crisis in Fiji: Policy, Providence, and the Crisis of Livelihood SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Nii-K Plange, Mumtaz Alam
This article investigates the livelihood condition and income security concerns of Fijian seniors, retirees, and older persons, with a particular emphasis on the services provided by the Fiji National Provident Fund (FNPF). The report focuses on essential components of Fiji’s society and economy, such as population aging, retirement provisions, and the FNPF’s role. It also investigates the potential
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How Can Vietnamese Companies Benefit from Management Accounting Systems and Supply Chain Integration Under Business Environment Uncertainty? SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Le Thi Thu Hieu, Nguyen Phong Nguyen, Tu Thanh Hoai
We develop and test a moderated mediation model to explain how management accounting systems impact supply chain integration and firm performance, and how perceived environmental uncertainty influences these relationships. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was used to analyze the survey data from 158 supply chain firms in Vietnam. Results indicate that the use of management accounting
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Impact of Social Media Use on the Life Satisfaction of Adolescents in South Korea Through Social Support and Social Capital SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Doo-Hun Choi
This study investigated how social media use among South Korean adolescents influences life satisfaction, using two-wave panel survey data. Specifically, this study examined the mediating mechanism by which adolescents’ social media use is associated with their life satisfaction through social support and social capital. The results demonstrated that social support and social capital mediate the relationship
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Research Front and Future Prospect: A Bibliometric Study of Metaphor Comprehension SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Xunian Wang, Yi Sun
Metaphor comprehension is an important component in the process of constructing metaphorical thinking. Therefore, the topic of “metaphor comprehension” should be a crucial part of metaphor studies. This study uses Bibliometrix to conduct a bibliometric study of research on metaphor comprehension from 2013 to 2023, focusing on the knowledge structure, the hot spots, and the research fronts. The co-citation
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Asset Based Community Development: Co-Designing an Asset-Based Evaluation Study for Community Research SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Jane South, Susan Coan, Jenny Woodward, Anne-Marie Bagnall, Simon Rippon
This paper responds to challenges around how to generate robust evidence in keeping with the principles of an asset-based approach based on mobilization of community strengths. The design of a collaborative evaluation of a multi-site Asset Based Community Development program is described and emergent learning discussed. A qualitative mixed method design was used to capture changes at community and
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Engagement in Online Postgraduate Nursing Programs: An Integrative Review SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Anita Dunn, Helena Harrison, Holly L. Northam, Melanie Birks
Demand for online education has increased in recent decades. Uptake of postgraduate nursing education in this mode is on the rise, yet many students do not achieve completion. Student engagement is vital to success in online postgraduate nursing programs. Technology enables a more efficient means of monitoring engagement, yet limited literature is available on how the design of online postgraduate
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Understanding English Language Teachers’ (De)motivation Toward Continuing Professional Development Through Psychological Contract and Work Attitude SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Sonay Ezel Acar, Fatoş Erozan
Motivation as the driving force for achieving success, pursuing goals and fulfilling objectives, is shaped and affected by intrinsic and extrinsic factors, psychological contract and work attitude. Like other professionals, English language teachers also need to be motivated for continuous professional improvement in order to achieve organizational goals and ultimately reach high educational quality
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Uncertainty Measures and Business Cycles: Evidence From the US SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Haining Chen, Prince Asare Vitenu-Sackey, Isaac Akpemah Bathuure
Most of the macro-literature on uncertainty has focused on macro-uncertainty caused by real activity as a source of economic fluctuations. Economic uncertainty reduces total demand in the economy via a conventional channel that is associated with real option theory. Given the findings of the existing literature, financial uncertainty other than macroeconomic uncertainty matters more for business cycle
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Tax Knowledge, Trust in Government, and Voluntary Tax Compliance: Insights From an Emerging Economy SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Thomas Appiah, Daniel Domeher, Joseph Akadeagre Agana
This paper examines whether tax knowledge, tax fairness and trust affect voluntary tax compliance among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Given the growing budget deficits and debt levels of developing economies, we contend that an understanding of the factors associated with voluntary tax compliance among SMEs could enhance tax revenue mobilization. Although the majority of businesses are SMEs
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A Bibliometric Literature Review of Digital Supply Chain: Trends, Insights, and Future Directions SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Manal Benatiya Andaloussi
This paper presents a comprehensive bibliometric literature review that aims to analyze and synthesize the existing research on the digital supply chain. By employing a bibliometric approach, this study provides insights into the trends, key research themes, influential authors, and relevant journals in the field of DSC. Furthermore, it explores the geographical distribution of publications, collaboration
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Revisiting Transnational Activities: Korean Immigrant Mothers’ Home Visit for Families SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Yu-Jin Jeong, Hyun-Kyung You, Sungeun Yang
Immigrant mothers engage in numerous transnational activities. In this qualitative study, we explored one distinct type of transnational activity, a return trip to the home country for visit, as experienced by Korean immigrant mothers. Through purposeful sampling, 11 married middle-class Korean immigrant women with children were recruited to be interviewed during their visit to South Korea. By exploring
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Mapping the Dynamic Complexity of Social Isolation Among Older Adults in Singapore SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Emma Min Shuen Toh, Aloysius Wei-Yan Chia, John P. Ansah
This study aims to develop a causal map of social isolation among older people that incorporates feedback to inform system-wide interventions. For this study, conducted between September 2019 and November 2019, 19 Senior Activity Centres (SACs) were first contacted, of which 10 responded and 5 agreed to participate. Based on an in-depth qualitative interview with 21 older people (50 years and older)
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Effect of Scientific Collaboration on Interdisciplinarity in Climate Change From a Scientometric Perspective SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Junping Qiu, Yunlong Yu, Shiji Chen, Teng Zhao, Shanshan Wang
Insights into the interdisciplinary response to scientific collaboration remain scarce in interdisciplinary fields. The present work focuses on the effect of scientific collaboration on disciplinary diversity in the field of climate change using multiple statistical methods. The results show that research collaboration at the author and country/region levels has significantly positive effects on variety
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A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Investigation of Hopelessness Among University Students in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Hatice Deveci Şirin, Rana Şen Doğan, Hüseyin Serçe, Eda Bayrakcı, Selahattin Alan
Under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is of vital importance to explore its impact on the psychological wellbeing of the students in higher education. Accordingly, this research investigated hopelessness among students at a state university in Turkey throughout the pandemic. The research was conducted in two separate studies, one cross-sectional and the other longitudinal. Study I examined
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The Perception of Undergraduate Students From Different Educational Systems on Sustainability SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Paul Taboada-González, Quetzalli Aguilar-Virgen
Sustainable education is key to advancing environmental awareness and global responsibility. Institutional procedures can provide pressure points and opportunities to help foster the mainstreaming of sustainable development. This study aims to analyze how higher-level educational institutions influence environmental awareness and global responsibility in engineering students by evaluating the perception
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Consonantal Debuccalization and Deletion in Minangkabau SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Saleh Saeed Batais
While there are many useful studies on Indonesian native phonology and loanword phonology, none has yet explored Minangkabau loanword phonology in depth. Therefore, based on a list of 52 well-established native Indonesian loanwords elicited from 10 adult native speakers of Minangkabau and verified by native speakers and transcribed in IPA, and within the ambit of Optimality Theory, this paper aims
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Do Sitcom Conversations Fully Depict Those in Natural Settings: A Corpus-Based Lexical Analysis SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Min Li, Yan Xiao
An increasing number of studies in pragmatics, second language acquisition, and related fields have opted to use sitcom conversations as a substitute for natural conversations in their analyses. However, few studies have critically examined the validity of this substitution. Taking this into consideration, the present study aims to examine the lexical similarities and differences between sitcom and
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A Mixed-Method Approach to Post-Implementation Success of Technology Performance in UAE Universities: Assessing DeLone and McLean IS Success Model SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Shamma Hamdoon Al Naqbi
Technology brings tremendous changes in education because it is a system that automates all educational institutions and academic performance. Therefore, the study examines the effect of technology’s system, information and service quality on faculty, operational and university performance. To explore the more contextual factors, this study empirically and theoretically tested a proposed model by the
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Conceptualizing Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a Service Through Service-Dominant Logic SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Jinfang Cai, Michitaka Kosaka
Technical and vocational education and training (TVET) plays a pivotal role in equipping young individuals with technical skills and competencies, enhancing their employability. TVET is distinct for its student-centered and industry-oriented features, often involving enterprises in on-site training. In this study, we conceptualized TVET as a service through the lens of service-dominant (S-D) logic
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Dynamic Teacher’s Technology Adoption During the COVID-19 Pandemic SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Longwei Zheng, Tong Liu, Yuanyuan Feng, Xiaoqing Gu, Ming-Hua Yu
Understanding the teacher’s technology adoption process is essential to comprehend and narrow the digital divide in the post-epidemic age. During the pandemic, the stay-at-home orders not only intervened schooling and teaching but also increased digital accessibility to teachers. This research studies teacher heterogeneity and adoption controls in the epidemic to simultaneously affect teacher’s underlying
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Written Language: A Promising Gateway to Anxiety Disorders Assessment SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Luisa Avram, Mugur Daniel Ciumăgeanu, Florin Alin Sava
Currently, self-report measures are the primary assessment tool for anxiety disorders. Since they have some limitations, alternative measurements, such as language-based measures, are worth investigating. This paper explores which language markers signal anxiety in fictitious stories written in response to four Thematic Apperception Test (TAT) cards. Participants ( n = 492) from a non-probabilistic
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The Requirements and Importance of Intercultural Communication Competence in the 21st Century SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Abdul Qahar Sarwari, Hamedi Mohd Adnan, Mohamad Saleeh Rahamad, Mohammad Nubli Abdul Wahab
This systematic review assessed the requirements and importance of intercultural communication competence (ICC) in human life in the 21st Century, focusing on its practical aspects and elements. The results reported in the current study are from a review of 45 papers published from 2000 to 2023 in 16 different Web of Science and SCOPUS-indexed journals. To record and select the related and required
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Uplifting and Uncanny Conversations Around Death and Dying: Qualitative Study Among Indian Adolescents and Emerging Adults SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Neha S. Naik
This study explores perspectives of adolescents and emerging adults on having conversations around death and dying, if there is a value in discussing death early in life, and to explore the views on likelihood of introducing death education in Indian curriculum. Using constructivist grounded theory of qualitative research, the study inquired the perspectives of adolescents and emerging adults employing
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Influence of Compensation, Performance Feedback on Employee Retention in Indian Retail Sector SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Mohammed Arshad Khan, Md Rashid Farooqi, Md Faiz Ahmad, Serajul Haque, Abdulaziz Alkhuraydili
The present article investigates the influence of compensation plans – financial as well as nonfinancial and performance feedback – with respect to the retention of the employee considering the retail sector in India from viewpoint of employees. A structured questionnaire was employed to gather information from the Hyderabad city and Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) consisting of 571
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Performance Tasks as a Mediator to Communicating in English and for Enhancing Language Learner Engagement SAGE Open (IF 2.032) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Saeko Toyoshima
This study examines whether technology-based performance tasks can mediate communicating in English and enhance language learner engagement. This study investigated how low-proficiency Japanese English-language learners could change their attitude toward communicating in their target language by completing a performance task that involved making and presenting a digital portfolio, requiring linguistic