Positive peer relationships, social identity, and adaptive sport motivation in youth athletes.

Purpose This study aims to determine the intention to purchase electric vehicles (EVs) through technophilia, the social value identity (I) and responsibility (R), operational economic benefits, eco-friendly benefits, low engine noise emission, customer satisfaction, personal innovativeness, financial barriers and range charging risk, considering the theory of planned behavior (TPB). Design/methodology/approach Partial least squares structural equation modeling is used for hypothesis testing. A purposive sampling technique was used, and data was collected through questionnaires administered in China. A total of 537 questionnaires were part of the analysis. Findings The findings demonstrate that technophilia, social value identity, social value responsibility, operational economic benefits and eco-friendly benefits all have a positive impact on customer satisfaction. In contrast, low engine noise emission does not influence customer satisfaction. Moreover, customer satisfaction leads to intention to purchase EVs. Additionally, personal innovativeness, financial barriers and range charging risk moderate between satisfaction and intention. Practical implications This research recommends that manufacturers and policymakers concentrate on studying predictors of intention to purchase EVs. Originality/value This is an initial study that incorporates technophilia, social value identity, social value responsibility, operational economic benefits, eco-friendly benefits, low engine noise emission, customer satisfaction, personal innovativeness, financial barriers and range charging risk to examine intention to purchase EVs considering TPB.

Failure to thrive: A QuantCrit analysis of academic failure and everyday discrimination in undergraduate nursing education.

Club representation in the national team: Effects on identity fusion and intra-vs intergroup attitudes.

The Multigroup Model of Identity Leadership (Multi-IL) in professional team sports: Navigating group dynamics from the perspective of professional soccer head coaches.

Peer communication emotional - arousal relationship in social media apps: the roles of benefit communication and social identity

Understanding cigarette smoking and cessation among adults with intellectual disability in residential services: A multiperspective study.

Identifying effective identity leadership behaviours for exercise leaders: Perspectives from identity leadership experts and exercisers.

Cohesion at 40: A commentary on (re)conceptualizing cohesion through identity, interdependence, and teamwork in sport and exercise.

This paper emphasizes the socio-semiotic aspect of the Dangaura Tharu folk art that aims to explore the interconnection of myth, ritual, and symbol of particular ethnicity and its traditional type of cultural value. The folk art of Tharus is not an individual creation, but a composition and product of the socio-cultural rituality and practice for many generations. Indeed, such art has the emotional and cultural attachment of the entire Tharu community rather than a single folk creator and performer. Moreover, such art has shared identity as well as means to exist with a cultural heritage of the Tharu community. Likewise, the interconnected relationship of archetype, symbol, and ritual in Tharumural painting portrays the collective and social identity with the cultural context of the concerned ethnic group. On the one hand, this study seeks to examine how the mural painting Astimki of Dangaura Tharus represents the multiple facets of their narratives of myth as graphic pictures and lines of mural painting symbolize different local narratives of Tharus, such as Kānhā, Pancha Pando, Durpati, Gurbābā and creation myth, and Barmurwā. On the other hand, the investigation also spotlights how the performance of its ritualization of Tharu unmarried females (bathaniyā) during the period of Astimki festival enhances the continuity of the tradition of cultural heritage that reveals the strong marker of Tharus’ social identity and collective life. Consequently, local creative expression of Tharu mural painting and art opens up a new vista to the ritual followers and practitioners as well as other viewers in their locality.

The Jerunei, a wooden carved funeral pole used by the Melanau’s, is a key mediator of the deceased person's transition from the physical to the spiritual world. While past studies have discussed Jerunei as a significant artifact of Melanau funeral ritual, its deeper symbolic meaning, specifically its articulation of Melanau cosmology and social stratification, has not been thoroughly explored. This research seeks to fill the gap by exploring the Jerunei as material object and spiritual mediator, with specific focus on its symbolic functions and aesthetic qualities. Through ethnographic source analysis, visual culture analysis, and heritage studies theory, the paper explores how the Jerunei testifies to Melanau worldview in relation to death, the afterlife, and social ranking. Moreover, the paper considers the Jerunei's function in postcolonial identity and heritage preservation in the face of globalizing forces that would seek to erase indigenous cultural practice. This research also considers how gender roles intersect in Jerunei construction and use, shaping Melanau ritual knowledge from a postmodern perspective. The paper therefore contends that the Jerunei is not just a funeral object but an exquisitely crafted articulation of Melanau cosmology, social identity, and constant negotiation of indigenous cultural heritage.

ABSTRACT Teacher identity development has been increasingly studied in education research, specifically in relation to teachers negotiating multiple intersecting identities. Using critical thematic analysis, this qualitative study seeks to illuminate how teachers negotiate their multiple marginalised identities amid adverse school settings. The study applies identity triangle framework to explore the tensions Sasha, a Queer, Asian-White elementary school teacher, experiences as she negotiates her racial identity, sexuality, and teacher identity in a politically conservative school environment. Findings show that different identities prove salient across psychological, relational, and behavioural domains resulting in identity tensions as she develops as a teacher. These identities and tensions inform how teachers uptake pedagogical practices and navigate diverse school environments. Implications of this study underscore the necessity of fostering an environment in which teachers feel empowered to navigate complex educational contexts embodying the full scope of their identities. This study also calls for teacher education programs to support teachers’ intentional reflection and integration of multiple identities. Future studies may seek to examine how teachers’ intersectional identities evolve and impact teaching practices and student outcomes.

Social media-based waterlogging locations identification provides a timely, cost-effective solution for urban flood emergency management. However, Chinese toponymic complexities challenge waterlogging location extraction from social media. This study proposes a pipeline integrating reverse filtering, text classification, sentence segmentation, Named Entity Recognition (NER), and Waterlogging Location Refinement (WLR) to identify Fine-grained waterlogging locations (Fg_wls). The WLR algorithm innovatively combines language rules with a Chinese NER model, enhancing completeness, accuracy, and granularity while avoiding time-consuming dataset annotation. Using Shenzhen as a case study, 622 Fg_wls were extracted from 7,243 Weibo posts between 2018 and 2022, including 395 point-level, 146 line-level, and 81 polygon-level locations. The WLR algorithm helps improve the accuracy of fine-grained location identification from 59.4% when using only the PFR-NER model to 92.2% when adding WLR. The proposed pipeline delivers urban-level flood risk information to emergency responders, enabling precise disaster mitigation.

In the digital age, social media platforms homogenize beauty standards and intricately link clothing choices to social norms and class identities. Grounded in Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural and social capital, supplemented by Erving Goffman’s theory of stigma, this study examines how social media amplifies pre-existing socio-cultural pressures that influence Turkish women’s decisions to abandon the hijab. The research has practical implications for understanding and addressing hijab abandonment. It employs a qualitative design based on semi-structured interviews with 13 participants, analyzed through a phenomenological approach. The findings reveal that the pursuit of social acceptance and resistance to social exclusion are more decisive factors in hijab abandonment than direct social media influence. While social media serves as a crucial amplifier of aesthetic ideals and a gateway to digital legitimacy, the primary drivers are deeply rooted in the pursuit of social acceptance and resistance to long-standing mechanisms of socio-cultural exclusion, stigmatization, and symbolic violence—processes intensified and mediated through digital platforms. The analysis uncovers the operation of a dual-sided neighborhood pressure, whereby women face scrutiny from both religious communities enforcing idealized piety norms and secular circles perpetuating stigmatizing labels such as backwardness or ignorance. Crucially, participants reported that unveiling was strategically employed as a means of overcoming barriers to professional advancement, gaining access to elite social spheres, and escaping the constant burden of representation. The study concludes that hijab abandonment emerges as a complex strategy of social navigation, where digital platforms act as powerful accelerants of pre-existing class- and identity-based conflicts.

This article examines early twentieth-century European travelogues as living archives of cultural heritage with implications for intercultural education and indigenous knowledge systems. Focusing on Northern Albania, the study reconceptualizes travel literature by Erich Liebert, Karl Steinmetz, William Le Queux, and Paul Siebertz as ethnographic sources documenting practices of social order, identity formation, and cultural continuity. Through qualitative interpretive methodology anchored in cultural anthropology and critical heritage studies, the analysis demonstrates how foreign observers documented hospitality, dwelling practices, landscape relations, and moral codes as living heritage transmitted through embodied experience. The research contributes to heritage studies by theorizing these narratives as intercultural mediation, providing pedagogical resources for intercultural education and interpretive cultural tourism. In contemporary society, where cultural identities are negotiated between globalizing forces and local resistance, the indigenous knowledge systems documented offer alternative models for social cohesion, intercultural ethics, and sustainable community practices. These narratives offer a model for social pedagogy promoting empathy and intercultural cooperation.

In the real world people often face collective action problems at multiple scales, where they must choose between local and global cooperation. Unlike single public goods scenarios, which can be solved if enough players are willing to cooperate, multilevel collective action problems introduce an additional coordination challenge in working towards the same goals. Using a pre-registered, online behavioural experiment, we investigate how perceptions of social identity predict and covary with cooperation success in multilevel public goods games. We find that introducing a local cooperation option undermines global cooperation and exacerbates parochial biases, but that increasing the payoffs of global cooperation boosts global cooperation levels. We also see a performance-cohesion effect, whereby successful cooperation within groups is associated with increased social identification with that group. Overall, our findings point to the importance of social context for cooperation, social identity, and their interplay.

Navigating Dual Identities: Educational Equity, Social Identity, and Cultural Capital among Vocational Student-Athletes in China

One of the most critical responsibilities of a society’s members is to preserve cultural heritage. At this point, ‘awareness’ is critical. It means keeping, promoting, and transferring cultural values, which play a vital role in forming social reality, cultural identity, and consciousness. However, to realize the acts of preservation, promotion, and transmission, it is a must to know, experience, and comprehend the heritage. We call it a consciousness-raising activity, contributing to forming individual’s identity and national consciousness. Hence, individuals can comprehend themselves, fundamental values of the society, importance of being a nation through cultural heritage, and transfer it to future generations. The significance of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the Süleymaniye Mosque one of the most important cultural heritages in the world. In the study, the main internal and external structural features that make the magnificent artwork meaningful, the relational value of the elements contributing to the integrity of the architecture, its semantic universe, and reflections of each formative elements on human life are examined regarding surrounding/surrounded, form/substance, vertical/horizontal dichotomies within semiotics.

ABSTRACT This study presents a comparative analysis of educational attainment among Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (STs), and Others in India from 2001 to 2011, using Census of India data and Pollard and Arriaga estimation methods. The findings reveal persistent disparities in progression to higher education across social groups and educational baselines. While SCs and STs show moderate gains at foundational levels, their advancement stagnates beyond secondary education, with consistently negative transitions to graduate level attainment. In contrast, the Others group demonstrates smoother and more favorable trajectories, especially from the primary baseline, where Arriaga estimates show substantial gains. The Pollard method tends to produce more extreme values, highlighting sharper declines and gains compared to Arriaga. Overall, the analysis underscores that educational mobility in India remains deeply stratified by social identity, with SCs and STs facing enduring structural barriers, reinforcing the need for targeted policy interventions to promote equitable access to higher education.

Purpose This study explores why people who share photos of POP MART's Labubu collectible on China's image-driven platforms (Xiaohongshu, Douyin and Weibo) develop strong brand loyalty. Labubu is a rabbit-like designer toy from the “The Monsters” blind-box series, highly popular in China's collectible market. Guided by self-presentation theory, the research examines three display motives: expressing personal taste (self-expression), gaining social approval and shaping one's public image (identity building). Design/methodology/approach A survey of 583 users was analysed with covariance-based structural equation modelling, followed by a generational comparison between Gen Z and Gen Y. All three motives increased perceived conspicuous value–the sense that the collectible helps its owner stands out–which fully mediated their loyalty. Findings Materialism strengthened the effects of social approval and identity building on value, as well as the effect of value on loyalty, but did not affect the self-expression route. The paths were similar across generations. Originality/value This study refines self-presentation theory by distinguishing inward- and outward-focused motives and clarifying the role of materialism. For practitioners, emphasising social validation cues and simplifying online sharing can turn visibility into enduring loyalty.