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Frontiers in SleepBackgroundSleep is essential for physical health and psychological wellbeing, and insomnia is strongly associated with mental health difficulties, including depression, anxiety, and fatigue.
Tyrone B. Pretorius +1 more
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A Rasch-based validation of EFL teachers’ received online social support scale
Cogent Education, 2021 The primary aim of the study was to examine the validity of the Indonesian version of the 23-item WhatsApp Social Support Scale (WSSC) adapted from an earlier study by Chung, Yang and Chen .
Sri Kusuma Ningsih +3 more
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Adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the COVID-19 stress scales in Turkish sample
International Journal of Assessment Tools in Education, 2022 This study aimed to adapt the COVID-19 Stress Scales (CSS) into Turkish and provide evidence for construct validity. For this purpose, firstly, Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was applied for the 5-factor model obtained during the development of CSS ...
Deniz Güler +2 more
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF COVID-19 BRIEF ANXIETY SCALE IN OMAN
The Indonesian Journal of Public HealthIntroduction: The global COVID-19 pandemic has caused increased levels of anxiety and stress. A recent study reported that 99% of its sample experienced anxiety, stress, stigma, and concerns about potential social isolation.
Mustafa Ali Khalaf
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Exploring Barriers on the Path to B Corp Certification
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT B Corp companies have become a benchmark for sustainability and corporate social responsibility today. However, it is striking that of the more than 285,000 companies that use the B Impact Assessment (BIA) to measure their performance, only around 9400 have managed to achieve certification.
Elsa Diez‐Busto +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While much is known about what drives general participation in climate action, less is known about the drivers of actions that are explicitly linked to time, resource, or convenience constraints (i.e., effortful climate action). Understanding what drives effortful climate action is important to effectively tackle climate change, as many high ...
Carola Garrecht +5 more
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Low‐Cost Ambient Pressure Drying Approach for Highly Porous Nanomaterial Structures
Small Methods, EarlyView.We propose a simple, low‐cost method to dry highly porous nanomaterial structures at ambient temperature and pressure. Using low surface tension solvents, this technique minimizes capillary forces, preventing pore collapse and material shrinkage. This bypasses the need for expensive and size‐limiting critical point drying, enabling scalable production ...
Erik Greve +5 more
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What Program for Love in the 21st Century? Thinking With and Beyond Luhmann
Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.ABSTRACT From a sociological perspective, the paper examines how normative frameworks for intimate relationships have changed since the publication of Luhmann's Love as Passion (1982). Building on Luhmann's notion of a program for love, we discuss his claim that late 20th century love semantics were organized around a program of understanding. We argue
Chiara Piazzesi, Martin Blais
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TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This study investigates internal linguistic variation in the instructional discourse of international teaching assistants (ITAs) by segmenting their mini‐lecture performances into four discourse types: introduction, lecture, conclusion, and audience interaction.
Heesun Chang, Hector Rivera
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Implementing Argument‐Based Validity in Second Language Research on Individual Differences
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Quantitative meta‐syntheses focusing on the psychometric properties of measurement tools in second and foreign language (L2) individual differences (ID) research have drawn scholars' attention to the quality of data collection instruments (Plonsky & Derrick, 2016; Sudina, 2023).
Katalin Piniel, Ekaterina Sudina
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