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Subjective School Experience and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic J. Happiness Stud. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Roger Fernandez-Urbano, Guido Salza, Robin Samuel
School life is an important determinant of adolescents’ subjective well-being. While there is now an extensive literature on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on adolescents’ well-being, adolescents’ school experience during the pandemic and how it relates to different dimensions of their subjective well-being has received little attention. This study addresses this gap by examining the relationship
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United States Women and Pornography: Methodological Experiment Update Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Paul J. Wright, Robert S. Tokunaga
Pornography is one of the most popular forms of media and pornography research is common in high impact sexological journals. Many studies on U.S. adults’ pornography consumption have utilized the National Science Foundation funded General Social Survey (GSS), which has provided nationally representative publicly available data since the early 1970s; however, there are multiple reasons to question
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Academicians' Metaphorical Perceptions of Older Adult Sexuality: An Example of Metaphor Analysis Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-04 Arzu Yüksel, Cemile Kütmeç Yilmaz
Sexuality is one of the most natural aspects of life that continues throughout life and is within the scope of basic human needs. Sexual life can be affected by many factors such as individual characteristics, diseases, society's values, attitudes, and cultural and religious characteristics. The objective of this research is to identify the metaphorical perceptions of older adults' sexuality held by
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Choking/Strangulation During Sex: Understanding and Negotiating “Safety” Among 18-35 Year Old Australians Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Isabella Conte, Leah S. Sharman, Heather Douglas
Despite its potentially fatal consequences, sexual choking/strangulation is an increasingly common sexual practice. Existing research suggests that its growing prevalence is partly a consequence of its popular construction as “risky yet safe.” Few studies have directly examined how people frame and engage in choking/strangulation in terms of “safety”—what people think it means for strangulation to
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Citation Issues in the American Academy of Pediatrics Policy Statement on Transgender and Gender-Diverse Children and Adolescents (Rafferty, 2018). Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-02-05 Kathleen McDeavitt
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Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Relationship Between Life Satisfaction, Contentment, and Affect. Implications for Income’s Relevance J. Happiness Stud. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-02-02 Mariano Rojas
Contentment and affect are substrates of information people use when making an overall assessment of satisfaction with life. Most studies assume homogeneity across people in the relevance of affect and contentment. This paper studies the existence of heterogeneity across people in the relationship between life satisfaction and affect and contentment. In addition, the paper postulates that, due to the
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Interplay between Teachers’ Affective Well-Being and Thriving at Work: A Cross-Lagged Study J. Happiness Stud. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Shuhua Wei, Hejuan Ding, Huihui Sun
Affective well-being, as an important component of well-being, is related to an individual’s mental health and quality of life. Previous studies have found that some psychological variables of employees at work can affect their well-being, but most studies use cross-sectional design, and the exploration of the potential psychological mechanism of the relationship between the two is unclear. This study
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Autoethnography of disability and active travel in Greater Manchester: Encountering (non)citizenship through access controls on traffic-free walking, wheeling and cycling paths Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Harriet Larrington-Spencer
Enlivening is an increasingly common response to urban challenges and seeks to make urban space ‘liveable’ and ‘healthy’. A central tenet in achieving the enlivened city, is an active citizen who travels by sustainable modes, namely active travel. Whilst there is an increasing impetus upon producing an inclusive template of the active citizen within policy, it is our encounters with the materiality
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Who are satisfied with life in cities? Evidence for 25 European countries Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Fredrik Carlsen, Stefan Leknes
A large literature has studied the urban gradient in subjective well-being, but few studies have examined for whom urban areas are good places to live. Using Eurobarometer survey data 2010–2019, we find that, compared to other sociodemographic groups, young, single and well-educated persons report relatively higher life satisfaction in cities than in non-city areas, whereas the opposite is the case
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Beyond binaries in the urban politics of the senses: Ambivalent sensory encounters in French medium-sized shrinking cities Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Solène Le Borgne
This article contributes to scholarly analyses of urban sensory politics, which emphasise the ‘othering’ strategies of middle-class residents targeting the sensory practices and embodied presence of marginalised urban residents. It introduces greater nuance to three structuring binaries that are readily apparent in current scholarly understandings of urban sensory politics: disrupted/disruptive; familiar/unfamiliar;
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Harassment or neglect? How market dynamics and rent control shape landlord behaviour in Los Angeles Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Sean Angst, Jovanna Rosen, Gary Painter, Soledad De Gregorio
This paper examines whether and how housing market dynamics shape landlords’ profit-seeking behaviours, focusing on harassment and property neglect. Leveraging household survey data, we assess whether differences between market and contract rents, rent control and gentrification influence landlord behaviour. Findings reveal that one-quarter of respondents reported inadequate maintenance from landlords
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Online Sex Work and Subscription-Based Digital Platforms: A Scoping Review. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Elena De Gioannis,Niccolò Casnici,Elia Sigala
The rise of adult content creation platforms is triggering a deep revision of the social acceptability of new habits and the relations between the human body and marketing practices. However, academic research on this phenomenon is still scarce. This scoping review aimed to summarize and discuss the studies about content creators sharing adult content on subscription-based digital platforms. Based
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Sexual Education as a Dynamic Multisource Process: A Qualitative Examination of Sexual Education Experiences in a Sample of U.S. College Students. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-31 Alex S Diede,Kathryn J Holland
Sexual education is important for young people's sexual health. Sexual education comes from a myriad of sources, but most research in this area has examined one source at a time, limiting a holistic understanding of how people learn about sexuality. The current study considered how different sources of information come together to inform a person's sexual education. We conducted qualitative interviews
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Deflated in shame and puffed up in pride: How affective practices matter for entrepreneuring Hum. Relat. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Dorota Marsh, Helen Eccleston, Martyna Śliwa
At the heart of the processual term ‘entrepreneuring’ lies something inherently optimistic: a belief that a better world could be reached beyond the actual. Embracing this perspective, we move away from a focus on entrepreneurial mastery and seek conditions for entrepreneuring understood as social change, foregrounding its affective dimension. We do so by researching and writing differently; in adopting
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The Role of Physical Appearance Comparison, Self-Esteem, and Emotional Control in the Association Between Social Media Addiction and Masculine Depression Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Maya Kagan, Uzi Ben-Shalom, Michal Mahat-Shamir
Social media has become an integral part of daily life, shaping behaviors, self-perception, and emotional well-being. However, its addictive use raises concerns about its potential to aggravate psychological challenges, particularly in the context of societal expectations of masculinity. The current report presents a study exploring the pathways through which social media addiction contributes to masculine
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Can Sex Competition Be Considered a Sport? Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Ana I Sabater-Sala,Carlos Álvarez-Dardet,Jorge Marcos-Marcos
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Virtual diversity and the value-ladenness of science Social Studies of Science (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Charles Thorpe
Collins, Evans, and Reyes-Galindo develop the concept of interactional expertise into the idea of virtual diversity. They thereby provide a strong case against the epistemic barriers established by identity politics. This commentary questions, however, whether virtual diversity can incorporate the critique of institutional power that Wynne has argued is at the center of tensions between lay publics
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A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Women's Experiences of Internalized Sociocultural Sexual Pressure. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Kirsten M Greer,Kyla M Cary,Morgan E PettyJohn,Gianna Casaburo,Carin Graves,Kristen N Jozkowski
Sexual coercion occurs when a person applies pressure to force another person to have unwanted sex. Yet, sociocultural expectations may also impact women's sexual consent/refusal behaviors in the absence of partner pressure. We conducted a qualitative meta-synthesis to investigate factors contributing to incongruent sexual decision-making (i.e. internal feelings which are inconsistent with their consent/refusal
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The Longitudinal Effect of Pre-war Investments in Hedonic Capital on Wartime Well-Being J. Happiness Stud. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Eyal Lahav, Arie Sherman, Tal Shavit
There is a gap in our understanding of people’s longitudinal emotional reactions before and during an ongoing war. The paper analyzes the impact of the Iron Swords War between Israel and Hamas on measures of Israelis’ subjective well-being, including fear and anxiety. Two questions are probed: (1) How are the affective components—negative and positive emotions—which tend to fluctuate, and the more
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Moving with the trouble: How vulnerability and critical hope enable reckoning with complicity in entrepreneurial initiatives Hum. Relat. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Nada Endrissat, Christina Lüthy
Entrepreneurial initiatives aiming to transform organizations from the bottom up are often complicit with the power structures they seek to change, reproducing the old while trying to cultivate the new. To unleash the transformative potential of these initiatives, it is crucial to better understand how workers can productively reckon with complicity and how this reckoning drives the entrepreneurial
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The micro-geography of knowledge exchanges in Montreal: Questioning the importance of the neighbourhood scale in an age of virtual communications Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Richard Shearmur, David Doloreux
Observation and theory confirm that economic activity can benefit from spatial agglomeration and clustering. Typically this has been analysed at the region or city scale, but recently micro-local and neighbourhood dynamics have drawn attention. Most studies first observe agglomeration, then infer or theorise processes that drive it; these inferred processes have become embedded in urban policy thinking
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Authoritarian urbanism beyond the city: Infrastructure-led extended urbanisation and India’s more-than-neoliberal configurations Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Nitin Bathla
In the context of the prevailing global rightward and populist shift, there exists a largely unexplored yet profound nexus between authoritarian neoliberalism and infrastructure-led extended urbanisation beyond the city. Drawing on insights from extensive ethnographic fieldwork conducted along India’s highway corridors, this paper examines the authoritarianism and social fragmentation inherent in the
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‘Peace-kept’ urbanism: Ephemerality and endurance in eastern DRC Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Maren Larsen
This paper opens up and departs from United Nations peacekeeping camps in the city of Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, to grapple with questions around urbanism’s temporariness and permanence. Inspired by literature from southern urbanism and camp urbanism that focuses on temporal aspects of the built environment, I trace the various spatio-temporal horizons through which peacekeeping camps
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Subverting speculative urbanism: Cityscape in New York 2140 Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Ali Riza Taskale
This article is divided into two parts. The first part foregrounds the logic of contemporary financial capitalism, emphasising the increasing role of ‘speculative urbanism’ in urban transformation. While the literature on the ‘financialisation of the city’ often highlights the commodity as the paradigmatic social form in urban settings, I argue that this perspective no longer fully captures the dynamics
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Framing urban mobility injustice from the Global South Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Pedro da Cunha Rego Logiodice, Mariana Abrantes Giannotti
This paper presents the Relational Urban Mobility Injustice framework for analysing urban accessibility and mobility, aiming to uncover critical, often overlooked injustices in the mobility system. Through reevaluating transport outcomes, we distinguish regimes of (im)mobility and expose the oppressive interdependence among them that mirrors and reinforces injustices across social groups. Using empirical
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A hima traditional ecological knowledge perspective of the sustainability goals in AlUla’s journey through time masterplan Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Abdulrahman Alshami, Martin Bryant, Andrew Toland
Saudi Arabia’s ‘Vision 2030’ proposes a more diversified society and a less oil-dominated economy, enabled by several ambitious best-practice sustainability urbanisation projects, one of which is the ‘Journey Through Time’ Masterplan for the urban region of AlUla in the Kingdom’s Hegra Valley. The Masterplan proposes an expansion and intensification of existing towns, economically supported by international
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This unique and precious opportunity: A conversation among feminist administrators about reclaiming the transformative potential of post‐pandemic higher education Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Menah Pratt, Anisa M. Zvonkovic, Ramona Faith Oswald
In the fall and winter of 2024, co‐guest editors Ramona Oswald and Anisa Zvonkovic talked with Vice President Menah Pratt about her vision for higher education. Dr. Pratt is internationally recognized for her work in leading change in academic institutions. The discussion centered on the unique and precious opportunity of higher education for students, the transformative potential of this opportunity
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Multidimensional Perfectionism and Sexual Difficulties Among Adult Couples: A Dyadic Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-29 Noémie Viens,Frédéric Langlois,Marie-Pier Vaillancourt-Morel
The multidimensional model of perfectionism includes three dimensions: Self-oriented perfectionism (SOP), other-oriented perfectionism (OOP), and socially prescribed perfectionism (SPP). Although previous research has identified significant cross-sectional associations between perfectionism and sexual function, these studies predominantly focused on women without examining the links between the different
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Factors Associated with Low/Moderate Perceived Risk for HIV Acquisition Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men Eligible to Use Pre-exposure Prophylaxis from Brazil, Mexico, and Peru Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Hamid Vega-Ramirez, Centli Guillen-Diaz-Barriga, Ana Fresan, Dulce Diaz-Sosa, Kelika A. Konda, Thiago S. Torres, Oliver A. Elorreaga, Rebeca Robles-Garcia, Cristina Pimenta, Marcos Benedetti, Brenda Hoagland, Carlos F. Caceres, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Valdiléa G. Veloso
Perceived risk for HIV acquisition among gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) may not align with their actual sexual HIV exposure. Factors associated with low/moderate perceived risk among GBMSM eligible for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) (based on their high estimated HIV exposure) have been poorly described in Latin America. This is a secondary analysis of a 2018 web-based
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Daily and Prospective Associations Between Responses to Sexual Rejection and Sexual Well-Being and Relationship Satisfaction in Couples Coping with Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Gracielle C. Schwenck, Sophie Bergeron, Jackie S. Huberman, Emily A. Impett, Heather Oliveira, Natalie O. Rosen
Prior cross-sectional research established that four distinct responses to sexual rejection are associated with sexual and relationship well-being among couples affected by Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (SIAD). Examining these associations daily and prospectively will provide insight into within-person variations, temporality, and directionality. Women and gender-diverse individuals diagnosed with
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Quality of life in breast cancer survivors: An ambiguous loss perspective Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-28 Caroline Salafia, Kari Adamsons
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer diagnosed among women in the United States. Although advances in detection and medical treatment have improved survival rates, breast cancer survivors experience physical symptoms and psychological distress that can adversely impact their quality of life. Examining the quality of life in breast cancer survivors is important as it may inform supportive
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Disrupting neoliberalism in the academy: Normalizing loss and enfranchising student grief Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-27 Shera C. Thomas‐Jackson, Elizabeth Sharp, Tashel C. Bordere, Madelynn Moonshower
Despite long‐standing research demonstrating the prevalence of trauma/loss and increased visibility in the recent pandemic, natural disasters, and political violence, many institutions maintaining neoliberal ideologies and practices minimize or disregard the presence and impact of loss and grief on individuals, families, and communities. This deficit in education informs pedagogical approaches and
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Demographic and Experiential Characteristics of Asexual Individuals and Associations with Well-Being Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Alexandra Brozowski, William J. Chopik, Rebekka Weidmann, Jeewon Oh, Jonathan R. Weaver
The visibility and number of people identifying as asexual—those with little to no sexual attraction—have been increasing in recent years. In the current study, we examined variation in experiential and developmental milestones and psychosocial functioning in 1,726 individuals on the asexual spectrum (61.2% women, 15.0% non-binary, 14.2% men, 9.0% other gender). A lack of sexual attraction was a lifelong
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Collaborative spaces as places-of-entrepreneuring: A phenomenological investigation of entrepreneurs’ place-making experiences and practices Hum. Relat. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-24 Pascal Dey, Amadou Lô, Pauline Fatien
Entrepreneurship scholars have become increasingly interested in new collaborative spaces—such as incubators, makerspaces, and coworking spaces—that support entrepreneurial ventures. However, limited attention has been paid to entrepreneurs’ embodied capacity to transform these collaborative spaces into places for entrepreneuring. In response, we propose a phenomenological perspective to advance theorizing
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Factors Associated with HIV Risk Perception Among Cisgender Female Sex Workers in Brazil Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Milena Mantelli Dall’ Soto, Natália Luiza Kops, Marina Bessel, Flávia Moreno Alves Souza, Eliana Márcia Wendland
This study evaluated the association between HIV risk perception and sociodemographic and behavioral characteristics among cisgender female sex workers in the five regions of Brazil. A cross-sectional, multicenter study using respondent-driven sampling was used. Sex workers over 18 years of age and who reported commercial sex in the past four months were included. All participants completed a questionnaire
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Cut from the Same Cloth? Comparing the Sexuality of Male Cross-Dressers and Transfeminine Individuals Through the Conceptual Framework of Autogynephilia Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Kevin J. Hsu, James S. Morandini, S. Rudd
Autogynephilia is a natal male’s propensity to be sexually aroused by the thought or fantasy of being a woman. Both male cross-dressers and transfeminine individuals (a broad range of individuals born male with a feminine gender identity; e.g., trans women) have been shown to be motivated or characterized by autogynephilia. Although there is a lack of research on whether other potentially related aspects
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Worker cooperative ‘regeneration’: Insights from the Brazilian Landless Rural Workers Movement Hum. Relat. (IF 4.5) Pub Date : 2025-01-23 Reece Garcia, Christopher J McLachlan
The degeneration thesis posits that worker cooperatives fail commercially or renege on their democratic governance when operating within free-market neoliberalism. Whilst the inevitability of degeneration has been challenged, there remain limited in-depth empirical examinations of where cooperatives have shown a capacity to ‘regenerate’. This article draws on participatory action research in cooperatives
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Silence of the labs Social Studies of Science (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-23 Banu Subramaniam
This is a commentary on ‘Virtual diversity: Resolving the tension between the wider culture and the institution of science’, by Harry Collins, Robert Evans, Luis Reyes-Galindo.
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Missing pieces: A critical review of research on forced marriage and a call for family scientists to study forced marriage Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Jessie V. Ford, Aarushi Shah, Fraidy Reiss, Jennifer S. Hirsch
In recent decades, there has been increased attention paid to the phenomenon of forced marriage. However, much of this work positions forced marriage as a problem of “backwards” culture or religion. This scoping review synthesizes and critiques research on forced marriage, showing that extant research has focused on individual circumstances of vulnerability, forced entrance to marriage, and cisgendered
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Romantic Jealousy, Cortisol, and Dark Chocolate. Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-22 Jie-Yu Chuang
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Examining LGBT older adult social networks and chosen families using the convoy model of social relations Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-21 Kelseanne Breder, Walter Bockting
Sexual and gender minority (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgnder: LGBT) adults experience heightened social discrimination and minority stress throughout their lives because of their minority identities. LGBT older adults are particularly vulnerable to the impact of minority stress as they are more likely to live alone and to be estranged from their families of origin. To cope, many LGBT older adults
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Machine Learning and Political Events: Application of a Semi-supervised Approach to Produce a Dataset on Presidential Cabinets Soc. Sci. Comput. Rev. (IF 3.0) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Bastián González-Bustamante
This paper describes the creation of a novel dataset on ministerial turnover and resignation calls in 12 presidential cabinets in Latin America from the mid-1970s to the early 2020s. The indicators on resignation calls and reallocations of cabinet members are entirely novel. Both constitute a relevant empirical contribution not only to the study of political dynamics in presidential systems and cabinet
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Erotic AI Chatbots Offer Research Opportunities for the Behavioral Sciences. Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-20 Samuel Pearson,Caitlin Curtis
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The commercial roots of the genomic commons Social Studies of Science (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Steve Sturdy
Accounts of the origins of the genomic commons typically focus on the development of public repositories and data-sharing agreements. This article tells a different story. During the 1990s in the United States, efforts of private companies to prevent the patenting of certain kinds of DNA sequences were essentially a conservative response to shifts in the sociotechnical constitution of the pharmaceutical
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Diversity in Partner Number Sexuality via Sexual Configurations Theory Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Lydia Victoria Kula Mathi, Bianca S. Wilhelm, Ana Carolina de Barros, Daniel Cardoso, Sam Connolly, Greg van Anders, Sari M. van Anders
“Partner number sexuality” (P#S) refers to how many partners individuals have/are interested in having. Those with P#S outside of monogamous desires and/or practices commonly face stigma in North America and elsewhere. Yet theories of sexuality do not always make room for diverse P#S. One theory that does is sexual configurations theory (SCT), which visually models gender/sex and sexuality (van Anders
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Spectres of gentrification: Towards a hauntological framework for exploring the impacts of gentrification Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Josh Lown
Theoretical foundations that frame gentrification often focus heavily on the material and political economy perspective. While this perspective addresses the material impacts of gentrification – cost of housing, changes in demographics, development of new housing structures – it does not address the way gentrification is experienced by long-time residents of gentrifying communities. One of the often-overlooked
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Book review: Spatial Justice, Contested Governance and Livelihood Challenges in Bangladesh: The Production of Counterspace Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 Lipon Mondal
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From ‘poor devil’ to middle class? Navigating resettlement and (in)formal reterritorialisation under COVID-19 Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-16 José Rafael Nunez Collado
Extensive research has examined the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on precarious informal settlements. However, limited attention has been directed towards its implications in resettlement sites, where relocated residents from poor urban areas often experience long-term vulnerability. This article addresses this gap by investigating how the pandemic shaped ongoing post-relocation integration within
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Who (Really) Wins with Basic Income: Personality and Values as Predictors of Happiness Trajectories J. Happiness Stud. (IF 3.1) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Julia Malinka, Kristin Mitte, Matthias Ziegler
Universal Basic Income (UBI) might cause different effects in happiness depending on a person’s individual characteristics. In an online panel study of 573 basic income recipients in Germany, we examined whether personality traits (NEOAC) and certain personal values (self-direction, stimulation, hedonism, power, achievement, universalism, benevolence) predicted trajectories in happiness. Latent Growth
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Beliefs About Autonomic Arousal Sensations Help Explain Differences in Paraphilic Interests in Young Men and Women Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Lucas Walters, Leanne Kane, Krystelle Shaughnessy, Serena Corsini-Munt, Allison J. Ouimet, Elke D. Reissing, Andrea R. Ashbaugh
We examined whether beliefs about autonomic arousal sensations and sexual sensation seeking explain some of the gender differences in self-reporting paraphilic sexual interests in 672 university students. A serial mediation model was used to test the direct association of gender and the indirect associations of positive interpretations of autonomic arousal sensations and sexual sensation seeking on
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Rings and Rebuttals: A Quasi-Experimental Study on the Psychological Impact of Marriage Equality on Low-Income Black Sexual Minorities in the United Kingdom Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Yihong Bai, Chungah Kim, Peiya Cao, Antony Chum
Critiques from queer theory have suggested that the legalization of same-sex marriage (SSM) predominantly benefits White, middle-class segments of the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community. This study investigates the impact of the legalization of SSM on mental health among Black LGB individuals, focusing on those with lower incomes in the UK. Using a nationally representative panel sample and
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One Size Does Not Fit All: Clothing Choice in Young People with Autism and Gender Dysphoria. Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Mia Shoshana Ottman
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Longitudinal Assessment of Sexual Behavior and Relationship Quality During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Britain: Findings from a Longitudinal Population Survey (Natsal-COVID). Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Naomi Miall,Alice Aveline,Andrew J Copas,Raquel Bosó Pérez,Andrew J Baxter,Julie Riddell,Laura Oakley,Dee Menezes,Anne Conolly,Chris Bonell,Pam Sonnenberg,Catherine H Mercer,Nigel Field,Kirstin R Mitchell,Malachi Willis
While the impact of social restrictions on sexual and romantic life early in the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely studied, little is known about impacts beyond the initial months. We analyzed responses from 2,098 British adults (aged 18-59) taking part in the Natsal-COVID study (Waves 1 and 2). Participants were recruited via a web panel and surveyed twice: four months and one year after the start
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Is "Rough Sex" a Thing? A Survey of Meaning. Journal of Sex Research (IF 2.7) Pub Date : 2025-01-15 Nicola Gavey,Olivia Brewster
The term "rough sex" is widely used, but it is not always clear what it means. Through exploring people's working definitions of "rough sex," we asked what they revealed about the underlying phenomenon it is applied to, and whether it is actually a thing. Our online survey of 567 New Zealand respondents (73.7% women, 21% men, 5.3% gender diverse; mean age, 35.6 years, SD = 10.8) identified various
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Review of Impact of Risk Reduction Sessions on Sexual Behaviors in HIV Prevention Trials: Insights from Africa Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Handan Wand, Tarylee Reddy, Jayajothi Moodley, Sarita Naidoo, Gita Ramjee
Over the past two decades, numerous HIV prevention trials have targeted thousands of young African women, aiming not only to reduce transmissions through biomedical interventions but also to promote safe sexual practices through intensive risk reduction sessions. The primary objective of this study was to review the impact of risk reduction sessions in HIV prevention trials conducted in Africa. We
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“It’s Like Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde”: The Construction of Moral Identity by Israeli Men Who Pay Women for Sex Arch. Sex. Behav. (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Ayelet Prior, Einat Peled
This study examined how Israeli men who pay women for sex (MPWS) construct and sustain a moral identity within the social context that often portrays them as deviants, perpetrators, and abusers, thereby challenging their ability to maintain a respectful and dignified image. Twenty-three Israeli MPWS participated in in-depth semi-structured interviews, which were then analyzed using constructivist grounded
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From the bench to public policy: Enhancing public trust in science Social Studies of Science (IF 2.9) Pub Date : 2025-01-13 Shobita Parthasarathy
There is growing concern around the world about declining trust in the scientific enterprise. Some STS scholars argue that the solution is to move to a system of ‘virtual diversity’ where scientists are responsible for translating public concerns into their work. This commentary argues that this containment approach will have the opposite effect. The history of similar efforts suggests that scientists
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Unifying human development and family science: Navigating identity challenges in higher education Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Dana A. Weiser, Valerie S. Knopik, Stacey S. Horn, Heather L. Kirkorian, Eva S. Lefkowitz, Brenda J. Lohman, Stephen T. Russell, Gabriela L. Stein, Dena Phillips Swanson, Andrea K. Wittenborn
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Transformative learning to politicized collective identity: How cisgender parents and caregivers of transgender and gender diverse youth become change makers for TGD justice Journal of Family Theory & Review (IF 3.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-11 Leonardo Kattari
The aim of this article is to provide a theoretical application of transformative learning theory and politicized collective identity framework to examine the process cisgender parents and caregivers of transgender and gender diverse (TGD) children undergo to become advocates for TGD justice. With an intensifying anti‐TGD political climate and anti‐TGD rhetoric, this novel approach to understanding
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Book review: Urban Culture and the Modern City: Hungarian Case Studies Urban Studies (IF 4.2) Pub Date : 2025-01-10 Gábor Patkós