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Workload in the Austrian IT-sector regarding leadership roles.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-16 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1414420

Maria Gren

{"title":"Workload in the Austrian IT-sector regarding leadership roles.","authors":"Maria Gren","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1414420","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1414420","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the impact of workload on leadership roles within the Austrian IT sector, by also paying attention to differences between genders. The research adopted a prospective design, selecting IT professionals, stratified by those with and without personnel responsibility and examined further through the lens of gender. A total of 200 participants completed the survey, where the modified German version of the Copenhagen Psychosocial Questionnaire (COPSOQ) served as the primary tool, which evaluated dimensions such as demands, influence, interpersonal relations, work interface, and conflicts. The results indicate that individuals with personnel responsibility experience significantly lower scores in the dimensions demands and influence, suggesting challenges in managing qualitative or emotional demands alongside perceived limitations in their scope of action. This trend persisted, albeit less marked, within the dimension work interface, indicating concerns regarding occupational stability (job security) among leading individuals. Gender analysis revealed that male participants reported fewer conflicts compared to females, highlighting discordance regarding experiencing workplace challenges. Discussion revolves around the difficulties faced by individuals with personnel responsibility in managing multifaceted demands of their role and the specific challenges encountered by female leaders. The findings emphasize the necessity of strategies to support leaders on acknowledging gender-specific challenges to enhance occupational health in the IT sector. This study contributes to the understanding of workload dynamics within leadership roles in the IT industry, recommending targeted measures to address the particular stress factors of leaders and highlight the need for gender-specific considerations in organizational support systems.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1414420"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780676/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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A study of Filipina migrant workers' subjective health in Hong Kong and an assessment of eight scoring methods for the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12).

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-15 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1420017

Tim F Liao, Rebecca Yiqing Gan

{"title":"A study of Filipina migrant workers' subjective health in Hong Kong and an assessment of eight scoring methods for the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12).","authors":"Tim F Liao, Rebecca Yiqing Gan","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1420017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1420017","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: The SF-12 version 2 is a survey instrument for collecting data on subjective health. The US-based scoring method is the recommended standard for measuring subjective health with data collected with this instrument. The inadequacy of the US-based scoring method of the SF-12 version 2 instrument for non-US populations is widely documented. However, few studies systematically assessed relative performance of alternative scoring methods against the US-based method, our main objective in this paper. Through this investigation, we also intend to shed light on Filipina migrant workers' subjective health in Hong Kong, our case study.Methods: This study investigates the feasibility of eight such scoring methods-six latent-variable models, the raw score index, and the US-based method-for analyzing an SF-12 version 2 instrument via a range of bootstrapped samples of varying sizes and an empirical study of the original 2017 Hong Kong Domestic Workers survey data with a set of covariates associated with Filipina migrant domestic workers' subjective mental and physical health in Hong Kong.Findings: Our analyses favor the latent-variable factor model with the normal distribution and the identity link for analyzing the SF-12 version 2 type of data. Our empirical study of the survey data provides evidence for the beneficial effects of education, social support, and positive working conditions on migrant domestic workers' subjective physical health and especially subjective mental health, with these two types of health analyzed jointly on the same measurement scale.Conclusion: For studying non-US populations with the SF-12 version 2 instrument, we recommend using the latent confirmatory factor analysis model that assumes a normal distribution and an identity link function for analyzing the MCS and PCS dimensions simultaneously.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1420017"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11776024/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068508","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Raising aluminum foil fists: how to speak about anger in transplant medicine.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-15 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1434500

Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Eva-Marie Stern

{"title":"Raising aluminum foil fists: how to speak about anger in transplant medicine.","authors":"Alexandra Vieux Frankel, Eva-Marie Stern","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1434500","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1434500","url":null,"abstract":"Dominant narratives of solid-organ transplantation foreground vocabularies of gratitude. Solid-organ transplantation is often celebrated in biomedicine for its high-tech innovation and specialization. But transplantation also includes the organizations that oversee the distribution of donated organs to potential recipients who disproportionately outnumber available organs. Wait-listing for transplant weighs urgency and fitness for transplant against availability, as individuals must simultaneously demonstrate that their conditions are severe enough to warrant transplantation while also showing they are well enough to withstand the transplant procedure that is meant to return the individual from critical illness to able-bodied health. This article considers how promises of cure make affective demands on transplant recipients. Dominant transplantation narratives and metaphors frame transplantation as \"rebirth\" and the \"gift of life.\" But this framework constrains transplant recipients' affective and emotional repertoires, positioning gratitude as the primary-if not only-acceptable feeling for performing that the \"gift of life\" was deserved. Such narrowly sanctioned possibilities for expression elide the affective complexities of transplant recipients' experiences and foreclose opportunities for expressing anger and frustration. This paper unpacks the politics of verbalizing anger among solid-organ transplant recipients at an urban North American hospital. Using arts-based sensory ethnographic interviews with 27 participants, this paper draws on affect theory to understand how transplant recipients critique and protest curative imaginaries while also upholding them. Theorizations from Critical Disability Studies provide generative ways to question negative feelings and more fully understand recipients' experiences.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1434500"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11774924/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068510","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Perspective on the role of norms for institutional behavior and policy design in European cross-border regions.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-14 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1434306

Sara Svensson

{"title":"Perspective on the role of norms for institutional behavior and policy design in European cross-border regions.","authors":"Sara Svensson","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1434306","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1434306","url":null,"abstract":"The article analyses how a norm scientific perspective can advance our understanding of cross-border regions and guide future directions of research. Cross-border regions are territorial spaces comprising territory from two or more national states, located directly at the borders of those spaces. Since the 1950s it has become increasingly common that cross-border organizations, constituted by local municipalities and regional authorities and sometimes private entities, are established to coordinate governance processes around shared policy problems. These organizations fit into a Type II model of European multi-level governance as complex, fluid, and carried out in overlapping jurisdictions. A norm scientific perspective focuses on joint expectations as a primary predictor of behavior and thereby on social structures as well as social transformations. In accordance with institutional theory, norms are understood as intersubjective, widely shared, but often implicit, expectations and rules that guide human behavior. The article makes two arguments. First, it argues that a norm-scientific perspective has the potential to significantly advance the scientific community's understanding of various aspects related to how cross-border cooperation emergence and functioning. Second, it argues that cross-border regions constitute a promising venue to advance the knowledge of how norms can be studied and understood.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1434306"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11772479/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143060837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Scientific mapping of the nexus between entrepreneurial orientation and environmental sustainability: bibliometric analysis.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-10 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1461840

Tadesse Weyuma Bulto, Abdella Kosa Chebo, Hailu Fufa Regassa, Birhanu Chalchisa Werku, Helmut Kloos

{"title":"Scientific mapping of the nexus between entrepreneurial orientation and environmental sustainability: bibliometric analysis.","authors":"Tadesse Weyuma Bulto, Abdella Kosa Chebo, Hailu Fufa Regassa, Birhanu Chalchisa Werku, Helmut Kloos","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1461840","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1461840","url":null,"abstract":"Entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and environmental sustainability (ES) has recently become the subject of extensive research. The objective of this paper is to comprehensively analyze of EO and ES by conducting a bibliometric network and systematic review analysis of over ten years of publications. A total of 390 articles were identified using the Scopus and Mendeley search engines. One hundred-eighteen articles published in 53 journals between 2012 and 2021 were identified for analysis. Association analysis was conducted by author, co-author, and keyword, as well as keyword analysis by title and abstract fields, abstract field, and title field words with the highest frequency and highest relevance score under the binary counting approach. Performance, entrepreneurial orientation, relationship, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, and business keywords were the most dominant occurrences in the abstracts. Key topics included models for entrepreneurial orientation; environmental sustainability was potentially more comprehensive in understanding the review work. This comprehensive review holds substantial theoretical significance for advancing the agenda of ecological entrepreneurial orientation and environmental sustainability. The findings of the study will help academics and researchers to identify future research directions and subject areas.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1461840"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11758184/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Indigenous Maya-Mam leadership competencies: a grounded theory study.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-10 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1463562

Pablo Lamino, Amy E Boren-Alpízar, Jason Headrick, Scott Burris, Carlos Carpio

{"title":"Indigenous Maya-Mam leadership competencies: a grounded theory study.","authors":"Pablo Lamino, Amy E Boren-Alpízar, Jason Headrick, Scott Burris, Carlos Carpio","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1463562","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1463562","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: This study explores the leadership competencies within the Indigenous Maya-Mam community, aiming to understand the specific skills and qualities exhibited by Maya-Mam leaders. The research seeks to address the gap in literature regarding Indigenous leadership practices, particularly focusing on how cultural values influence leadership behaviors.Methods: Qualitative methods were employed for this study, including interviews and thematic analysis. Data collection took place in various Maya-Mam communities in Guatemala, where participants were selected based on their roles and experiences within the community leadership structures.Results: The study identified several key competencies among Maya-Mam leaders, including leading by example, promoting inclusive leadership, valuing bilingual proficiency, and emphasizing community solidarity. These competencies underscored the leaders' roles as both inspirations and facilitators of community development.Discussion: The findings suggest that Maya-Mam leadership is deeply rooted in cultural values and community dynamics, influencing how leaders engage with their roles and responsibilities. This aligns with broader research on Indigenous leadership, highlighting similarities and unique aspects of Maya-Mam leadership practices. The study underscores the importance of understanding local contexts and cultural values in leadership development initiatives within Indigenous communities. Future research could further explore comparative studies across different Indigenous groups to enhance understanding and inform effective leadership strategies.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1463562"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11757294/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047920","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Cognitive dissonance as a reason for low perceived HIV risk among Black women.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-10 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1498383

Mandy J Hill

{"title":"Cognitive dissonance as a reason for low perceived HIV risk among Black women.","authors":"Mandy J Hill","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1498383","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1498383","url":null,"abstract":"Existing HIV-related literature affirms that Black women in the US have a low perceived risk of HIV. Yet, Black women consistently experience higher HIV incidence than other women. The ability of HIV risk perception to influence HIV prevention behaviors remains unclear. Lack of knowledge is often described as the primary driver of a low perceived risk of contracting HIV. What if the primary driver is not lack of knowledge? Instead, it is possible and even likely, that cognitive dissonance became a commonly used coping strategy for survival among Black women whose social standing hinges, in part, on the independent ability to maintain romantic partnerships while doubling in purpose as a primary driver for low perceived risk of HIV. The three key points of this commentary are that underpinnings of low perceived risk of HIV among Black women exist, cognitive dissonance is a likely byproduct of reconciling cultural norms with self-identity, and there is a permanence in disconnect between actual and perceived risk of HIV among Black women. To achieve sexual health equity, researchers must enhance awareness into the nuanced reasons that low perceived risk of HIV persist.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1498383"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11758228/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143047790","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Contesting crisis narratives amidst climatic breakdown: Climate change, mobility, and state-centric approaches to migration.

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-09 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1411683

Kenna Sim-Sarka

{"title":"Contesting crisis narratives amidst climatic breakdown: Climate change, mobility, and state-centric approaches to migration.","authors":"Kenna Sim-Sarka","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1411683","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1411683","url":null,"abstract":"Human mobility in the context of climate change is often identified as one of the largest future impacts of the climate crisis. It is often assumed by international institutions and national governments that climate change will drive mass migration movements across borders, leading to a prioritization of research that aims to predict future climate migration to aid border security and the creation of migration policies. This article focuses on knowledge production research concerning around climate-related mobility and how knowledge being produced upholds state-centric approaches to migration and migration management. It argues that by leaving state-centric approaches to migration unquestioned in the name of managing climate-related mobility, national governments and other institutions reproduce inequalities for those who are in the nexus of migration and climate change. This article considers alternative conceptions of mobility and climate change, including the climate mobilities paradigm and decolonial understandings of migration, and how these can shift our analytical focus to more holistic and decolonial understandings of migration.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1411683"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11754281/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143030007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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From speech acts to communicative acts: social network debates about sexual consent. 从言语行为到交际行为：关于性同意的社交网络辩论。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-07 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1468173

Elisabeth Torras-Gómez, Arja Krauchenberg, Victor Petuya, Rebeca Marcos, Olga Serradell, Marta Soler-Gallart

{"title":"From speech acts to communicative acts: social network debates about sexual consent.","authors":"Elisabeth Torras-Gómez, Arja Krauchenberg, Victor Petuya, Rebeca Marcos, Olga Serradell, Marta Soler-Gallart","doi":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1468173","DOIUrl":"10.3389/fsoc.2024.1468173","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Understanding consent is essential to combat sexual violence, a deeply rooted social problem. Amidst its complexities, the scientific literature has emphasized the shortcomings of only considering the speech act-whether the victim-survivor said \"yes\" or not. Instead, sociological research underscores the need to analyze the whole communicative act where different elements lead to either a power relationship where there is no consent or a dialogic relationship where freedom is granted. Although some research has been conducted on citizens' social media debates on consent, how such debates include the concept of communicative acts to discuss it has not been analyzed yet.Methods: 55 gender-related Instagram and Twitter (now known as X) posts-published and extracted over the course of 14 days-were analyzed.Results: Findings reveal that most posts refer to Power Communicative Acts as a hindrance for consent due to hierarchical power imbalances or to coercion, and called for the need to establish elements of Dialogic Communicative Acts to achieve consent and construct more egalitarian environments. Finally, most posts that considered ethics spoke about the need for perpetrators to be held accountable or offered similar takes on consequentialism.Discussion: These findings help illustrate how several social media debates about consent successfully fall into the Communicative Acts framework.","PeriodicalId":36297,"journal":{"name":"Frontiers in Sociology","volume":"9 ","pages":"1468173"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11747825/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143013355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Corrigendum: Making sense of a pandemic: reasoning about COVID-19 in the intellectual dark web. 勘误：理解大流行：在知识暗网上对COVID-19的推理。

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Frontiers in Sociology Pub Date : 2025-01-07 eCollection Date: 2024-01-01 DOI: 10.3389/fsoc.2024.1535266

Sean Doody

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