School of Arts and Social Sciences: Recent submissions
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Health providers’ perspectives on effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and anti-epidemic measures on maternal health services in Nairobi, Kenya: a qualitative study
(BioMed Central, 2025-04-11)The first case of COVID-19 in Kenya was confirmed in March 2020; the Kenyan government swiftly introduced measures to curb transmission, some of which negatively impacted maternal health services. Most research on the ... -
Caregivers’ lived experiences of childhood probable pneumonia through a gendered lens in western Kenya
(AOSIS, 2025-07-08)Gender intersects with multiple forms of socio-cultural, economic and health system factors to influence the overall care-seeking experiences of caregivers. -
Caregivers’ perceptions of childhood pneumonia in Western Kenya: a theory of practice perspective
(F1000 Research Limited, 2025-08-05)Caregivers' beliefs about their children’s health, perceived causes of illness, and approaches to treatment significantly influence health-seeking behavior. Using Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, we explore the influence of ... -
The potential of natural products in metabolic disease management: a thorough exploration of the case of Uganda
(Bentham Science Publishers, 2025-01-10)As Ugandans grapple with an increase in metabolic diseases, researchers are turning to their rich tradition of natural remedies. This review explores promising plants, such as Moringa oleifera, bridging the gap between the ... -
Precursors of young adults' world beliefs across cultures: A machine learning approach
(JAI, 2025-09)Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture individuals' basic understanding of what sort of world this is and are strongly associated with a wide range of behaviors and outcomes, yet we have little understanding of how primals ... -
Predictors of Young Adults' Primal World Beliefs in Eight Countries
(Wiley, 2025-04-23)Primal world beliefs (“primals”) capture understanding of general characteristics of the world, such as whether the world is Good and Enticing. Children (N = 1215, 50% girls), mothers, and fathers from Colombia, Italy, ... -
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study
(Routledge, 2025-05-02)The present study explored the bidirectional longitudinal associations between prosocial behavior and school performance during adolescence in six countries (Colombia, Italy, Jordan, the Philippines, Thailand, and the ... -
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture
(Routledge, 2025-05-07)Primals are beliefs about the world’s character (e.g. good, safe, enticing, or alive) that are associated with well-being and behavioral patterns. But primals’ developmental origins remain mysterious, hampering theoretical ... -
Positive risk taking across the world
(Wiley, 2025-06)Around the world, adolescence is characterized by increased risk taking. Much research has focused on negative risk taking, but there is growing recognition of positive risk tak ing, which can benefit adolescent ... -
Physical activity and two‐year change in adolescent well‐being in nine countries
(Wiley, 2025-06)The benefits of physical activity (PA) for well- being are well known; however, studies examining longitudinal effects across diverse international samples in late adolescence are limited. This study advances prior ... -
A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent‐to‐Young Adult Executive Function Development in Seven Countries
(Wiley, 2025-07)Executive functioning (EF) is an important developing self-regulatory process that has implications for academic, social, and emotional outcomes. Most work in EF has focused on childhood, and less has examined the development ... -
Parenting Risk and Protective Factors in the Development of Conduct Problems in Seven Countries
(Springer US, 24-11-07)This study advances the understanding of risk and protective factors in trajectories of conduct problems in adolescence in seven countries that differ widely on a number of sociodemographic factors as well as norms related ... -
The Syntax of Head-Marked Phrases and Head-Marking Morphemes in Lunyore
(Indiana Journal of Arts & Literature, 2024-10-22)A language is head-marking if the grammatical marks showing agreement tend to be placed on the heads of phrases. Lunyore like many bantu languages is agglutinating and therefore has a rich and complex morphology. The ... -
Semantic Role-Marking in Lunyore Morphology and Syntax
(East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024)Semantic roles denote different semantic relations that a noun phrase plays with respect to the action or state described by a predicate of a sentence. Semantic is another universal feature of language, if there is an event ... -
Hiatal configurations and their resolution in kinshasa lingala: evidence from songs by TPOK jazz band
(International Research Journal of Rongo University, 2024-10-02)This paper is a constraint-based description of hiatal configurations in Kinshasa Lingala and the strategies used to resolve them in connected speech. The study is grounded in Optimality Theory (Prince & Smolensky, 1993/2004) ... -
Psychological, socioeconomic burdens and coping mechanisms of caregivers of children with bronchoasthma in Kakamega County, Kenya
(2023-11-04)Childhood bronchoasthma consistently pose diverse caregiving burdens yet, magnitude of these and coping mechanisms adopted by caregivers are infrequently assessed during routine care only focused on index patients -
Stress Among the Undergraduate Students in Public Universities in Kenya
(IGI Global, 2024)Stress is an emotional feeling of tension. Stress is the body's reaction to a challenge or demand. The arising struggles of life in developing countries of the world has led to the increase of stress in instructions of ... -
Financial Stressors Among Students in Higher Educational Institutions
(IGI Global, 2024)It is expected that students in higher educational institutions should experience financial wellness. Contrarily, a majority of them are facing financial distress. The study adopted a literature review method. The objective ... -
Assessment of the Differences in Juvenile Crime Based on Family set-up among Secondary School Students in Kisii County, Kenya
(East African Scholars Multidisciplinary Bulletin, 2024-09-05)Juvenile crime is a huge concern across the world today. Young individuals engage in antisocial behaviors such as theft, robbery, rape, drug and substance misuse, drug trafficking, disdain for authority, and even murder. ... -
From your seat in Heaven, hear our prayer: Prayer in the Nomiya Church.
(2024-07-01)Prayer is the act of communication by humans with God and beings in the transcendent realm. The Nomiya Church (NC) is the oldest African Independent Church in Kenya. It was founded by Johana Owalo who saw the Arabs, the ...