UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Parental behaviors in relation to child self-esteem development: The contribution of parental warmth, rules and parent-child agreement
(2025)Introduction: This study aimed to examine the relationship between parental warmth and rules and children’s self-esteem. Specifically, it investigated not only the perceptions of parents and children individually, but also ... -
Life Projects as a Protective Shield Against Loneliness: Moderating Effects on Flourishing Across Ages During the Pandemic in China
(2025)This cross-sectional study examined how life projects (LP) moderate the negative relationship between loneliness (LS) and flourishing (FS) across two age groups (18–30 vs. 31–65 years) during China’s COVID-19 pandemic. ... -
Van grip naar begrip
(2025)Effectief burgerschapsonderwijs voor mbo-studenten is belangrijk. Zij hebben weinig vertrouwen in de samenenleving, een lage politieke participatie en weinig vertrouwen in hun burgerschapsvaardigheden. Ondanks groeiende ... -
The Role of Digital Technologies in Preserving Refugee Narratives The Case of Chios, Greece
(2025)This thesis explores how digital technologies- specifically GIS mapping and digital archives- can preserve and communicate refugee experiences on Chios Island by bridging historical and contem porary migration narratives. ... -
Object pronouns in Catalan as a heritage language in Germany and in the Netherlands
(2025)In the study of heritage languages, significant attention has been given to the areas of grammar vulnerable to attrition and change. Among them, the acquisition and mastery of object pronouns has been an area of extensive ... -
On the one-loop corrections to gravitons in de Sitter space induced by massive non-minimally coupled scalars
(2025)The graviton self-energy captures how quantum effects modify the dynamics of gravity itself. These corrections, induced by quantum matter fields, are expected to influence the evolution of gravitational perturbations during ... -
Actions Per Minute (APM) as an Analogue to Cognitive Workload: Measuring Workload Through In-game Metrics & Subjective Self Report Criteria in World of Warcraft
(2025)This study aimed to determine whether Actions Per Minute(APM) can be used as a proxy for cognitive workload in a demanding human computer interaction task, namely playing World of Warcraft. By correlating APM with performance ... -
Sprinting Towards Sustainability: The Effect of Agile Ways of Working in Retail Sustainability Performance
(2025)Imagine a large retail company that states it will become more environmentally friendly by reducing emissions, improving working conditions, and utilizing resources more efficiently. However, simply making these promises ... -
The Influence of Masculine and Feminine Packaging Stereotypes on Consumer Perceptions of Protein Bars
(2025)This study examines how masculine and feminine packaging stereotypes of protein bars influence consumer perceptions. Thirty-two participants evaluated different packaging designs (masculine, feminine, and androgynous) in ... -
Well-Being Intervention Recommendations: the Influence of Gender Representation within a Company.
(2025)This study examined whether workplace gender composition influences perceived appropriateness of interventions, contrasting person-directed (e.g., resilience training) with work-directed (e.g., workload reduction) ... -
Balancing Acts: How do Daily Job Demands, Autonomy, and Relatedness Shape Working Women’s Daily Mood and Satisfaction?
(2025)Women face structural disadvantages at the workplace, which are often exacerbated by motherhood. This study aimed to understand how women, in general, and mothers, in particular, perceive their daily work life within this ... -
Divided by Truth: Exploring the Effect on Reconciliation of Regimes of Truth Competition between the Government of Rwanda and Exiled Opposition Parties
(2025)This thesis explores the impact on reconciliation of the competition between two Regimes of Truth constructed in the context of Rwanda, one by the Rwandan government and one by five opposition parties in exile. Through ... -
The Impact of GenAI Feedback on Student Writing: A Mixed-Methods Study
(2025)This mixed-methods study explored how master’s students engage with generative AI (GenAI) feedback during academic writing in higher education. It examined three aspects: students’ engagement with a custom-designed ChatGPT ... -
Receptions and Constructions of Muslimness in American Popular Culture: A Two-Part Comparison of Dune in the 1960s and 2020s
(2025)Recent years have witnessed an increase in both popular and scholarly interest in Frank Herbert’s (1920—1986) science fiction classic Dune (1965), surrounding the two-part release of Denis Villeneuve’s blockbuster adaptation ... -
Promoting Diversity while tackling Popularity Bias in Two-Tower Recommender Systems
(2025)Recommender systems, particularly Two-Tower architectures, often amplify popularity bias and create filter bubbles, limiting users’ exposure to diverse news content. This thesis investigates methods to promote con- tent ... -
Comparison of Collaborative Filtering and Content-Based Filtering for Recommendation Systems
(2025)The objective of food recommender systems is to provide recipe recommendations that are both personally relevant and technically accurate. This thesis assesses the predictive accuracy and user acceptance of two algorithmic ... -
Een oproer of een beweging? Narratief conflict, koloniale macht en het vergeten verleden van sociaal protest in Suriname (1931–1933)
(2025)Deze scriptie onderzoekt hoe het Hongeroproer van 1931 in Suriname werd beschreven in Surinaamse en Nederlandse kranten, en wat die berichtgeving zegt over de manier waarop koloniale machten sociaal protest begrepen en ...