UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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Boredom at Work
(2024)Abstract Introduction. The current study examined the direct and indirect impacts of proactivity and remote work in the workplace on several outcomes - engagement, job satisfaction, and exhaustion, as well as the mediating ... -
The relationship between period pain and task performance: a moderated mediation model including presenteeism and the emotional intelligence of the supervisor.
(2024)Despite women making up a large part of the workforce in the Netherlands, a gap remains in the scientific research on their experiences with menstruation at work. The purpose of this study was to break the stigma around ... -
Perceived Ethnic Discrimination and Internalising Problems among Adolescents: Do Youth and Community Centres Work as a Buffer?
(2024)Perceived ethnic discrimination (PED) has severe consequences for adolescents’ wellbeing. Research has shown PED to positively relate to adolescents’ internalising problems, and that this relation is weaker when adolescents ... -
Unraveling Dutch Employee Life Satisfaction: Investigating the Role of Career Adaptability as a Mediator in Perceived Organizational Support
(2024)This study investigates the relationship between perceived organizational support (POS) and life satisfaction among Dutch employees, focusing particularly on the mediating role of career adaptability. Survey data collected ... -
The Consequences of Women-Targeted Diversity Approaches on Men
(2024)Organisations strive for a gender diverse workforce to address various challenges, nevertheless women remain a minority group in high-power leadership positions. Organisations often implement women-targeted diversity ... -
The Effect of Distractor Location on (Un) Prioritized Working Memory
(2024)This thesis examined the effects of distractors and their locations on reaction time and errors in recalling prioritized versus unprioritized working memory items. Previous research agrees that prioritized items are ... -
Radical Innovation: what to make of technological innovation in the environmental crisis
(2024)The thesis provides an analysis of different understandings of technological innovation and the role they play in tackling the environmental crisis, identifying two main directions in the narratives presented, namely a ... -
Just Energy Transition on the local level
(2024)This thesis has explored the perspectives of coal-dependent communities in Ermelo, South Africa, on the energy transition through the lens of the three-tenet framework of energy justice. Methodologically, the research ... -
Circularities in the empirical grounding of the cosmological principle
(2024)The standard model of cosmology relies on the cosmological principle. This thesis critically examines the principle's status, understanding, and justifications for its implementation and evaluates its potential as a testable ... -
Investigating challenges and designing solutions for accessible public transportation for wheelchair users
(2024)This thesis investigates the challenges and technological solutions for empowering travelers with temporary mobility impairments within the Dutch railway systems. Despite the extensive use of railways in the Netherlands, ... -
Attachment Style and Perceived Effectiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in Romantic Relationships
(2024)This study explored the relationships between attachment styles and the perceived effectiveness of interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) provided by romantic partners. Specifically, the study tested whether more avoidantly ... -
Mastery and Internalizing Problems in Adolescents with a Chronic Illness: Does Type of Illness Matter?
(2024)Having a chronic illness can drastically impact an individual’s day-to-day life and their mental health, especially during adolescence. This study explored the relationship between sense of control over life (mastery) and ... -
Meer, meer, meer klimaatscepsis
(2024)Dit onderzoek richt zich op de framing van klimaatverandering door de Partij voor de Vrijheid (PVV) in Nederland. De centrale vraag is hoe deze framing zich in de periode van 2006 tot en met 2023 heeft ontwikkeld en wat ... -
Navigeren door bureaucratie
(2024)Deze scriptie onderzoekt de opschaling van de Doorbraakmethode, ontwikkeld door het Instituut voor Publieke Waarden (IPW). De Doorbraakmethode richt zich op het doorbreken van bureaucratische barrières en het bieden van ... -
The effect of Internet-Specific Parenting Practices on the Intensity of Social Media Use of Dutch Adolescents: The Moderating Role of FoMO
(2024)Previous studies have investigated the effect of internet-specific parenting practices on problematic social media use. However, it is unknown whether internet-specific parenting practices – specifically internet-specific ... -
Experiences of neurodivergent employees with requesting adjustments at work and the perceived impact on their sustainable employment: A qualitative study
(2024)This study examined the experiences of seventeen neurodivergent employees and experts about the barriers to request adjustments at work and the perceived impact on the sustainable employability of neurodivergent employees ... -
Carrollian Physics and its Thermodynamics description
(2024)Carroll symmetry emerges as a consequence of the limit where the speed of light tends to zero, starting from Poincaré symmetry. Further, it is expected that the Carrollian thermodynamics description in the strict Carroll ...