UU Student Theses Repository: Recent submissions
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The hot stove effect in the context of online dating
(2025)People constantly face repeated decisions in daily life, such as whether to continue dating someone or to pursue new options. These situations reflect the exploration-exploitation trade off, the dilemma between exploring ... -
Painting Solidarity: The Effect of Art and Political Orientation on Political Solidarity with the LGB-community
(2025)Despite progress, homosexual individuals still face discrimination and violence. While gay, lesbian and bisexual individuals are at the forefront of this struggle, allies can provide meaningful support through advocating ... -
Crafting Needs for Balanced Screens: A Moderated Mediation Analysis of Need Crafting, Need Satisfaction, Self-Control, and Problematic Smartphone Use in Young Adults
(2025)Empirical evidence shows a global rise in problematic smartphone use (PSU) among young adults, making it a significant public health concern. While the potential adverse effects of PSU are well documented, less is known ... -
The Impact of Need Crafting on Need-Based Experiences: Exploring the Role of Attachment Styles in Young Adults
(2025)Emerging adulthood is a period marked by increased psychological vulnerability and the pursuit of well-being. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between need crafting – the proactive shaping of one’s environment ... -
Disconnecting to reconnect: the impact of a one-week social media detox on mental wellbeing and the roles of offline social connectedness and extraversion
(2025)As concerns about the impact of social media on mental wellbeing grow, social media detoxes (periods of disconnecting) are becoming increasingly popular. This study investigated whether a one-week social media detox could ... -
Certified Algorithms for Feedback Vertex Set
(2025)The \textsc{Feedback Vertex Set} (FVS) problem is a classical NP-complete problem that asks for the smallest set of vertices whose removal eliminates all cycles from a graph. In this thesis, we study the problem on ... -
Toward a Governance Framework for Sustainable Open-Source Ecosystems in European Public-Private Partnerships
(2025)his thesis addresses current gaps in the governance of open-source software ecosystems (OSSECOs), particularly in the context of publicly funded, cross-border digital infrastructure within the European Union. While OSSECOs ... -
Machine Learning based lesion detection using 18F-FDG PET/MR
(2025)This thesis presents a pipeline for automated lesion detection in 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/MR images, aimed at addressing diagnostic challenges in chronic pain patients. Due to the limited availability of ... -
Prolonged Grief in Families: Grief Dynamics and Risk Factors in Parent-Child Dyads
(2025)Introduction: The loss of a significant other can lead to prolonged grief disorder (PGD). While most research has examined PGD in adults or children separately, little is known about how PGD is experienced and expressed ... -
Relationship Between Work-Life Conflict and Work Performance, and the Moderating Role of Employee Vitality and Self-Leadership
(2025)Work-life conflict can negatively impact work performance. To better understand this dynamic, this study investigated the extent to which work-life conflict is related to work performance. Additionally, it examined whether ... -
Promoting Health Behaviors in Emerging Adults: Need Crafting as a Self-Directed Strategy
(2025)Health-promoting behaviors such as physical activity and healthy eating are essential for preventing lifestyle-related diseases. Based on the Basic Psychological Needs theory, this study examined whether need crafting, the ... -
Exploring Stressful Life Events, Psychological Distress and Narrative Identity in a Clinical Sample of Youth
(2025)Previous research links stressful life events to externalizing and internalizing psychopathology in adolescents in the general population and community samples. However, this relation has not been studied in clinical youth ... -
Boost your Mind: An App to Enhance Mental Well-being in 9th grade High School Students
(2025)Mental health problems among Dutch adolescents have increased in recent years, highlighting the need for accessible, preventive interventions. This study evaluated the effectiveness and user satisfaction of the Boost app, ... -
“Maatschappelijke impact versterken: differentiatie in ondersteuning van sportverenigingen”
(2025)Deze scriptie onderzoekt hoe ondersteuning vanuit Rotterdam Sportsupport het beste de maatschappelijke impact van Rotterdamse Sportplusverenigingen kan vergroten. Aanleiding vormt de constatering dat professionalisering ... -
“To Exist is to Resist” - The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land as a case of politics of presence as faith-based decolonial resistance
(2025)In this thesis, I explore how the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) engages in faith-based decolonial resistance against Israeli settler colonialism in occupied Palestine. Applying a ... -
To ISC or not to ISC? That is the question…When Do Shared Gaze Patterns Predict Learning? The Context-Dependent Boundaries of Intersubject Correlation
(2025)As education shifts toward digital formats, pre-recorded lectures are becoming increasingly common. Unlike live instruction, online education lacks the real-time interaction and student cues instructors use to infer student ...