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Career management patterns of non-European degree mobile students in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom
No full textThis paper presents an examination of the career management transition processes of non-European STEM and business master's graduates from research universities in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Its aim is to develop a comprehensive theoretical typology of international graduates' career management transition patterns. To this end, 28 interviews were conducted with international graduates originating from India, China, and Iran. By employing a preliminary career change model for our analysis and by referencing other concepts from career development theory, we were able to identify five distinct career management patterns that are pivotal for categorising the education-to-work transitions of international graduates. These are the progressive, constructive, connective, regressive, and reformative patterns. The developed theoretical typology of career management patterns facilitates a more comprehensive and holistic understanding of these processes for all parties involved. Furthermore, it can serve as a foundation for subsequent studies, which enables scholars to conduct further analyses by aligning it with a range of theoretical concepts, including those that are competence-based, those that are based on career capital, and/or those that are structure-agency oriented
A student-centred understanding of what influences character development in higher education
No full textThere remains limited empirical evidence examining the typology of character ‘caught’, ‘taught’ and ‘sought’ in practice—particularly in higher education. Several universities in the Netherlands articulate their (desired) role in fostering character alongside knowledge and skills, thus research must investigate whether these goals are met. It is especially important to assess how students actually experience their own character development. Therefore, we ask: ‘What factors do students recognise to be influential in their IPC character learning gain during their undergraduate studies?
Mental health of healthcare professionals after a complex intervention in hospital:A multi-center cluster-randomized controlled trial ("seegen")
No full textLongitudinal associations of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy with psychological distress and health-related quality of life in colorectal cancer survivors:A prospective cohort study
No full textPurposeColorectal cancer (CRC) survivors receiving oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy frequently develop chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy (CIPN). This study investigated the impact of CIPN symptoms on psychological distress and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among oxaliplatin-treated CRC survivors up to 5 years post-treatment.Methods124 CRC patients treated with oxaliplatin-based chemotherapy participating in a prospective cohort study were included in the longitudinal analyses. CIPN symptoms were measured at diagnosis (pre-treatment) and at 6 weeks and 6, 12, 24, and 60 months post-treatment using the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-CIPN20 (EORTC QLQ-CIPN20). Psychological distress, including anxiety and depressive symptoms, and HRQoL were measured at all post-treatment time points using the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) and the EORTC QLQ-Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30), respectively. Confounder-adjusted longitudinal associations of CIPN symptoms with psychological distress and HRQoL were analysed with linear mixed regression models.ResultsCIPN symptoms in oxaliplatin-treated CRC patients were highest at 6 weeks post-treatment, thereafter gradually decreasing over time. More severe CIPN symptoms were longitudinally associated with more psychological distress (HADS), including both higher anxiety and depressive symptoms, and with worse global health/QoL and physical and social functioning and more fatigue (EORTC QLQ-C30).ConclusionCIPN symptoms, persisting over time among oxaliplatin-treated CRC survivors, were longitudinally associated with more psychological distress and lower HRQoL up to 5 years after chemotherapy treatment
Essays on Consumer Anticipation:How Anticipated Feelings and Judgments Shape Consumer Decisions Across Sustainable, Ethical, and Hedonic Consumption
No full textConsumer decisions are shaped as much by imagination as by reality. Much of what we do as consumers, when choosing a behavior, a product, or an experience to engage with, is to anticipate how that choice will make us feel, how it will appear to others, and ultimately, what kind of value it will deliver. This dissertation shows that our anticipation of future value—in social, emotional, and epistemic forms—not only guides choice but also shapes the outcomes that follow. Using multiple methods, this research investigates when observers value others’ sustainable behaviors and how this anticipated social value influences the promotion of such behaviors (Chapter 2); why consumers often anticipate diminished emotional value from ethical products and how this anticipation shapes their choices (Chapter 3); and how perceptual framing alters anticipation of epistemic value in hedonic experiences, thereby enhancing enjoyment of the same experience (Chapter 4). The author hopes that this dissertation will inform how marketers, policymakers, and consumers design, support, and engage with consumption experiences in ways that are both personally fulfilling and socially impactful
Universal basic income and its ambivalent relationship with work
No full textUniversal Basic Income (UBI) is an alternative social policy proposal, one of the central features of which is that a minimum income is guaranteed ‘unconditionally’. This prompts debates about UBI and its relation to work. In these debates, there are two positions expressing diverging ideas to legitimise the UBI policy proposal: an idealistic position that promotes UBI as bringing ‘freedom from work’ and a ‘pragmatic position’ that frames UBI as an effective strategy to enhance participation (in the labour market). It expresses the ambivalent relationship of UBI to work and poses a puzzle in gaining legitimacy among potential supporters. In this chapter, first, we explore the normative boundaries that confront the UBI proposal, from the perspective of principles of deservingness and work norms. Secondly, we analyse how advocates of UBI policy have adopted conflicting strategies to deal with these normative boundaries. Idealistic advocates seek to ignore or invalidate the traditionalist work and deservingness principles. Pragmatic advocates attempt to integrate these norms in the proposal, or to adapt the proposal itself to accommodate normative objections against UBI. Finally, we outline four suggestions for future research that could shed light on potential ways out of the UBI's conflictual relationship with work
Placebo and the doctor–patient interaction and communication
No full textA main pathway of placebo and nocebo effects occurs via communication in patient–provider interactions. It is therefore of crucial importance to get insight into how positive or (unintendedly) negative expectancies about treatments are induced during healthcare provider–patient interaction and how possible undesired and unnecessary treatment outcomes can be altered. In this chapter, we outline the theoretical background of placebo effects and patient–provider interactions from the perspective of medical communication and placebo research as well as the functions of medical communication. We subsequently summarize the evidence on patient–provider interactions that alter placebo and nocebo effects, with a specific focus on the existing evidence in neurologic disorders. Specifically, we focus on different phases of patient–provider interactions during the consultations, such as outline of the treatment rationale, doses and efficacy of treatments, medical procedures as well as side-effects and risks. Eventually, the chapters focuses on possibilities for education and training of patient–provider interactions to increase knowledge, create awareness, and practice skills of optimizing placebo effects and minimizing nocebo effects during patient–provider interactions, by making use of advanced technological developments, such as Virtual Reality
Who is more prone to chronic depressive or fatigue symptoms?:Insight into subtypes of depressive symptoms and their development over time in patients with coronary heart disease
No full textArmoede en ongelijkheid:Jaarboek 2025
No full textIn de 34e editie van het Jaarboek Armoede en Ongelijkheid zetten we het thema ‘wonen’ op de voorgrond. Een degelijk dak boven het hoofd vormt de basis van verbeteringen op andere levensdomeinen. Goed wonen is niet alleen cruciaal voor het individu, maar voor de hele samenleving. Wat weten we over betaalbaar en kwaliteitsvol wonen? Is een grondrecht op wonen een haalbaar streven? Welke rol spelen sociale woningen? Hoe kan uithuiszetting vermeden worden? Wat weten we over het aantal dak- en thuislozen en hoe kan een groep met complexe problemen begeleid worden? Wat is het belang van de klimaattransitie voor wonen? Het zijn enkele van de vragen die de auteurs van dit Jaarboek trachten te beantwoorden. Het Netwerk tegen Armoede brengt het perspectief van mensen in armoede binnen. Zoals steeds geven we ook een cijfermatig overzicht van armoede en sociale uitsluiting op diverse levensdomeinen.<br/
From overeating to swapping parents:The gendering of emotion regulation in contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks
No full textThis chapter investigates how contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks navigate gendered norms and scripts regarding emotion regulation. As cases in point, it focuses on contemporary Dutch-language picturebooks that portray a child-parent conflict that causes anger in many children: parents’ engagement with digital devices in their presence and the ensuing neglect. Drawing on Nikolajeva’s (2014, 2018b) theoretical work on the representation of emotions in picturebooks and the methodological framework for multimodal analysis of picturebooks provided by Painter et al. (2013), this chapter compares the modes of anger regulation portrayed in these picturebooks and investigates how they confirm or contest the gendered patterns for anger expression and diversion that social-psychological studies report on (Cox et al., 1999, 2004). Furthermore, this investigation charts the different subject positions they offer to readers. The overall aim of the analysis is to explore whether readers are invited to approve of characters adhering to gendered norms and scripts regarding anger regulation or that these books provide opportunities for readers to question them