Tilburg University

Unravelling Staff's Experiences: An Exploration of Staff Attitudes Towards Parental Involvement in Residential Care

BACKGROUND: In residential care for people with intellectual disabilities, support staff take over daily care responsibilities for residents with severe intellectual disabilities. However, parents often remain involved in their support. Yet little is known about the attitudes of...

“Migrant labour regimes and the regulation of temporary labour migration in Europe”

This special issue develops the concept of “migrant labour regime” (MLRs), to analyse the regulatory infrastructure of labour migration. MLRs involve complex networks of actors, institutions, norms, and expectations, that facilitate migration, and regulate the labour processes in...

Capability or participation? A dimensional analysis of ocean digital twins and its implications for maritime spatial planning governance

Ocean digital twins, Digital Twins of the Ocean (DTOs), are increasingly promoted as the decision-support backbone for marine spatial planning (MSP), yet the term denotes at least four incompatible conceptions across communities that rarely cite one another, alongside a critical...

Delivery of cardiac rehabilitation through hybrid models and alternative settings by country income classification and decade: Comparisons from the International Council of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation’s 2025 Global Audit Update

Objective Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is an outpatient model of secondary prevention that improves patient outcomes, yet use remains limited. Hybrid/alternative CR addresses these challenges, but global availability, structure, and volumes have not been characterized since the pa...

‘Pay’ no mind to the AG's three fallacies: A commentary on the Adequate Minimum Wage Directive judgment

This commentary analyses the landmark case on the validity of the Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages delivered by the Court of Justice of the EU in November 2025. It finds that the Court's interpretation brings clarity to the use of social competences under EU law, and that it p...

Persistent Health Disparities Among Adult Cancer Survivors

ABSTRACT Cancer survivors face elevated risks of age‐ and treatment‐related health conditions, possibly due to accelerated biological aging from cancer therapy. The role of social determinants of health (SDOH) in these aging trajectories remains understudied. We conducted a retro...

Concurrent synchronization and covariation in upper extremity joint angles during a reciprocal aiming task

Abstract The ecological-dynamical approach holds that movement is self-organized, implying a circular causality between the kinematics of the end-effector and the coordination of degrees of freedom (DOF) into synergies. Yet, how this circular causality manifests itself in redunda...

Sustainability Crafting: How Employees Translate Sustainability Intentions Into Green Behaviors

ABSTRACT Despite growing organizational emphasis on sustainability, employees often fail to translate their sustainability intentions into workplace behaviors, resulting in a persistent intention–behavior gap. Drawing on the theory of planned behavior and the job crafting literat...

Performance-based assessments in higher education: How ethnic background impacts stakeholders’ fairness perceptions of structured versus unstructured assessment methods

Performance-based assessments (PBAs), like literature reviews, evaluate students’ professional skills (e.g., analytical thinking). However, unclear evaluation criteria in PBAs lead to grading inconsistencies and biased outcomes. This diminishes perceptions of fairness among stake...

Explaining user-orientation in public service delivery networks: configurations of network structure, process, and context

This study explores configurations of structural, process, and contextual conditions associated with high user-orientation in public service delivery networks. Drawing on Public Service Logic, we conceptualize user-orientation and connect it with interorganizational network resea...

How does scenario framing affect deceptive tendencies in LLMs?

Accurately measuring fuzzy behavioral concepts like deception in large language models (LLMs) is notoriously difficult and many different methods have been proposed to do so. One strategy judges a model's response to a single user message, containing its role, motivation, context...

Why international law is failing as a discipline: Geopolitics, legality without order, and the limits of cartographic vision

Abstract International law today inhabits a difficult paradox. Public confidence in its capacity to constrain geopolitical violence, regulate economic coercion, or respond to planetary risk appears increasingly thin. Armed conflict persists amid allegations of legal violation wit...

European Product Regulation Gets a Security Update – The EU Cyber-Resilience Act as an Adaptation to a Highly Digitised Product Market

Abstract In late 2024, the EU Cyber-Resilience Act (CRA) was adopted, setting essential cybersecurity requirements for products entering the European market. With a wide material scope, it harmonises essential cybersecurity requirements for digitally enabled products. The CRA sta...

The Temporal Effects of Meaningful and Pleasurable Activities on Affective Wellbeing and Stress: Insights from an Experience Sampling Study

Abstract Pleasurable activities enhance affective wellbeing, but potentially only briefly, whereas meaningful activities may have a more enduring effect on affective wellbeing. To explore these dynamics, we examined how meaningful and pleasurable activities impact momentary and l...

Scoping Review: Digital Communication with the Dead

Abstract Digital technology influences our lives in a myriad of ways. As technology evolves, people are increasingly using it to communicate with the dead. This scoping review aims to explore the literature on the growing use of digital technology to communicate with the deceased...

Implementing a direct support staff intervention in services for people with intellectual disabilities and challenging behaviour using the ItFits framework: From needs to action

Background Effective interventions often fail to achieve lasting impact due to implementation barriers. This study examined how Support Staff in the Spotlight – an intervention that enhances emotional intelligence and interactional awareness among support staff working with servi...

From search agents to dissemination interfaces: understanding human trust in health information from conversational search

Large Language Models (LLMs) deployed through Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) are transforming health information-seeking by offering immediate, interactive experiences compared to traditional search engines like Google. However, how trust is influenced by both the types of...

Proactive use of character strengths in remote work: from need-related demands and resources to need fulfillment

Purpose The spread of remote work has created new challenges and opportunities for employee well-being and performance, necessitating theoretical frameworks that can guide both understanding and interventions. In this paper, we develop a theoretical framework that explains proact...

Making sustainability possible and probable: a self-training intervention for employees

Purpose This study evaluates the effectiveness of a self-training intervention aimed at proactively implementing sustainability at work. Drawing on Job Demands-Resources Theory and Nudge Theory, we propose that employees who engage in job crafting, network crafting, and self-nudg...

Mental disorders, service use, and perceived treatment need among college students after the COVID-19 pandemic and the role of social connection: an epidemiological study

Abstract Background College students affected by mental disorders can be very impaired; yet, treatment rates remain low. The COVID-19 pandemic undoubtably posed strain on students, limiting their social life, which is an important determinant of health. However, recent estimates...