Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic created the need to use digital health resources (DR), as they sometimes were the only option to receive healthcare or social interaction. The aim of this research is to provide insight into the experiences during the lockdown of older people using DR for health in general …

Background: Sexual deviance is regarded as an important risk factor for sexual offending. However, little is known about the development of deviant sexual interests. The transfer of arousal between emotions, i.e., excitation transfer, could attribute sexual salience to stimuli that would otherwise not …

Sexual interest in children is an important factor contributing to sexual (re)offending against children. The current state of research makes it difficult to conclude if people with pedophilia are overly interested in children, or have lower interest in adults, or both. This is relevant knowledge in …

A previous study found a variety of unusual sexual interests to cluster in a five-factor structure, namely submission/masochism, forbidden sexual activities, dominance / sadism, mysophilia, and fetishism (Schippers et al., 2021). The current study was an empirical replication to examine whether these …

Recent marketing literature suggests that brand orientation is an alternative concept for the public health because it is believed to address the shortcomings of market orientation. Brand orientation is specifically of interest to the sector of healthcare, due to the complex nature of the sector. The …

This study reports on strategies to indicate plural referents in hearing learners of Sign Language of the Netherlands. This is the first explorative study that focuses on L2 expressions of plurality in a sign language. Using data from two datasets, I examined when learners start to express plural and …

Vlees eten is geworteld in onze eetcultuur. Het minderen van vlees vraagt tijd. Ondanks campagnes die plantaardige diëten promoten eet volgens CBS nog zo’n 95% van de Nederlanders vlees, en de meeste daarvan doen dat meerdere keren per week als een stukje vlees bij de maaltijd. Om op kortere termijn …

Met dit onderzoek is getracht een indruk te krijgen van de overtuigingen die er in de praktijk bestaan ten aanzien van effectief ingrijpen om de ontwikkeling van ernstig crimineel gedrag in de adolescentie te voorkomen. Bij dit onderzoek is aan alle kanten de breedte opgezocht. Er is gekeken naar een …

Vlees eten is geworteld in onze eetcultuur. Het minderen van vlees vraagt tijd. Ondanks campagnes die plantaardige diëten promoten eet volgens CBS nog zo’n 95% Nederlanders vlees, en de meeste daarvan doen dat meerdere keren per week als een stukje vlees bij de maaltijd. Om op kortere termijn een verschil …

Aim: There is often a gap between the ideal of involving older persons iteratively throughout the design process of digital technology, and actual practice. Until now, the lens of ageism has not been applied to address this gap. The goals of this study were: to voice the perspectives and experiences …