Caroline Schlinkert

Nivel – Research for better care | NIVEL

Resilience is an organizational capacity in day-to-day practice and crisis situation performance. A one of a kind crisis for hospitals is the COVID-19 pandemic. The long duration and magnitude of this crisis offers the opportunity to gain insight into the complexity of crisis management and organizational resilience of hospitals. This interview stu...

Background: The COVID-19 pandemic imposed enormous challenges for healthcare professionals. Nursing staff had to work under psychological pressure to maintain patient safety. Resilience has proven to be a protective psychological health factor that can safeguard healthcare professionals’ mental health and well-being during healthcare crises. The st...

Background As snacking can be considered a cornerstone of an unhealthy diet, investigating psychological drivers of snacking behaviour is urgent, and therefore the purpose of this study. Socio-economic position (SEP) and stress are known to affect many behaviours and outcomes, and were therefore focal points in the study. Methods In a cross-sectio...

Introduction Every day, healthcare professionals make trade-offs to respond to unexpected situations while maintaining (patient) safety. This complex work reality asks for resilience. Tools available in the Netherlands are insufficient to capture this work complexity. Aim Enhancing resilience of hospital departments by making the RAG available for...

On March 15, 2020, the Dutch Government implemented COVID-19 lockdown measures. Although self-quarantine and social-distancing measures were implemented, restrictions were less severe compared to several other countries. The aim of this study was to assess changes in eating behavior and food purchases among a representative adult sample in the Neth...

While many people declare an intention to eat and snack more healthily, a large body of research has found that these intentions often do not translate into actual behavior. This failure to fulfil intentions is regularly attributed to the obesogenic environment, on which basis it is assumed that changing the food environment may lead to more health...

Samenvatting Veel mensen willen graag gezond snacken, maar vinden het lastig om dit voornemen in de praktijk te brengen. Dat komt omdat ze voortdurend geconfronteerd worden met ongezonde snacks als ze op weg zijn naar school, werk of andere activiteiten. In het project Food in Motion hebben we onderzocht of gezond snacken gemakkelijker wordt door h...

Although many people intend to eat healthily, their actual snacking behavior is often marked by a high consumption of calorie-dense, unhealthy snacks. One reason for this discrepancy may be that people tend to associate unhealthy food with tasty food, preventing them to follow up on their healthy snacking goals. To support people in snacking more h...

Classic and modern emotion theories suggest that the perception of bodily sensations, or interoception, is foundational to emotion processing. The present research examined whether interoception is enhanced among people high in ruminative tendencies, especially under stress. To test this notion, the present research examined the effects of a mild s...

Background Isolating a therapeutic procedure might be a powerful way to enhance our understanding of how cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) works. The present study explored new methods to isolate cognitive procedures and to study their direct impact on hypothesized underlying processes and CBT outcome. Method The effects of a cognitive therapy skil...

One of the enduring missions of personality science is to unravel what it takes to become a fully functioning person. In the present article, the authors address this matter from the perspectives of self-determination theory (SDT) and personality systems interactions (PSI) theory. SDT a) is rooted in humanistic psychology; b) has emphasized a first...

Objectives: People can use inhibitory control to temporarily inhibit their personal preferences to achieve their long-term goals. According to the ego fixation model (Koole et al., 2014), ruminators have difficulties relaxing inhibitory control, leading them to continue inhibiting their personal needs, even when this is no longer required by the s...

Vitality, or feeling alive and full of energy, is a universal human experience that is grounded in the body and linked to positive motivation, health, and wellbeing. Prior work demonstrated that demanding conditions can lower vitality, presumably by undermining intrinsic need satisfaction (Ryan & Deci, 2008). In the present research, we examined if...

Good self-control has been linked to adaptive outcomes such as better health, cohesive personal relationships, success in the workplace and at school, and less susceptibility to crime and addictions. In contrast, self-control failure is linked to maladaptive outcomes. Understanding the mechanisms by which self-control predicts behavior may assist i...

During the 1950s, Ivan Pavlov and his associates introduced the notion of protective inhibition, a response of the nervous system to protect itself against an overload of stimulation. Although protective inhibition has been invoked to explain a number of psychophysiological patterns, the notion has never been applied to social phenomena, while it h...

Alexithymia is a personality dimension that involves both cognitive deficits, including difficulties in recognizing, describing, and distinguishing feelings from bodily sensations of emotional arousal, and affective deficits, including difficulties in emotionalizing and fantasizing. Alexithymia has been the focus of considerable research. However,...