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Tilburg University

EducationTilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands
About: Tilburg University is a education organization based out in Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Anxiety. The organization has 5550 authors who have published 22330 publications receiving 791335 citations.


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TL;DR: There is an urgent need to adopt a personality approach in the identification of patients at risk for cardiac events and negative affectivity (NA) and social inhibition (SI) in the context of CHD.

341 citations

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TL;DR: Findings indicate that the provision of existential meaning is a pivotal function of nostalgia, and that nostalgia disrupts the link between meaning deficits and compromised psychological well-being.
Abstract: The present research tested the proposition that nostalgia serves an existential function by bolstering a sense of meaning in life. Study 1 found that nostalgia was positively associated with a sense of meaning in life. Study 2 experimentally demonstrated that nostalgia increases a sense of meaning in life. In both studies, the link between nostalgia and increased meaning in life was mediated by feelings of social connectedness. Study 3 evidenced that threatened meaning increases nostalgia. Study 4 illustrated that nostalgia, in turn, reduces defensiveness following a meaning threat. Finally, Studies 5 and 6 showed that nostalgia disrupts the link between meaning deficits and compromised psychological well-being. Collectively, these findings indicate that the provision of existential meaning is a pivotal function of nostalgia.

340 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how, when and to what extent HR practices affect performance at the employee level in Eritrea and found that the Eritrean economic and political environment within which HR practices operate has not conducive in maximizing the impact of HR practices on performance.
Abstract: In this article, the authors examine how, when and to what extent HR practices affect performance at the employee level. As performance is a multi-faceted and complicated concept, HRM outcomes were used as mediating factors between HR practices and employee performance. The data were collected among civil servants in Eritrea, Africa's youngest and poorest country. Although the results generally are in line with previous studies using Western data, their implications in this particular country may be different. Therefore, the challenges and prospects of HR practices in Eritrean civil service organizations are critically analysed and discussed. In the authors' opinion, that the Eritrean economic and political environment within which HR practices operate has not been conducive in maximizing the impact of HR practices on performance. These findings highlight the situation of most developing countries.

340 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the impact of firm and industry characteristics on small firms' capital structure was studied. And the authors found that profits reduce in particular short-term debt, whereas growth increases longterm debt.
Abstract: We study the impact of firm and industry characteristics on small firms’ capital structure, employing a proprietary database containing financial statements of Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from 2003 to 2005. The firm characteristics suggest that the capital structure decision is consistent with the pecking-order theory: Dutch SMEs use profits to reduce their debt level, and growing firms increase their debt position since they need more funds. We further document that profits reduce in particular short-term debt, whereas growth increases long-term debt. We also find that inter- and intra-industry effects are important in explaining small firms’ capital structure. Industries exhibit different average debt levels, which is in line with the trade-off theory. Furthermore, there is substantial intra-industry heterogeneity, showing that the degree of industry competition, the degree of agency conflicts, and the heterogeneity in employed technology are also important drivers of capital structure.

338 citations

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TL;DR: Research suggests that psychosocial factors, like ineffective coping strategies, anxiety and/or depression are associated with a lower pregnancy rate following IVF-procedures, and support has been found suggesting that stress reduction through relaxation training or behavioral treatment improves conception rates.

337 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
David M. Fergusson12747455992
Johan P. Mackenbach12078356705
Henning Tiemeier10886648604
Allen N. Berger10638265596
Thorsten Beck9937362708
Luc Laeven9335536916
William J. Baumol8546049603
Michael H. Antoni8443121878
Russell Spears8433631609
Wim Meeus8144522646
Daan van Knippenberg8022325272
Wolfgang Karl Härdle7978328934
Aaron Cohen7841266543
Jan-Benedict E.M. Steenkamp7417836059
Geert Hofstede72126103728
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202369
2022205
20211,274
20201,206
20191,097
20181,038