Raoul R D Oudejans
Biographic Data
| ID | 6029748 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Raoul R D Oudejans |
| GIVEN NAMES | Raoul R D |
| FAMILY NAME | Oudejans |
| SIGNATURE | OUDEJANS R R D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1643-0107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘Keep your claws off the trigger’; a focus group study on involuntary firearm discharges
Special interventions operators often operate in high-risk situations where the use of force, including firearms, is required. Firearm use carries inherent risks, including the risk of an involuntary firearm discharge (IFD), which occurs when an operator unintentionally pulls the trigger without conscious intent. To better understand these incidents, this study explored the experiences and perspectives of experts who deal with these risks. Three …
The Impact of Aggression on Acute Stress Responses, Skills Use, and Training Evaluation in Social Work
Social workers are frequently exposed to verbal and physical aggression from service users, which can negatively impact their psychological well-being and professional functioning. This study investigated the relationship between aggression exposure, acute stress responses, and perceived competencies among Dutch social workers. An online survey of 431 practitioners assessed experiences with different forms of aggression (e.g., verbal threats, phy…
Task Performance of Social Workers Declines Under Verbal Aggression
Objectives: Social workers frequently face verbal aggression. While most studies have focused on long-term consequences of these encounters, this study examined how verbal aggression influences perceived acute stress and behavioral performance in social workers during these situations. Method: Twenty-seven participants engaged in scenarios with a trained actor portraying service user under either low or high verbal aggression conditions. Psychoph…
Virtual reality training for police officers
In policing, Virtual Reality scenario-based training (VR SBT) is being explored to complement real-life scenario-based training (RL SBT). We investigated whether relevant training responses in VR SBT, namely heart rate (HR), level of physical activity, mental effort, and perceived stress, resemble those in RL SBT. Utilizing a within-subject study design, we investigated the training responses of 237 police officers of the Dutch National Police. W…
“Don’t forget Shakespeare”
Auditions form the gold standard for hiring practices in symphonic orchestras around the world. Nevertheless, research examining how auditions are evaluated by panel members remains sparse. The purpose of this brief research note is to present findings from a pilot project examining the feedback content of audition panelists during a realistic mock audition. Feedback received by 16 academy members of an internationally renowned orchestra was anal…
Practice and performance management strategies of emerging professional musicians in preparation for orchestra auditions
Orchestra auditions form a critical career challenge for many aspiring classical musicians. Hence, emerging professional musicians—defined as promising musicians entering the professional circuit without having yet established full-time employment—require effective practice and performance strategies to manage the demands of auditions. The purpose of this collective case study was to gain an in-depth and contextualized understanding of such pract…
Performers of the night
Despite growing popular interest for the mental health of electronic music artists, scientific research addressing this topic has remained largely absent. As such, the aim of the current study was to examine the mental health of electronic music artists, as well as a number of determinants. Using a cross-sectional quantitative design, a total of 163 electronic music artists participated in this study. In line with the two-continua model of mental…
Resilience and mental health issues in classical musicians
Due to considerable occupational challenges and stressors, classical musicians might face increased risk for mental health issues, compared to the general population. As such, scholars have highlighted the importance of developing psychological resilience in musicians. Nevertheless, this important psychological characteristic has remained understudied within music psychology. The present study therefore examined the relationship between mental he…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on European police officers
Preparing for a pandemic requires three primary paths: 1) enacting unambiguous laws and increasing public compliance through media communication, 2) being logistically prepared, and 3) improving stress regulation skills in police training
The physical competence test of the Dutch National Police
In this study, we investigated the effects of wearing a police uniform and gear on officers’ performance during the Physical Competence Test (PCT) of the Dutch National Police. In a counterbalanced within-subjects design, twenty-seven police officers performed the PCT twice, once wearing sportswear and once wearing a police uniform. The results showed clear indications that wearing a police uniform influenced the performance on the PCT. Participa…
Attention and time constraints in perceptual-motor learning and performance
Shoot or don't shoot? Why police officers are more inclined to shoot when they are anxious
We investigated the effect of anxiety on police officers' shooting decisions. Thirty-six police officers participated and executed a low- and high-anxiety video-based test that required them to shoot or not shoot at rapidly appearing suspects that either had a gun and "shot," or had no gun and "surrendered." Anxiety was manipulated by turning on (high anxiety) or turning off (low anxiety) a so-called "shootback canon" that could fire small plasti…
Weight-Related Sport Motives and Girls’ Body Image, Weight Control Behaviors, and Self-Esteem
Research has shown that exercise for weight control is associated with disordered eating indices in older adolescent or adult exercisers in fitness centers. This study examined whether these relationships could be replicated in a more general sample of 140 Dutch adolescent girls between 13 and 18 years old. Questions about sport participation, items from the Multidimensional Body Image Questionnaire and BULIT-R, the Contour Drawing Rating Scale a…
The Role of Anxiety in Perceiving and Realizing Affordances
Three experiments were conducted to examine the role of anxiety in perceiving and realizing affordances in wall climbing. Identical traverses were situated high and low on a climbing wall to manipulate anxiety. In Experiment 1, participants judged their maximal overhead reachability and performed maximal reaches on the climbing wall. Anxiety was found to reduce both perceived and actual maximal reaching height. In Experiment 2, participants climb…
To Cross or Not to Cross
Perception of some affordances requires action scaling rather than simply body (size) scaling. Crossing a road safely is such an affordance. Perceiving accurately whether crossing in front of oncoming traffic is possible entails perceiving the relation between environmental properties (the to-be-crossed distance and the available time) and one's walking abilities. Only while walking is perceptual information about walking abilities available; hen…
The Optics and Actions of Catching Fly Balls
Advancing or retreating so as to maintain a projectile's constant vertical optical velocity was suggested by Chapman (1968) as a possible basis for locomotion in ball catching. Three experiments examined this thesis. In Experiments 1 and 2, the positions of balls and catchers were videotaped to see if the movements of the catchers canceled optical acceleration. Such canceling was indeed observed until just prior to the catch for hand-thrown balls…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on European police officers
Preparing for a pandemic requires three primary paths: 1) enacting unambiguous laws and increasing public compliance through media communication, 2) being logistically prepared, and 3) improving stress regulation skills in police training
Weight-Related Sport Motives and Girls’ Body Image, Weight Control Behaviors, and Self-Esteem
Research has shown that exercise for weight control is associated with disordered eating indices in older adolescent or adult exercisers in fitness centers. This study examined whether these relationships could be replicated in a more general sample of 140 Dutch adolescent girls between 13 and 18 years old. Questions about sport participation, items from the Multidimensional Body Image Questionnaire and BULIT-R, the Contour Drawing Rating Scale a…
The Optics and Actions of Catching Fly Balls
Advancing or retreating so as to maintain a projectile's constant vertical optical velocity was suggested by Chapman (1968) as a possible basis for locomotion in ball catching. Three experiments examined this thesis. In Experiments 1 and 2, the positions of balls and catchers were videotaped to see if the movements of the catchers canceled optical acceleration. Such canceling was indeed observed until just prior to the catch for hand-thrown balls…
To Cross or Not to Cross
Perception of some affordances requires action scaling rather than simply body (size) scaling. Crossing a road safely is such an affordance. Perceiving accurately whether crossing in front of oncoming traffic is possible entails perceiving the relation between environmental properties (the to-be-crossed distance and the available time) and one's walking abilities. Only while walking is perceptual information about walking abilities available; hen…
The Role of Anxiety in Perceiving and Realizing Affordances
Three experiments were conducted to examine the role of anxiety in perceiving and realizing affordances in wall climbing. Identical traverses were situated high and low on a climbing wall to manipulate anxiety. In Experiment 1, participants judged their maximal overhead reachability and performed maximal reaches on the climbing wall. Anxiety was found to reduce both perceived and actual maximal reaching height. In Experiment 2, participants climb…
Weight-Related Sport Motives and Girls’ Body Image, Weight Control Behaviors, and Self-Esteem
Research has shown that exercise for weight control is associated with disordered eating indices in older adolescent or adult exercisers in fitness centers. This study examined whether these relationships could be replicated in a more general sample of 140 Dutch adolescent girls between 13 and 18 years old. Questions about sport participation, items from the Multidimensional Body Image Questionnaire and BULIT-R, the Contour Drawing Rating Scale a…
Attention and time constraints in perceptual-motor learning and performance
Shoot or don't shoot? Why police officers are more inclined to shoot when they are anxious
We investigated the effect of anxiety on police officers' shooting decisions. Thirty-six police officers participated and executed a low- and high-anxiety video-based test that required them to shoot or not shoot at rapidly appearing suspects that either had a gun and "shot," or had no gun and "surrendered." Anxiety was manipulated by turning on (high anxiety) or turning off (low anxiety) a so-called "shootback canon" that could fire small plasti…
The physical competence test of the Dutch National Police
In this study, we investigated the effects of wearing a police uniform and gear on officers’ performance during the Physical Competence Test (PCT) of the Dutch National Police. In a counterbalanced within-subjects design, twenty-seven police officers performed the PCT twice, once wearing sportswear and once wearing a police uniform. The results showed clear indications that wearing a police uniform influenced the performance on the PCT. Participa…
Resilience and mental health issues in classical musicians
Due to considerable occupational challenges and stressors, classical musicians might face increased risk for mental health issues, compared to the general population. As such, scholars have highlighted the importance of developing psychological resilience in musicians. Nevertheless, this important psychological characteristic has remained understudied within music psychology. The present study therefore examined the relationship between mental he…
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on European police officers
Preparing for a pandemic requires three primary paths: 1) enacting unambiguous laws and increasing public compliance through media communication, 2) being logistically prepared, and 3) improving stress regulation skills in police training
Practice and performance management strategies of emerging professional musicians in preparation for orchestra auditions
Orchestra auditions form a critical career challenge for many aspiring classical musicians. Hence, emerging professional musicians—defined as promising musicians entering the professional circuit without having yet established full-time employment—require effective practice and performance strategies to manage the demands of auditions. The purpose of this collective case study was to gain an in-depth and contextualized understanding of such pract…
Performers of the night
Despite growing popular interest for the mental health of electronic music artists, scientific research addressing this topic has remained largely absent. As such, the aim of the current study was to examine the mental health of electronic music artists, as well as a number of determinants. Using a cross-sectional quantitative design, a total of 163 electronic music artists participated in this study. In line with the two-continua model of mental…
“Don’t forget Shakespeare”
Auditions form the gold standard for hiring practices in symphonic orchestras around the world. Nevertheless, research examining how auditions are evaluated by panel members remains sparse. The purpose of this brief research note is to present findings from a pilot project examining the feedback content of audition panelists during a realistic mock audition. Feedback received by 16 academy members of an internationally renowned orchestra was anal…
Virtual reality training for police officers
In policing, Virtual Reality scenario-based training (VR SBT) is being explored to complement real-life scenario-based training (RL SBT). We investigated whether relevant training responses in VR SBT, namely heart rate (HR), level of physical activity, mental effort, and perceived stress, resemble those in RL SBT. Utilizing a within-subject study design, we investigated the training responses of 237 police officers of the Dutch National Police. W…
‘Keep your claws off the trigger’; a focus group study on involuntary firearm discharges
Special interventions operators often operate in high-risk situations where the use of force, including firearms, is required. Firearm use carries inherent risks, including the risk of an involuntary firearm discharge (IFD), which occurs when an operator unintentionally pulls the trigger without conscious intent. To better understand these incidents, this study explored the experiences and perspectives of experts who deal with these risks. Three …
The Impact of Aggression on Acute Stress Responses, Skills Use, and Training Evaluation in Social Work
Social workers are frequently exposed to verbal and physical aggression from service users, which can negatively impact their psychological well-being and professional functioning. This study investigated the relationship between aggression exposure, acute stress responses, and perceived competencies among Dutch social workers. An online survey of 431 practitioners assessed experiences with different forms of aggression (e.g., verbal threats, phy…
Task Performance of Social Workers Declines Under Verbal Aggression
Objectives: Social workers frequently face verbal aggression. While most studies have focused on long-term consequences of these encounters, this study examined how verbal aggression influences perceived acute stress and behavioral performance in social workers during these situations. Method: Twenty-seven participants engaged in scenarios with a trained actor portraying service user under either low or high verbal aggression conditions. Psychoph…
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