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2. Universal ingredients to parenting teens: parental warmth and autonomy support promote adolescent well-being in most families
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Bülow, A., Neubauer, A.B., Soenens, B., Boele, S., Denissen, J.J.A., Keijsers, L., Social and personality development: A transactional approach, Leerstoel Denissen, Clinical Child and Family Studies, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry / Psychology, Social and personality development: A transactional approach, and Leerstoel Denissen
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Male ,Parents ,Multidisciplinary ,Us ,Adolescent ,Parenting ,Adolescent Health ,Social Sciences ,Middle Aged ,Childrens perceptions ,Self-determination theory ,Adolescent Behavior ,Humans ,Female ,Parent-Child Relations ,General ,Need satisfaction - Abstract
Even though each adolescent is unique, some ingredients for development may still be universal. According to Self-Determination Theory, every adolescent’s well-being should benefit when parents provide warmth and autonomy. To rigorously test this idea that each family has similar mechanisms, we followed 159 Dutch parent-adolescent dyads (parent: Mage = 45.34, 79% mothers; adolescent: Mage = 13.31, 62% female) for more than three months, and collected 100 consecutive daily reports of parental warmth, autonomy support, positive and negative affect. Positive effects of parental warmth and autonomy support upon well-being were found in 91–98% of the families. Preregistered analysis of 14,546 daily reports confirmed that effects of parenting differed in strength (i.e., some adolescents benefited more than others), but were universal in their direction (i.e., in fewer than 1% of families effects were in an unexpected direction). Albeit stronger with child-reported parenting, similar patterns were found with parent-reports. Adolescents who benefited most from need-supportive parenting in daily life were characterized by higher overall sensitivity to environmental influences. Whereas recent work suggests that each child and each family have unique developmental mechanisms, this study suggests that need-supportive parenting promotes adolescent well-being in most families.
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- 2022
3. Childhood Predictors and Adult Life Success of Adolescent Delinquency Abstainers
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Mercer, N., Farrington, D. P., Ttofi, M. M., Keijsers, L., Branje, S., and Meeus, W.
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- 2016
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4. Family Functioning and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems: Disentangling between-, and Within-Family Associations
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Mastrotheodoros, S. Canário, C. Cristina Gugliandolo, M. Merkas, M. Keijsers, L.
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Adolescence is often a period of onset for internalizing and externalizing problems. At the same time, adolescent maturation and increasing autonomy from parents push for changes in family functioning. Even though theoretically expected links among the changes in family functioning and adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems exist, studies examining this link on the within-family level are lacking. This longitudinal, pre-registered, and open-science study, examined the within-family dynamic longitudinal associations among family functioning, and internalizing and externalizing problems. Greek adolescents (N = 480, Mage = 15.73, 47.9% girls, at Wave 1) completed self-report questionnaires, three times in 12 months. Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models (RI-CLPM) were applied; such models explicitly disentangle between-family differences from within-family processes, thereby offering a more stringent examination of within-family hypotheses. Results showed that family functioning was not significantly associated with internalizing or externalizing problems, on the within-family level. Also, alternative standard Cross-Lagged Panel Models (CLPM) were applied; such models have been recently criticized for failing to explicitly disentangle between-family variance from within-family variance, but they have been the standard approach to investigating questions of temporal ordering. Results from these analyses offered evidence that adolescents with higher internalizing and externalizing problems compared to their peers, tended to be those who later experienced worse family functioning, but not vice versa. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. © 2019, The Author(s).
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- 2020
5. Posting, scrolling, chatting & snapping: Youth (14–15) and social media in 2019
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van Driel, I., Pouwels, L., Beyens, I., Keijsers, L., Valkenburg, P., Youth & Media Entertainment (ASCoR, FMG), and Bestuursstaf
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- 2019
6. Examining the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) among early and late adolescents and their mothers
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Hawk, S.T., Keijsers, L., Branje, S., van der Graaff, J., de Wied, M., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Afd Jeugd en Gezin, Developmental Psychology, Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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Adult ,Male ,Psychometrics ,Adolescent ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Personal distress ,050109 social psychology ,Empathy ,Developmental psychology ,Interpersonal relationship ,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) ,Taverne ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychological testing ,Interpersonal Relations ,Child ,Empathic concern ,media_common ,Netherlands ,Psychological Tests ,05 social sciences ,Reproducibility of Results ,Adolescent Development ,Middle Aged ,Mother-Child Relations ,Clinical Psychology ,Interpersonal Reactivity Index ,Female ,Psychology ,Factor Analysis, Statistical ,Psychosocial ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
We examined whether the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980Davis, M. H. 1980. A multidimensional approach to individual differences in empathy. Catalog of Selected Documents in Psychology, 10: 85 [Google Scholar] ), consisting of Perspective Taking (PT), Empathic Concern (EC), Personal Distress (PD), and Fantasy (FN), is a psychometrically invariant empathy measure for early and late adolescents and their mothers. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated adequate properties and psychometric invariance across 2 Dutch samples (269 early adolescents, 232 late adolescents). Females scored higher than males on each subscale. Early adolescents scored lower than late adolescents on PT and FN, and higher on PD. The different groups showed similar subscale associations with psychosocial health indexes, and similar subscale contributions to a higher order empathy dimension. Most dimensions showed positive correlations between adolescents and mothers. The IRI appears adequate for examining empathy across the span of adolescence, as well as patterns between youths and mothers.
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- 2013
7. Siblings versus parents and friends: Longitudinal linkages to adolescent externalizing problems
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Defoe, I.N., Keijsers, L., Hawk, S.T., Branje, S., Dubas, J.S., Buist, K.L., Frijns, T., van Aken, M.A.G., Koot, H.M., Van Lier, P.A.C., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Development and Treatment of Psychosocial Problems, Social and personality development: A transactional approach, Afd ontwikkelings psychologie, Afd Jeugd en Gezin, Afd Orthopedagogiek PP, Developmental Psychology, Clinical Developmental Psychology, and EMGO+ - Mental Health
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Male ,Parents ,longitudinal ,Adolescent ,Sibling relations ,Externalizing problems ,Models, Psychological ,050105 experimental psychology ,Developmental psychology ,Interpersonal relationship ,SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being ,Risk Factors ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Sibling Relations ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Interpersonal Relations ,Older sibling ,adolescents ,Longitudinal Studies ,Sibling ,Parent-Child Relations ,Child ,siblings ,Internal-External Control ,Netherlands ,Social risk ,negative interaction ,friends ,05 social sciences ,Original Articles ,Adolescent Development ,Sibling relationship ,Questionnaire data ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Female ,Adolescent development ,Psychology ,050104 developmental & child psychology - Abstract
Background It is well documented that friends' externalizing problems and negative parent-child interactions predict externalizing problems in adolescence, but relatively little is known about the role of siblings. This four-wave, multi-informant study investigated linkages of siblings' externalizing problems and sibling-adolescent negative interactions on adolescents' externalizing problems, while examining and controlling for similar linkages with friends and parents. Methods Questionnaire data on externalizing problems and negative interactions were annually collected from 497 Dutch adolescents (M = 13.03 years, SD = 0.52, at baseline), as well as their siblings, mothers, fathers, and friends. Results Cross-lagged panel analyses revealed modest unique longitudinal paths from sibling externalizing problems to adolescent externalizing problems, for male and female adolescents, and for same-sex and mixed-sex sibling dyads, but only from older to younger siblings. Moreover, these paths were above and beyond significant paths from mother-adolescent negative interaction and friend externalizing problems to adolescent externalizing problems, 1 year later. No cross-lagged paths existed between sibling-adolescent negative interaction and adolescent externalizing problems. Conclusions Taken together, it appears that especially older sibling externalizing problems may be a unique social risk factor for adolescent externalizing problems, equal in strength to significant parents' and friends' risk factors. © 2013 The Authors. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry © 2013 Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health.
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- 2013
8. Implementation of the WHO-6-step method in the medical curriculum to improve pharmacology knowledge and pharmacotherapy skills
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Keijsers, Carolina J P W, Segers, Wieke S, de Wildt, Dick J, Brouwers, Jacobus R B J, Keijsers, L., Jansen, Paul A F, Leerstoel Branje, Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Developmental Psychology
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Adult ,Male ,Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice ,Students, Medical ,Attitude of Health Personnel ,education ,World Health Organization ,Education ,Young Adult ,pharmacotherapy ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Humans ,Learning ,Pharmacology (medical) ,implementation ,Netherlands ,WHO-6-step ,Pharmacology ,Motivation ,Education, Medical ,Test Taking Skills ,Pharmacology, Clinical ,Educational Status ,Female ,Clinical Competence ,Curriculum ,Educational Measurement ,medical education ,Program Evaluation - Abstract
Aim: The only validated tool for pharmacotherapy education for medical students is the 6-step method of the World Health Organization. It has proven effective in experimental studies with short term interventions. The generalizability of this effect after implementation in a contextual-rich medical curriculum was investigated. Methods: The pharmacology knowledge and pharmacotherapy skills of cohorts of students, from years before, during and after implementation of a WHO-6-step-based integrated learning programme were tested using a standardized assessment containing 50 items covering knowledge of basic (n = 25) and clinical (n = 24) pharmacology, and pharmacotherapy skills (n = 1 open question). All scores are expressed as a percentage of the maximum score possible per (sub)domain. Results: In total, 1652 students were included between September 2010 and July 2014 (participation rate 89%). The WHO-6-step-based learning programme improved students' knowledge of basic pharmacology (mean score ± SD, 60.6 ± 10.5% vs. 63.4 ± 10.9%, P
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- 2015
9. The Longitudinal Association Between Self‐esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Separating Between‐Person Effects from Within‐Person Effects.
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Masselink, M., Van Roekel, E., Hankin, B.L., Keijsers, L., Lodder, G.M.A., Vanhalst, J., Verhagen, M., Young, J.F., Oldehinkel, A.J., and Laceulle, Odilia
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MENTAL depression ,MENTAL health ,ADOLESCENT psychology ,SELF-esteem ,BORDERLINE personality disorder - Abstract
Many longitudinal studies have investigated whether self‐esteem predicts depressive symptoms (vulnerability model) or the other way around (scar model) in adolescents. The most common method of analysis has been the cross‐lagged panel model (CLPM). The CLPM does not separate between‐person effects from within‐person effects, making it unclear whether the results from previous studies actually reflect the within‐person effects or whether they reflect differences between people. We investigated the associations between self‐esteem and depressive symptoms at the within‐person level, using random intercept cross‐lagged panel models (RI‐CLPMs). To get an impression of the magnitude of possible differences between the RI‐CLPM and the CLPM, we compared the results of both models. We used data from three longitudinal adolescent samples (age range: 7–18 years; study 1: N = 1948; study 2: N = 1455; study 3: N = 316). Intervals between the measurements were 1–1.5 years. Single‐paper meta‐analyses showed support for small within‐person associations from self‐esteem to depressive symptoms, but not the other way around, thus only providing some support for the vulnerability model. The cross‐lagged associations in the aggregated RI‐CLPM and CLPM showed similar effect sizes. Overall, our results show that over 1‐ to 1.5‐year time intervals, low self‐esteem may negatively influence depressive symptoms over time within adolescents, but only weakly so. © 2018 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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10. Why aren’t all adolescents delinquent? A person-centered examination of competing theoretical hypotheses of adolescent abstention
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Mercer, N., Keijsers, L., Branje, S., van Lier, P.A.C., Koot, H.M., Meeus, W., and Clinical Developmental Psychology
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- 2014
11. Corrigendum to A longitudinal biosocial study of cortisol and peer influence on the development of adolescent antisocial behavior [Psychoneuroendocrinology, 38(11), (2013), 2770-2779]
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Platje, E., Vermeiren, R. R J M, Raine, A., Doreleijers, T. A H, Keijsers, L. G M T, Branje, S. J T, Popma, A., van Lier, P. A C, Koot, H. M., Meeus, W. H J, Jansen, L. M C, Leerstoel Branje, Leerstoel Meeus, Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Pediatric surgery, EMGO - Mental health, Leerstoel Branje, Leerstoel Meeus, and Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Endocrine and Autonomic Systems ,Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism ,Biosocial theory ,Diabetes and Metabolism ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Endocrinology ,Taverne ,medicine ,Child and adolescent psychiatry ,Peer influence ,University medical ,Adolescent development ,Psychiatry ,Psychology ,Research center ,Biological Psychiatry - Abstract
VU University Medical Center, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Curium, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands Departments of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology, Jerry Lee Center of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA Utrecht University, Research Center Adolescent Development, Utrecht, The Netherlands VU University, Department of Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Tilburg University, Tilburg School of Behavioral and Social Sciences, Tilburg, The Netherlands
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- 2014
12. Pals, problems, and personality: The moderating role of personality in the longitudinal association between adolescents' and best friends' delinquency
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Yu, R., Branje, S.J.T., Keijsers, L., Koot, H.M., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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Taverne - Abstract
We examined the potential moderating role of Block's personality types (i.e., overcontrollers, undercontrollers, and resilients) on the longitudinal associations between adolescents’ and their best friends’ delinquency. Across three annual waves, 497 Dutch adolescents (283 boys, MAge = 13 years at Wave 1) and their best friends reported on their delinquent behaviors. Adolescents’ three personality types were obtained by latent class growth analysis on their annual reports on Big Five personality. A three‐group cross‐lagged panel analysis was performed on three waves of data. Delinquency of overcontrollers was predicted by their best friends’ delinquency, whereas delinquency of undercontrollers and resilients was not. Delinquency of undercontrollers and resilients predicted their best friends’ delinquency, but overcontrollers’ delinquency did not. These findings suggest that personality may play an important role in adolescents’ susceptibility to the influence of friends’ delinquency, as well as in youths’ ability to influence friends through their own delinquency.
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- 2013
13. Current and prospective effects of psychopathic traits on affective and cognitive empathy in a community sample of late adolescents
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Brouns, B.H.J., de Wied, M.A., Keijsers, L., Branje, S., van Goozen, S.H.M., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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- 2013
14. Parent-Child Relationships of Boys in Different Offending Trajectories. A Developmental Perspective
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Keijsers, L., Loeber, R., Branje, S.J.T., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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Delinquency ,parent‐child relationship ,longitudinal ,growth curve modeling ,offending trajectories ,Taverne - Abstract
Background: This study tested the theoretical assumption that transformations of parent‐child relationships in late childhood and adolescence would differ for boys following different offending trajectories. Methods: Using longitudinal multiinformant data of 503 boys (ages 7–19), we conducted Growth Mixture Modeling to extract offending trajectories. Developmental changes in child reports of parent‐child joint activities and relationship quality were examined using Latent Growth Curves. Results: Five offending trajectories were found: non‐offenders, moderate childhood offenders, adolescent‐limited offenders, serious childhood offenders, and serious persistent offenders. Non‐offenders reported high and stable levels of relationship quality between age 10 and 16. Adolescent‐limited offenders reported a similarly high relationship quality as non‐offenders at ages 7 and 10, but a lower and decreasing relationship quality in adolescence. Compared with non‐offenders, serious persistent offenders reported poorer parent‐child relationship quality at all ages, and a decreasing relationship quality in adolescence. Serious persistent offenders and adolescent‐limited offenders reported similar levels and changes in parent‐child relationship quality in adolescence. Although serious persistent offenders reported fewer joint activities at age 10 and 13 than non‐offenders, a similar linear decrease in joint activities in early to middle adolescence was found for boys in each trajectory. Conclusion: Developmental changes in parent‐child relationship quality differ for different types of offenders. This finding has scientific and practical implications.
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- 2012
15. Identity statuses as developmental trajectories: A five-wave longitudinal study in early to middle and middle to late adolescents
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Meeus, W.H.J., Van de Schoot, R., Keijsers, L., Branje, S.J.T., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Methodology and statistics for the behavioural and social sciences, Afd Jeugd en Gezin, and Afd methoden en statistieken
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Psychosocial adjustment ,Identity ,Identity status trajectories ,Latent class growth analysis (LCGA) ,Adolescence - Abstract
This study tested whether Marcia’s original identity statuses of achievement, moratorium, early closure (a new label for foreclosure), and diffusion, can be considered identity status trajectories. That is, we examined whether these statuses are distinct and relatively stable, over-time configurations of commitment strength, levels of in-depth exploration of present commitments, and consideration of alternative commitments. The study examined identity development in a five-wave study of 923 early-to-middle (49.3% female) and 390 middle-to-late adolescents (56.7% female), covering the ages of 12–20. Using Latent class growth analysis (LCGA), the authors found that Marcia’s (1966) statuses are indeed identity status trajectories. Two kinds of moratorium were also found: the classical moratorium and searching moratorium. Support was found for Waterman’s developmental hypothesis of the identity status model: the number of achievers was significantly higher, and the number of diffusions lower, in middle-to-late adolescence than in early-to-middle adolescence. Females were more often in the advanced identity status trajectories, and stable differences were found between the trajectories in psychosocial adjustment. Study findings highlight that identity formation should be conceptualized as an over-time process.
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- 2012
16. Forbidden Friends as Forbidden Fruit: Parental Supervision of Friendships, Contact with Deviant Peers, and Adolescent Delinquency
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Keijsers, L., Branje, S.J.T., Hawk, S.T., Schwartz, S., Frijns, T., Koot, H.M., van Lier, P.A.C., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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Spending leisure time with deviant peers may have strong influences on adolescents’ delinquency. The current 3‐wave multi‐informant study examined how parental control and parental prohibition of friendships relate to these undesirable peer influences. To this end, annual questionnaires were administered to 497 Dutch youths (283 boys, mean age = 13 years at baseline), their best friends, and both parents. Cross‐lagged panel analyses revealed strong longitudinal links from contacts with deviant peers to adolescent delinquency, but not vice versa. Parent‐reported prohibition of friendships positively predicted contacts with deviant peers and indirectly predicted higher adolescent delinquency. Similar indirect effects were not found for parental control. The results suggest that forbidden friends may become “forbidden fruit,” leading to unintended increases in adolescents’ own delinquency.
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- 2012
17. How does longitudinally measured maternal Expressed Emotion affect internalizing and externalizing symptoms of adolescents from the general community?
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Hale III, W.W., Keijsers, L., Klimstra, T.A., Raaijmakers, Q.A.W., Hawk, S.T., Branje, S.J.T., Frijns, T., Wijsbroek, S.A.M., van Lier, P.A.C., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Afd Jeugd en Gezin, and Afd Pedagogiek in diverse samenlevingen
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longitudinal ,expressed emotion ,mother ,Taverne ,A Journal ,perception ,Adolescents - Abstract
Background: In previous studies, maternal expressed emotion (EE) has been found to be a good predictor of the course of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms. However, these studies have been cross‐section as opposed to longitudinal. The goal of this study is to examine longitudinal data of perceived maternal EE and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms to determine if maternal EE affected the course of adolescent symptoms (a parent effect model), or if the course of adolescent symptoms affected maternal EE (a child effect model), or if maternal EE and adolescent symptoms affected one another bidirectionally. Methods: Dutch adolescents (N = 497; 57% boys; M = 13 years) from the general community and their mothers were prospectively studied annually for three years. At all waves the mothers completed the Level of Expressed Emotion (LEE) questionnaire and the adolescents completed self‐rated measures of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was used to analyze the longitudinal data. Results: The results of the SEM analyses clearly demonstrate that a child effect model best describes the relationship between maternal EE and the course of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Conclusions: This longitudinal study of the mothers’ EE perceptions suggests that it is the course of the internalizing and externalizing symptoms of adolescents from the general community that affects maternal EE, and not the mothers’ perceived EE influencing the course of the adolescents’ symptoms. Since this study was based on adolescents from the general community, it is suggested that these findings should also be replicated in clinical samples of adolescents.
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- 2011
18. Bidirectional Links and Concurrent Development of Parent-Child Relationships and Boys’ Offending Behavior
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Keijsers, L., Loeber, R., Branje, S.J.T., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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longitudinal ,growth curve modeling ,cross-lagged panel model ,Taverne ,reciprocal ,parent-child relationship ,delinquency ,development - Abstract
This study examined different types of longitudinal associations (i.e., directional links and overlapping developmental changes) between children's delinquency and the quality of parent-child relationships from middle childhood to late adolescence. We used 10-wave interview data of 503 boys, their primary caregivers, and their teachers. Our first aim was to unravel the direction of effects between parent-child relationships and children's offending. Cross-lagged panel models revealed bidirectional links over time between poorer quality parent-child relationships and boys' offending across late childhood (age 7-10), early adolescence (age 10-13) and middle adolescence (age 13-16). Second, we examined the associations between mean changes in delinquency, on the one hand, and mean changes in relationship quality, on the other hand. Although parent-child relationships improved during childhood, their quality decreased in early adolescence and remained stable in middle adolescence. Delinquency increased only in middle adolescence. In five out of six models, the slope factors of relationship quality and offending were strongly correlated, indicating that stronger increases in delinquency were associated with stronger decreases in parent-child relationship quality across childhood, early adolescence, and middle adolescence. The discussion focuses on the theoretical implications of these two types of longitudinal associations.
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- 2011
19. Psychometric characteristics of Carver and White’s BIS/BAS scales in Dutch adolescents and their mothers
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Yu, R., Branje, S.J.T., Keijsers, L., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, and Afd Jeugd en Gezin
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The psychometric characteristics of Carver and White's (1994) BIS/BAS scales were examined in 2 groups of Dutch adolescents (497 early adolescents and 237 middle adolescents, M Age = 13.0 years and 16.4 years, respectively) and their middle-aged mothers (M Age = 45.2 years; N = 734). Confirmatory factor analyses revealed an acceptably fitting 2-factor model for adapted BIS /BAS scales in all 3 groups, reflecting separate BIS and BAS factors. Reliabilities of the 2 scales were satisfactory. The results supported the convergent validity of BIS and BAS scales. BIS was positively correlated with internalizing problem behaviors and neuroticism. BAS was positively correlated with externalizing problem behaviors and extraversion. The discriminant validity of the BIS/BAS scales received mixed support in our data. BIS was negatively correlated with extraversion, and BAS was not correlated with depression. However, BIS was also found to be correlated with externalizing problem behaviors, and BAS was positively correlated with neuroticism. In sum, the scales are suitable for use in research settings, but caution is advocated in application for clinical practice.
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- 2011
20. What parents don't know and how it may affect their children:: Qualifying the disclosure-adjustment link
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Frijns, T., Keijsers, L., Branje, S.J.T., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Leerstoel Meeus, and Dep Educatie & Pedagogiek
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Male ,Parents ,Externalization ,Self Disclosure ,Social Psychology ,Adolescent ,Psychology, Adolescent ,Secrecy ,Disclosure ,Affect (psychology) ,Truth Disclosure ,Developmental psychology ,Adolescent adjustment ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Adaptation, Psychological ,Taverne ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Juvenile delinquency ,Humans ,Longitudinal Studies ,Parent-Child Relations ,Netherlands ,Operationalization ,Depression ,Social environment ,Social relation ,Psychiatry and Mental health ,Adolescent Behavior ,International (English) ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Self-disclosure ,Juvenile Delinquency ,Female ,Psychology ,Factor Analysis, Statistical ,Social psychology ,Social Adjustment ,Adolescent–parent relationship - Abstract
Recent research has identified adolescent disclosure to parents as a powerful predictor of adolescent adjustment. We propose, however, that the common operationalization of adolescent disclosure incorporates the two separate constructs of disclosure and secrecy, and predicted that the disclosure–adjustment link can largely be explained by the unique contribution of secrecy from parents. A four-wave survey study among 309 adolescents tested these predictions. Factor analyses confirmed that disclosure and secrecy should be distinguished as two separate constructs. Moreover, in cross-lagged path analyses, only secrecy was a longitudinal predictor of adolescent internalizing (i.e., depression) and externalizing (i.e., delinquency) problems, disclosure was not. Secrecy consistently contributed to the longitudinal prediction of delinquency from early to middle adolescence, whereas it contributed to the prediction of depression only in early adolescence. Findings thus attest the importance of distinguishing between disclosure and secrecy and suggest that the disclosure–adjustment link may actually reflect a secrecy-maladjustment link.
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- 2010
21. On the Progression and Stability of Adolescent Identity Formation: A Five-Wave Longitudinal Study in Early-to-Middle and Middle-to-Late Adolescence
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Meeus, W.H.J., Van de Schoot, R., Keijsers, L., Schwartz, S., Branje, S.J.T., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Methodology and statistics for the behavioural and social sciences, Afd methoden en statistieken, and Dep Educatie & Pedagogiek
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This study examined identity development in a 5-wave study of 923 early-to-middle and 390 middle-to-late adolescents thereby covering the ages of 12–20. Systematic evidence for identity progression was found: The number of diffusions, moratoriums, and searching moratoriums (a newly obtained status) decreased, whereas the representation of the high-commitment statuses (2 variants of a [fore]closed identity: “early closure” and “closure,” and achievement) increased. We also found support for the individual difference perspective: 63% of the adolescents remained in the same identity status across the 5 waves. Identity progression was characterized by 7 transitions: diffusion → moratorium, diffusion → early closure, moratorium → closure, moratorium → achievement, searching moratorium → closure, searching moratorium → achievement, and early closure → achievement.
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- 2010
22. Keeping secrets from parents in adolescence: What about gender differences?
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Keijsers, L., Frijns, T., Branje, S., Finkenauer, C., Meeus, W., Social Psychology, and Social & Organizational Psychology
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SDG 5 - Gender Equality - Abstract
The current longitudinal study examined adolescent gender differences in the developmental changes and relational correlates of secrecy from parents. For 4 successive years, starting in the second year of junior high (mean age at Time 1 = 13.2 years, SD = 0.51), 149 male and 160 female Dutch adolescents reported on secrecy from their parents and the quality of the parent-child relationship. Latent growth curve modeling revealed a linear increase in secrecy, which was significantly faster for boys than for girls. Moreover, cross-lagged panel analyses showed clear concurrent and longitudinal linkages between secrecy from parents and poorer parent-child relationship quality in girls. In boys, much less strong linkages were found between poorer relationships and secrecy from parents. © 2010 American Psychological Association.
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- 2010
23. Reciprocal effects between parental solicitation, parental control, adolescent disclosure, and adolescent delinquency
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Keijsers, L., Branje, S.J.T., van der Valk, I.E., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Leerstoel Meeus, and Dep Educatie & Pedagogiek
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This two‐wave multi‐informant study examined the bidirectional associations of parental control and solicitation with adolescent disclosure and delinquency. Participants were 289 adolescents (150 females and 139 males, modal age 14) and both parents. Parental solicitation and control did not predict adolescent delinquency, but adolescents' self‐reported disclosure was a negative predictor of delinquency. In addition, delinquency predicted less disclosure. Furthermore, maternal solicitation predicted disclosure and adolescent disclosure predicted parental solicitation. All relations held after controlling for leisure time spent with parents and with peers. These longitudinal findings show an overlap in the development of parental solicitation and the development of adolescent disclosure, but also show that only adolescent disclosure is negatively related to delinquency over time.
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- 2010
24. Developmental links of adolescent disclosure, parental socialisation, and control with delinquency: Moderation by parental support
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Keijsers, L., Frijns, T., Branje, S.J.T., Meeus, W.H.J., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Leerstoel Meeus, and Dep Educatie & Pedagogiek
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adolescent delinquency ,longitudinal ,International (English) ,parenting ,Taverne ,adolescent disclosure ,parental control - Abstract
This 4-wave study among 309 Dutch adolescents and their parents examined changes in adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control and their links with the development of delinquent activities. Annually, adolescents and both parents reported on adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control, and adolescents reported on delinquent activities and parental support. Latent growth curve analyses revealed a linear decline in parental control between ages 13 and 16. Adolescent disclosure decreased gradually in adolescent reports and showed an L-shaped pattern in father reports and a V-shaped pattern in mother reports. A stronger increase in delinquent activities was related to a stronger decrease in disclosure in mother and adolescent reports and to lower levels of disclosure in father reports. The linkages between levels of disclosure and delinquent activities were stronger in families with high parental support than in families with lower support. Furthermore, in lower parental support families, a stronger decrease in paternal control was related to a stronger increase in delinquent activities. In high parental support families, however, a stronger decrease in adolescent-reported parental control was related to a less strong increase in delinquent activities.
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25. Baseline dimensional psychopathology and future mood disorder onset: findings from the Dutch Bipolar Offspring Study.
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Mesman, E., Nolen, W. A., Keijsers, L., and Hillegers, M. H. J.
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AFFECTIVE disorders ,PATHOLOGICAL psychology ,BIPOLAR disorder ,MENTAL depression ,MENTAL health of teenagers ,DIAGNOSIS ,MENTAL illness risk factors - Abstract
Objective To identify the early signs of mood disorder development, specifically bipolar disorder ( BD), in a population at familial risk for BD. Method The sample included 107 Dutch adolescent bipolar offspring (age 12-21) followed into adulthood (age 22-32). Lifetime DSM- IV axis I diagnoses were examined at baseline, 1-, 5-, and 12- year follow-up. Symptoms were assessed at baseline on a 3-point Likert scale at baseline with the K- SADS- PL and were analyzed using symptom and sum scores. As observed in previous studies, BD typically starts with other mood disorders. Therefore, the sample was stratified in offspring with a mood diagnosis ( n = 29) and without ( n = 78) at baseline. Results Subthreshold manic experiences proved the strongest predictor of BD conversion ( n = 10; HR2.16, CI95% 1.23-3.78). At symptom level, elated mood, decreased need of sleep, racing thoughts, suicidal ideation, and middle insomnia were significantly associated with BD conversion. Depressive symptoms proved the strongest predictor for first mood episode onset ( n = 28; HR1.27, CI95% 1.02-1.58). Conclusion This study extends our knowledge of prodromal manifestations of BD in a high-risk population. Although preliminary, findings of this study provide potential targets for early identification and underscore the importance of detailed assessment of manic symptomatology in bipolar offspring. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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26. Journal of Adolescence: shared secrets versus secrets kept private are linked to better adolescent adjustment
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Frijns, T., Finkenauer, C., and Keijsers, L.
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Confidential communications -- Health aspects ,Privacy -- Health aspects ,Interpersonal relations in adolescence -- Health aspects ,Privacy issue ,Family and marriage ,Social sciences - Abstract
In this large-sample study (790 students) from the Netherlands, 14- to 19-year-olds were surveyed about the benefits or otherwise of keeping secrets. The researchers proposed that secrets shared with at [...]
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27. The role of self-concept clarity in prolonged grief disorder.
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Boelen PA, Keijsers L, and van den Hout MA
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ABSTRACT: Three studies using independent samples of bereaved individuals were conducted to examine the association of self-concept clarity (SCC) with symptoms of prolonged grief disorder (PGD), a debilitating syndrome than can develop after bereavement. Study 1 (N = 67) showed that lower SCC was associated with greater PGD severity, independent from self-concept content change. Using a retrospective design, Study 2 (N = 116) showed that a loss can coincide with a decline in SCC, the magnitude of which was associated with acute PGD severity. Study 2 also showed that the maintenance of PGD symptoms over time was associated with a smaller increase in SCC beyond the first month of bereavement and not with this acute SCC decline. Using a prospective-longitudinal design, Study 3 (N = 121) showed that the impact of lower SCC on concurrent and prospective PGD severity was mediated by lower self-esteem, depressive avoidance, and rumination. Moreover, lower initial SCC predicted PGD severity 6 months later. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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28. Maintaining close relationships: gratitude as a motivator and a detector of maintenance behavior.
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Kubacka KE, Finkenauer C, Rusbult CE, and Keijsers L
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29. Parental support and knowledge and adolescents' sexual health: testing two mediational models in a national Dutch sample.
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Graaf H, Vanwesenbeeck I, Woertman L, Keijsers L, Meijer S, and Meeus W
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30. Identity Statuses as Developmental Trajectories: A Five-Wave Longitudinal Study in Early-to-Middle and Middle-to-Late Adolescents
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Meeus, W.H.J., Van de Schoot, R., Keijsers, L., Branje, S.J.T., Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Methodology and statistics for the behavioural and social sciences, Afd Jeugd en Gezin, and Afd methoden en statistieken
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Male ,Longitudinal study ,Adolescent ,Social Psychology ,Psychology, Adolescent ,Self-concept ,Individuality ,Identity (social science) ,Empirical Research ,Developmental psychology ,Education ,Interpersonal relationship ,Identity ,Psychosocial adjustment ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Interpersonal Relations ,Identification, Psychological ,Longitudinal Studies ,Closure (psychology) ,Students ,Internal-External Control ,Social Identification ,Adolescent Development ,Self Concept ,Adolescence ,Health psychology ,Adolescent Behavior ,Female ,Psychology ,Identity status trajectories ,Identity formation ,Psychosocial ,Social psychology ,Latent class growth analysis (LCGA) ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
This study tested whether Marcia’s original identity statuses of achievement, moratorium, early closure (a new label for foreclosure), and diffusion, can be considered identity status trajectories. That is, we examined whether these statuses are distinct and relatively stable, over-time configurations of commitment strength, levels of in-depth exploration of present commitments, and consideration of alternative commitments. The study examined identity development in a five-wave study of 923 early-to-middle (49.3% female) and 390 middle-to-late adolescents (56.7% female), covering the ages of 12–20. Using Latent class growth analysis (LCGA), the authors found that Marcia’s (1966) statuses are indeed identity status trajectories. Two kinds of moratorium were also found: the classical moratorium and searching moratorium. Support was found for Waterman’s developmental hypothesis of the identity status model: the number of achievers was significantly higher, and the number of diffusions lower, in middle-to-late adolescence than in early-to-middle adolescence. Females were more often in the advanced identity status trajectories, and stable differences were found between the trajectories in psychosocial adjustment. Study findings highlight that identity formation should be conceptualized as an over-time process.
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31. Peritraumatic dissociation after loss: latent structure and associations with psychopathology.
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Boelen PA, Keijsers L, and van den Hout MA
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ABSTRACT: This study investigated the factor-structure of retrospectively assessed peritraumatic dissociation in the moments surrounding the death of a loved one and concurrent and prospective associations of such peritraumatic dissociation with loss-related emotional distress. Data were available from 168 people, bereaved in the preceding year. They completed the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire with their loss as the index event, together with measures of prolonged grief disorder, depression, and posttraumatic stress disorder; 117 completed symptom measures again 1 year later. Confirmatory factor analysis comparing the fit of four competing models showed that the eight-item one-factor model found in the first study using the Peritraumatic Dissociative Experiences Questionnaire provided the best fit to the data. Peritraumatic dissociation predicted concurrent and prospective symptom levels even when controlling for neuroticism and demographic and loss-related variables. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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32. Anxiety trajectories and identity development in adolescence: A five-wave longitudinal study
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Crocetti, Elisabetta, Klimstra, Theo, Keijsers, Loes, Hale, William W., Meeus, Wim, Leerstoel Branje, Leerstoel Meeus, Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants, Crocetti, Elisabetta, Klimstra, Theo, Keijsers, Loe, Hale III, William W., Meeus, Wim, Crocetti, E, Klimstra, T, Keijsers, L, Hale, W, Meeus, W, Leerstoel Branje, Leerstoel Meeus, and Adolescent development: Characteristics and determinants
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DYNAMICS ,Male ,Longitudinal study ,Personality development ,Identity (social science) ,Longitudinal Studie ,ADULTHOOD ,Anxiety ,Adolescents ,Developmental psychology ,Taverne ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Longitudinal Studies ,PERSPECTIVE ,Child ,Netherlands ,media_common ,Likelihood Functions ,CONSTRUCTION ,Likelihood Function ,Trajectory classes ,Personality type ,Personal identity ,Female ,PROBLEM BEHAVIOR ,medicine.symptom ,Psychology ,Human ,PERSONALITY TYPE ,Adolescent ,Social Psychology ,DISORDERS ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Models, Psychological ,VALIDATION ,Education ,Netherland ,Identity ,medicine ,Humans ,Personality ,Identification, Psychological ,MIXTURE ,Identification (Psychology) ,Trajectory classe ,Adolescent Development ,anxiety, identity, longitudinal ,Personality Development ,Longitudinal ,SCREEN ,Identity formation ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) - Abstract
The aim of this five-wave longitudinal study was to investigate the relationship between anxiety and adolescent identity development. Participants were 1,313 adolescents who annually completed measures of anxiety and identity. Growth Mixture Modeling (GMM) analyses demonstrated that the adolescent population was best typified by two latent growth trajectory classes: a low anxiety class (n = 1,199) characterized by a low initial level of anxiety that decreased over time and a high anxiety class (n = 114) characterized by a higher initial level of anxiety that increased over time. To answer our research question, we tested a model in which the anxiety classes predicted initial levels and rates of change of three identity dimensions: commitment, in-depth exploration, and reconsideration of commitment. Findings indicated that the high anxiety adolescents displayed a more troublesome identity development than their low anxiety peers, since their commitments became weaker with age, and they reconsidered them intensively. © 2008 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
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33. Just-in-time adaptive interventions for adolescent and young adult health and well-being: protocol for a systematic review.
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Guan KW, Adlung C, Keijsers L, Smit CR, Vreeker A, Thalassinou E, van Roekel E, de Reuver M, and Figueroa CA
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- Humans, Adolescent, Young Adult, Research Design, Health Promotion methods, Exercise, Systematic Reviews as Topic, Health Behavior
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Introduction: Health behaviours such as exercise and diet strongly influence well-being and disease risk, providing the opportunity for interventions tailored to diverse individual contexts. Precise behaviour interventions are critical during adolescence and young adulthood (ages 10-25), a formative period shaping lifelong well-being. We will conduct a systematic review of just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAIs) for health behaviour and well-being in adolescents and young adults (AYAs). A JITAI is an emerging digital health design that provides precise health support by monitoring and adjusting to individual, specific and evolving contexts in real time. Despite demonstrated potential, no published reviews have explored how JITAIs can dynamically adapt to intersectional health factors of diverse AYAs. We will identify the JITAIs' distal and proximal outcomes and their tailoring mechanisms, and report their effectiveness. We will also explore studies' considerations of health equity. This will form a comprehensive assessment of JITAIs and their role in promoting health behaviours of AYAs. We will integrate evidence to guide the development and implementation of precise, effective and equitable digital health interventions for AYAs., Methods and Analysis: In adherence to Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis guidelines, we will conduct a systematic search across multiple databases, including CENTRAL, MEDLINE and WHO Global Index Medicus. We will include peer-reviewed studies on JITAIs targeting health of AYAs in multiple languages. Two independent reviewers will conduct screening and data extraction of study and participant characteristics, JITAI designs, health outcome measures and equity considerations. We will provide a narrative synthesis of findings and, if data allows, conduct a meta-analysis., Ethics and Dissemination: As we will not collect primary data, we do not require ethical approval. We will disseminate the review findings through peer-reviewed journal publication, conferences and stakeholder meetings to inform participatory research., Prospero Registration Number: CRD42023473117., Competing Interests: Competing interests: ET is employed by Gro-up, a non-profit organisation in the Netherlands promoting the well-being of children and youth and their families. Gro-up has no involvement in the development of this review or interpretation of its findings. The remaining authors have no competing interests to declare., (© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2024. Re-use permitted under CC BY-NC. No commercial re-use. See rights and permissions. Published by BMJ.)
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34. Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS): A team science effort to predict societal trajectories in adolescence and young adulthood.
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Crone EA, Bol T, Braams BR, de Rooij M, Franke B, Franken I, Gazzola V, Güroğlu B, Huizenga H, Hulshoff Pol H, Keijsers L, Keysers C, Krabbendam L, Jansen L, Popma A, Stulp G, van Atteveldt N, van Duijvenvoorde A, and Veenstra R
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- Humans, Adolescent, Young Adult, Male, Female, Brain growth & development, Cohort Studies, Adult, Adolescent Development physiology, Self-Control
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Our society faces a great diversity of opportunities for youth. The 10-year Growing Up Together in Society (GUTS) program has the long-term goal to understand which combination of measures best predict societal trajectories, such as school success, mental health, well-being, and developing a sense of belonging in society. Our leading hypothesis is that self-regulation is key to how adolescents successfully navigate the demands of contemporary society. We aim to test these questions using socio-economic, questionnaire (including experience sampling methods), behavioral, brain (fMRI, sMRI, EEG), hormonal, and genetic measures in four large cohorts including adolescents and young adults. Two cohorts are designed as test and replication cohorts to test the developmental trajectory of self-regulation, including adolescents of different socioeconomic status thereby bridging individual, family, and societal perspectives. The third cohort consists of an entire social network to examine how neural and self-regulatory development influences and is influenced by whom adolescents and young adults choose to interact with. The fourth cohort includes youth with early signs of antisocial and delinquent behavior to understand patterns of societal development in individuals at the extreme ends of self-regulation and societal participation, and examines pathways into and out of delinquency. We will complement the newly collected cohorts with data from existing large-scale population-based and case-control cohorts. The study is embedded in a transdisciplinary approach that engages stakeholders throughout the design stage, with a strong focus on citizen science and youth participation in study design, data collection, and interpretation of results, to ensure optimal translation to youth in society., Competing Interests: Declaration of Competing Interest The authors have no competing interests., (Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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35. Within-family associations of parent-adolescent relationship quality and adolescent affective well-being.
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Arslan İB, Boele S, Dietvorst E, Lucassen N, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Female, Adolescent, Male, Child, Netherlands, Affect, Family Conflict psychology, Surveys and Questionnaires, Parent-Child Relations
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Background: Parent-adolescent relationship quality is theorized to be an important correlate of adolescent affective well-being. Little is known about the within-family processes underlying parent-adolescent relationship quality and affective well-being over a period of months. This three-wave, preregistered study examined within- and between-family associations between parent-adolescent relationship quality (support and conflict) and adolescent well-being (negative and positive affect). In addition, we examined whether the associations differed between mothers and fathers, and for adolescents' affective well-being in different social contexts (at home, at school, with peers)., Methods: The sample consisted of 244 Dutch adolescents (61.5% girls; age range: 12-17 years; mean age = 13.8 years). Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models were used., Results: At the between-family level, higher levels of support and lower levels of conflict were associated with higher levels of positive affect and lower levels of negative affect. At the within-family level, increases in support and decreases in conflict were concurrently associated with increases in positive affect and decreases in negative affect. More parent-adolescent conflict than typical also predicted increases in negative affect, 3 months later, and more negative affect and less positive affect than typical predicted increased conflict, 3 months later. These within-family effects were largely similar for fathers and mothers. Associations for conflict occurred through bidirectional processes: Parent-adolescent conflict shaped and was shaped by adolescents' emotions at home, at school, and with peers., Conclusion: Results suggest that parent-adolescent relationship quality (especially conflict) and adolescent affective well-being cofluctuate and predict each other over time within families., (© 2024 The Authors. Journal of Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents.)
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36. Real-time personalized feedback in mHealth for adolescents.
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Dietvorst E, Hillegers MH, Legerstee JS, Vries LP, Vreeker A, and Keijsers L
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Mobile Health (mHealth) interventions have the potential to improve early identification, prevention, and treatment of mental health problems. Grow It! is a multiplayer smartphone app designed for youth aged 12-25, allowing them to monitor their emotions and engage in daily challenges based on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) principles. Recently, a personalized mood profile was added to improve the app. We investigated whether real-time personalized feedback on mood enhances app engagement, user experience, and the effects on affective and cognitive well-being. Sample A ( N = 1269, age = 18.60 SD = 3.39, 80.6% girls, 95.4% Dutch) played the original app without feedback on their mood, and an independent Sample B ( N = 386, age = 16.04 SD = 3.21, 67.6% girls, 82.9% Dutch) received the renewed version with personalized real-time feedback on their mood. Participants who received personal feedback did not have higher app engagement ( t (1750,400) = 1.39, P = .206, d = 0.07; t (692,905) = 0.36, P = .971, d = 0.0) nor higher user experience ( t (177,596) = 0.21, P = .831, d = 0.02; ( t (794) = 1.28, P = .202, d = 0.12; χ
2 (659,141) = 2.83, P = .091). Players of the renewed version (Sample B) experienced significant improvements in affective ( t (175) = 3.01, P = .003, d = 0.23) and cognitive well-being ( t (175) = 3.48, P = <.001, d = 0.26) over the course of three weeks. The renewed version Grow It! has the potential to enhance youths' affective and cognitive well-being. However, adding real-time insights did not seem to affect app engagement nor user experience., Competing Interests: The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article., (© The Author(s) 2024.)- Published
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37. Better, for worse, or both? Testing environmental sensitivity models with parenting at the level of individual families.
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Boele S, Bülow A, de Haan A, Denissen JJA, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Female, Male, Adolescent, Longitudinal Studies, Parent-Child Relations, Models, Psychological, Family psychology, Parents psychology, Netherlands, Parenting psychology
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According to environmental sensitivity models, children vary in responsivity to parenting. However, different models propose different patterns, with responsivity to primarily: (1) adverse parenting (adverse sensitive); or (2) supportive parenting (vantage sensitive); or (3) to both (differentially susceptible). This preregistered study tested whether these three responsivity patterns coexist. We used intensive longitudinal data of Dutch adolescents ( N = 256, M
age = 14.8, 72% female) who bi-weekly reported on adverse and supportive parenting and their psychological functioning ( tmean = 17.7, tmax = 26). Dynamic Structural Equation Models (DSEM) indeed revealed differential parenting effects. As hypothesized, we found that all three responsivity patterns coexisted in our sample: 5% were adverse sensitive, 3% vantage sensitive, and 26% differentially susceptible. No adolescent appeared unsusceptible, however. Instead, we labeled 28% as unperceptive, because they did not perceive any changes in parenting and scored lower on trait environmental sensitivity than others. Furthermore, unexpected patterns emerged, with 37% responding contrary to parenting theories (e.g., decreased psychological functioning after more parental support). Sensitivity analyses with concurrent effects and parent-reported parenting were performed. Overall, findings indicate that theorized responsivity-to-parenting patterns might coexist in the population, and that there are other, previously undetected patterns that go beyond environmental sensitivity models.- Published
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38. Like No Other? A Family-Specific Network Approach to Parenting Adolescents.
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Boele S, Bülow A, Beltz AM, de Haan A, Denissen JJA, de Moor MHM, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Adolescent, Female, Infant, Male, Parents psychology, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting psychology, Adolescent Behavior psychology
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Numerous theories suggest that parents and adolescents influence each other in diverse ways; however, whether these influences differ between subgroups or are unique to each family remains uncertain. Therefore, this study explored whether data-driven subgroups of families emerged that exhibited a similar daily interplay between parenting and adolescent affective well-being. To do so, Subgrouping Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (S-GIMME) was used to estimate family-specific dynamic network models, containing same- and next-day associations among five parenting practices (i.e., warmth, autonomy support, psychological control, strictness, monitoring) and adolescent positive and negative affect. These family-specific networks were estimated for 129 adolescents (M
age = 13.3, SDage = 1.2, 64% female, 87% Dutch), who reported each day on parenting and their affect for 100 consecutive days. The findings of S-GIMME did not identify data-driven subgroups sharing similar parenting-affect associations. Instead, each family displayed a unique pattern of temporal associations between the different practices and adolescent affect. Thus, the ways in which parenting practices were related to adolescents' affect in everyday life were family specific., (© 2023. The Author(s).)- Published
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39. Applications of the experience sampling method (ESM) in paediatric healthcare: a systematic review.
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van Dalen M, Snijders A, Dietvorst E, Bracké K, Nijhof SL, Keijsers L, Hillegers MHJ, and Legerstee JS
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Background: With the Experience Sampling Method (ESM) participants are asked to provide self-reports of their symptoms, feelings, thoughts and behaviours in daily life. This preregistered systematic review assessed how ESM is being used to monitor emotional well-being, somatic health, fatigue and pain in children and adolescents with a chronic somatic illness., Methods: Databases were searched from inception. Studies were selected if they included children or adolescents aged 0-25 years with a chronic somatic illness and used ESM focussing on mental health or psychosocial wellbeing, biopsychosocial factors and/or somatic health. Two reviewers extracted data of the final 47 papers, describing 48 studies., Results: Most studies evaluated what factors influence medical or psychological symptoms and how symptoms influence each other. Another common purpose was to study the feasibility of ESM or ESM as part of an app or intervention. Study methods were heterogeneous and most studies lack adequate reporting of ESM applications and results., Conclusions: While ESM holds great potential for providing results and feedback to patients and caregivers, little use is being made of this option. Future studies should consider what they report in their studies, conduct a priori power analyses and how ESM can be embedded in clinical practice., Impact: While ESM has many clinical applications, it is currently mostly used for research purposes. Current studies using ESM are heterogeneous and lack consistent, high-quality reporting. There is great potential in ESM for providing patients and parents with personalised feedback., (© 2023. The Author(s).)
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40. Development, validity, and reliability of the parent-adolescent communication about adolescents' social media use scale (PACAS).
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Beyens I, Keijsers L, and Valkenburg PM
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Adolescents spend a substantial portion of their time using social media. Yet, there is a lack of understanding regarding how often parents and adolescents communicate about this social media use. To address this gap, we developed the Parent-Adolescent Communication about Adolescents' Social Media Use Scale (PACAS). In a first data wave, among 388 Dutch adolescents (13-15 years; 54% girls), exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses distinguished four scales: parental solicitation, adolescent disclosure, adolescent secrecy, and parental knowledge. All four scales had strong internal reliability and correlated in the expected directions. We re-established the validity and internal reliability and obtained test-retest reliability in a second wave, in which 330 adolescents were surveyed again. The findings show that parents and adolescents infrequently communicate about social media. Parental knowledge about adolescents' social media use strongly depends on the communication efforts of both parties. Altogether, the PACAS provides a valuable tool to explore the dynamics of parent-adolescent communication about social media., Competing Interests: No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s)., (© 2024 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.)
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41. Quaranteens: Prepandemic relationship quality and changes in adolescent internalizing problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Buist KL, Boele S, Bülow A, Reitz E, Verhoeven M, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Female, Adolescent, Male, Longitudinal Studies, Pandemics, Communicable Disease Control, Mothers, COVID-19
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This preregistered longitudinal study examined changes in adolescents' depressive and anxiety symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using latent additive piece-wise growth models. It also assessed whether support from and conflict with mothers, fathers, siblings, and best friends explained heterogeneity in change patterns. One hundred and ninety-two Dutch adolescents (Mean age: 14.3 years; 68.8% female) completed online biweekly questionnaires for a year (November 2019-October 2020), consisting of a prepandemic, lockdown, and reopening phase. Depressive symptoms increased following the lockdown and decreased upon reopening. Anxiety symptoms showed an immediate decrease followed by a gradual increase in the reopening phase. Prepandemic family and best friend support and conflict did not explain heterogeneity in depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic., (© 2023 The Authors. Journal of Research on Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research on Adolescence.)
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42. A moment of autonomy support brightens adolescents' mood: Autonomy support, psychological control and adolescent affect in everyday life.
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van der Kaap-Deeder J, Bülow A, Waterschoot J, Truyen I, and Keijsers L
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- Female, Humans, Adolescent, Infant, Male, Parents psychology, Parenting psychology, Affect, Emotions, Parent-Child Relations, Adolescent Behavior psychology
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This experience sampling study examined whether autonomy-supportive and psychologically controlling interactions with parents are intertwined with adolescents' momentary affect. For 7 days (in 2020), 143 adolescents (M
age = 15.82; SDage = 1.75; 64% girls; 95% European, 1% African, 3% unknown) reported 5 or 6 times a day how they felt and how interactions with parents were experienced. Preregistered dynamic structural equation models on 1439 (including 532 adjacent) parent-adolescent interactions revealed significant within-family associations: Adolescents experienced more positive affect during and following autonomy-supportive interactions, and vice versa. Adolescents felt more negative affect during and 3 h before psychologically controlling interactions. Between-family associations showed significant linkages between parenting and affect. These findings show that a moment of autonomy support can alter adolescents' everyday well-being., (© 2023 The Authors. Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.)- Published
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43. Testing transactional processes between parental support and adolescent depressive symptoms: From a daily to a biennial timescale.
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Boele S, Nelemans SA, Denissen JJA, Prinzie P, Bülow A, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Male, Adolescent, Child, Female, Parent-Child Relations, Family Relations, Parents, Longitudinal Studies, Depression diagnosis, Adolescent Behavior
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Transactional processes between parental support and adolescents' depressive symptoms might differ in the short term versus long term. Therefore, this multi-sample study tested bidirectional within-family associations between perceived parental support and depressive symptoms in adolescents with datasets with varying measurement intervals: Daily ( N = 244, M
age = 13.8 years, 38% male), bi-weekly ( N = 256, Mage = 14.4 years, 29% male), three-monthly ( N = 245, Mage = 13.9 years, 38% male), annual ( N = 1,664, Mage = 11.1 years, 51% male), and biennial ( N = 502, Mage = 13.8 years, 48% male). Preregistered random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) showed negative between- and within-family correlations. Moreover, although the preregistered models showed no within-family lagged effect from perceived parental support to adolescent depressive symptoms at any timescale, an exploratory model demonstrated a negative lagged effect at a biennial timescale with the annual dataset. Concerning the reverse within-family lagged effect, increases in adolescent depressive symptoms predicted decreases in perceived parental support 2 weeks and 3 months later (relationship erosion effect). Most cross-lagged effects were not moderated by adolescent sex or neuroticism trait level. Thus, the findings mostly support adolescent-driven effects at understudied timescales and illustrate that within-family lagged effects do not generalize across timescales.- Published
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44. The direction of effects between parenting and adolescent affective well-being in everyday life is family specific.
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Boele S, Bülow A, Beltz AM, de Haan A, Denissen JJA, and Keijsers L
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- Child, Humans, Adolescent, Female, Male, Adolescent Health, Parents psychology, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting psychology, Adolescent Behavior psychology
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Numerous theories and empirical studies have suggested that parents and their adolescent children reciprocally influence each other. As most studies have focused on group-level patterns, however, it remained unclear whether this was true for every family. To investigate potential heterogeneity in directionality, we applied a novel idiographic approach to examine the effects between parenting and adolescent well-being in each family separately. For 100 days, 159 Dutch adolescents (M
age = 13.31, 62% female) reported on affective well-being and four parenting dimensions. The family-specific effects of pre-registered ( https://osf.io/7n2jx/ ) dynamic structural equation models indeed revealed that a reciprocal day-to-day association between parenting and adolescent affective well-being was present only in some families, with the proportion of families displaying a reciprocal association varying across the four parenting dimensions (11-55%). In other families, either parenting predicted the adolescent's affective well-being (8-43%) or vice versa (10-27%), or no day-to-day associations were found (16-60%). Adolescents with higher trait levels of environmental sensitivity and neuroticism were more strongly affected by parenting. Thus, findings suggest that the ways in which parents and adolescents influence each other in everyday life are unique, stressing the need to move towards an idiographic parenting science., (© 2023. Springer Nature Limited.)- Published
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45. When Too Much Help is of No Help: Mothers' and Fathers' Perceived Overprotective Behavior and (Mal)Adaptive Functioning in Adolescents.
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Arslan İB, Lucassen N, Keijsers L, and Stevens GWJM
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- Male, Female, Child, Humans, Adolescent, Infant, Longitudinal Studies, Mothers psychology, Fathers psychology, Depression psychology, Parenting psychology, Parent-Child Relations, Adolescent Behavior psychology
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Although parental overprotection is theorized to have lasting negative effects throughout a child's life, there is limited empirical evidence available on its long-term significance on adolescent well-being. This preregistered, three-wave longitudinal study investigated the association of maternal and paternal perceived overprotection in early adolescence with the development of (mal)adaptive psychological, academic, and social functioning throughout adolescence. Data (N = 2229; 50.7% girls) from the longitudinal TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS) in the Netherlands were used (M
age T1 = 11.11, T2 = 13.57, T3 = 16.28). At T1, adolescents reported on their mothers' and fathers' overprotection. From T1 to T3 adolescents and teachers reported about internalizing problems, academic achievement, prosocial, and antisocial behavior. The results showed concurrent associations between higher levels of perceived overprotection and higher levels of internalizing problems, antisocial behaviors, and (after controlling for parental warmth and rejection) lower levels of academic achievement. Perceived overprotection was positively associated with decreased internalizing problems over time. This longitudinal association disappeared after controlling for baseline levels of internalizing problems, suggesting that this result was less robust than expected. Mothers and fathers did not differ in their associations between perceived overprotection and (mal)adaptive functioning. The findings showed that perceived overprotection is mainly concurrently associated with (mal)adaptive adolescent functioning. Future research recommendations are discussed in terms of stability and bidirectional relations., (© 2023. The Author(s).)- Published
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46. Smartphone-Tracked Digital Markers of Momentary Subjective Stress in College Students: Idiographic Machine Learning Analysis.
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Aalbers G, Hendrickson AT, Vanden Abeele MM, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Students psychology, Smartphone, Mobile Applications
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Background: Stress is an important predictor of mental health problems such as burnout and depression. Acute stress is considered adaptive, whereas chronic stress is viewed as detrimental to well-being. To aid in the early detection of chronic stress, machine learning models are increasingly trained to learn the quantitative relation from digital footprints to self-reported stress. Prior studies have investigated general principles in population-wide studies, but the extent to which the findings apply to individuals is understudied., Objective: We aimed to explore to what extent machine learning models can leverage features of smartphone app use log data to recognize momentary subjective stress in individuals, which of these features are most important for predicting stress and represent potential digital markers of stress, the nature of the relations between these digital markers and stress, and the degree to which these relations differ across people., Methods: Student participants (N=224) self-reported momentary subjective stress 5 times per day up to 60 days in total (44,381 observations); in parallel, dedicated smartphone software continuously logged their smartphone app use. We extracted features from the log data (eg, time spent on app categories such as messenger apps and proxies for sleep duration and onset) and trained machine learning models to predict momentary subjective stress from these features using 2 approaches: modeling general relations at the group level (nomothetic approach) and modeling relations for each person separately (idiographic approach). To identify potential digital markers of momentary subjective stress, we applied explainable artificial intelligence methodology (ie, Shapley additive explanations). We evaluated model accuracy on a person-to-person basis in out-of-sample observations., Results: We identified prolonged use of messenger and social network site apps and proxies for sleep duration and onset as the most important features across modeling approaches (nomothetic vs idiographic). The relations of these digital markers with momentary subjective stress differed from person to person, as did model accuracy. Sleep proxies, messenger, and social network use were heterogeneously related to stress (ie, negative in some and positive or zero in others). Model predictions correlated positively and statistically significantly with self-reported stress in most individuals (median person-specific correlation=0.15-0.19 for nomothetic models and median person-specific correlation=0.00-0.09 for idiographic models)., Conclusions: Our findings indicate that smartphone log data can be used for identifying digital markers of stress and also show that the relation between specific digital markers and stress differs from person to person. These findings warrant follow-up studies in other populations (eg, professionals and clinical populations) and pave the way for similar research using physiological measures of stress., (©George Aalbers, Andrew T Hendrickson, Mariek MP Vanden Abeele, Loes Keijsers. Originally published in JMIR mHealth and uHealth (https://mhealth.jmir.org), 23.03.2023.)
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47. Daily affect intensity and variability of adolescents and their parents before and during a COVID-19 lockdown.
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de Vries LP, Bülow A, Pelt DHM, Boele S, Bartels M, and Keijsers L
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- Humans, Adolescent, Female, Male, Communicable Disease Control, Emotions, Knowledge, Parents, COVID-19
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Introduction: The corona virus (COVID-19) pandemic may have a prolonged impact on people's lives, with multiple waves of infections and lockdowns, but how a lockdown may alter emotional functioning is still hardly understood., Methods: In this 100-daily diaries study, we examined how to affect intensity and variability of adolescents (N = 159, M
age = 13.3, 61.6% female) and parents (N = 159, Mage = 45.3, 79.9% female) changed after the onset and during (>50 days) the second COVID-19 lockdown in the Netherlands, using preregistered piecewise growth models., Results: We found only an unexpected increase in parents' positive affect intensity after the lockdown onset, but no immediate changes in negative affect intensity or variability. However, both adolescents and parents reported gradual increases in negative affect intensity and variability as the lockdown prolonged. Lockdown effects did not differ between adolescents and parents. However, within groups, individuals differed. The individual differences in the effects were partly explained by life satisfaction, depressive symptoms, and self-reported lockdown impact., Conclusions: Overall, these findings suggests that a lockdown triggers changes in daily affective well-being especially as the lockdown prolongs. Individual differences in the effects indicate heterogeneity in the impact of the lockdown on daily affect that was partly explained by baseline life satisfaction and depressive symptoms. However, more knowledge on the causes of this heterogeneity is needed to be able to increase resilience to lockdown effects in the population., (© 2022 The Authors. Journal of Adolescence published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Foundation for Professionals in Services to Adolescents.)- Published
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48. Promoting Daily Well-being in Adolescents using mHealth.
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Mens MMJ, Keijsers L, Dietvorst E, Koval S, Legerstee JS, and Hillegers MHJ
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- Adaptation, Psychological, Adolescent, Adult, Child, Ecological Momentary Assessment, Female, Humans, Male, Pandemics, Young Adult, COVID-19, Telemedicine methods
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Adolescents are at increased risk for developing mental health problems. The Grow It! app is an mHealth intervention aimed at preventing mental health problems through improving coping by cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-inspired challenges as well as self-monitoring of emotions through Experience Sampling Methods (ESM). Yet, little is known about daily changes in well-being and coping during a stressful period, like the COVID-19 pandemic. The current study aimed to elucidate daily changes in positive and negative affect, and adaptive coping, and to better understand the within-person's mechanisms of the Grow It! app. The sample consisted of 12-25-year old Dutch adolescents in two independent cohorts (cohort 1: N = 476, Mage = 16.24, 76.1% female, 88.7% Dutch; cohort 2: N = 814, Mage = 18.45, 82.8% female, 97.2% Dutch). ESM were used to measure daily positive and negative affect and coping (cohort 1: 42 days, 210 assessments per person; cohort 2: 21 days, 105 assessments). The results showed that, on average, adolescents decreased in daily positive affect and adaptive coping, and increased in their experienced negative affect. A positive relation between adaptive coping and positive affect was found, although independent of the CBT-based challenges. Latent class analysis identified two heterogeneous trajectories for both positive and negative affect, indicating that the majority of participants with low to moderate-risk on developing mental health problems were likely to benefit from the Grow It! app., (© 2022. The Author(s).)
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49. Universal ingredients to parenting teens: parental warmth and autonomy support promote adolescent well-being in most families.
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Bülow A, Neubauer AB, Soenens B, Boele S, Denissen JJA, and Keijsers L
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- Adolescent, Adolescent Health, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Parent-Child Relations, Parents, Adolescent Behavior, Parenting
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Even though each adolescent is unique, some ingredients for development may still be universal. According to Self-Determination Theory, every adolescent's well-being should benefit when parents provide warmth and autonomy. To rigorously test this idea that each family has similar mechanisms, we followed 159 Dutch parent-adolescent dyads (parent: M
age = 45.34, 79% mothers; adolescent: Mage = 13.31, 62% female) for more than three months, and collected 100 consecutive daily reports of parental warmth, autonomy support, positive and negative affect. Positive effects of parental warmth and autonomy support upon well-being were found in 91-98% of the families. Preregistered analysis of 14,546 daily reports confirmed that effects of parenting differed in strength (i.e., some adolescents benefited more than others), but were universal in their direction (i.e., in fewer than 1% of families effects were in an unexpected direction). Albeit stronger with child-reported parenting, similar patterns were found with parent-reports. Adolescents who benefited most from need-supportive parenting in daily life were characterized by higher overall sensitivity to environmental influences. Whereas recent work suggests that each child and each family have unique developmental mechanisms, this study suggests that need-supportive parenting promotes adolescent well-being in most families., (© 2022. The Author(s).)- Published
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50. Social media, parenting, and well-being.
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Beyens I, Keijsers L, and Coyne SM
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- Adolescent, Humans, Parent-Child Relations, Parenting, Parents, Cyberbullying, Social Media
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One of the key challenges faced by many parents is to manage the pervasiveness of social media in adolescents' lives and its effects on adolescents' well-being (e.g., life satisfaction) and ill-being (e.g., depressive symptoms). Parents may manage adolescents' social media use and social media-induced well-being and ill-being through media-specific parenting: parental actions to restrict, regulate, and discuss adolescents' social media use. Recent evidence suggests that media-specific parenting may reduce adolescents' anxiety and depressive symptoms and minimize the effects of cyberbullying on adolescents' depressive symptoms. However, more robust evidence regarding the moderating role of media-specific parenting and the direction of effects has to be established to understand how parents may shape the effects of social media on adolescents' well-being and ill-being., Competing Interests: Conflict of interest statement Nothing declared., (Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)
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