Researcher
Karla Van Leeuwen
- Disciplines:Family studies, Parenting support
Affiliations
- Parenting and Special Education (Research unit)
Responsible
From1 Aug 2019 → Today - Parenting and Special Education (Research unit)
Member
From1 Oct 2007 → Today
Projects
1 - 10 of 21
- Empowering teachers and health care workers in providing school-based sexual and reproductive health education to promote gender equalityFrom1 Jan 2023 → TodayFunding: VLIR-UOS International Training Program (ITP)
- Empowering teachers in primary education to keep students in educational systems and train executive functions in their students as a guarantee for future successFrom16 Dec 2021 → TodayFunding: BOF - doctoral mandates
- Feeling, thinking, acting: Pathways to parenting in parents of children with profound intellectual and multiple disabilitiesFrom1 Oct 2020 → 30 Sep 2021Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- Empowering teachers in Ethiopian primary education to stimulate executive functions in their students as a prerequisite for academic achievement and future successFrom1 Oct 2020 → TodayFunding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- A capacity building teacher training to enhance parental involvement in primary education as a key factor in child literacyFrom1 Jan 2020 → 31 Aug 2022Funding: VLIR-UOS South Initiatives
- Mobile phone parenting in families of young 'left-behind children' in rural China: A mixed-methods studyFrom7 Oct 2019 → 7 Oct 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Parenting Schemas: An Experimental ApproachFrom1 Oct 2019 → 30 Sep 2020Funding: BOF - postdoctoral mandates
- The Development and Impact of Attachment in Middle Childhood: A Cognitive Script and Learning Theory Approach.From1 Feb 2019 → 1 Feb 2023Funding: Own budget, for example: patrimony, inscription fees, gifts
- Personality of the Orchid: Unravelling the Personality of the Highly Sensitive PersonFrom15 Oct 2018 → 15 Oct 2022Funding: BOF - Doctoral projects, BOF - doctoral mandates
- In all its colours and complexity. A conceptual and methodological study on parenting young children in the context of (emerging) autismFrom1 Oct 2017 → 6 Jul 2023Funding: Foundations, funds and other with scientific goal
Publications
1 - 10 of 161
- In all its colours and complexity. A conceptual and methodological study on parenting young children in the context of (emerging) autism(2023)
Authors: Melinda Mađarević, Ilse Noens, Karla Van Leeuwen
- Clinical adolescent decision-making: Parental perspectives on confidentiality and consent in Belgium and The Netherlands(2023)
Authors: David De Coninck, Koenraad Matthys, Karla Van Leeuwen, Steven Lierman, Ingrid Boone, Peter de Winter, Jaan Toelen
Pages: 371 - 386 - Cumulative family stress and externalizing problems: Secure base script knowledge as a protective factor(2023)
Authors: Patricia Bijttebier, Filip Calders, Luc Goossens, Karla Van Leeuwen, Wim Van Den Noortgate, Guy Bosmans
Pages: 941 - 955 - Mild daily stress, in interaction with NR3C1 DNA methylation levels, is linked to alterations in the HPA axis and ANS response to acute stress in early adolescents(2023)
Authors: Viktoriia Chubar, Thomas Vaessen, Erika Lutin, Guy Bosmans, Bram Bekaert, Karla Van Leeuwen, Filip Calders, Sofie Weyn, Patricia Bijttebier, Luc Goossens
- Mobile phone parenting in work-separated Chinese families with young children left behind: A qualitative inquiry into parenting dimensions and determinants(2023)
Authors: Karla Van Leeuwen
Pages: 1 - 13 - For Better and/or for Worse: Examining Environmental Sensitivity at Multiple Levels of Analysis in Children and Adolescents(2022)
Authors: Sofie Weyn, Patricia Bijttebier, Karla Van Leeuwen
- Personality of the Orchid: Unravelling the Personality of the Highly Sensitive Person(2022)
Authors: Anne Sophie Bröhl, Patricia Bijttebier, Karla Van Leeuwen
- Individual differences in environmental sensitivity at physiological and phenotypic level: Two sides of the same coin?(2022)
Authors: Sofie Weyn, Karla Van Leeuwen, Luc Goossens, Guy Bosmans, Wim Van Den Noortgate, Erika Lutin, Anne Sophie Bröhl, Viktoriia Chubar, Flore Geukens, Patricia Bijttebier
Pages: 36 - 53 - Improving the measurement of environmental sensitivity in children and adolescents: The Highly Sensitive Child scale-21 item version(2022)
Authors: Sofie Weyn, Karla Van Leeuwen, Luc Goossens, Wim Van Den Noortgate, Dries Debeer, Patricia Bijttebier
Pages: 1 - 23 - The Triangle Relationship Between Chinese Parents, Grandparents and (Grand-)children: Associations between (Co-)parenting and Early Adolescent Well-being(2022)
Authors: Na Luo, Karla Van Leeuwen