Projects
Improving adolescent sexual health: studying the process of gender socialization in early adolescence and its association with sexual behavior and health outcomes in later life. A Flemish cohort study in an international perspective. Ghent University
Adolescent sexual health is a major public health concern. Nearly 2/3 of premature deaths and 1/3 of the total adult disease burden is associated with conditions or behaviours that began in youth, including unsafe sexual behaviour.2 The latter is also a major contributor to disability adjusted life years lost for adolescents in nearly every region of the world.3 Contributing to adolescent health is crucial to improve community health ...
Improving adolescent sexual health: studying the process of gender socialization in early adolescence and its association with sexual health in late-adolescence. The cases of Flanders and South Africa Ghent University
The need to address the U+201CupstreamU+201D antecedents of sexual health risks of adolescent and young adult women is increasingly reflected in international declarations. For example, the 2011 United Nations General Assembly declaration on HIV/AIDS, called for elimination of U+201Cgender inequalities and gender-based abuse and violence and increase the capacity of women and girls to protect themselves from HIVU+201D (41). The World Health ...
One day is not the other when it comes to parenting an adolescent: A dynamic, trait-state perspective on autonomy-relevant parenting in adolescence Ghent University
Given that most developmental tasks in adolescence (e.g., identity formation) essentially deal with
autonomy, it is important for parents to support their adolescent’s autonomy and to avoid
engaging in autonomy-suppressing parenting. Most studies on autonomy-relevant parenting have
focused on stable differences between parents, thereby adopting a trait perspective on parenting.
A few studies indicated that parents’ ...
More and safer mobility in adolescents: test a conceptual model for explaining active and safe transport in adolescents Ghent University
More and safer mobility in adolescents: test a conceptual model for explaining active and safe transport in adolescents
More and safer mobility in adolescents: testing a conceptual framework to explain active and safe commuting in adolescents Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Understanding the characteristics of adolescents who walk, cycle or drive a motorcycle or car for short ...
What you see is not always what you get. Individual differences in adolescent perceptions of parenting and associations with adolescent adjustment Ghent University
Despite the importance of parenting for adolescent adjustment, empirical work usually finds only modest effects of parenting. In this project, it is examined whether adolescent adjustment is affected more strongly by adolescent perceptions of parenting than by parent-reported or observed parenting. Further, it is examined whether personality characteristics affect adolescent susceptibility to parenting because personality affects ...
BILA Zuid-Afrika: Improving adolescent sexual and reproductive health: the influence of early adolescent gender socialization on later sexual and reproductive health. A SA-Flemish study Ghent University
Adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) is a major public health concern. A central predictor of ASRH is gender socialization; the process of learning and internalizing beliefs, attitudes and behaviors. This shapes adolescents’understanding of themselves and their relationships. Early adolescence (10 -14 years)(EA) is the time young people assume socially defined gender roles, resulting in pathways leading to particular SRH ...
An investigation into the short and long term effects of exposure to online celebrity bashing among adolescent bystanders. University of Antwerp
How to be alone: The role of solitude in the development of adolescent psychopathology KU Leuven
Solitude, here conceptualized as being alone, is associated with both negative developmental outcomes, including psychopathology, and positive developmental outcomes, such as successful identity formation. This “paradox of solitude” is particularly relevant in adolescence. Identity formation is an important task in this developmental period, but at the same time, the development of psychopathology symptoms peaks. This creates a need to ...