Projects
‘Sexting and adolescents!?’ Who dares to address this controversial topic? Empowering parents using a sex-positive intergenerational co-learning approach KU Leuven
Parents, researchers, social media ... everyone has an opinion about ‘sexting and adolescents’, but do they talk about this topic with the youth themselves? Even though communication between parents and their children has an important, preventive role in sex education, these conversations seem rare. The moral panic around sexting results in more negative messages during conversations and in a more controlling, complementary conversation ...
The impact of changing family dynamics on intergenerational solidarity University of Antwerp
Gender inequalities in labor market outcomes: Learning from experiences in 19th-century West Flanders KU Leuven
Economists debate whether institutional (e.g. minimum wage policies) or market (forces of supply and demand) factors are at the root of inequalities on labor markets. This dissertation provides a long-run perspective on this debate through a multi-dimensional approach, in which both institutional and market drivers are assessed. In the first chapter, a reconstruction effort of said labor inequalities is presented, with an analysis of the ...
Self-criticism and affective spectrum symptoms during adolescence: The role of the parenting environment, genetic vulnerability, and their interaction KU Leuven
Studies have shown that depression and functional somatic disorders (e.g., chronic pain and fatigue conditions) are highly comorbid and tend to co-aggregate within families. Hence, researchers argue that depression and functional somatic disorders belong to an “affective spectrum” of disorders that possibly share etiological mechanisms. A growing body of research suggests that self-criticism (i.e., a personality dimension marked by high ...
Extracurricular STEAM project on sustainable technology and food systems for (young) people: Stem&Vork Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Through an extracurricular STEAM model of action learning, the STEM&VORK project aimed to reconnect young people and (young) adults with producing and understanding their food through digital and sustainable food systems. STEAM, short for Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics, is an educational approach that uses various access points for guiding student inquiry, ...
Strategic Change in Family Firms: Antecedents and consequences of strategic change from a change readiness perspective Hasselt University
Strategic change in family firms: antecedents and consequences of strategic change from a change readiness perspective. University of Antwerp
The effects of parental arithmetic ability and classroom instruction on individual differences in children’s arithmetic development KU Leuven
Arithmetic (e.g., 4 + 3 = 7 or 5 + 8 = 10 + 3 = 13) represents a core element of the mathematics curriculum in primary school, but some children have severe and persistent difficulties learning this basic competence, i.e. children with dyscalculia. My previous research showed that numerical magnitude processing skills or people’s elementary intuitions about quantity and their ability to understand the meaning of symbolic numbers, are stable ...
I choose to be a human rights defender: the message from victims of the Chilean dictatorship to future human rights defenders Ghent University
The application concerns a publication for the general public with the message from victims of the Chilean dictatorship for future human rights defenders. Victims and human rights defenders have played a crucial role in the democratic transition after the Chilean dictatorship (1973-1990). With the increasing age of victims and the repetition of human rights violations during the social protests (2019), the role of future generations of human ...