Projects
Towards a better understanding of the parental context of children’s attachment development: Early Maladaptive Schemas, Parental Mentalization KU Leuven
Although attachment theory widely accepts that parents are a critical factor in children’s attachment development, associations between parenting behaviours and child attachment have been substantially smaller than proposed (Verhage et al., 2016). While improving theoretical clarity of attachment core constructs (Bosmans et al., 2020) has resulted in research revealing important child-related factors moderating this association, similar work ...
THE BUFFERING ROLE OF PARENTAL REFLECTIVE FUNCTIONING IN THE RELATION BETWEEN PARENTAL STRESS, CONTROLLING PARENTING AND SOCIO-EMOTIONAL DIFFICULTIES AMONG INTERNATIONAL ADOPTEES KU Leuven
Summary
The present PhD project aims to investigate the buffering role of parental reflective functioning in adoptive parents’ stress, in their quality of parenting and, ultimately in their adopted children’s socio-emotional adjustment. Using a longitudinal, experimental and developmental psychopathology approach, this project wishes to better understand the emergence of socio-emotional difficulties during the first years after adoption ...
Parental investment in a changing world - how intrinsic and extrinsic factors alter parental strategies University of Antwerp
Parental investment in a changing world - how intrinsic and extrinsic factors alter parental strategies. University of Antwerp
Beyond the binary: towards gender-neutral Belgian parentage law? A normative and comparative law research concerning the desirability of gender neutralization of the Belgian civil code Hasselt University
Parental mentalizing under stress: an innovative experimental and ecological momentary assessment approach in mothers with Borderline Personality Disorder KU Leuven
Research has amply shown that children of parents with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) have a highly increased risk of developing mental disorders. However, the mechanisms involved in the associations between maternal BPD and negative child outcomes are still poorly understood. Impairments in parental mentalizing or the parents’ ability to understand their children’s behaviors in terms of mental states, may be a key factor in this ...
”Born to ageing parents” - integrating pre- and postnatal parental effects Ghent University
Study of transgenerational effects of ageing in Lesser black-backed gulls through quantifation of
consequences of ageing parents on their offspring. Parental-age related variation in offspring
quality is thereby predicted to relate to prenatal maternal effects, i.e. changes in offspring
phenotype as a result of changes in the pre-hatching environment, while prenatal paternal
effects are predicted ...
Born to ageing parents - integrating pre- and postnatal parental effects. University of Antwerp
Understanding parental decision-making in the digital age: How social media influencers affect food choices of parents for their children Ghent University
The biggest dietary gatekeepers of young children are still their parents. They are part of a generation that is greatly relying on social media to gather parenting information, and are strongly affected by the opinions of the social media influencers (SMIs) they follow. Especially parent influencers are trusted among today’s parents, as they gathered a great audience and credibility by narrating their parental experiences online. To date ...