Projects
Exploring parental influences as predictors of alcohol preloading among adolescents (in order to prevent excessive alcohol consumption patterns and reducing the risk for cancer.) HOGENT
CONNECTIONS in CLASS (CiC): Relationships with teachers and peers and their effects on adolescents' mental health KU Leuven
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them their cultures count in school is best: The role of teachers in immigrant-origin adolescents’ development of cultural orientations KU Leuven
Entertainment Fiction and Adolescents’ Body Image and Sexuality: Moving Towards a Content Heterogeneity Perspective KU Leuven
The role of social media in adolescents' and college students' alcohol consumption. KU Leuven
Embodied learning in an adolescent's educational context: classroomdesign and cognition. Hasselt University
Inflammation, self-regulation and weight loss resistance in children and adolescents with obesity Ghent University
Current project will study the role of inflammation in obese adolescents by evaluating: how inflammation affects maladaptive eating via self-regulation, whether maladaptive eating leads to weight gain and increases of inflammation and psychosocial stress, and whether this stress moderates the relationship between self-regulation and maladaptive eating. We will also evaluate whether psychological interventions can enhance self-regulation and ...
The legal status of adolescents in health care: between autonomy and protection KU Leuven
In today's society, one notices a tendency towards greater autonomy for the individual. This trend can also be seen in relation to the protection of minors. The aim is to give minors a voice and the opportunity to have it heard. The focus of this study is on the autonomy of minors in health law. There are already a number of exceptions to the legal incapacity of minors in various regulations, such as patients law, abortion law, euthanasia ...
Stimulating sustainability in childhood. The effectiveness of communication strategies targeting children and adolescents to encourage sustainability Ghent University
In stimulating sustainable (and healthy) attitudes and behavior, it is important to start from a young age and to focus on minors. In that respect, children and adolescents are on the one hand an important primary (current and future) target group but also a secondary target group (for example, they influence their parents and peers). This research project therefore aims to investigate which (communication-) techniques (e.g. education, social ...