Is it a Mission Impossible for Parents to be Constructively Involved in Adolescents’ Social Media Use? A Comprehensive and Dynamic Examination of Parents’ Role in Conjunction with Peer Influences

Pressured parenthood: Investigating self-compassion as an antidote to the toxic influence of social pressures, parental perfectionism, and infants’ early self-regulatory problems.

Doctoral project Dorien Wuyts

Doctoral project Elien Mabbe

Doctoral project Liesbet Boone

Don't Let the Pressure Get to You! Antecedents and Consequences of Coping with Controlling Parenting and Teaching

Do students' mindset and motivation matter beyond intelligence? A longitudinal, multi-informant and intervention-based approach among (non-)cognitively gifted students.

People as active managers of their own psychological needs: The role of need crafting in need-based experiences and mental health.

The role of parental reflective functioning in parents' stress, autonomy-relevant parenting, and socio-emotional development in children and adolescents

The role of parents in adolescents' gaming and online gambling: Effects of parental mediation and communication styles

Towards a better understanding of the roots of controlling parenting in the 21st century: The role of societal beliefs about today’s youth, parents' psychosocial functioning, and intergenerational processes

Doctoral project Katrijn Brenning

Parenthood as a Developmental Journey: The Role of Parental Identity in Parents’ Well-being and Early Parenting

Pressured parenthood: Investigating self-compassion as an antidote to the toxic influence of social pressures, parental perfectionism, and infants’ early self-regulatory problems.

The Motivation Barometer during the COVID-19 crisis in Belgium: the role of basic needs, risk perception and motivation in predicting behavior and well-being

Towards a better understanding of parental burnout in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder or cerebral palsy: A multi-method, multi-informant approach

Unlocking potential. Enhancing motivation and engagement of cognitively gifted students in regular secondary school settings

Unraveling the link between social media use and sleep: an encompassing, multi-method examination of the role of psychological need satisfaction

Does child and adolescent personality moderate the effects of autonomy-supportive and controlling contexts?

Emergency Supportive parenting in children with Down syndrome, cerebral palsy or autism spectrum disorder: the search for keys to a better parent support

Gam(e)(a)ble: Interdisciplinary research on the blurring lines between gaming and gambling among teenagers

‘Help, my teacher is pressuring me!’ Antecedents and consequences of students’ coping responses to controlling teaching

How do people respond to life transitions that threaten the need for relatedness? The role of security of attachment.

Illuminating Bright and Dark Sides of Parenting a Child With Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy or Autism Spectrum Disorder: Evaluating Need-satisfaction and -Frustration as Keys to Well- and Ill-being in Parents and Their Children.

Motivational dynamics behind personal standards perfectionism: A self-determination theory perspective.

One day is not the other when it comes to parenting an adolescent: A dynamic, trait-state perspective on autonomy-relevant parenting in adolescence

Parenting and parenthood in a changing world

Perfectionism as a risk factor for eating disorders in adolescents: examining mediation processes

Pink cloud or baby blues? The role of emotion regulation and attachment in first-time parents’ response to stress during the transition to parenthood.

TALENT: Talloring eduction and care to talents of youth

Unraveling the Motivational and Emotional Mechanisms Underlying the Relationship Between Dependency, Self-Criticism, and Adolescent Depression

What you see is not always what you get. Individual differences in adolescent perceptions of parenting and associations with adolescent adjustment

Antecedents of parental autonomy- support and psychological control: A longitudinal and experimental appraoch.

Can adolescents maximize the benefits of social media while limiting the consequences for poor sleep? A theory-driven and person-centered examination of qualitatively different motivations for social media use.

Emerging Adulthood: The Time of Your Life

“Every child is a winner”: Developing competence that promotes lifelong engagement in physical activity?

Fostering Well-being among Early Adolescents: Testing a Need Crafting Prevention Program

How Can Adolescents Proactively Manage Their Own Lives? The Role of Need Crafting in Adolescents’ Psychosocial Adjustment

Nurturing adolescent adjustment in school and during leisure time: Testing the effectiveness of an ABC-mental health program

Towards a better understanding of parental burnout in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder or cerebral palsy: A multi-method, multi-informant approach

Towards a better understanding of parental burnout in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder or cerebral palsy: A multi-method, multi-informant approach

What kind of parent do I want to be? The role of parental identity in first-time parents‟ well-being and early parenting

Promoting Voluntary Motivation to Adhere to Corona Measures and Supporting Individuals’ Psychological Need Satisfaction as a Source of Resilience

Unraveling the link between social media use and sleep: an encompassing, multi-method examination of the role of psychological need satisfaction