Research projects
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STEPS: Storytelling's Transformative effects on Empathy and Prosocial Skills
This innovative project investigates the effects of storytelling on empathy and prosocial behaviour in children aged 3 to 6 years.
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Alcohol Use in Dutch University Students
This project aims to understand students' drinking motives and investigates (bidirectional) relationships of alcohol use with academic achievement and mental well-being. It uses the longitudinal Healthy Student Life dataset.
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SOSIAL
In this project, the IkPas intervention (one month of no alcohol) will be adjusted to better fit with the social context of students. This will help lower social drinking norms and reduce excessive alcohol consumption among students
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Young adolescents' social development in relation to digital media
This project aims to gain insight into how digital media use, key persons and individual differences affect the social development of young adolescents' in the age of 12 to 14.
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Unhealthy eating in young adults
This project investigates factors affecting eating behaviours, such as stress, physical activity, and BMI. Additionally, this project seeks to design interventions targeting food cravings and unhealthy eating behaviours.
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G(F)OOD together (corona-)project
Survey waves were administered among adolescents and their parents both before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to gain insight into how friends and parents influence adolescents' mental health and lifestyle.
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Green Gen Z
Climate change is a global crisis. Many adolescents and young adults are concerned about their future. How is the climate crisis affecting youth? And (how) are they trying to live sustainably?
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The Impact of Internet and Social Media Use on University Students’ Mental Health.
A PhD project on the associations between internet/social media use and university students’ mental health, using the longitudinal Healthy Student Life dataset and additional data regarding social media use.
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Lifestyle and Well-being of University Students
Healthy Student Life is a Radboud-wide research project on student well-being.
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Trajectories of heavy alcohol use during the transition to emerging adulthood
This PhD project aims to develop an integrative model of resilience to heavy drinking in emerging adulthood. This model will focus on two key resilience mechanisms (cognitive control and emotion regulation).
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Emotion differentiation
This project attempts to answer how emotion differentiation (ED) facilitates effective emotion regulation, develops over adolescence, and contributes to psychopathology.
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‘Samen Happie!’
the main aim of this project is to develop and test the Samen Happie! app, in which both healthy parenting practices (related to the main risk factors of energy intake and expenditure) and parenting are manipulated to prevent early childhood obesity.
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Multiple Alliances in Practice
This research intends to explore the potential of various methods to measure multiple alliances, create a methodological toolkit suitable for the therapeutic context, and subsequently empower practitioners to measure their own alliances in practice.
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Detour
Detour is a mobile intervention to help young people quit smoking. Detour can be used as a game to distract from cravings, for goal making and monitoring, and as a platform for social support.