Facilitators of intergenerational similarity in social and political attitudes: the role of discussion, sophistication, ...
status: Published online
“I Grew Up Amidst Alcohol and Drugs:” a Qualitative Study on the Lived Experiences of Parental Substance Use Among Adult...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Experiencing parental substance use (PSU) has been associated with a heightened risk of developing substance use disorders (SUDs) in offspring. The primary goal of this study was to explore perspectives of adult children with lived experience of PSU who also developed SUDs themselves through first-hand experience. This study was conducted in Flande...
Global, regional, and national minimum estimates of children affected by COVID-19-associated orphanhood and caregiver de...
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BACKGROUND: In the 6 months following our estimates from March 1, 2020, to April 30, 2021, the proliferation of new coronavirus variants, updated mortality data, and disparities in vaccine access increased the amount of children experiencing COVID-19-associated orphanhood. To inform responses, we aimed to model the increases in numbers of children ...
Children's resilience during Covid‐19 confinement : a child's perspective : which general and media coping strategies ar...
This study explored how children (9-13 years old) coped with the uncertain situation during the first Covid-19 confinement period (Spring 2020) and whether media helped them handle the situation. Based on a survey among 667 West-European (Belgian) children, we concluded that children used various strategies to cope with the situation. Seeking socia...
Psychopathic personality configurations in early childhood : a response to Dvoskin et al. (2022)
Dvoskin et al. (2022) offered a cautionary comment on an article published in the Journal of Personality Disorders (Lopez-Romero et al., 2021). This comment was focused on the scientific and policy grounds of our study, and cautioned against the use of the "putative psychopathic personality" label for applied purposes. While we agree with most of t...
Testing the predictive and incremental validity of callous-unemotional traits versus the multidimensional psychopathy co...
This study aimed to test the predictive and incremental value of psychopathic trait dimensions in early child-hood. To this end, a callous-unemotional (CU)-based approach was compared to the multidimensional psycho-pathic personality approach in predicting future and stable conduct problems (CP) and aggression, whilst controlling for well-establish...
Worries and Benefit Finding in Cancer Survivors and Parents: A Longitudinal Study
OBJECTIVE: The interplay and longitudinal associations between positive and negative illness-related experiences in childhood cancer survivors and their families remain unclear. Therefore, benefit finding, cancer-related worries, depressive symptoms, and life satisfaction were prospectively investigated in childhood cancer survivors and parents. Di...
Formative Assessment of Social-Emotional Skills Using Rubrics: A Review of Knowns and Unknowns
Published in Frontiers in Education
Educational practitioners have been increasingly interested in the use of formative assessment and rubrics to develop social-emotional skills in children and adolescents. Although social-emotional rubrics are nowadays commonly used, a thorough evaluation of their psychometric properties has not been conducted. In this scoping review, we examine the...
It's all in the details: An investigation of the subcomponents of narrative coherence in relation to mental health
status: published
Burden of non-communicable diseases in Cyprus, 1990–2017: findings from the Global Burden of Disease 2017 study
Published in Archives of Public Health
BackgroundNon-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for over 90% of all deaths in the Cypriot population, in 2018. However, a detailed and comprehensive overview of the impact of NCDs on population health of Cyprus over the period of 1990 to 2017, expressed in disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), is currently not available. Knowledge about the ...
