Stephanie H M Van Goozen
Biographic Data
| ID | 891067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie H M Van Goozen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie H M |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Goozen |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GOOZEN S H M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5983-4734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Associations between Parental Depression and Anxiety and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
Parental psychopathology can influence the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children through its effects on the emotional climate at home. Expressed Emotion (EE) is a measure of family climate that reflects the emotional quality of attributions parents make about their child and is proposed to be a transdiagnostic risk factor for the development of emotional and behavioral problems. The current study included children (N…
Atypical Facial Expressivity in Young Children with Problematic Peer Relationships
Peer problems are frequently associated with difficulties in recognizing and appraising the emotions of others. It has been argued that facial responsiveness to others' emotions-or motor empathy-is a precursor of emotion processing and affective empathy. Although mimicry impairments have been observed in studies of young people with conduct problems, to our knowledge no study has examined facial responsiveness to others' expressions in young chil…
Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life
Prenatal risk and a lack of inhibitory control have consistently been related to the development of physical aggression in older children. This study examined whether inhibitory control mediated the relation between prenatal risk and aggression in infants and toddlers. The role of gender in this mediation model was also examined. The sample consisted of 161 mother–child dyads (83 boys). A prenatal cumulative risk score was created from a number o…
Aggression in toddlerhood
Parental beliefs, parenting behavior, and precursors of theory of mind have been related uniquely to each other and to early aggression, but have not yet been studied simultaneously. The present study combined these risk factors in the prediction of aggression during toddlerhood using a sample of 152 mother–child dyads. At 20 months, mothers' parental beliefs (parental self‐efficacy and perceived parental impact) were examined with the Parental C…
How can we use knowledge about the neurobiology of emotion recognition in practice
Executive Attention and Empathy-Related Responses in Boys with Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder, With and Without Comorbid Anxiety Disorder
This is a first study that investigated the relationships between executive attention-as an important aspect of emotion regulation-and state empathy and sympathy in ODD/CD boys with (N = 31) and without (N = 18) comorbid anxiety disorder (7-12 years). Empathic reactions were evoked using three sadness-inducing film clips. One clip was highly evocative involving a bear cub losing his mother, whilst two other clips were mildly evocative involving c…
If You Go Down to the Woods Today
Infants’ emotional reactions to an unusual event were assessed at a simulated birthday party during which two costumed characters enacted a Teddy Bear's Picnic. Two hundred and fifty‐eight firstborn infants in a representative British community sample were observed at a mean age of 12.8 months in the presence of their parents and other participating families, in a laboratory sitting room decorated with balloons and banners. The picnic scenario wa…
Boys with Oppositional Defiant Disorder/Conduct Disorder Show Impaired Adaptation During Stress
Evidence for problems in executive functioning (EF) in children with oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder (ODD/CD) is mixed and the impact stress may have on EF is understudied. Working memory, sustained attention, inhibition and cognitive flexibility of boys with ODD/CD (n = 65) and non-clinical controls (n = 32) were examined under typical and stressful test conditions. Boys with ODD/CD showed impaired working memory under typical tes…
Prenatal Reflective Functioning and Accumulated Risk as Predictors of Maternal Interactive Behavior During Free Play, the Still‐Face Paradigm, and Two Teaching Tasks
This study examined whether prenatal reflective functioning ( RF ) was related to mothers’ interactive style across contexts with their 6‐month‐old infants ( M age = 6.02 months, SD = 0.41, 54% boys), and to what extent quality of prenatal RF could account for the influence of accumulated risk on maternal interactive behavior. Accumulated risk was defined as the sum‐score of a selection of risk factors that have been associated with suboptimal in…
Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile
The concept of maternal reflective functioning (RF) has been gaining increasing interest as a possible intermediate mechanism in associations between a wide range of psychosocial risk factors and poor child outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to determine which psychosocial risk factors are linked to prenatal RF in a high‐risk (HR) group of primiparous women. Differences in prenatal RF between the HR group and a low‐risk (LR) control g…
Emotions
Parental Speech at 6 Months Predicts Joint Attention at 12 Months
In a prospective longitudinal study of a representative community sample ( N = 264), mothers' references to infants' mental states were coded during a topic‐sharing task in the home at 6 months. Joint attention behaviour was assessed in the laboratory at 12 months. Individual joint attention skills (gaze following, gaze alternating, and declarative pointing) were significantly inter‐correlated, with a single factor accounting for 68% of the varia…
A feasibility study of short message service text messaging as a surveillance tool for alcohol consumption and vehicle for interventions in university students
The ubiquity of mobile telephones and the acceptability of text messaging suggests that this approach can be developed as a surveillance tool to collect high frequency consumption data to identify periods of vulnerability and that it can offer a platform through which targeted interventions can be delivered
Identifying early signs of aggression
Our aim was to develop an age‐appropriate measure of early manifestations of aggression. We constructed a questionnaire about normative developmental milestones into which a set of items measuring infants' use of physical force against people and expressed anger were included. These items comprise the Cardiff Infant Contentiousness Scale (CICS). Evidence for the reliability and validity of the CICS is provided from analyses of a sample of N =310 …
Prenatal Sex Hormones (Maternal and Amniotic Fluid) and Gender-related Play Behavior in 13-month-old Infants
The evidence for a neurobiological model of childhood antisocial behavior
Children with persistent antisocial and aggressive behavior are diagnosed as having disruptive behavior disorder. The authors review evidence that antisocial children, and especially those who persist with this behavior as they grow older, have a range of neurobiological characteristics. It is argued that serotonergic functioning and stress-regulating mechanisms are important in explaining individual differences in antisocial behavior. Moreover, …
Sex reassignment
Background. We prospectively studied outcomes of sex reassignment, potential differences between subgroups of transsexuals, and predictors of treatment course and outcome. Method. Altogether 325 consecutive adolescent and adult applicants for sex reassignment participated: 222 started hormone treatment, 103 did not; 188 completed and 34 dropped out of treatment. Only data of the 162 adults were used to evaluate treatment. Results between subgroup…
Preference for Aggressive and Sexual Stimuli in Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder and Normal Controls
Sex Reassignment of Adolescent Transsexuals
Psychoendocrinological Assessment of the Menstrual Cycle
Anger and aggression during role-playing
A role-playing study on anger was conducted in order to identify the influence of sex hormones on individual and gender differences in irritation, anger arousal, and aggression. Different groups were studied: female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals, with either group tested after 3 months of cross-sex hormone treatment, and untreated control women and men. All subjects were exposed to a 35-min videotape of an individual tested in an aversi…
Anger proneness in women
In the present series of studies existing hostility and anger trait questionnaires were examined. We found them to be unsuitable for our subjects and purpose, A new questionnaire based on novel principles, the Anger Situation Questionnaire (ASQ), was developed to measure anger proneness in women. The ASQ consists of 33 vignettes or scenarios, Each vignette has three dimensions: emotional experience, intensity of emotional experience, and action r…
Anger and aggression in women
We report on two studies of anger and aggression in women. One study concerns an experimental study of anger induction in aggressive and non-aggressive sportswomen. It was found that sports choice in itself, contrary to expectation, does not predict anger arousal and aggressive behavior in the laboratory. However, at an individual level the anger proneness of the subject, as measured by a questionnaire we developed, was related to the intensity o…
Anger and aggression in policewomen and administrative employees
Cet article etudie les phenomenes d'agression chez les employes des administrations et chez les policiers des deux sexes. Certaines enquetes montrent que les femmes seraient moins agressives que les hommes et leurs coleres moins frequentes et moins intenses. En definitive les tendances a la colere sont equivalentes entre les deux sexes et presentent une meme intensite. L'A. propose des resultats d'experience au cours desquelles on a place des suj…
Emotion words used in six European countries
To what extent are the more common emotion words in Western European languages equivalent? Some information on this question, which is relevant for cross cultural emotions research, is collected in the present study. Students from six Western European countries were asked to list all emotion words they could think of in 5 minutes. The most frequently mentioned categories were highly similar across samples. However, considerable differences in rel…
The evidence for a neurobiological model of childhood antisocial behavior
Children with persistent antisocial and aggressive behavior are diagnosed as having disruptive behavior disorder. The authors review evidence that antisocial children, and especially those who persist with this behavior as they grow older, have a range of neurobiological characteristics. It is argued that serotonergic functioning and stress-regulating mechanisms are important in explaining individual differences in antisocial behavior. Moreover, …
Psychoendocrinological Assessment of the Menstrual Cycle
Prenatal Sex Hormones (Maternal and Amniotic Fluid) and Gender-related Play Behavior in 13-month-old Infants
Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile
The concept of maternal reflective functioning (RF) has been gaining increasing interest as a possible intermediate mechanism in associations between a wide range of psychosocial risk factors and poor child outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to determine which psychosocial risk factors are linked to prenatal RF in a high‐risk (HR) group of primiparous women. Differences in prenatal RF between the HR group and a low‐risk (LR) control g…
Emotion words used in six European countries
To what extent are the more common emotion words in Western European languages equivalent? Some information on this question, which is relevant for cross cultural emotions research, is collected in the present study. Students from six Western European countries were asked to list all emotion words they could think of in 5 minutes. The most frequently mentioned categories were highly similar across samples. However, considerable differences in rel…
Preference for Aggressive and Sexual Stimuli in Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder and Normal Controls
Identifying early signs of aggression
Our aim was to develop an age‐appropriate measure of early manifestations of aggression. We constructed a questionnaire about normative developmental milestones into which a set of items measuring infants' use of physical force against people and expressed anger were included. These items comprise the Cardiff Infant Contentiousness Scale (CICS). Evidence for the reliability and validity of the CICS is provided from analyses of a sample of N =310 …
Anger and aggression in policewomen and administrative employees
Cet article etudie les phenomenes d'agression chez les employes des administrations et chez les policiers des deux sexes. Certaines enquetes montrent que les femmes seraient moins agressives que les hommes et leurs coleres moins frequentes et moins intenses. En definitive les tendances a la colere sont equivalentes entre les deux sexes et presentent une meme intensite. L'A. propose des resultats d'experience au cours desquelles on a place des suj…
Emotion words used in six European countries
To what extent are the more common emotion words in Western European languages equivalent? Some information on this question, which is relevant for cross cultural emotions research, is collected in the present study. Students from six Western European countries were asked to list all emotion words they could think of in 5 minutes. The most frequently mentioned categories were highly similar across samples. However, considerable differences in rel…
Anger proneness in women
In the present series of studies existing hostility and anger trait questionnaires were examined. We found them to be unsuitable for our subjects and purpose, A new questionnaire based on novel principles, the Anger Situation Questionnaire (ASQ), was developed to measure anger proneness in women. The ASQ consists of 33 vignettes or scenarios, Each vignette has three dimensions: emotional experience, intensity of emotional experience, and action r…
Anger and aggression in women
We report on two studies of anger and aggression in women. One study concerns an experimental study of anger induction in aggressive and non-aggressive sportswomen. It was found that sports choice in itself, contrary to expectation, does not predict anger arousal and aggressive behavior in the laboratory. However, at an individual level the anger proneness of the subject, as measured by a questionnaire we developed, was related to the intensity o…
Anger and aggression in policewomen and administrative employees
Cet article etudie les phenomenes d'agression chez les employes des administrations et chez les policiers des deux sexes. Certaines enquetes montrent que les femmes seraient moins agressives que les hommes et leurs coleres moins frequentes et moins intenses. En definitive les tendances a la colere sont equivalentes entre les deux sexes et presentent une meme intensite. L'A. propose des resultats d'experience au cours desquelles on a place des suj…
Anger and aggression during role-playing
A role-playing study on anger was conducted in order to identify the influence of sex hormones on individual and gender differences in irritation, anger arousal, and aggression. Different groups were studied: female-to-male and male-to-female transsexuals, with either group tested after 3 months of cross-sex hormone treatment, and untreated control women and men. All subjects were exposed to a 35-min videotape of an individual tested in an aversi…
Sex Reassignment of Adolescent Transsexuals
Psychoendocrinological Assessment of the Menstrual Cycle
Preference for Aggressive and Sexual Stimuli in Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder and Normal Controls
Sex reassignment
Background. We prospectively studied outcomes of sex reassignment, potential differences between subgroups of transsexuals, and predictors of treatment course and outcome. Method. Altogether 325 consecutive adolescent and adult applicants for sex reassignment participated: 222 started hormone treatment, 103 did not; 188 completed and 34 dropped out of treatment. Only data of the 162 adults were used to evaluate treatment. Results between subgroup…
The evidence for a neurobiological model of childhood antisocial behavior
Children with persistent antisocial and aggressive behavior are diagnosed as having disruptive behavior disorder. The authors review evidence that antisocial children, and especially those who persist with this behavior as they grow older, have a range of neurobiological characteristics. It is argued that serotonergic functioning and stress-regulating mechanisms are important in explaining individual differences in antisocial behavior. Moreover, …
Prenatal Sex Hormones (Maternal and Amniotic Fluid) and Gender-related Play Behavior in 13-month-old Infants
Identifying early signs of aggression
Our aim was to develop an age‐appropriate measure of early manifestations of aggression. We constructed a questionnaire about normative developmental milestones into which a set of items measuring infants' use of physical force against people and expressed anger were included. These items comprise the Cardiff Infant Contentiousness Scale (CICS). Evidence for the reliability and validity of the CICS is provided from analyses of a sample of N =310 …
Parental Speech at 6 Months Predicts Joint Attention at 12 Months
In a prospective longitudinal study of a representative community sample ( N = 264), mothers' references to infants' mental states were coded during a topic‐sharing task in the home at 6 months. Joint attention behaviour was assessed in the laboratory at 12 months. Individual joint attention skills (gaze following, gaze alternating, and declarative pointing) were significantly inter‐correlated, with a single factor accounting for 68% of the varia…
A feasibility study of short message service text messaging as a surveillance tool for alcohol consumption and vehicle for interventions in university students
The ubiquity of mobile telephones and the acceptability of text messaging suggests that this approach can be developed as a surveillance tool to collect high frequency consumption data to identify periods of vulnerability and that it can offer a platform through which targeted interventions can be delivered
Emotions
Prenatal Reflective Functioning in Primiparous Women With a High‐risk Profile
The concept of maternal reflective functioning (RF) has been gaining increasing interest as a possible intermediate mechanism in associations between a wide range of psychosocial risk factors and poor child outcomes. The purpose of the present study was to determine which psychosocial risk factors are linked to prenatal RF in a high‐risk (HR) group of primiparous women. Differences in prenatal RF between the HR group and a low‐risk (LR) control g…
Prenatal Reflective Functioning and Accumulated Risk as Predictors of Maternal Interactive Behavior During Free Play, the Still‐Face Paradigm, and Two Teaching Tasks
This study examined whether prenatal reflective functioning ( RF ) was related to mothers’ interactive style across contexts with their 6‐month‐old infants ( M age = 6.02 months, SD = 0.41, 54% boys), and to what extent quality of prenatal RF could account for the influence of accumulated risk on maternal interactive behavior. Accumulated risk was defined as the sum‐score of a selection of risk factors that have been associated with suboptimal in…
If You Go Down to the Woods Today
Infants’ emotional reactions to an unusual event were assessed at a simulated birthday party during which two costumed characters enacted a Teddy Bear's Picnic. Two hundred and fifty‐eight firstborn infants in a representative British community sample were observed at a mean age of 12.8 months in the presence of their parents and other participating families, in a laboratory sitting room decorated with balloons and banners. The picnic scenario wa…
Boys with Oppositional Defiant Disorder/Conduct Disorder Show Impaired Adaptation During Stress
Evidence for problems in executive functioning (EF) in children with oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder (ODD/CD) is mixed and the impact stress may have on EF is understudied. Working memory, sustained attention, inhibition and cognitive flexibility of boys with ODD/CD (n = 65) and non-clinical controls (n = 32) were examined under typical and stressful test conditions. Boys with ODD/CD showed impaired working memory under typical tes…
Executive Attention and Empathy-Related Responses in Boys with Oppositional Defiant Disorder or Conduct Disorder, With and Without Comorbid Anxiety Disorder
This is a first study that investigated the relationships between executive attention-as an important aspect of emotion regulation-and state empathy and sympathy in ODD/CD boys with (N = 31) and without (N = 18) comorbid anxiety disorder (7-12 years). Empathic reactions were evoked using three sadness-inducing film clips. One clip was highly evocative involving a bear cub losing his mother, whilst two other clips were mildly evocative involving c…
Prenatal risk and physical aggression during the first years of life
Prenatal risk and a lack of inhibitory control have consistently been related to the development of physical aggression in older children. This study examined whether inhibitory control mediated the relation between prenatal risk and aggression in infants and toddlers. The role of gender in this mediation model was also examined. The sample consisted of 161 mother–child dyads (83 boys). A prenatal cumulative risk score was created from a number o…
Aggression in toddlerhood
Parental beliefs, parenting behavior, and precursors of theory of mind have been related uniquely to each other and to early aggression, but have not yet been studied simultaneously. The present study combined these risk factors in the prediction of aggression during toddlerhood using a sample of 152 mother–child dyads. At 20 months, mothers' parental beliefs (parental self‐efficacy and perceived parental impact) were examined with the Parental C…
How can we use knowledge about the neurobiology of emotion recognition in practice
Atypical Facial Expressivity in Young Children with Problematic Peer Relationships
Peer problems are frequently associated with difficulties in recognizing and appraising the emotions of others. It has been argued that facial responsiveness to others' emotions-or motor empathy-is a precursor of emotion processing and affective empathy. Although mimicry impairments have been observed in studies of young people with conduct problems, to our knowledge no study has examined facial responsiveness to others' expressions in young chil…
Associations between Parental Depression and Anxiety and Children’s Internalizing and Externalizing Problems
Parental psychopathology can influence the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in children through its effects on the emotional climate at home. Expressed Emotion (EE) is a measure of family climate that reflects the emotional quality of attributions parents make about their child and is proposed to be a transdiagnostic risk factor for the development of emotional and behavioral problems. The current study included children (N…
Psychology (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Poison control (7 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Anger (6 works) · Aggression (5 works)