William J Burk

Datos Biográficos

ID238960
NOMBREWilliam J Burk
NOMBRESWilliam J
APELLIDOBurk
FIRMABURK W J
AFILIACIONESRadboud University Nijmegen
ORCID0000-0001-8788-0773
VERIFICADOSí
TOTAL DE OBRAS52
TOTAL DE CITAS338
TOTAL COMO AUTOR52
TOTAL COMO EDITOR0
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN2007
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2026
ÍNDICE H10

  • From Friends to Feelings

    Open AccessEline Camerman, Sofie Hendrix et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2026

  • Intertemporal Impatience Across Mental Health in a Community Sample

    Open AccessFloor Burghoorn, Karin Roelofs et al.ARTICLEJournal of Behavioral Decision…2026Referencias: 2

    Intertemporal impatience has been proposed to be centrally and transdiagnostically implicated across mental health difficulties, including maladaptive behaviors, psychopathologies, and other psychological outcomes. We empirically tested this proposal using a novel research approach that integrates per‐category , trans‐category , scale‐level , and item‐level analyses. First, we studied per‐category continuous associations between intertemporal imp…

  • Immediate Experiences and Short-Term Impact of Sociometric Assessment in Early Adolescence and Associations With Low Social Status

    Open AccessPedro Miguel González Moreno, William J Burk et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Early Adolescence2026Referencias: 3

    This study examined youths’ perceptions of sociometric assessments, and whether these perceptions were especially negative for youths with low social status. Participants were 598 primary and secondary school students (47% female, M age = 11.80 years, SD = 1.16) who completed a sociometric assessment and rated their immediate experiences with the assessment and its short-term impact one week later. Participants rated the sociometric assessment as…

  • Assessing youth's internal and external attributions to negative peer interactions and victimization—development of the Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences ( Cape ) scale

    Open AccessHannah Katharina Peetz, Tessa A M Lansu et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 4

    Many youth experience negative behavior from their peers, which can have lasting consequences for their social functioning and well-being. One mechanism through which negative interactions affect youth is causal attributions, that is, the interpretations that they make for why a negative interaction occurred. We present the newly developed CAPE (Causal Attributions for Peer Experiences) scale, which assesses youth's stable internal, unstable inte…

  • Friends' influence on Adolescents' loss of control eating

    Open AccessDesi Beckers, William J Burk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Research on Adolescence2025Citada por: 1Referencias: 8

    Friends' influence may importantly contribute to the development of adolescent disordered eating behaviors. However, little is known about the influence of friends on loss of control eating. This study investigated whether friend-reported loss of control eating was associated with changes in adolescents' own loss of control eating 1 year later and tested whether adolescents with lower self-esteem, higher fear of negative evaluation, and higher bo…

  • The development of food addiction symptoms and the role of mental health and sex among Indonesian adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic

    Open AccessEveline Sarintohe, Nina van den Broek et al.ARTICLEActa Psychologica2025Referencias: 2

  • The effect of a multi-component school-based social network intervention on children’s body mass index

    Open AccessMarloes A A Polman, Desi Beckers et al.ARTICLEPsychology & Health2024

    Objective: Schools are considered an important setting for stimulating healthy weight. The current study is unique in examining effects of a multi-component school-based social network intervention on children’s body mass index z-scores (zBMI).Methods: Four schools were randomly allocated to one of four conditions: a social network intervention using influence agents focusing on water consumption, physical activity, a combination of the two, or a…

  • Long‐term implications of childhood and adolescent popularity for social behavior and status in emerging adulthood

    Open AccessNina S Chmielowice‐Szymanski, Tessa A M Lansu et al.ARTICLESocial Development2024Referencias: 9

    Peer status is associated with social functioning throughout childhood and adolescence, but little is known about its’ long‐term implications. This study examined longitudinal associations of childhood and adolescent popularity with social behavior and status in emerging adulthood. In line with concurrent associations of popularity with social behavior, we hypothesized that childhood popularity would be associated with a positive, prosocial profi…

  • Perks of the Pandemic

    Open AccessMallory A Millett, Larry J Nelson et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2023

    Emerging adults were among those especially affected by the distancing measures and instability brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, not all emerging adults were affected equally. Thus, the purpose of this paper was to determine if different types of socially withdrawn emerging adults (shy, unsocial, avoidant, mixed-withdrawn) were affected differently from one another and from non-withdrawn emerging adults. Pandemic impact was measured …

  • Self-esteem and negative affectivity as mediators of the prospective links between adolescent interpersonal peer problems and disordered eating behaviors

    Open AccessDesi Beckers, Junilla K Larsen et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Referencias: 52

    The current prospective study examined whether both self-esteem and negative affectivity mediate subsequent associations between interpersonal peer problems (i.e., peer victimization, peer rejection, lack of friendships) and disordered eating behaviors (i.e., loss of control while overeating, emotional eating, restrained eating) in adolescents using secondary data. The sample included 2051 adolescents (Mage baseline = 13.81, SDage baseline = 0.72…

  • A longitudinal study on changes in food parenting practices during Covid-19 and the role of parental well-being

    Open AccessJunilla K Larsen, Nina van den Broek et al.ARTICLEAppetite2023Referencias: 40

    The COVID-19 pandemic may negatively influence food parenting practices, also among parents of adolescents. Parental well-being (stress and depressive symptoms) may explain these COVID-19 related changes in food parenting practices (snack structure, healthy structure, modeling, autonomy support, and coercive control). However, most previous studies performed before or during the COVID-19 pandemic have been limited by cross-sectional designs. The …

  • Process and effect evaluation of the app-based parenting program Samen Happie! on infant zBMI

    Open AccessLevie T Karssen, Junilla K Larsen et al.ARTICLEFrontiers in Public Health2022

    Background: Although energy balance-related parenting practices are regarded critical components in the prevention of childhood obesity, most programs targeting parenting practices with respect to a wide range of energy balance-related behaviors were not aimed at high-risk families with a lower socioeconomic position (SEP). Objective: app-based program aimed to stimulate healthy child weight development especially among families with a lower SEP,…

  • Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context

    Open AccessDawn Delay, William J Burk et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2022

    Higher accepted friends are known to influence the alcohol misuse of lower accepted friends, but not the reverse. The present study was designed to address the origins of this influence: Are higher accepted friends particularly influential or are lower accepted friends particularly susceptible to influence? To address this question, we introduce an innovative application of longitudinal social network techniques (RSIENA) designed to distinguish b…

  • Examining food intake similarities in adolescent best friend dyads using longitudinal Actor-Partner Interdependence Models

    Open AccessNina van den Broek, K De La Haye et al.ARTICLEAppetite2022Referencias: 56

    Little is known about how adolescent best friends may affect each other's food intake. This study explored whether friendship selection and socialization mechanisms explained potential food intake similarities in adolescent reciprocated best friend dyads. We also tested whether socialization processes were moderated by dyad member's relative zBMI. Members of 145 same-gender best friendship dyads (56% female; Mage = 12.79; SDage = 0.61) reported o…

  • With a little help from my empathic friends

    Marta Miklikowska, Lauree Tilton‐weaver et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Citada por: 6Referencias: 10

    Despite ample research on empathy development, its social origins have been understudied, particularly in the context of peer relations. This two-wave study of Swedish adolescents ( N = 318; M ageT1 = 16.28, SD = .49; 55% females) examined longitudinal associations between youth friendships and empathy. The results showed that adolescents befriended peers with similar levels of empathy and that, controlling for the initial similarity in empathy, …

  • A Longitudinal Social Network Perspective on Adolescents' Exposure to Violent Video Games and Aggression

    Open AccessGeert P Verheijen, William J Burk et al.ARTICLECyberpsychology Behavior and…2021

    Adolescents play video games as a social leisure activity, yet it is unclear whether peer influences play a role in spreading violent video game exposure (VVE) and aggression. It has been suggested that adolescents' aggression increases because of their friend's exposure to violent video games. This study tests this suggestion by using longitudinal social network analyses to investigate selection and socialization of aggression owing to VVE. A to…

  • Assessing children’s incremental word knowledge in the upper primary grades

    Open AccessIris Monster, Agnes Tellings et al.ARTICLELanguage Testing2021

    Word knowledge acquisition is an incremental process that relies on exposure. As a result, word knowledge can broadly range from recognizing the word’s lexical status, to knowing its meaning in context, and to knowing its meaning independent of context. The present study aimed to model incremental word knowledge in 1454 upper primary school children from grades 3 to 5 by investigating their abilities on three word knowledge tasks originating from…

  • Emerging Adults’ Mental Health During the Covid-19 Pandemic

    Open AccessYvonne H M Van Den Berg, William J Burk et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2021

    The aim of this longitudinal study was to investigate emerging adults' mental health before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether social support from mothers, fathers, and best friends moderated the change in mental health. Participants were 98 emerging adults (46% men) who were assessed prior to COVID-19 ( M age = 20.60 years) and during the first lockdown ( M age = 22.67 years). Results indicated that the pandemic did not uniformly lead…

  • Promoting water consumption among Dutch children

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca N H De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2021

    NTR, NL6905, Registered 9 January 2018, https://www.trialregister.nl/trial/6905

  • Promoting water consumption among children

    Open AccessCrystal R Smit, Rebecca Nh De Leeuw et al.ARTICLEPublic Health Nutrition2021

    Objective: To test the effectiveness of a social network intervention (SNI) to improve children’s healthy drinking behaviours. Design: A three-arm cluster randomised control trial design was used. In the SNI, a subset of children were selected and trained as ‘influence agents’ to promote water consumption–as an alternative to sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB)–among their peers. In the active control condition, all children were simultaneously expos…

  • Food parenting practices and children's weight outcomes

    Open AccessDesi Beckers, Levie T Karssen et al.ARTICLEAppetite2021

  • Comparing the measurement of different social networks

    Open AccessThabo J Van Woudenberg, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLENetwork Science2020Citada por: 5Referencias: 11

    Background: Technological progress has enabled researchers to use new unobtrusive measures of relationships between actors in social network analysis. However, research on how these unobtrusive measures of peer connections relate to traditional sociometric nominations in adolescents is scarce. Therefore, the current study compared traditional peer nominated networks with more unobtrusive measures of peer connections: Communication networks that c…

  • The functions of aggression in gaining, maintaining, and losing popularity during adolescence

    Yvonne H M Van Den Berg, William J Burk et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2019Citada por: 10Referencias: 5

    This study examined associations between perceived popularity trajectories and changes in proactive and reactive aggression in middle adolescence. The sample included 1,374 adolescents from 5 cohorts who were followed from Grade 7 to Grade 9 (49% males, M age = 12.67 years, SD = .67). Popularity trajectories were identified based on initial status and changes in status over time, and linear mixed effects models tested group differences in changes…

  • Youth’s social network structures and peer influences

    Open AccessKirsten E Bevelander, Crystal R Smit et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    The MyMovez project - Phase I is an innovative cross-sequential research project that investigates how social influences co-determine youth's energy intake and expenditure. This project utilizes advanced research technologies (Wearable Lab) that provide unique opportunities to better understand the underlying processes that impact youths' health-related behaviors. The project is theoretically and methodologically pioneering and produces a unique …

  • A randomized controlled trial testing a social network intervention to promote physical activity among adolescents

    Open AccessThabo J Van Woudenberg, Kirsten E Bevelander et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2018

    Dutch Trial Registry (NTR): NTR6173 . Registered 5 October 2016 Study procedures were approved by the Ethics Committee of the Radboud University (ECSW2014-100614-222)