Elsje Van Bergen

Biographic Data

ID1751849
NAMEElsje Van Bergen
GIVEN NAMESElsje
FAMILY NAMEVan Bergen
SIGNATUREVAN BERGEN E
AFFILIATIONSVrije Universiteit Amsterdam
ORCID0000-0002-5860-5745
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS35
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • The intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children's word reading development

    Open AccessGermán Grande, Tonje Amland et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Psychology and…2025

    BACKGROUND: Numerous studies have investigated the associations between the home literacy environment (HLE) and children's word reading skills. However, these associations may partly reflect shared genetic factors since parents provide both the reading environment and their child's genetic predisposition to reading. Hence, the relationship between the HLE and children's reading is genetically confounded. To address this, parents' reading abilitie…

  • Interaction of family SES with children’s genetic propensity for cognitive and noncognitive skills

    Open AccessGaia Ghirardi, Carlos J Gil-Hernández et al.ARTICLEResearch in Social Stratification…2024Cited by: 2References: 10

    This study examines the role of genes and environments in predicting educational outcomes. We test the Scarr-Rowe hypothesis, suggesting that enriched environments enable genetic potential to unfold, and the compensatory advantage hypothesis, proposing that low genetic endowments have less impact on education for children from high socioeconomic status (SES) families. We use a pre-registered design with Netherlands Twin Register data (426 ≤ N ind…

  • Genetic associations between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement over development

    Open AccessMargherita Malanchini, Andrea G Allegrini et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024References: 72

    Non-cognitive skills, such as motivation and self-regulation, are partly heritable and predict academic achievement beyond cognitive skills. However, how the relationship between non-cognitive skills and academic achievement changes over development is unclear. The current study examined how cognitive and non-cognitive skills are associated with academic achievement from ages 7 to 16 years in a sample of over 10,000 children from England and Wale…

  • More than nature and nurture, indirect genetic effects on children's academic achievement are consequences of dynastic social processes

    Open AccessMichel G Nivard, Daniel W Belsky et al.ARTICLENature Human Behaviour2024Cited by: 6References: 39

  • Language and reading impairments are associated with increased prevalence of non-right-handedness

    Open AccessFilippo Abbondanza, Philip S Dale et al.ARTICLEChild Development2023

    Handedness has been studied for association with language-related disorders because of its link with language hemispheric dominance. No clear pattern has emerged, possibly because of small samples, publication bias, and heterogeneous criteria across studies. Non-right-handedness (NRH) frequency was assessed in N = 2503 cases with reading and/or language impairment and N = 4316 sex-matched controls identified from 10 distinct cohorts (age range 6–…

  • Is Parental Mathematics Anxiety Associated with Young Children’s Arithmetical Performance

    Open AccessElien Bellon, Elsje Van Bergen et al.ARTICLEEducation Sciences2022

    It has been suggested that parental mathematics anxiety may influence their children’s mathematics anxiety, attitudes, and performance. It remains an open question whether these parent-child associations differ by parental sex or parental involvement. We tested 249 Dutch-speaking Belgian participants, forming 83 (biological) mother–father–child trios. The 83 children (age: M = 5.74; SD = 0.30) attended Kindergarten. We tested their nonsymbolic co…

  • Intergenerational transmission of body mass index and associations with educational attainment

    Open AccessHekmat Alrouh, Elsje Van Bergen et al.ARTICLEBMC Public Health2022

    The intergenerational transmission for BMI and EA is mainly predictive within traits. Significant spousal and within person correlations in the parental generation are responsible for the effect of parental EA on offspring BMI. Offspring EA and BMI are further correlated beyond parental influences

  • Prevention of reading difficulties in children with and without familial risk

    Haytske Zijlstra, Elsje Van Bergen et al.ARTICLEJournal of Educational Psychology2021

    In a randomized-controlled trial we tested a computer-assisted intervention for the prevention of reading difficulties, delivered by nonprofessional tutors, running from kindergarten to halfway Grade 2. The full sample included 123 prereaders (M = 5; 6 years; 56 intervention; 67 controls) with low preliteracy skills. Parents were sent a questionnaire to assess family risk (FR) for reading difficulties. There was no intervention effect in the full…

  • How Are Practice and Performance Related? Development of Reading From Age 5 to 15

    Open AccessElsje Van Bergen, Kati Vasalampi et al.ARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2021Cited by: 7References: 57

    Does reading a lot lead to better reading skills, or does reading a lot follow from high initial reading skills? The authors present a longitudinal study of how much children choose to read and how well they decode and comprehend texts. This is the first study to examine the codevelopment of print exposure with both fluency and comprehension throughout childhood using autocorrelations. Print exposure was operationalized as children’s amount of in…

  • Unraveling the Relation Between Reading Comprehension and Print Exposure

    Open AccessFlorina Erbeli, Elsje Van Bergen et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    The purpose of this study was to test the directionality of influence between reading comprehension (RC) and print exposure (PE), thereby estimating genetic and environmental effects of this relation. The sample consisted of 910 twins in fourth through ninth grades (Mage = 12.33 years, SD = 1.41) from the Florida Twin Project on Reading, Behavior, and Environment. Using direction-of-causation model in a twin design, results supported a direction …

  • The association of parent-reported executive functioning, reading, and math is explained by nature, not nurture

    Open AccessMia C Daucourt, Rasheda Haughbrook et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2020

    According to the hybrid model (van Bergen, van der Leij, & de Jong, 2014), the significant association among executive functioning (EF), reading, and math may be partially explained by parent-reported EF's role as a common risk and/or protective factor in reading and math (dis)abilities. The current study used a sample of 434 twin pairs ( M age = 12.12) from Florida to conduct genetically sensitive modeling on children's parent-reported EF, readi…

  • Cross-domain associations of key cognitive correlates of early reading and early arithmetic in 5-year-olds

    Open AccessKiran Vanbinst, Elsje Van Bergen et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2019Cited by: 2References: 5

  • Why Are Home Literacy Environment and Children's Reading Skills Associated? What Parental Skills Reveal

    Open AccessElsje Van Bergen, Titia van Zuijen et al.ARTICLEReading Research Quarterly2017Cited by: 18References: 36

    Associations between home literacy environment and children's reading ability are often assumed to reflect a direct influence. However, heritability could account for the association between parent and child literacy‐related measures. We used data from 101 mother/father/child triads to consider the extent to which associations between home literacy and children's reading fluency could be accounted for by parental reading fluency. Although home li…