Mona Bekkhus
Biographic Data
| ID | 212721 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mona Bekkhus |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mona |
| FAMILY NAME | Bekkhus |
| SIGNATURE | BEKKHUS M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4447-8909 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Determinants of Parental Emotion Socialization Behaviors
Parental emotion socialization behaviors (ESBs) are essential for child development and are typically understood as influenced by factors related to three domains: the parent, the child, and the family context. However, it remains unclear how parents' childhood experiences with ESBs should be represented within these conceptual frameworks. Addressing the complexity of ESBs, the present study examined predictors across three theoretically derived …
Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting
Background It has long been hypothesized that increasing heritability with age of cognitive and educational performance is partly attributable to evocative gene–environment correlation. However, this hypothesis has not been widely tested. Methods We addressed this gap by examining whether children's education polygenic scores ( PGS edu ) were associated with maternal self‐reported positive and literacy‐focused parenting when children were 5 years…
Student–teacher relationships as a mediator of children's education‐linked genetics
Background Genetic differences are robustly associated with educational outcomes, but how they become linked is poorly understood. A plausible hypothesis, yet to be thoroughly empirically tested, is that the school environment mediates the association. Methods Using structural equation models, we tested whether the student–teacher relationship at age 5 (teacher‐reported Student–Teacher Relationship Scale) mediated the association between children…
Childhood internalising symptoms at ages 3 and 6
BACKGROUND: Pre- and postpartum environments and genetic effects influence childhood internalising problems, which increase depression risk. DNA methylation (DNAm) may capture some of these effects. We therefore investigated associations between child blood DNAm and internalising problems. METHODS: We meta-analysed probe and region-level epigenome-wide association studies using data from 3 European birth cohorts (ALSPAC, MoBa, Generation R; analy…
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood
Objective Aiming to broaden our understanding of parental gender differences within the framework of attachment theory, this study explores how parents' prenatal attachment styles relate to parenting stress, parent–infant interaction, and paternity leave, by investigating how attachment styles and gender interact to predict parenting outcomes. Background The attachment system is at the core of parental adjustments during the perinatal period, und…
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in preschoolers and mental health outcomes in adolescence
Evidence on how co-occurrent internalizing difficulties (ID) and aggression in early childhood influence mental health in adolescence is rather limited. Moreover, despite known heterogeneity in symptoms and comorbidities, sex differences in the association between early childhood difficulties and adolescent mental health remain largely unexplored. We investigated these gaps with data from the prospective Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort …
Fathers’ prenatal risk and infant mental health
039) symptoms. Paternal self-reported warmth predicted lower externalizing symptoms, but no association was found for internalizing symptoms. Neither self-reported nor observed paternal warmth was found to moderate the relation between paternal prenatal risk and infant externalizing or internalizing symptoms, suggesting that paternal warmth may not serve as a single protective factor in buffering the potential detrimental effects of paternal cumu…
Does expectant fathers' attachment style or depressive mood relate to their embodied mentalizing capacity of their 12-month-old infant
Alcohol Use and Parental Socialization of Emotion in a Population-Based Sample
The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood
This study examined longitudinal development of prosocial behavior, assessed by the parent-reported Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire, and inhibitory control, measured by the Opposite Worlds Task, in a sample aged 9 and 12 years (n = 9468, 49.9% girls, 85.8% White) from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The goal was to assess whether the level of prosocial behavior at age 9 relates to change in inhibitory control, and vice …
Unveiling Adolescent Suicidality
Adolescent suicide attempts are on the rise, presenting a significant public health concern. Recent research aimed at improving risk assessment for adolescent suicide attempts has turned to machine learning. But no studies to date have examined the performance of stacked ensemble algorithms, which are more suitable for low-prevalence conditions. The existing machine learning-based research also lacks population-representative samples, overlooks p…
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood
The goal of this prospective longitudinal study was to explore whether co-occurrent internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood convey increased risk for later mental health problems in middle childhood. Participants were mothers from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), who provided assessments of child internalizing difficulties and aggression at ages 3 years ( n = 54,644; 26,750 girls) and 5 years ( n = …
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood
Shyness is a temperamental trait that shares considerable conceptual overlap with aspects of internalizing problems, creating difficulties in operationalizing and assessing these two constructs and their association. This study addresses these issues by employing network analyses. Participants were, white, N = 555 children (M age = 52.45 months, SD = 15.96, 55% girls) followed longitudinally over 4 years (2016–2010) in Norway. Teachers rated chil…
Becoming Dad
How expectant fathers think and feel about the unborn child (prenatal representations), has shown associations with fathers' postnatal parenting behaviors, observed father-infant interactional quality and child cognitive development. There is limited knowledge about fathers' prenatal representations. The present study examined if fathers' partner-related attachment styles were related to their prenatal representations of the unborn child. In the …
Examining launch and snare effects in the longitudinal associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties in childhood
In the present study, we examine short‐ and long‐term associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties from early to middle childhood. Participants in this study were part of the Matter of the First Friendship Study (MOFF), a large‐scale multi‐wave longitudinal study. At Time 1, N = 555 4‐year‐old children were recruited from childcare centers and followed across four data collections. At four timepoints of data collection, teachers …
Unveiling Adolescent Suicidality
Adolescent suicide attempts are on the rise, presenting a significant public health concern. Recent research aimed at improving risk assessment for adolescent suicide attempts has turned to machine learning. But no studies to date have examined the performance of stacked ensemble algorithms, which are more suitable for low-prevalence conditions. The existing machine learning-based research also lacks population-representative samples, overlooks p…
Examining launch and snare effects in the longitudinal associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties in childhood
In the present study, we examine short‐ and long‐term associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties from early to middle childhood. Participants in this study were part of the Matter of the First Friendship Study (MOFF), a large‐scale multi‐wave longitudinal study. At Time 1, N = 555 4‐year‐old children were recruited from childcare centers and followed across four data collections. At four timepoints of data collection, teachers …
Examining launch and snare effects in the longitudinal associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties in childhood
In the present study, we examine short‐ and long‐term associations between shyness and socio‐emotional difficulties from early to middle childhood. Participants in this study were part of the Matter of the First Friendship Study (MOFF), a large‐scale multi‐wave longitudinal study. At Time 1, N = 555 4‐year‐old children were recruited from childcare centers and followed across four data collections. At four timepoints of data collection, teachers …
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood and risk of mental health problems in middle childhood
The goal of this prospective longitudinal study was to explore whether co-occurrent internalizing difficulties and aggression in early childhood convey increased risk for later mental health problems in middle childhood. Participants were mothers from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa), who provided assessments of child internalizing difficulties and aggression at ages 3 years ( n = 54,644; 26,750 girls) and 5 years ( n = …
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood
Shyness is a temperamental trait that shares considerable conceptual overlap with aspects of internalizing problems, creating difficulties in operationalizing and assessing these two constructs and their association. This study addresses these issues by employing network analyses. Participants were, white, N = 555 children (M age = 52.45 months, SD = 15.96, 55% girls) followed longitudinally over 4 years (2016–2010) in Norway. Teachers rated chil…
Becoming Dad
How expectant fathers think and feel about the unborn child (prenatal representations), has shown associations with fathers' postnatal parenting behaviors, observed father-infant interactional quality and child cognitive development. There is limited knowledge about fathers' prenatal representations. The present study examined if fathers' partner-related attachment styles were related to their prenatal representations of the unborn child. In the …
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood
This study examined longitudinal development of prosocial behavior, assessed by the parent-reported Strength and Difficulty Questionnaire, and inhibitory control, measured by the Opposite Worlds Task, in a sample aged 9 and 12 years (n = 9468, 49.9% girls, 85.8% White) from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The goal was to assess whether the level of prosocial behavior at age 9 relates to change in inhibitory control, and vice …
Unveiling Adolescent Suicidality
Adolescent suicide attempts are on the rise, presenting a significant public health concern. Recent research aimed at improving risk assessment for adolescent suicide attempts has turned to machine learning. But no studies to date have examined the performance of stacked ensemble algorithms, which are more suitable for low-prevalence conditions. The existing machine learning-based research also lacks population-representative samples, overlooks p…
Alcohol Use and Parental Socialization of Emotion in a Population-Based Sample
The nature of the relation between mental well-being and ill-being
Determinants of Parental Emotion Socialization Behaviors
Parental emotion socialization behaviors (ESBs) are essential for child development and are typically understood as influenced by factors related to three domains: the parent, the child, and the family context. However, it remains unclear how parents' childhood experiences with ESBs should be represented within these conceptual frameworks. Addressing the complexity of ESBs, the present study examined predictors across three theoretically derived …
Evocative effects of children's education‐associated genetics on maternal parenting
Background It has long been hypothesized that increasing heritability with age of cognitive and educational performance is partly attributable to evocative gene–environment correlation. However, this hypothesis has not been widely tested. Methods We addressed this gap by examining whether children's education polygenic scores ( PGS edu ) were associated with maternal self‐reported positive and literacy‐focused parenting when children were 5 years…
Student–teacher relationships as a mediator of children's education‐linked genetics
Background Genetic differences are robustly associated with educational outcomes, but how they become linked is poorly understood. A plausible hypothesis, yet to be thoroughly empirically tested, is that the school environment mediates the association. Methods Using structural equation models, we tested whether the student–teacher relationship at age 5 (teacher‐reported Student–Teacher Relationship Scale) mediated the association between children…
Childhood internalising symptoms at ages 3 and 6
BACKGROUND: Pre- and postpartum environments and genetic effects influence childhood internalising problems, which increase depression risk. DNA methylation (DNAm) may capture some of these effects. We therefore investigated associations between child blood DNAm and internalising problems. METHODS: We meta-analysed probe and region-level epigenome-wide association studies using data from 3 European birth cohorts (ALSPAC, MoBa, Generation R; analy…
Parental Gender and Adult Attachment Style in the Transition to Parenthood
Objective Aiming to broaden our understanding of parental gender differences within the framework of attachment theory, this study explores how parents' prenatal attachment styles relate to parenting stress, parent–infant interaction, and paternity leave, by investigating how attachment styles and gender interact to predict parenting outcomes. Background The attachment system is at the core of parental adjustments during the perinatal period, und…
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in preschoolers and mental health outcomes in adolescence
Evidence on how co-occurrent internalizing difficulties (ID) and aggression in early childhood influence mental health in adolescence is rather limited. Moreover, despite known heterogeneity in symptoms and comorbidities, sex differences in the association between early childhood difficulties and adolescent mental health remain largely unexplored. We investigated these gaps with data from the prospective Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort …
Fathers’ prenatal risk and infant mental health
039) symptoms. Paternal self-reported warmth predicted lower externalizing symptoms, but no association was found for internalizing symptoms. Neither self-reported nor observed paternal warmth was found to moderate the relation between paternal prenatal risk and infant externalizing or internalizing symptoms, suggesting that paternal warmth may not serve as a single protective factor in buffering the potential detrimental effects of paternal cumu…
Does expectant fathers' attachment style or depressive mood relate to their embodied mentalizing capacity of their 12-month-old infant
Developmental psychology (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 works) · Anxiety (6 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (6 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Mental health (5 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (4 works) · Attachment theory (3 works) · Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression (3 works)