Stijn Van Petegem
Biographic Data
| ID | 235220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stijn Van Petegem |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stijn |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Petegem |
| SIGNATURE | VAN PETEGEM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Libre de Bruxelles |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9956-0363 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 45 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 227 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 45 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Adolescent Reports of Demanding and Responsive Features in Helicopter and Overprotective Parenting: Divergence of Correlations With Indicators of Adjustment
INTRODUCTION: Research collecting data from parents has found that helicopter parenting (HP) and overprotective parenting (OP) of their adolescents can be reformed to identify two features: demanding and responsive overparenting (Ryan et al. 2024). The correlations of these features with other measures were also found to differ, with demanding overparenting uniquely correlated with parent reports of less positive parenting and poorer youth adjust…
Framing adolescent sexting: How media discourses influence parents’ attitudes and practices towards sexting
In recent years, adolescent sexting has garnered popular media attention that often frames it as a new societal concern for the youth, heightening parents’ worries. While a risk-focused, deviance discourse emphasizes the dangers of sexting, an alternative normalcy discourse suggests that it can be part of adolescents’ sexual development and intimate communication. However, little is known about how different media portrayals of sexting shape pare…
Contemporary parenting norms and coparenting coordination: Exploring narratives of parents of adolescents
Exploring mothers' experiences and perceptions in a group‐based parenting program: A qualitative study
Perspectives on gendered parenting beliefs in Georgia: A mixed-methods approach
Political and economic transitions have profound impacts on societies, influencing gender ideologies, including gendered beliefs about parenting. This article examines such gendered parenting beliefs in Georgia, a post-Soviet country that has undergone significant socio-economic transformations in recent decades. Using a quantitative survey-based study ( N = 398), we investigate the relationship between age and other demographic variables and gen…
“Sometimes relationships with parents wear you out”. A qualitative study on teachers’ perceptions of the parent-teacher relationship in current times
A Person-Centered Study on Parental Responsiveness and Overprotection: Associations With Socio-Economic Pressures
Abundant research documented the importance of the quality of parenting, with responsive parenting typically being associated with better youth cognitive, psychological, and social development outcomes and overprotective parenting being related to developmental difficulties. At the same time, it is essential to consider how excessively high parenting standards and economic pressures can affect the parenting practices that parents may adopt. Using…
Overprotective Parenting: Examining pressures to be perfect, social media comparisons, world instability and parent anxiety
Background and Objectives Overprotective parenting (OP) is defined as parents' inclination to take over children's tasks, overinvolvement in children's self‐direction and decision‐making, and interfering in age‐appropriate autonomy. Past studies have focused on impacts of OP on child mental health and well‐being, but few have considered what social circumstances could produce parents' OP. The aim of the current study was to investigate parents' p…
Measurement invariance of the anxious protection subscale the short version of the multidimensional overprotective parenting scale (AP-s-Mops) in Chinese and Belgian adolescents
Love, Money and Involved Parenting? Associations Between Parents’ Perceptions of Economic Inequality, Financial Scarcity, and Their School Involvement
“Be careful, it's dangerous out there”: Threat beliefs, anxiety, and mindfulness in overprotective parenting
When Sexting Becomes “Sexteen”: Exploring Parental Representations and Regulations of Adolescent Sexting
Momma Knows Best: The Relationships Between Mothers' and Fathers' Gender Essentialism and Their Involvement With Their Adolescents
Gender essentialism refers to the belief that men and women are biologically better fitted for different societal roles, including parental roles. Past research has shown that parents' gender essentialist beliefs are associated with the division of parental responsibilities. This study examined the relationships between gender essentialist beliefs and parents' engagement in positive (responsiveness and autonomy support) and negative (overprotecti…
Bringing Children in a Burning World?” The Role of Climate Anxiety and Threat Perceptions in Childbearing Motivations of Emerging Adults in Switzerland
This research investigates the relation between climate anxiety, threat perceptions for future generations, and childbearing motivations in childless emerging adults. Using a sample of 1211 Swiss college students aged 18–25, the study explores if threat perceptions mediate the relationship between climate anxiety and childbearing motivations. Results from structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that climate anxiety significantly predicted gr…
Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation
The present study sought to examine the underlying mechanisms through which overprotective parenting relates to social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Specifically, we tested whether the adolescents' emotion regulation strategies of dysregulation, suppression, and integration, played an intervening role in the association between perceived maternal and paternal overprotection and social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. A sample of 278 Swiss adol…
The Relations Between Parents' Gender Equality Values and (co)parenting: Examining Actor-Partner Effects in an Australian Community Sample
In most Western societies, parents' gender roles and values have shifted significantly over the past decades. However, it is not yet clear whether parents' gender-related values impact both their own and their partners' coparenting and parenting practices. This study examined the relations between parents' gender equality values, their coparenting, and parental warmth and hostility. Drawing 6745 families from an ongoing Australian panel study, we…
Are All Negotiations Equally Favorable? The Role of Adolescents’ Negotiation Style, Social Domain, and Mothers’ Authoritarian Beliefs and Family History
Putting parental overprotection into a family systems context: Relations of overprotective parenting with perceived coparenting and adolescent anxiety
Previous research offers evidence for how overprotective parenting is related to psychosocial maladjustment among adolescents, and documents the parent‐related and child‐related antecedents of overprotective parenting. Using a family systems perspective, the present study aimed at extending this knowledge by looking into contextual determinants of overprotective parenting. More specifically, the goal of this study was to examine associations betw…
Parenting typologies in Georgian and Belgian adolescents: Associations with self‐esteem
The parenting context is of fundamental importance for the optimal development of adolescents. Making use of a person‐centered approach, we derived parenting typologies from the perspective of Georgian and Belgian adolescents based on four dimensions of perceived parenting (responsiveness, structure, psychological control, and autonomy support). Further, we examined how perceived parenting typologies were associated with adolescents' self‐esteem.…
How Do Adolescents Manage Information in the Relationship with Their Parents? A Latent Class Analysis of Disclosure, Keeping Secrets, and Lying
The use of disclosure and concealment strategies by adolescents in the relationship with their parents may have important implications for their adjustment. Few studies of adolescents’ information management have taken a person-centered approach, yet it is a useful way to understand variations in how they regulate information shared with their parents. This study explored adolescents’ information management constellations with their mothers and f…
Trajectories of perceived parenting across an educational transition: Associations with psychosocial adjustment and identity development among Swiss adolescents
Educational transitions involve a number of changes for adolescents and can be challenging for adolescents and parents alike. The present study was designed to gain a better understanding as to how adolescents' perceptions of parenting evolves across a major educational transition and how the parenting perceived across this transition may facilitate adolescents' psychosocial adjustment and identity formation. Swiss adolescents ( N = 483, M age = …
Police procedural justice and adolescents’ internalization of the law: Integrating self‐determination theory into legal socialization research
The procedural justice model is a common framework for understanding how and why fair procedures conveyed by legal authorities (such as police officers) shape the legal socialization process. The present contribution draws upon self‐determination theory (SDT) to advance the procedural justice model through its focus on internalization, in terms of identification and external regulation. Study 1 is a questionnaire‐based study conducted among 268 B…
The French version of the coparenting inventory for parents and adolescents (CI-PA): Psychometric properties and a cluster analytic approach
Coparenting refers to the way in which adults work together in their role as parents to meet the needs of their children. Over the past decades, there has been a considerable growth of empirical research on coparenting, including the development of self-report questionnaires. However, most available measures relied exclusively on parental self-reports and were designed for use with families with toddlers or preschoolers. The aim of this study was…
Developmental Changes in Secrecy During Middle Adolescence: Links with Alcohol Use and Perceived Controlling Parenting
The Relationship between Maternal Overprotection, Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Psychological Need Frustration: A Multi-Informant Study Using Response Surface Analysis
On the association between adolescent autonomy and psychosocial functioning: Examining decisional independence from a self-determination theory perspective
In the present study, we focus on the concept of adolescent autonomy and its relation with psychosocial functioning. Specifically, we aim to differentiate between 2 prevailing conceptualizations of autonomy, that is, (a) autonomy defined as independence versus dependence and (b) autonomy defined as self-endorsed versus controlled functioning. A 2nd goal is to examine the relative contribution of each autonomy operationalization in the prediction …
Longitudinal associations between adolescent perceived degree and style of parental prohibition and internalization and defiance
This study examined associations between perceived degree and style of parental prohibition and adolescents' internalization of and oppositional defiance against parental rules in the friendship and moral domain. Relations were investigated in 2 longitudinal adolescent samples (total N = 532). Results indicated that perceived style but not degree of prohibition related to overtime changes in internalization and oppositional defiance. Specifically…
Personal Identity Processes from Adolescence Through the Late 20s: Age Trends, Functionality, and Depressive Symptoms
Personal identity formation constitutes a crucial developmental task during the teens and 20s. Using a recently developed five‐dimensional identity model, this cross‐sectional study (N = 5834) investigated age trends from ages 14 to 30 for different commitment and exploration processes. As expected, results indicated that, despite some fluctuations over time, commitment processes tended to increase in a linear fashion. Exploration in breadth and …
Perceived Maternal Autonomy Support and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study
This study investigated longitudinal associations between perceived maternal autonomy‐supportive parenting and early adolescents' use of three emotion regulation ( ER ) styles: emotional integration, suppressive regulation, and dysregulation. We tested whether perceived maternal autonomy support predicted changes in ER and whether these ER styles, in turn, related to changes in adjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms, self‐esteem). Participants ( N…
The Relationship between Maternal Overprotection, Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Psychological Need Frustration: A Multi-Informant Study Using Response Surface Analysis
Personal identity processes and self-esteem: Temporal sequences in high school and college students
The Jingle–Jangle Fallacy in Adolescent Autonomy in the Family: In Search of an Underlying Structure
Examining the longitudinal association between oppositional defiance and autonomy in adolescence
In this longitudinal study, we tested whether the association between oppositional defiance to parental authority (i.e., adolescents' tendency to bluntly reject parental rules) and autonomy would depend upon the specific conceptualization of autonomy. Whereas oppositional defiance would yield more interpersonal distance from parents, because it involves turning away from parental authority, it would also yield less volitional functioning, as oppo…
Why do the lonely stay lonely? Chronically lonely adolescents’ attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion
The goal of this study was to identify mechanisms associated with chronic loneliness by examining the effect of adolescents' accumulated history of loneliness on responses to new social situations. Specifically, this study investigated whether attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion differ between chronically lonely adolescents and adolescents with a different loneliness history. A total of 730 adolescents (Mage …
Does Parental Autonomy Support Relate to Adolescent Autonomy? An In-Depth Examination of a Seemingly Simple Question
In contemporary research on autonomy development, autonomy has been defined as independence (vs. dependence) or as self-endorsed (vs. controlled) functioning. Analogously, perceived parental autonomy support involves either perceived parental promotion of independence (PI) or perceived parental promotion of volitional functioning (PVF). The primary aim of the present study among Belgian and Greek adolescents ( N = 658; 58% girls; M age = 16.3 yea…
Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation
The present study sought to examine the underlying mechanisms through which overprotective parenting relates to social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. Specifically, we tested whether the adolescents' emotion regulation strategies of dysregulation, suppression, and integration, played an intervening role in the association between perceived maternal and paternal overprotection and social anxiety symptoms in adolescents. A sample of 278 Swiss adol…
Police procedural justice and adolescents’ internalization of the law: Integrating self‐determination theory into legal socialization research
The procedural justice model is a common framework for understanding how and why fair procedures conveyed by legal authorities (such as police officers) shape the legal socialization process. The present contribution draws upon self‐determination theory (SDT) to advance the procedural justice model through its focus on internalization, in terms of identification and external regulation. Study 1 is a questionnaire‐based study conducted among 268 B…
Adolescents’ Conflict Management Styles with Mothers: Longitudinal Associations with Parenting and Reactance
Developmental Changes in Secrecy During Middle Adolescence: Links with Alcohol Use and Perceived Controlling Parenting
How Do Adolescents Manage Information in the Relationship with Their Parents? A Latent Class Analysis of Disclosure, Keeping Secrets, and Lying
The use of disclosure and concealment strategies by adolescents in the relationship with their parents may have important implications for their adjustment. Few studies of adolescents’ information management have taken a person-centered approach, yet it is a useful way to understand variations in how they regulate information shared with their parents. This study explored adolescents’ information management constellations with their mothers and f…
When Do Adolescents Accept or Defy to Maternal Prohibitions? The Role of Social Domain and Communication Style
Autonomy in Family Decision Making for Chinese Adolescents: Disentangling the Dual Meaning of Autonomy
The present study focused on the function of autonomy for individuals from a collectivistic culture, thereby differentiating between two prevailing conceptualizations of autonomy-namely, autonomy as independence and autonomy as self-endorsed functioning. Participants were 573 Chinese adolescents from both urban and rural regions. Autonomy as independence (versus dependence) was operationalized as the degree of independent decision making within t…
Trajectories of perceived parenting across an educational transition: Associations with psychosocial adjustment and identity development among Swiss adolescents
Educational transitions involve a number of changes for adolescents and can be challenging for adolescents and parents alike. The present study was designed to gain a better understanding as to how adolescents' perceptions of parenting evolves across a major educational transition and how the parenting perceived across this transition may facilitate adolescents' psychosocial adjustment and identity formation. Swiss adolescents ( N = 483, M age = …
Exposing the role of coparenting and parenting for adolescent personal identity processes
In line with a family systems perspective, this study examined the association between two aspects of family climate, that of coparenting (cooperation, triangulation) and parenting (autonomy support, dependency-oriented and achievement-oriented psychological control) and their relation to adolescent personal identity formation (commitment making, identification with commitment, exploration in breadth, exploration in depth, ruminative exploration,…
The Body Perfect Ideal and Eating Regulation Goals: Investigating the Role of Adolescents’ Identity Styles
The Relations Between Parents' Gender Equality Values and (co)parenting: Examining Actor-Partner Effects in an Australian Community Sample
In most Western societies, parents' gender roles and values have shifted significantly over the past decades. However, it is not yet clear whether parents' gender-related values impact both their own and their partners' coparenting and parenting practices. This study examined the relations between parents' gender equality values, their coparenting, and parental warmth and hostility. Drawing 6745 families from an ongoing Australian panel study, we…
The French version of the coparenting inventory for parents and adolescents (CI-PA): Psychometric properties and a cluster analytic approach
Coparenting refers to the way in which adults work together in their role as parents to meet the needs of their children. Over the past decades, there has been a considerable growth of empirical research on coparenting, including the development of self-report questionnaires. However, most available measures relied exclusively on parental self-reports and were designed for use with families with toddlers or preschoolers. The aim of this study was…
The Detrimental Effects of Adolescents’ Chronic Loneliness on Motivation and Emotion Regulation in Social Situations
Exploring the Association Between Insecure Attachment Styles and Adolescent Autonomy in Family Decision Making: A Differentiated Approach
When Sexting Becomes “Sexteen”: Exploring Parental Representations and Regulations of Adolescent Sexting
On the association between adolescent autonomy and psychosocial functioning: Examining decisional independence from a self-determination theory perspective
In the present study, we focus on the concept of adolescent autonomy and its relation with psychosocial functioning. Specifically, we aim to differentiate between 2 prevailing conceptualizations of autonomy, that is, (a) autonomy defined as independence versus dependence and (b) autonomy defined as self-endorsed versus controlled functioning. A 2nd goal is to examine the relative contribution of each autonomy operationalization in the prediction …
Personal Identity Processes from Adolescence Through the Late 20s: Age Trends, Functionality, and Depressive Symptoms
Personal identity formation constitutes a crucial developmental task during the teens and 20s. Using a recently developed five‐dimensional identity model, this cross‐sectional study (N = 5834) investigated age trends from ages 14 to 30 for different commitment and exploration processes. As expected, results indicated that, despite some fluctuations over time, commitment processes tended to increase in a linear fashion. Exploration in breadth and …
Does Parental Autonomy Support Relate to Adolescent Autonomy? An In-Depth Examination of a Seemingly Simple Question
In contemporary research on autonomy development, autonomy has been defined as independence (vs. dependence) or as self-endorsed (vs. controlled) functioning. Analogously, perceived parental autonomy support involves either perceived parental promotion of independence (PI) or perceived parental promotion of volitional functioning (PVF). The primary aim of the present study among Belgian and Greek adolescents ( N = 658; 58% girls; M age = 16.3 yea…
Personal identity processes and self-esteem: Temporal sequences in high school and college students
The Jingle–Jangle Fallacy in Adolescent Autonomy in the Family: In Search of an Underlying Structure
Exploring the Association Between Insecure Attachment Styles and Adolescent Autonomy in Family Decision Making: A Differentiated Approach
Autonomy in Family Decision Making for Chinese Adolescents: Disentangling the Dual Meaning of Autonomy
The present study focused on the function of autonomy for individuals from a collectivistic culture, thereby differentiating between two prevailing conceptualizations of autonomy-namely, autonomy as independence and autonomy as self-endorsed functioning. Participants were 573 Chinese adolescents from both urban and rural regions. Autonomy as independence (versus dependence) was operationalized as the degree of independent decision making within t…
The Body Perfect Ideal and Eating Regulation Goals: Investigating the Role of Adolescents’ Identity Styles
Longitudinal associations between adolescent perceived degree and style of parental prohibition and internalization and defiance
This study examined associations between perceived degree and style of parental prohibition and adolescents' internalization of and oppositional defiance against parental rules in the friendship and moral domain. Relations were investigated in 2 longitudinal adolescent samples (total N = 532). Results indicated that perceived style but not degree of prohibition related to overtime changes in internalization and oppositional defiance. Specifically…
Rebels With a Cause? Adolescent Defiance From the Perspective of Reactance Theory and Self-Determination Theory
The present investigation focused on adolescents' defiance against parents by drawing upon psychological reactance theory (Brehm, 1966) and self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2000). Psychological reactance would be elicited when freedom is taken away, thereby motivating individuals to engage in oppositional behavior. Throughout four studies (total N = 1,472, age ranging between 12 and 21 years), it was examined whether a controlling parentin…
Do perceived autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching relate to physical education students' motivational experiences through unique pathways? Distinguishing between the bright and dark side of mo…
Let Us Not Throw Out the Baby With the Bathwater: Applying the Principle of Universalism Without Uniformity to Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting
Socialization scholars differ in how they view parenting processes: On one hand, scholars working from the perspective of the Self-Determination Theory (SDT) underscore the universally growth-promoting role of parenting that is perceived to support autonomy and the universal costs associated with parenting that is perceived as controlling. On the other hand, scholars adopting a more relativistic perspective focus on moderating factors (e.g., pers…
Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures
Perceived Maternal Autonomy Support and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study
This study investigated longitudinal associations between perceived maternal autonomy‐supportive parenting and early adolescents' use of three emotion regulation ( ER ) styles: emotional integration, suppressive regulation, and dysregulation. We tested whether perceived maternal autonomy support predicted changes in ER and whether these ER styles, in turn, related to changes in adjustment (i.e., depressive symptoms, self‐esteem). Participants ( N…
Examining the longitudinal association between oppositional defiance and autonomy in adolescence
In this longitudinal study, we tested whether the association between oppositional defiance to parental authority (i.e., adolescents' tendency to bluntly reject parental rules) and autonomy would depend upon the specific conceptualization of autonomy. Whereas oppositional defiance would yield more interpersonal distance from parents, because it involves turning away from parental authority, it would also yield less volitional functioning, as oppo…
Why do the lonely stay lonely? Chronically lonely adolescents’ attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion
The goal of this study was to identify mechanisms associated with chronic loneliness by examining the effect of adolescents' accumulated history of loneliness on responses to new social situations. Specifically, this study investigated whether attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion differ between chronically lonely adolescents and adolescents with a different loneliness history. A total of 730 adolescents (Mage …
When Do Adolescents Accept or Defy to Maternal Prohibitions? The Role of Social Domain and Communication Style
The Detrimental Effects of Adolescents’ Chronic Loneliness on Motivation and Emotion Regulation in Social Situations
Adolescents’ Conflict Management Styles with Mothers: Longitudinal Associations with Parenting and Reactance
Exposing the role of coparenting and parenting for adolescent personal identity processes
In line with a family systems perspective, this study examined the association between two aspects of family climate, that of coparenting (cooperation, triangulation) and parenting (autonomy support, dependency-oriented and achievement-oriented psychological control) and their relation to adolescent personal identity formation (commitment making, identification with commitment, exploration in breadth, exploration in depth, ruminative exploration,…
The French version of the coparenting inventory for parents and adolescents (CI-PA): Psychometric properties and a cluster analytic approach
Coparenting refers to the way in which adults work together in their role as parents to meet the needs of their children. Over the past decades, there has been a considerable growth of empirical research on coparenting, including the development of self-report questionnaires. However, most available measures relied exclusively on parental self-reports and were designed for use with families with toddlers or preschoolers. The aim of this study was…
Developmental Changes in Secrecy During Middle Adolescence: Links with Alcohol Use and Perceived Controlling Parenting
The Relationship between Maternal Overprotection, Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Psychological Need Frustration: A Multi-Informant Study Using Response Surface Analysis
Police procedural justice and adolescents’ internalization of the law: Integrating self‐determination theory into legal socialization research
The procedural justice model is a common framework for understanding how and why fair procedures conveyed by legal authorities (such as police officers) shape the legal socialization process. The present contribution draws upon self‐determination theory (SDT) to advance the procedural justice model through its focus on internalization, in terms of identification and external regulation. Study 1 is a questionnaire‐based study conducted among 268 B…
Putting parental overprotection into a family systems context: Relations of overprotective parenting with perceived coparenting and adolescent anxiety
Previous research offers evidence for how overprotective parenting is related to psychosocial maladjustment among adolescents, and documents the parent‐related and child‐related antecedents of overprotective parenting. Using a family systems perspective, the present study aimed at extending this knowledge by looking into contextual determinants of overprotective parenting. More specifically, the goal of this study was to examine associations betw…
Psychology (35 works) · Developmental psychology (32 works) · Social Psychology (27 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (26 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Autonomy (17 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (15 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (9 works) · Health psychology (8 works) · Perception (8 works)