Dries Van Gasse
Biographic Data
| ID | 303450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dries Van Gasse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dries |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Gasse |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GASSE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Antwerp |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2577-6924 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Single fathers at the workplace: A typology of single fatherhood
In this article, we explore how single fathers in Belgium navigate the dual expectations of caregiving and breadwinning after a divorce or separation. We focus on how societal norms around fatherhood and work shape men’s ability to balance care responsibilities with employment demands. Through a two-step sampling design, we conducted qualitative interviews with 17 single fathers in our primary sample and 46 single fathers in an elaborative sample…
Mapping distance and closeness in older adults’ experiences with video-mediated communication
Since the pandemic, older adults have become more willing to adopt video calling to stay connected with loved ones. Prior research indicates that video-mediated communication has the potential to facilitate perceived closeness to interaction partners, but may present difficulties for older adults of advanced ages in terms of usability and accessibility, challenging them to benefit as much from the distance-reducing properties of video calling as …
Navigating Personal Choice, Socio-cultural Background and Societal Norms in Forming a Singlehood Identity in Belgium: A Consideration of Qualitative Narratives in Relation to Gender and Migration Back…
From a life course perspective, the postponement of partnership formation and the choice – or circumstance – of remaining unpartnered have become increasingly accepted among young adults in westernised societies. Yet, portraying this group as uniformly aligned with dominant societal values of autonomy and self-exploration risks overlooking the diverse and sometimes conflicting ways in which singlehood is experienced and internalised as a social i…
Home and (Not) Alone: How Older Adults' Living Arrangements Shape Their Experiences of Loneliness and Spatial Belonging
Due to changes in life course complexity, cultural norms, and welfare policies, older adults' preferences, resources, and living arrangements have become increasingly diverse. Yet, the relationship between older adults' living arrangements and how they experience loneliness remains underexplored. This article investigates the often‐overlooked meaning‐giving processes that underlie the association between living arrangements and loneliness in old …
Beyond the voluntariness dichotomy: Perspectives of Singles Regarding Relationship Formation
This article focuses on the heterogeneity of perspectives of singles towards relationship formation. A framework-informed thematic analysis was used to comprehensively understand the reflective views on one’s singlehood status. As a heuristic framework, the ready–willing–able (RWA) framework captures the diversity and fluidity of these reflections to offer a more nuanced understanding than the traditional dichotomy of voluntary and involuntary si…
Social Support Exchange in Shared Living Arrangements with Older Adults—Exploring the Benefits of Intergenerational Living for Older Adults
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations
Despite the relevance of loneliness to family scholarship, an attempt to integrate various perspectives on loneliness with relevant insights from loneliness research for understanding contemporary families has not yet been made. Although quantitative researchers have developed measures that have been fruitful in broadening insights about loneliness, they have failed to grasp its multidimensional and dynamic nature. Due to a shift in emphasis from…
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium
Being one of the quintessential resources to bounce back from adversities, the complexities of social support in the context of transitions to single parenthood are seldom fully grasped. While many studies are limited by (quantitative) data on type and intensity of support received, in-depth qualitative data facilitates an understanding of the hurdles in the support exchange. In this study, we describe six hurdles single parents have to overcome …
When is it About the Money? Relative Wages and Fathers’ Parental Leave Decisions
Parenthood ideologies and leave practices among Belgian fathers: A typology of parental leave perspectives for Belgian men
This study focuses on the role of parenthood ideologies on the micro and meso level as individual determinants to take up parental leave among fathers in Belgium. Belgian parental leave policies are characterized by a 'laisser faire' mentality regarding the division of parental leave uptake. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual couples our study highlights the impact of norms and values on the individual micro-level and social expect…
Fertility Practitioners' Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic's multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fulfil a gatekeeping role. However, this can cause an intra-role conflict as the responsibility to select the best fitting candidates is at odds with th…
More of the Same? Comparing the Personalities of Ex-Spouse and New Partner after Divorce
The similarity of the Big Five personality traits of ex-spouses and new partners was examined post-divorce. The notion that divorcees replicate their partner choice (fixed-type hypothesis) was tested against the hypotheses that they learn to select a new partner with more marriage-stabilizing personality traits than their former spouse (learning hypothesis), or are constrained by marriage market forces to repartner with someone who has less stabi…
Reorganizing the Single‐Parent Family System: Exploring the Process Perspective on Divorce
Objective This study investigated how single parents reorganize their family system after divorce. Background Families are dynamic systems that change over time and adapt to crises. Family researchers often approach divorce as a discrete event, however; and little is known about how single parents overcome this crisis and carry on with their lives. Therefore, we investigated the process of how single parents reorganize their households after divo…
Single Mothers' Perspectives on the Combination of Motherhood and Work
This study aims to define the perspectives taken by single mothers when combining work and motherhood in a stressful work-life constellation. One of the challenges for single mothers after divorce is to find a work-life balance in their single-parent family system. Regarding work-life balance, we take a General Strain Perspective, describing the work-life conflict as a combination of financial strain and role strain. We argue that both strains ar…
Social support in the process of household reorganization after divorce
Social support has been shown to be important in the world of single parents. As for divorce, social support is mostly studied in a static way in academic research. Divorcing and/or separating people are in a dynamic state of a changing need for social support. This need changes over time within their process of becoming a single parent. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective on social support in the process of household reorganiz…
With or Without You - Starting Single-parent Families: A Qualitative Study on How Single Parents by Choice Reorganise Their Lives to Facilitate Single Parenthood from a Life Course Perspective
Single parenthood is often approached as a problematic situation. People become single parents through divorce, separation, or bereavement and have to cope with this situation. These transitions to single parenthood lead to unforeseen problems with respect to the organization of the household. Nevertheless, there are also single parents for whom single parenthood is a positive story. These people are single parents by choice. Today, it is no long…
Parenthood ideologies and leave practices among Belgian fathers: A typology of parental leave perspectives for Belgian men
This study focuses on the role of parenthood ideologies on the micro and meso level as individual determinants to take up parental leave among fathers in Belgium. Belgian parental leave policies are characterized by a 'laisser faire' mentality regarding the division of parental leave uptake. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual couples our study highlights the impact of norms and values on the individual micro-level and social expect…
Single Mothers' Perspectives on the Combination of Motherhood and Work
This study aims to define the perspectives taken by single mothers when combining work and motherhood in a stressful work-life constellation. One of the challenges for single mothers after divorce is to find a work-life balance in their single-parent family system. Regarding work-life balance, we take a General Strain Perspective, describing the work-life conflict as a combination of financial strain and role strain. We argue that both strains ar…
Social support in the process of household reorganization after divorce
Social support has been shown to be important in the world of single parents. As for divorce, social support is mostly studied in a static way in academic research. Divorcing and/or separating people are in a dynamic state of a changing need for social support. This need changes over time within their process of becoming a single parent. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective on social support in the process of household reorganiz…
With or Without You - Starting Single-parent Families: A Qualitative Study on How Single Parents by Choice Reorganise Their Lives to Facilitate Single Parenthood from a Life Course Perspective
Single parenthood is often approached as a problematic situation. People become single parents through divorce, separation, or bereavement and have to cope with this situation. These transitions to single parenthood lead to unforeseen problems with respect to the organization of the household. Nevertheless, there are also single parents for whom single parenthood is a positive story. These people are single parents by choice. Today, it is no long…
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations
Despite the relevance of loneliness to family scholarship, an attempt to integrate various perspectives on loneliness with relevant insights from loneliness research for understanding contemporary families has not yet been made. Although quantitative researchers have developed measures that have been fruitful in broadening insights about loneliness, they have failed to grasp its multidimensional and dynamic nature. Due to a shift in emphasis from…
Fertility Practitioners' Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic's multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fulfil a gatekeeping role. However, this can cause an intra-role conflict as the responsibility to select the best fitting candidates is at odds with th…
More of the Same? Comparing the Personalities of Ex-Spouse and New Partner after Divorce
The similarity of the Big Five personality traits of ex-spouses and new partners was examined post-divorce. The notion that divorcees replicate their partner choice (fixed-type hypothesis) was tested against the hypotheses that they learn to select a new partner with more marriage-stabilizing personality traits than their former spouse (learning hypothesis), or are constrained by marriage market forces to repartner with someone who has less stabi…
Beyond the voluntariness dichotomy: Perspectives of Singles Regarding Relationship Formation
This article focuses on the heterogeneity of perspectives of singles towards relationship formation. A framework-informed thematic analysis was used to comprehensively understand the reflective views on one’s singlehood status. As a heuristic framework, the ready–willing–able (RWA) framework captures the diversity and fluidity of these reflections to offer a more nuanced understanding than the traditional dichotomy of voluntary and involuntary si…
Social Support Exchange in Shared Living Arrangements with Older Adults—Exploring the Benefits of Intergenerational Living for Older Adults
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium
Being one of the quintessential resources to bounce back from adversities, the complexities of social support in the context of transitions to single parenthood are seldom fully grasped. While many studies are limited by (quantitative) data on type and intensity of support received, in-depth qualitative data facilitates an understanding of the hurdles in the support exchange. In this study, we describe six hurdles single parents have to overcome …
When is it About the Money? Relative Wages and Fathers’ Parental Leave Decisions
Reorganizing the Single‐Parent Family System: Exploring the Process Perspective on Divorce
Objective This study investigated how single parents reorganize their family system after divorce. Background Families are dynamic systems that change over time and adapt to crises. Family researchers often approach divorce as a discrete event, however; and little is known about how single parents overcome this crisis and carry on with their lives. Therefore, we investigated the process of how single parents reorganize their households after divo…
Single Mothers' Perspectives on the Combination of Motherhood and Work
This study aims to define the perspectives taken by single mothers when combining work and motherhood in a stressful work-life constellation. One of the challenges for single mothers after divorce is to find a work-life balance in their single-parent family system. Regarding work-life balance, we take a General Strain Perspective, describing the work-life conflict as a combination of financial strain and role strain. We argue that both strains ar…
Social support in the process of household reorganization after divorce
Social support has been shown to be important in the world of single parents. As for divorce, social support is mostly studied in a static way in academic research. Divorcing and/or separating people are in a dynamic state of a changing need for social support. This need changes over time within their process of becoming a single parent. In this article, we propose a more dynamic perspective on social support in the process of household reorganiz…
With or Without You - Starting Single-parent Families: A Qualitative Study on How Single Parents by Choice Reorganise Their Lives to Facilitate Single Parenthood from a Life Course Perspective
Single parenthood is often approached as a problematic situation. People become single parents through divorce, separation, or bereavement and have to cope with this situation. These transitions to single parenthood lead to unforeseen problems with respect to the organization of the household. Nevertheless, there are also single parents for whom single parenthood is a positive story. These people are single parents by choice. Today, it is no long…
Fertility Practitioners' Coping Strategies When Faced with Intra-Role Conflict from Screening Aspiring Single Mothers by Choice
Women without a partner can become single mothers by choice through the use of fertility treatments. In Belgium, the decision to accept a candidate single mother by choice rests with the fertility clinic's multidisciplinary team of fertility practitioners. As a result, the fertility practitioners fulfil a gatekeeping role. However, this can cause an intra-role conflict as the responsibility to select the best fitting candidates is at odds with th…
More of the Same? Comparing the Personalities of Ex-Spouse and New Partner after Divorce
The similarity of the Big Five personality traits of ex-spouses and new partners was examined post-divorce. The notion that divorcees replicate their partner choice (fixed-type hypothesis) was tested against the hypotheses that they learn to select a new partner with more marriage-stabilizing personality traits than their former spouse (learning hypothesis), or are constrained by marriage market forces to repartner with someone who has less stabi…
Social Support Exchange in Shared Living Arrangements with Older Adults—Exploring the Benefits of Intergenerational Living for Older Adults
Navigating the theoretical landscape of loneliness research: How interdisciplinary synergy contributes to further conceptualizations
Despite the relevance of loneliness to family scholarship, an attempt to integrate various perspectives on loneliness with relevant insights from loneliness research for understanding contemporary families has not yet been made. Although quantitative researchers have developed measures that have been fruitful in broadening insights about loneliness, they have failed to grasp its multidimensional and dynamic nature. Due to a shift in emphasis from…
Accepting social support in single-parent families in Belgium
Being one of the quintessential resources to bounce back from adversities, the complexities of social support in the context of transitions to single parenthood are seldom fully grasped. While many studies are limited by (quantitative) data on type and intensity of support received, in-depth qualitative data facilitates an understanding of the hurdles in the support exchange. In this study, we describe six hurdles single parents have to overcome …
When is it About the Money? Relative Wages and Fathers’ Parental Leave Decisions
Parenthood ideologies and leave practices among Belgian fathers: A typology of parental leave perspectives for Belgian men
This study focuses on the role of parenthood ideologies on the micro and meso level as individual determinants to take up parental leave among fathers in Belgium. Belgian parental leave policies are characterized by a 'laisser faire' mentality regarding the division of parental leave uptake. Based on in-depth interviews with 20 heterosexual couples our study highlights the impact of norms and values on the individual micro-level and social expect…
Navigating Personal Choice, Socio-cultural Background and Societal Norms in Forming a Singlehood Identity in Belgium: A Consideration of Qualitative Narratives in Relation to Gender and Migration Back…
From a life course perspective, the postponement of partnership formation and the choice – or circumstance – of remaining unpartnered have become increasingly accepted among young adults in westernised societies. Yet, portraying this group as uniformly aligned with dominant societal values of autonomy and self-exploration risks overlooking the diverse and sometimes conflicting ways in which singlehood is experienced and internalised as a social i…
Home and (Not) Alone: How Older Adults' Living Arrangements Shape Their Experiences of Loneliness and Spatial Belonging
Due to changes in life course complexity, cultural norms, and welfare policies, older adults' preferences, resources, and living arrangements have become increasingly diverse. Yet, the relationship between older adults' living arrangements and how they experience loneliness remains underexplored. This article investigates the often‐overlooked meaning‐giving processes that underlie the association between living arrangements and loneliness in old …
Beyond the voluntariness dichotomy: Perspectives of Singles Regarding Relationship Formation
This article focuses on the heterogeneity of perspectives of singles towards relationship formation. A framework-informed thematic analysis was used to comprehensively understand the reflective views on one’s singlehood status. As a heuristic framework, the ready–willing–able (RWA) framework captures the diversity and fluidity of these reflections to offer a more nuanced understanding than the traditional dichotomy of voluntary and involuntary si…
Single fathers at the workplace: A typology of single fatherhood
In this article, we explore how single fathers in Belgium navigate the dual expectations of caregiving and breadwinning after a divorce or separation. We focus on how societal norms around fatherhood and work shape men’s ability to balance care responsibilities with employment demands. Through a two-step sampling design, we conducted qualitative interviews with 17 single fathers in our primary sample and 46 single fathers in an elaborative sample…
Mapping distance and closeness in older adults’ experiences with video-mediated communication
Since the pandemic, older adults have become more willing to adopt video calling to stay connected with loved ones. Prior research indicates that video-mediated communication has the potential to facilitate perceived closeness to interaction partners, but may present difficulties for older adults of advanced ages in terms of usability and accessibility, challenging them to benefit as much from the distance-reducing properties of video calling as …
Psychology (10 works) · Qualitative research (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (7 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Grounded theory (5 works) · Work-Family Balance Challenges (5 works)