Jaap Nieuwenhuis
Biographic Data
| ID | 315154 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaap Nieuwenhuis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaap |
| FAMILY NAME | Nieuwenhuis |
| SIGNATURE | NIEUWENHUIS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6872-553X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 123 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Sociology and the pursuit of societal change
In their commentary, Aksoy and colleagues contrast sociologists’ pursuit of societal change with demanding sociological standards. This creates a false distinction between two dimensions that need not be opposed and does not help sociology move forward towards developing better forms of public engagement. Sociological research often addresses politicized topics, requiring careful deliberation about how findings are communicated to society, includ…
Limits to Participation: Neighbourhood‐Based Volunteer Initiatives and Contradictions of the Dutch Participation Society
The Dutch participation society, like similar programmes elsewhere, aims to shift care responsibilities to households and communities, with the state only acting as a carer or last resort. In this paper, we investigate whether volunteer neighbourhood‐based initiatives are capable of delivering various forms of care: general assistance, mobility services and sustainability efforts. Interviews with 54 individuals active in nine initiatives in the n…
Adolescent health in relation to their peers: Likeability as a resilience factor
Adolescence is a period in which health-related behaviors develop. Peer group influence plays an important role in this development. Some adolescents are, however, more or less resilient to peer influence. We argue that students' likeability amongst their classroom peers functions as a resilience factor in the relation between the health of classroom peers and their own health. We test this by studying 7th grade students from the Taiwan Youth Pro…
Exposure to neighborhood violence and child-parent conflict among a longitudinal sample of Dutch adolescents
An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure to violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This study builds upon this body of research to demonstrate how exposure to community violence strains relationships between adolescents and their caregive…
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles
What kinds of titles are appropriate for research articles? Does creativity have a place in titles or should titles be descriptive and scientific? This article examines the 408 articles titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” and asks why there are so many articles with the same title. The academic culture of publication pressure can lead to researchers choosing creative titles, including popular song titles, to stand out from the crowd. Furthermo…
The effect of meeting opportunities on local urban residents’ prejudice against migrant children in China
This article explores the effect of meeting opportunities between local urban and nonlocal residents on locals’ prejudice against migrant children in China by focusing on three contexts: friendships, schools and neighbourhoods. China’s hukou policy creates a boundary between urban and rural residents, which also takes the form of locals and nonlocals in rural-to-urban migration. Urban public schools with a mix of local and migrant students offer …
Neighborhood and community effects in East and Southeast Asia: A systematic review and meta-analytical exploration of publication bias
Adolescents' future in the balance of family, school, and the neighborhood: A multidimensional application of two theoretical perspectives
Objective: Family, school, and neighborhood contexts provide cultural resources that may foster children's ambitions and bolster their academic performance. Reference group theory instead highlights how seemingly positive settings can depress educational aspirations, expectations, and performance. We test these competing claims. Methods: = 4968). Results: Results are broadly in line with the cultural resource perspective. However, important excep…
Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Schools
Socio-spatial inequality and school inequality are strongly related. Where people live affects the opportunities individuals have in life, such as the opportunity to send your children to a good school. The level of urbanisation is related to the number of options people have to choose good schools, so more urbanised areas likely offer more options for good schools. However, the families that can choose good schools are likely families with high …
Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits: Associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment
We studied the relation between cumulative exposure to neighbourhood deprivation and adolescents’ Big Five personality traits, and the moderating role of personality in the relation between neighbourhood deprivation and the development of problem behaviour and educational attainment. We studied 5365 British adolescents from ages 10 to 16, with neighbourhood information from birth onwards. Extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, and open…
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment
Scholars generally agree that financial deprivation negatively affects students’ educational outcomes. However, while absolute levels of resources are important, individuals’ perceived relative economic wellbeing also shape their educational outcomes. This article asks whether attending school with peers from comparably richer families is related to adolescents’ educational expectations, aspirations, university plans, and university attainment. W…
The Role of Exposure to Neighborhood and School Poverty in Understanding Educational Attainment
Because the demographic composition of neighborhoods and schools overlaps, their effects on educational attainment are not independent of each other. Throughout the early teenage years, the timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a longitudinal approach when studying schooling outcomes. This study uses Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data (N = 4502; 49% female) to examine how ex…
Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? Evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
The neighbourhood in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhood types gives insight into the openness of spatial class structures of societies and into the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. In this paper we study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by socio-economic status in different inequality and segregatio…
Neighborhood social capital and adolescents' individual health development
A Micro-Scale Approach to Ethnic Minority Concentration in the Residential Environment and Voting for the Radical Right in The Netherlands
Existing empirical research on the link between ethnic minority concentration in residential environments and voting for the radical right is inconclusive, mainly due to major differences between studies in the spatial scale at which minority concentration is measured. We examined whether the presence of non-western ethnic minorities in the residential environment, measured at four spatial scales, is related to individuals' intention to vote for …
Being Poorer Than the Rest of the Neighborhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behavior of Youth
According to the neighborhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighborhood wealth and youth's problem behavior. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighborhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioral problems in more affluent neighborhoods. Much of this literature does not take into account relative wealth. Our central question was whether the economic position of adolescents' …
Neighbourhood immigrant concentration effects on migrant and native youth’s educational commitments, an enquiry into personality differences
In the literature examining neighbourhood effects on educational outcomes, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often assumed. We attempt to fill this gap by looking at how the internalisation of educational norms (commitments) is influence…
The association between neighbourhoods and educational achievement, a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication bias in the neighbourhood effects literature
A Bad Neighbour Is as Great a Plague as a Good One Is a Great Blessing”: On Negative Relationships between Neighbours
With research on social relations hitherto, it is not clear how and why negative relationships between neighbours emerge. In this study, arguments are developed on the conditions within neighbourhoods and on individual characteristics that facilitate negative relations amongst neighbours. The arguments are divided according to three perspectives: diversity, uncertainty and social influence. In the Dutch context, most support is found for the soci…
Neighbourhood Effects on School Achievement: The Mediating Effect of Parenting and Problematic Behaviour
Neighbourhood research hitherto has suggested that the neighbourhood in which youth grow up affects their educational achievement. However, the mechanisms though which the neighbourhood reaches these effects are still unclear. Family and individual characteristics seem important in explaining educational outcomes. We therefore propose two related mediating factors: Parenting strategies and problematic behaviour. We test this mediation using the 2…
Being Poorer Than the Rest of the Neighborhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behavior of Youth
According to the neighborhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighborhood wealth and youth's problem behavior. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighborhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioral problems in more affluent neighborhoods. Much of this literature does not take into account relative wealth. Our central question was whether the economic position of adolescents' …
A Bad Neighbour Is as Great a Plague as a Good One Is a Great Blessing”: On Negative Relationships between Neighbours
With research on social relations hitherto, it is not clear how and why negative relationships between neighbours emerge. In this study, arguments are developed on the conditions within neighbourhoods and on individual characteristics that facilitate negative relations amongst neighbours. The arguments are divided according to three perspectives: diversity, uncertainty and social influence. In the Dutch context, most support is found for the soci…
Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? Evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
The neighbourhood in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhood types gives insight into the openness of spatial class structures of societies and into the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. In this paper we study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by socio-economic status in different inequality and segregatio…
A Micro-Scale Approach to Ethnic Minority Concentration in the Residential Environment and Voting for the Radical Right in The Netherlands
Existing empirical research on the link between ethnic minority concentration in residential environments and voting for the radical right is inconclusive, mainly due to major differences between studies in the spatial scale at which minority concentration is measured. We examined whether the presence of non-western ethnic minorities in the residential environment, measured at four spatial scales, is related to individuals' intention to vote for …
The Role of Exposure to Neighborhood and School Poverty in Understanding Educational Attainment
Because the demographic composition of neighborhoods and schools overlaps, their effects on educational attainment are not independent of each other. Throughout the early teenage years, the timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a longitudinal approach when studying schooling outcomes. This study uses Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data (N = 4502; 49% female) to examine how ex…
Publication bias in the neighbourhood effects literature
Neighbourhood Effects on School Achievement: The Mediating Effect of Parenting and Problematic Behaviour
Neighbourhood research hitherto has suggested that the neighbourhood in which youth grow up affects their educational achievement. However, the mechanisms though which the neighbourhood reaches these effects are still unclear. Family and individual characteristics seem important in explaining educational outcomes. We therefore propose two related mediating factors: Parenting strategies and problematic behaviour. We test this mediation using the 2…
Neighbourhood immigrant concentration effects on migrant and native youth’s educational commitments, an enquiry into personality differences
In the literature examining neighbourhood effects on educational outcomes, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often assumed. We attempt to fill this gap by looking at how the internalisation of educational norms (commitments) is influence…
Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Schools
Socio-spatial inequality and school inequality are strongly related. Where people live affects the opportunities individuals have in life, such as the opportunity to send your children to a good school. The level of urbanisation is related to the number of options people have to choose good schools, so more urbanised areas likely offer more options for good schools. However, the families that can choose good schools are likely families with high …
Adolescents' future in the balance of family, school, and the neighborhood: A multidimensional application of two theoretical perspectives
Objective: Family, school, and neighborhood contexts provide cultural resources that may foster children's ambitions and bolster their academic performance. Reference group theory instead highlights how seemingly positive settings can depress educational aspirations, expectations, and performance. We test these competing claims. Methods: = 4968). Results: Results are broadly in line with the cultural resource perspective. However, important excep…
Neighborhood social capital and adolescents' individual health development
Exposure to neighborhood violence and child-parent conflict among a longitudinal sample of Dutch adolescents
An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure to violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This study builds upon this body of research to demonstrate how exposure to community violence strains relationships between adolescents and their caregive…
Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits: Associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment
We studied the relation between cumulative exposure to neighbourhood deprivation and adolescents’ Big Five personality traits, and the moderating role of personality in the relation between neighbourhood deprivation and the development of problem behaviour and educational attainment. We studied 5365 British adolescents from ages 10 to 16, with neighbourhood information from birth onwards. Extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, and open…
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment
Scholars generally agree that financial deprivation negatively affects students’ educational outcomes. However, while absolute levels of resources are important, individuals’ perceived relative economic wellbeing also shape their educational outcomes. This article asks whether attending school with peers from comparably richer families is related to adolescents’ educational expectations, aspirations, university plans, and university attainment. W…
The effect of meeting opportunities on local urban residents’ prejudice against migrant children in China
This article explores the effect of meeting opportunities between local urban and nonlocal residents on locals’ prejudice against migrant children in China by focusing on three contexts: friendships, schools and neighbourhoods. China’s hukou policy creates a boundary between urban and rural residents, which also takes the form of locals and nonlocals in rural-to-urban migration. Urban public schools with a mix of local and migrant students offer …
A Bad Neighbour Is as Great a Plague as a Good One Is a Great Blessing”: On Negative Relationships between Neighbours
With research on social relations hitherto, it is not clear how and why negative relationships between neighbours emerge. In this study, arguments are developed on the conditions within neighbourhoods and on individual characteristics that facilitate negative relations amongst neighbours. The arguments are divided according to three perspectives: diversity, uncertainty and social influence. In the Dutch context, most support is found for the soci…
Neighbourhood Effects on School Achievement: The Mediating Effect of Parenting and Problematic Behaviour
Neighbourhood research hitherto has suggested that the neighbourhood in which youth grow up affects their educational achievement. However, the mechanisms though which the neighbourhood reaches these effects are still unclear. Family and individual characteristics seem important in explaining educational outcomes. We therefore propose two related mediating factors: Parenting strategies and problematic behaviour. We test this mediation using the 2…
The association between neighbourhoods and educational achievement, a systematic review and meta-analysis
Publication bias in the neighbourhood effects literature
Being Poorer Than the Rest of the Neighborhood: Relative Deprivation and Problem Behavior of Youth
According to the neighborhood effects hypothesis, there is a negative relation between neighborhood wealth and youth's problem behavior. It is often assumed that there are more problems in deprived neighborhoods, but there are also reports of higher rates of behavioral problems in more affluent neighborhoods. Much of this literature does not take into account relative wealth. Our central question was whether the economic position of adolescents' …
Neighbourhood immigrant concentration effects on migrant and native youth’s educational commitments, an enquiry into personality differences
In the literature examining neighbourhood effects on educational outcomes, the socialisation mechanism is usually investigated by looking at the association between neighbourhood characteristics and educational attainment. The step in between, that adolescents actually internalise educational norms held by residents, is often assumed. We attempt to fill this gap by looking at how the internalisation of educational norms (commitments) is influence…
A Micro-Scale Approach to Ethnic Minority Concentration in the Residential Environment and Voting for the Radical Right in The Netherlands
Existing empirical research on the link between ethnic minority concentration in residential environments and voting for the radical right is inconclusive, mainly due to major differences between studies in the spatial scale at which minority concentration is measured. We examined whether the presence of non-western ethnic minorities in the residential environment, measured at four spatial scales, is related to individuals' intention to vote for …
Does segregation reduce socio-spatial mobility? Evidence from four European countries with different inequality and segregation contexts
The neighbourhood in which people live reflects their social class and preferences, so studying socio-spatial mobility between neighbourhood types gives insight into the openness of spatial class structures of societies and into the ability of people to leave disadvantaged neighbourhoods. In this paper we study the extent to which people move between different types of neighbourhoods by socio-economic status in different inequality and segregatio…
Neighborhood social capital and adolescents' individual health development
Residential Segregation and Unequal Access to Schools
Socio-spatial inequality and school inequality are strongly related. Where people live affects the opportunities individuals have in life, such as the opportunity to send your children to a good school. The level of urbanisation is related to the number of options people have to choose good schools, so more urbanised areas likely offer more options for good schools. However, the families that can choose good schools are likely families with high …
Neighbourhood deprivation and the Big Five personality traits: Associations with adolescent problem behaviour and educational attainment
We studied the relation between cumulative exposure to neighbourhood deprivation and adolescents’ Big Five personality traits, and the moderating role of personality in the relation between neighbourhood deprivation and the development of problem behaviour and educational attainment. We studied 5365 British adolescents from ages 10 to 16, with neighbourhood information from birth onwards. Extraversion, agreeableness, emotional stability, and open…
Oh, the education (you think) you’ll have! Relative deprivation and students’ academic expectations, aspirations, and attainment
Scholars generally agree that financial deprivation negatively affects students’ educational outcomes. However, while absolute levels of resources are important, individuals’ perceived relative economic wellbeing also shape their educational outcomes. This article asks whether attending school with peers from comparably richer families is related to adolescents’ educational expectations, aspirations, university plans, and university attainment. W…
The Role of Exposure to Neighborhood and School Poverty in Understanding Educational Attainment
Because the demographic composition of neighborhoods and schools overlaps, their effects on educational attainment are not independent of each other. Throughout the early teenage years, the timing and duration of exposure to neighborhood and school contexts can vary, advocating for a longitudinal approach when studying schooling outcomes. This study uses Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children data (N = 4502; 49% female) to examine how ex…
Neighborhood and community effects in East and Southeast Asia: A systematic review and meta-analytical exploration of publication bias
Adolescents' future in the balance of family, school, and the neighborhood: A multidimensional application of two theoretical perspectives
Objective: Family, school, and neighborhood contexts provide cultural resources that may foster children's ambitions and bolster their academic performance. Reference group theory instead highlights how seemingly positive settings can depress educational aspirations, expectations, and performance. We test these competing claims. Methods: = 4968). Results: Results are broadly in line with the cultural resource perspective. However, important excep…
Exposure to neighborhood violence and child-parent conflict among a longitudinal sample of Dutch adolescents
An extensive body of research has documented the deleterious effects of community violence on adolescent development and behavior. Much of this research focuses on how exposure to violence structures social interaction, and, ultimately, how it motivates youth to engage in troublesome behavior. This study builds upon this body of research to demonstrate how exposure to community violence strains relationships between adolescents and their caregive…
Another article titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” or, the mass production of academic research titles
What kinds of titles are appropriate for research articles? Does creativity have a place in titles or should titles be descriptive and scientific? This article examines the 408 articles titled “Should I Stay or Should I Go?” and asks why there are so many articles with the same title. The academic culture of publication pressure can lead to researchers choosing creative titles, including popular song titles, to stand out from the crowd. Furthermo…
The effect of meeting opportunities on local urban residents’ prejudice against migrant children in China
This article explores the effect of meeting opportunities between local urban and nonlocal residents on locals’ prejudice against migrant children in China by focusing on three contexts: friendships, schools and neighbourhoods. China’s hukou policy creates a boundary between urban and rural residents, which also takes the form of locals and nonlocals in rural-to-urban migration. Urban public schools with a mix of local and migrant students offer …
Adolescent health in relation to their peers: Likeability as a resilience factor
Adolescence is a period in which health-related behaviors develop. Peer group influence plays an important role in this development. Some adolescents are, however, more or less resilient to peer influence. We argue that students' likeability amongst their classroom peers functions as a resilience factor in the relation between the health of classroom peers and their own health. We test this by studying 7th grade students from the Taiwan Youth Pro…
Sociology and the pursuit of societal change
In their commentary, Aksoy and colleagues contrast sociologists’ pursuit of societal change with demanding sociological standards. This creates a false distinction between two dimensions that need not be opposed and does not help sociology move forward towards developing better forms of public engagement. Sociological research often addresses politicized topics, requiring careful deliberation about how findings are communicated to society, includ…
Limits to Participation: Neighbourhood‐Based Volunteer Initiatives and Contradictions of the Dutch Participation Society
The Dutch participation society, like similar programmes elsewhere, aims to shift care responsibilities to households and communities, with the state only acting as a carer or last resort. In this paper, we investigate whether volunteer neighbourhood‐based initiatives are capable of delivering various forms of care: general assistance, mobility services and sustainability efforts. Interviews with 54 individuals active in nine initiatives in the n…
Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (10 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Developmental psychology (8 works) · Demography (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works)