H J A Van Bakel
Biographic Data
| ID | 3600692 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H J A Van Bakel |
| GIVEN NAMES | H J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Bakel |
| SIGNATURE | VAN BAKEL H J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9224-5261 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Co-regulation between young deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their caregivers: Study protocol of Calming Together
The Calming Together study will be among the first to investigate co-regulation in young DHH children and their parents in ecologically valid home settings. By assessing both parent and child factors, it will provide insights into how co-regulation unfolds in daily life and how it relates to broader aspects of self-regulation. The study will also include both mothers and fathers to investigate their potentially unique contributions toward co-regu…
Transition to Motherhood: Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Support from Partner, Family and Friends
The consequences of ACEs seemed to show up in the transition to motherhood, indicating that interventions targeting first-time mothers should address the motherhood constellation that may arise from earlier adverse life experiences. Moreover, especially support from friends seemed to be associated with less worries among mothers. Social support has no buffering effect for the negative consequences of ACEs on the themes of motherhood constellation…
Coregulation between parents and elementary school-aged children in response to challenge and in association with child outcomes: A systematic review
Parent-child coregulation, the active dyadic adaptation of biological states, behaviors, and emotions, is an important developmental process. Especially in challenging situations, children need coregulatory support from their parents, which supports the formation of their self-regulation skills. While research has established that coregulation occurs in various contexts across the developmental period, less is known about what constitutes coregul…
The role of cognitive appraisals in parental burnout: A preliminary analysis during the Covid-19 quarantine
Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries
What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract t…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe: Similarities and Differences Across 36 Countries
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Emotion regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic: Risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (Iipb)
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted families' lives around the world. The measures used to contain transmission have led to increased stress and put parents at increased risk for parental burnout (PB). The aim of the current study was to examine the association between COVID-related parental stress and PB, and to test whether emotion regulation (ER) moderated this association. We hypothesised that rumination, which is a generally maladaptive ER st…
Gathering Perspectives on Expert Approaches to the Capacity and Rights of Children: Working to Inform a Capacity Assessment Tool for Children to Participate in Family Law Proceedings
Within the setting of custody and access proceedings, when children participate, the involvement of various professionals is often required. This article aims to gather the opinions, and expertise of 11 legal and child development professionals in regards to the current model of the participation of children in custody and access proceedings. Two separate interview guides were conducted with individuals who identified as either legal or social sc…
Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout: A 40-Country Study
In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities have been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which has remained rife with inequalities even in the most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequality in parenting when o…
Parental Burnout Across the Globe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies worldwide. The heightened levels of stress that accompanied the crisis were also expected to affect parenting in many families. Since it is known that high levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to a condition that has severe consequences for health and well-being, we examined whether the prevalence of parental burnout in 26 countries (9,923 parents; 75% mothers; mean age 40) increased d…
In accordance with age and maturity: Children’s perspectives, conceptions and insights regarding their capacities and meaningful participation
Embedded within family law proceedings and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) there is ambiguity surrounding the terms rights, participation, best interests, and capacity. Research furthering the rights of children is necessitated across academic literature and practice. Across research, literature and practice there is an evident reliance upon age in relation to the participation of children in family law sett…
The Complex Notion of the Capacity of a Child: Exploring the Term Capacity to Support the Meaningful Participation of Children in Family Law Proceedings
This article aims to explore the concept of capacity as necessitated by provisions within the UNCRC such as articles 12 and 5, which emphasize participation, and the evolving capacities of children. In family law proceedings when children are involved, age and capacity are considered in order to assess if the meaningful participation of that child is accessible. There is limited literature to indicate how the capacity of a child is determined, es…
Parental Burnout Around the Globe: A 42-Country Study
Joint Attention in the Context of Hearing Loss: A Meta-Analysis and Narrative Synthesis
Joint attention is important for children’s language development. We report two meta-analyses that demonstrate that the congruency in hearing status between parent and child affects the establishment and maintenance of joint attention. Dyads consisting of hearing parents and children with hearing loss, achieve fewer and briefer moments of joint attention in comparison to dyads of hearing parents and hearing children and dyads of deaf parents and …
The Meaningful Participation and Complex Capacities of Children in Family Law: Based on Transdisciplinary Perspectives and Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
This paper explores the connection between articles within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the participation and capacities of children. Though discussed in an abundance of literature, this article aims to analyse conceptually articles relating to the participation of children and expand upon the concept of a child’s capacity. The specific setting of custody and access proceedings will be considered throughout. Four c…
Gender Differences in the Mitigating Effect of Co-Parenting on Parental Burnout: The Gender Dimension Applied to Covid-19 Restrictions and Parental Burnout Levels
Parenting is recognized as a complex and stressful activity, which in recent years has been linked to the potential development of parental burnout among mothers and fathers. With the spread of COVID-19 around the globe, not only have situations of health emergency and economic difficulty emerged, but also tremendous impacts on individual lives and family role divisions, which continue to be experienced today. As lockdown measures have affected u…
Toddlers' preference for prosocial versus antisocial agents: No associations with empathy or attachment security
Research has indicated that the majority of infants and toddlers prefer prosocial to antisocial agents, but little research has examined interindividual differences in children's preference. This study examined whether 24‐month‐olds' ( n = 107) sociomoral preference was associated with attachment security or empathy, assessed with the Attachment Q‐Sort and the Empathy Questionnaire. Toddlers were presented with a puppet play, in which a protagoni…
Maternal Interaction Quality Moderates Effects of Prenatal Maternal Emotional Symptoms on Girls’ Internalizing Problems
The role of mother–infant interaction quality is studied in the relation between prenatal maternal emotional symptoms and child behavioral problems. Healthy pregnant, Dutch women ( N = 96, M = 31.6, SD = 3.3) were allocated to the “exposed group” ( n = 46), consisting of mothers with high levels of prenatal feelings of anxiety and depression, or the “low‐exposed group” ( n = 50), consisting of mothers with normal levels of depressive or anxious s…
The Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction in the First 2 Years After Full-Term and Preterm Birth
Objective. Relatively few studies have examined stability and/or change in the quality of parenting behaviors across the first years of a preterm infant’s life and how this course may differ from parents of term infants. Design. The present study examined the quality and stability of mother–infant and father–infant interaction across the first 2 years post-partum in a sample of 231 Dutch families with either a term or a preterm infant. Video reco…
Fathers' and Mothers' Representations of the Infant: Associations With Prenatal Risk Factors
Parents' representations of their infants consist of parents' subjective experiences of how they perceive their infants. They provide important information about the quality of the parent-infant relationship and are closely related to parenting behavior and infant attachment. Previous studies have shown that parents' representations emerge during pregnancy. However, little is known about prenatal (risk) factors that are related to parents' repres…
Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Disrupted Representations, Maternal Interactive Behavior and Infant Attachment: A Comparison Between Full-Term and Preterm Dyads
Fathers’ experiences during pregnancy: Paternal prenatal attachment and representations of the fetus
Positive attachment experiences during infancy are linked to positive developmental outcomes of children later in life. The parent–infant relationship does not start upon the birth of the child, but already evolves during pregnancy. In this exploratory study, fathers’ experiences during pregnancy are investigated, focusing on their relationship with the unborn baby. At 26 weeks gestational age, expectant fathers from a Dutch community-based sampl…
The predictive value of different infant attachment measures for socioemotional development at age 5 years
The predictive value of different infant attachment measures was examined in a community‐based sample of 111 healthy children (59 boys, 52 girls). Two procedures to assess infant attachment, the Attachment Q‐Set (applied on a relatively short observation period) and a shortened version of the Strange Situation Procedure (SSSP), were applied to the children at age 15 months and related to a comprehensive set of indicators of the children's socioem…
Profiles of competence and adaptation in preschoolers as related to the quality of parent–child interaction
AQS security scores: What do they represent? A study in construct validation
In a sample of 129 Dutch 15‐month‐old infants, attachment security was assessed both with the Attachment Q‐Set (AQS; Waters, 1995) and with a short version of Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, and Wall's (1978) Strange Situation (SSS). Infants classified as secure using the SSS had significantly higher AQS scores than insecure and disorganized infants in particular. At the AQS item level, disorganized infants were described as significantly more noncomp…
Fathers’ experiences during pregnancy: Paternal prenatal attachment and representations of the fetus
Positive attachment experiences during infancy are linked to positive developmental outcomes of children later in life. The parent–infant relationship does not start upon the birth of the child, but already evolves during pregnancy. In this exploratory study, fathers’ experiences during pregnancy are investigated, focusing on their relationship with the unborn baby. At 26 weeks gestational age, expectant fathers from a Dutch community-based sampl…
In accordance with age and maturity: Children’s perspectives, conceptions and insights regarding their capacities and meaningful participation
Embedded within family law proceedings and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) there is ambiguity surrounding the terms rights, participation, best interests, and capacity. Research furthering the rights of children is necessitated across academic literature and practice. Across research, literature and practice there is an evident reliance upon age in relation to the participation of children in family law sett…
Gender Differences in the Mitigating Effect of Co-Parenting on Parental Burnout: The Gender Dimension Applied to Covid-19 Restrictions and Parental Burnout Levels
Parenting is recognized as a complex and stressful activity, which in recent years has been linked to the potential development of parental burnout among mothers and fathers. With the spread of COVID-19 around the globe, not only have situations of health emergency and economic difficulty emerged, but also tremendous impacts on individual lives and family role divisions, which continue to be experienced today. As lockdown measures have affected u…
Fathers' and Mothers' Representations of the Infant: Associations With Prenatal Risk Factors
Parents' representations of their infants consist of parents' subjective experiences of how they perceive their infants. They provide important information about the quality of the parent-infant relationship and are closely related to parenting behavior and infant attachment. Previous studies have shown that parents' representations emerge during pregnancy. However, little is known about prenatal (risk) factors that are related to parents' repres…
AQS security scores: What do they represent? A study in construct validation
In a sample of 129 Dutch 15‐month‐old infants, attachment security was assessed both with the Attachment Q‐Set (AQS; Waters, 1995) and with a short version of Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, and Wall's (1978) Strange Situation (SSS). Infants classified as secure using the SSS had significantly higher AQS scores than insecure and disorganized infants in particular. At the AQS item level, disorganized infants were described as significantly more noncomp…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe: Similarities and Differences Across 36 Countries
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Coregulation between parents and elementary school-aged children in response to challenge and in association with child outcomes: A systematic review
Parent-child coregulation, the active dyadic adaptation of biological states, behaviors, and emotions, is an important developmental process. Especially in challenging situations, children need coregulatory support from their parents, which supports the formation of their self-regulation skills. While research has established that coregulation occurs in various contexts across the developmental period, less is known about what constitutes coregul…
The Complex Notion of the Capacity of a Child: Exploring the Term Capacity to Support the Meaningful Participation of Children in Family Law Proceedings
This article aims to explore the concept of capacity as necessitated by provisions within the UNCRC such as articles 12 and 5, which emphasize participation, and the evolving capacities of children. In family law proceedings when children are involved, age and capacity are considered in order to assess if the meaningful participation of that child is accessible. There is limited literature to indicate how the capacity of a child is determined, es…
The Meaningful Participation and Complex Capacities of Children in Family Law: Based on Transdisciplinary Perspectives and Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
This paper explores the connection between articles within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the participation and capacities of children. Though discussed in an abundance of literature, this article aims to analyse conceptually articles relating to the participation of children and expand upon the concept of a child’s capacity. The specific setting of custody and access proceedings will be considered throughout. Four c…
The predictive value of different infant attachment measures for socioemotional development at age 5 years
The predictive value of different infant attachment measures was examined in a community‐based sample of 111 healthy children (59 boys, 52 girls). Two procedures to assess infant attachment, the Attachment Q‐Set (applied on a relatively short observation period) and a shortened version of the Strange Situation Procedure (SSSP), were applied to the children at age 15 months and related to a comprehensive set of indicators of the children's socioem…
AQS security scores: What do they represent? A study in construct validation
In a sample of 129 Dutch 15‐month‐old infants, attachment security was assessed both with the Attachment Q‐Set (AQS; Waters, 1995) and with a short version of Ainsworth, Blehar, Waters, and Wall's (1978) Strange Situation (SSS). Infants classified as secure using the SSS had significantly higher AQS scores than insecure and disorganized infants in particular. At the AQS item level, disorganized infants were described as significantly more noncomp…
Profiles of competence and adaptation in preschoolers as related to the quality of parent–child interaction
The predictive value of different infant attachment measures for socioemotional development at age 5 years
The predictive value of different infant attachment measures was examined in a community‐based sample of 111 healthy children (59 boys, 52 girls). Two procedures to assess infant attachment, the Attachment Q‐Set (applied on a relatively short observation period) and a shortened version of the Strange Situation Procedure (SSSP), were applied to the children at age 15 months and related to a comprehensive set of indicators of the children's socioem…
Fathers’ experiences during pregnancy: Paternal prenatal attachment and representations of the fetus
Positive attachment experiences during infancy are linked to positive developmental outcomes of children later in life. The parent–infant relationship does not start upon the birth of the child, but already evolves during pregnancy. In this exploratory study, fathers’ experiences during pregnancy are investigated, focusing on their relationship with the unborn baby. At 26 weeks gestational age, expectant fathers from a Dutch community-based sampl…
Longitudinal Associations Between Maternal Disrupted Representations, Maternal Interactive Behavior and Infant Attachment: A Comparison Between Full-Term and Preterm Dyads
The Quality of Parent–Infant Interaction in the First 2 Years After Full-Term and Preterm Birth
Objective. Relatively few studies have examined stability and/or change in the quality of parenting behaviors across the first years of a preterm infant’s life and how this course may differ from parents of term infants. Design. The present study examined the quality and stability of mother–infant and father–infant interaction across the first 2 years post-partum in a sample of 231 Dutch families with either a term or a preterm infant. Video reco…
Fathers' and Mothers' Representations of the Infant: Associations With Prenatal Risk Factors
Parents' representations of their infants consist of parents' subjective experiences of how they perceive their infants. They provide important information about the quality of the parent-infant relationship and are closely related to parenting behavior and infant attachment. Previous studies have shown that parents' representations emerge during pregnancy. However, little is known about prenatal (risk) factors that are related to parents' repres…
Maternal Interaction Quality Moderates Effects of Prenatal Maternal Emotional Symptoms on Girls’ Internalizing Problems
The role of mother–infant interaction quality is studied in the relation between prenatal maternal emotional symptoms and child behavioral problems. Healthy pregnant, Dutch women ( N = 96, M = 31.6, SD = 3.3) were allocated to the “exposed group” ( n = 46), consisting of mothers with high levels of prenatal feelings of anxiety and depression, or the “low‐exposed group” ( n = 50), consisting of mothers with normal levels of depressive or anxious s…
Toddlers' preference for prosocial versus antisocial agents: No associations with empathy or attachment security
Research has indicated that the majority of infants and toddlers prefer prosocial to antisocial agents, but little research has examined interindividual differences in children's preference. This study examined whether 24‐month‐olds' ( n = 107) sociomoral preference was associated with attachment security or empathy, assessed with the Attachment Q‐Sort and the Empathy Questionnaire. Toddlers were presented with a puppet play, in which a protagoni…
Parental Burnout Around the Globe: A 42-Country Study
Joint Attention in the Context of Hearing Loss: A Meta-Analysis and Narrative Synthesis
Joint attention is important for children’s language development. We report two meta-analyses that demonstrate that the congruency in hearing status between parent and child affects the establishment and maintenance of joint attention. Dyads consisting of hearing parents and children with hearing loss, achieve fewer and briefer moments of joint attention in comparison to dyads of hearing parents and hearing children and dyads of deaf parents and …
The Meaningful Participation and Complex Capacities of Children in Family Law: Based on Transdisciplinary Perspectives and Articles of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
This paper explores the connection between articles within the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the participation and capacities of children. Though discussed in an abundance of literature, this article aims to analyse conceptually articles relating to the participation of children and expand upon the concept of a child’s capacity. The specific setting of custody and access proceedings will be considered throughout. Four c…
Gender Differences in the Mitigating Effect of Co-Parenting on Parental Burnout: The Gender Dimension Applied to Covid-19 Restrictions and Parental Burnout Levels
Parenting is recognized as a complex and stressful activity, which in recent years has been linked to the potential development of parental burnout among mothers and fathers. With the spread of COVID-19 around the globe, not only have situations of health emergency and economic difficulty emerged, but also tremendous impacts on individual lives and family role divisions, which continue to be experienced today. As lockdown measures have affected u…
Emotion regulation during the Covid-19 pandemic: Risk and resilience factors for parental burnout (Iipb)
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted families' lives around the world. The measures used to contain transmission have led to increased stress and put parents at increased risk for parental burnout (PB). The aim of the current study was to examine the association between COVID-related parental stress and PB, and to test whether emotion regulation (ER) moderated this association. We hypothesised that rumination, which is a generally maladaptive ER st…
Gathering Perspectives on Expert Approaches to the Capacity and Rights of Children: Working to Inform a Capacity Assessment Tool for Children to Participate in Family Law Proceedings
Within the setting of custody and access proceedings, when children participate, the involvement of various professionals is often required. This article aims to gather the opinions, and expertise of 11 legal and child development professionals in regards to the current model of the participation of children in custody and access proceedings. Two separate interview guides were conducted with individuals who identified as either legal or social sc…
Gender Equality and Maternal Burnout: A 40-Country Study
In Western countries, recent decades have witnessed a revolution toward gender equality. Inequalities have been greatly reduced in areas such as education or employment. Because inequalities lead to distress, this development has largely benefited women. One notable exception is the realm of parenting, which has remained rife with inequalities even in the most egalitarian countries. We hypothesized that experiencing inequality in parenting when o…
Parental Burnout Across the Globe During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all societies worldwide. The heightened levels of stress that accompanied the crisis were also expected to affect parenting in many families. Since it is known that high levels of stress in the parenting domain can lead to a condition that has severe consequences for health and well-being, we examined whether the prevalence of parental burnout in 26 countries (9,923 parents; 75% mothers; mean age 40) increased d…
In accordance with age and maturity: Children’s perspectives, conceptions and insights regarding their capacities and meaningful participation
Embedded within family law proceedings and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC, 1989) there is ambiguity surrounding the terms rights, participation, best interests, and capacity. Research furthering the rights of children is necessitated across academic literature and practice. Across research, literature and practice there is an evident reliance upon age in relation to the participation of children in family law sett…
The Complex Notion of the Capacity of a Child: Exploring the Term Capacity to Support the Meaningful Participation of Children in Family Law Proceedings
This article aims to explore the concept of capacity as necessitated by provisions within the UNCRC such as articles 12 and 5, which emphasize participation, and the evolving capacities of children. In family law proceedings when children are involved, age and capacity are considered in order to assess if the meaningful participation of that child is accessible. There is limited literature to indicate how the capacity of a child is determined, es…
The role of cognitive appraisals in parental burnout: A preliminary analysis during the Covid-19 quarantine
Parenting Culture(s): Ideal-Parent Beliefs Across 37 Countries
What is it to be “an ideal parent”? Does the answer differ across countries and social classes? To answer these questions in a way that minimizes bias and ethnocentrism, we used open-ended questions to explore ideal-parent beliefs among 8,357 mothers and 3,517 fathers from 37 countries. Leximancer Semantic Network Analysis was utilized to first determine parenting culture zones (i.e., countries with shared ideal-parent beliefs) and then extract t…
Profiles of Parental Burnout Around the Globe: Similarities and Differences Across 36 Countries
Parental burnout (PB) is a pervasive phenomenon. Parenting is embedded in cultural values, and previous research has shown the role of individualism in PB. In this paper, we reanalyze previously collected data to identify profiles based on the four dimensions of PB, and explore whether these profiles vary across countries’ levels of collectivistic-individualistic (COL-IND) values. Our sample comprised 16,885 individuals from 36 countries (73% wom…
Transition to Motherhood: Adverse Childhood Experiences, and Support from Partner, Family and Friends
The consequences of ACEs seemed to show up in the transition to motherhood, indicating that interventions targeting first-time mothers should address the motherhood constellation that may arise from earlier adverse life experiences. Moreover, especially support from friends seemed to be associated with less worries among mothers. Social support has no buffering effect for the negative consequences of ACEs on the themes of motherhood constellation…
Coregulation between parents and elementary school-aged children in response to challenge and in association with child outcomes: A systematic review
Parent-child coregulation, the active dyadic adaptation of biological states, behaviors, and emotions, is an important developmental process. Especially in challenging situations, children need coregulatory support from their parents, which supports the formation of their self-regulation skills. While research has established that coregulation occurs in various contexts across the developmental period, less is known about what constitutes coregul…
Co-regulation between young deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their caregivers: Study protocol of Calming Together
The Calming Together study will be among the first to investigate co-regulation in young DHH children and their parents in ecologically valid home settings. By assessing both parent and child factors, it will provide insights into how co-regulation unfolds in daily life and how it relates to broader aspects of self-regulation. The study will also include both mothers and fathers to investigate their potentially unique contributions toward co-regu…
Psychology (22 works) · Developmental psychology (21 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies (7 works) · Sociology (7 works)