Maartje Boer

Biographic Data

ID4268445
NAMEMaartje Boer
GIVEN NAMESMaartje
FAMILY NAMEBoer
SIGNATUREBOER M
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0001-6223-859X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT13
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • “How Do I Draw Something That Doesn’t Exist?” A Qualitative Exploration of (Pre)Adolescents’ Constructions and Negotiations of Personal and Ideal(Ized) Bodies Through Drawings

    Open AccessAnne-Mette Hermans, Iclal Vanwesenbeeck et al.ARTICLEChild & Youth Care Forum2025

  • The bidirectional relationships between fear of missing out, problematic social media use and adolescents’ well-being

    Open AccessYanyu Li, Ina M Koning et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2024

    Problematic social media use (PSMU) is a societal problem, which impacts adolescents' well-being. Fear of missing out (FoMO) has been suggested as a core risk factor predicting both PSMU and adolescents' well-being. However, longitudinal research on the directionality of these relationships is scarce. The present study aims to fill this knowledge gap by testing the bidirectional relationships between FoMO, PSMU and adolescents’ life satisfaction …

  • Exploring Different Sampling Strategies

    Open AccessNora Hamdiui, Maartje Boer et al.ARTICLEHealth Expectations2024

    INTRODUCTION: In the Netherlands, since 1996, there is a national cervical cancer (CC) screening programme in place for women aged 30-60 years. The participation of Turkish- and Moroccan-Dutch women is very low. To facilitate their informed decision-making, we developed a culturally sensitive educational video, and evaluated it through a questionnaire study. Since we used multiple strategies for the recruitment of respondents, we aimed (1) to exp…

  • The Implications of the Covid-19 Pandemic for the Construction of the Family Affluence Scale

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Concepción Moreno-Maldonado et al.ARTICLEChild Indicators Research2023Cited by: 1References: 6

    The Family Affluence Scale (FAS) is a widely used and validated instrument to measure adolescents’ socioeconomic status (SES). It is plausible that the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting social and economic changes have affected the capacity of the six-item FAS-III to measure adolescent SES, particularly the holiday and computer items. Using data from 247,503 adolescents from 16 European countries participating in the Health Behaviour in School-aged…

  • National-Level Schoolwork Pressure, Family Structure, Internet Use, and Obesity as Drivers of Time Trends in Adolescent Psychological Complaints Between 2002 and 2018

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Alina Cosma et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2023Cited by: 3References: 60

    Little is known about societal processes that contribute to changes in adolescent mental health problems. This study aims to fill this gap using data from the Health Behavior in School-aged Children study between 2002 and 2018 ( n countries = 43, n individuals = 680,269, M age = 14.52 ( SD = 1.06), 51.04% female), supplemented with other international data. National-level psychological complaints increased more strongly among girls than boys. Nat…

  • The complex association between social media use intensity and adolescent wellbeing

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Gonneke W J M Stevens et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2022

    The present study examined five possible explanations for the mixed findings on the association between adolescents' social media use (SMU) intensity and wellbeing. Particularly, it investigated whether the association between SMU intensity and life satisfaction depended on (1) the type of SMU activity the adolescent engaged in, (2) the (non)linearity of the association, (3) individual differences, (4) inclusion of SMU problems, and (5) the level…

  • The course of problematic social media use in young adolescents

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Gonneke W J M Stevens et al.ARTICLEChild Development2022

    Using four waves of longitudinal data collected in 2015–2019 from 1419 Dutch adolescents (Mage = 12.5, 45.9% female, 21.9% immigrant), this study identified trajectories of problematic social media use (SMU) in parallel with trajectories of SMU frequency. Latent class growth analysis identified two subgroups with relatively high levels of problematic SMU over time: One showed high (24.7%) and one showed average SMU frequency (15.8%). Also, two su…

  • Social media use intensity, social media use problems, and mental health among adolescents

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Gonneke W J M Stevens et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2021

    Social media have become increasingly integrated into the daily lives of adolescents. There are concerns about the potential detrimental effects of adolescents' social media use (SMU) on their mental health. Using a three-wave longitudinal study among 2109 secondary school adolescents (Mage = 13.1, SDage = 0.8), the present study examined whether high SMU intensity and addiction-like SMU problems were bidirectionally associated with low mental he…

  • Perceived Social Support from Different Sources and Adolescent Life Satisfaction Across 42 Countries/Regions

    Open AccessShuang Bi, Gonneke W J M Stevens et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021Cited by: 3References: 57

    Although previous research established a positive association between perceived social support and adolescent life satisfaction, little is known about the relative importance of different sources of support for adolescent life satisfaction and cross-country variations in this respect. Using large-scale representative samples from the 2017/18 Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study, this study examined to what extent the association …

  • Social Media Use and Cyber-Bullying

    Open AccessWendy Craig, Meyran Boniel-Nissim et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Health2020

    PURPOSE: Social media use (SMU) has become an intrinsic part of adolescent life. Negative consequences of SMU for adolescent health could include exposures to online forms of aggression. We explored age, gender, and cross-national differences in adolescents' engagement in SMU, then relationships between SMU and victimization and the perpetration of cyber-bullying. METHODS: We used data on young people aged 11-15 years (weighted n = 180,919 in 42 …

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder-Symptoms, Social Media Use Intensity, and Social Media Use Problems in Adolescents

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Gonneke W J M Stevens et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    Cross-sectional research shows that adolescents’ social media use (SMU) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-symptoms are related, but it is unclear whether this relation is explained by SMU intensity or by addiction-like SMU problems. Also, due to the lack of longitudinal studies, the direction of this relation remains unknown. This study aims to disentangle which type of SMU is related to ADHD-symptoms, and in which direction, us…

  • Adolescents' Intense and Problematic Social Media Use and Their Well-Being in 29 Countries

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Regina J J M Van Den Eijnden et al.ARTICLEJournal of Adolescent Health2020

    PURPOSE: This study examined (1) whether intense and problematic social media use (SMU) were independently associated with adolescent well-being; (2) whether these associations varied by the country-level prevalence of intense and problematic SMU; and (3) whether differences in the country-level prevalence of intense and problematic SMU were related to differences in mobile Internet access. METHODS: = 13.5) from 29 countries that participated in …

  • Media messages and attitudes toward muslims and ethnic minorities

    Open AccessMaartje Boer, Anne Maaike MuldersARTICLESocial Science Research2019Cited by: 4References: 32