Ruud van Winkel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5760187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ruud van Winkel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ruud |
| FAMILY NAME | van Winkel |
| SIGNATURE | VAN WINKEL R |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6262-1935 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Refining the Need (Needs Examination, Evaluation and Dissemination) Methods for Use in Psychotic Disorders in Belgium
Unraveling psychosis risk in sexual minorities
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that sexual minorities are at higher risk for psychotic experiences, possibly due to repeated social defeat experiences. However, empirical research investigating this hypothesis is largely lacking. This study examined how experiences of "feeling excluded" and "not belonging" impact the prospective development of psychotic experiences in an adolescent sexual minority group, defined here as non-heterosexual a…
Childhood adversity is associated with reduced threat‐safety discrimination and increased fear generalization in 12‐ to 16‐year‐olds
BACKGROUND: Childhood adversity poses a major transdiagnostic risk for a host of psychiatric disorders. Altered threat-related information processing has been put forward as a potential process underlying the association between childhood adversity and psychiatric disorders, with previous research providing support for decreased discrimination between threat and safety cues, in both children and adults exposed to adversity. This altered threat-sa…
Fear learning and generalization in youth with early-stage transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms and the impact of acute exercise
These findings highlight early alterations in threat processing in youth with early-stage psychiatric symptoms. Future research should investigate symptom-specific patterns in fear generalization, track their longitudinal development, and refine exercise interventions to effectively modulate fear processing
The role of identity in the development of depressive, anxiety, and psychosis symptoms in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity
INTRODUCTION: Childhood adversity is a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders and has especially been associated with an admixture of depressive, anxiety, and psychosis symptoms. Identity formation, a main developmental task during adolescence, may be impacted by these adverse experiences and act as an important process in the association between childhood adversity and psychopathology. METHODS: We investigated the association between childh…
Coping and sleep quality in youth
INTRODUCTION: Sleep quality is closely linked with mental health. Two factors that influence sleep are coping style and locus of control, yet these have not been investigated in daily life. In this study, we examined associations between coping styles and sleep quality in daily life and the potential mediating effect of daily locus of control in a sample of youth, a group particularly vulnerable to developing psychopathology. METHODS: Three hundr…
How to make mental health services more youth‐friendly? A Delphi study involving young adults, parents and professionals
INTRODUCTION: Although youth-friendly service characteristics have been previously identified, consensus among a representative group of stakeholders about which of these characteristics are truly relevant to the youth-friendliness of services is currently lacking. In our study, young adults, parents and professionals were consulted on this topic to reveal existing (dis)agreement. In addition, (dis)agreement on feasibility for implementation in c…
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
The relationship between daily positive future thinking and past-week suicidal ideation in youth
Reduced positive future thinking has been associated with suicidal ideation and behavior in adults, and appears to be exacerbated by negative affect. Yet, this has received little attention in youth. Prior research has also focused on longer-term future thinking, e.g., months and years, and relied on lab-based assessments. Using the experience sampling method (ESM), we investigated whether short-term future thinking in daily life was associated w…
Be(com)ing social
Parents are known to provide a lasting basis for their children's social development. Understanding parent-driven socialization is particularly relevant in adolescence, as an increasing social independence is developed. However, the relationship between key parenting styles of care and control and the microlevel expression of daily-life social interactions has been insufficiently studied. Adolescent and young adult twins and their nontwin sibling…
Lower emotional complexity as a prospective predictor of psychopathology in adolescents from the general population
Emotional complexity (EC) involves the ability to distinguish between distinct emotions (differentiation) and the experience of a large range of emotions (diversity). Lower EC has been related to psychopathology in cross-sectional studies. This study aimed to investigate (a) whether EC prospectively predicts psychopathology and (b) whether this effect is contingent on stressful life events. To further explore EC, we compared the effects of differ…
Sensitivity to Peer Evaluation and Its Genetic and Environmental Determinants
Adolescents and young adults are highly focused on peer evaluation, but little is known about sources of their differential sensitivity. We examined to what extent sensitivity to peer evaluation is influenced by interacting environmental and genetic factors. A sample of 354 healthy adolescent twin pairs (n = 708) took part in a structured, laboratory task in which they were exposed to peer evaluation. The proportion of the variance in sensitivity…
Be(com)ing social
Parents are known to provide a lasting basis for their children's social development. Understanding parent-driven socialization is particularly relevant in adolescence, as an increasing social independence is developed. However, the relationship between key parenting styles of care and control and the microlevel expression of daily-life social interactions has been insufficiently studied. Adolescent and young adult twins and their nontwin sibling…
Sensitivity to Peer Evaluation and Its Genetic and Environmental Determinants
Adolescents and young adults are highly focused on peer evaluation, but little is known about sources of their differential sensitivity. We examined to what extent sensitivity to peer evaluation is influenced by interacting environmental and genetic factors. A sample of 354 healthy adolescent twin pairs (n = 708) took part in a structured, laboratory task in which they were exposed to peer evaluation. The proportion of the variance in sensitivity…
Lower emotional complexity as a prospective predictor of psychopathology in adolescents from the general population
Emotional complexity (EC) involves the ability to distinguish between distinct emotions (differentiation) and the experience of a large range of emotions (diversity). Lower EC has been related to psychopathology in cross-sectional studies. This study aimed to investigate (a) whether EC prospectively predicts psychopathology and (b) whether this effect is contingent on stressful life events. To further explore EC, we compared the effects of differ…
Mapping genomic loci implicates genes and synaptic biology in schizophrenia
The relationship between daily positive future thinking and past-week suicidal ideation in youth
Reduced positive future thinking has been associated with suicidal ideation and behavior in adults, and appears to be exacerbated by negative affect. Yet, this has received little attention in youth. Prior research has also focused on longer-term future thinking, e.g., months and years, and relied on lab-based assessments. Using the experience sampling method (ESM), we investigated whether short-term future thinking in daily life was associated w…
Be(com)ing social
Parents are known to provide a lasting basis for their children's social development. Understanding parent-driven socialization is particularly relevant in adolescence, as an increasing social independence is developed. However, the relationship between key parenting styles of care and control and the microlevel expression of daily-life social interactions has been insufficiently studied. Adolescent and young adult twins and their nontwin sibling…
The role of identity in the development of depressive, anxiety, and psychosis symptoms in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity
INTRODUCTION: Childhood adversity is a major risk factor for psychiatric disorders and has especially been associated with an admixture of depressive, anxiety, and psychosis symptoms. Identity formation, a main developmental task during adolescence, may be impacted by these adverse experiences and act as an important process in the association between childhood adversity and psychopathology. METHODS: We investigated the association between childh…
Coping and sleep quality in youth
INTRODUCTION: Sleep quality is closely linked with mental health. Two factors that influence sleep are coping style and locus of control, yet these have not been investigated in daily life. In this study, we examined associations between coping styles and sleep quality in daily life and the potential mediating effect of daily locus of control in a sample of youth, a group particularly vulnerable to developing psychopathology. METHODS: Three hundr…
How to make mental health services more youth‐friendly? A Delphi study involving young adults, parents and professionals
INTRODUCTION: Although youth-friendly service characteristics have been previously identified, consensus among a representative group of stakeholders about which of these characteristics are truly relevant to the youth-friendliness of services is currently lacking. In our study, young adults, parents and professionals were consulted on this topic to reveal existing (dis)agreement. In addition, (dis)agreement on feasibility for implementation in c…
Childhood adversity is associated with reduced threat‐safety discrimination and increased fear generalization in 12‐ to 16‐year‐olds
BACKGROUND: Childhood adversity poses a major transdiagnostic risk for a host of psychiatric disorders. Altered threat-related information processing has been put forward as a potential process underlying the association between childhood adversity and psychiatric disorders, with previous research providing support for decreased discrimination between threat and safety cues, in both children and adults exposed to adversity. This altered threat-sa…
Fear learning and generalization in youth with early-stage transdiagnostic psychiatric symptoms and the impact of acute exercise
These findings highlight early alterations in threat processing in youth with early-stage psychiatric symptoms. Future research should investigate symptom-specific patterns in fear generalization, track their longitudinal development, and refine exercise interventions to effectively modulate fear processing
Refining the Need (Needs Examination, Evaluation and Dissemination) Methods for Use in Psychotic Disorders in Belgium
Unraveling psychosis risk in sexual minorities
BACKGROUND: Previous research suggests that sexual minorities are at higher risk for psychotic experiences, possibly due to repeated social defeat experiences. However, empirical research investigating this hypothesis is largely lacking. This study examined how experiences of "feeling excluded" and "not belonging" impact the prospective development of psychotic experiences in an adolescent sexual minority group, defined here as non-heterosexual a…
Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (5 works) · Psychiatry (5 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (3 works) · Poison control (3 works) · Psychopathology (3 works) · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) (3 works)