Peter Nikken
Biographic Data
| ID | 5906524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Nikken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikken |
| SIGNATURE | NIKKEN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Windesheim University of Applied Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9622-7343 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Scoping review of research on evidence-based digital media interventions for youth
Digital media shape young people’s education, relationships, and leisure, bringing opportunities (e.g., learning, creativity, social connection) and risks (e.g., cyberbullying, misinformation, commercial exploitation). This scoping review mapped digital media interventions for young people and/or their caregivers that have been empirically evaluated and described what has been tested, for whom, where, and using which methods. We identified 120 pe…
Windows to the past, frames of the present
Oral history interviews about upbringing illuminate past childhoods while also revealing the interpretive frameworks through which those childhoods are remembered. This article examines that dual temporality through an analysis of 316 interviews with three Dutch generations (raised 1920–2015) recorded between 2012 and 2015. The findings show that educational discourses influential at the time of interviewing – shaped by psychological concepts, th…
Individualization of extended family bonds? An analysis of youth narratives from three Dutch generations
Youth and media in special needs education
It is known that children with special educational needs (i.e., with physical and or cognitive disabilities, and or conduct or social-emotional disorders) are more at risk for problems resulting from media use at home. Yet, how professionals in special needs education (SNE) deal with these media related problems by their students at school has received little attention. To fill this gap 19 professionals affiliated to 3 primary SNE-schools in the …
Do (pre)adolescents mind about healthy media use
Some forms of media use may negatively affect (pre)adolescents’ health, but little is known about the parent’s role herein. Therefore, an online questionnaire among 1,741 Dutch youngsters (10-18 years) explored, a) whether they use electronic media in a healthy manner – i.e., no media during bedtime; no smartphones while cycling; lowering headset volume; taking breaks during extended media use; and keeping un upright posture during extended use, …
Implications of low or high media use among parents for young children’s media use
Using an online questionnaire among 1,381 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands I investigated a) the congruence between the time that parents and children spend on various media; b) how several parent, child and household characteristics vary among four family types: low, moderate, high, and very high media consumers; and c) which characteristics most strongly differentiate these four family types. The analyses reveal that parents vary…
Adolescents’ Social Network Site Use, Peer Appearance-Related Feedback, and Body Dissatisfaction
Previous correlational research indicates that adolescent girls who use social network sites more frequently are more dissatisfied with their bodies. However, we know little about the causal direction of this relationship, the mechanisms underlying this relationship, and whether this relationship also occurs among boys to the same extent. The present two-wave panel study (18 month time lag) among 604 Dutch adolescents (aged 11-18; 50.7% female; 9…
How and Why Parents Guide the Media Use of Young Children
Children use electronic screens at ever younger ages, but there is still little empirical research on how and why parents mediate this media use. In line with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, we explored whether children's media skills and media activities, next to parents' attitudes about media for children, and several child and parent-family characteristics, predicted parental mediation practices. Furthermore, we investigated children'…
Guiding young children’s internet use at home
Using an online questionnaire among 785 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands we investigated a) whether parents experience problems when guiding children’s digital media usage, b) whether they feel competent in dealing with these problems, c) whether they need parenting support, and d) how these problems, competences and need for support are related to the characteristics of the parents, the family and the child. The analyses reveal th…
Developing scales to measure parental mediation of young children's internet use
With children using digital media at ever younger ages, media-education becomes a pressing issue for parents. As there is hardly any research on how parents guide the online activities of toddlers and young children an internet-survey was held among 792 Dutch parents of children aged between 2 and 12 years. Factor analysis revealed that for the internet, parents partly use the same strategies they also apply for television and video games: ‘co-us…
Boys and girls taking risks online
This study explores gender differences in the relationship between adolescents’ risky online behavior and their social context, as in family factors and the prevalence of Internet use in a country. Using the EU Kids Online dataset, including information on 8554, 14- to 16-year-old adolescents in 25 countries, and applying multilevel modeling, this study shows that social context is additionally and differentially related to adolescent boys’ and g…
The Effect of Social Network Site Use on Appearance Investment and Desire for Cosmetic Surgery Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
Determinants of Internet Mediation
This article empirically examines if parents apply new types of mediation for the internet, using data from the Dutch EU Kids Online project. The high internet penetration in the Netherlands makes this study especially relevant because almost all parents and children use the internet. Factor analyses applied to reports by parents and children (aged 9–16) revealed four mediation types that are comparable for both groups: active safety mediation, r…
Reciprocal Relationships Between Friends’ and Parental Mediation of Adolescents’ Media Use and Their Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Playing Restricted Videogames
Videogames1 have become a matter of course in the everyday life of young people (Roberts, Foehr, & Rideout, 2005). However, the ubiquity of violent games has lead to public expression of worries (A
Parents' Interest in Videogame Ratings and Content Descriptors in Relation to Game Mediation
A B S T R A C T ■ An Internet survey of 765 parents examined (1) to what extent parents wanted to be informed by ratings of harmful videogames for their children (four to 18 years), (2) which content descriptors interested them, (3) which parents were most interested and (4) how parental mediation of the child's gaming related to their interest in ratings and content descriptors. The majority of parents thought it very necessary to have ratings. …
Parental mediation of children’s videogame playing
Through an Internet survey of 536 parent–child dyads, the authors researched which mediation strategies parents used to regulate videogaming by their children (8–18 years). Factor analyses revealed that both parents and children distinguished three types of parental mediation: (1) ‘restrictive mediation’, (2) ‘active mediation’, and (3) ‘co‐playing’. These strategies are comparable with mediation types that were established in research about tele…
Adolescents’ Social Network Site Use, Peer Appearance-Related Feedback, and Body Dissatisfaction
Previous correlational research indicates that adolescent girls who use social network sites more frequently are more dissatisfied with their bodies. However, we know little about the causal direction of this relationship, the mechanisms underlying this relationship, and whether this relationship also occurs among boys to the same extent. The present two-wave panel study (18 month time lag) among 604 Dutch adolescents (aged 11-18; 50.7% female; 9…
Boys and girls taking risks online
This study explores gender differences in the relationship between adolescents’ risky online behavior and their social context, as in family factors and the prevalence of Internet use in a country. Using the EU Kids Online dataset, including information on 8554, 14- to 16-year-old adolescents in 25 countries, and applying multilevel modeling, this study shows that social context is additionally and differentially related to adolescent boys’ and g…
The Effect of Social Network Site Use on Appearance Investment and Desire for Cosmetic Surgery Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
Reciprocal Relationships Between Friends’ and Parental Mediation of Adolescents’ Media Use and Their Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Parents' Interest in Videogame Ratings and Content Descriptors in Relation to Game Mediation
A B S T R A C T ■ An Internet survey of 765 parents examined (1) to what extent parents wanted to be informed by ratings of harmful videogames for their children (four to 18 years), (2) which content descriptors interested them, (3) which parents were most interested and (4) how parental mediation of the child's gaming related to their interest in ratings and content descriptors. The majority of parents thought it very necessary to have ratings. …
Parental mediation of children’s videogame playing
Through an Internet survey of 536 parent–child dyads, the authors researched which mediation strategies parents used to regulate videogaming by their children (8–18 years). Factor analyses revealed that both parents and children distinguished three types of parental mediation: (1) ‘restrictive mediation’, (2) ‘active mediation’, and (3) ‘co‐playing’. These strategies are comparable with mediation types that were established in research about tele…
Playing Restricted Videogames
Videogames1 have become a matter of course in the everyday life of young people (Roberts, Foehr, & Rideout, 2005). However, the ubiquity of violent games has lead to public expression of worries (A
Parents' Interest in Videogame Ratings and Content Descriptors in Relation to Game Mediation
A B S T R A C T ■ An Internet survey of 765 parents examined (1) to what extent parents wanted to be informed by ratings of harmful videogames for their children (four to 18 years), (2) which content descriptors interested them, (3) which parents were most interested and (4) how parental mediation of the child's gaming related to their interest in ratings and content descriptors. The majority of parents thought it very necessary to have ratings. …
Determinants of Internet Mediation
This article empirically examines if parents apply new types of mediation for the internet, using data from the Dutch EU Kids Online project. The high internet penetration in the Netherlands makes this study especially relevant because almost all parents and children use the internet. Factor analyses applied to reports by parents and children (aged 9–16) revealed four mediation types that are comparable for both groups: active safety mediation, r…
Reciprocal Relationships Between Friends’ and Parental Mediation of Adolescents’ Media Use and Their Sexual Attitudes and Behavior
Developing scales to measure parental mediation of young children's internet use
With children using digital media at ever younger ages, media-education becomes a pressing issue for parents. As there is hardly any research on how parents guide the online activities of toddlers and young children an internet-survey was held among 792 Dutch parents of children aged between 2 and 12 years. Factor analysis revealed that for the internet, parents partly use the same strategies they also apply for television and video games: ‘co-us…
Boys and girls taking risks online
This study explores gender differences in the relationship between adolescents’ risky online behavior and their social context, as in family factors and the prevalence of Internet use in a country. Using the EU Kids Online dataset, including information on 8554, 14- to 16-year-old adolescents in 25 countries, and applying multilevel modeling, this study shows that social context is additionally and differentially related to adolescent boys’ and g…
The Effect of Social Network Site Use on Appearance Investment and Desire for Cosmetic Surgery Among Adolescent Boys and Girls
How and Why Parents Guide the Media Use of Young Children
Children use electronic screens at ever younger ages, but there is still little empirical research on how and why parents mediate this media use. In line with Vygotsky's zone of proximal development, we explored whether children's media skills and media activities, next to parents' attitudes about media for children, and several child and parent-family characteristics, predicted parental mediation practices. Furthermore, we investigated children'…
Guiding young children’s internet use at home
Using an online questionnaire among 785 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands we investigated a) whether parents experience problems when guiding children’s digital media usage, b) whether they feel competent in dealing with these problems, c) whether they need parenting support, and d) how these problems, competences and need for support are related to the characteristics of the parents, the family and the child. The analyses reveal th…
Adolescents’ Social Network Site Use, Peer Appearance-Related Feedback, and Body Dissatisfaction
Previous correlational research indicates that adolescent girls who use social network sites more frequently are more dissatisfied with their bodies. However, we know little about the causal direction of this relationship, the mechanisms underlying this relationship, and whether this relationship also occurs among boys to the same extent. The present two-wave panel study (18 month time lag) among 604 Dutch adolescents (aged 11-18; 50.7% female; 9…
Implications of low or high media use among parents for young children’s media use
Using an online questionnaire among 1,381 parents (children 0-7 years) in the Netherlands I investigated a) the congruence between the time that parents and children spend on various media; b) how several parent, child and household characteristics vary among four family types: low, moderate, high, and very high media consumers; and c) which characteristics most strongly differentiate these four family types. The analyses reveal that parents vary…
Do (pre)adolescents mind about healthy media use
Some forms of media use may negatively affect (pre)adolescents’ health, but little is known about the parent’s role herein. Therefore, an online questionnaire among 1,741 Dutch youngsters (10-18 years) explored, a) whether they use electronic media in a healthy manner – i.e., no media during bedtime; no smartphones while cycling; lowering headset volume; taking breaks during extended media use; and keeping un upright posture during extended use, …
Youth and media in special needs education
It is known that children with special educational needs (i.e., with physical and or cognitive disabilities, and or conduct or social-emotional disorders) are more at risk for problems resulting from media use at home. Yet, how professionals in special needs education (SNE) deal with these media related problems by their students at school has received little attention. To fill this gap 19 professionals affiliated to 3 primary SNE-schools in the …
Individualization of extended family bonds? An analysis of youth narratives from three Dutch generations
Scoping review of research on evidence-based digital media interventions for youth
Digital media shape young people’s education, relationships, and leisure, bringing opportunities (e.g., learning, creativity, social connection) and risks (e.g., cyberbullying, misinformation, commercial exploitation). This scoping review mapped digital media interventions for young people and/or their caregivers that have been empirically evaluated and described what has been tested, for whom, where, and using which methods. We identified 120 pe…
Windows to the past, frames of the present
Oral history interviews about upbringing illuminate past childhoods while also revealing the interpretive frameworks through which those childhoods are remembered. This article examines that dual temporality through an analysis of 316 interviews with three Dutch generations (raised 1920–2015) recorded between 2012 and 2015. The findings show that educational discourses influential at the time of interviewing – shaped by psychological concepts, th…
Psychology (15 works) · Impact of Technology on Adolescents (14 works) · Child Development and Digital Technology (13 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Mediation (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Political science (6 works) · Medicine (5 works)