Bernet M Elzinga
Biographic Data
| ID | 6035374 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernet M Elzinga |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernet M |
| FAMILY NAME | Elzinga |
| SIGNATURE | ELZINGA B M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8917-7368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Sibling Relationships After the Death of a Parent During Childhood: “Everyone Carries Their Own Grief”
After the death of a parent, children have to adjust to changes in family roles and dynamics as a result of the loss, including the sibling relationship. The current qualitative study explored, using joint interviews with sibling pairs, how adult siblings experienced the death of their parent during childhood and their sibling relationship over time. Thirteen adult siblings from six families reflected upon their loss experiences and how these aff…
Beyond Perceptions: Meta-Analyses on Observed Parent–Child Interaction Behaviors and Childhood and Adolescent Depression
A lack of positive and the presence of negative parenting are frequently mentioned as risk factors for the development and maintenance of childhood and adolescent depression. However, meta-analytic research is mostly based on parenting as perceived by the child or parent, with the potential risk of a reporter bias. Also, specific patterns of observed child behavior among children with childhood depression are often overlooked and there currently …
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships
The disruption of the parent–child attachment bond due to parental death (PD) may lead to lingering feelings of unsafety or insecurity that might potentially transfer to adult intimate relationships. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether experiencing childhood parental death (CPD) was associated with adult romantic relationship formation and stability, attachment style, and relationship satisfaction, and whether this is dependen…
Footprints from childhood: Intra- versus extra-familial childhood maltreatment and attachment to romantic partners in adulthood
In clinical practice, it is important to explore the link between relational problems/adult attachment and past traumatic experiences, as they may fundamentally impact feelings of trust and safety. The impact is largest when childhood neglect and abuse occurred within families and when both parents are involved
Balancing boundaries: Observed parental autonomy support and psychological control in the context of parent‐adolescent interactions and adolescent depression
Autonomy support (AS) and psychological control (PC) are important parenting behaviors in adolescence, with low AS and high PC relating to adolescent depression. Studies on observed levels of AS and PC in a clinical sample are lacking. The current study aimed to (1) develop a reliable coding system for parental AS and PC in parent-adolescent interactions and gain insights into its ecological validity in a healthy control (HC) sample, and (2) dise…
A Network Study of Family Affect Systems in Daily Life
Adolescence is a time period characterized by extremes in affect and increasing prevalence of mental health problems. Prior studies have illustrated how affect states of adolescents are related to interactions with parents. However, it remains unclear how affect states among family triads, that is adolescents and their parents, are related in daily life. This study investigated affect state dynamics (happy, sad, relaxed, and irritated) of 60 fami…
Linking internalizing and externalizing problems to warmth and negativity in observed dyadic parent–offspring communication
“Covid‐19 is dangerous”: The role of parental verbal threat information on children's fear of Covid‐19
Introduction Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that the effect of parental verbal threat information on the offspring's fear acquisition of novel stimuli may be causal. The current study investigated this verbal fear acquisition pathway from parents to children in the unique context of Covid‐19 as a novel environmental threat for parents and children. Methods Using an online cross‐sectional survey, we collected data about fear of Covid‐…
Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life
The current study aimed to evaluate how adolescents' and parents' perceptions of daily parenting-and their discrepancies-relate to daily parent and adolescent affect. Daily parental warmth and affect were assessed using electronic diaries in 150 American adolescent-parent dyads (61.3% females, M age = 14.6, 83.3% White; 95.3% mothers, M age = 43.4; 89.3% White) and in 80 Dutch adolescents with 79 mothers and 72 fathers (63.8% females, M age = 15.…
Eyes on you: Ensuring empathic accuracy or signalling empathy
The eye region is thought to play an important role in the ability to accurately infer others' feelings, or empathic accuracy (EA), which is an important skill for social interaction. However, most past studies used static pictures, including only visual information, and knowledge about the contribution of the eye region to EA when visual information is presented together with verbal content is lacking. We therefore examined whether eye gazing co…
The Link between Parental Support and Adolescent Negative Mood in Daily Life: Between-Person Heterogeneity in within-Person Processes
Lack of parental support is related to more adolescent negative mood. However, little is known about how fluctuations of parental support relate to fluctuations of negative mood within adolescents in daily life. The current study aimed to elucidate these processes at a day to day micro-level and examined to which extent adolescents would differ in the association between perceived parental support and adolescent negative mood. The sample consiste…
Perceptions of Parenting in Daily Life: Adolescent-Parent Differences and Associations with Adolescent Affect
Adolescents can perceive parenting quite differently than parents themselves and these discrepancies may relate to adolescent well-being. The current study aimed to explore how adolescents and parents perceive daily parental warmth and criticism and whether these perceptions and discrepancies relate to adolescents’ daily positive and negative affect. The sample consisted of 80 adolescents ( M age = 15.9; 63.8% girls) and 151 parents ( M age = 49.…
Does the Covid-19 pandemic impact parents’ and adolescents’ well-being? An EMA-study on daily affect and parenting
Due to the COVID- 19 outbreak in the Netherlands (March 2020) and the associated social distancing measures, families were enforced to stay at home as much as possible. Adolescents and their families may be particularly affected by this enforced proximity, as adolescents strive to become more independent. Yet, whether these measures impact emotional well-being in families with adolescents has not been examined. In this ecological momentary assess…
Not the Root of the Problem—Hair Cortisol and Cortisone Do Not Mediate the Effect of Child Maltreatment on Body Mass Index
These findings confirm that experiencing abuse is related to higher BMI but suggest that hair cortisol and cortisone are not the mechanism underlying the association between child maltreatment and BMI. This is the first study to show abuse may be associated to elevated concentrations of hair cortisone-evidence of long-term alterations in chronic stress levels. Future research may benefit from exploring the effects of maltreatment on weight gain i…
Early relational trauma and self representations: Misattributing externally derived representations as internally generated
Erroneously identifying information derived from other people as self-generated may be a specific sociocognitive propensity linked to early relational trauma and may impact upon the development of self schema. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Parent-Child Agreement on Parent-to-Child Maltreatment
Parent-child agreement on child maltreatment was examined in a multigenerational study. Questionnaires on perpetrated and experienced child maltreatment were completed by 138 parent-child pairs. Multi-level analyses were conducted to explore whether parents and children agreed about levels of parent-to-child maltreatment (convergence), and to examine whether parents and children reported equal levels of child maltreatment (absolute differences). …
The Association of Early and Recent Psychosocial Life Stress With Leukocyte Telomere Length
OBJECTIVES: Chronic exposure to psychosocial stressors is related to worse somatic health. This association applies both to stressors early in life, such as childhood adversities, and more recent life stress, such as stressful life events. This study examined whether accelerated telomere shortening, as an indicator of cellular aging, might be an explanatory mechanism. METHODS: We examined whether childhood adversities and recent stressful life ev…
Hair cortisol, stress exposure, and mental health in humans: A systematic review
Do Horizontal Saccadic Eye Movements Increase Interhemispheric Coherence? Investigation of a Hypothesized Neural Mechanism Underlying EMDR
Series of horizontal saccadic eye movements (EMs) are known to improve episodic memory retrieval in healthy adults and to facilitate the processing of traumatic memories in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Several authors have proposed that EMs achieve these effects by increasing the functional connectivity of the two brain hemispheres, but direct evidence for this proposal is lacking. The aim of this study was to inv…
Dissociative style and individual differences in verbal working memory span
Dissociative style is mostly studied as a risk factor for dissociative pathology, but it may also reflect a fundamental characteristic of healthy information processing. Due to the close link between attention and working memory and the previous finding of enhanced attentional abilities with a high dissociative style, a positive relationship was also expected between dissociative style and verbal working memory span. In a sample of 119 psychology…
Conscious Processing of Sexual Information: Interference Caused by Sexual Primes
Perceptions of Parenting in Daily Life: Adolescent-Parent Differences and Associations with Adolescent Affect
Adolescents can perceive parenting quite differently than parents themselves and these discrepancies may relate to adolescent well-being. The current study aimed to explore how adolescents and parents perceive daily parental warmth and criticism and whether these perceptions and discrepancies relate to adolescents’ daily positive and negative affect. The sample consisted of 80 adolescents ( M age = 15.9; 63.8% girls) and 151 parents ( M age = 49.…
Conscious Processing of Sexual Information: Interference Caused by Sexual Primes
The Link between Parental Support and Adolescent Negative Mood in Daily Life: Between-Person Heterogeneity in within-Person Processes
Lack of parental support is related to more adolescent negative mood. However, little is known about how fluctuations of parental support relate to fluctuations of negative mood within adolescents in daily life. The current study aimed to elucidate these processes at a day to day micro-level and examined to which extent adolescents would differ in the association between perceived parental support and adolescent negative mood. The sample consiste…
Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life
The current study aimed to evaluate how adolescents' and parents' perceptions of daily parenting-and their discrepancies-relate to daily parent and adolescent affect. Daily parental warmth and affect were assessed using electronic diaries in 150 American adolescent-parent dyads (61.3% females, M age = 14.6, 83.3% White; 95.3% mothers, M age = 43.4; 89.3% White) and in 80 Dutch adolescents with 79 mothers and 72 fathers (63.8% females, M age = 15.…
Parent-Child Agreement on Parent-to-Child Maltreatment
Parent-child agreement on child maltreatment was examined in a multigenerational study. Questionnaires on perpetrated and experienced child maltreatment were completed by 138 parent-child pairs. Multi-level analyses were conducted to explore whether parents and children agreed about levels of parent-to-child maltreatment (convergence), and to examine whether parents and children reported equal levels of child maltreatment (absolute differences). …
Conscious Processing of Sexual Information: Interference Caused by Sexual Primes
Dissociative style and individual differences in verbal working memory span
Dissociative style is mostly studied as a risk factor for dissociative pathology, but it may also reflect a fundamental characteristic of healthy information processing. Due to the close link between attention and working memory and the previous finding of enhanced attentional abilities with a high dissociative style, a positive relationship was also expected between dissociative style and verbal working memory span. In a sample of 119 psychology…
Do Horizontal Saccadic Eye Movements Increase Interhemispheric Coherence? Investigation of a Hypothesized Neural Mechanism Underlying EMDR
Series of horizontal saccadic eye movements (EMs) are known to improve episodic memory retrieval in healthy adults and to facilitate the processing of traumatic memories in eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. Several authors have proposed that EMs achieve these effects by increasing the functional connectivity of the two brain hemispheres, but direct evidence for this proposal is lacking. The aim of this study was to inv…
Hair cortisol, stress exposure, and mental health in humans: A systematic review
The Association of Early and Recent Psychosocial Life Stress With Leukocyte Telomere Length
OBJECTIVES: Chronic exposure to psychosocial stressors is related to worse somatic health. This association applies both to stressors early in life, such as childhood adversities, and more recent life stress, such as stressful life events. This study examined whether accelerated telomere shortening, as an indicator of cellular aging, might be an explanatory mechanism. METHODS: We examined whether childhood adversities and recent stressful life ev…
Parent-Child Agreement on Parent-to-Child Maltreatment
Parent-child agreement on child maltreatment was examined in a multigenerational study. Questionnaires on perpetrated and experienced child maltreatment were completed by 138 parent-child pairs. Multi-level analyses were conducted to explore whether parents and children agreed about levels of parent-to-child maltreatment (convergence), and to examine whether parents and children reported equal levels of child maltreatment (absolute differences). …
Early relational trauma and self representations: Misattributing externally derived representations as internally generated
Erroneously identifying information derived from other people as self-generated may be a specific sociocognitive propensity linked to early relational trauma and may impact upon the development of self schema. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)
Does the Covid-19 pandemic impact parents’ and adolescents’ well-being? An EMA-study on daily affect and parenting
Due to the COVID- 19 outbreak in the Netherlands (March 2020) and the associated social distancing measures, families were enforced to stay at home as much as possible. Adolescents and their families may be particularly affected by this enforced proximity, as adolescents strive to become more independent. Yet, whether these measures impact emotional well-being in families with adolescents has not been examined. In this ecological momentary assess…
Not the Root of the Problem—Hair Cortisol and Cortisone Do Not Mediate the Effect of Child Maltreatment on Body Mass Index
These findings confirm that experiencing abuse is related to higher BMI but suggest that hair cortisol and cortisone are not the mechanism underlying the association between child maltreatment and BMI. This is the first study to show abuse may be associated to elevated concentrations of hair cortisone-evidence of long-term alterations in chronic stress levels. Future research may benefit from exploring the effects of maltreatment on weight gain i…
The Link between Parental Support and Adolescent Negative Mood in Daily Life: Between-Person Heterogeneity in within-Person Processes
Lack of parental support is related to more adolescent negative mood. However, little is known about how fluctuations of parental support relate to fluctuations of negative mood within adolescents in daily life. The current study aimed to elucidate these processes at a day to day micro-level and examined to which extent adolescents would differ in the association between perceived parental support and adolescent negative mood. The sample consiste…
Perceptions of Parenting in Daily Life: Adolescent-Parent Differences and Associations with Adolescent Affect
Adolescents can perceive parenting quite differently than parents themselves and these discrepancies may relate to adolescent well-being. The current study aimed to explore how adolescents and parents perceive daily parental warmth and criticism and whether these perceptions and discrepancies relate to adolescents’ daily positive and negative affect. The sample consisted of 80 adolescents ( M age = 15.9; 63.8% girls) and 151 parents ( M age = 49.…
Eyes on you: Ensuring empathic accuracy or signalling empathy
The eye region is thought to play an important role in the ability to accurately infer others' feelings, or empathic accuracy (EA), which is an important skill for social interaction. However, most past studies used static pictures, including only visual information, and knowledge about the contribution of the eye region to EA when visual information is presented together with verbal content is lacking. We therefore examined whether eye gazing co…
Linking internalizing and externalizing problems to warmth and negativity in observed dyadic parent–offspring communication
“Covid‐19 is dangerous”: The role of parental verbal threat information on children's fear of Covid‐19
Introduction Theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that the effect of parental verbal threat information on the offspring's fear acquisition of novel stimuli may be causal. The current study investigated this verbal fear acquisition pathway from parents to children in the unique context of Covid‐19 as a novel environmental threat for parents and children. Methods Using an online cross‐sectional survey, we collected data about fear of Covid‐…
Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life
The current study aimed to evaluate how adolescents' and parents' perceptions of daily parenting-and their discrepancies-relate to daily parent and adolescent affect. Daily parental warmth and affect were assessed using electronic diaries in 150 American adolescent-parent dyads (61.3% females, M age = 14.6, 83.3% White; 95.3% mothers, M age = 43.4; 89.3% White) and in 80 Dutch adolescents with 79 mothers and 72 fathers (63.8% females, M age = 15.…
A Network Study of Family Affect Systems in Daily Life
Adolescence is a time period characterized by extremes in affect and increasing prevalence of mental health problems. Prior studies have illustrated how affect states of adolescents are related to interactions with parents. However, it remains unclear how affect states among family triads, that is adolescents and their parents, are related in daily life. This study investigated affect state dynamics (happy, sad, relaxed, and irritated) of 60 fami…
Losing a parent during childhood: The impact on adult romantic relationships
The disruption of the parent–child attachment bond due to parental death (PD) may lead to lingering feelings of unsafety or insecurity that might potentially transfer to adult intimate relationships. The aim of the current study was to investigate whether experiencing childhood parental death (CPD) was associated with adult romantic relationship formation and stability, attachment style, and relationship satisfaction, and whether this is dependen…
Footprints from childhood: Intra- versus extra-familial childhood maltreatment and attachment to romantic partners in adulthood
In clinical practice, it is important to explore the link between relational problems/adult attachment and past traumatic experiences, as they may fundamentally impact feelings of trust and safety. The impact is largest when childhood neglect and abuse occurred within families and when both parents are involved
Balancing boundaries: Observed parental autonomy support and psychological control in the context of parent‐adolescent interactions and adolescent depression
Autonomy support (AS) and psychological control (PC) are important parenting behaviors in adolescence, with low AS and high PC relating to adolescent depression. Studies on observed levels of AS and PC in a clinical sample are lacking. The current study aimed to (1) develop a reliable coding system for parental AS and PC in parent-adolescent interactions and gain insights into its ecological validity in a healthy control (HC) sample, and (2) dise…
Sibling Relationships After the Death of a Parent During Childhood: “Everyone Carries Their Own Grief”
After the death of a parent, children have to adjust to changes in family roles and dynamics as a result of the loss, including the sibling relationship. The current qualitative study explored, using joint interviews with sibling pairs, how adult siblings experienced the death of their parent during childhood and their sibling relationship over time. Thirteen adult siblings from six families reflected upon their loss experiences and how these aff…
Beyond Perceptions: Meta-Analyses on Observed Parent–Child Interaction Behaviors and Childhood and Adolescent Depression
A lack of positive and the presence of negative parenting are frequently mentioned as risk factors for the development and maintenance of childhood and adolescent depression. However, meta-analytic research is mostly based on parenting as perceived by the child or parent, with the potential risk of a reporter bias. Also, specific patterns of observed child behavior among children with childhood depression are often overlooked and there currently …
Psychology (16 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Child Abuse and Trauma (4 works)