Maja Deković

Biographic Data

ID93034
NAMEMaja Deković
GIVEN NAMESMaja
FAMILY NAMEDeković
SIGNATUREDEKOVIĆ M
AFFILIATIONSUtrecht University
ORCID0000-0002-8698-9037
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS104
TOTAL CITATIONS437
AUTHOR COUNT104
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX13

  • The Power of Peers: How Sexual Norms Shape Adolescents’ Emotional Responses to Sexual Experiences

    Open AccessElizabeth Reitz, Wieke Y Beumer et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Sex Research2026

    Peer norms play a key role in shaping adolescents' sexuality. While research has focused primarily on adolescents' sexual experiences, little is known about how peer norms influence emotional responses to these sexual experiences. This study examined the longitudinal associations between three types of (perceived) sexual peer norms: descriptive norms (sexual peer behavior), injunctive norms (peer sexual approval), and peer pressure (to have sex),…

  • Unlocking child participation’: Development and validation of the Child Participation Post-Separation Scale (ChiPPS)

    Open AccessRianne Van Dijk, Charlotte R Mol et al.ARTICLEChildren and Youth Services Review2026References: 49

    Children’s right to be heard should be safeguarded in separation-related decisions. • Thus far, a quantitative tool to measure child participation post-separation was lacking. • The ChiPPS captured multiple distinct, yet intertwined participation dimensions. • The first validation of the ChiPPS showed good psychometric properties. • The ChiPPS reliably and meaningfully measures child participation post-separation. Children have a right to partici…

  • Exploring transdiagnostic factors of internalizing and externalizing symptoms in transitional-age youth: Using a variable-centered and person-centered approach

    Open AccessJanna Keulen, Maja Deković et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2025

    Transitional-age youth (TAY; 15 to 25 years old) are more likely to experience psychological problems compared to other age groups. This study aimed to identify the most relevant transdiagnostic factors underlying internalizing and externalizing symptoms in TAY, including perfectionism, perceived stress, self-compassion, psychological flexibility, adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation, self-esteem, and autonomy. The sample consisted of 87 T…

  • Center-based childcare during infancy: The relations with functional brain networks and self-regulation in young children

    Open AccessMarissa Hofstee, Ruben G Fukkink et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2025

    Given the substantial increase in children attending center-based childcare over the past decades, the consequences of center-based childcare for children’s development have gained more attention in developmental research. However, the relation between center-based childcare and children’s neurocognitive development remains relatively underexplored. The aim of this study was therefore to examine the relations between quantity of center-based chil…

  • Daily and Half-yearly Associations between Boundary Diffusion and Parent-adolescent Relationship Quality after Divorce

    Open AccessRianne Van Dijk, Stefanos Mastrotheodoro et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2025References: 60

    Boundary diffusion is a particular risk after divorce and has been associated with adolescents’ adjustment problems. Yet, its potential impact on parent-adolescent relationship quality is less straightforward, as previous findings support both an alienation and conflict perspective . Therefore these associations (daily and half-yearly) were examined in recently divorced families, addressing both within-dyad changes and between-dyad differences. D…

  • Psychological Flexibility, Adaptive Emotion Regulation, Self-Compassion, and Autonomy as Mechanisms of Change in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Transitional-Age Youth

    Open AccessJanna Keulen, Maja Deković et al.ARTICLEBehavior Therapy2025References: 41

    Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a promising transdiagnostic intervention for transitional-age youth (15-25 years) with psychological problems. This study aimed to investigate whether psychological flexibility, adaptive emotion regulation, self-compassion, and autonomy are possible transdiagnostic mechanisms through which ACT reduces psychological problems in transitional-age youth. Data were derived from a randomized controlled trial (…

  • Psychosocial and biobehavioral processes underlying the association between prenatal risk factors and child self-regulation

    Open AccessMarissa Hofstee, Jorg Huijding et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2024

    Over the past few decades, there has been accumulating evidence that prenatal exposure to risk is negatively related to child self-regulation. However, the mechanisms underlying this relationship are unclear. The present study used a multimethod approach to simultaneously examine the mediating role of the developmental trajectories of observed parenting quality (support, stimulation, and structure) and children's functional brain networks (small-…

  • Gaze and speech behavior in parent–child interactions: The role of conflict and cooperation

    Open AccessGijs A Holleman, Ignace T C Hooge et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

    A primary mode of human social behavior is face-to-face interaction. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of gaze and its relation to speech behavior during video-mediated face-to-face interactions between parents and their preadolescent children. 81 parent–child dyads engaged in conversations about cooperative and conflictive family topics. We used a dual-eye tracking setup that is capable of concurrently recording eye movements, f…

  • Chinese version of comprehensive early childhood parenting questionnaire (Cecpaq-CV): Factor structure, reliability, and validity

    Open AccessShuyang Dong, Judith Semon Dubas et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2023

  • Are (pre)adolescents differentially susceptible to experimentally manipulated peer acceptance and rejection? A vignette-based experiment

    Open AccessDanni Liu, Anouk van Dijk et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2023

    The differential susceptibility model proposes that some children are more susceptible to both positive and negative peer relationships than others. However, experimental evidence supporting such a proposition is relatively scarce. The current experiment aimed to help address this gap, investigating whether Chinese (pre)adolescents who have higher levels of general sensitivity to the environment (i.e., higher levels of sensory processing sensitiv…

  • Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Highly Sensitive Child Scale Across Age Groups, Gender, and Informants

    Open AccessDanni Liu, Anouk van Dijk et al.ARTICLEChild Indicators Research2023Cited by: 2References: 9

    Sensory Processing Sensitivity (SPS) is theorized to be a fundamental trait capturing children’s general sensitivity to the environment. Yet, scientific knowledge of SPS is mostly based on findings from Western cultures and few translated measures exist to assess children’s SPS outside of Western countries. Therefore, we developed the Chinese Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale. In Study 1, we investigated the scale’s psychometric properties for b…

  • Adding Structured Components to Home Visitation to Reduce Mothers’ Risk for Child Maltreatment: A Randomized Controlled Trial

    Open AccessTrudy van der Stouwe, Patty Leijten et al.ARTICLEJournal of Family Violence2023References: 6

    The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10896-023-00509-7

  • Stability and change in maternal parenting profiles across infancy and toddlerhood

    Open AccessRogier E J Verhoef, Marissa Hofstee et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2023Cited by: 1

    During infancy and toddlerhood, parents show large individual differences in the extent to which they are able to tailor their parenting behaviors to their children's swiftly changing developmental needs. The first aim of our study was, therefore, to distinguish parenting profiles at three time points during infancy and toddlerhood (i.e., 5, 10, and 36 months) based on mothers' supportive presence, structure and limit-setting, and quality of inst…

  • Committed Compliance and Maternal Parenting Behaviors Predict Internalization of Rules and Externalizing Behaviors in Chinese Preschool Children

    Shuyang Dong, Judith Semon Dubas et al.ARTICLEEarly Education and Development2022

    This study investigated how parenting behaviors and child committed compliance predicted internalization of rules and externalizing behaviors throughout early childhood. Participants were 95 Chinese mother-child dyads. Maternal respect for autonomy and negative control were observed in free-plays at 14 and 25 months. Toddlers’ committed compliance was coded in a cleanup task at 25 months. At 60 months, internalization of maternal rules and experi…

  • Solid as a rock, flexible as water? Effectiveness of a school-based intervention addressing students' intrapersonal and interpersonal domains

    Open AccessEsther C A Mertens, Maja Deković et al.ARTICLEJournal of School Psychology2022

    Students following a preparatory vocational education track seem most in need of an intervention stimulating their competencies and preventing the development of problems in the intrapersonal and interpersonal domain. The aim of the present study was to examine, first, whether Rock & Water, a social emotional learning intervention that uses active forms of learning, is effective in improving students' competencies and preventing problems in the i…

  • Explaining Heterogeneity of Daily Conflict Spillover in the Family: The Role of Dyadic Marital Conflict Patterns

    Open AccessStefanos Mastrotheodoro, Lauren M Papp et al.ARTICLEFamily Process2022

    In this multi‐informant, longitudinal, daily diary study, we investigated whether long‐term dyadic patterns of marital conflict resolution explain the heterogeneity in short‐term day‐to‐day cross‐lagged associations between marital conflict intensity and mother–adolescent conflict intensity. The sample consisted of 419 adolescents (44.6% girls, M age = 13.02, SD = 0.44, at T1; M age = 17.02, SD = 0.44, at T5), their mothers ( N = 419, M age = 44.…

  • Sexual Double Standards: Contributions of Sexual Socialization by Parents, Peers, and the Media

    Open AccessJoyce J Endendijk, Maja Deković et al.ARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2022

    (Hetero)sexual double standards (SDS) entail that different sexual behaviors are appropriate for men and women. There is large variation in whether people endorse SDS in their expectations about the sexual behavior of women and men (i.e., SDS-norms). To explain these individual differences, we examined associations between SDS-norms of Dutch adolescents (aged 16–20 years, N = 566) and what parents, peers, and the media teach adolescents about app…

  • Longitudinal associations between sibling relationship quality and child adjustment after divorce

    Open AccessRianne Van Dijk, Inge E Van Der Valk et al.ARTICLEJournal of Marriage and the Family2022

    Objective This study examined the interplay between the parent–child and sibling relationships in their associations with child adjustment after divorce, in order to understand the postdivorce impact of the sibling relationship more thoroughly. Background The sibling relationship is unique in its lifetime duration and frequent interactions, and is associated with child adjustment in intact families. Research on the sibling relationship in divorce…

  • To excel and to be happy: Parenting behaviors, parenting stress, and sociocultural contexts in Dutch and urban Chinese families

    Open AccessShuyang Dong, Judith Semon Dubas et al.ARTICLEEarly Childhood Research Quarterly2022Cited by: 2References: 4

    The current research examined the similarities and differences in parenting behaviors between 1090 Dutch and 2339 urban Chinese mothers with 1- to 4-year olds and investigated to what extent group differences in parenting stress, proportions of only children, and maternal working hours explain cultural variations in parenting behaviors. Thirteen parenting behaviors were assessed using the Comprehensive Early Childhood Parenting Questionnaire. Par…

  • Goodness of fit in the Chinese context of socialization in the first three years

    Shuyang Dong, Judith Semon Dubas et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2022Cited by: 1References: 4

    Based on the goodness-of-fit theory, the current research examined how parental socialization expectations and socialization practices in infancy predicted child social adjustment in the preschool year dependent on child characteristics in toddlerhood with a longitudinal sample of Chinese families. Participants were 272 Chinese mother-child dyads. Maternal socialization goals of child autonomy and obedience were assessed when the child was 6 mont…

  • Inhibitory Control Across the Preschool Years: Developmental Changes and Associations with Parenting

    Open AccessSanne B Geeraerts, Joyce J Endendijk et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    The normative developmental course of inhibitory control between 2.5 and 6.5 years, and associations with maternal and paternal sensitivity and intrusiveness were tested. The sample consisted of 383 children (52.5% boys). During four annual waves, mothers and fathers reported on their children’s inhibitory control using the Children's Behavior Questionnaire. During the first wave, mothers’ and fathers’ sensitivity and intrusiveness were observed …

  • Exploring emotional face processing in 5‐month‐olds: The relation with quality of parent–child interaction and spatial frequencies

    Open AccessCarlijn van den Boomen, Nicolette M Munsters et al.ARTICLEInfancy2021

    It is unclear whether infants differentially process emotional faces in the brain at 5 months of age. Contradictory findings of previous research indicate that additional factors play a role in this process. The current study investigated whether five‐month‐old infants show differential brain activity between emotional faces. Furthermore, we explored the relation between emotional face processing and (I) stimulus characteristics, specifically the…

  • Pragmatic Quasi-Experimental Controlled Trial Evaluating the Outcomes of Blended CBT Compared to Face-to-Face CBT and Treatment as Usual for Adolescents with Depressive Disorders

    Open AccessSanne P A Rasing, Yvonne A J Stikkelbroek et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Depression is a major problem in youth mental health. Current treatment is on average effective, but adolescents are hesitant to seek help. Blended treatment could lower the barriers to seeking treatment. Evidence on effectiveness is, however, scarce. The present pragmatic quasi-experimental controlled trial aimed to compare the outcomes of blended cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to face-to-face CBT and treatment as usual. A total of 129 adole…

  • Problematic Internet Use in Adolescents from Divorced Families: The Role of Family Factors and Adolescents’ Self-Esteem

    Open AccessRianne Van Dijk, Inge E Van Der Valk et al.ARTICLEInternational Journal of…2021

    Family functioning is salient in explaining adolescents' problematic internet use (PIU), and precisely this family functioning is under pressure after parental divorce. Moreover, growing up with divorced parents is identified as a risk factor for PIU. Therefore, examining which factors are associated with adolescents' PIU after divorce is particularly important. Based on self-report data from N = 244 adolescents of divorced families (49.6% boys, …

  • The Role of Classmates’ Modeling and Reinforcement in Adolescents’ Perceived Classroom Peer Context

    Open AccessEsther C A Mertens, Maja Deković et al.ARTICLEJournal of Youth and Adolescence2021References: 27

    Experiences with classmates can affect adolescents’ academic, emotional, and social development. The aim was to examine whether changes in classmates’ modeling and reinforcement, induced by an intervention, affected changes in adolescents’ perceived classroom peer context and whether these associations were moderated by dyadic mutuality. Questionnaires and observations were used in a sample of 7th Grade students ( N = 152; M age = 12.37; 53.8% bo…