Ann Buysse
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 72244 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ann Buysse |
| PRENOMES | Ann |
| SOBRENOME | Buysse |
| ASSINATURA | BUYSSE A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5047-3293 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 100 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1996 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Examining Functional Solidarity in Families With the Social Relations Model
ObjectiveThis paper proposes using the Social Relations Model to grasp functional solidarity in families with adolescent and emerging adult children.BackgroundFamily solidarity is a framework for understanding cohesion among family members. Essential to this concept is commitment to each other's well-being and a willingness to support one another. The majority of functional solidarity research focuses on support transfers between adult children a…
Minority stress and relationship satisfaction in same‐sex couples
Minority Stress and Dyadic Stress in Same-Sex Couples
Objectives: We investigated how internalized homonegativity and dyadic stress predicted relationship satisfaction in same-sex romantic relationships and explored the moderating roles of dyadic coping and relationship duration in the aforementioned associations. Methods: The actor-partner interdependence moderation model (APIMoM) was introduced to deal with mutual influences between both partners in 241 same-sex romantic relationships. Results: (1…
The Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations in a Sexual Minority Population
Coping strategies have been studied as protective factors against stress for individuals. However, the psychometric properties of the most widely used coping self-report questionnaires, the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situations (CISS-21), have not been examined in a sexual minority population (men and women that identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual or LGB). In this study, we conducted exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and confirmatory factor…
Sex and sexual orientation in the effects of coping strategies on relationship satisfaction
Coping with minority stress in romantic relationships among lesbian, gay and bisexual people
Adolescent Attachment
While attachment at an early age is almost exclusively determined by parental behavior, variation in the quality of attachment in adolescence seems strong to be influenced by the complex interplay between the adolescent’s internal working model and its environment. To unravel the different sources of variance in adolescent attachment relationships we applied the Social Relations Model. Two parents and two adolescents from 70 relatively well‐funct…
Enjoy poverty’
The concepts of critical reflection and reflexivity currently occupy a prominent space in social work education. Nevertheless, there is a need for more evidence on how these concepts are conceptualised and enacted in concrete social work teaching contexts. In this paper, we develop a rhetorical approach to critical and reflexive social work education building on the concepts of terministic screens, trained incapacities and rhetorical listening. W…
Sex Differences in the Romantic Relationships of Same-Gender Couples
Although internalized homonegativity (IH) in lesbian, gay, or bisexual people (LGBs) predicts adverse relationship satisfaction, this association has typically only been examined on an individual level. Moreover, studies often ignore potential mechanisms that underlie sex differences. One of these mechanisms is related to visibility management (i.e., the careful, planned decisions about whether or not to disclose one's sexual orientation). Theref…
Critical cultural disability studies and mental health
This paper examines how an intersection of critical cultural disability studies and rhetorical studies can inform a critical education on ‘mental health (problems)’ for psychology students. Building on cultural theories of disability/impairment, a conception of ‘mental health (problems)’ as culturally constituted is introduced. We propose the rhetorical perspective as a particularly relevant analytical and pedagogical approach to enable students …
Perceived mattering in stepfamilies
The current study examined the respective role of stepfamily members' individual characteristics and their dyadic relationships in stepfamily members' perceptions of mattering to one another. Parents, stepparents, and adolescents from 86 stepfamilies participated. Applying social relations model analyses, several trends emerged regarding the relative importance of individual and dyadic factors. Parents' and adolescents' reports of mattering to on…
Donor insemination disclosure in social networks
The way in which heterosexual couples manage information about infertility and donor insemination within their social networks has not yet been explored in-depth. This study focuses on how parents and aspiring parents manage information about infertility and donor insemination within their social networks. Fifteen Belgian couples were interviewed as part of a parenthood research project. Thematic analysis resulted in the identification of four th…
A Critical Perspective on Mental Health News in Six European Countries
In this study, we aim to contribute to the field of critical health communication research by examining how notions of mental health and illness are discursively constructed in newspapers and magazines in six European countries and how these constructions relate to specific understandings of mental health literacy. Using the method of cluster-agon analysis, we identified four terminological clusters in our data, in which mental health/illness is …
No daddy’, ‘A kind of daddy’
Research has shown that the recipients of donor sperm can experience difficulties finding appropriate language to refer to the donor. Based on two qualitative analysis techniques, namely word count and empirical discourse analysis, we studied the words used to refer to the donor in heterosexual and lesbian (aspiring) parents and in donor conceived children. Findings show that the words used in these households are highly diverse and have at least…
Exploring First Sexual Intercourse, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Health in Men
In this study the characteristics of the sexual debut of men who have sex with men (MSM) and men who have sex with women (MSW) age 35 or younger (N = 1,201) were compared with one another. We investigated whether these characteristics were associated with sexual health and behavior, and to what extent. Compared to MSW, MSM tended to be older when they had their first sexual intercourse; their first sex partner was older, they felt less ready, and…
Constructing and enacting kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families
Although intra-familial egg donation has been practiced for more than 15 years in several countries, little is known about family relationships in this family type. Framed within the new kinship studies, this article focuses on the experiential dimension of kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families: how is kinship 'unpacked' and 'reconstructed' in this specific family constellation? Qualitative data analysis of interviews with receiving p…
Family Communication About the Donor Conception
In literature, disclosure of donor conception in lesbian families has been considered an obvious and straightforward event. However, little is known about the ways in which donor conception is discussed in planned lesbian co-mother families. This study focuses on the process of parent-child communication about the donor conception on a within-family level. Six families, including 7 children and 12 parents, were interviewed about their family comm…
Lesbian couples' views about and experiences of not being able to choose their sperm donor
In this qualitative study, we explore how lesbian recipients view and experience the selection of their anonymous sperm donor. The study was conducted in Belgium, where fertility centres follow a legal protocol that severely restricts personal choice in donor selection. While previous studies have shown that recipients want greater control and input in the selection of their sperm donor, this was not a main concern for most women in the present s…
Unwanted Pursuit Behavior After Breakup
Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Among Non-Heterosexuals
Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Victims’ Relational and Sexual Well-Being
Prevalence of Gender Nonconformity in Flanders, Belgium
Experiences of Family Relationships Among Donor-Conceived Families
In this qualitative evidence synthesis, we explore how family relationships are experienced by parents who used gamete donation to conceive. We systematically searched four databases (PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and ProQuest) for literature related to this topic and retrieved 25 studies. Through the analysis of the qualitative studies, a comprehensive synthesis and framework was constructed. Following the meta-ethnography approach of Noblit…
The actor–partner interdependence model for categorical dyadic data
The actor–partner interdependence model ( APIM ) has been widely used for the analysis of pairs of individuals who interact with each other. The goal of this article is to detail in a nontechnical way how the APIM for binary or count outcomes can be implemented and how actor and partner effects can be estimated using generalized estimating equations ( GEE ) methodology. Both SPSS ‐ and SAS ‐syntax needed to estimate the model and the interpretati…
Cycle-Related Changes in Mood, Sexual Desire, and Sexual Activity in Oral Contraception-Using and Nonhormonal-Contraception-Using Couples
Findings on women's sexuality across the menstrual cycle are inconsistent. One relatively consistent finding is a midcycle and premenstrual peak in sexual desire in freely cycling women. Results on the cycle-related effects on sexual behavior are less clear. Large proportions of reproductive-aged women use combined oral contraception (COC), but studies on potential cycle-related shifts in sexual desire and behavior are sparse. A prospective diary…
Social Support in Couples
Dealing with Relational Conflict
Although behavioral research has provided important insights into the relational features of conflict, it leaves open the whole field of conflict-related processes that are unavailable for self-report or behavioral observation. The information-processing paradigm offers a useful approach to the study of these important and unexplored aspects of relational conflict. The present article describes a first attempt to `translate' and test some of the …
Children's experiences and meaning construction on parental divorce
The global aim of this study was to explore children's narratives of parental divorce. A convenience sample, composed of 11- and 14-year-old children, was recruited. A total of 22 children (12 male, 10 female) participated in this focus group study. The findings show that two components seem to be really important for children during the divorce process: the ability to construct meaning about their parents' decision to divorce and their feeling t…
Prevalence of Intimate Partner Violence Victimization and Victims’ Relational and Sexual Well-Being
Communication patterns in laboratory discussions of safer sex between dating versus nondating partners
Interactions about safer sex between partners in close relationships were compared with those between opposite sex strangers in order to explore the hypothesis that cognitive representations of close relationships can discourage effective safer‐sex negotiations. The type of discussion topic (safer sex vs. a control topic) was crossed with the type of discussion partner (dating partner vs. an opposite‐sex stranger) to create four groups of dyads. …
Unwanted Pursuit Behavior After Breakup
Prevalence of Gender Nonconformity in Flanders, Belgium
Exploring First Sexual Intercourse, Sexual Orientation, and Sexual Health in Men
In this study the characteristics of the sexual debut of men who have sex with men (MSM) and men who have sex with women (MSW) age 35 or younger (N = 1,201) were compared with one another. We investigated whether these characteristics were associated with sexual health and behavior, and to what extent. Compared to MSW, MSM tended to be older when they had their first sexual intercourse; their first sex partner was older, they felt less ready, and…
Intimate Partner Violence Victimization Among Non-Heterosexuals
Understandings of children's influence in parent-child relationships
Bidirectional models of interpersonal influence in parent-child relationships underscore the influence of children on their parents. Following a social constructionist perspective, the present study uses Q methodology to explore meanings and beliefs concerning children's influence among members of the Belgian-Flemish culture. Children and adults each performed the Q-sorting tasks that were analysed separately. Q-factor analysis of the children-so…
Critical cultural disability studies and mental health
This paper examines how an intersection of critical cultural disability studies and rhetorical studies can inform a critical education on ‘mental health (problems)’ for psychology students. Building on cultural theories of disability/impairment, a conception of ‘mental health (problems)’ as culturally constituted is introduced. We propose the rhetorical perspective as a particularly relevant analytical and pedagogical approach to enable students …
Constructing and enacting kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families
Although intra-familial egg donation has been practiced for more than 15 years in several countries, little is known about family relationships in this family type. Framed within the new kinship studies, this article focuses on the experiential dimension of kinship in sister-to-sister egg donation families: how is kinship 'unpacked' and 'reconstructed' in this specific family constellation? Qualitative data analysis of interviews with receiving p…
Cycle-Related Changes in Mood, Sexual Desire, and Sexual Activity in Oral Contraception-Using and Nonhormonal-Contraception-Using Couples
Findings on women's sexuality across the menstrual cycle are inconsistent. One relatively consistent finding is a midcycle and premenstrual peak in sexual desire in freely cycling women. Results on the cycle-related effects on sexual behavior are less clear. Large proportions of reproductive-aged women use combined oral contraception (COC), but studies on potential cycle-related shifts in sexual desire and behavior are sparse. A prospective diary…
Post-Breakup Unwanted Pursuit
Family Communication About the Donor Conception
In literature, disclosure of donor conception in lesbian families has been considered an obvious and straightforward event. However, little is known about the ways in which donor conception is discussed in planned lesbian co-mother families. This study focuses on the process of parent-child communication about the donor conception on a within-family level. Six families, including 7 children and 12 parents, were interviewed about their family comm…
Experiences of Family Relationships Among Donor-Conceived Families
In this qualitative evidence synthesis, we explore how family relationships are experienced by parents who used gamete donation to conceive. We systematically searched four databases (PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and ProQuest) for literature related to this topic and retrieved 25 studies. Through the analysis of the qualitative studies, a comprehensive synthesis and framework was constructed. Following the meta-ethnography approach of Noblit…
The Role of Interpersonal Influence in Families in Understanding Children's Eating Behavior
This study investigates children's eating behavior in a context of bidirectional parent-child influences. Parents and children were asked about their sense of influence and of being influenced concerning food rules. For parents, these feelings seemed to be partly correlated with children's eating behavior. Additionally, Social Relations Model analysis revealed that parents' and children's feelings of influence and being influenced were not only d…
Emotional arousal and negative affect in marital conflict
This report covers two studies that examined how spouses' emotional arousal and negative affect in response to marital conflict are shaped by gender, conflict structure, and demand-withdraw communication. In Study 1, 86 couples participated in a video analogue presentation procedure, and in Study 2, 32 couples participated in an observational methodology. In both studies, spouses' evaluative reports of their emotional arousal and negative affect …
Awareness among community-dwelling elderly of assistive devices for mobility and self-care and attitudes towards their use
Adolescents, young adults and Aids
Easing the conscience
Guilt is an emotion commonly experienced in divorce. Although guilt has been shown to increase cooperative negotiation behavior in organizational contexts, this is the first investigation of the role of guilt in divorce negotiations. Using survey data of 457 divorcing individuals, the authors examined how guilt was related to the most relevant negotiation styles, while controlling for the guilt-overlapping emotions shame and regret. Guilt was rel…
Activity in children with ADHD during waiting situations in the classroom
Background. According to the optimal stimulation theory and the delay aversion hypothesis, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience difficulties when they are confronted with low levels of stimulation and delay, respectively. Aim. This study investigated the activity level of children with ADHD during waiting situations in the classroom. Three series of hypothesis were made: (1) with respect to the comparison betwe…
Adolescents, young adults and Aids
'Appropriate' male and female safer sexual behaviour in heterosexual relationships
This paper is an attempt to explore how traditional gender role socialization runs counter to safer sexual practices. Structured interviews (N = 448 sexual encounters) were conducted with heterosexual young adults in 'natural settings' such as summer music festivals and youth houses/youth clubs. Congruent with a perspective of gender role theory, females were found to care more about safer sex. The data do not suggest that females are forced to r…
Communication patterns in laboratory discussions of safer sex between dating versus nondating partners
Interactions about safer sex between partners in close relationships were compared with those between opposite sex strangers in order to explore the hypothesis that cognitive representations of close relationships can discourage effective safer‐sex negotiations. The type of discussion topic (safer sex vs. a control topic) was crossed with the type of discussion partner (dating partner vs. an opposite‐sex stranger) to create four groups of dyads. …
On the difficulty of distinguishing “good” and “poor” perceivers
Two studies were conducted to explore the reasons why replicable individual‐difference correlates of empathic accuracy have proved so difficult to find. In Study 1, we examined sources of variance in empathic accuracy data using the Social Relations Model (Kenny, 1988, 1994; Kenny & Albright, 1987; Malloy & Kenny, 1986). The results revealed substantial perceiver variance only in the type of research design in which a relatively large set of indi…
Dealing with Relational Conflict
Although behavioral research has provided important insights into the relational features of conflict, it leaves open the whole field of conflict-related processes that are unavailable for self-report or behavioral observation. The information-processing paradigm offers a useful approach to the study of these important and unexplored aspects of relational conflict. The present article describes a first attempt to `translate' and test some of the …
Awareness among community-dwelling elderly of assistive devices for mobility and self-care and attitudes towards their use
Conflict and support interactions in marriage
The present study examined the similarities and differences in couples’ interactive behavior and interaction‐based cognition that emerged in comparisons of conflict and support interactions in marriage. In a laboratory experiment, 53 couples were randomly assigned to the conditions of a 2 (type of interaction: conflict vs. support) × 2 (initiator of interaction: man vs. woman) factorial design. Partners provided questionnaire data and participate…
Emotional arousal and negative affect in marital conflict
This report covers two studies that examined how spouses' emotional arousal and negative affect in response to marital conflict are shaped by gender, conflict structure, and demand-withdraw communication. In Study 1, 86 couples participated in a video analogue presentation procedure, and in Study 2, 32 couples participated in an observational methodology. In both studies, spouses' evaluative reports of their emotional arousal and negative affect …
Activity in children with ADHD during waiting situations in the classroom
Background. According to the optimal stimulation theory and the delay aversion hypothesis, children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience difficulties when they are confronted with low levels of stimulation and delay, respectively. Aim. This study investigated the activity level of children with ADHD during waiting situations in the classroom. Three series of hypothesis were made: (1) with respect to the comparison betwe…
Measuring Empathic Tendencies
The Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI; Davis, 1980) is a commonly used self-report instrument designed to assess empathic tendencies. The IRI consists of four separate subscales: Perspective Taking (PT), Fantasy (FS), Empathic Concern (EC), and Personal Distress (PD). The objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a Dutch version of the IRI. The IRI was administered to a Dutch sample of 651 normal functioning adults. …
What's in a name? Attachment-related attentional bias
Participants completed a dot probe task that presented pairs of first names: the participant's own name and a neutral name (Experiments 1-4), the name of their attachment figure and a neutral name (Experiments 1-4), or the name of a known person and a neutral name (Experiments 2-4). A significant attentional bias effect was found for the attachment name in attachment-related contexts, whether they were threatening or positive. The results of Expe…
Social Support in Couples
Support provision in marriage
The goal of this investigation was to identify microlevel processes in the support provider that may foster or inhibit the provision of spousal support. Specifically, the authors focused on (a) how emotional similarity between the support provider and support seeker and (b) how empathic accuracy of the support provider relate to support provision in marriage. In a laboratory experiment, 30 couples were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 conditions (supp…
Understandings of children's influence in parent-child relationships
Bidirectional models of interpersonal influence in parent-child relationships underscore the influence of children on their parents. Following a social constructionist perspective, the present study uses Q methodology to explore meanings and beliefs concerning children's influence among members of the Belgian-Flemish culture. Children and adults each performed the Q-sorting tasks that were analysed separately. Q-factor analysis of the children-so…
The Role of Interpersonal Influence in Families in Understanding Children's Eating Behavior
This study investigates children's eating behavior in a context of bidirectional parent-child influences. Parents and children were asked about their sense of influence and of being influenced concerning food rules. For parents, these feelings seemed to be partly correlated with children's eating behavior. Additionally, Social Relations Model analysis revealed that parents' and children's feelings of influence and being influenced were not only d…
Post-divorce wellbeing in Flanders
Expanding on current advancement in divorce and family dispute resolution research, an integrative and process-oriented model is presented. This article explores the extent to which, and how, individual, trajectory, and arrangement factors are related to post-divorce personal wellbeing. Questionnaire data were collected from a sample of 423 individuals who divorced through mediation or litigation. A subsample of 112 respondents provided extra inf…
Post-divorce Wellbeing in Flanders
Expanding on current advancements in divorce and dispute resolution research, an integrative, and process-oriented model is presented.The primary purpose is to investigate how pre-trajectory, trajectory, and arrangement factors are related to post-divorce personal wellbeing.To this end, questionnaire-data were collected in two sessions from a representative sample of Flemish divorcing persons (n=469 and n=117).A series of multiple regression anal…
Post-Breakup Unwanted Pursuit
Children's experiences and meaning construction on parental divorce
The global aim of this study was to explore children's narratives of parental divorce. A convenience sample, composed of 11- and 14-year-old children, was recruited. A total of 22 children (12 male, 10 female) participated in this focus group study. The findings show that two components seem to be really important for children during the divorce process: the ability to construct meaning about their parents' decision to divorce and their feeling t…
Easing the conscience
Guilt is an emotion commonly experienced in divorce. Although guilt has been shown to increase cooperative negotiation behavior in organizational contexts, this is the first investigation of the role of guilt in divorce negotiations. Using survey data of 457 divorcing individuals, the authors examined how guilt was related to the most relevant negotiation styles, while controlling for the guilt-overlapping emotions shame and regret. Guilt was rel…
Flexible Mediation Analysis in the Presence of Nonlinear Relations
In the social sciences, mediation analysis has typically been formulated in the context of linear models using the Baron & Kenny (1986) Baron, R. M. and Kenny, D. A. 1986. The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic and statistical considerations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 51: 1173–1182. [Crossref], [PubMed], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar] approach. Extensions to n…
The actor–partner interdependence model for categorical dyadic data
The actor–partner interdependence model ( APIM ) has been widely used for the analysis of pairs of individuals who interact with each other. The goal of this article is to detail in a nontechnical way how the APIM for binary or count outcomes can be implemented and how actor and partner effects can be estimated using generalized estimating equations ( GEE ) methodology. Both SPSS ‐ and SAS ‐syntax needed to estimate the model and the interpretati…
Cycle-Related Changes in Mood, Sexual Desire, and Sexual Activity in Oral Contraception-Using and Nonhormonal-Contraception-Using Couples
Findings on women's sexuality across the menstrual cycle are inconsistent. One relatively consistent finding is a midcycle and premenstrual peak in sexual desire in freely cycling women. Results on the cycle-related effects on sexual behavior are less clear. Large proportions of reproductive-aged women use combined oral contraception (COC), but studies on potential cycle-related shifts in sexual desire and behavior are sparse. A prospective diary…
Lesbian couples' views about and experiences of not being able to choose their sperm donor
In this qualitative study, we explore how lesbian recipients view and experience the selection of their anonymous sperm donor. The study was conducted in Belgium, where fertility centres follow a legal protocol that severely restricts personal choice in donor selection. While previous studies have shown that recipients want greater control and input in the selection of their sperm donor, this was not a main concern for most women in the present s…
Unwanted Pursuit Behavior After Breakup
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