The benefits of playing video games.

I Granic, A Lobel, RCME Engels - American psychologist, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Video games are a ubiquitous part of almost all children’s and adolescents’ lives, with 97%
playing for at least one hour per day in the United States. The vast majority of research by …

Psychometric properties of the parent and teacher versions of the strengths and difficulties questionnaire for 4-to 12-year-olds: a review

LL Stone, R Otten, RCME Engels, AA Vermulst… - Clinical child and family …, 2010 - Springer
Since its development, the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) has been widely
used in both research and practice. The SDQ screens for positive and negative psychological …

Automatic and controlled processes and the development of addictive behaviors in adolescents: a review and a model

RW Wiers, BD Bartholow, E van den Wildenberg… - Pharmacology …, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review and a model of the development of addictive behaviors in (human)
adolescents, with a focus on alcohol. The model proposes that addictive behaviors …

A randomized controlled trial testing the effectiveness of a universal school-based depression prevention program'Op Volle Kracht'in the Netherlands

YR Tak, RMP Van Zundert, RCWM Kuijpers… - BMC Public Health, 2012 - Springer
Background The incidence of depressive symptoms increases during adolescence, from
10.0% to 24.5% at age 11 to 15, respectively. Experiencing elevated levels of depressive …

Online communication, compulsive Internet use, and psychosocial well-being among adolescents: a longitudinal study.

RJJM Van den Eijnden, GJ Meerkerk… - Developmental …, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
The present study investigated the relationships between adolescents' online
communication and compulsive Internet use, depression, and loneliness. The study had a 2-wave …

Parenting style and adolescent fruit consumption

SPJ Kremers, J Brug, H De Vries, RCME Engels - Appetite, 2003 - Elsevier
The importance of the social environment for dietary behaviour has been highlighted in the
past decade. A type of environmental influence that has received increasing research …

Compulsive Internet use among adolescents: Bidirectional parent–child relationships

RJJM van Den Eijnden, R Spijkerman… - Journal of abnormal …, 2010 - Springer
Although parents experience growing concerns about their children’s excessive internet use,
little is known about the role parents can play to prevent their children from developing …

Parental attachment and adolescents' emotional adjustment: The associations with social skills and relational competence.

RCME Engels, C Finkenauer, W Meeus… - Journal of counseling …, 2001 - psycnet.apa.org
Young people learn from their interactions with their parents how to initiate and maintain
satisfying and warm friendships. Attachment with parents thereby plays an important role in …

The role of alcohol‐specific socialization in adolescents' drinking behaviour

H Van Der Vorst, RCME Engels, W Meeus… - …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Aims To determine which alcohol‐specific socialization practices are related to adolescents’
alcohol use, and to investigate whether parents differ in their alcohol‐specific socialization …

Adolescents' music preferences and personality characteristics

MJMH Delsing, TFM Ter Bogt… - European Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The present paper examined the structure of Dutch adolescents' music preferences, the stability
of music preferences and the relations between Big‐Five personality characteristics and …