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Roy Otten is a researcher affiliated with Radboud University in the Netherlands. Their work spans primarily within the fields of psychology and medicine, with a strong focus on clinical psychology and related subfields such as education, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and public health.

Their research topics concentrate on areas including child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family and disability support research, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, early childhood education and development, mental health research topics, autism spectrum disorder research, and smoking behavior and cessation.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Roy Otten include:

  • Validity of the Empatica E4 Wristband to Measure Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Parameters: a Comparison to Electrocardiography (ECG), 2020, Journal of Medical Systems
  • Bullying involvement and self-reported mental health in elementary school children across Europe, 2020, Child Abuse & Neglect
  • Effects of the video game 'Mindlight' on anxiety of children with an autism spectrum disorder: A randomized controlled trial, 2020, Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
  • Alcohol expectancies change in early to middle adolescence as a function of the exposure to parental alcohol use, 2020, Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Mental Health Outcomes of an Applied Game for Children with Elevated Anxiety Symptoms: A Randomized Controlled Non-inferiority Trial, 2020, Journal of Child and Family Studies

Roy Otten collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • Evelien A. P. Poelen, with 17 joint works
  • Zlatka Mihova, with 11 joint works
  • Viviane Kovess-Masféty, with 11 joint works
  • Adina Bitfoi, with 10 joint works
  • Sigita Lesinskienė, with 10 joint works

Roy Otten's publications most often appear in specialized journals such as:

  • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities (4 publications)
  • Journal of Intellectual Disabilities (3 publications)
  • Research in Developmental Disabilities (2 publications)
  • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology (2 publications)
  • Stress (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • Psychometric Properties of the Parent and Teacher Versions of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for 4- to 12-Year-Olds: A Review

    Lisanne L. Stone;Roy Otten;Rutger C. M. E. Engels;Ad A. Vermulst

  • Personality and parenting style in parents of adolescents

    Rose M. E. Huver;Roy Otten;Hein de Vries;Rutger C. M. E. Engels

  • School-based programmes to reduce and prevent substance use in different age groups: What works for whom? Systematic review and meta-regression analysis

    Simone A. Onrust;Roy Otten;Jeroen Lammers;Filip Smit

  • Unresolved maternal attachment representations, disrupted maternal behavior and disorganized attachment in infancy: links to toddler behavior problems

    Sheri Madigan;Greg Moran;Carlo Schuengel;David R. Pederson

  • The Co-Development of Parenting Stress and Childhood Internalizing and Externalizing Problems

    Lisanne L. Stone;Suzanne H. W. Mares;Roy Otten;Rutger C. M. E. Engels

  • Is time spent playing video games associated with mental health, cognitive and social skills in young children?

    Viviane Kovess-Masfety;Viviane Kovess-Masfety;Katherine Keyes;Ava Hamilton;Gregory Hanson

  • The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: psychometric properties of the parent and teacher version in children aged 4–7

    Lisanne L Stone;Jan M A M Janssens;Ad A Vermulst;Marloes Van Der Maten

  • Parental smoking and adolescent smoking stages: the role of parents' current and former smoking, and family structure.

    Roy Otten;Rutger C. M. E. Engels;Monique O. M. van de Ven;Jonathan B. Bricker

  • Emotional, external and restrained eating behaviour and BMI trajectories in adolescence

    Harriëtte M. Snoek;Harriëtte M. Snoek;Rutger C.M.E. Engels;Tatjana van Strien;Roy Otten

  • Development of alcohol expectancies and early alcohol use in children and adolescents: A systematic review

    Koen Smit;Carmen Voogt;Marieke Hiemstra;Marloes Kleinjan

  • A Longitudinal Test of the Theory of Planned Behavior Predicting Smoking Onset among Asthmatic and Non-asthmatic Adolescents

    Monique O. M. Van De Ven;Rutger C. M. E. Engels;Roy Otten;Regina J. J. M. Van Den Eijnden

  • Frequency and quality of parental communication as antecedents of adolescent smoking cognitions and smoking onset.

    Roy Otten;Zeena Harakeh;Ad A. Vermulst;Regina J. J. M. Van den Eijnden

  • Comparing the prevalence of mental health problems in children 6-11 across Europe.

    Viviane Kovess-Masfety;Viviane Kovess-Masfety;Mathilde M. Husky;Mathilde M. Husky;Katherine Keyes;Ava Hamilton

  • Country-level and individual correlates of overweight and obesity among primary school children: a cross-sectional study in seven European countries.

    Beatriz Olaya;Beatriz Olaya;Maria Victoria Moneta;Maria Victoria Moneta;Ondine Pez;Adina Bitfoi

  • A Prospective Study of Perception in Adolescent Smoking

    Roy Otten;Roy Otten;Rutger C.M.E. Engels;Mitchell J. Prinstein

  • The changing role of self-efficacy in adolescent smoking initiation

    Marieke Hiemstra;Roy Otten;Rebecca N.H. de Leeuw;Onno C.P. van Schayck

  • Does parental psychological control relate to internalizing and externalizing problems in early childhood? An examination using the Berkeley puppet interview:

    Lisanne L. Stone;Roy Otten;Jan M. A. M. Janssens;Bart Soenens

  • The parent version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Omega as an alternative to alpha and a test for measurement invariance.

    Lisanne L. Stone;Roy Otten;Linda Ringlever;Marieke Hiemstra

  • Understanding parent-teacher agreement of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ): Comparison across seven European countries.

    Sabrina Cheng;Sabrina Cheng;Katherine M. Keyes;Adina Bitfoi;Mauro Giovanni Carta

  • Feed the Alien! The Effects of a Nutrition Instruction Game on Children's Nutritional Knowledge and Food Intake

    Roel C J Hermans;Nina van den Broek;Chantal Nederkoorn;Roy Otten

  • Parental use of corporal punishment in Europe: intersection between public health and policy.

    Nathalie duRivage;Katherine M. Keyes;Emmanuelle Leray;Ondine Pez

  • The role of coping strategies in quality of life of adolescents with asthma.

    Monique O. M. Van De Ven;Rutger C. M. E. Engels;Susan M. Sawyer;Susan M. Sawyer;Roy Otten

Frequent Co-Authors

Rutger C. M. E. Engels
Rutger C. M. E. Engels Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marloes Kleinjan
Marloes Kleinjan Utrecht University
Viviane Kovess-Masfety
Viviane Kovess-Masfety Université Paris Cité
Emmanuel Kuntsche
Emmanuel Kuntsche La Trobe University
Mathilde M. Husky
Mathilde M. Husky University of Bordeaux
Ad A. Vermulst
Ad A. Vermulst Radboud University
Arne Popma
Arne Popma University of Amsterdam
Robert Didden
Robert Didden Radboud University
Thomas J. Dishion
Thomas J. Dishion Arizona State University

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