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Overview

Stijn Van Petegem is affiliated with the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, sociology and political science, social psychology, education, and demography.

Their work focuses on several main topics within child and adolescent development and family dynamics. These include:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Family Support in Illness
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Family Dynamics and Relationships
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Family and Disability Support Research

Stijn Van Petegem has contributed to numerous publications and frequently publishes in venues related to youth and family psychology. The most recurrent publication venues include:

  • Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Family Psychology
  • Journal of Family Issues

Some of their recent papers reflecting their research interests are:

  • "Putting parental overprotection into a family systems context: Relations of overprotective parenting with perceived coparenting and adolescent anxiety" (2021, Family Process)
  • "Police procedural justice and adolescents' internalization of the law: Integrating self-determination theory into legal socialization research" (2021, Journal of Social Issues)

Additional related recent papers by collaborators or in the same field include:

  • "How Do Adolescents Manage Information in the Relationship with Their Parents? A Latent Class Analysis of Disclosure, Keeping Secrets, and Lying" (2022, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
  • "Overprotective parenting and social anxiety in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation" (2023, Journal of Social and Personal Relationships)
  • "Live well and die with inner peace: The importance of retrospective need-based experiences, ego integrity and despair for late adults' death attitudes" (2020, Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics)

Their frequent coauthors, with whom they have collaborated multiple times, are:

  • Grégoire Zimmermann
  • Jean-Philippe Antonietti
  • Bénédicte Mouton
  • Bart Soenens
  • Gillian Albert Sznitman

Overall, Stijn Van Petegem's scholarly contributions engage with the complexities of family relationships, adolescent psychosocial development, and the interplay between parenting practices and youth outcomes within social and clinical psychological frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Basic psychological need satisfaction, need frustration, and need strength across four cultures

    Beiwen Chen;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers;Liesbet Boone

  • Do perceived autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching relate to physical education students' motivational experiences through unique pathways? Distinguishing between the bright and dark side of motivation

    Leen Haerens;Nathalie Aelterman;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Bart Soenens

  • Let Us Not Throw Out the Baby With the Bathwater: Applying the Principle of Universalism Without Uniformity to Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting

    Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Stijn Van Petegem

  • Rebels With a Cause? Adolescent Defiance From the Perspective of Reactance Theory and Self-Determination Theory

    Stijn Van Petegem;Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers

  • On the association between adolescent autonomy and psychosocial functioning: examining decisional independence from a self-determination theory perspective.

    Stijn Van Petegem;Wim Beyers;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Bart Soenens

  • Perceived Maternal Autonomy Support and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation: A Longitudinal Study

    Katrijn Brenning;Bart Soenens;Stijn Van Petegem;Maarten Vansteenkiste

  • Personal identity processes from adolescence through the late 20s : age trends, functionality, and depressive symptoms

    Koen Luyckx;Theo A. Klimstra;Bart Duriez;Stijn Van Petegem

  • Longitudinal Associations between Adolescent Perceived Degree and Style of Parental Prohibition and Internalization and Defiance.

    Maarten Vansteenkiste;Bart Soenens;Stijn Van Petegem;Bart Duriez

  • Why do the lonely stay lonely? Chronically lonely adolescents' attributions and emotions in situations of social inclusion and exclusion

    Janne Vanhalst;Bart Soenens;Koen Luyckx;Stijn Van Petegem

  • Where Do the Cultural Differences in Dynamics of Controlling Parenting Lie? Adolescents as Active Agents in the Perception of and Coping with Parental Behavior

    Beiwen Chen;Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Stijn Van Petegem

  • Do students with different motives for physical education respond differently to autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching?

    Jotie De Meyer;Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Nathalie Aelterman

  • The jingle-jangle fallacy in adolescent autonomy in the family: in search of an underlying structure.

    Stijn Van Petegem;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers

  • Perceived parenting and adolescent cyber-bullying: examining the intervening role of autonomy and relatedness need satisfaction, empathic concern and recognition of humanness

    Kyriaki Fousiani;Panagiota Dimitropoulou;Michalis P. Michaelides;Stijn Van Petegem

  • The Relationship between Maternal Overprotection, Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems, and Psychological Need Frustration: A Multi-Informant Study Using Response Surface Analysis

    Stijn Van Petegem;Jean-Philippe Antonietti;Cindy Eira Nunes;Evie Kins

  • Autonomy in Family Decision Making for Chinese Adolescents: Disentangling the Dual Meaning of Autonomy

    Beiwen Chen;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Wim Beyers;Bart Soenens

  • Personal identity processes and self-esteem : Temporal sequences in high school and college students

    Koen Luyckx;Theo A. Klimstra;Bart Duriez;Stijn Van Petegem

  • Does parental autonomy support relate to adolescent autonomy? An in-depth examination of a seemingly simple question

    Kyriaki Fousiani;Stijn Van Petegem;Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste

  • Does General Parenting Context Modify Adolescents' Appraisals and Coping with a Situation of Parental Regulation? The Case of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting

    Stijn Van Petegem;Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck;Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste

  • Examining the Longitudinal Association between Oppositional Defiance and Autonomy in Adolescence.

    Stijn Van Petegem;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Bart Soenens;Wim Beyers

  • Autonomy in Adolescent Development : Towards Conceptual Clarity

    Bart Soenens;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Stijn Van Petegem

Frequent Co-Authors

Bart Soenens
Bart Soenens Ghent University
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Maarten Vansteenkiste Ghent University
Wim Beyers
Wim Beyers Ghent University
Koen Luyckx
Koen Luyckx KU Leuven
Bart Duriez
Bart Duriez KU Leuven
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck
Melanie J. Zimmer-Gembeck Griffith University
Nathalie Aelterman
Nathalie Aelterman Ghent University
Theo A. Klimstra
Theo A. Klimstra Tufts University
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Luc Goossens
Luc Goossens KU Leuven

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