Background: The objective of this study was to investigate psychosocial characteristics of children and parents as well as parent-child relationships as moderators of the effect of a cognitive behavioral group intervention for children with chronic illness and their parents. Methods: Data from a randomized controlled trial were used, including 194 children (8-18 years) who were assigned to a ch...

STUDY OBJECTIVE In case centred epidemiological studies, traffic volume has been shown to be a potent risk factor for child pedestrian injuries. Nevertheless, over the past two decades child pedestrian death rates have fallen in many countries despite large increases in traffic volumes, suggesting that other factors are responsible for the long term decline in death rates. This study aimed to i...

Affective teacher–child relationships have frequently been investigated in school settings, but less attention has devoted to these after-school care. This study explored caregiver- (N = 90) and child-informed reports of the affective caregiver–child relationship 180 dyads) Dutch care, exploring gender differences at caregiver child level with a match between children caregivers. The caregivers...

BACKGROUND There is much evidence that parents have an influence on the alcohol use of their children. However, in general the relationship is rather weak. A reason for this small association may be due to the fact that adolescents are a heterogeneous group and that, consequently, the association between the quality of the parent-child relationship and alcohol use varies for diverse subgroups, ...

BACKGROUND Sexual abuse is a well-recognised risk factor for child psychopathology. Little is known regarding whether child and maternal mentalization can be considered a potential resource or protective factor in this context, respectively, mediating or moderating the relationship between sexual abuse and psychopathology. OBJECTIVE The aims of this study were (1) to explore the relationships...