• event 16.07.25Save the date! Salon de la parentalité
• conferences, présentations 16.07.25ISPA 2025 conference (Coimbra, Portugal)
• research, results 11.07.25Infographic longitudinal study
• médias 30.06.25Le Soir: “How to react to poor school results?”
• conference presentations 25.06.25ESFR 2025 conference (Madeira, Portugal)
• media 15.06.25Le Soir: “Why some young children need to see a shrink”
• conferences 25.05.25BAPS conference 2025 (Brussels, Belgium)
• media 24.05.25Financieel Dagblad: “Do parents protect their children too much?”
• scientific publication 16.05.25New publication: gender essentialist beliefs and parenting
• PhD defense, research 15.05.25PhD defense Elliana Lamprianidou
• scientific publication 09.05.25New publication: Adolescents’ coping with overprotection
• media 01.04.25De Bond: “Are we protecting our children too much?”
• team 04.02.25The new interns have arrived!
• media 30.01.25NRC: “Let your child fall too”
• interview, media 25.01.25Het Parool: “Why parents are afraid to take risks”
• scientific publication 22.01.25New publication: Parental representations and regulations of adolescent sexting
• scientific publication 07.01.25New publication: intensive parenting among mothers and fathers
• interview, media 04.01.25De Standaard: “parents who think the world is dangerous tend to overprotect”
• scientific publication 19.12.24New publication: “Love, money and involved parenting?”
• conference presentations 11.12.24ASPO conference 2024 (Groningen, Netherlands)
• conference presentations 28.11.24VNOP Research Days 2024 (Utrecht, Netherlands)
• preregistration, research 21.11.24Preregistration: gender inequality and parenting
• research visit 11.11.24research visit Amsterdam
• scientific publication 08.11.24New publication: pressure to be a perfect parent
• preregistration, research 21.10.24Preregistration: experimental study on adolescent sexting
• scientific publication 21.10.24New publication: Group-based vs. individual parenting programs
• media 22.09.24Algemeen Dagblad (AD) on mobile phones and “helicopter parents”
• team 16.09.24Welcoming our new research interns!
• research visit, team 10.09.24Welcoming back Gaëlle Venard!
• media 07.09.24Volkskrant: “Becoming an adult requires young people to make mistakes independently”
• research 04.09.24Call for unpublished data on overprotective parenting
• conference presentations 02.09.24ESA conference 2024 (Porto, Portugal)
• research visitor, team 30.08.24Visit from Ghent
• scientific publication 10.08.24New publication: helicopter parenting vs. overprotective parenting
• conference presentations 05.07.24IARR conference 2024 (Boston, USA)
• media, podcast 17.06.24Podcast: Eco-Emois
• conference presentation 05.06.24Keynote at the Polish Conference on Developmental Psychology
• conference presentations 29.05.24BAPS conference 2024 (Brussels, Belgium)
• team, vacancy 28.05.24job opening: postdoctoral fellowship
• research, team 01.04.24New project on eco-anxiety
• scientific publication 23.03.24New publication: overprotective parenting & identity development
• scientific publication 05.03.24New publication: gender equality practices and parenting
• presentation 19.02.24Women in Science day 2024
• team 01.02.24Welcoming three new research interns!
• research, results 24.01.24Exploring contemporary parenting: Insights from Italy
• pop-up meeting, presentation 26.11.23Pop-up meeting: “Growing up and growing out?”
• presentation 17.11.23Have we entered the era of intensive parenting?
• conference, presentation 15.11.23VNOP Research Days (Utrecht, Netherlands)
• research visit, team 20.10.23A Swiss visitor!
• research visit, team 09.10.23Samarbete med Sverige: Research visit in Sweden
• team 05.10.23Welcoming our newest team members and visitors!
• research 28.09.23The 4th SAFE-SORRY questionnaire has arrived!
• conference presentations 29.08.23Conference: ECDP 2023 (Turku, Finland)
• media 17.07.23De Morgen: “should parents be stricter in their parenting?”
• conference presentation 05.07.23Conference: ISPA 2023 (Bologna, Italy)
• conference presentations 28.06.23Conference: EASP 2023 (Krakow, Poland)
• students 19.06.23Master thesis defenses: some preliminary insights
• research visitor, team 19.06.23A visitor from Georgia!
• conference presentations 13.06.23Conference: ESFR 2023 (Roskilde, Denmark)
• team 08.05.23Welcome to our visiting researchers!
• scientific publication 06.05.23New publication: Overprotective parenting and social anxiety symptoms
• research 01.04.23Third wave of SAFE-SORRY data gathering
• conference presentation 24.03.23Conference: SRCD 2023 (Saltlake City, USA)
• conference presentations 08.03.23Conference: ICPS 2023 (Brussels, Belgium)
• media, publication 13.02.23Le Temps: “The counterproductive fear of the teenager’s parent”
• team 13.02.23Welcome to our new research interns!
• results 16.01.23Preliminary results: Flemish data collection
• results 20.12.22Preliminary results of the spring 2022 data collection
• scientific publication 01.12.22New publication: parental overprotection in the context of pediatric cancer
• research 27.10.22Season 2 of SAFE-SORRY now available!
• research visit, team 29.09.22CIVIS meeting in Aix-en-Provence
• media, publication 26.09.22Le Vif (article and podcast): “Overprotected children: those parents who do too much”
• team 01.09.22Welcome, Julie (and congratulations, Cindy)!
• conference presentation, results 22.08.22SAFE-SORRY goes to Ireland!
• scientific publication 16.08.22To endure or to resist? Coping with overprotection
• media, publications 25.07.22De Morgen interview: “Should we go back to authoritarian parenting?”
• team 18.07.22Internship opportunities
• team 24.06.22We’re hiring!
• conference presentation, results 22.06.22Conference presentation: Perceptions of a dangerous world and overprotection
• scientific publication 02.06.22New publication : Short scale for measuring parental overprotection
• conference presentation, results 01.06.22Conference presentations
• results 01.06.22Pilot study: Preliminary results
• research 19.04.22Launch of two new studies
• media, publications 16.03.22Weekend issue in La Libre : How to not be a perfect parent
• recruitment, research 10.03.22Call for Participants!
• project, team 02.03.22SAFE SORRY goes international
• publications 23.02.22Little children, little problems; big children, big problems?
• team 14.02.22Welcome to the new research interns
• research 09.02.22Launch of POPAY study
• team 06.01.22New FNRS grant
• article, publication 01.12.21Two new publications
• team 01.12.21Our team is growing!
• research center 27.10.21Opening of new research centre
• research 21.10.21Official launch of our first study
• article, publication 09.09.21Family Process: “Putting parental overprotection into a family systems context”
• conference, presentation, publication 06.09.21“Advances in the transition for 16-23-year-olds”
• media, publication 29.07.21Chasing Childhood at Docville, Leuven
• result 06.07.21Pilot study
• media, publication 04.12.20Interview with Daily Science : “La surprotection parentale, est-elle le produit des sociétés inégalitaires?”
• media, publication 19.07.20Article in Le Matin Dimanche : “Surprotéger son enfant lui nuit.”