Research Projects – Rianne Kok

Research Projects

Projects I've worked on

In the research program Clinical Child and Family Studies, I study the development of self-regulation in early childhood – both in typically developing children and in high-risk families characterized by parental psychopathology or socio-economic difficulties. Here you can read more about the projects I have coordinated or in which I collaborated.

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Dysregulation
Self-regulation
Lying in families

Social stress, self-regulation and antisocial behavior development

A study on the neurocognitive basis of externalizing behavior problems across childhood and early adulthood.

Parenting capacity and infant outcomes in highly vulnerable families

Generating a comprehensive view on parenting capacity to improve care.

Self-regulation development

Regulation of behavior, emotions, and cognition in early childhood.

Fami-LIES

Exploring the early roots of lying in families.

Risk and resilience in the context of intimate partner violence

A closer look at the female population of a family violence shelter.

INCAS

Gaining insight into parenting in early infancy as a mechanism behind intergenerational patterns of psychopathology.

We all need somebody to lean on

Self-regulation in school-context and family-context in the transition to formal schooling.

Contexts of Lying

Contextual influences on the tendency of prosocial lying to adults and children.

Doctoral Dissertation

The development of self-regulation is one of the major challenges of a child’s healthy development. For my PhD research and dissertation, I examined the contribution and interplay of parental and biological factors in the development of self-regulation in preschoolers in a large population-based cohort, the Generation R Study.

Key Publications

Kok, R., Thijssen, S., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Jaddoe, V. W. V., Verhulst, F. C., White, T., van IJzendoorn, M. H., & Tiemeier, H. (2015). Normal variation in early parental sensitivity predicts child structural brain development. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 54, 824-831. doi:10.1016/j.jaac.2015.07.009
Choenni, M.S.V., Lambregtse-van den Berg, Verhulst, F.C., Tiemeier, H., & Kok, R. (2019). The longitudinal relation between observed maternal parenting in the preschool period and the occurrence of child ADHD symptoms in middle childhood. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47, 755-764. doi:10.1007/s10802-018-0492-9
Kok, R. (2017). Emotion regulation. In V. Zeigler-Hill, & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_811-1
Kok, R., Prinzie, P., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., Verhulst, F. C., White, T., Tiemeier, H., & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2018). Socialization of prosocial behavior: Gender differences in the mediating role of child brain volume. Child Neuropsychology, 24, 723-733. doi:10.1080/09297049.2017.1338340