Dr. Jolien van der Graaff

Martinus J. Langeveldgebouw
Heidelberglaan 1
Kamer E224
3584 CS Utrecht

Dr. Jolien van der Graaff

Universitair docent
Jeugd en Gezin
030 253 1231
j.vandergraaff@uu.nl

Van der Graaff, J. (under revision). Gender and prosocial development. In T. Malti & M. Davidov (Eds.) Handbook of Prosociality: Development, Mechanisms, Promotion. Cambridge University Press.

Padilla-Walker L. M., Van der Graaff, J. et al. (under revision). Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A multi-national study. International Journal of Behavioral Development

Padilla-Walker L. M. & Van der Graaff, J. (in press). Prosocial behavior during adolescence and the transition to adulthood. In L. Crockett, G. Carlo, & J. Schulenberg (eds.) APA Handbook of Adolescent and Young Adult Development. American Psychological Association.

de Moor, E. L., Van der Graaff, J., van Doeselaar, L., Klimstra, T. A., & Branje, S. (2021). With a little help from my friends? Perceived friendship quality and narrative identity in adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(2), 384-401.

Bernasco, E. L., Nelemans, S. A., van der Graaff, J., & Branje, S. (2021). Friend support and internalizing symptoms in early adolescence during COVID-19. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(3), 692-702.

Van der Graaff, J., Overgaauw, S., De Wied, M., & Branje, S. (2020). Empathy and Perspective Taking. Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development.

Mastrotheodoros, S., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H., & Branje, S. (2020). Parent–adolescent conflict across adolescence: Trajectories of informant discrepancies and associations with personality types. Journal of youth and adolescence, 49(1), 119-135.

Mastrotheodoros, S., Van Lissa, C. J., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H., & Branje, S. J. (2020). Day-to-day spillover and long-term transmission of interparental conflict to adolescent–mother conflict: The role of mood. Journal of Family Psychology, 34(8), 893.

Mastrotheodoros, S., Papp, L. M., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H., & Branje, S. (2020). Explaining Heterogeneity of Daily Conflict Spillover in the Family: The Role of Dyadic Marital Conflict Patterns. Family Process.

de Wied, M., Van der Graaff, J., de Rooij, G., Scheepers, F., Hoekstra, P. J., Branje, S., & van de Schoot, R. (2020). The role of client empathy in treatment outcome in a sample of adolescents referred to forensic youth psychiatric services. Children and Youth Services Review, 118, 105301.

Mastrotheodoros, S., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H., & Branje, S. J. (2019). Coming closer in adolescence: Convergence in mother, father, and adolescent reports of parenting. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29(4), 846-862.

de Moor, E. L., Van der Graaff, J., Van Dijk, M. P., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2019). Stressful life events and identity development in early and mid-adolescence. Journal of adolescence, 76, 75-87.

Mastrotheodoros, S., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2018). Interparental conflict management strategies and parent-adolescent relationships: Disentangling between-person from within-person effects across adolescence. Journal of Marriage and Family. Advanced online publication. DOI:10.1111/jomf.12528

Van Bommel, D. M. H., Van der Giessen, D., Van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2018) Mother-adolescent conflict interaction sequences: The role of maternal internalizing problems. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Advanced online publication. Doi:10.1111/jora.12441

Van der Graaff, J., Carlo, G., Crocetti, E., Koot, H. M., Branje, S. (2018). Prosocial behavior in adolescence: Gender differences in development and links with empathy. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 1086-1099. doi:10.1007/s10964-017-0786-1.

Van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., de Wied, M., van Boxtel, A., van Lier, P., & Branje, S. (2016). Respiratory sinus arrhythmia moderates the relation between parent-adolescent relationship quality and adolescents’ social adjustment. Journal of abnormal child psychology, 44(2), 269-281.

Werner, L. L., Van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W. H., & Branje, S. J. (2016). Depressive symptoms in adolescence: Longitudinal links with maternal empathy and psychological control. Journal of abnormal child psychology, 44(6), 1121-1132.

Crocetti, E., Van der Graaff, J., Moscatelli, S., Keijsers, L., Koot, H. M., Rubini, M., ... & Branje, S. (2016). A longitudinal study on the effects of parental monitoring on adolescent antisocial behaviors: the moderating role of adolescent empathy. Frontiers in psychology, 7.

Crocetti, E., Moscatelli, S., Van der Graaff, J., Keijsers, L., Van Lier, P., Koot, H. M., ... & Branje, S. (2016). The dynamic interplay among maternal empathy, quality of mother-adolescent relationship, and adolescent antisocial behaviors: new insights from a six-wave longitudinal multi-informant study. PloS one, 11(3).

Crocetti, E., Moscatelli, S., Van der Graaff, J., Rubini, M., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2016). The Interplay of Self-Certainty and Prosocial Development in the Transition from Late Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood. European Journal of Personality, 30(6), 594-607.

Stuijfzand, S., De Wied, M., Kempes, M., Van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., & Meeus, W. (2016). Gender differences in empathic sadness towards persons of the same-versus other-sex during adolescence. Sex roles, 75(9-10), 434-446.

Van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., De Wied, M., Hawk, S., Van Lier, P., & Meeus, W. (2014). Perspective Taking and Empathic Concern in Adolescence: Gender Differences in Developmental Changes. Developmental Psychology, 50, 881-888. doi:10.1037/a0034325

Van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., De Wied, M., & Meeus, W. (2012). The moderating role of empathy in the association between parental support and adolescent aggressive and delinquent behavior. Aggressive Behavior, 38, 368-377. doi: 10.1002/ab.21435

Van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., de Wied, M., van Boxtel, A., van Lier, P. A., Koot, H. M., & Branje, S. (2016). Motor, affective and cognitive empathy in adolescence: Interrelations between facial electromyography and self-reported trait and state measures. Cognition and Emotion, 30(4), 745-761.

Hawk, S. T., Keijsers, L., Branje, S. J., Van der Graaff, J., de Wied, M., & Meeus, W. (2013). Examining the interpersonal reactivity index (IRI) among early and late adolescents and their mothers.  Journal of Personality Assessment, 95, 96-106.

Publicaties

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Padilla-Walker, L. M., Van der graaff, J., Workman, K., Carlo, G., Branje, S., Carrizales, A., Gerbino, M., Gülseven, Z., Hawk, S. T., Luengo kanacri, P., Mesurado, B., Samper-García, P., Shen, Y., Taylor, L. K., Trach, J., Van zalk, M. H. W., & Žukauskienė, R. (2022). Emerging adults’ cultural values, prosocial behaviors, and mental health in 14 countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 46(4), 286-296. https://doi.org/10.1177/01650254221084098
De moor, E. L., Cheng, T., Spitzer, J. E., Berger, C., Carrizales, A., Garandeau, C. F., Gerbino, M., Hawk, S. T., Kaniušonytė, G., Kumru, A., Malonda, E., Rovella, A., Shen, Y., Taylor, L. K., Van zalk, M., Branje, S., Carlo, G., Padilla walker, L., Van der graaff, J., & Slobodskaya, H. R. (Ed.) (2022). What Should I do and Who’s to blame? A cross-national study on youth’s attitudes and beliefs in times of COVID-19. PLoS One, 17(12), 1-20. [e0279366]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0279366
Bernasco, E., van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2022). Peer Victimization, Internalizing Problems, and the Buffering Role of Friendship Quality: Disaggregating Between- and Within-Person Associations. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51(8), 1653–1666. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-022-01619-z
Moor, E. L. D., Graaff, J. V. D., Koster, N., Laceulle, O. M., & Branje, S. (2022). The Relation Between Self-Event Connections and Personality Functioning in Youth with Severe Psychopathology. Journal of Personality, 90(5), 799-816. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12697
Mastrotheodoros, S., Papp, L. M., Van Der Graaff, J., Deković, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. (2022). Explaining Heterogeneity of Daily Conflict Spillover in the Family: The Role of Dyadic Marital Conflict Patterns. Family Process, 61(1), 342-360. https://doi.org/10.1111/famp.12648

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Bernasco, E. L., Nelemans, S. A., van der Graaff, J., & Branje, S. (2021). Friend Support and Internalizing Symptoms in Early Adolescence During COVID‐19. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(3), 692-702. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12662
de Moor, E. L., Van der Graaff, J., van Doeselaar, L., Klimstra, T. A., & Branje, S. (2021). With a little help from my friends? Perceived friendship quality and narrative identity in adolescence. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 31(2), 384-401. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12605

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

De Wied, M., Van Der Graaff, J., De Rooij, G., Scheepers, F., Hoekstra, P. J., Branje, S., & Van De Schoot, R. (2020). The role of client empathy in treatment outcome in a sample of adolescents referred to forensic youth psychiatric services. Children and Youth Services Review, 118, 1-8. [105301]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105301
Mastrotheodoros, S., Papp, L., van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2020). Explaining Heterogeneity of Daily Conflict Spillover in the Family: The Role of Dyadic Marital Conflict Patterns. (pp. 1-34). PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/sza8c
Mastrotheodoros, S., Van der Graaff, J., Deković, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. (2020). Parent–Adolescent Conflict across Adolescence: Trajectories of Informant Discrepancies and Associations with Personality Types. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01054-7
Mastrotheodoros, S., Van Lissa, C. J., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2020). Day-to-Day Spillover and Long-term Transmission of Interparental Conflict to Mother-Adolescent Conflict: The Role of Mood. Journal of Family Psychology, 34(8), 893–904. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000649
van der Graaff, J., Overgaauw, S., de Wied, M. A., & Branje, S. J. T. (2020). Empathy and perspective taking. In The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development (pp. 1-11). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119171492.wecad473

2019

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Mastrotheodoros, S., van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2019). Development of parent-adolescent (discrepancies in) conflict intensity: The role of personality types. Paper presented at 19th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Athens, Greece.
Mastrotheodoros, S., van Lissa, C. J., van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2019). Interparental conflict and mother-adolescent conflict: Longitudinal mediation by mood using annual assessments and daily diaries.. Paper presented at biennial meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Baltimore, United States.
de Moor, E. L., Van der Graaff, J., Van Dijk, M. P. A., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2019). Stressful life events and identity development in early and mid-adolescence. Journal of Adolescence, 76, 75-87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2019.08.006
Boele, S., Van Der Graaff, J., De Wied, M., Van Der Valk, I. E., Crocetti, E., & Branje, S. (2019). Linking Parent–Child and Peer Relationship Quality to Empathy in Adolescence: A Multilevel Meta-Analysis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 48(6), 1033-1055. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-00993-5
Van Bommel, D. M. H., Van Der Giessen, D., Van Der Graaff, J., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2019). Mother-Adolescent Conflict Interaction Sequences: The Role of Maternal Internalizing Problems. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29(4), 1001-1018. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12441
Mastrotheodoros, S., Van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2019). Interparental conflict management strategies and parent-adolescent relationships: Disentangling between-person from within-person effects across adolescence. Journal of Marriage and Family, 81(1), 185-203. https://doi.org/10.1111/jomf.12528
Mastrotheodoros, S., van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2019). Coming closer in adolescence: Convergence in mother, father, and adolescent reports of parenting. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 29, 846–862. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12417

2018

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van der Graaff, J., Carlo, G., Crocetti, E., Koot, H. M., & Branje, S. J. T. (2018). Prosocial behavior in adolescence: Gender differences in development and links with empathy. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47(5), 1086-1099. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-017-0786-1

2017

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Mastrotheodoros, S., van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2017). Interparental Conflict and Parent-Adolescent Relationships: Direction of Within-person Effects Across Adolescence. Manuscript submitted for publication.

Overige resultaten

Keij, B. M., Janssen, L. H. C., van der Graaff, J., de Mulder, H. N. M., Verhagen, J., & Terband, H. R. (2017). The relation between phonological skills and problem behaviour in pre-schoolers. Poster session presented at Congres TaalStaal 2017: Effectiviteit van behandelinterventie, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Keij, B. M., Janssen, L. H. C., van der Graaff, J., de Mulder, H. N. M., Verhagen, J., & Terband, H. R. (2017). The relation between linguistic skills and problem behaviour in typically developing pre-schoolers. Paper presented at 18th European Conference on Developmental Psychology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Keij, B. M., Janssen, L. H. C., van der Graaff, J., de Mulder, H. N. M., Verhagen, J., & Terband, H. R. (2017). The relation between phonological skills and problem behaviour in pre-schoolers. Poster session presented at 14th International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Lyon, France.

2016

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Stuijfzand, S., de Wied, M., Kempes, M., van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., & Meeus, W. (2016). Erratum to: Gender Differences in Empathic Sadness towards Persons of the Same- versus Other-sex during Adolescence (Sex Roles, (2016), 10.1007/s11199-016-0649-3). Sex Roles, 75(9-10), 447. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-016-0704-0
Stuijfzand, S., De Wied, M., Kempes, M., van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., & Meeus, W. (2016). Gender Differences in Empathic Sadness towards Persons of the Same- versus Other-sex during Adolescence. Sex Roles, 75(9-10), 434-446. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11199-016-0649-3
Crocetti, E., Van der Graaff, J., Moscatelli, S., Keijsers, L., Koot, H. M., Rubini, M., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2016). A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Parental Monitoring on Adolescent Antisocial Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Adolescent Empathy. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1-11. [1726]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01726
Werner, L. A. A., van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2016). Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: Longitudinal Links with Maternal Empathy and Psychological Control. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44(6), 1121-1132. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-015-0106-8
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/338524/Werner_2015_Depressive_Symptoms_in_Adolescence.pdf?sequence=1
Crocetti, E., Moscatelli, S., Van der Graaff, J., Keijsers, L., van Lier, P., Koot, H. M., Rubini, M., Meeus, W., & Branje, S. (2016). The Dynamic Interplay among Maternal Empathy, Quality of Mother-Adolescent Relationship, and Adolescent Antisocial Behaviors: New Insights from a Six-Wave Longitudinal Multi-Informant Study. PLoS One, 11(3), [e0150009]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150009
van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., de Wied, M., van Boxtel, A., van Lier, P., & Branje, S. (2016). Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Moderates the Relation between Parent-Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescents’ Social Adjustment. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 44, 269-281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-015-9989-7
Van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., de Wied, M., van Boxtel, A., van Lier, P. A. C., Koot, H. M., & Branje, S. (2016). Motor, affective and cognitive empathy in adolescence: Interrelations between facial electromyography and self-reported trait and state measures. Cognition & Emotion, 30, 745-761. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2015.1027665

Vakpublicaties

Janssen, L. H. C., Keij, B. M., de Mulder, H. N. M., Verhagen, J., van der Graaff, J., & Terband, H. R. (2016). Communicatieve vaardigheden als voorspeller van gedrag bij kleuters. In SCEM Symposium Taalontwikkeling: stoornis of achterstand?, Ede, the Netherlands, December 1, 2016.

Overige resultaten

Mastrotheodoros, S., van der Graaff, J., Dekovic, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. (2016). Development of parenting through the eyes of mothers, fathers, and adolescents..
Janssen, L. H. C., Terband, H. R., Keij, B. M., Le Pichon, E. M. M., Verhagen, J., van der Graaff, J., & de Mulder, H. N. M. (2016). When language fails: Communication skills as a predictor of behavioural problems in children: Language Science Day. Poster session presented at Language Science Day, Utrecht, Netherlands.
van der Graaff, J., de Mulder, H. N. M., Branje, S., & van den Bos, N. (2016). Talking About the Mind: Effects of Emotional Language in Mother-Adolescent Conflict on Adolescents’ Empathic Concern and Prosocial Behavior. Abstract from biennial conference of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Vancouver, Canada.

2015

Overige resultaten

van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W. H. J., de Wied, M., van Boxtel, A., Van Lier, P., Koot, H. M., & Branje, S. J. T. (2015). Motor, affective and cognitive empathy in adolescence: Interrelations between facial EMG and self-reported trait and state measures. Paper presented at Emotions 2015, Tilburg, Netherlands.
van der Graaff, J., Carlo, G., de Wied, M., Meeus, W. H. J., & Branje, S. J. T. (2015). Individual and interpersonal predictors of prosocial behavior in adolescence. Paper presented at Biennial Meeting of the European Association for Developmental Psychology, Braga, Portugal.
van der Graaff, J., Carlo, G., Branje, S. J. T., de Wied, M., & Meeus, W. H. J. (2015). Relative effects of autonomy support provided by mothers, fathers and best friends on adolescents' empathy and prosocial behavior. Paper presented at SRCD Biennial Meeting, Philadelphia, United States.

2014

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van der Graaff, J. (2014). Proefschriftsamenvattingen: Empathy in adolescence. Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies, 17, 392-395.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/303943/s11.pdf?sequence=1
Van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., De Wied, M., Hawk, S., Van Lier, P., & Meeus, W. (2014). Perspective Taking and Empathic Concern in Adolescence: Gender Differences in Developmental Changes. Developmental Psychology, 50, 881-888. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034325
van der Graaff, J. (2014). Empathy in adolescence. [Doctoral thesis 1 (Research UU / Graduation UU), Utrecht University]. Utrecht University.
https://dspace.library.uu.nl/bitstream/handle/1874/294441/vanderGraaff.pdf?sequence=2

Overige resultaten

van der Graaff, J., Meeus, W., de Wied, M., van Boxtel, A., Van Lier, P., & Branje, S. (2014). Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Moderates the Relation Between Parent‐Adolescent Relationship Quality and Adolescents’ Social Adjustment. Abstract from 15th Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA), Austin, United States.
van der Graaff, J., Carlo, G., Branje, S., de Wied, M., & Meeus, W. (2014). Relative effects of autonomy support provided by mothers, fathers and best friends on adolescents’ empathy and prosocial behavior. Abstract from Biennial Meeting of the European Association for Research on Adolescence, Cesme, Turkey.

2013

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Hawk, S. T., Keijsers, L., Branje, S., van der Graaff, J., de Wied, M., & Meeus, W. H. J. (2013). Examining the Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI) among early and late adolescents and their mothers. Journal of Personality Assessment, 95, 96-106. https://doi.org/10.1080/00223891.2012.696080

2012

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van der Graaff, J., Branje, S., de Wied, M., & Meeus, W. H. J. (2012). The moderating role of empathy in the association between parental support and adolescent aggressive and delinquent behavior. Aggressive Behavior, 38(5), 368-377. https://doi.org/10.1002/ab.2143