Dr. Loes Janssen

Universitair docent
Ontwikkelingspsychologie
l.h.c.janssen@uu.nl

Publicaties

2026

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Aleva, A., Karreman, A., Janssen, L. H. C., Vroegindeweij, A., van Aken, M. A. G., Hessels, C. J., & Laceulle, O. M. (2026). Effectiveness of a Mobile-Based Self-Regulation Training on Youths’ Affect. Healthcare, 14(1), Article 133. [DOI] [Portal]
Kullberg, M. L. J., Keijsers, L., Elzinga, B., & Janssen, L. H. C. (2026). Facilitators and Barriers of Adolescent Self-Disclosure Across Different Confidants: A Multi-Informant Mixed Methods Study. Journal of Adolescence. Advance online publication. [DOI]
van der Wal, A., Beyens, I., Janssen, L. H. C., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2026). Diverse platforms, diverse effects: Evidence from a 100-day study on social media and adolescent mental health. Current Psychology, 45(1), Article 36. [DOI]

2025

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van der Wal, A., Beyens, I., Janssen, L. H. C., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2025). Diverse Platforms, Diverse Effects: Evidence From a 100-Day Study on Social Media and Adolescent Mental Health. PsyArXiv. [DOI]
Bülow, A., Janssen, L. H. C., Dietvorst, E., de Vaate, N. A. J. D. D. B., Hillegers, M. H. J., Valkenburg, P. M., & Keijsers, L. (2025). From Burden to Enjoyment: A User‐Centered Approach to Engage Adolescents in Intensive Longitudinal Research. Journal of Adolescence, 97(4), 886-900. [DOI]
Tollenaar, M. S., Creasey, N., Wever, M. C. M., Knipping, K., Garssen, J., van Houtum, L. E. A. M., Wentholt, W. G. M., Janssen, L., Lax, E., & Elzinga, B. M. (2025). Adolescent depression, childhood maltreatment, and the immune system; a role for epigenetic aging? Brain, Behavior, and Immunity - Health, 48, Article 101080. [DOI] [Portal]
Bülow, A., Janssen, L. H. C., Dietvorst, E., de Vaate, N. A. J. D. B., Hillegers, M. H. J., Valkenburg, P. M., & Keijsers, L. (2025). From Burden to Enjoyment: A User-Centered Approach to Engage Adolescents in Intensive Longitudinal Research. PsyArXiv. [DOI] [Repository]
Janssen, L. H. C., Valkenburg, P. M., Keijsers, L., & Beyens, I. (2025). A harsher reality for adolescents with depression on social media. Scientific Reports, 15(1), Article 10947. [DOI]
Wentholt, W. G. M., Meurs, E. H. A., Janssen, L. H. C., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Tollenaar, M. S., Alink, L. R. A., & Elzinga, B. M. (2025). Balancing boundaries: Observed parental autonomy support and psychological control in the context of parent-adolescent interactions and adolescent depression. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 35(1), Article e70003. [DOI]
Janssen, L. H. C., Beyens, I., Bij de Vaate, N. A. J. D., van der Wal, A., Valkenburg, P. M., & Keijsers, L. (2025). Parent-adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100-day diary study. Child Development, 96(2), 736-751. [DOI]

2024

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Valkenburg, P. M., Beyens, I., de Vaate, N. A. J. D. B., Janssen, L., & Wal, A. V. D. (2024). Person-Specific Media Effects. In Communication Research into the Digital Society: Fundamental Insights from the Amsterdam School of Communication Research (pp. 233-245). Amsterdam University Press. [DOI]
Veenman, M., Janssen, L. H. C., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Verkuil, B., Epskamp, S., Fried, E. I., & Elzinga, B. M. (2024). A Network Study of Family Affect Systems in Daily Life. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 59(2), 371-405. [DOI]
Wentholt, W. G. M., Janssen, L. H. C., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Tollenaar, M. S., Alink, L. R. A., & Elzinga, B. M. (2024). A qualitative, multi‐perspective study on causal beliefs about adolescent depression. Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 97(3), 477-497. [DOI]
Janssen, L. H. C., Verkuil, B., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Wentholt, W. G. M., & Elzinga, B. M. (2024). A closer look into the affect dynamics of adolescents with depression and the interactions with their parents: An ecological momentary assessment study. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 33(12), 4259-4272. [DOI]
Janssen, L. H. C., Verkuil, B., Nedderhoff, A., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., & Elzinga, B. M. (2024). Tracking real-time proximity in daily life: A new tool to examine social interactions. Behavior Research Methods, 56(7), 7482-7497. [DOI]
Van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Van Schie, C. C., Janssen, L. H. C., Wentholt, W. G. M., Tollenaar, M. S., Will, G. J., & Elzinga, B. M. (2024). Sticky criticism? Affective and neural responses to parental criticism and praise in adolescents with depression. Psychological Medicine, 54(3), 507-516. [DOI] [Repository]
Wever, M. C. M., Will, G. J., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Janssen, L. H. C., Wentholt, W. G. M., Spruit, I. M., Tollenaar, M. S., & Elzinga, B. M. (2024). Neural and affective responses to prolonged eye contact with parents in depressed and nondepressed adolescents. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 24(3), 567-581. [DOI] [Repository]

Vakpublicaties

van der Wal, A., Janssen, L., Verbeij, T., de Vaate, N. B., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. (2024). Through teens’ eyes: The benefits and drawbacks of social media. UvA.

2023

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

van Houtum, L. A. E. M., van Schie, C. C., Wever, M. C. M., Janssen, L. H. C., Wentholt, W. G. M., Tailby, C., Grenyer, B. F. S., Will, G.-J., Tollenaar, M. S., & Elzinga, B. M. (2023). Aberrant neural network activation during reliving of autobiographical memories in adolescent depression. Cortex, 168, 14-26. [DOI] [Portal]
Beyens, I., Valkenburg, P. M., & Janssen, L. (Accepted/In press). Parental monitoring in the digital age. In Handbook of Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Information Management
Janssen, L. H. C., Sloan, C. J., Verkuil, B., Van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Fosco, G. M., & Elzinga, B. M. (2023). Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 33(4), 1320-1334. [DOI]
Wever, M. C. M., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Janssen, L., Wentholt, W. G. M., Spruit, I. M., Tollenaar, M. S., Will, G. J., & Elzinga, B. M. (2023). Looking into troubled waters: Childhood emotional maltreatment modulates neural responses to prolonged gazing into one’s own, but not others’, eyes. Cognitive, Affective and Behavioral Neuroscience, 23, 1598-1609. [DOI] [Portal]

Populariserende publicaties

van der Wal, A., Janssen, L., de Vaate, N. A. J. D. B., Beyens, I., & Valkenburg, P. M. (2023). De plussen en minnen van social media: Jongeren aan het woord. UvA.

2022

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Janssen, L. (2022). Changes in perspective: Parenting and well-being of adolescents in daily life. [Doctoral thesis 4 (Research NOT UU / Graduation NOT UU), Leiden University]. Leiden University. https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3486040
Wever, M. C. M., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Janssen, L. H. C., Spruit, I. M., Tollenaar, M. S., Aan Het Rot, M., & Elzinga, B. M. (2022). Eyes on you: Ensuring empathic accuracy or signalling empathy? International Journal of Psychology, 57(6), 743-752. [DOI]
van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Will, G.-J., Wever, M. C. M., Janssen, L. H. C., van Schie, C. C., Tollenaar, M. S., & Elzinga, B. M. (2022). Adolescents’ affective and neural responses to parental praise and criticism. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 54, 1-12. Article 101099. [DOI]
Wever, M. C. M., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Janssen, L. H. C., Wentholt, W. G. M., Spruit, I. M., Tollenaar, M. S., Will, G.-J., & Elzinga, B. M. (2022). Neural and Affective Responses to Prolonged Eye Contact with One's Own Adolescent Child and Unfamiliar Others. NeuroImage, 260, 1-12. Article 119463. [DOI] [Repository]

2021

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Janssen, L. H. C., Elzinga, B. M., Verkuil, B., Hillegers, M. H. J., & Keijsers, L. (2021). The Link between Parental Support and Adolescent Negative Mood in Daily Life: between-Person Heterogeneity in within-Person Processes. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50(2), 271-285. [DOI]
van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., Janssen, L. H. C., van Schie, C. C., Will, G.-J., Tollenaar, M. S., & Elzinga, B. M. (2021). Vicarious praise and pain: parental neural responses to social feedback about their adolescent child. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(4), 406-417. [DOI]
Wever, M. C. M., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Janssen, L. H. C., Will, G.-J., Tollenaar, M. S., & Elzinga, B. M. (2021). Neural signatures of parental empathic responses to imagined suffering of their adolescent child. NeuroImage, 232, Article 117886. [DOI]
Janssen, L. H. C., Verkuil, B., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wever, M. C. M., & Elzinga, B. M. (2021). Perceptions of Parenting in Daily Life: Adolescent-Parent Differences and Associations with Adolescent Affect. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 50, 2427-2443. [DOI]
van den Heuvel, M. I., Bülow, A., Heininga, V. E., de Moor, L., Janssen, L., Vanden Abeele, M., & Boekhorst, M. G. B. M. (2021). Tracking Infant Development With a Smartphone: A Practical Guide to the Experience Sampling Method. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 1-10. Article 703743. [DOI] [Repository]

2020

Wetenschappelijke publicaties

Janssen, L. H. C., Kullberg, M.-L. J., Verkuil, B., van Zwieten, N., Wever, M. C. M., van Houtum, L. A. E. M., Wentholt, W. G. M., & Elzinga, B. M. (2020). Does the COVID-19 pandemic impact parents' and adolescents' well-being? An EMA-study on daily affect and parenting. PLoS One, 15(10), Article e0240962. [DOI]

2017

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

Branje, S. J. T., Janssen, L., & van der Giessen, D. (2016). Emotionele variabiliteit in moeder-kindinteracties in de adolescentie. Systeemtherapie. Tijdschrift voor Systeemtheoretische Psychotherapie, 28(1).

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

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.