VOPSpsy - UGent - English version - Prof. Dr. Bart Soenens

Prof. Dr. Bart Soenens

	E-mail	Bart Soenens
	Phone	09 264 91 34

	Room number	150.041
	Category	Tenured academic staff

News
	We are very excited to announce that the 4th conference on Self-Determination Theory will be organised in Gent! The conference takes place in the H. Dunantlaan 2 in the period from the 13th till the 16th of May 2010. Conference overview and submission possibilities It is now possible to register for the 4th International Self-Determination Theory Conference If somebody would like to help out with the organisation of the conference, you may contact myself or Bart Soenens by e-mail. We hope that this next SDT-conference will bring together all researchers who are helping to build SDT such that we can get to know one another and can jointly continue our efforts to develop the theory in a systematic, cumulative and coherent fashion.

Research
	My main research interest is in the relation between parental rearing style and adolescents’ wellbeing and psychosocial functioning. My research addresses diverse dimensions of parenting style, including responsiveness (support), behavioral control (regulation), and autonomy-support. I have a particular fascination for the processes and dynamics (i.e., antecedents and mediators) involved in parental psychological control – a parenting dimension that has been found to predict psychopathological outcomes in children and adolescents, such as depressive symptoms and eating disorders. Apart from this research line on parenting I am involved in research on such topics as motivation, identity development, religion, and prejudice.

Bibliography
	Bibliografie

Links
	Summary and full text of my PhD ('Psychologically controlling parenting and adolescent psychosocial adjustment : antecedents, mediating factors, and longitudinal dynamics')
	Self-determination theory

Questionnaires
	GENERAL PARENTING STYLE Here you can find a questionnaire tapping into 4 core dimensions of parenting style which we have been using a lot in our research. This questionnaire can be administered to both adolescents and parents. The file also contains references to studies providing validity and psychometric information of the scales.
	PARENTAL PROHIBITION AND STYLE OF PROHIBITION IN DIFFERENT LIFE DOMAINS Parents' frequency of introducing rules or prohibitions and their style of introducting those rules or prohibitions may differ by life domain. This questionnaire taps into the frequency, style, and perceived legitimacy of parental prohibition in the domains of morality and friendships. This questionnaire can be easily translated to other life domains as well.
	INTERNALIZATION OF PARENTAL RULES Children and adolescents can have different reasons to follow their parents rules and prohibitions. These reasons vary on a continuüm of internalization. This questionnaire taps into different reasons to follow parental rules, ranging from straightforward defiance against parental authority (rebellion) to acceptance and endorsement of parental rules (identification).
	SPECIFIC ASSESSMENT OF TWO EXPRESSIONS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL CONTROL (DAPCS) This recently developed and validated questionnaire taps into two domain-specific expressions of parental psychological control: (a) dependency-oriented psychological control (aimed at keeping a child within close boundaries) and (b) achievement-oriented psychological control (aimed at pushing a child to strive for excellence).

Recent publications
	Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (in press). A theoretical upgrade of the concept of parental psychological control: Proposing new insights on the basis of self-determination theory. Developmental Review.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Luyten, P. (2010). Towards a domain-specific approach to the study of parental psychological control: Distinguishing between dependency-oriented and achievement-oriented psychological control. Journal of Personality, 78, 217-256.
	Kins, E., Beyers, W., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2009). Patterns of home leaving and subjective well-being in emerging adulthood: The role of motivational processes and parental autonomy support. Developmental Psychology, 45, 1416-1429.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Niemiec, C. P. (2009). Should parental prohibition of adolescents’ peer relationships be prohibited? The role of parental autonomy-support and control. Personal Relationships, 16, 507-530.
	Vansteenkiste, M., Sierens, E., Soenens, B., Luyckx, K., & Lens, W. (2009). Motivational profiles from a self-determination perspective: The quality of motivation matters. Journal of Educational Psychology, 101, 671-688.
	Dezutter, J., Soenens, B., Luyckx, K., Bruyneel, S., Vansteenkiste, M., Duriez, B., & Hutsebaut, D. (2009). The role of religion in death attitudes: Distinguishing between religious belief and style of processing religious contents. Death Studies, 33, 73-92.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Sierens, E. (2009). How are parental psychological control and autonomy-support related? Naturally occurring profiles of psychological control and two types of autonomy-support. Journal of Marriage and Family, 71, 187-202.
	Soenens, B., Luyckx, K., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyten, P., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2008). Maladaptive perfectionism as an intervening variable between psychological control and adolescent depressive feelings: A three-wave longitudinal study. Journal of Family Psychology, 22, 465-474.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Vandereycken, W., Luyten, P., Sierens, E., & Goossens, L. (2008). Perceived parental psychological control and eating disordered symptoms: Maladaptive perfectionism as a possible intervening variable. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 196, 144-152.
	Luyckx, K., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Berzonsky, M. D., & Goossens, L. (2007). Parental psychological control and dimensions of identity formation in emerging adulthood. Journal of Family Psychology, 21, 546-550.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Lens, W., Luyckx, K., Goossens, L., Beyers, W., & Ryan, R. M. (2007). Conceptualizing parental autonomy support: Adolescent perceptions of promotion of independence versus promotion of volitional functioning. Developmental Psychology, 43, 633-646.
	Duriez, B., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2007). In search of the antecedents of adolescent authoritarianism: The relative contribution of parental goal promotion and parenting style dimensions . European Journal of Personality, 21, 507-527.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyckx, K., & Goossens, L. (2006). Parenting and adolescent problem behaviors: An integrated model with adolescent self-disclosure and perceived parental knowledge as intervening variables. Developmental Psychology, 42, 305-318.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2006). In search of the sources of psychologically controlling parenting: The role of parental separation anxiety and parental maladaptive perfectionism. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 16, 539-559.
	Soenens, B., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2005). Social-psychological profiles of identity styles: Attitudinal and social-cognitive correlates in late adolescence . Journal of Adolescence, 28, 107-125.
	Soenens, B., Elliot, A. J., Goossens, L., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyten, P., & Duriez, B. (2005). The intergenerational transmission of perfectionism: Parents' psychological control as an intervening variable . Journal of Family Psychology, 19, 358-366.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Luyten, P., Duriez, B., & Goossens, L. (2005). Maladaptive perfectionistic self-representations: The mediational link between psychological control and adjustment. Personality and Individual Differences, 38, 487-498.
	Vansteenkiste, M., Simons, J., Lens, W., Soenens, B., & Matos, L. (2005). Examining the motivational impact of intrinsic versus extrinsic goal framing and internally controlling versus autonomy-supportive communication style upon early adolescents’ academic achievement. Child Development, 76, 483-501.
	Duriez, B., Soenens, B., & Beyers, W. (2004). Religiosity, identity styles and the five factor model of personality: An integrative study among late adolescents in Flanders (Belgium). Journal of Personality, 72, 877-910.

Selected conference presentations
	Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2009, April). Should parental prohibition of adolescent behaviors be prohibited? The moderating role of social domain and style of prohibition. In B. Soenens (Chair), Is parental behavioral control a protective parenting dimension? A social domain theory analysis. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Denver, Colorado, USA.
	Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Vandereycken, W. (2008, May). The significance of perfectionism in eating disorders: A comparative study . In A. Roefs (Chair), A slim "perfect" body and eating behaviour. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Science (BAPS), Leuven, Belgium.
	Soenens, B. & Park, S. Y. (2008, May). Distinguishing between separation-anxious and achievement-oriented psychological control: A cross-national comparison between Belgium and South-Korea . In B. Soenens & C. Manzi (Chairs), The cross-cultural significance of control and autonomy in parent-adolescent relationships. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the European Association for Research on Adolescence, Torino, Italy.
	Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2007, March). Distinguishing among types of psychological control: Separation-anxious versus achievement-oriented psychological control . In A. Assor (Chair), Disentangling the construct of parental control: Conceptual and measurement issues. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development (SRCD), Boston, MA.