Dr. Katrijn Brenning

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Work-family (in)balance and parenting: A dynamic approach to the impact of daily work-family experiences in both mothers and fathers on their day-to-day parenting practices.

 Nowadays, as many women have entered the workforce and men are assumed to have greater responsibility for childcare, the boundaries between work and family are more porous. More than ever before, a working father may miss work because his child has the flu, and a working mother may miss her child's big soccer game because of an important meeting. Not surprisingly, many parents experience difficulties when it comes to work-family balance, and previous research convincingly demonstrated that work-family conflict has detrimental consequences for parental well-being. However, less is known about the consequences of work-family (in)balance for family interactions, and for parenting more specifically. This is unfortunate as emerging research shows that work-family conflict is also related to a broad range of negative child outcomes. Parenting may be one important mechanism here. Our present project aims to provide the most thorough and comprehensive examination of the link between work-family experiences and parenting to date. It represents a unique contribution beyond previous research in four major ways: (a) investigating both the dark and bright side of work-family experiences and parenting, (b) combining questionnaire and diary studies, (c) focusing on both mothers and fathers (and the interplay between both), and (d) examining the intermediate role of parental burnout and psychological availability in this link between work-family (in)balance and parenting.

   
Bibliografie Bibliografie
   
Recente publicaties Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2011). The role of depressogenic personality and attachment in the intergenerational similarity of depressive symptoms: A study with early adolescents and their mothers. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 37, 284-297.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2011). An Adaptation of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised for Use with Children and Adolescents. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 28, 1048-1072.

Brenning, K., & Braet, C. (2013). The emotion regulation model of attachment: An emotion-specific approach. Personal Relationships, 20, 107-123.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bal, S. (2012). The Role of Parenting and Mother-Adolescent Attachment in the Intergenerational Similarity of Internalizing Symptoms. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 41, 802-816.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2012). Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood and early adolescence: Testing the validity of the emotion regulation model of attachment. Personal Relationships, 19, 445-464.

Brenning, K., Bosmans, G., Braet, C., & Theuwis, L. (2012). Gender differences in cognitive schema vulnerability and depressive symptoms in adolescents. Behaviour Change, 29, 164-182.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Beyers, W. (2013). Longitudinal dynamics of depressogenic personality and attachment dimensions in adolescence: An examination of associations with changes in depressive symptoms. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42, 1128-1144.

Van Petegem, S., Beyers, W., Brenning, K., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2013). Exploring the association between insecure attachment and adolescent autonomy in family decision making: A Differentiated Approach. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 42, 1837-1846. 

Brenning, K., Van Petegem, S., Vanhalst, J., & Soenens, B. (2014). The psychometric qualities of a short version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale - Revised Child version. Personality and Individual Differences, 68, 118-123.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Van Petegem, S., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2015). Perceived Maternal Autonomy-support and Early Adolescent Emotion Regulation: A longitudinal Study. Social Development.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., & Braet, C. (2015). Testing the Incremental Value of a Separate Measure for Secure Attachment Relative to a Measure for Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence. European Journal of Psychological Assessment.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2014). Hechtingsangst en –vermijding bij kinderen en adolescenten. Psychopraktijk, 6, 28-31.

Soenens, B., Wuyts, D., Vansteenkiste, M., Mageau, G. A., & Brenning, K. (2015). Raising trophy kids: The role of mothers’ contingent self-esteem in maternal promotion of extrinsic goals. Journal of Adolescence, 42, 40-49. doi:10.1016/j.adolescence.2015.04.001

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2015). What’s Your Motivation to be Pregnant? Examining Relations Between Pregnant Women’s Motives for Having a Child and their Prenatal Functioning. Journal of Family Psychology, 29, 755-765.

Wuyts, D., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Van Petegem, S., & Brenning K. (2017). The Role of Separation Anxiety in Mothers’ Use of Autonomy Support: An Observational Study. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 1949-1957. 10.1007/s10826-017-0707-7

Van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Brenning, K., & Mabbe, E. (2017). Does Parenting Context Modify Adolescents’ Appraisals and Coping with a Situation of Parental Regulation? The Case of Autonomy-Supportive Parenting. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2623-2639

Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Boone, L., Brenning, K. (2017). Antecedents of Provided Autonomy Support and Psychological Control within Close Friendships: The Role of Evaluative Concerns Perfectionism and Basic Psychological Needs. Personality and Individual Differences, 108, 149-153.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Van Petegem, S., & Kins, E. (2017). Searching for the Roots of Overprotective Parenting in Emerging Adulthood: Investigating the link with parental attachment representations using an Actor Partner Interdependence Model. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26, 2299-2310. 10.1007/s10826-017-0744-2

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., & Braet, C. (2017). Testing the Incremental Value of a Separate Measure for Secure Attachment Relative to a Measure for Attachment Anxiety and Avoidance in Middle Childhood and Early Adolescence. European Journal of Psychological Assessment, 33, 5-13. DOI: 10.1027/1015-5759/a000264

Brenning, K. & Soenens, B. (2017). A Self-Determination Theory perspective on Postpartum depressive symptoms and early parenting behaviors. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 73, 1729-1743. 10.1002/jclp.22480

Brenning, K., Mabbe, E., Vansteenkiste, M. & Soenens, B. (in publication). Ups and Downs in the Joy of Motherhood: Maternal Well-being as a Function of Psychological Needs, Personality, and Infant Temperament. Journal of Happiness Studies. 10.1007/s10902-017-9936-0

Van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Baudat, S., Brenning, K., Beyers, W. (accepted). Intimacy Development in Late Adolescence: Longitudinal Associations with Perceived Parental Autonomy Support and Adolescents’ Self-Worth. Journal of Adolescence.

Soenens, B., Park, S-Y., Mabbe, E., Vansteenkiste, M., Chen, B., Van Petegem, S., Brenning, K. (accepted). The Moderating Role of Vertical Collectivism in South-Korean Adolescents’ Perceptions of and Responses to Autonomy-Supportive and Controlling Parenting. Frontiers in Psychology

Kindt, S., Vansteenkiste, M., Brenning, K., & Goubert, L. (accepted). The Effects of Partners’ Helping Motivation on Chronic Pain Patients’ Functioning over Time. Journal of Pain.
   
Congres presentaties

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2009, September). Attachment and depression in middle childhood and early adolescence, the contribution of emotion-regulation as possible mediator. In G. Bosmans (Chair), Novel approaches to study the influence of interpersonal experiences on clinically relevant behavior. Symposium conducted at the 39th EABCT annual congress, Dubrovnik, Croatia.


Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2010, May). Antecedents and outcomes of emotion regulation in middle childhood and early adolescence: The role of attachment to parents. Poster presented at the Conference on Self-Determination Theory, Ghent, Belgium.


Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2010, July). Assessing attachment anxiety and avoidance in middle childhood and early adolescence: The development of a child version of the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale-Revised. Poster presented at the 21st International ISSBD Congress ( International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development), Lusaka, Zambia.

 
Katrijn Brenning, Bart Soenens, Caroline Braet, & Guy Bosmans (2010, July). Attachment and depressive symptoms in middle childhood and early adolescence: Testing the validity of the emotion regulation model of attachment. Poster presented at the IARRC conference (International Association for Relationship Research), Herzliya, Israel.

 
Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C., & Bosmans, G. (2010, June). Attachment and depression in middle childhood and early adolescence, the contribution of emotion-regulation as possible mediator. Poster presented at the World Congress of Behavioral Health and Cognitive Therapies, Boston, USA.


Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Braet, C. & Bosmans, G. (2012, August). Attachment and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: The Validity of the Emotion Regulation Model of Attachment. Poster presented at the EARA conference (European Association for Research on Adolescence), Island of Spetses, Greece.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Van Petegem, S. & Mabbe, E., (2014, June). Adolescents’ coping with parental psychological control: The role of emotion regulation. In S. B. Özdemir (Chair), Understanding psychologically controlling parenting during adolescence and emerging adulthood across difference cultural contexts. Symposium conducted at the ISSBD Congress (International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development), Shanghai, China.

Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M. & Mabbe, E. (2016, June). Pink cloud or baby blues? A longitudinal study investigating the role of motivation and basic psychological need satisfaction in women’s psychosocial well-being during the transition to motherhood. In T. Pierce (Chair), Motherhood. Symposium conducted at the 6the International Conference on Self-Determination Theory, Victoria, Canada.


Brenning, K., Mabbe, E., Soenens, B., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2016, June). How mothers can help you, even when they are not there: The moderating role of maternal autonomy-support in effects of need supporting feedback on motivation. Poster presented at the 6the International Conference on Self-Determination Theory, Victoria, Canada.
 

Van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Vansteenkiste, M., Soenens, B., Brenning, K., Mabbe, E., Vanhalst, J., & Zimmermann, G. (2016, September). Adolescents’ responses to situations of parental rule-setting: The role of situational communication style and autonomy-supportive parenting history. In G. Zimmermann (Chair), Implications of perceived parenting for adolescent development. Symposium conducted at the EARA Conference (European Association for Research on Adolescence), La Barrosa, Spain.

Van Petegem, S., Zimmer-Gembeck, M. J., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., Brenning, K., Mabbe, E., Vanhalst, J., & Zimmermann, G. (2016, July). Adolescents’ responses to situations of parental rule-setting: The role of situational communication style and general parenting history. Symposium conducted at the 24th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Vilnius, Lithuania.


Vandenkerckhove, B., Brenning, K., Vansteenkiste, M., & Soenens, B. (2017, July). Dependency, self-criticism, and problem behavior in adolescence: The mediating role of psychological need frustration. Oral presentation given at the 17th International Congress of the European Society for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Geneva, Switzerland.


Brenning, K., Antrop, I., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Van Petegem, S. (2017, September). Emotion regulation: The importance of a need-supportive parenting context. In K. Brenning (Chair), A Self-Determination Theory perspective on psychological well-being in children and adolescents: The importance of basic psychological needs in both typical and atypical development. Symposium conducted at the 11th Flemish conference Child- and Youth Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ghent, Belgium.

 Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Brenning, K., Soenens, B., Dieleman, L., & Vansteenkiste, M.  (2018, August). Early antecedents of psychologically controlling parenting during toddlerhood. Symposium presented at the International Conference on Motivation, Aarhus, Denmark.


Vandenkerckhove, B., Soenens, B., Van der Kaap-Deeder, J., Brenning, K., Luyten, P., & Vansteenkiste, M. (2018, July). Ups and downs in academic adjustment: the role of self-critical perfectionism and the basic psychological needs. In S. Van Petegem (Chair), The importance of psychological need satisfaction for adolescents and parents: exploring the role of adolescents’ personal characteristics. Symposium conducted at the ISSBD Conference (International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development), Gold Coast, Australia.

Brenning, K., Antrop, I., Soenens, B., Vansteenkiste, M., & Van Petegem, S. (2017, September). Emotion regulation: The importance of a need-supportive parenting context. In K. Brenning (Chair), A Self-Determination Theory perspective on psychological well-being in children and adolescents: The importance of basic psychological needs in both typical and atypical development. Symposium conducted at the 11th Flemish conference Child- and Youth Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ghent, Belgium.


Brenning, K., Antrop I., Flamant, N., Soenens, B., Vandekerckhove, B., & Vanteenkiste, M. (2018, September). Transdiagnostic value of emotion regulation and psychological needs in non-clinical and clinically referred adolescents’ psychopathology. In K. Brenning (Chair), Emotion regulation and Mindfulness. Symposium conducted at the EARA conference, Ghent, Belgium.