Stefanie A. Nelemans

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that narcissism in children is cultivated by parental overvaluation: parents believing their child to be more special and more entitled than others, and self-esteem was predicted by parental warmth, not by parentalOvervaluation.

TL;DR: Loneliness and social anxiety symptoms are positively associated both within and across time, and across childhood and adolescence, according to a large number of cross-sectional studies published between 1981 and 2016.

TL;DR: The present study confirmed Erikson's notion that experiencing daily identity uncertainty is common during adolescence, however, a substantial amount of adolescents also showed a process toward identity maturation already during adolescence.

TL;DR: Developmental trajectories of five anxiety disorder symptom dimensions from early to late adolescence in a community sample of 239 adolescents, assessed annually over 8 years, indicated different developmental trajectories from early into late adolescence for the different anxiety disorder symptoms.

TL;DR: This 6-year longitudinal study examined the direction of effects (i.e., parent effects, child effects, or reciprocal effects) between maternal criticism and adolescent depressive and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) symptoms, including adolescents’ perceptions of criticism as a potential mediator, to demonstrate stronger child effects than parent effects.