Newsletter

November, 2018

Editor Fabrizia Giannotta From the President Mäladarens University, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Västerås, Sweden. Almost two months ago, we were in the beautiful city of , for the 16th Biennial Conference of EARA. About 450 scholars were at the conference and enjoyed a very high quality program. We had high quality symposia, interesting poster sessions In this Issue… and inspiring addresses from invited speakers from Europe and the United States, such as Eveline Crone, expert on adolescent brain development, and Lisa Crockett, past- p. 1 Letter from the President. p. 3 Looking back and ahead: Reflections on the 16th president of the Society for Research on EARA conference and ideas for future practice. Adolescence, our North American sister p. 5 Minutes of the EARA General Assembly in organization. The discussion session on Ghent, Belgium. power dynamics in academics addressed p. 7 The EARA Lifetime Achievement Award: many related issues that require our Professor Håkan Stattin p. 9 The EARA Young Scholar Award: continuous attention. During the Dr. Marlies Maes conference, several awardees were honored. p. 10 Outstanding Mentor Award The EARA lifetime honorary achievement p. 10 National Representatives: Fourth meeting in award was given to Håkan Stattin, a Ghent. distinguished European scholar and past- p.12 From the EARA Young Scholars (former SECNet): EARA Young Scholars Activities at the president of EARA. The young scholar EARA conference. award was given to Marlies Maes of KU p. 13 Report EADP-EARA-SRA Summer School Leuven in Belgium. The EARA Outstanding 2018. Mentor Award, which has been introduced p. 15 Presentation of two books in 2018 by former EARA president Figen p. 15 Eara publications. p. 19 Inquires. Cok, proved to be a successful initiative, as its first edition had two awardees. Peter Noack received the senior mentor award and Theo Klimstra received the junior mentor award.

Just before the EARA conference, the EADP- EARA-SRA summer school was organized in Abbey, a historical cloister close to 1

Ghent. Senior scholars this time were John conferences, something we offered in the Schulenberg, Andrew Fuligni, Sabine past with funding of the Jacobs Foundation. Walper, Eva Pomerantz, Frosso Motti and In addition to organizing summer schools, Loes Keijsers. Together with 24 junior possibilities for workshops will be explored, researchers, they experienced three very with particular emphasis on ethical aspects intensive and productive days. This was the of research. In our field we have seen a second summer school organized in close growing emphasis on ethical aspects of cooperation with our sister organizations research, in terms of protecting participant European Association for Developmental rights and privacy, but also in terms of so- Psychology (EADP) and SRA and I am glad called FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, we can continue this important from of Interoperability, and Reusability) data training for young scholars since the funding principles. I consider it important to discuss from Jacobs foundation has come to an end. these issues and their implications at our We are currently preparing for the next conferences and other meetings. I will also summer school, which will take place in late aim to strengthen the efforts of EARA to August 2019 in Athens, just before the show the societal and policy implications of biennial meeting of the EADP. Stay tuned research on adolescence, both in for the call for applications! Very positive is collaboration with sister organizations and that all three associations are committed to the International Consortium of organizing at least two or three more Developmental Science Societies (ICDSS). summer schools, so continuity of the schools An important development in this is the new for the near future is guaranteed. So we can journal of on developmental science and look forward as well to a summer school in global policy, with an editor from each of the 2020, just before the EARA conference in member societies. Whenever possible, I will Porto. attend the meetings of the ICDSS, to As the incoming president, I am fortunate to promote closer cooperation with them. find our association in excellent financial Moreover, I will strengthen the emphasis of shape. After experiencing a drop in our EARA on interdisciplinary perspectives on income a few years ago, which was related to adolescent development, for example by a drop in membership renewals, the new organizing interdisciplinary sessions at membership committee, consisting of future conferences and paying attention to Elisabetta Crocetti, Metin Ozdemir and interdisciplinary aspects in EARA Saskia Kunnen, has spent tremendous workshops. In this, I will work closely efforts in reinstalling and improving our together with Paula Mena Matos, who has membership renewal procedures. This has similar plans for the 2020 conference. resulted in an increase in our membership and in our financial resources as well: The So far for the news of the president. I will temporary dip in budget has not only keep you updated in the upcoming disappeared, the budget looks better than newsletters and wish all EARA members a ever. I would like to thank you for becoming productive and healthy academic year. or renewing your membership, as this kind of involvement in the association is Warm regards, extremely important for the future of the association. Susan Branje This positive development is a good base to Utrecht University, The Netherlands start developing plans as incoming president. It will facilitate working on my goal to provide young scholars training. As a first step, the council decided to reinstall travel grants for young scholars for 2

association’ or ‘tested for that covariate’. Looking back and Many of those suggestions are excellent but often it is too late to consider them: Because ahead: Reflections data collection has finished, experiments on the 16th EARA have been run, and articles, in which results are written-up, are under review or even conference and published. The suggestions from the audience are needed at a moment that they ideas for future can still be incorporated into study or analytic designs, without compromising practice good research practice. The traditional journal peer-reviewing Submitted by Tina Kretschmer system functions similarly: Reviewers (University of Groningen, The Netherlands) suggest different concepts, strategies for data collection, statistical models and As I travel back home from Ghent, I scan covariates after a study has been conducted, through my conference notes, look up the when results are determined, written-up, articles I got inspired to read, and sketch out and discussed. However, a new format - new research ideas. This EARA conference Registered Reports format, which has been was my third since attending the summer adopted by more than 130 journals among school in Turin as a PhD student ten years which Emerging Adulthood and the British ago, and I am extremely excited to see how Journal of Developmental Psychology, “grown up” research on adolescence has provides an alternative. Authors submit become. Many of us use large, longitudinal introduction, theoretical background, and samples to study development. We collect methods sections, but no results or data not only from adolescents themselves discussion. Editors accept or reject articles but also their friends, families, and teachers. based on reviewers’ evaluations of the We use diary methods, well-designed theoretical justification for a study and its experiments, or biological samples, and design. This procedure contributes to integrate different layers of development, improving the quality of proposed studies ranging from the (epi)genome, to the brain, because feedback is given prior to data to personality, to the proximal, and distal collection or processing. More detail on environment. We employ cross-cultural Registered Reports can be found on the research to draw conclusions about the Center for Open Science website societal impact on adolescence. Reflecting (www.co.io/rr/), together with a list of on these developments, I am really curious journals that have implemented this format. to see where EARA as a society and As a conference format, discussing planned conference is headed, and would like to studies and analyses could have similar outline two suggestions for future meetings effects: We would increase collaborative and one additional suggestion for research practice, ensure that our research benefits on adolescence in general. These ideas are from the good ideas of others, and facilitate informed by open science practices and discussion as to why specific design and represent innovative ways of presenting analysis decisions are better suited than research: others. It is not difficult to put this into practice: At EARA 2020, let’s organizing a 1. Discussing work-in-progress plenum session in which early career At conferences - EARA is no different - one researchers pitch their ideas, followed by of the most common ways to start a question lunch that facilitates feedback from senior after a talk is by asking whether the colleagues and discussion of those ideas with presenter had also ‘looked into this other researchers. 3

2. Thinking about p-values, distracts from drawing meaningful effects, and explanations conclusions. Pre-registration of planned Let us also remember what exactly we are data collection and analyses after in our work: As developmental (https://bit.ly/2DV4eWU) researchers, we seek to understand how forces the researcher to plan data collection adolescents behave, think, feel, or “are”. We and analytic strategies well ahead and report want to know why young people do what results from all planned analyses. Although they do and how they do it. We aim to most straightforward at the very beginning elucidate how individual differences of a project, guidelines to pre-registering between adolescents or within individuals secondary analyses, which we often conduct over time comes about. We look for in research on adolescence, become explanatory factors, compare the relative increasingly available predictive strength of different factors, (https://osf.io/v4z3x/). To draw conclusions under different conditions, and in interplay about the importance of a particular with each other. explanation for adolescent development, we However, this is not always how we talk need to report and discuss effect sizes, in about our results where we pay most – too addition to (if not in place of) p-values. much? - attention to statistical significance Different models result in different effect and usually evaluate the importance of our sizes but we should follow the APA findings based on whether or not p is below guidelines in reporting and interpreting the .05. The p-value indicates whether or not the magnitude of an association or difference null hypothesis is true for a specific model not only in articles but also conference (such as a correlation between a and b, or a presentations. Moreover, presenters should mean difference between c and d), i.e., that be encouraged to reserve their final slide for there is no correlation, or no mean a “real-world application”, similar to many difference at the population level. However, funders and journals requiring approaches the p-value does not say anything about the to valorization of research. strength of the correlation or the size of the difference between two means, thus leaves 3. Benefitting from shared data us stuck for the explanations we set out to I have outlined two ideas for future EARA obtain. The p-value can also be deceptive: A conferences but innovative scientific statistically significant association does not practice does not stop here: In line with the always indicate a meaningful real-life European Plan S (bit.ly/2wF1g2A), it will relationship between two phenomena, as become increasingly important to ‘open shown in practical terms by media science’ – to the public, who should be able psychologist Tobias Dienlin to access our publications without having to (https://bit.ly/2O1iXnT). A large sample, for pay for them, as well as to colleagues, who instance, increases the chance of obtaining might want to use our stimuli, code, or data. statistically significant but relatively There are clear benefits to sharing these meaningless results. Despite those information: data can more easily be limitations, p seems to remain the most included in meta-analyses, data that are important determinant of how interesting a difficult to collect can be pooled to increase study is and it can be tempting to collect statistical power, and replication of studies data and adjust analytic strategies until p < is facilitated. What is more, using existing .05, or selectively report statistically data allows us all to work on research significant results. questions that we might otherwise not have It is time to reconsider the importance we the funds to collect data for. Several treasure assign to the p-value, not only because it troves of open data for developmental increases the risk of such questionable researchers exist, such as the UK Data research practices, but also because it Archive which includes several longitudinal 4

birth cohorts (data-archive.ac.uk), Add presidential symposia at various other Health conferences (SRA, ISSBD, SSEA) to spread (www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth), and information about EARA. During her term the Adolescent Brain Cognitive summer schools were organized and the Development study (www.abcdstudy.org). website was completely renovated. Data sharing is not just about contributing, but definitely also means to benefit and 2. Report of the membership make the most of existing data! committee To conclude, similarly to pre-registration The membership committee (Elisabetta and registered reports, work-in-progress Crocetti, EARA secretary; Saskia Kunnen, formats can help to shift the focus back from EARA membership secretary; and Metin results to the importance of the research Ozdemir, EARA treasurer) reports about the question and quality of the study design. current status of memberships. The number Sharing data, to the extent that is possible of members increased substantially, and it without compromising participants’ privacy, includes now about 250 members with an increases transparency and saves resources almost equal number of senior members and that can ultimately be used to answer new student members (i.e., those who are questions. As such, innovative scientific currently working on pre-doctorate levels or practices hold many benefits for our work have obtained their doctoral degree within and should be utilized to further improve the last two years). The international the study of adolescent development. composition of the association also increased: now members come from 37 Thanks to Laura Baams, Gerine Lodder, different nations (84% from Europe and and Charlotte Vrijen for helpful feedback. Turkey; 16% from other continents). The increase in membership was strongly favoured by the intensive contacts with members (when their membership was Minutes of the EARA going to expire or was expired, with General Assembly in invitations to renew it); the introduction of the new website (which simplified the Ghent, Belgium registration and payment procedures); the policy that all EARA benefits (e.g., reduced Submitted by Elisabetta Crocetti conference fees, awards) apply only to (University of Bologna, Italy) members.

1. Opening by the President and 3. Report of the treasurer Report on EARA 2016-2018 The treasurer, Metin Ozdemir, presents the The President, Rita Zukauskiene, opens the current balance of the association. It is very General Assembly. The Minutes of the positive with a steep increase from 2014 General Assembly at La Barrosa (Spain) (7.280 euros) to 2016 (15.692 euros) to 2018 2016 are approved. (31.131 euros). The council proposed to The president gives an overview of her term: invest the budget for supporting the training She developed a draft for conference of young scholars: contracts according to which the positive  For the organization of the next income will be split (50%) between the summer schools conference organizers and the association.  For introducing travel awards for The president contributed to the junior researchers organization of the EARA conference  For proposing methodological (visiting the location, providing feedbacks workshops on the invited program, etc.). She organized 5

4. Summer Schools Another book (Psychosocial Development in Susan Branje directed the 2017 and 2018 Adolescence: Insights from the Dynamic EARA/EADP/SRA summer schools. The Systems Approach) is close to production three associations jointly organized the and two new books (on Online Peer summer schools in Utrecht (2017) and in Engagement in Adolescence and Youth in Ghent (2018) before the EADP and EARA multicultural societies) are currently being conferences, respectively. A total of 24 developed. doctoral students were selected for each summer school, on the basis of their 6. Digital media academic records, research experience, In 2018 the EARA website was completely letters of recommendation, and overall renewed, including the new system to evidence of scientific aptitude and manage registrations and membership. competence. Elisabetta Crocetti worked on this and now The council discussed the importance of continues to update it as webmaster. summer schools to train junior scholars. Susan Branje will discuss with SRA and 7. Conferences EADP plans for the next summer school and The 16th Biennial conference in Ghent, will make plans to have a more sustainable chaired by Wim Beyers, is running very long-term organization. successfully, with about 450 participants, plus more than 80 participants who 5. Publications attended the pre-conference workshops and Journal of Adolescence more than 70 who have attended the Wim Beyers reports that the journal is doing Practioners’ day. Financial numbers look well, under editorship of Nancy Darling. The very positive. last special issue, based on 2016 conference in Andalusia, on Adolescent The 2020 conference will take place from Psychopathology in Times of Change was September 2 to 5, 2020 at the Faculty of finished in March 2018 and published Psychology and Education Sciences – completely in August 2018 University of Porto, Portugal. Paula Mena (https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jo Matos, chair of the conference committee, urnal-of-adolescence/special- gives a presentation about the conference issue/10K140PBL60) location, the conference team, and the Based on this conference, another special conference theme (Adolescence in a rapidly issue will be launched. changing world).

Newsletter 8. EARA Student and Early Career Fabrizia Giannotta, the newsletter editor, Network (SECNET) reports that the newsletter is published The members of the SECNet committee regularly twice per year (in May and (Jolien van der Graaff, Marlies Maes, Ioana November). Pop, Sofie Danneel, Elina Marttinen, and Susanne Schulz) organized several activities Studies in Adolescent Development (SIAD) at the EARA conference: the secnet dinner series (more than 80 people have registered for it); Susan Branje and Lauree Tilton-Weaver are the conversation with editors; the SECNet the series editors for the SIAD series best poster award competition (which was published by Psychology Press in also a mentoring opportunity as past conjunction with EARA. Recently, a book presidents gave feedbacks to each poster was published on Autonomy in Adolescent submitted). Development, Edited by Bart Soenens, Winners of the SECNet best poster award Maarten Vansteenkiste, Stijn Van Petegem. competition are announced: 6

 Dom Weinberg  Laura Castillo-Eito  Lotte van Doeselaar

9. Incoming president Susan Branje briefly announces her plans for her term. She will continue her work on providing young scholars training, by organizing summer schools in collaboration with sister organizations and setting up a summer school committee for the organization of future schools. In addition, possibilities for workshops will be explored, He has published over 200 journal articles with particular emphasis on ethical aspects and book chapters, and four books, which of research. She will also aim to strengthen the efforts of EARA to show the societal and together received over 16 000 citations. policy implications of research on More than 40 of his publications received adolescence, both in collaboration with over 100 citations. However, this sister organizations and ICDSS. bibliometric information is rather limited in Moreover, she will strengthen the emphasis exemplifying his contribution to research on of EARA on interdisciplinary perspectives adolescence. on adolescent development, for example by organizing interdisciplinary sessions at One should not be modest in describing an future conferences and paying attention to outstanding academic life, which is enjoyed interdisciplinary aspects in EARA by very few researchers. Professor Stattin, workshops. starting from his very first engagement in research, has always been focused on finding explanations on how adolescents develop. The EARA Lifetime His research focus encompasses a wide scope of areas including antisocial Achievement behaviors, peer relations, parent-adolescent Award: Professor interactions, school adjustment, leisure time, engagement in free-time activities, Håkan Stattin conduct problems, political development, pubertal maturation, and prevention of Submitted by Elvira Cicognani problematic behaviors. In each of these University of Bologna (Italy) areas, he has published a number of Written by Metin Özdemir Örebro University (Sweden) influential studies. Professor Stattin has not only conducted a Over the last 40 years, Professor Stattin has large number of high quality empirical been highly and consistently prolific in studies but also made a strong impact in producing high quality research on several research areas. Some of his research adolescent development within family, changed established views in psychological school, and leisure context. research. For example, his research on parental monitoring, together with his colleague and life partner Margaret Kerr, had challenged a long tradition of research 7

and led to major changes in how researchers and that a brief program could be as define and measure parents’ attempts to effective as, or even more effective than, monitor adolescent behaviors. Two of his complicated multimodal prevention major publications on parental monitoring programs. Hence, this program has been have received over 3 600 citations since they quickly adopted by over 80% of the Swedish were published in 2000, and continue to schools, has motivated development of receive hundreds of citations every year. similar programs in other countries, and has Next, his research on leisure time activities become the first European alcohol and youth clubs, together with his prevention program receiving promising postdoctoral supervisee John Mahoney, led program designation from the to a whole new way of thinking by making a internationally respected listing of distinction between structured and interventions for healthy youth development unstructured leisure time contexts, and - Blueprints. In sum, Professor Stattin has demonstrating how unstructured leisure not only published many impactful studies, activities may lead to antisocial behaviors his research especially in five specific areas among adolescents. Third, his work on has also challenged dominating old puberty demonstrated how the timing of this traditions in research and opened up new major biological change in adolescents' body horizons to generations of new researchers. has a major impact on behavioral and Contribution to science cannot be quantified psychological adjustment of adolescents. only based on research production. Fourth, his studies on parent-adolescent Professor interactions transformed the deterministic Stattin has been engaged in many other view, which argued for the critical role of activities during his academic career to parenting styles, suggesting that further the field of adolescent research. adolescents' behavior and adjustment is Together with his colleagues, Professor mostly an outcome of parents' behaviors. Stattin pioneered the establishment of Together with a number of colleagues and EARA as a professional organization. He has doctoral students, he demonstrated that taken leading roles within the organization parents' behaviors are mostly reactions to as president and as member of the executive their adolescents' behaviors, and parenting committee. He had a genuine focus on styles have limited impact on the overtime expanding the research community and changes in adolescents' behaviors and creating stimulating opportunities for young adjustment. Fifth, he also made a major researchers. He was strongly involved in the contribution to prevention research. He, organization of the EARA summer schools. together with Margaret Kerr and his He enabled the EARA summer schools to doctoral student Nikolaus Koutakis, develop into the legendary EARA/SRA developed the Örebro Prevention Program, summer schools, which created an organic which used a minimalistic approach to bonding between EARA and its North successfully reduce and delay heavy alcohol American counterpart, SRA. These summer drinking among adolescents. This strategy schools brought talented doctoral students was a unique demonstration of how strong together for an intellectually stimulating developmental research could be translated experience, gave them opportunities to into intervention strategies which could be listen to, and discuss their research and integrated into routine practices of schools, future career with the leading senior 8

researchers. Today, a number of the participants of early summer schools are the upcoming research leaders in Europe and North America, and most of them are producing quality research at their academic posts. Professor Stattin's exceptional research career and contribution to developmental research has been celebrated and acknowledged in several occasions. Together with Margaret Kerr, he has received the Roberta Grodberg Simmons Prize Lecture of Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) The first problem deals with measurement in 2004, the William T. Preyer Award for and conceptualization. It has long been Excellence in Research on Human unclear which measures of loneliness are Development from the European sufficiently reliable and valid and which types of loneliness can be distinguished. The Association for Developmental Psychology second problem is that the scientific study (EADP) in 2013, and the Distinguished on loneliness has been fragmented and that Scientific Contribution Award from the there are few systematic reviews on any International Society for the Study of topic related to loneliness. Almost all of her Behavioral Development (ISSBD) in 2016. dissertation chapters have already been published in good or excellent Journals. After completion of her PhD programme, Marlies has worked as post-doctoral student The EARA Young at Leuven. She currently holds a very competitive three-year position as Research Scholar Award: Fellow of the Research Foundation – . Through her work over the past six Dr. Marlies Maes years, she has established herself as an independent researcher who is widely recognized in the field. She has organized Submitted by Elvira Cicognani and chaired symposia at international University of Bologna (Italy) scientific conferences and she has now 14 Written by Luc Goossens papers in international peer-reviewed Leuven University (Belgium) Journals. Marlies is also strongly oriented toward the international scene and she spent several periods abroad. She has been Marlies Maes has shown outstanding strongly involved with the EARA, also as scholarly promise in research on representative of EARA Young Scholars. adolescence. In her dissertation, she has addressed two problems that have hampered progress in research on adolescent loneliness for a long time.

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OUTSTANDING National MENTOR AWARD Representatives:

EARA has introduced also the outstanding Fourth meeting in mentor, and the Junior mentor award since Ghent 2018. Two candidates have been selected, in view of their excellent mentoring profile Submitted by Fabrizia Giannotta, toward young scholars: Mäladarens University (Sweden)

Theo Klimstra (Junior mentor award) The fourth meeting between EARA newsletter editor, Fabrizia Giannotta, the EARA president, Susan Branje, the EARA secretary, Elisabetta Crocetti, and the EARA National Representatives was held at the XVI EARA conference in Ghent. The EARA young scholars (former SECNet), Marlies Maes, and the EARA young scholars (former SECNet) National Representatives were also invited, and important issues have been discussed.

Peter Noack (outstanding mentor) First, the tasks for the National Representatives have been re-defined.  In general terms, National Representatives are expected to spread the knowledge about the society in order to make the society visible and to involve as many researchers and professionals that work with adolescents as possible. The goal is to make EARA the society of reference for those that deal with adolescents.  In order to achieve this goal, National representative will be asked to track and contact as many researchers as possible from their own country and to send e- mails to them in order to spread the knowledge about the society. This will happen especially before the EARA conference. Therefore, they are required to create a contact lists of researchers that study adolescence in their country 10

and that can be used to spread out the researchers before the conference. It will information about EARA conference, be responsibility of the National and all the features and the advantages representative to contact the EARA to become members will be also young scholars (former SECNet) described. It is important to try to reach representative to initiate the researchers also from other disciplines collaboration. (e.g. epidemiology, social work, sociology, etc.), so that the society can grow and reach all the researchers or Nation Representative Year of practitioners that deal with adolescence. election  The National representatives are also Austria Elisabeth 2018 Stefanek asked to collaborate with the Newsletter. Bulgaria Radosveta 2014 From time to time, they will be asked to Dimitrova contact EARA members from their Cyprus Panagiotis 2018 country and propose them to submit Stavrinides short summary of recent published Czech Jan Sirugek 2012 studies. This will help to share new Republic research studies of the EARA members. France Cyrille Perchec 2018 Germany Katharina 2018? It could also be an incentive to become a Eckstein member. As this is one of ways to spread Greece Spryros Tantaros 2018 the knowledge about the society and Irland Jennifer Symonds 2016 give visibility to its members, it is Italy Tiziana Pozzoli 2018 important that the National Japan Kazumi Sugimura 2018 representatives take seriously this task. Lithuania Rasa Erentaitė 2018 It has been discussed during the Luxembourg Isabelle Albert 2013 Portugal Filomena Parada 2013 meeting that the National Romania Oana Negru- 2016 representatives will have the chance to Subtirica refuse this task two times. At the third Slovakia Mária Bačíková 2016 refusal, the National representative will Sweden Ylva Svensson 2016 be asked to resign, as it would be clear Switzerland Grégoire 2018 that he/she does not have enough time Zimmermann to fulfil the tasks implied in the role. The Caspar J. van 2018  Moreover, a better synergy between Netherlands Lissa Turkey Eylem Türk 2016 EARA National Representatives and the EARA young scholars (former SECNet) representatives should be achieved. The representatives should work together and address respectively senior and young potential EARA members to spread the knowledge about the society. Specifically, the EARA young scholars (former SECNet) representative will be asked to work with the National Representatives to contact the 11

Jolien van der Graaff for her great work for From the EARA SECNet. Marlies Maes will take over her role and introduced three new and enthusiastic Young Scholars SECNet committee members: Sofie Danneel, Elina Marttinen, and Susanne Schulz. After (former SECNet): the dinner, our SECNet colleague and very EARA Young Scholars Activities personal Ghent tour guide Marie-Lotte Van showed us historic, interesting at the EARA conference sights and cozy Belgian beer bars in the city center of Ghent. Submitted by Marlies Maes, During the General Assembly, the SECNet KU (Belgium) poster award committee, chaired by Jolien van der Graaff, Elina Marttinen, and Ioana The 16th EARA conference in Ghent, Pop, awarded the three best posters Belgium, was attended by many students presented by doctoral students. The posters and early career scholars from a wide variety were judged by past EARA presidents Figen of (European) countries. The scientific Çok and Rita Žukauskienė, and current program was of high quality and covered EARA president Susan Branje. Many thanks many important topics in adolescent for providing helpful feedback on the research. It was great to see that so many posters of all doctoral students who applied young scholars contributed to this by for the award! The winners of the SECNet presenting their research in both poster poster award were Laura Castillo-Eito presentations and symposia. (University of Sheffield), Lotte van As the Student and Early Career Network Doeselaar (Tilburg University), and Dom (SECNet), we organized several activities for Weinberg (Utrecht University). young scholars, which were all well- Congratulations! attended. It was wonderful to see how We also have some other news to share with everyone actively participated, enjoyed the you: with the approval of the EARA council, activities, and took the opportunities to we have changed our name (“SECNet”) into network with colleagues from all over the “EARA Young Scholars”! It really is world. wonderful to see how active and passionate The pre-conference workshops were EARA Young Scholars are, and we would attended by over 80 young scholars, and like to keep in touch with you. You can keep covered a wide variety of academic skills. an eye on the EARA website or join us on During the conference, we organized the Facebook! We are also looking for new ‘Meet the editors!’ session, where five young scholar national representatives for editors gave valuable advice and answered several countries. So, if you are interested in many question on the publishing process. getting more involved and taking up this Many thanks to the participants for posing role, if you would like to have more all of those interesting questions, and to information, or if you have any ideas to Wim Beyers, Luc Goossens, Kazumi strengthen our network, don’t hesitate to Sugimura, Rita Žukauskienė, and Katariina contact us! Salmela-Aro for sharing their expertise! (email: [email protected]). On Thursday evening, September 13th, more than 80 young scholars joined the EARA Your EARA Young Scholars committee, Young Scholar Dinner. At De Stokerij, we Marlies Maes got to know each other better, while also Ioana Pop enjoying typical Ghent food and Belgian Sofie Danneel beers. During the dinner, we thanked our Elina Marttinen passionate and enthusiastic representative Susanne Schulz 12

Mette Ranta After the dinner, we returned to the abbey Elisabeth Borschel for a good night’s sleep, to be well-prepared for three days of intensive collaborative

training. Report EADP-EARA- The next morning, we woke up early to have breakfast and to be ready at 8:30 in the SRA Summer School morning. Susan gave an inspiring talk about 2018 how to communicate and collaborate with people from other countries and cultures. Submitted by Jessica Kanskya After setting the foundation for our (University of Virginia, USA) & collaborative work, we had our first block Nina van den Broekb (Radboud with one of the senior scholars. Each senior University, The Netherlands). scholar session started with an introductory presentation to a specific topic. This year’s This year’s Summer School took place in topics included substance using during the Belgium from September 9 to 12 at the transition from adolescence to adulthood, beautiful Drongen Abbey, close to Ghent. immigrant youth adaptation, controlling The summer school was directed by Susan versus autonomy-supportive parenting, Branje and Katariina Salmela-Aro. In total, intergenerational transmission, and sleep 24 enthusiastic junior scholars from all over during adolescence. Subsequently, groups of the world were admitted to the program and 5-6 junior scholars were formed in which were eager to learn more about research on assignments were given. These tasks adolescent development and to collaborate included developing new research questions, with each other and with the senior scholars. applying research findings to interventions, The senior scholars included (in alphabetical and creating novel research designs to test order) Andrew Fuligni, Eva Pomerantz, tricky psychological phenomena. During Frosso Motti-Stefanidi, John Schulenberg, these tasks, we not only had on-task Loes Keijsers, and Sabine Walper. engaging discussions from the diverse After arrival in the beautiful abbey, we perspectives of the junior scholars, but they started with a well-prepared dinner at a also provided us with the opportunity to get restaurant in Ghent. In-between the to know each other better. delicious salmon tartare, the trio of wines, The junior scholars also attended a and the delicious dessert, the junior and methodological block, where we discussed senior scholars got the chance to get to know the challenges of traditional longitudinal each other in a nice and relaxed setting. methods and learned more about a new Already, some great discussions took place method for analyzing longitudinal data: including both professional and personal random-intercept cross-lagged panel topics. It was clear from this dinner, that the models. Senior scholar Loes Keijsers made summer school would serve a purpose well sure that every single junior scholar was beyond purely academic. Rather, all scholars engaged, whether it was using chocolate seemed interested in building friendships, eggs to explain sampling and generalization collaborations, and long-lasting or bringing individuals to the front of the relationships as “reunions” at future room to play dice games. Every junior conferences were already being discussed. scholar walked away with a greater 13

understanding of how to apply these officially concluded, junior scholars innovative statistical principles to their own continued chatting in the abbey and traveled research. with each other to their next location of their In addition to the presentations and travels. assignments of the senior scholars, each On behalf of all the junior scholars, we junior scholar had the opportunity to would like to thank Susan Branje for the present his or her work to two senior organization of the Summer School and scholars and other junior scholars. In this SRA, EARA, and EADP for financially way, junior scholars could practice their supporting this wonderful program. It was presentation skills and share their own an incredible experience that allowed us to personal research endeavors and interests, walk away with new knowledge of while also receiving focused feedback and adolescent development, unique engaging in critical discussion about their perspectives on our own research, and own projects. With the feedback on our own friends and colleagues for years to come. We presented research projects, we were able to would also like to thank the senior scholars hit the ground running upon landing (or for their engaging presentations, thoughtful driving) back to our home country with a activity plans, and helpful feedback! fresh perspective and renewed energy for our research projects. Lastly, besides the senior and junior tasks and presentations, a very valuable part of the summer school was to get to know each other informally during the meals and evenings. We often found ourselves being asked to leave the dining room because everyone was so engaged in conversation that no one realized it was well past closing The 2018 EARA-SRA Summer School Junior time. At every meal, the junior and senior Scholars (in alphabetical order): scholars blended into one community, Allen Mallory Nina van der Broek making it easy to get to know each other and Ana Rodríguez Rengin Isik-Akin begin forging collaborations that will last Meirinhos well beyond the summer school. The one bar Angie Calvin Sabina Kapetanovic in town became our “hang-out” spot on the Çisem Gürel Sarah Borowski last night of our summer school, and we had Cortney Simmons Savannah Boele nice conversations over delicious Belgian Erika Maksniemi Shogo Hihara beers. Moreover, Belgian chocolates were Farin Bakhtiari Sofia Stepanyan passed around to make the experience Jessica Kansky Sofie Danneel complete. A Facebook group with all junior Lara Aumann Susanne Schulz scholars was initiated on the last day so that Lisan Henricks Suzanne van de Groep everyone has a convenient way to keep in Naseer Bhat Vaida Gabé touch and plan for future reunions. Many of Nicolette Rickert Xiaoyu Lan us already have posted photos from our stay in Belgium as a way to reminisce about the experience. Even after the program had 14

Developmental Covariation: Prediction and Presentation of two Developmental Sequence Models 7. Developmental Covariation: Longitudinal books Mediation Models to Explain Developmental Sequence 8. Developmental Patterns in Wim Meeus, Adolescent Adolescence: Turmoil or Formation? Development. Longitudinal Research into the Self, Personal Relationships, Wim Meeus, Emeritus Professor of and Psychopathology. Abingdon, Oxon Adolescent Development at Utrecht & New York: Routledge. University and of Developmental Psychology at Tilburg University, is an internationally This groundbreaking book provides students recognized scholar in the study of adolescent and researchers with a unique overview of development. He conducted a series of long- the longitudinal study of the development of lasting longitudinal studies into the young people from the ages of 12 to 25. It development of young people. His key offers a comprehensive introduction into the interests are identity and personality, multiple theories on the development of the personal relationships and psychopathology self, personal relationships and in adolescence. He is also a specialist in psychopathology in adolescence, alongside a longitudinal models. non-statistical overview of the many longitudinal models used to study Leo B. Hendry, and Marion Kloep, development. Reframing Adolescent Research. The book includes key topics such as (2018) Routledge, New York & London. the development of the self, adolescent identity and personality; the development of Edited by Leo B. Hendry, Emeritus parent–adolescent relationships; Professor, University of Aberdeen, UK and friendships and the understanding of others; Marion Kloep, University of Glamorgan, UK. and the development of psychosocial This ground-breaking volume focuses on the problems such as anxiety, depression, challenges and new directions in adolescent delinquency, aggression and substance use. development research. Contributions from Meeus highlights multiple findings showing world-class academics examine theoretical how these processes are integrated and concerns and methodological challenges to identifies eight fundamental patterns of substantive areas in the field, whilst adolescent development to help determine considering innovations and novel why most adolescents develop into mature approaches to the study of adolescence and and organized individuals towards the end development across the lifespan. New of this life stage, while a substantial minority theories, methods and interventions are show an inability to mature. presented that are essential to advancing the It is essential reading for graduate project of understanding adolescents, youth students and researchers in adolescent and how they develop on a global stage. This development and anyone seeking to use is valuable reading for advanced students longitudinal research methodology in and researchers in adolescent development the social and behavioral sciences. and developmental psychology.

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