The European Database of Terrorist offenders (EDT) is based on comprehensive judicial information of convictedor deceased terrorist offenders, including social, psychological and psychiatric... Show moreThe European Database of Terrorist offenders (EDT) is based on comprehensive judicial information of convictedor deceased terrorist offenders, including social, psychological and psychiatric reports. This new empirical databaseis the result of a European cross-border collaboration between judicial organizations and scientists within theEuropean Union. The EDT dataset comprises developmental, individual, biographical and contextual factors,which are potentially related to engagement in violent extremism and terrorism. It supports research seeking toidentify critical risk and protective factors for violent extremism and terrorism. The EDT dataset could be usedto conduct studies aimed at the identification of significant personal and contextual risk and protective factorsfor terrorism and violent extremism, improving and validating risk assessments, as well as identifying pathwaysinto terrorism and radicalization. Moreover, this data can assist in the design of effective policy, prevention andintervention practices regarding potential violent extremist and terrorist offenders in Europe and elsewhere. The aimof this article is twofold: firstly, it seeks to present the EDT, along with discussing its development and methodology.To this end, the inclusion criteria and coding principles are discussed, alongside quality-, privacy- and securityissues associated with the gathering and processing of judicial data, together with some preliminary statistics.Secondly, it aims to discuss potentials for research based on EDT data. Accordingly, potential applications andfuture developments of the EDT are discussed as well as urgent needs to use and further develop this comprehensiveand unique database. Show less
The general aim of the studies in this dissertation is to provide more insight in the role of family characteristics, parent characteristics, and child characteristics in early child emotion... Show moreThe general aim of the studies in this dissertation is to provide more insight in the role of family characteristics, parent characteristics, and child characteristics in early child emotion socialization and children’s social-emotional development. In Chapter 2 the degree to which fathers and mothers elaborate on emotions with their daughters and sons is examined from toddlerhood to preschool age. In addition, the role of gender stereotypes in parents’ use of emotion talk is examined. Chapter 3 reports on the role of the gender combination of siblings on everyday (emotion-related) parent-child interactions. Chapter 4 focuses on the potential influence of the proportion of male siblings in fathers’ and mothers’ family of origin on their current gender-typed parenting characteristics, including parents’ gendered use of emotion talk. In addition to a direct relation between parents’ family background and their gender-typed parenting, an indirect effect through parents’ testosterone levels is tested. In Chapter 5 a mediation model is tested in which the link between parents’ psychopathology symptoms and preschoolers’ social-emotional functioning is mediated by the degree to which parents elaborate on negative emotions with their children. Finally, in Chapter 6 the main findings of these empirical studies are reviewed and integrated. Show less
Child maltreatment is a global phenomenon affecting a significant number of the world’s children. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of self-reported childhood maltreatment... Show moreChild maltreatment is a global phenomenon affecting a significant number of the world’s children. The purpose of this study was to compare the prevalence of self-reported childhood maltreatment among university students in Kenya, Zambia, and The Netherlands. We also sought to compare the psychopathological sequelae of child maltreatment in the three samples. In addition, we sought to find out whether PTSS mediated the association between child maltreatment and the psychopathological symptoms. The results of our study showed that neglect in childhood was the most prevalent of all forms of child maltreatment across the three samples. Physical abuse and sexual abuse was most prevalent in Kenya and Zambia while witnessing interparental violence was the least prevalent in the two samples. Child maltreatment was differentially associated with psychopathological symptoms in the three samples of our study. Notably, neglect was the most predictive of psychopathology symptoms. The cross-validation results of our study showed that there were no significant differences in the predictive patterns of PTSS from child maltreatment in the three samples. PTSS mediated the association between child maltreatment and psychopathology symptoms albeit differentially. The results of our study show that there is need to mitigate the prevalence and sequelae of child maltreatment. Show less
