Marthe de Roo

Marthe de Roo is a Researcher at the University of Groningen, affiliated with the Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Department of Pedagogy and Educational Sciences. Her primary research focuses on the associations between parental overprotection and child/adolescent psychosocial adjustment, utilizing the EMBU questionnaire to standardize findings across studies. Key contributions include a meta-analysis demonstrating small-to-moderate positive correlations between overprotection and internalizing/externalizing problems, with maternal overprotection showing stronger effects than paternal.

Methodologically, de Roo emphasizes addressing shared method variance and temporal ordering in cross-sectional vs. longitudinal designs. Her work highlights the need for improved study quality, including genetic confounding and cross-cultural comparisons. Collaborators include René Veenstra and Tina Kretschmer, with the latter receiving an ERC Starting Grant for related research. Email: marthe.de.roo@rug.nl.