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Dr. Rianne van Dijk is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University's Social and Behavioural Sciences school, specifically within the Education and Pedagogy department. Her research focuses on family dynamics and children's psychosocial adjustment after parental separation, with expertise in divorce and children, youth participation in research, and parent-child relationships. She specializes in longitudinal studies across micro, meso, and macro time scales, meta-analyses, and multilevel modeling.
- Principal investigator in the Listen! project about child participation in divorce proceedings
- Research on divorce support effectiveness with iHub and Sterk Huis
- Supervisor of PhD project: It takes two: Studying parent-adolescent interactions
Her methodological skills include interdisciplinary education, quantitative research design, and family systems theory application. She teaches in Bachelor's, Master's, and Research Master's programs, covering topics like family break-up and pedagogy. Key research areas align with Utrecht's Dynamics of Youth theme. Contact: r.vandijk@uu.nl
Selected publications analyze boundary diffusion in post-divorce families, physical health outcomes in divorced families, sibling relationship impacts, and meta-analytic approaches to interparental conflict. She completed her PhD in 2022 with the dissertation Family Break-up, System Break-down, available via Utrecht University's repository.
Projects like Listen! and Does divorce support work? involve collaboration with family law experts, mediators, and practical institutions. Studies use mixed methods including online questionnaires, youth weekly journals, interviews, and observations of mediator interactions. Privacy is maintained through anonymous data handling and secure storage protocols.