Savannah Boele

Dr. Savannah Boele is a postdoctoral researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam’s Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences, affiliated with the Youth and Family department. She is part of the PARADOx research project, focusing on adolescent parenting dynamics and affective well-being. Her work emphasizes family-specific processes, environmental sensitivity, and the interplay between parenting behaviors and adolescent mental health across diverse timescales.

Education: She completed her doctoral thesis, One of a kind? Unraveling the complexities of parenting adolescents across time(scales) and families, at Erasmus University Rotterdam in 2024. Her research integrates longitudinal analyses, network approaches, and ecological momentary assessment to study parent-adolescent relationships.

Research interests include adolescent parenting styles, negative/positive affect, depressive symptoms, and the role of autonomy support. She has explored how parenting behaviors mediate youth well-being, particularly in contexts like the pandemic and family-specific dynamics. Her studies often use innovative methodologies to capture real-time interactions and intra-individual variability.

Collaborations involve interdisciplinary teams and global datasets, focusing on developmental and clinical psychology. She has contributed to projects like the ADAPT initiative and the Overparenting Scale validation. Her work highlights family-specific heterogeneity, challenging one-size-fits-all models of parenting.

Grants and awards: While no individual awards are listed, her team received recognition for Open and Responsible Science practices (CollectieveKracht award, 2023). Her research has been widely disseminated via open-access platforms and cited across developmental psychology journals.

Labs/teams: Active in the PARADOx project, collaborating with institutions globally to advance understanding of parenting’s role in adolescent adaptation. Her work bridges theory and practice, influencing evidence-based parenting interventions.