European Conference on Developmental Psychology
August 25-29, 2025 | Vilnius, Lithuania
Conference Agenda
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Session Overview | |
| Location: THETA |
| Date: Tuesday, 26/Aug/2025 | |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
S606: SYMPOSIUM: From the Womb to Emerging Adulthood: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Environmental Exposure on Development and Well-being Location: THETA Chair: Cansel Karakas Ozden From the Womb to Emerging Adulthood: Understanding the Impacts of Climate Change and Environmental Exposure on Development and Well-being Presentations of the Symposium Environmental contributions to developmental epigenome: Pollutants and greenness exposures during the first thousand days Voices from Northern Kenya Turkana adolescents experiencing climate change-triggered mental distress Adolescent Development Amid Climate Change: Lived Experiences from Two Climate-Vulnerable Regions Climate Emotions in Young People: A Systematic Review on the Prevalence, Development, and Links to Mental Health and Pro-environmental Behaviors |
| 1:00pm - 2:30pm |
S612: SYMPOSIUM: The Faces of Online Hate Speech: Who Is Exposed, Who Stands Up, and Who Pays the Price? Location: THETA Chair: Benedetta Emanuela Palladino The Faces of Online Hate Speech: Who Is Exposed, Who Stands Up, and Who Pays the Price? Presentations of the Symposium How do adolescents behave in the face of cyberhate? Implication roles, Bystander Responses, and Insights for Promoting Defensive Behaviors Psychological Factors Influencing Adolescents' Willingness to Counteract Online Hate Speech: The Role of Empathy, Self-Efficacy, and Meaning in Life Online Hate Speech and Adolescents' Well-Being: Unraveling Its Daily Impact on Youth with Migrant Background |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm |
S617: SYMPOSIUM: Modern Families: Overparenting and its linkages to adolescent and parental functioning Location: THETA Chair: Savannah Boele Modern Families: Overparenting and its linkages to adolescent and parental functioning Presentations of the Symposium Polish Mothers Navigating Work and Family Life: Maternal Guilt as a Mediator Between Intensive Parenting and Work-Family Conflict PARADOx-Project: Can Parenting Advice Strengthen Family Functioning and Adolescent Well-Being? A Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) Parent-reported and Youth’s Perceived Overprotective Parenting Features: Associations with Decision-Making and Coping Self-efficacy as Markers of Youth’s Autonomy Moments of Overparenting Triggered by Adolescents’ Negative Affect |
| Date: Wednesday, 27/Aug/2025 | |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
M701: 5 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS: Parents and Children Growing Together: Insights into Early Relationships, Development, and Intervention Location: THETA Chair: Willem Koops Chair: Vilmantė Pakalniškienė Attachment Theory in Practice: Observing Child-Educator Relationships in Early Childhood Education and Care 1: University of Queensland, Australia; 2: Charles Darwin University, Australia From jumbled sounds and sights to higher-order processes: investigating audio-visual Sensitivity to Intersensory Synchrony and its influence on Executive Functions, Self-Regulation, and Language in typical and atypical preschool development University of Parma, Italy Parents’ Mental Health Literacy for Supporting Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder and Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder: Comparing Australian and Bangladeshi Migrant Parents WesternSydney University, Australia The effectiveness of An Attachment-Based Intervention in Increasing Foster Parenting Self-efficacy and Reducing Behavioral Difficulties in Foster Children 1: Centre de Recherche en Education de Nantes (CREN), France; 2: Pôle de pédopsychiatrie, EPSM Georges Mazurelle, La Roche-sur-Yon, France; 3: École de Psychologie, Université Laval, Québec, Canada; 4: Institut de la Parentalité, Floirac, France; 5: Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL), Nantes Université, France Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Group Parent-Led CBT Intervention for Parents of Children with Anxiety 1: Department of Psychology, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic; 2: Department of Public Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health, Czech Republic; 3: WHO Collaborating Center for Public Mental Health Research and Service Development Towards a more holistic understanding of inequalities in childhood: A multi-context approach to parental education and child development Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
S711: SYMPOSIUM: Virtual Reality Tools as New Path for Research and Intervention with Children and Adolescents Location: THETA Chair: Simona Carla Silvia Caravita Virtual Reality Tools as new path for research and intervention with children and adolescents Presentations of the Symposium Virtual Reality as a Tool for Trauma Recovery and Emotional Regulation in Syrian Refugee Children “Pathway to Resilience” Developing a VR tool for bullying prevention among children: A qualitative study in UK and Norway Utilitarian choice in hostile and prosocial roles of bullying: using VR to investigate adolescents’ responses and trigger care intuition |
| Date: Thursday, 28/Aug/2025 | |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm |
M801: 5 MINUTE PRESENTATIONS: Perspectives on Well-being and Social Responsibilities of Young People Location: THETA Chair: Beata Krzywosz-Rynkiewicz Chair: Lauryna Rakickienė Promoting Green Hearts: An Association Between Environmental Values and Civic Engagement Among Emerging Adults McGill University, Canada Personal and Vicarious Life Stories of Young Romantic Couples 1: Middle East Technical University, Turkiye & International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC); 2: Middle East Technical University, Turkiye Resilience as a moderator of university students’ coping and well-being during and after the pandemic University of Eastern Finland Predicting Young Adult Life Satisfaction Using Machine Learning and Longitudinal Data: Insights from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) 1: Riga Stradiņš University, Latvia; 2: Middle East Technical University, Turkey Dating violence as precursor of gender violence Universidad de Córdoba, Spain Evaluating the Implementation and Sustainability of an Evidence-Based Parenting Program in Real-World Settings Center for Psychology at University of Porto, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, University of Porto |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm |
S811: SYMPOSIUM: The Intersectional Relation between Gender Identity, Gender Ideology, and Wellbeing Across the Lifespan Location: THETA Chair: Matthew Glade Nielson The Intersectional Relation between Gender Identity, Gender Ideology, and Wellbeing Across the Lifespan Presentations of the Symposium School-age resilience: Themes within a sample of gender minorities interested in self-advocacy and well-being. Gender ideology change during university has different impacts on wellbeing depending on identity intersections Changes in gender and sexual identity among youth: Are proximal and distal minority stressors associated with identity change? Violence against women in Georgia: the interplay between social norms and attitudes |
| Date: Friday, 29/Aug/2025 | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
M901: 5 MINUTE PRESANTATIONS: Developmental Challenges and Adaptive Strengths in Adolescence and Young Adulthood Location: THETA Chair: Dagmar Strohmeier Chair: Roma Jusienė Do You See What I See (DYSWIS)? Investigating Individual Differences in Spontaneous Visuo-Spatial Perspective-Taking University of Pavia, Italy Personality Functioning and Peer Relationships in Adolescence: A One-Year Longitudinal Study Vilnius University, Lithuania Well-being of plurilingual migrant learners in France: a study on life satisfaction, language anxiety and enjoyment 1: Centre de Recherche en Education de Nantes (CREN), France; 2: Laboratoire en Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL), France; 3: Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherche sur les Patrimoines en Lettres et Langues (CIRPaLL), France "You Never Know How Strong You Are Until Being Strong Is Your Only Choice": Adolescents in a Continuous Stressful War University of Haifa, Israel One of a kind? Unraveling the complexities of parenting adolescents across time(scales) and families Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands, The Resilience Development under Adversity: A Longitudinal Study on the Effects of Maltreatment in Adolescence Vilnius University, Faculty of Philosophy, Institute of Psychology, Center for Psychotraumatology, Lithuania More than just enduring – Mental health and well-being among Swedish young adults who ceased self-injuring since adolescence Kristianstad University, Sweden |
