Postdoctoral Researcher: Behavioural Science Institute

Are you interested in how adolescents develop in their social contexts? Are you passionate about unravelling how daily life fluctuations contribute to adolescents’ well-being and social health? Are you interested in examining underlying mechanisms for adolescent loneliness and other socio-emotional problems? Are you enthusiastic about conducting complex multilevel and longitudinal analyses and preregistering your studies? Then we would love to see your application! We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join in our mission to unravel macro- and microprocesses underlying socio-emotional development in adolescents and to empower the young.

For this NWO-funded project, we are looking for a talented and motivated researcher with a passion for the well-being of youth. You will be working on data from a finished project, called Adolescents’ social relationships and mental well-being: Longitudinal and momentary predictors of resilience.

In this longitudinal project, researchers collected six waves of data (over four years) and conducted an ecological momentary assessment (EMA) study on parent-adolescent dyads, resulting in a unique and large dataset with both trait and state measures on affect, emotion regulation, socio-emotional and lifestyle factors in adolescents and their parents.

By examining both longitudinal and dynamic (EMA) data, associations underlying adolescent mental and social health and loneliness can be unraveled. Topics such as the role of emotion regulation processes in adolescent loneliness or parental influence on adolescent feelings of loneliness can be addressed, as can questions related to socio-emotional development over time and parents’ influences on these developments. You will also be invited to come up with your own unique research questions.

Your role will be to preregister forthcoming publications, analyse existing longitudinal and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data of adolescents and their parents, and write and publish scientific papers. You will be working in a team from the Developmental Psychopathology group of the Behavioural Science Institute (BSI).

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Requirements:

• You should have or shortly expect to obtain a doctoral degree in developmental psychopathology or a related field (psychology, health sciences, sociology).
• You have an affinity for studying the target group of adolescents, socio-emotional problems and social environments.
• You have experience analysing longitudinal and multilevel data and writing analytic codes in R or Mplus.
• You have the ability to work in a structured and organised manner, including good time-management skills.
• You have excellent interpersonal skills, and the ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• You have experience with preregistering publications.

Salary Benefits:

• We will give you a temporary employment contract of 19 months.
• Your salary within salary scale 11, step 0 is fixed. The amounts in the scale are based on a 38-hour working week.
• You will receive an 8% holiday allowance and an 8,3% end-of-year bonus.
• You will receive extra days off. With full-time employment, you can choose between 30 or 41 days of annual leave instead of the statutory 20.

Work and science require good employment practices. This is reflected in Radboud University's primary and secondary employment conditions. You can make arrangements for the best possible work-life balance with flexible working hours, various leave arrangements and working from home. You are also able to compose part of your employment conditions yourself, for example, exchange income for extra leave days and receive a reimbursement for your sports subscription. And of course, we offer a good pension plan. You are given plenty of room and responsibility to develop your talents and realise your ambitions. Therefore, we provide various training and development schemes.

32 hours per week

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