LCID: Middle Childhood Cohort

The Middle Childhood Cohort of the Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID) is a large-scale longitudinal intervention study in which +- 250 families with same-sex twins, aged 7-8 at wave 1, are followed over a six year period. Annual assessments consist of alternating lab- or home visits during which behavioral and neurobiological data are collected. The collected data allows, among others, for testing which child characteristics shape the effect of (manipulated) environmental factors. The aim of the Middle Childhood Cohort is twofold: 1. To investigate the development of social competence and behavioral control in children between 7 and 14 years old; 2. To dissect the reason why not all children are equally responsive to variations in the social environment.

Purpose The primary aim of the Middle Childhood Cohort of the Leiden Consortium on Individual Development (L-CID) study is to increase our understanding of the developmental pathways of social behavior and behavioral control that are important to the development of social competence, from middle childhood to young adulthood. If we better understand the mechanisms involved in developmental processes of social competence this allows us to understand optimal conditions that add to the well-being of developing individuals.
Publisher
Leiden University
Leiden University Medical Center
Creators
Marinus van IJzendoorn
Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Cambridge
Eveline Crone
Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Marian Bakermans-Kranenburg
Leiden University, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rutger Engels
Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Contributors
Lara Wierenga
Leiden University
Michelle Achterberg
Leiden University, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Mara van der Meulen
Leiden University
Funding information
Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research
024.001.003
References
Crone, E. A., Achterberg, M., Dobbelaar, S., Euser, S., van den Bulk, B., van der Meulen, M., ... & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2020). Neural and behavioral signatures of social evaluation and adaptation in childhood and adolescence: the Leiden consortium on individual development (L-CID). Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 45, 100805. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2020.100805
Euser, S., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M. J., van den Bulk, B. G., Linting, M., Damsteegt, R. C., Vrijhof, C. I., ... & van IJzendoorn, M. H. (2016). Efficacy of the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline in Twin Families (VIPP-Twins): Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Psychology, 4(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-016-0139-y
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