100 measures found within Netherlands Twin Register
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measure Breastfeeding
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_2 YS_TRIP age 2 YS_TRIP age 1-2Breastfeeding was assessed through the question: Did the twin get breastfeeding?Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2The Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS) is a 4-item scale of global subjective happiness. Two items ask respondents to characterize themselves using both absolute ratings and ratings relative to peers, whereas the other two items offer brief descriptions of happy and unhappy individuals and ask respondents the extent to which each characterization describes...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Steroid hormones
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YE_ATTEF2 YE_COG12 YE_COG18Steroid hormones, for instance Testosterone, Estrogen, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and Cortisol, measured with traditional enzymatic tests, such as Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays (ELISA).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Behavioral/cognitive task Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YC_BS1 YE_COG18The Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET) assesses the ability to recognize complex mental states as expressed by human eyes. Participants pick one of four options (e.g. puzzled, nervous, insisting or contemplative) which they think best describes what the person in each photograph is thinking or feeling.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS) is a 5-item scale designed to measure global cognitive judgments of one’s life satisfaction (it is not a measure of either positive or negative affect). The scale does not assess satisfaction with life domains such as health or finances, but allows subjects to integrate and weight these domains in whatever way they...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Cantril ladder
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_3 YS_5 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_ACTION BB2 YC_ACTION - BB3 YC_BS2 YE_FITNSS YS_TRIP age 3 YS_TRIP age 5 YS_TRIP age 7The Cantril ladder is an assessment of the subjective quality of life on a scale from 0 to 10.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Kind of Person Implicit Theory Scale
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3The “Kind of Person” Implicit Theory Scale is an 8-item measure that assesses how much people believe they can change and grow.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Handgrip
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_FITNSSHandgrip strength in both hands was measured with a dynamometer (Baseline Digital Smedley Hand dynamometer, Fabrication Enterprises Inc., USA) with one arm at the side of the body and the elbow at a 90 degree angle.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Life Events Scale
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2The Life Events scale assesses the presence of a wide range of important events in the respondent's life, such as death of a spouse, close relative, or friend, divorce/separation, personal illness or injury, job loss or job change, sexual difficulties, financial problems, etc.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3The Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM) is an 11-item measure of individual differences in social comparison orientation. It identifies people who are high and low in their tendencies to use social comparisons, but does not identify the motives that respondents have for making social comparisons.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_COG18The Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ) is a self-administered questionnaire developed to quantify autistic traits in individuals with normal intelligence. The AQ consists of 50 items, selected from the domains of the “triad of impairment” in autism (impaired social skills, impaired communication, and restricted interests), and from demonstrated areas of...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure COSMED
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_FITNSSCOSMED consists of recorded breath-by-breath oxygen uptake (VO2) and carbon dioxide production (VCO2) during exercise measured with a telemetric gas exchange system (Cosmed K4b2, Cosmed Benelux, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Physical Activity and Sports
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_3 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YC_DSC YE_FITNSS YE_FITNSS follow-up YE_ATTEF2 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG12 YS_TRIP age 4 YS_TRIP age 7 YS_TRIP age 10 YS_TRIP age 12Physical Activity and Sports includes questions about physical exercise patterns of parents and their children, including whether and which sport is exercised, for how long at a time, how frequently, since how many months or years, and how good subjects are at sports. Children's sports touched upon include jogging, hockey, korfball, horseback riding,...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Zygosity (questionnaire)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_3 YS_5 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YC_DSC YC_ADHMRI YS_TRIP age 1 YS_TRIP age 1-2 YS_TRIP age 3 YS_TRIP age 4 YS_TRIP age 5 YS_TRIP age 7 YS_TRIP age 10 YS_TRIP age 12The Zygosity questionnaire asks parents of twin pairs about the resemblance between the twins to determine whether the twin pair is mono- or dizygotic. This questionnaire consists of 10 questions: 6 items about physical similarities between the twin and 4 items about confusion in identifying the twins by parents and others.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Zygosity (DNA)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_3 YS_5 YS_7 YS_10 YS_12 YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YC_ACTION BB1_1 YC_ACTION BB1_2 YC_ACTION BB2 YC_ACTION - BB3 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YC_DSC YE_FITNSS YE_ATTEF1 YE_ATTEF2 YE_ATTEF3 YC_ADHMRI YE_COG18 YS_TRIP age 1-2 YS_TRIP age 3 YS_TRIP age 4 YS_TRIP age 5 YS_TRIP age 7 YS_TRIP age 10 YS_TRIP age 12Zygosity typing based on micro-satellite markers, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), or variable number (short) tandem repeats (VNTRs).Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_DHBQP YS_DHBQ14 YS_DHBQ16 YS_DHBQ18 YC_BS2The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSE) is a 10-item scale that measures global self-worth in adolescents by measuring both positive (5 items) and negative (5 items) feelings about the self. Although originally constructed as a Guttman-type scale (i.e., items with an ordinal pattern on the attribute), most researchers use a 4-point response format ranging...Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Pregnancies & miscarriages
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_1 YE_COG18 YS_TRIP age 1 YS_TRIP age 1-2Pregnancies and Miscarriages contains questions about getting pregnant, including the use of hormone preparations or assisted reproductive technologies, and miscarriages.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Handicap index
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_ATTEF3In the Handicap index, participants rated statements about how handicapped they had felt during the task performance.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI)
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YS_5 YC_BS1 YC_BS2 YC_BS3 YE_COG18The Edinburgh Handedness Inventory (EHI) is a measurement scale used to assess the dominance of a person's right or left hand in everyday activities, sometimes referred to as laterality.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024
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measure LC-MS lipidomics
Study: Netherlands Twin Register Mode of collection: MeasurementsAndTests Biological sample/measurement Available measurements: Young Netherlands Twin Register YE_COG18Liquid chromatography mass spectrometry (LC-MS) platform targeting lipid species.Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 20, 2024