• 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 1-2
     
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    Breastfeeding was assessed through the question: Did the twin get breastfeeding?
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • 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_BS2
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • 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_BS2
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • 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 7
     
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    The Cantril ladder is an assessment of the subjective quality of life on a scale from 0 to 10.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • measure Kind of Person Implicit Theory Scale

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YE_ATTEF3
     
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    The “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 17, 2024

  • measure Dental characteristics

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_2 YC_ADHMRI YS_TRIP age 2
     
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    Dental characteristics that are assessed include teething and cavities.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • 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_BS2
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • measure Iowa-Netherlands Comparison Orientation Measure (INCOM)

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YE_ATTEF3
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • measure Autism-Spectrum Quotient (AQ)

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YE_COG18
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • measure Teacher Report Form (6-18)

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_TRF5 YS_TRF7 YS_TRF10 YS_TRF12 YE_ATTEF1 YE_ATTEF2
     
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    The Teacher Report Form (6-18) is part of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA) taxonomy and is a validated instrument to assess psychiatric symptoms in both clinical and research settings. The ASEBA teacher report version for youths 6 to 18 years of age potentially includes the syndrome scales Anxious/Depressed,...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • 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 12
     
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    Physical 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 17, 2024

  • 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 12
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • 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_BS2
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • measure Devereux Child Behavior (DCB) rating scale

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_5 YE_ATTEF1
     
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    The Devereux Child Behavior (DCB) rating scale assesses aggressive behavior, anxiety problems, attention problems, dependency, physical coordination problems, and emotional lability. Parents are asked to rate their children's behavior in the past 2 months on a 5-point scale, with 1 = never and 5= very frequently.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • measure Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_REF
     
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    The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a brief questionnaire for assessing the psychosocial adjustment of children and adolescents. Versions are available for parents and teachers of 4- to 16-year-olds, and a nearly identical version can be completed independently by 11- to 16-years olds. The SDQ differs from related instruments in that it...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • measure Milestones and motor development

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YS_2 YS_5 YS_TRIP age 2
     
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    Milestones and motor development assesses the age of developmental milestones (rolling over, sitting upright, crawling, standing, walking, and first words) and the ability of children to perform several fine and gross motor tasks, such as throwing an catching a ball, writing their own name, reading simple words, tieing shoelaces, zipping up their coat,...
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • 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 1-2
     
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    Pregnancies 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 17, 2024

  • measure Handicap index

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YE_ATTEF3
     
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    In the Handicap index, participants rated statements about how handicapped they had felt during the task performance.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024

  • 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_COG18
     
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    The 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 17, 2024

  • measure Child satisfaction

    Study:Netherlands Twin Register
    Mode of collection: SelfAdministeredQuestionnaire
    Available measurements:
    Young Netherlands Twin Register  YC_ADHMRI YS_TRIP age 3 YS_TRIP age 4 YS_TRIP age 5 YS_TRIP age 7 YS_TRIP age 10 YS_TRIP age 12
     
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    Child satisfaction asks parents about what they are most satisfied with about their child.
    Created October 17, 2024 • Updated October 17, 2024
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