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Chair of Developmental and Educational Psychology

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    • Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer
    • Dr. Sandra Gabler
    • Dr. Melanie Kungl
    • Christa Steppert
    • Julia Festini, M.Sc.
    • Dr. Christine Heinisch
    • Leonie Heintz, M.Sc.
    • Dr. Klaudia Kramer
    • Dr. Gabriele Peitz
    • Dr. Johanna Behringer
    • Yentl Koopmans, Ph.D.
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  • Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer
  • Dr. Sandra Gabler
  • Dr. Melanie Kungl
  • Christa Steppert
  • Julia Festini, M.Sc.
  • Dr. Christine Heinisch
  • Leonie Heintz, M.Sc.
  • Dr. Klaudia Kramer
  • Dr. Gabriele Peitz
  • Dr. Johanna Behringer
  • Yentl Koopmans, Ph.D.
  • Theresa Zickert, M.Sc.
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Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer

Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer

Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer
Foto: Kai Kunz
Chair Holder

Institute of Psychology
Chair of Developmental and Educational Psychology

Room: Raum 2.114
Nägelsbachstraße 49 A
91052 Erlangen
Deutschland
  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-20901
  • Email: tina.kretschmer@fau.de
  • Website: https://www.entwicklungspsychologie.phil.fau.de/

Office Hours

Every two weeks on Tuesdays, 4:00–5:00 p.m., in even-numbered weeks during the lecture period; outside of this time, appointments can be arranged by email.

Short CV

Since April 2025, Tina Kretschmer has been a Professor of Educational and Developmental Psychology at FAU and holds the Chair. Her previous positions include the University of Groningen, the Netherlands (Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer 2011–2015, Assistant Professor 2015–2018, Associate Professor 2018–2023, Full Professor from 2023), the University Medical Centre Groningen (Postdoctoral Researcher 2013–2015), King’s College London, Institute of Psychiatry (Postdoctoral Researcher 2009–2011), and the University of Sussex (2006–2009; PhD awarded in 2010).

Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer is currently the principal investigator of the ERC Consolidator project PAR2: A New Science of Parenting. Previously, she led research projects and received funding on intergenerational mechanisms of social development (ERC Starting Grant, 2018–2023) as well as on child development in families without a father present in the Netherlands and Curaçao (FAB, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, 2017–2022).

Since 2024, Prof. Dr. Tina Kretschmer has served as Co-Editor of Social Development.

Publications in academic journals

Navarro, M. C., de Roo, M., Oldehinkel, A. O., Hartman, C. A., & Kretschmer, T. (in press). Intergenerational continuity of depressive symptoms: Genetic and environmental pathways.
Psychological Medicine.

Sentse, M., de Roo, M., & Kretschmer, T. (in press). Intergenerational Transmission of Problem Behavior: Genetic and Environmental Pathways. Development and Psychopathology.

Wiertsema, M., Vrijen, C., van der Ploeg, R., Hartman, C., & Kretschmer, T. (2025). Intergenerational continuity of social competence via parent–child bonding. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2025.2542853

Rainy, N. R., Meaburn, E., Oliver, B. R., de Roo, M., & Kretschmer, T. (2025). In the genetics of the beholder: gene-environment interplay for internalising and externalising behaviours using polygenic scores and adolescent perceptions of parenting. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-025-02804-8

van Vliet, R., van der Ploeg, R., Kretschmer, T., Kiekens, W. J., & Baams, L. (2025). Supportive school strategies for sexually and gender diverse students: A meta-analysis of the associations with bullying-victimization experiences and feelings of school safety. Educational Research Review, 100689. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.edurev.2025.100689

Wiertsema, M., Kretschmer, T., Vrijen, C., Hartman, C., & van der Ploeg, R. (2025). Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/016502542513147

Kretschmer, T., van der Ploeg, R., & Kaufman, T. (2025). Peer victimization in early adolescence and maladjustment in adulthood. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 34(3), 1011-1024. 10.1007/s00787-024-02532-5.

Bouliane, M., Boivin, M., Kretschmer, T. […], Ouellet-Morin, I. (2025). Association between aggression and ADHD polygenic scores and school-age aggression: The mediating role of preschool externalizing behaviors and adverse experiences. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. doi: 10.1007/s00787-025-02654-4.

de Roo, M., Hartman, C.A., Wagtendonk, A., Hoek, H.W., Lakerveld, J., & Kretschmer, T. (2025). Interplay between genetic risk and built neighborhood conditions as predictor of BMI across the transition into adulthood. Obesity, 33, 385-394. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.24213

Avci, H., Baams, L., & Kretschmer, T. (2025). A systematic review of social media use and adolescent identity development. Adolescent Research Review, 10, 219-236. 10.1007/s40894-024-00251-1

Osinga, M., van Brummen-Girigori, O. J., van Bergen, D. D., & Kretschmer, T. (2024). Nonresidential fatherhood and father–child relationships among Curaçaoan and Dutch adolescents and young adults. Journal of Family Psychology, 38(2), 270-281. 10.1037/fam0001159

Vrijen, C., Nolte, I.M., Oldehinkel, A.J., Veenstra, R., & Kretschmer, T. (2024). Genetic confounding in bullying research: Causal claims revisited. Development and Psychopathology, 36(3), 1219-1230. 10.1017/S0954579423000445

Osinga, M., van Bergen, D., van Brummen-Girigori, O., Kretschmer, T., & Timmerman, M. C. (2023). ‘We zeggen “moeders” maar we bedoelen “ouders”’: Percepties en ervaringen met vaderafwezigheid onder Curaçaose, Curaçaos-Nederlandse en Nederlandse jongeren. Pedagogiek, 43(2), 136-167. https://doi.org/10.5117/PED2023.2.003.OSIN

de Roo, M., Hartmann, C., Veenstra, R., Nolte, I.M., Meier, K., Vrijen, C., & Kretschmer, T. (2023). Gene-environment interplay in the development of overweight. Journal of Adolescent Health, 73(3),574-581. 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2023.04.028

Kretschmer, T. (2023). Parenting is genetically influenced. What does that mean for research into child and adolescent development? Social Development, 32(1), 3-16. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12633

Osinga, M., van Bergen, D., van Brummen-Girigori, O., Kretschmer, T., & Timmerman, M. C. (2023). “We say ‘mothers’ but mean ‘parents’”: qualitative perceptions and experiences with father absence among Curaçaoan, Curaçaoan-Dutch and Dutch young people. Journal of Adolescent Research, 38(6), 983-1015. https://doi.org/10.1177/07435584211014878

Wiertsema, M., Vrijen, C., van der Ploeg, R., & Kretschmer, T. (2023) Bullying perpetration and social status in the peer group: A meta-analysis. Journal of Adolescence, 95(1), 34-55. 10.1002/jad.12109

Kretschmer, T., Ouellet-Morin, I., Vrijen, C., Nolte, I.M., & Hartman, C.A. (2023). Polygenic risk for aggressive behavior from late childhood through early adulthood. European Journal of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32 (4), 651-660. 10.1007/s00787-021-01906-3

Kretschmer, T., Vrijen, C., Nolte, I.M., Wertz, J., Hartman, C. (2022). Gene-environment interplay in externalizing behaviour from childhood through adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 63 (10), 1206-1213. 10.1111/jcpp.13652

Kobes, A., Kretschmer, T., & Timmerman, M.C. (2022). The association between obesity-related legislation in the United States and adolescents’ weight. Health Policy Open, 3, 100056. 10.1016/j.hpopen.2021.100056

de Roo, M., Veenstra, R., & Kretschmer, T. (2022). Internalizing and Externalizing Correlates of Parental Overprotection as Measured by the EMBU: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Social Development, 31 (4), 962-983. 10.1111/sode.12590

Hartman, C.A., Richards, J.S., Vrijen, C., Oldehinkel, A.J., Oerlemans, A.M., & Kretschmer, T. (2022). Cohort Profile Update: the TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey – The Next Generation (TRAILS NEXT). International Journal of Epidemiology, 51 (5):e267-e275. 10.1093/ije/dyac066

Wiertsema, M., Vrijen, C., van der Ploeg, R., & Kretschmer, T. (2022) Intergenerational Transmission of Peer Aggression. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 51, 1901-1913. 10.1007/s10964-022-01638-w

Kretschmer, T., la Roi, C., van der Ploeg, R., & Veenstra, R. (2021). Benefits of Bullying? A Test of the Evolutionary Hypothesis in Three Cohorts. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 32 (3), 1178-1193. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12675

Kobes, A., Kretschmer, T., & Timmerman, M.C. (2021). Prevalence of overweight among Dutch primary school children living in JOGG and non-JOGG areas. PLOS ONE, 16(12), e0261406. 10.1371/journal.pone.0261406

Kretschmer, T. (2021). The value of multiple-generation cohorts for studying parenting and child development. Child Development Perspectives, 15 (2), 83-89. 10.1111/cdep.12403

Parra, L.A., van Bergen, D., Dumon, E., Kretschmer, T., la Roi, C., Portzky, G., & Frost, D. (2021). Family belongingness attenuates entrapment and buffers its association with suicidal ideation in a sample of Dutch sexual minority emerging adults. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 50 (3), 983-1001. 10.1007/s10508-020-01838-0

Vrijen C., Wiertsema M., Ackermans M., […], & Kretschmer, T. (2021). Childhood and Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Later Substance Use: A Meta-analysis. Pediatrics, 147(3):e2020034751. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2020-034751

Vrijen, C., Ackermans, M., Bosma, A. & Kretschmer, T. (2020). Study protocol: A cross-sectional pilot study of reward responsiveness, optimism, and social and mental functioning in children of 6-7 years old. JMIR Research Protocols, 9 (9), e18902. https://doi.org/10.2196/18902

la Roi, C., Dijkstra, J.K., Kretschmer, T., Savickaitė, R., & Veenstra, R. (2020). Peers and Homophobic Attitudes in Adolescence: Examining Selection and Influence Processes in Friendships and Antipathies. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 2229-2245. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01298-8

Kiekens, W., La Roi, C., Bos, H., Kretschmer, T., van Bergen, D., & Veenstra, R., (2020). Explaining Health Disparities Between Heterosexual and LGB Adolescents by Integrating the Minority Stress and Psychological Mediation Framework: Findings from the TRAILS Study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 49, 1767-1782. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01206-0

La Roi, C., Kretschmer, T., Veenstra, R., Bos, H., Goossens, L., Verschueren, K., Colpin, H., van Leeuwen, K., Van Den Noortgate, W., Dijkstra, J.K. (2020). Sexual Orientation, Peer Relationships, and Depressive Symptoms: Findings from a Sociometric Design. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 66, 101086. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2019.101086

Kretschmer, T. & Vrijen, C. (2019). De Genetica van Opvoeding. Kind en Adolescent, 40 (3), 277-280. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12453-019-00213-8

Kaufman, T. M. L., Kretschmer, T., Huitsing, G., & Veenstra, R. (2019). Caught in a vicious cycle? Explaining bidirectional spillover between parent-child relationships and peer victimization. Development and Psychopathology, 31 (1), 11-20. 10.1017/S0954579418001360

Kobes, A., Kretschmer, T., Timmerman, G., & Schreuder, P. (2018). Interventions aimed at preventing and reducing overweight/obesity among children and adolescents: A meta-synthesis. Obesity Reviews, 19 (8), 1065-1079. https://doi.org/10.1111/obr.12688

Kaufman, T.M.L., Kretschmer, T., Huitsing, G., & Veenstra, R. (2018). Why does a universal anti-bullying program not help all children? Explaining persistent victimization during an intervention. Prevention Science, 19 (6), 822-832. 10.1007/s11121-018-0906-5

Kretschmer, T., Tropf, F.C., & Niezink, N.M.D. (2018). Causality and pleiotropy in the association between bullying-victimization in adolescence and depressive episodes in adulthood. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 21 (1), 33-41. 10.1017/thg.2017.71

Kretschmer, T., Veenstra, R., Branje, S., Reijneveld, S.A., Meeus, W.H.J., Deković, M., Koot, H.M., Vollebergh, W.A.M., Oldehinkel, A.J. (2018). How competent are adolescent bullying perpetrators and victims in mastering normative developmental tasks in early adulthood? Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 46 (1), 41-56. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-017-0316-3

Van der Ploeg, R., Kretschmer, T., Salmivalli, C., & Veenstra, R. (2017). Defending victims: What does it take to intervene in bullying and how is it rewarded by peers? Journal of School Psychology, 65, 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsp.2017.06.002

Kretschmer, T., Veenstra, R., Deković, M., & Oldehinkel, A.J. (2017). Bullying development across adolescence, its antecedents, outcomes, and gender-specific patterns. Development and Psychopathology, 29 (3), 941-955. 10.1017/S0954579416000596

Sentse, M., Kretschmer, T., de Haan, A., & Prinzie P. (2017). Conduct Problem Trajectories between Age 4 and 17 and their Association with Behavioral Adjustment in Emerging Adulthood. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 46 (8), 1633-1642. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-016-0476-4

Kretschmer, T., Vollebergh, W., & Oldehinkel, A.J. (2017). Parent–child positivity and romantic relationships in emerging adulthood: Congruence, compensation, and the role of social skills. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 41 (2), 198-210. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025415612228

Kretschmer, T. (2016) What explains correlates of peer victimization? A systematic review of mediating factors. Adolescent Research Review, 1 (4), 341-356. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40894-016-0035-y

Kretschmer, T., Sentse, M., Meeus, W., Verhulst, F., Veenstra, R., & Oldehinkel, A.J. (2016). Configurations of adolescents’ peer experiences: Associations with parent-child relationship quality and parental problem behavior. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 26 (3), 474-491. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12206

Pike, A., Atzaba-Poria, N., & Kretschmer, T. (2016). Predictors of Parenting: Between- and Within-Family Factors. Parenting Science & Practice, 16 (3), 147-163. https://doi.org/10.1080/15295192.2016.1158599

la Roi, C., Kretschmer, T., Dijkstra, J.K., Veenstra, R., & Oldehinkel, A.J. (2016). Disparities in depressive symptoms between heterosexual and lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth in a Dutch cohort. The TRAILS study. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 45 (3), 440-456. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-015-0403-0

Kretschmer, T., Barker, E., Dijkstra, J.K., & Veenstra, R. Multifinality of peer victimization: Maladjustment patterns and transitions from early- to mid-adolescence. (2015). European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 24 (10), 1169-79. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-014-0667-z

Dijkstra, J. K., Kretschmer, T., Pattiselanno, K., Franken, A., Harakeh, Z., Vollebergh, W., & Veenstra, R. (2015). Explaining Adolescents’ Delinquency and Substance Use A Test of the Maturity Gap: The SNARE study. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 52 (5), 747-767. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022427815582249

Sentse, M., Kretschmer, T., & Salmivalli, C. (2015). The Longitudinal Interplay between Bullying, Victimization, and Social Status: Developmental and Gender Differences. Social Development, 24 (3), 659-677. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12115

Sijtsema, J., Kretschmer, T., Van Os, T. (2015). The Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth in a Large Community Sample of Young Adult Males and Females. The TRAILS Study. Psychological Assessment, 27 (2), 669-677. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0038520

Dijkstra, J.K., Kretschmer, T., Lindenberg, S. & Veenstra, R. (2015). Hedonic, Instrumental, and Normative Motives Differentiating Patterns for Popular, Accepted, and Rejected Adolescents. Journal of Early Adolescence, 35 (3), 308-323. https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431614535092

Kretschmer, T., Sentse, M., Dijkstra, J.K., & Veenstra, R. (2014). The interplay between peer rejection and acceptance in pre-and early adolescence, serotonin transporter gene, and antisocial behavior in late adolescence-The TRAILS study. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 60 (2), 193-216. https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.60.2.0193

Whelan, Y., Kretschmer, T., & Barker, E.D. (2014). MAOA, early experiences of harsh parenting, irritable oppositionality and bullying-victimization: A moderated indirect effects analysis. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, 60 (2), 216-237. https://doi.org/10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.60.2.0217

Kretschmer, T., Vitaro, F., & Barker, E.D. (2014). The association between peer and own aggression is moderated by the BDNF val-met polymorphism. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 24 (1), 177-185. https://doi.org/10.1111/jora.12050

Kretschmer, T., Oliver B.R., & Maughan, B. (2014). Pubertal development, spare time activities, and adolescent delinquency: Testing the contextual-amplification hypothesis. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 43 (8), 1346-1360. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-013-0074-7

Kretschmer, T., Hickman, M., Doerner, R., Emond, A., Lewis, G., Macleod, J., Maughan, B., Munafó, M., & Heron, J. (2014). Outcomes of childhood conduct problem trajectories in early adulthood – Findings from the ALSPAC study. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 23 (7), 539-549. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-013-0488-5

Oliver, B.R., Kretschmer, T., & Maughan, B. (2014). Configurations of early risk and their association with academic, cognitive, emotional, and behavioural outcomes in middle childhood. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 49 (5), 723-732. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-013-0756-1

Kretschmer, T., Dijkstra, J.K., Ormel, J., Verhulst, F., & Veenstra, R. (2013). Dopamine receptor D4 gene moderates the effect of positive and negative peer experiences on later delinquency. Development and Psychopathology, 25 (4), 1107-1117. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579413000400

Kretschmer, T. & Pike, A. (2010). Associations between adolescent siblings’ relationship quality and similarity and differences in values. Journal of Family Psychology, 24, 411-418. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020060

Kretschmer, T. & Pike, A. (2010). Links between nonshared friendship experiences and adolescent siblings’ differences in aspirations. Journal of Adolescence, 33 (1), 101-110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.05.001

Kretschmer, T. & Pike, A. (2010). Young children’s sibling relationship quality: Distal and proximal correlates. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 50 (5), 581-589. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2008.02016.x

Pike, A. & Kretschmer, T. (2009). Shared versus Nonshared Effects: Parenting and Children’s Adjustment. European Journal of Developmental Science, 3 (2), 115-130. https://doi.org/10.3233/DEV-2009-3203

Ittel, A. & Kretschmer, T. (2007). Historical Roots of Developmental Science. International Journal of Developmental Science, 1 (1), 23-32. https://doi.org/10.3233/DEV-2007-1103

 

 

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