Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' emotional functioning : in between cultures?
Novin, F.S.
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Novin, F. S. (2011, June 16). Moroccan-Dutch adolescents' emotional functioning : in between cultures?. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/17713
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Acknowledgments
I would like to take the opportunity to thank the many people who have supported me on this project both at Leiden University and elsewhere. NWO gave me the opportunity to conduct research that is close to my heart. The love and support of family, friends, and colleagues made the work so much easier in difficult times and I want to express my deepest appreciation to them.
I have been very fortunate to be supervised by Prof. Carolien Rieffe. Her knowledge about and enthusiasm for research has been an inspiration to me from the beginning. She has taught me so much about conducting research by generously sharing her expertise. I am very thankful for everything I have learned from her. Her encouragement and belief in my abilities have meant and still mean a great deal to me. My co-supervisors, Dr. Robin Banerjee and Prof. Mark Meerum Terwogt, deserve much appreciation as their support and comments were extremely important from the very beginning of the project. I have learned very much from them.
Jamal El Kattabi deserves a special notion of praise, without his support and devotion the research in Morocco would have been impossible. I must also thank all my colleagues in- and outside the Emotion Lab for all their unending support. It has been an honor. Sincere thankfulness goes out to the bachelor and master students, adolescents, and schools for their willingness to help and participate in the studies. Also without them, the project would have been impossible. It was a pleasure to work with them.
Finally, many thanks to my loving family and friends. My parents, who support me in all my decisions and have an endless belief in me. Oma, who has taught me so much about life and who will always have a special place in my heart. Aardie and Claire, my ‘paranimfs’, I cannot express enough how much I appreciate all your effort you already have shown in arranging everything for this booklet and party, while I am far away. My dearest friends, not being close to you makes me realize in a hard way how much I love and miss you. Eelco, my love, you mean the world to me, wherever in the world we are. Finally, my little brother Daniel, who has his life as a bicultural youngster still ahead, I dedicate this book to you.
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Curriculum Vitae
Sheida Novin was born on the 24th of August 1982, in Teheran, Iran. She moved to the Netherlands when she was six years. After completing her high school education in 2000, she started her psychology degree at Leiden University. She specialized in Developmental Psychology at Leiden University and in Clinical Psychology at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, from which she graduated the joint program in 2005. For one year after her graduation Sheida worked as a junior researcher at the Bascule/Vrije Universiteit and as a teaching assistant at Leiden University. During this period she wrote a research proposal, under supervision of Prof. Rieffe and Dr. Banerjee, for which she obtained a personalized grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research to conduct her PhD at Leiden University, department of developmental psychology. Between 2006 and 2010 her research has been focused on Moroccan-Dutch adolescents’ emotional functioning in comparison to their Moroccan and Dutch peers. Since 2010 she works as a postdoctoral researcher with Prof. Daphna Oyserman at the department of social psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
