University of Groningen
Despicable me
Masselink, Maurits
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10.33612/diss.102140763
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Publication date: 2019
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Masselink, M. (2019). Despicable me: self-esteem and depressive symptoms among adolescents and young adults. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.102140763
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Propositions to accompany the dissertation
DESPICABLE ME
Self-esteem and depressive symptoms among adolescents and young adults
1. “Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain 2. Interventions primarily aimed at improving self-esteem during early adolescence will
not prevent the development of depressive symptoms during middle adolescence and early adulthood.
3. To better understand the mechanisms underlying self-esteem and depression, studies are needed that combine measurements over long and short time intervals and use both ideographic and nomothetic approaches.
4. Self-esteem and depressive symptoms are assumed to influence each other within persons and therefore should be investigated within persons.
5. The possibility of accumulating small effects does not automatically make these effects relevant.
6. Fancy statistical and graphical models divert attention from the validity of measures, statistical power, and effect sizes.
7. Not doing an underpowered study is better than doing an underpowered study. 8. Transparency and data sharing may give criticasters a stick to beat researchers with,
but the benefits for the progression of science outweigh the (personal) costs. 9. Many psychological theories lack the specificity to make it possible to falsify them. 10. All empirical papers without a registered report, preregistration, or multiverse
analysis should be desk rejected by academic journal editors, with the exception of studies clearly presented as purely exploratory.
11. Social media and blogs are better channels to critically discuss published papers than letters to the editors and commentaries.
12. All hope is not lost, the Open Science Movement will save the day.
Maurits Masselink
