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The association between exercise participation and well-being: a co-twin studyJ H Stubbe
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prev Med 44:148-52. 2007..We investigated the association between leisure time exercise participation and well-being (i.e., life satisfaction and happiness) and examined the causality underlying this association...
Sports participation during adolescence: a shift from environmental to genetic factorsJanine H Stubbe
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Med Sci Sports Exerc 37:563-70. 2005..A twin design was used to assess the relative contribution of genetic and environmental influences on the variation in sports participation of Dutch male and female twins between the ages of 13 and 20 yr...
Heritability of life satisfaction in adults: a twin-family studyJ H Stubbe
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychol Med 35:1581-8. 2005..The aim of this study was to investigate the relative contribution of genes and environment to individual differences in life satisfaction in a large sample of Dutch twins and their singleton siblings...
Genetic influences on exercise participation in 37,051 twin pairs from seven countriesJanine H Stubbe
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
PLoS ONE 1:e22. 2006..To get more insight in the relative contribution of genetic and environmental influences on individual differences in exercise participation, twin samples from seven countries participating in the GenomEUtwin project were used...
Regular exercise, anxiety, depression and personality: a population-based studyM H M De Moor
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prev Med 42:273-9. 2006..To examine whether regular exercise is associated with anxiety, depression and personality in a large population-based sample as a function of gender and age...
Exercise participation and self-rated health: do common genes explain the association?M H M De Moor
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Epidemiol 22:27-32. 2007..We propose that identification of the genes that cause differences in exercise behavior will help resolve the issue of causality...
Netherlands Twin Register: from twins to twin familiesDorret I Boomsma
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:849-57. 2006..In this paper we give an update on the YNTR and ANTR phenotyping and on the ongoing ANTR biobank studies...
Netherlands Twin Register: a focus on longitudinal researchDorret I Boomsma
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Twin Res 5:401-6. 2002..Large cohorts of phenotyped family members from the general population are very valuable for genetic epidemiological studies and permit selection of informative families for gene finding studies...
Estimating non-response bias in family studies: application to mental health and lifestyleJacqueline M Vink
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Eur J Epidemiol 19:623-30. 2004..Results suggest that, even for studies with moderate response rates, data collected on health, personality and lifestyle are relatively unbiased...
Testing causality in the association between regular exercise and symptoms of anxiety and depressionMarleen H M de Moor
Department of Biological Psychology, VU University Amsterdam, Van der Boechorststraat 1, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Arch Gen Psychiatry 65:897-905. 2008..We cannot exclude the major contribution of a third underlying factor influencing exercise behavior and symptoms of anxiety and depression...
Familial clustering in burnout: a twin-family studyC M Middeldorp
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Psychol Med 35:113-20. 2005..Finally, we tried to identify specific risk factors for burnout...
Migraine with aura and migraine without aura are not distinct entities: further evidence from a large Dutch population studyLannie Ligthart
Department of Biological Psychology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Twin Res Hum Genet 9:54-63. 2006..The heritability of the screening question was similar to more detailed LCA and IHS classifications, suggesting that the screening procedure is an important determining factor in genetic studies of migraine...
Physical activity and cognitive function in a cross-section of younger and older community-dwelling individualsCharles H Hillman
Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA
Health Psychol 25:678-87. 2006..Findings suggest that physical activity may be beneficial to both general and selective aspects of cognition, particularly among older adults...
The Consumer Quality Index Hip Knee Questionnaire measuring patients' experiences with quality of care after a total hip or knee arthroplastyJanine H Stubbe
NIVEL Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
BMC Health Serv Res 7:60. 2007..The aim of this study is to evaluate the construct validity and internal consistency reliability of this new instrument and to assess its ability to measure differences in quality of care between hospitals...
