Dr Helmut Warmenhoven, a Lecturer in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences (DHSS), has recently conducted interviews with various media outlets in China and his homeland in the Netherlands.
Dr Helmut Warmenhoven
Quest interviewed Dr Warmenhoven in December 2020. Quest is the second-largest magazine in the Netherlands and the largest popular scientific magazine. The interview with Quest was about Dr Warmenhoven’s recently completed PhD thesis on the one-child generation. He studied the social and psychological impact of the policy on the current generation of students.
Dr Warmenhoven studied if students with and without siblings differed from each other in terms of happiness, satisfaction with life, individualism, and collectivism. Also, he researched how this generation sees the future, especially the future elderly care of their parents and in-laws.
The interview was mainly about the differences between students with or without siblings. This is relevant for people in the Netherlands as the large majority of couples still choose to have two or more children; however, it is becoming more common to have only a single child. Quest approached Dr Warmenhoven after the Radboud University Nijmegen, from whom Dr Warmenhoven received his PhD, published a press release about his PhD thesis/defence.
De Volkskrant also reached out to Dr Warmenhoven for an interview, which was published in February. De Volkskrant is one of the major newspapers in the Netherlands and the one that is most read by Dutch academics and students.
The article in De Volkskrant was mostly about the happiness and satisfaction of single children and children with siblings. This was primarily based on Dr Warmenhoven’s PhD research. However, since then, he has moved on to study the phenomenon internationally and with older target groups, as the first cohorts of the one-child generation rapidly reach mid-life. De Volkskrant approached Dr Warmenhoven as the reporter had found the press release and some of the articles that he had published on the subject.
Dr Warmenhoven's interview in the De Volkskrant
The Paper, a Chinese digital newspaper run by the Shanghai United Media Group, took an interest in Dr Warmenhoven’s article on future elderly care and wrote a Chinese summary.
The article by Shanghai United Media Group can be found here: https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_7361183
Editors: Samuel Burgess, Deen He
