Today, the public’s perception of food packaging is primarily negative, which mostly triggered by factors such as use (fossil) resources, waste generation, and (marine) littering. Accordingly, (re)design focusing in particular on environmental sustainability (e.g., recyclability). However, it seems that parallel, consumer experience satisfaction continue to decline, reflected numerous online co...

In this article we present two studies about the relations between peer relationships and somatic complaints in children in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. In the first study (n=711), when the children were average 10 years old, we focused on social status as rated by classmates (popular, neglected, controversial, rejected, and average), self-reported social anxiety and somatic complaints. The seco...

In this study, we compared several aspects of the emotional functioning of schoolchildren reporting very few somatic complaints (n=59), schoolchildren reporting many somatic complaints (n=61), and a clinical group of children with functional abdominal complaints who visited the outpatient clinical of the VU University Medical Centre in Amsterdam (n=33). The children had an average age of 10.6 y...