dr. Dominique Maciejewski

Bio

I did my PhD in developmental psychopathology at the VU University Amsterdam, examining the development and adjustment outcomes of mood variability during adolescence using daily diary data (2014-2016). In my first postdoc at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, I examined neurobiological determinants of adolescent psychopathology (2016). In my second postdoc at Amsterdam UMC and Erasmus MC, I was project coordinator of a large-scale project for children of parents with mood disorders (the Mood And Resilience In Offspring (MARIO) project; 2017-2019). After my post-docs, I realized that my heart lies at the dynamics of emotions and the regulation thereof, which is why I moved to Radboud University as an assistant professor and mainly focused on emotion (regulation) dynamics in daily life (2019-2023). I joined the department of developmental psychology of Tilburg in May 2023 and hope to better understand in the future why my emotions are so variable, whereas my partner is chill all the time.

Expertise

My main research aim is to study the role of emotion (regulation) dynamics in mental health in young people. I want to understand why individuals differ from each other in how they regulate their emotions, in what contexts variability in emotions is adaptive and what role emotion (regulation) dynamics play in mental health. I also examine the effectiveness of just-in-time adaptive interventions to improve emotion regulation and mental health. To this end, I use Experience Sampling Methods (ESM) to measure how emotions and emotion regulation unfold dynamically in daily life (for two recent examples see https://osf.io/fx3ay/; https://osf.io/9axte/). Additionally, I focus on methodological issues in ESM research. To stimulate that research line, I am part of an international consortium aiming to improve the validity of measurements in ESM research (https://osf.io/m2v38/) and have received a Dutch grant to study response processes in ESM studies.

Teaching

In the past, I have mostly taught developmental psychopathology and statistics, but also intervention science and methods. I have supervised bachelor, master and PhD students and really enjoy the mentoring process and learning new things myself from supervision. At Tilburg university, I teach the course Developmental Psychology.

From March 2024 onwards, I serve as Academic Director for the Dutch Bachelor Psychology program.

Courses

• Developmental Psychology (Dutch Program)
• Developmental Psychology (Dutch Program)

Highlights

Key publications:

Maciejewski, D., Roekel, E. van, Ha, T., DeFrance, K., Lin, L., Lennarz, H., Trompetter, H., Meeus, W., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., Branje, S., Hollenstein, T., & Verhagen, M. (2023). Beyond main effects? Affect level as a moderator in the relation between affect dynamics and depressive symptoms. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1(1), https://doi.org/10.55913/joep.v1i1.52

Lo, T. T., Van Lissa, C. J., Verhagen, M., Hoemann, K., Erbaş, Y., & Maciejewski, D. (2024). A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. Emotion. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001344

Griffioen, N., Scholten, H., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., Maciejewski, D., & Granic, I. (2022). Heterogeneity in some relationships between social media use and emerging adults’ affective wellbeing. Current Psychology. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-022-04035-5 

Maciejewski, D., Keijsers, L., van Lier, P., Branje, S., Meeus, W., & Koot, H. (2019). Most fare well-but some do not: Distinct profiles of mood variability development and their association with adjustment during adolescence. Developmental Psychology, 55(2), 434–448. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000650

Maciejewski, D., van Lier, P., Branje, S., Meeus, W., & Koot, H. (2015). A 5-year longitudinal study on mood variability across adolescence using daily diaries. Child Development, 86(6), 1908–1921. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12420

Recent publications

1. Heterogeneity in some relationships between social media use and emer…

   Griffioen, N., Scholten, H., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., Maciejewski, D., & Granic, I. (2023). Heterogeneity in some relationships between social media use and emerging adults' affective wellbeing. Current Psychology, 42, 30277-30292.

2. Risk-related brain activation is linked to longitudinal changes in ad…

   Lauharatanahirun, N., Maciejewski, D. F., Kim-Spoon, J., & King-Casas, B. (2023). Risk-related brain activation is linked to longitudinal changes in adolescent health risk behaviors. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 63, Article 101291.

3. A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index - Bray-Curtis …

   Lo, T. T., van Lissa, C., Verhagen, M., Hoemann, K., Erbaş, Y., & Maciejewski, D. (2023). A theory-informed emotion regulation variability index: Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. PsyArXiv Preprints.

4. Beyond main effects? - Affect level as a moderator in the relation be…

   Maciejewski, D. F., van Roekel, E., Ha, T., de France, K., Lin, L., Lennarz, H., Trompetter, H., Meeus, W., Lichtwarck-Aschoff, A., Branje, S., Hollenstein, T., & Verhagen, M. (2023). Beyond main effects? Affect level as a moderator in the relation between affect dynamics and depressive symptoms. Journal of Emotion and Psychopathology, 1(1), 356-372.

5. Interplay between genetic risk and the parent environment in adolesce…

   Pasman, J. A., Smit, K., Vollebergh, W. A. M., Nolte, I. M., Hartman, C. A., Abdellaoui, A., Verweij, K. J. H., Maciejewski, D., & Vink, J. M. (2023). Interplay between genetic risk and the parent environment in adolescence and substance use in young adulthood: A TRAILS study. Development and Psychopathology, 35(1), 396-409.