dr. Elien De Caluwé

Bio

2021-present: Academic Director of the Master Psychology and Mental Health, including 5 programs:

• Clinical Psychology (Klinische Psychologie; Dutch only)
• Clinical Child & Youth Psychology (Klinische Kinder- en Jeugdpsychologie; Dutch only)
• Clinical Forensic Psychology (Klinische Forensische Psychologie; Dutch only)
• Positive Psychology and Well-being
• Cognitive Neuropsychology

2019-2022: Program Coordinator of the Master Clinical Forensic Psychology

2017-present: Assistant Professor (Tenured since Nov. 2021) (Tilburg University, The Netherlands)           

• Department Developmental Psychology
• Focus: Forensic Psychology (from a developmental and personality perspective)

2015-2017: FWO postdoctoral research fellow (Ghent University, Belgium)

2010-2015: PhD student (scholarship) (Ghent University, Belgium)

Expertise

My main research interest lies within the intersection between personality, psychopathology and personality pathology in children and adolescents. 

In my PhD, I combined these themes by specifically investigating the link between personality, obsessive-compulsive disorder and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder at a young age, whereas I am currently adopting a developmental and personality perspective to study forensic psychopathology in younger age groups (e.g., conduct disorder, antisocial personality pathology, psychopathy,...).

Other research interests are: assessment, scale development and validation, psychometrics, measurement invariance, and mobile dating app (Tinder) motives and personality (disorders)

Onderwijs

Coordinator/teacher of a course in the Major Forensic Psychology (Bachelor):

• Introduction to forensic psychology (in Dutch)

Master thesis and internship supervisor in the Master Clinical Forensic Psychology (in Dutch)

First-year-paper and traineeship supervisor in the Research Master Individual Differences and Assessment

Vakken

• Inleiding in de forensische psychologie

Recente publicaties

1. The role of dynamic risk and protective factors in predicting violent…

   Garritsen, K., Jankovic, M., Masthoff, E., De Caluwe, E., & Bogaerts, S. (2024). The role of dynamic risk and protective factors in predicting violent recidivism: Intellectual ability as a possible moderator? International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 68(2-3), 207-234.

2. Psychopathic traits in the interpersonal context - Is the effect of p…

   Frowijn, I., & De Caluwé, E. (2023). Psychopathic traits in the interpersonal context: Is the effect of psychopathic traits on prosocial behavior mediated by peer problems? Acta Psychologica, 238, Article 103976.

3. Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges -…

   Hagen, T., Bogaerts, S., & De Caluwe, E. (2023). Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: Distinctiveness and two-year structural stability. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 30(3), 334-348.

4. Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between jo…

   Hagen, T., De Caluwé, E., & Bogaerts, S. (2023). Personality moderators of the cross-sectional relationship between job demands and both burnout and work engagement in judges: The boosting effects of conscientiousness and introversion. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 89, Article 101902.

5. Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID-19

   van Scheppingen, M. A., Reitz, A. K., de Caluwe, E., & Lodder, G. (2023). Changes in loneliness and coping strategies during COVID-19. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 17(12), Article e12895.