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-present: 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).

Teaching

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

• Introduction to forensic psychology (in Dutch)

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

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

Courses

• Introduction to Forensic Psychology

Recent publications

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

   Garritsen, K., Jankovic, M., Masthoff, E., De Caluwe, E., & Bogaerts, S. (2023). 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.

2. 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.

3. Personality development and its associations with the bifactor model …

   Etkin, P., De Caluwé, E., Ibáñez, M. I., Ortet, G., & Mezquita, L. (2022). Personality development and its associations with the bifactor model of psychopathology in adolescence. Journal of Research in Personality, 97, [104205].

4. The Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale revised (TPDS-R) - Psychometric …

   Gigase, F. A. J., Hulsbosch, L. P., De Caluwé, E., Pop, V. J. M., & Boekhorst, M. G. B. M. (2022). The Tilburg Pregnancy Distress Scale revised (TPDS-R): Psychometric aspects in a longitudinal cohort study. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 156, 511-519.

5. Towards a better understanding of adolescent obsessive–compulsive per…

   Sametoglu, S., Denissen, J., De Clercq, B., & De Caluwé, E. (2022). Towards a better understanding of adolescent obsessive–compulsive personality traits and obsessive–compulsive symptoms from growth trajectories of perfectionism. Development and Psychopathology, 34(4), 1468-1476.