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

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.

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