dr. Elien De Caluwé

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

In the Bachelor, I coordinate and teach one course in the Major Forensic Psychology, being Introduction to forensic psychology (in Dutch). Further, I am the Program/thesis coordinator of the Master Clinical Forensic Psychology and supervise master thesis students. I also supervise students from the Research Master Individual Differences and Assessment with their master thesis and traineeships. Finally, I am the  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

Courses

• Criminality, Cognition and Personality
• Introduction to Forensic Psychology
• Thesis Forensic Psychology

Recent publications

1. 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].

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

   Garritsen, K., Jankovic, M., Masthoff, E., De Caluwe, E., & Bogaerts, S. (2022). 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.

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

   Hagen, T., Bogaerts, S., & De Caluwe, E. (2022). Burnout, work engagement and workaholism in a group of Dutch judges: Distinctiveness and two-year structural stability. Psychiatry, Psychology and Law.

4. 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.

5. Erratum to - "Towards a better understanding of adolescent obsessive-…

   Sametoğlu, S., Denissen, J. J. A., De Clercq, B., & De Caluwé, E. (2022). Erratum to: "Towards a better understanding of adolescent obsessive-compulsive personality traits and obsessive-compulsive symptoms from growth trajectories of perfectionism" [Journal of Physical Chemistry DOI: 10.1017/S0954579421000195]. Development and Psychopathology.