A5008768011- Mental Health Research Topics
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Digital Mental Health Interventions
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Functional Brain Connectivity Studies
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Health and Well-being Studies
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Congenital heart defects research
- Congenital Heart Disease Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Mind wandering and attention
- Cultural Differences and Values
- Tryptophan and brain disorders
- Genetics and Neurodevelopmental Disorders
KU Leuven
2015-2024
Tilburg University
2022-2024
Contextual Change (United States)
2021-2024
Wilhelmina Children's Hospital
2024
Institute of Educational Sciences
2019
Huntsman (Belgium)
1978
Currently, little is known about the association between assessment intensity, burden, data quantity, and quality in experience sampling method (ESM) studies. Researchers therefore have insufficient information to make informed decisions design of their ESM study. Our aim was investigate effects different frequencies questionnaire lengths on compliance, careless responding. Students ( n = 163) received either a 30- or 60-item three, six, nine times per day for 14 days. Preregistered...
Increased moment-to-moment predictability, or inertia, of negative affect has been identified as an important dynamic marker psychological maladjustment, and increased vulnerability to depression in particular. However, little is known about the processes underlying emotional inertia. The current article examines how context, people's responses it, are related We investigated individual differences inertia (NA) exposure, reactivity, recovery from events, daily life (assessed using experience...
Emotion differentiation, the ability to make fine-grained distinctions between emotional states, has mainly been studied as a trait. In this research, we examine within-person fluctuations in emotion differentiation and hypothesize that stress is central factor predicting these fluctuations. We predict experiencing will result lower levels of differentiation. Using data from 3-wave longitudinal experience sampling study, examined level across days months tested if related changes levels. On...
People differ in the extent to which they experience positive (PA) and negative affect (NA) rather independently or as bipolar opposites. Here, we examine proposition that nature of relation between a person's emotional is indicative psychological well-being, particular depressive symptoms, typically characterized by diminished (anhedonia) increased (depressed mood). In three sampling studies, how affective states are related within people's daily life degree bipolarity this associated with...
Studies using retrospective self-report or proxies of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) in the lab have shown that NSSI is often preceded by intense negative emotions and followed a decrease emotions/tension, suggesting an emotion regulation function NSSI. To investigate this more ecologically valid way, we used experience sampling methods to examine temporal relationship between behavior emotional experiences throughout day 30 inpatients currently staying psychiatric hospitals. Because...
Currently, little is known about the association between assessment intensity, burden, data quantity, and quality in experience sampling method (ESM) studies. Researchers therefore have insufficient information to make informed decisions design of their ESM study. Our aim was investigate effects different frequencies questionnaire lengths on compliance, careless responding.Students (n = 164) received either a 30- or 60-item three, six, nine times per day for 14 days. Preregistered multilevel...
Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of disability worldwide. The cardinal features MDD are depressed mood and anhedonia. Anhedonia defined as a "markedly diminished interest or pleasure in all, almost activities day", has generally been investigated on group-level using retrospective data (e.g. via questionnaire/interview). However, inferences based findings not necessarily generalize to daily life experiences within individuals. We repeatedly sampled pleasurable...
Patterns of emotional change in daily life have been consistently linked to depressive and borderline personality disorder (BPD) features. However, dynamic measures average affect show considerable statistical overlap, BPD features are comorbid. Moreover, the prospective nature these relationships is unclear. We used a measurement burst design which 202 young adults with varying levels psychopathological participated week-long experience sampling at baseline 1-year follow-up. Taking overlap...
This is a study containing two data sets from different laboratories.We report how we determined our sample sizes, all exclusions of participants, and measures as relevant for the research questions.
Since the introduction of experience sampling method (ESM), there have been concerns that repeated assessments typically related to this may alter behavior, thoughts, or feelings participants. Previous studies offered mixed results with some reporting reactive changes, while others failed find such effects. Our aim was investigate under which circumstances ESM induces Students (N = 151) were randomly assigned receive a questionnaire containing 30 60 items three, six, nine times per day for...
The estimation of body dimensions in a group 31 patients with anorexia nervosa and control 20 psychoneurotic females has been studied different techniques, including visual size apparatus the marking indicated points on paper attached to wall. results confirm previously described tendency by overestimate stage before their treatment hospital. Various differences between two groups were found anorexic more inconsistent measures. On basis correlations an internal-external questionnaire, it is...
Despite large efforts to understand emotional instability in borderline personality disorder (BPD), it is still unclear exactly how this manifested the daily lives of people suffering from disorder. Building on theoretical and clinical observations BPD, we propose that BPD particularly consists occurrence strong changes between positive negative states 1 moment next, labeled switching. We tested proposal by means an experience sampling study which 30 patients 28 healthy controls reported...
Affective dysregulation is widely regarded as being the core problem in patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD). Moreover, BPD mainly associated affective dysregulation. However, empirical confirmation of specificity for still pending. We used a validated approach from basic science that allows simultaneously analyzing three interdependent components are disturbed BPD: homebase, variability, and attractor strength (return to baseline).
Western culture has become obsessed with happiness, while treating negative emotions like sadness, depression, or anxiety as pathological and nonnormative. These salient cultural norms communicate social expectations that people should feel “happy” not “sad.” Previous research shown these “social expectancies” can increase feelings of sadness reduce well-being. In this study, we examined whether perceived pressures might also lead to socially disconnected—lonely—when they do experience...
According to several follow-up studies in the literature, anorexia nervosa has be considered as an affection with a grave prognosis. We have studied outcome group of 32 female patients who could homogeneous number aspects. The following five criteria, on which delineation syndrome is based, were realized all patients: considerable weight loss; limited food intake; amenorrhea; juvenile age onset; absence primary organic or specific psychotic disorder. All them presented serious symptomatology...
That emotions change in response to emotion-eliciting events is a natural part of human life. However, it equally important for return baseline once the have passed. This suggests that ability emotionally react and recover from critical healthy psychological functioning. But why do individuals differ their emotion reactivity recovery? The present work postulates update emotional information working memory (WM) may explain individual differences recovery. Two studies are presented, which...
In an attempt to better understand the nature of emotion dysregulation in daily lives persons with a borderline personality disorder (BPD), Houben et al. (2016) recently identified emotional switching, which refers tendency make large changes between positive and negative states over time, as possible defining characteristic dynamics observed BPD. The goal this study was examine specificity these previous findings 2 samples by comparing BPD patients (N = 43 sample 1; N 81 2) bulimia nervosa...
Emotional instability, consisting of patterns strong emotional changes over time, has consistently been demonstrated in daily life patients with a borderline personality disorder (BPD). Yet, little empirical work examined that occur specifically response to triggers life, so-called reactivity. The goal this study was examine reactivity general appraisals (i.e. congruence or valence, relevance importance, and emotion-focused coping potential) BPD-specific evaluations (trust disappointment...