Staff members with discipline Psychology
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.








Self-regulation
Motivation
Occupational Health








Dealing with challinging child behaviors








My project is supervised by Dr. M.J. Schroevers, Prof. Dr. A.V. Ranchor and Dr. J. Fleer.




Keywords: stress, occupational health, work-related well-being, recovery, leisure, work, non-work, leisure crafting, job crafting, creativity, work engagement, diary studies, longitudinal research, ecological momentary assessments










Active Learning and Active Learning Spaces / Classrooms
Soundscape Research
Special Needs Education








- (Educational) Game Design
- eLearning & Hybrid education
- Human-machine interaction
- Interaction design
- eHealth/mHealth & technology-supported behaviour change






Within the context of higher education teaching I implement innovative methods to build and maintain active learning communities, as well as train and develop students to become effective peer mentors.
My research has traditionally focused on the antecedents and consequences of male and female body dissatisfaction. More recently, I have begun to take a theoretical and empirical interest in the psychological processes that mediate the impact of peer mentoring on student performance.






















Work design
Well-being at work
Adult lifespan and career development








Informal Care
Willingness to Care
Dyadic coping
Interpersonal processes
Social Support & Relationship Satisfaction
Diary Studies (Intensive Longitudinal Methods)
I am currently working in the lab of Prof. dr. Mariët Hagedoorn and Prof. dr. Robbert Sanderman as an Early Stage Researcher for the ENTWINE Informal Care Marie SkÅ‚odowska-Curie Innovation Training Network ITN funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 programme.
In my project "Diversity of Experiences in Caregiver-Care Recipient Dyads", I investigate the interpersonal processes that stimulate or decrease willingness to care and wellbeing in couples as well as other caregiving dyads over time. A full understanding of the caregiving experience is essential to support caregivers and care recipients and help them to increase their reciprocal willingness to provide and receive care. For this reason, my project is structured as dyadic research which includes both caregivers and care recipients.
This project is part of the "ENTWINE iCohort", an International Intensive Longitudinal Study aimed at detailing the current and future caregiving challenges taking into account the psychological, relational, cultural and socio-economic aspects of the caregiving issues across Europe.


Symptom and performance validity assessment




















Couples dealing with chronic disease (i.e., dyadic coping)
Health behavior in a dyadic context
Informal caregiving
eHealth
Intensive longitudinal designs (e.g., couple diary studies)
Illness not only affects patients, but also those who are close to them. To be able to provide adequate health care and psychosocial support, it is important to understand the consequences of illness for daily life, and emotional and social functioning of both patients and their significant others. Accordingly, the research in my lab "Intimate relationships in the face of illness" focuses on three main themes: dyadic coping, health behavior in a dyadic (or couples') context, and informal caregiving.








Conflict management








Intellectual disabilities, Down syndrome, dementia






For creativity and brainstorming, I'm interested in the way in which people come to optimal creativite performance, which differs per person. For example, whereas novel and flexible ideas will be beneficial for some, others' creativity and productivity will benefit more from everyday and structured ideas.
For flow, I'm interested in how flow experiences and working from your core qualities helps to reach your full potential, and how such an experience adds to your (creative) performance.
Next to my work as an assistant professor, I work as a coach and trainer via my company Groeiflow, further bridging theory and practice. Here, I help people to experience more flow and creativity and in their personal and professional development.
See also: www.kikidejonge.nl and www.groeiflow.nl






My research focuses on both, intergroup processes (prejudice, discrimination, inclusion and diversity, solidarity and collective action), and educational processes, specifically intercultural competence, academic development, student well-being and inclusion, and gender ratio in groups/teams.








While the roles of motivational factors that incite collective action have been assessed, no collective action research thus far combines all the ingredients necessary for protests to emergence into one research design. Between 2022 and 2026, I will develop and use a new paradigm, the Groningen Simulated Society Paradigm (GSSP), to answer novel research questions. By combining social interactional and longitudinal elements to this group-based experiment, I will analyse how social interactions about various forms of injustice (e.g. structural, situational, (ir)relevant to identity and morality) lead to the initiation and planning of collective action behaviour.














Now venturing into my post-educational career, I am becoming increasingly more interested in group dynamics, as well as inter-personal communication and conflict - which is also reflected in my taught courses.






























Traffic psychology








- Adjustment to chronic illness and its treatment, specifically the role of personality and social cognitions herein
- Psychological aspects of (clinical) genetics (member ELSI group UMCG; see link below)
- Quality of life; benefit finding / post-traumatic growth
- Psychometrics
Focus on: genetics; organ transplantation; nephrology, cancer, cardiovascular disease
















Auditory Prostheses and Hearing Aids
Speech Perception
Psychoacoustics












- nature of depression, subtypes of depression
- illness perceptions of depressive symptoms and need for psychological care
- posttraumatic growth/benefit finding
- emotion-regulation and self-regulation
- mindfulness and self-compassion.
(2) Feasibility, acceptability, and effectiveness of psychological screening and interventions and underlying mechanisms of change, with a specific focus on individual Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
















I am inherently interested in the phenomenon of positive adaptation which I came across when I worked as a nurse with very ill children, during my PhD in children with cancer, and in India where I am involved in research activities for an NGO that provides healthcare and education for the poorest of the poor who live on the streets of Kolkata (Calcutta).
My current rearch focuses on:
- Selfregulation: goal adjustment, benefit-finding/post-traumatic growth
- Goal conflict
I have a strong interest in cross-cultural research.








I am currently researching whether psychosocial factors like depression can predict the onset of cancer




Children & Adolescents
Mental Health Literacy
Developmental Psychology






I use tools from various methods, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, mentalization based therapy and EMDR. Since we only offer short tracks, I can also guide you in finding a suitable referral address in case you need more.
I speak Dutch and English. I understand German.




My main research interest is positive bias, the phenomenon that many people see the world more brightly and more positive than it really is. Positive bias may protect us from developing mental health problems. Where do individual differences in optimism come from? As part of my Veni project The bright side of life: understanding the origins of optimism, I investigate to what extent and how parents transmit their optimism to offspring.
I am passionate about improving scientific practice. I am a member of my department’s Ethics Committee and of the Open Science Community Groningen, where I give pre-registration workshops. Examples of open science practices in my work are pre-registrations, sharing syntax and data, and publishing open access.
More information about my research can be found on my website .

















