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Overview

Cor Meesters is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Their primary area of research lies within the broader field of Psychology, with a particular focus on Clinical Psychology. Other subfields in which they have contributed include Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work covers several interrelated topics, prominently featuring Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Personality Traits and Psychology, and Personality Disorders and Psychopathology. Additional themes in their research portfolio address Emotions and Moral Behavior, Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending, Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions, as well as COVID-19 and Mental Health.

Frequent publication venues for Cor Meesters comprise Frontiers in Psychology, Child Psychiatry & Human Development, Journal of Child and Family Studies, Children, and Current Psychology. This range highlights engagement with journals that focus on developmental, clinical, and social aspects of psychology.

Recent publications include:

  • "Good Traits, Bad Traits, and 'Ugly' Behavior: Relations between the Dark Triad, Honesty-Humility, Other HEXACO Personality Traits, and Externalizing Problems in Adolescents" (2022) published in Journal of Child and Family Studies
  • "Self-Compassion Correlates of Anxiety and Depression Symptoms in Youth: A Comparison of Two Self-Compassion Measures" (2022) published in Children
  • "Childhood Disorder: Dysregulated Self-Conscious Emotions? Psychopathological Correlates of Implicit and Explicit Shame and Guilt in Clinical and Non-clinical Children and Adolescents" (2022) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The Dark Triad and Honesty-Humility: A Preliminary Study on the Relations to Pornography Use" (2020) published in Dignity A Journal of Analysis of Exploitation and Violence
  • "Disconfirmation of confirmation bias: the influence of counter-attitudinal information" (2020) published in Current Psychology

Cor Meesters has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Peter Muris (8 co-authored works)
  • Eline Hendriks (3 co-authored works)
  • Henry Otgaar (2 co-authored works)
  • Vanessa Lea Freund (2 co-authored works)
  • Frenk Peeters (2 co-authored works)

Best Publications

  • The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ)--further evidence for its reliability and validity in a community sample of Dutch children and adolescents.

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Frank van den Berg

  • Comorbid Anxiety Symptoms in Children with Pervasive Developmental Disorders

    Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Irit Holdrinet

  • The Self-Perception Profile for children: further evidence for its factor structure, reliability, and validity

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Petra Fijen

  • Self-reported attachment style, attachment quality, and symptoms of anxiety and depression in young adolescents.

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Marion van Melick;Linda Zwambag

  • Internalizing and Externalizing Problems as Correlates of Self-Reported Attachment Style and Perceived Parental Rearing in Normal Adolescents

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Silvia van den Berg

  • On the Links Between Attachment Style, Parental Rearing Behaviors, and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Non-Clinical Children

    Jeffrey Roelofs;Cor Meesters;Mijke ter Huurne;Lotte Bamelis

  • The role of parental fearfulness and modeling in children's fear.

    Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbach;Cor Meesters

  • The self‐report version of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: Its psychometric properties in 8‐ to 13‐year‐old non‐clinical children

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Anneke Eijkelenboom;Manon Vincken

  • Worry in normal children

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Harald Merckelbach;Ann Sermon

  • Behavioural inhibition and behavioural activation system scales for children: Relationships with Eysenck's personality traits and psychopathological symptoms

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Elske de Kanter;Petra Eek Timmerman

  • Protective and vulnerability factors of depression in normal adolescents

    Peter Muris;Henk Schmidt;Rebecca Lambrichs;Cor Meesters

  • Rumination and Worry in Nonclinical Adolescents

    Peter Muris;Jeffrey Roelofs;Cor Meesters;Petra Boomsma

  • Worry in children is related to perceived parental rearing and attachment.

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Harald Merckelbach;Paulette Hülsenbeck

  • Self-reported reactive and regulative temperament in early adolescence: relations to internalizing and externalizing problem behavior and "Big Three" personality factors.

    P.E.H.M. Muris;C.M.G. Meesters;P. Blijlevens

  • Psychometric evaluation of the Dutch version of the Aggression Questionnaire

    Cor Meesters;Peter Muris;Hans Bosma;Erik Schouten

  • Biological, psychological, and sociocultural correlates of body change strategies and eating problems in adolescent boys and girls.

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters;Willemien van de Blom;Birgit Mayer

  • Validation of the Dutch Reactive Proactive Questionnaire (RPQ): Differential Correlates of Reactive and Proactive Aggression From Childhood to Adulthood

    Maaike Cima;Adrian Raine;Cor Meesters;Arne Popma

  • Small or big in the eyes of the other: on the developmental psychopathology of self-conscious emotions as shame, guilt, and pride

    Peter Muris;Cor Meesters

  • The TOM-test: A new instrument for assessing theory of mind in normal children and children with pervasive developmental disorders

    P. Muris;P. Steerneman;C. Meesters;H. Merckelbach

  • The Children's Somatization Inventory: Further Evidence for Its Reliability and Validity in a Pediatric and a Community Sample of Dutch Children and Adolescents

    Cor Meesters;Peter Muris;Alex Ghys;Thirza Reumerman

  • SHORTER COMMUNICATIONS The role of parental fearfulness and modeling in children's fear

    Peter Muris;Pim Steerneman;Harald Merckelbacw;Cor Meesters

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Muris
Peter Muris Maastricht University
Harald Merckelbach
Harald Merckelbach Maastricht University
Erik Schouten
Erik Schouten Maastricht University
Birgit Mayer
Birgit Mayer Erasmus University Rotterdam
Jeffrey Roelofs
Jeffrey Roelofs Maastricht University
Susan M. Bögels
Susan M. Bögels University of Amsterdam
Eric Rassin
Eric Rassin Erasmus University Rotterdam
Henk G. Schmidt
Henk G. Schmidt Erasmus University Rotterdam
Arne Popma
Arne Popma University of Amsterdam
Adrian Raine
Adrian Raine University of Pennsylvania

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