2026 Donald H. Saklofske: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	72	2049	1858	119	107	443	21407

Overview

Donald H. Saklofske is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology with a focus on several specialized areas. Their research output encompasses a wide range of topics and has been published in various notable academic venues.

Their main field of study is psychology, with a strong emphasis on the following subfields:

Social Psychology
Clinical Psychology
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Applied Psychology
Sociology and Political Science

Key research topics associated with Saklofske's work include:

Personality Traits and Psychology
Humor Studies and Applications
Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
Emotional Intelligence and Performance
Mental Health Research Topics
Resilience and Mental Health
Optimism, Hope, and Well-being

Their publications have appeared most frequently in these venues:

Personality and Individual Differences
PsycTESTS Dataset
European Journal of Psychological Assessment
Current Psychology
Journal of Personality Assessment

Recent papers authored by or related to their research include:

The relationship of compassion and self-compassion with personality and emotional intelligence, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
The operating characteristics of the nonparametric Levene test for equal variances with assessment and evaluation data, 2020, Scholarworks (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Dark triads, tetrads, tents, and cores: Why navigate (research) the jungle of dark personality models without a compass (criterion)?, 2021, Acta Psychologica
Mediators of IQ test score differences across racial and ethnic groups: The case for environmental and social justice, 2020, Personality and Individual Differences
Rapid and sound assessment of well-being within a multi-dimensional approach: The Well-being Numerical Rating Scales (WB-NRSs), 2021, PLoS ONE

Saklofske has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Chloé Lau
Francesca Chiesi
Rachel A. Plouffe
Claire A. Wilson
Christopher Marcin Kowalski

Best Publications

Personality, well-being and health correlates of trait emotional intelligence

Elizabeth J. Austin;Donald H. Saklofske;Vincent Egan

1061
Citations
Factor structure and validity of a trait emotional intelligence measure

Donald H. Saklofske;Elizabeth J. Austin;Paul S. Minski

886
Citations
Toward an Integration of Subjective Well-Being and Psychopathology

Peter J. Greenspoon;Donald H. Saklofske

840
Citations
Personality and Individual Differences

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773
Citations
International Handbook of Personality and Intelligence

Donald H. Saklofske;Moshe Zeidner

466
Citations
Adaptive and maladaptive coping.

Moshe Zeidner;Donald Saklofske

458
Citations
Measurement of trait emotional intelligence: testing and cross-validating a modified version of Schutte et al.'s (1998) measure

Elizabeth J Austin;Donald H Saklofske;Sandra H.S Huang;Deanne McKenney

436
Citations
The SAGE Handbook of Personality Theory and Assessment

Elizabeth Austin;J. D. A. Parker;K. V. Petrides;D. H. Saklofske

399
Citations
Individual difference correlates of health-related behaviours: Preliminary evidence for links between emotional intelligence and coping.

Donald H. Saklofske;Elizabeth J. Austin;Josie Galloway;Kammy Davidson

364
Citations
Relationships of personality, affect, emotional intelligence and coping with student stress and academic success: Different patterns of association for stress and success

Donald H. Saklofske;Elizabeth J. Austin;Sarah M. Mastoras;Laura Beaton

362
Citations
The SAGE handbook of personality theory and assessment: Volume 2 — Personality measurement and testing

Gregory J Boyle;Gerald Matthews;Donald H. Saklofske

318
Citations
Comparing ability and self-report trait emotional intelligence, fluid intelligence, and personality traits in career decision

Annamaria Di Fabio;Donald H. Saklofske

301
Citations
The perniciousness of perfectionism: A meta-analytic review of the perfectionism-suicide relationship.

Martin M. Smith;Simon B. Sherry;Samantha Chen;Donald H. Saklofske

281
Citations
EI training and pre-service teacher wellbeing

Ashley K. Vesely;Donald H. Saklofske;David W. Nordstokke

272
Citations
Teachers--the vital resource the contribution of emotional intelligence to teacher efficacy and well-being

Ashley K. Vesely;Donald H. Saklofske;Alan D. W. Leschied

268
Citations
Measures of personality and social psychological constructs

Gregory John Boyle;Donald H. Saklofske;Gerald Matthews

266
Citations
The Assessment of Sadistic Personality: Preliminary psychometric evidence for a new measure

Rachel A. Plouffe;Donald H. Saklofske;Martin M. Smith

260
Citations
Are perfectionism dimensions vulnerability factors for depressive symptoms after controlling for neuroticism? A meta‐analysis of 10 longitudinal studies.

Martin M. Smith;Simon B. Sherry;Katerina Rnic;Donald H. Saklofske

241
Citations
The Big Three Perfectionism Scale A New Measure of Perfectionism

Martin M. Smith;Donald H. Saklofske;Joachim Stoeber;Simon B. Sherry

240
Citations
Promoting individual resources: The challenge of trait emotional intelligence

Annamaria Di Fabio;Donald H. Saklofske

217
Citations
WISC-IV Clinical Use and Interpretation : Scientist-Practitioner Perspectives

Aurelio Prifetera;Don Saklofske

175
Citations
Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children—Fifth Edition

Lawrence G. Weiss;Victoria Locke;Tianshu Pan;Jossette G. Harris

113
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Gerald Matthews George Mason University

Elizabeth J. Austin University of Edinburgh

Gregory J. Boyle University of Melbourne

Annamaria Di Fabio University of Florence

James D. A. Parker Trent University

Con Stough Swinburne University of Technology

Paul F. Tremblay University of Western Ontario

Moshe Zeidner University of Haifa

Joachim Stoeber University of Kent

Gordon L. Flett York University

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