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Filip De Fruyt

Filip De Fruyt

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Psychology

D-Index
79
Citations
20259
World Ranking
1531
National Ranking
18

Overview

Filip De Fruyt is affiliated with Ghent University in Belgium and specializes in psychology and social sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, primarily clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, education, and safety research.

De Fruyt's work addresses a range of topics, including personality traits and psychology, early childhood education and development, mental health research topics, career development and diversity, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, personality disorders and psychopathology, and behavioral health and interventions.

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications in well-regarded academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include the European Journal of Personality, Current Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Frontiers in Education, and International Journal of Selection and Assessment.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by De Fruyt include:

  • New Directions in the Conceptualization and Assessment of Personality-A Dynamic Systems Approach (2020), European Journal of Personality
  • Are work activities related to interest change over time? A 22-year longitudinal study (2020), Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
  • Person-situation dynamics in educational contexts: A self- and other-rated experience sampling study of teachers' states, traits, and situations (2021), European Journal of Personality
  • First look at the five-factor model personality facet associations with sensory processing sensitivity (2020), Current Psychology
  • Personality Assessment of Children and Adolescents (2021), Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

De Fruyt regularly collaborates with several researchers, among the most frequent co-authors are Bart Wille, Ricardo Primi, Loes Abrahams, Oliver P. John, and Joeri Hofmans.

Best Publications

  • Recommendations for increasing replicability in psychology.

    Jens B. Asendorpf;Mark Conner;Filip de Fruyt;Jan De Houwer

  • Personality Trait Development From Age 12 to Age 18: Longitudinal, Cross-Sectional, and Cross-Cultural Analyses

    Robert R. McCrae;Paul T. Costa Jr.;Antonio Terracciano;Wayne D. Parker

  • National character does not reflect mean personality trait levels in 49 cultures

    A. Terracciano;A. M. Abdel-Khalek;N. Ádám;L. Adamovová

  • Medical students' personality characteristics and academic performance: a five‐factor model perspective

    Filip Lievens;Pol Coetsier;Filip De Fruyt;Jan De Maeseneer

  • A meta-analytic study of general mental ability validity for different occupations in the European community.

    Jesús F Salgado;Neil Anderson;Silvia Moscoso;Cristina Bertua

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates.

    Corinna E. Löckenhoff;Filip de Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. Mccrae

  • Cloninger's Psychobiological Model of Temperament and Character and the Five-Factor Model of Personality

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  • Five types of personality continuity in childhood and adolescence.

    Filip De Fruyt;Meike Bartels;Karla G. Van Leeuwen;Barbara De Clercq

  • Personality and interests as predictors of educational streaming and achievement.

    Filip de Fruyt;Ivan Mervielde

  • International validity generalization of GMA and cognitive abilities: A European Community meta-analysis

    Jesús F. Salgado;Neil Anderson;Silvia Moscoso;Cristina Bertua

  • Work values and personality traits as predictors of enterprising and social vocational interests

    Dries Berings;Filip De Fruyt;René Bouwen

  • The time has come for dimensional personality disorder diagnosis

    Christopher J. Hopwood;Roman Kotov;Robert F. Krueger;David Watson

  • RIASEC TYPES AND BIG FIVE TRAITS AS PREDICTORS OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS AND NATURE OF EMPLOYMENT

    Filip De Fruyt;Ivan Mervielde

  • Temperament, personality, and developmental psychopathology as childhood antecedents of personality disorders.

    Ivan Mervielde;Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Karla Van Leeuwen

  • Fear of being exposed: the trait-relatedness of the impostor phenomenon and its relevance in the work context

    Jasmine Vergauwe;Bart Wille;Marjolein Feys;Filip De Fruyt

  • Construction of the Hierarchical Personality Inventory for Children (HiPIC)

    Ivan Mervielde;Filip De Fruyt

  • General and maladaptive traits in a five-factor framework for DSM-5 in a university student sample.

    Filip De Fruyt;Barbara De Clercq;Marleen De Bolle;Bart Wille

  • The five-factor model of personality and Holland's RIASEC interest types

    F. De Fruyt;I. Mervielde

  • The structure of maladaptive personality traits in childhood : A step toward an integrative developmental perspective for DSM-V

    Barbara De Clercq;Filip De Fruyt;Karla Van Leeuwen;Ivan Mervielde

  • Assessing adolescents' personality with the NEO PI-R.

    Filip De Fruyt;Ivan Mervielde;Hans A. Hoekstra;Jean-Pierre Rolland

  • Perceptions of aging across 26 cultures and their culture-level associates

    Corinna Lockenhoff;Filip De Fruyt;Antonio Terracciano;Robert R. McCrae

Frequent Co-Authors

Barbara De Clercq
Barbara De Clercq Ghent University
Joeri Hofmans
Joeri Hofmans Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ivan Mervielde
Ivan Mervielde Ghent University
R. Michael Bagby
R. Michael Bagby University of Toronto
Robert R. McCrae
Robert R. McCrae Independent Scientist / Consultant, US
Filip Lievens
Filip Lievens Singapore Management University
Wouter Duyck
Wouter Duyck Ghent University
Ricardo Primi
Ricardo Primi Universidade São Francisco
Paul T. Costa
Paul T. Costa Duke University
Antonio Terracciano
Antonio Terracciano Florida State University

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