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Hans De Witte

Hans De Witte

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Psychology
Belgium
2026

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Psychology

D-Index
100
Citations
38324
World Ranking
622
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Hans De Witte is a researcher affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium, specializing in health professions and business, management, and accounting fields. Their work primarily addresses topics related to employment and welfare studies, job satisfaction and organizational behavior, as well as workplace health and well-being.

Their research includes a strong focus on healthcare professionals' stress and burnout, with significant contributions to stress and burnout research and related themes such as workaholism and well-being. The following topics represent the main areas covered across their publications:

  • Employment and Welfare Studies
  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Retirement, Disability, and Employment
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being

De Witte has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Wilmar B. Schaufeli
  • Tinne Vander Elst
  • Anahí Van Hootegem
  • Nele De Cuyper
  • Eva Selenko

The researcher's contributions have appeared in multiple respected venues such as:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology
  • European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • Applied Psychology

Among the recent papers authored or co-authored by De Witte are:

  • "Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT)-Development, Validity, and Reliability" (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey" (2024), European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • "Measurement Invariance of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) Across Seven Cross-National Representative Samples" (2020), International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "A Rasch analysis of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT)" (2020), PLoS ONE
  • "Shortening of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT)-from 23 to 12 items using content and Rasch analysis" (2022), BMC Public Health

Their expertise lies heavily in the development and evaluation of burnout assessment tools, contributing to valid and reliable measurement frameworks that support research in occupational health. De Witte's work integrates quantitative methodologies, including Rasch analysis, to refine and shorten assessment instruments.

Their publication profile reflects a broad engagement with organizational behavior, human resource management, and social psychology. Subfield emphases are as follows:

  • General Health Professions
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
  • Social Psychology
  • Demography
  • Sociology and Political Science

Best Publications

  • Job Insecurity and Psychological Well-being: Review of the Literature and Exploration of Some Unresolved Issues

    Hans De Witte

  • Explaining the relationships between job characteristics, burnout, and engagement: The role of basic psychological need satisfaction

    Anja Van den Broeck;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Hans De Witte;Willy Lens

  • Capturing autonomy, competence, and relatedness at work: Construction and initial validation of the Work-related Basic Need Satisfaction scale

    Anja Van den Broeck;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Hans De Witte;Bart Soenens

  • Job insecurity: Review of the international literature on definitions, prevalence, antecedents and consequences

    Hans De Witte

  • On the relations among work value orientations, psychological need satisfaction and job outcomes: A self-determination theory approach.

    Maarten Vansteenkiste;Bart Neyrinck;Christopher P. Niemiec;Bart Soenens

  • Not all job demands are equal: Differentiating job hindrances and job challenges in the Job Demands-Resources model.

    Anja Van den Broeck;Nele De Cuyper;Hans De Witte;Maarten Vansteenkiste

  • Literature review of theory and research on the psychological impact of temporary employment: Towards a conceptual model

    Nele De Cuyper;Jeroen De Jong;Hans De Witte;Kerstin Isaksson

  • An ultra-short measure for work engagement: The UWES-3 validation across five countries.

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Akihito Shimazu;Jari Hakanen;Jari Hakanen;Marisa Salanova

  • The impact of job insecurity and contract type on attitudes, well-being and behavioural reports: A psychological contract perspective

    Nele De Cuyper;Hans De Witte

  • Review of 30 Years of Longitudinal Studies on the Association Between Job Insecurity and Health and Well‐Being: Is There Causal Evidence?

    Hans De Witte;Hans De Witte;Jaco Pienaar;Nele De Cuyper

  • Employability and Employees’ Well‐Being: Mediation by Job Insecurity

    Nele De Cuyper;Claudia Bernhard-Oettel;Erik Berntson;Hans De Witte

  • `Objective' vs `Subjective' Job Insecurity: Consequences of Temporary Work for Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment in Four European Countries:

    Hans De Witte;Katharina Näswall

  • Defining perceived employability: a psychological approach

    Dorien Vanhercke;Nele De Cuyper;Ellen Peeters;Hans De Witte

  • Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT)-Development, Validity, and Reliability.

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Steffie Desart;Hans De Witte;Hans De Witte

  • The Job Insecurity Scale: A psychometric evaluation across five European countries

    Tinne Vander Elst;Hans De Witte;Nele De Cuyper

  • Should I stay or should I go? Examining longitudinal relations among job resources and work engagement for stayers versus movers

    Annet H. de Lange;Hans De Witte;Guy Notelaers;Guy Notelaers

  • A qualitative study on the development of workplace bullying: Towards a three way model

    Elfi Baillien;Inge Neyens;Hans De Witte;Nele De Cuyper

  • Job Insecurity and Well-Being: Moderation by Employability

    Inmaculada Silla;Nele De Cuyper;Francisco J. Gracia;Jose Maria Peiro

  • On the Relation of Job Insecurity, Job Autonomy, Innovative Work Behaviour and the Mediating Effect of Work Engagement

    Stan De Spiegelaere;Guy Van Gyes;Hans De Witte;Wendy Niesen

  • Who Feels Insecure in Europe? Predicting Job Insecurity from Background Variables:

    Katharina Näswall;Hans De Witte

  • Job insecurity in temporary versus permanent workers: Associations with attitudes, well-being, and behaviour

    Nele De Cuyper;Hans De Witte

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy Notelaers
Guy Notelaers University of Bergen
Magnus Sverke
Magnus Sverke Stockholm University
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Maarten Vansteenkiste Ghent University
Antonio Chirumbolo
Antonio Chirumbolo Sapienza University of Rome
Sebastiaan Rothmann
Sebastiaan Rothmann North-West University
Saija Mauno
Saija Mauno Tampere University
Ulla Kinnunen
Ulla Kinnunen Tampere University

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