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Overview

Johan Denollet was affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands and contributed to research primarily in the fields of psychology and medicine. Their work focused on a range of topics that intersected behavioral and clinical psychology with cardiology and mental health.

The scientist's research spanned several main fields of study, including:

  • Psychology
  • Medicine

Within these fields, Denollet specialized in subfields such as:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Applied Psychology
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health

The main topics covered in Denollet's work included:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Cardiac Health and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Cardiac Pacing and Defibrillation Studies
  • Digital Mental Health Interventions

Denollet coauthored publications with several researchers frequently, including:

  • Nina Kupper
  • Mirela Habibović
  • Stefanie Duijndam
  • Eva Broers
  • Annemiek Karreman

Their published work appeared across various academic journals. Frequent publication venues consisted of:

  • Psychosomatic Medicine
  • International Journal of Psychophysiology
  • Acta Psychologica
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • Mindfulness

Significant recent publications by Denollet included:

  • "Personalized eHealth Program for Life-style Change: Results From the 'Do Cardiac Health Advanced New Generated Ecosystem (Do CHANGE 2)' Randomized Controlled Trial" (2020, Psychosomatic Medicine)
  • "Emotion regulation in social interaction: Physiological and emotional responses associated with social inhibition" (2020, International Journal of Psychophysiology)
  • "Social inhibition and approach-avoidance tendencies towards facial expressions" (2020, Acta Psychologica)
  • "A review and conceptual model of the association of Type D personality with suicide risk" (2021, Journal of Psychiatric Research)
  • "Prevalence of anxiety and risk associated with ventricular arrhythmia in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator" (2020, International Journal of Cardiology)

Best Publications

  • DS14 : Standard assessment of negative affectivity, social inhibition, and Type D personality

    Johan Denollet

  • Anxiety and Risk of Incident Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-Analysis

    Annelieke M. Roest;Elisabeth J. Martens;Peter de Jonge;Johan Denollet

  • Personality as independent predictor of long-term mortality in patients with coronary heart disease

    Johan Denollet;Stanislas U. Sys;Nathalie Stroobant;Hans Rombouts

  • Type D personality: A potential risk factor refined

    Johan Denollet

  • Personality, Disease Severity, and the Risk of Long-term Cardiac Events in Patients With a Decreased Ejection Fraction After Myocardial Infarction

    Johan Denollet;Dirk L. Brutsaert

  • Inadequate Response to Treatment in Coronary Heart Disease Adverse Effects of Type D Personality and Younger Age on 5-Year Prognosis and Quality of Life

    Johan Denollet;Johan Vaes;Dirk L. Brutsaert

  • Comparing symptoms of depression and anxiety as predictors of cardiac events and increased health care consumption after myocardial infarction.

    Jacqueline J.M.H Strik;Johan Denollet;Johan Denollet;Richel Lousberg;Adriaan Honig

  • Prognostic Association of Anxiety Post Myocardial Infarction With Mortality and New Cardiac Events: A Meta-Analysis

    Annelieke M. Roest;Elisabeth J. Martens;Johan Denollet;Peter de Jonge

  • Depression and risk of mortality in people with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Fleur E. P. van Dooren;Giesje Nefs;Miranda T. Schram;Frans R. J. Verhey

  • Personality and mortality after myocardial infarction.

    Johan Denollet;Stanislas U. Sys;Dirk L. Brutsaert

  • Type D personality, cardiac events, and impaired quality of life : a review

    Susanne S. Pedersen;Johan Denollet

  • A General Propensity to Psychological Distress Affects Cardiovascular Outcomes Evidence From Research on the Type D (Distressed) Personality Profile

    Johan Denollet;Angélique A. Schiffer;Viola Spek

  • Type D personality in the general population: a systematic review of health status, mechanisms of disease, and work-related problems

    Floortje Mols;Johan Denollet

  • Aerobic interval training and continuous training equally improve aerobic exercise capacity in patients with coronary artery disease: the SAINTEX-CAD study.

    Viviane M. Conraads;Nele Pattyn;Catherine De Maeyer;Paul J. Beckers

  • Personality and coronary heart disease: The Type D Scale-16 (DS16)

    Johan Denollet

  • The Patient Reported Outcomes Following Initial treatment and Long term Evaluation of Survivorship registry: Scope, rationale and design of an infrastructure for the study of physical and psychosocial outcomes in cancer survivorship cohorts

    Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse;Nicole Horevoorts;Mies van Eenbergen;Johan Denollet

  • Usefulness of type D personality in predicting five-year cardiac events above and beyond concurrent symptoms of stress in patients with coronary heart disease.

    Johan Denollet;Susanne S. Pedersen;Christiaan J. Vrints;Viviane M. Conraads

  • Sensitivity and Specificity of Observer and Self-Report Questionnaires in Major and Minor Depression Following Myocardial Infarction

    Jacqueline J. M. H. Strik;Adriaan Honig;Richel Lousberg;Johan Denollet

  • Personality and Vulnerability to Depression in Stroke Patients A 1-Year Prospective Follow-Up Study

    Ivo Aben;Johan Denollet;Richel Lousberg;Frans Verhey

  • Combined endurance-resistance training vs. endurance training in patients with chronic heart failure: a prospective randomized study.

    Paul J Beckers;Johan Denollet;Nadine M Possemiers;Floris L Wuyts

  • Negative affectivity and social inhibition in cardiovascular disease: evaluating type-D personality and its assessment using item response theory.

    Wilco H.M. Emons;Rob R. Meijer;Johan Denollet

Frequent Co-Authors

Susanne S. Pedersen
Susanne S. Pedersen University of Southern Denmark
Nina Kupper
Nina Kupper Tilburg University
Ivan Nyklíček
Ivan Nyklíček Tilburg University
Peter de Jonge
Peter de Jonge University of Groningen
Ron T. van Domburg
Ron T. van Domburg Erasmus University Rotterdam
Annelieke M. Roest
Annelieke M. Roest University of Groningen
John A. Spertus
John A. Spertus University of Missouri–Kansas City
Patrick W. Serruys
Patrick W. Serruys University of Galway
Frans Pouwer
Frans Pouwer University of Southern Denmark
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets
Ad J. J. M. Vingerhoets Tilburg University

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