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Overview

Moïra Mikolajczak is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium, specializing in psychology and health professions. Their work primarily addresses various aspects of psychological health, with a focus on clinical and social psychology, as well as general health professions.

Their research covers numerous topics, including:

  • Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum

Moïra Mikolajczak's recent peer-reviewed papers include the following:

  • Is Parental Burnout Distinct From Job Burnout and Depressive Symptoms? (2020), Clinical Psychological Science
  • Parental Burnout Around the Globe: a 42-Country Study (2021), Affective Science
  • Gender Differences in the Nature, Antecedents and Consequences of Parental Burnout (2020), Sex Roles
  • Treating Parental Burnout: Impact of Two Treatment Modalities on Burnout Symptoms, Emotions, Hair Cortisol, and Parental Neglect and Violence (2020), Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics
  • Extrinsic emotion regulation (2020), Emotion

Frequent co-authors working alongside Moïra Mikolajczak include:

  • Isabelle Roskam
  • James J. Gross
  • Dorota Szczygieł
  • Maria Elena Brianda
  • Kaisa Aunola

Their work has been frequently published in several venues, notably:

  • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
  • Current Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Children

Mikolajczak has also contributed to book publications, including:

  • Améliorer ses compétences émotionnelles (2023), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Développer les compétences émotionnelles. En 8 séances (2022), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  • Burn-out professionnel, parental et de l'aidant (2020), Carrefour des psychothérapies

Best Publications

  • Positive emotion regulation and well-being: Comparing the impact of eight savoring and dampening strategies

    Jordi Quoidbach;Elizabeth V. Berry;Michel Hansenne;Moïra Mikolajczak;Moïra Mikolajczak

  • Increasing emotional intelligence : (How) is it possible?

    Delphine Nelis;Jordi Quoidbach;Moïra Mikolajczak;Moïra Mikolajczak;Michel Hansenne

  • Explaining the protective effect of trait emotional intelligence regarding occupational stress: Exploration of emotional labour processes

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Clementine Menil;Olivier Luminet

  • Developments in Trait Emotional Intelligence Research

    K. V. Petrides;Moïra Mikolajczak;Stella Mavroveli;Maria-Jose Sanchez-Ruiz

  • Increasing emotional competence improves psychological and physical well-being, social relationships, and employability.

    Delphine Nelis;Ilios Kotsou;Jordi Quoidbach;Michel Hansenne

  • Positive interventions: An emotion regulation perspective.

    Jordi Quoidbach;Moïra Mikolajczak;James J. Gross

  • Integrating emotion regulation and emotional intelligence traditions: a meta-analysis

    Ainize Peña-Sarrionandia;Moïra Mikolajczak;James J. Gross

  • Psychometric properties of the Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire: Factor structure, reliability, construct, and incremental validity in a French-Speaking population.

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Olivier Luminet;Cécile Leroy;Emmanuel Roy

  • Emotional plasticity: Conditions and effects of improving emotional competence in adulthood.

    Ilios Kotsou;Delphine Nelis;Jacques Grégoire;Moïra Mikolajczak

  • A Step Forward in the Conceptualization and Measurement of Parental Burnout: The Parental Burnout Assessment (PBA)

    Isabelle Roskam;Maria-Elena Brianda;Moïra Mikolajczak

  • The Profile of Emotional Competence (PEC): development and validation of a self-reported measure that fits dimensions of emotional competence theory.

    Sophie Brasseur;Jacques Grégoire;Romain Bourdu;Moïra Mikolajczak

  • Adolescents choosing self-harm as an emotion regulation strategy: the protective role of trait emotional intelligence.

    Moïra Mikolajczak;K. V. Petrides;Jane Hurry

  • Trait emotional intelligence and the cognitive appraisal of stressful events : an exploratory study

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Moïra Mikolajczak;Olivier Luminet;Olivier Luminet

  • A Theoretical and Clinical Framework for Parental Burnout: The Balance Between Risks and Resources (BR2).

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Isabelle Roskam

  • If you can regulate sadness, you can probably regulate shame: Associations between trait emotional intelligence, emotion regulation and coping efficiency across discrete emotions

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Delphine Nelis;Michel Hansenne;Jordi Quoidbach

  • Exhausted Parents: Sociodemographic, Child-Related, Parent-Related, Parenting and Family-Functioning Correlates of Parental Burnout

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Marie-Emilie Raes;Hervé Avalosse;Isabelle Roskam

  • Consequences of parental burnout: Its specific effect on child neglect and violence.

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Maria Elena Brianda;Hervé Avalosse;Isabelle Roskam

  • Exhausted Parents: Development and Preliminary Validation of the Parental Burnout Inventory

    Isabelle Roskam;Marie-Emilie Raes;Moïra Mikolajczak

  • Parental Burnout: What Is It, and Why Does It Matter?:

    Moïra Mikolajczak;James J. Gross;Isabelle Roskam

  • The moderating impact of emotional intelligence on free cortisol responses to stress.

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Moïra Mikolajczak;Emmanuel Roy;Olivier Luminet;Olivier Luminet;Catherine Fillée

  • Predicting resistance to stress : incremental validity of trait emotional intelligence over alexithymia and optimism

    Moïra Mikolajczak;Olivier Luminet;Clémentine Menil

Frequent Co-Authors

Olivier Luminet
Olivier Luminet Université Catholique de Louvain
Philippe de Timary
Philippe de Timary Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
James J. Gross
James J. Gross Stanford University
Michel Hansenne
Michel Hansenne University of Liège
Olivier Corneille
Olivier Corneille Université Catholique de Louvain
Alexandre Heeren
Alexandre Heeren Université Catholique de Louvain
Martin Desseilles
Martin Desseilles University of Namur
Konstantinos V. Petrides
Konstantinos V. Petrides University College London
Dana Samson
Dana Samson Université Catholique de Louvain
Florence Stinglhamber
Florence Stinglhamber Université Catholique de Louvain

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