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Overview

Nele Jacobs is affiliated with Maastricht University in the Netherlands and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a focus on mental health and emotional well-being.

Their research spans key topics such as:

  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Functional Brain Connectivity Studies

Jacobs's work is situated primarily within psychology, supported by an extensive number of publications across several subfields, including:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Applied Psychology
  • Health

Frequent co-authors contributing to their research include:

  • Evert Thiery
  • Cathérine Derom
  • Ruud van Winkel
  • Marc D. Binder
  • Bart P. F. Rutten

Jacobs has published numerous papers in respected venues such as:

  • Journal of Happiness Studies
  • Psychologica Belgica
  • BMC Psychology
  • International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology
  • BMC Medicine

Notable recent papers include:

  • "The Pet-Effect in Daily Life: An Experience Sampling Study on Emotional Wellbeing in Pet Owners" (2020), Anthrozoös
  • "Measuring resilience prospectively as the speed of affect recovery in daily life: a complex systems perspective on mental health" (2020), BMC Medicine
  • "Early warning signals in psychopathology: what do they tell?" (2020), BMC Medicine
  • "Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction and Well-Being Across Age: A Cross-Sectional General Population Study among 1709 Dutch Speaking Adults" (2022), Journal of Happiness Studies
  • "Polygenic liability for schizophrenia and childhood adversity influences daily-life emotion dysregulation and psychosis proneness" (2020), Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica

Jacobs also has forthcoming book contributions, including:

  • "Strategic Orientations and Innovativeness of Multinational Corporations" (2025), published by Handel und internationales Marketing

Best Publications

  • Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression.

    Ingrid A. van de Leemput;Marieke Wichers;Angélique O. J. Cramer;Denny Borsboom

  • Gratitude and health: An updated review

    Lilian Jans-Beken;Nele Jacobs;Mayke Janssens;Sanne Peeters

  • Stress-Related Negative Affectivity and Genetically Altered Serotonin Transporter Function: Evidence of Synergism in Shaping Risk of Depression

    Nele Jacobs;Gunter Kenis;Frenk Peeters;Catherine Derom

  • The experience sampling method as an mHealth tool to support self-monitoring, self-insight, and personalized health care in clinical practice

    Jim van Os;Simone Verhagen;Anne Marsman;Frenk Peeters

  • A momentary assessment study of the relationship between affective and adrenocortical stress responses in daily life.

    N Jacobs;Inez Myin-Germeys;Cathérine Derom;P Delespaul

  • A Time-Lagged Momentary Assessment Study on Daily Life Physical Activity and Affect

    Marieke Wichers;Frenk P. M. L. Peeters;Bart P. F. Rutten;Nele Jacobs

  • Unveiling patterns of affective responses in daily life may improve outcome prediction in depression: A momentary assessment study

    M Wichers;F Peeters;N Geschwind;N Jacobs;N Jacobs

  • Genetic risk of depression and stress-induced negative affect in daily life

    Marieke Wichers;Inez Myin-Germeys;Nele Jacobs;Frenk Peeters

  • Evidence that moment-to-moment variation in positive emotions buffer genetic risk for depression: a momentary assessment twin study.

    Marieke c. Wichers;Inez Myin‐Germeys;Nele Jacobs;Frenk Peeters

  • Electronic monitoring of salivary cortisol sampling compliance in daily life.

    N Jacobs;NA Nicolson;Cathérine Derom;P Delespaul

  • Transition from stress sensitivity to a depressive state: longitudinal twin study

    Marieke Wichers;Nicole Geschwind;Nele Jacobs;Nele Jacobs;Gunter Kenis

  • The BDNF Val66Met × 5-HTTLPR × child adversity interaction and depressive symptoms: An attempt at replication

    Marieke Wichers;Gunter Kenis;Nele Jacobs;Nele Jacobs;Ron Mengelers

  • Time-Lagged Moment-to-Moment Interplay Between Negative Affect and Paranoia: New Insights in the Affective Pathway to Psychosis

    Ingrid Kramer;Claudia J. P. Simons;Johanna T. W. Wigman;Dina Collip

  • Meeting risk with resilience: high daily life reward experience preserves mental health

    N Geschwind;F Peeters;N Jacobs;N Jacobs;P Delespaul

  • Mechanisms of gene–environment interactions in depression: evidence that genes potentiate multiple sources of adversity

    M Wichers;D Schrijvers;N Geschwind;N Jacobs

  • Unraveling the Role of Loneliness in Depression: The Relationship Between Daily Life Experience and Behavior

    Mark van Winkel;Marieke Wichers;Dina Collip;Nele Jacobs;Nele Jacobs

  • Day-to-day associations between subjective sleep and affect in regard to future depression in a female population-based sample

    Jessica A. de Wild-Hartmann;Marieke Wichers;Alex L. van Bemmel;Catherine Derom

  • From Epidemiology to Daily Life: Linking Daily Life Stress Reactivity to Persistence of Psychotic Experiences in a Longitudinal General Population Study

    Dina Collip;Johanna T. W. Wigman;Inez Myin-Germeys;Nele Jacobs;Nele Jacobs

  • Psychiatric Diagnosis Revisited: Towards a System of Staging and Profiling Combining Nomothetic and Idiographic Parameters of Momentary Mental States

    Johanna T. W. Wigman;Jim van Os;Jim van Os;Evert Thiery;Catherine Derom

  • Testing an integrated model of the theory of planned behaviour and self-determination theory for different energy balance-related behaviours and intervention intensities.

    Nele Jacobs;Martin S. Hagger;Sandra Streukens;Ilse De Bourdeaudhuij

  • FKBP5 as a possible moderator of the psychosis-inducing effects of childhood trauma

    Dina Collip;Inez Myin-Germeys;Marieke Wichers;Nele Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Evert Thiery
Evert Thiery Ghent University Hospital
Marieke Wichers
Marieke Wichers Maastricht University
Frenk Peeters
Frenk Peeters Maastricht University
Marc De Hert
Marc De Hert KU Leuven
Sinan Guloksuz
Sinan Guloksuz Maastricht University
Wilma A. M. Vollebergh
Wilma A. M. Vollebergh Utrecht University
Fruhling Rijsdijk
Fruhling Rijsdijk King's College London
Lydia Krabbendam
Lydia Krabbendam Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Nancy A. Nicolson
Nancy A. Nicolson Maastricht University

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