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Overview

Vivian Kraaij is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands. Their research spans multiple areas within psychology and medicine, with a specific focus on clinical and experimental psychology, as well as applied psychology. Further interests extend into infectious diseases and social psychology.

The scientist's body of work includes studies across several key topics: anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, cognitive processes; family caregiving in mental illness; child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development; HIV/AIDS research and interventions; digital mental health interventions; mental health research topics; and mental health treatment and access.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Nadia Garnefski, Philip Spinhoven, Maartje Witlox, Sanne van Luenen, and Ernst T. Bohlmeijer.

Key recent publications by Vivian Kraaij cover various aspects of mental health interventions and outcomes. These include:

  • Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data (2021, The Lancet Psychiatry)
  • Blended Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Versus Face-to-face Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Older Adults With Anxiety Symptoms in Primary Care: Pragmatic Single-blind Cluster Randomized Trial (2021, Journal of Medical Internet Research)
  • Cost-effectiveness and cost-utility of an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy intervention vs. a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy intervention for older adults with anxiety symptoms: A randomized controlled trial (2022, PLoS ONE)
  • Prevalence of anxiety disorders and subthreshold anxiety throughout later life: Systematic review and meta-analysis (2020, Psychology and Aging)
  • Academic stress, mindfulness-related skills and mental health in international university students (2022, Journal of American College Health)

Vivian Kraaij has published regularly in venues such as The Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal, AIDS and Behavior, The Lancet Psychiatry, PLoS ONE, and the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Best Publications

  • Negative life events, cognitive emotion regulation and emotional problems

    N Garnefski;V Kraaij;P Spinhoven

  • Relationships between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: A comparative study of five specific samples

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Psychometric Features and Prospective Relationships with Depression and Anxiety in Adults

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire - development of a short 18-item version (CERQ-short).

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • Cognitive coping strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety: a comparison between adolescents and adults.

    Nadia Garnefski;Jeroen Legerstee;Vivian V Kraaij;Tessa Van Den Kommer

  • Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms: differences between males and females

    Nadia Garnefski;Jan Teerds;Vivian Kraaij;Jeroen Legerstee

  • A meta-analysis of psychoeducational programs for coronary heart disease patients.

    Elise Dusseldorp;Thérèse van Elderen;Stan Maes;Jacqueline Meulman

  • The relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotional problems: comparison between a clinical and a non-clinical sample

    Nadia Garnefski;Tessa Van Den Kommer;Vivian Kraaij;Jan Teerds

  • Negative Life Events and Depression in Elderly Persons A Meta-Analysis

    Vivian Kraaij;Ella Arensman;Philip Spinhoven

  • Specificity of relations between adolescents' cognitive emotion regulation strategies and Internalizing and Externalizing psychopathology.

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij;Marije van Etten

  • Negative life events and depressive symptoms in late adolescence: Bonding and cognitive coping as vulnerability factors?

    Vivian Kraaij;Nadia Garnefski;Erik Jan de Wilde;Arie Dijkstra

  • Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotional problems in 9 - 11-year-old children: the development of an instrument.

    Nadia Garnefski;Carolien Rieffe;Francine Jellesma;Mark Meerum Terwogt

  • Cognitive coping and depressive symptoms in the elderly: a longitudinal study.

    V Kraaij;E Pruymboom;N Garnefski

  • Brief report: Cognitive emotion regulation strategies and psychological adjustment in adolescents with a chronic disease.

    Nadia Garnefski;Hendrik Koopman;Vivian Kraaij;Rebecca ten Cate

  • Specificity of relations between adolescents' cognitive emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression and anxiety.

    Nadia Garnefski;Vivian Kraaij

  • Dismantling, optimising, and personalising internet cognitive behavioural therapy for depression: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis using individual participant data.

    Toshi A. Furukawa;Aya Suganuma;Edoardo G. Ostinelli;Gerhard Andersson;Gerhard Andersson

  • Relationships Between Cognitive Strategies of Adolescents and Depressive Symptomatology Across Different Types of Life Event

    Nadia Garnefski;Sabine Boon;Vivian Kraaij

  • Negative life events and depressive symptoms in the elderly: a life span perspective.

    V. Kraaij;E. J. de Wilde

  • Traumatic Life Events and Suicide Risk Among Jail Inmates: The Influence of Types of Events, Time Period and Significant Others

    E. Blaauw;E. Arensman;V. Kraaij;F. W. Winkel

  • The Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire: Development, psychometric properties and relationships with emotional problems and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

    Vivian Kraaij;Nadia Garnefski

  • Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire

    N. Garnefski;V. Kraaij;P. Spinhoven

Frequent Co-Authors

Nadia Garnefski
Nadia Garnefski Leiden University
Philip Spinhoven
Philip Spinhoven Leiden University
Maya J. Schroevers
Maya J. Schroevers University Medical Center Groningen
Stan Maes
Stan Maes Leiden University
Viktor Kaldo
Viktor Kaldo Karolinska Institute
Gerhard Andersson
Gerhard Andersson Linköping University
Michael Witthöft
Michael Witthöft Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Arie Dijkstra
Arie Dijkstra University of Groningen
Carolien Rieffe
Carolien Rieffe University of Twente
Ernst Thomas Bohlmeijer
Ernst Thomas Bohlmeijer University of Twente

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