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Willem A. Arrindell

Willem A. Arrindell

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Psychology

D-Index
53
Citations
11381
World Ranking
4797
National Ranking
232

Overview

Willem A. Arrindell is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with contributions across several subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, health, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist's recent publications address various topics within psychological research. Notable papers include:

  • Measurement Invariance and Construct Validity of the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) in Community Volunteers in Vietnam, 2022, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • A very short Symptom Checklist-90-R version for routine outcome monitoring in psychotherapy; The SCL-3/7, 2022, Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Comparison of false positive and false negative rates of two indices of individual reliable change: Jacobson-Truax and Hageman-Arrindell methods, 2023, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Symptom Checklist-3 out of 7, 2022, PsycTESTS Dataset

The research interests of Arrindell cover a range of topics including psychotherapy techniques and applications, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, optimism, hope, and well-being, health disparities and outcomes, personality disorders and psychopathology, schizophrenia research and treatment, and various mental health research topics.

The scientist collaborates with several frequent coauthors, which reflects diverse research engagements. These coauthors include Reinier Timman, Irene Checa, Begoña Espejo, I-Hua Chen, and Danilo Carrozzino.

Arrindell has published in multiple academic venues, with recent works appearing in:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • PsycTESTS Dataset

The areas of study and publication show a consistent focus on clinical and social aspects of psychology, including applied approaches to mental health assessment and psychotherapy outcomes. This body of work reflects contributions to both theoretical and practical domains within psychology and related health sciences.

Best Publications

  • Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity: Development and initial validation of the anxiety sensitivity index-3

    Steven Taylor;Michael J. Zvolensky;Brian J. Cox;Brett Deacon

  • An empirical test of the utility of the observations to variables ratio in factor and components analysis

    Willem A. Arrindell;Jan Van der Ende

  • Anxiety, depression, and perception of early parenting: a meta-analysis☆

    Coby Gerlsma;Paul M.G. Emmelkamp;Willem A. Arrindell

  • The development of a short form of the EMBU : Its appraisal with students in Greece, Guatemala, Hungary and Italy

    Willem A Arrindell;Ezio Sanavio;Guido Aguilar;Claudio Sica

  • The satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS): Appraisal with 1700 healthy young adults in The Netherlands

    Willem A Arrindell;José Heesink;Jan A Feij

  • The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS): Psychometric properties in a non-psychiatric medical outpatients sample.

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  • On the psychometric properties of the Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ): Evaluation of self-ratings in distressed and ‘normal’ volunteer couples based on the dutch version

    Willem A. Arrindell;Willem Boelens;Hein Lambert

  • The role of perceived parental rearing practices in the aetiology of phobic disorders: A controlled study

    Willem A. Arrindell;Paul M. G. Emmelkamp;Alie Monsma;Els Brilman

  • Establishing clinically significant change: increment of precision and the distinction between individual and group level of analysis

    Willem J. J. M. Hageman;Willem A. Arrindell

  • Phobic dimensions: I. Reliability and generalizability across samples, gender and nations

    Willem A Arrindell;Paul M.G Emmelkamp;van der Ende Jan

  • Psychometric evaluation of an inventory for assessment of parental rearing practices: A Dutch form of the EMBU

    W.A. Arrindell;P.M.G. Emmelkamp;E. Brilman;A. Monsma

  • Factors of perceived parental rearing styles: the EMBU-C examined in a sample of Dutch primary school children

    Monica Th Markus;Ingeborg E Lindhout;Frits Boer;Thea H.G Hoogendijk

  • Dimensional structure and psychopathology correlates of the fear survey schedule (FSS-III) in a phobic population: A factorial definition of agoraphobia

    Willem A. Arrindell

  • Perceived parental rearing styles of agoraphobic and socially phobic in-patients.

    Willem A. Arrindell;M. G. Kwee;G. J. Methorst;J. Van der Ende

  • Dimensions of national culture as predictors of cross-national differences in subjective Well-Being

    Willem A. Arrindell;Chryse Hatzichristou;Jeroen Wensink;Ellen Rosenberg

  • Parenting and Psychopathology

    C. Perris;W. A. Arrindell;M. Eisemann;Dawn M. Anderson

  • Phobic dimensions : IV. The structure of animal fears

    Willem Alexander Arrindell

  • Disgust sensitivity as a mediator of the sex differences in contamination fears

    Bunmi O. Olatunji;Craig N. Sawchuk;Willem A. Arrindell;Jeffrey M. Lohr

  • Anxiety sensitivity in six countries

    Michael J Zvolensky;Willem A Arrindell;Steven Taylor;Martine Bouvard

  • Phobic dimensions: III. factor analytic approaches to the study of common phobic fears; An updated review of findings obtained with adult subjects

    Willem A Arrindell;Mary J Pickersgill;Harald Merckelbach;Angélique M Ardon

  • Higher levels of state depression in masculine than in feminine nations

    W.A. Arrindell;A. Steptoe;J. Wardle

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan van der Ende
Jan van der Ende Erasmus University Rotterdam
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp
Paul M. G. Emmelkamp University of Amsterdam
Martin Eisemann
Martin Eisemann University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor University of British Columbia
Martine Bouvard
Martine Bouvard Université Savoie Mont Blanc
Michael J. Zvolensky
Michael J. Zvolensky University of Houston
Robbert Sanderman
Robbert Sanderman University of Groningen
Sherry H. Stewart
Sherry H. Stewart Dalhousie University
Brian J. Cox
Brian J. Cox University of Manitoba
Claudio Sica
Claudio Sica University of Florence

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