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Wilmar B. Schaufeli

Wilmar B. Schaufeli

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Psychology
Belgium
2026

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Psychology in Belgium Leader Award

Overview

Wilmar B. Schaufeli is affiliated with KU Leuven in Belgium and has conducted extensive research primarily in health professions and psychology. Their work covers a range of subfields, including general health professions, social psychology, organizational behavior and human resource management, clinical psychology, and sociology and political science.

The main topics Wilmar B. Schaufeli focuses on include:

  • Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Workplace Health and Well-being
  • Stress and Burnout Research
  • Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
  • Workplace Spirituality and Leadership
  • Work-Family Balance Challenges

Their recent papers reflect these research interests and include the following:

  • "Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT)-Development, Validity, and Reliability," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • "Work Engagement: A meta-Analysis Using the Job Demands-Resources Model," 2021, Psychological Reports
  • "Maslach Burnout Inventory - General Survey," 2024, European Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • "Engaging Leadership: How to Promote Work Engagement?," 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Measurement Invariance of the Burnout Assessment Tool (BAT) Across Seven Cross-National Representative Samples," 2020, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Wilmar B. Schaufeli frequently publishes in several scientific venues, with the most publications appearing in:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Gedrag & Organisatie
  • PLoS ONE
  • Current Psychology

Co-authorship has been an important part of their research, with frequent collaborators including:

  • Hans De Witte
  • Leon T. De Beer
  • Akihito Shimazu
  • Dorothea Kohnen
  • Walter Sermeus

In addition to journal articles, Wilmar B. Schaufeli has contributed to book publications. One notable book is Organizational Stress and Well-Being, published by Cambridge University Press in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The job demands-resources model of burnout

    Evangelia Demerouti;Arnold B. Bakker;Friedhelm Nachreiner;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • The Measurement of Engagement and Burnout: A Two Sample Confirmatory Factor Analytic Approach

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Marisa Salanova;Vicente González-romá;Arnold B. Bakker

  • Job demands, job resources, and their relationship with burnout and engagement: a multi‐sample study

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Arnold B. Bakker

  • The Measurement of Work Engagement With a Short Questionnaire: A Cross-National Study.

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Arnold B. Bakker;Marisa Salanova

  • The Burnout Companion To Study And Practice: A Critical Analysis

    Wilmar Bernardus Schaufeli;Dirk Enzmann

  • Burnout and Engagement in University Students A Cross-National Study

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Isabel M. Martínez;Alexandra Marques Pinto;Marisa Salanova

  • Burnout and Work Engagement among Teachers.

    Jari J. Hakanen;Arnold B. Bakker;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Work engagement: An emerging concept in occupational health psychology

    Arnold B. Bakker;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Michael P. Leiter;Toon W. Taris

  • The Role of Personal Resources in the Job Demands-Resources Model

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • How changes in job demands and resources predict burnout, work engagement, and sickness absenteeism

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Arnold B. Bakker;Willem Van Rhenen

  • Burnout: 35 Years of research and practice

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Michael P Leiter;Christina Maslach

  • Reciprocal relationships between job resources, personal resources, and work engagement.

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • A Critical Review of the Job Demands-Resources Model: Implications for Improving Work and Health

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Toon W. Taris

  • Workaholism, Burnout, and Work Engagement: Three of a Kind or Three Different Kinds of Employee Well‐being?

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Toon W. Taris;Willem Van Rhenen

  • Positive organizational behavior: Engaged employees in flourishing organizations

    Arnold B. Bakker;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • The Job Demands-Resources model: A three-year cross-lagged study of burnout, depression, commitment, and work engagement

    Jari J. Hakanen;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Kirsi Ahola

  • Job Demands and Job Resources as Predictors of Absence Duration and Frequency.

    Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Elpine de Boer;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Work engagement and financial returns: A diary study on the role of job and personal resources

    Despoina Xanthopoulou;Arnold B. Bakker;Evangelia Demerouti;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Historical and Conceptual Development of Burnout

    Christina Maslach;Wilmar B. Schaufeli

  • Burnout and work engagement: Independent factors or opposite poles?

    Vicente González-Romá;Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Arnold B. Bakker;Susana Lloret

  • Professional Burnout: Recent Developments in Theory and Research

    Wilmar B. Schaufeli;Christina Maslach;Tadeusz Marek

Frequent Co-Authors

Arnold B. Bakker
Arnold B. Bakker Erasmus University Rotterdam
Toon W. Taris
Toon W. Taris Utrecht University
Marisa Salanova
Marisa Salanova Jaume I University
Maria C. W. Peeters
Maria C. W. Peeters Utrecht University
Hans De Witte
Hans De Witte KU Leuven
Evangelia Demerouti
Evangelia Demerouti Eindhoven University of Technology
Akihito Shimazu
Akihito Shimazu Keio University
Jari J. Hakanen
Jari J. Hakanen Finnish Institute of Occupational Health
Bram P. Buunk
Bram P. Buunk University of Groningen
Despoina Xanthopoulou
Despoina Xanthopoulou Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

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