Jozef Corveleyn

• PhD
• Professor Emeritus at KU Leuven

This article considers the ethical complexities of remote research practices in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. It draws on an analysis of prepandemic in-person fieldwork with survivors of collective violence and families of the enforced disappeared in Perú. We shed light on the specific challenges of using remote research processes with victims...

El libro consta de ocho capítulos, un glosario y ocho apéndices en los que se muestran casos y materiales de análisis útiles para la investigación. En los siete primeros capítulos se analizan los conceptos más importantes de la teoría del apego, se muestran ejemplos reales en los que se evidencia cómo se desarrolla el apego en condiciones de riesgo...

This exploratory study shows that God representation types are associated with levels of personality organization. Among two Dutch samples of psychiatric patients (n = 136) and nonpatients (n = 161), we found associations between the psychotic, borderline, and neurotic personality organizations, and passive-unemotional, negative-authoritarian, and...

Background: The models used in theoretical and practical psychiatry mostly encompass, with varying accents, the biological, psychological and social dimension. However, humanistic psychiatry concerns the existence as a whole. What about the care for the existential dimension? AIM: To explore and to describe the existential dimension in psychiatry...

Introduction: During the Peruvian internal armed conflict, fifteen members of the Santa Barbara community were collectively executed by state agents, and their relatives were made victims of persecution, torture, and imprisonment. The case, known as the Santa Barbara massacre, was brought to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. The documentat...

Introduction: This study examined the longitudinal associations between environmental adversity (defined in terms of exposure to violence in the neighborhood, school, and media), complex trauma (operationalized as experiences of abuse and neglect), and adolescents' internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Methods: Using a cross-lagged panel res...

Research concerning adolescent peer relations and peer attachment is scarce, and more so in Spanish-speaking populations. The aims of this study were twofold: (a) to adapt the Quality of Relationships Inventory (QRI) to Spanish and (b) to assess its psychometric properties in the context of peer relations in a sample of N = 269 Peruvian adolescents...

This study describes a model to intervene in communities affected by the political violence impacting the Ayacucho region of Peru since 1980s. Many community members still experience psychosocial consequences to this day due primarily to grief. Thirty-eight professionals from different sectors in the area received specialized training and implement...

The concept of alexithymia refers to impairments in the ability to identify and communicate feelings. Alexithymia has repeatedly been linked to attachment impairments and different types of symptomatology, in particular, depression and somatic complaints. Very few studies have focused on children or adolescents when addressing this construct. Addit...

Resilience is a multi-dimensional construct associated with health and well-being. At present, we do not yet have a valid, scientific instrument that is designed to evaluate adult resilience in Spanish-speaking countries and that accounts for family, social and individual components. This study aimed at investigating the construct and cross-cultura...

Background Hope and resilience protect against inner vulnerabilities or harsh life circumstances; they explain individual differences in physical or mental health outcomes under high stress. They have been studied in complementary or competing theoretical frameworks; therefore, the study of measures of hope and resilience should be undertaken prior...

As God representations are multi-facetted psychological processes regarding the personal meaning of God/the divine to the individual, this study examines how multiple aspects of God representations are configured within individuals belonging to a sample of psychiatric patients or a non-patient sample, and how these configurations are associated wit...

Studies about trauma often tend to focus on abuse and neglect. However important, these studies may neglect the importance of the broader community context that is often associated with trauma, and complex trauma (CT) in particular. This study aimed to investigate the effects of CT (defined in terms of experiencing abuse and/or neglect occurring in...

The concept of alexithymia refers to impairments in the ability to identify and communicate feelings. Alexithymia has repeatedly been linked to attachment impairments and different types of symptomatology, in particular, depression and somatic complaints. Very few studies have focused on children or adolescents when addressing this construct. Addit...

Research concerning adolescent peer relations and peer attachment is scarce, and more so in Spanish-speaking populations. The aims of this study were twofold: (a) to adapt the Quality of Relationships Inventory to Spanish and (b) to assess its psychometric properties in the context of peer relations in a sample of N = 269 Peruvian adolescents. Inte...

In his minutely constructed book on the history of psychology of religion, Belzen pays correct attention to the organizational and methodological contributions of Antoine Vergote in the course of the last half of this century long history. In this short article, the author highlights a few aspects of Vergote's intellectual approach in the psycholog...

The present study examines the relationship between personality and self-compassion among Inadian emerging adults. Two samples of emerging adult males (N1 = 494 Catholic seminarians, N2 = 504 Catholic non-seminarians) completed the Big Five Inventory, the Honesty-Humility Subscale of HEXACO and the Self-Compassion Scale-Short Form. Primarily, we ex...

Confronted with any kind of critical event, people tend to develop an urgent need for answers that provide a useful interpretation of what they experience as a painfully intruding disaster. This urge results from the often-unbearable suffering and the disruption of everyday life, routines, and relations. Moreover, dreams and aspirations one had for...

The Dutch Questionnaire of God Representations (QGR) was investigated by means of item response theory (IRT) modeling in a clinical (n = 329) and a nonclinical sample (n = 792). Through a graded response model and IRT-based differential functioning techniques, detailed item-level analyses and information about measurement invariance between the cli...

Gratitude, a significant Christian value, is regarded as a duty among Indians. The present study examines the role played by spiritual development in gratitude among the Indian population. The participants were emerging Indian male adults, aged between 18 and 30 years. The first sample is from 495 Catholic Indian seminarians (267 theology students...

Background: Despite the progress of positive psychology, current knowledge regarding suicide protective factors is limited. Trait gratitude (a tendency to experience gratitude in daily life) may protect against suicidal ideation and behavior. Aims: The study tested a model of causal effects among gratitude, religiosity, reasons for living, copin...

Mentalizing is an important actual topic, both in psychodynamic theory and in clinical practice. Remarkably, mentalizing has been explicitly related to religion or psychology of religion only to a limited extent. This article explores the relevance of the concept of mentalizing for psychology of religion by first describing mentalizing, its develop...

Wulff's two-dimensional model of approaches to religion was an inspiration for the development of the Post-Critical Belief Scale (PCBS), an instrument measuring religious attitudes, that is, “paradigms of religious belief structure” in a secularized Western European context. The scale has been frequently used in psychological studies, has undergone...

Background: Religion and spirituality can be valuable resources in coping with bereavement. There is a paucity of studies focusing specifically on their role in suicide bereavement, although there are indications that religion/spirituality can be helpful for suicide survivors. Aims: The study explores the role of religion and/or spirituality in...

Objectives: To develop a screening instrument for investigating the prevalence and impact of stressful life events in Spanish-speaking Peruvian adults. Background: Researchers have demonstrated the causal connection between life stress and psychosocial and physical complaints. The need for contextually relevant and updated instruments has been also...

The subject of this book is pastoral counseling as a particular form of pastoral care in the Christian context. Central in the reflection stays the counseling process as dialogue and ethical event, inspirend by thinkers as Levinas, Buber, Honneth, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Nagy, and others. The first part provides building blocks for an interdisciplinary...

The subject of this book is pastoral counseling as a particular form of pastoral care in the Christian context. Central in the reflection stays the counseling process as dialogue and ethical event, inspirend by thinkers as Levinas, Buber, Honneth, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, Nagy, and others. The first part provides building blocks for an interdisciplinary...

The Hasidic movement was founded in the eighteenth century in Eastern Europe. During the Holocaust, the Hasidic Jews, like other Jews in Europe, were exposed to ruthless extermination and abuse by the Nazis. This essay presents a psychological analysis, based on the religious coping framework, of The Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust by Yaffa Eliach....

Social competence can be understood as the capacity to interact with each other. As such, it is the acquisition and optimization of an interior attitude that transcends technique; it is a way of loving and doing justice to one another. A scheme is presented to explore the ethical and spiritual dimensions of the pastoral counseling process. Ethics i...

Associations between Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) and the image of God were studied among adult mental health outpatients with ASD (N = 78) and compared to a psychiatric and a non-clinical norm group. The God image, which refers to the personal meaning that God/ the divine has to the individual, of those with ASD had fewer positive and more nega...

This study examined the relationship between the Big Five personality dimensions, burnout, and engagement among 511 Indian Catholic diocesan priests. We expected that Neuroticism would be positively associated with burnout and negatively associated with engagement. Moreover, we expected Extraversion, Openness, Agreeableness, and Conscientiousness t...

This study investigated whether different clusters of patients with personality disorders in a psychoanalytic hospitalization‐based treatment were associated with: (a) different changes in personality organization (PO); (b) different pre‐treatment variables; and (c) different associations between changes in PO and outcome. K‐means clustering analys...

The present study explored in a sample of Flemish pain patients the role of prayer as a possible individual factor in pain management. The focus on prayer as a personal religious factor fits with the current religious landscape in Western-Europe where personal religious factors are more important than organizational dimensions of religion. Our stud...

Burnout and engagement in general are thought to be associated mostly with work related factors and sometimes with personal factors as well. Over the past three decades a number of studies among clergy have identified various causes for priests' susceptibility to burnout and have linked various independent variables in the study of burnout among cl...

The present study explored the role of the emotional experience of God (i.e., positive and negative God images) in the happiness of chronic pain (CP) patients. Framed in the transactional model of stress, we tested a model in which God images would influence happiness partially through its influence on disease interpretation as a mediating mechanis...

This study examined the relationship between the psychotherapeutic process and outcome in 44 patients who completed hospitalization-based psychodynamic treatment for personality disorders. Using self-report and interview ratings, outcome was assessed in terms of symptoms and personality functioning, and the psychotherapeutic process in terms of sel...

This article studied the factor structure of the Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R) in two samples in Peru, i.e., a sample of survivors of a fire (N=174) and a university student sample (N=562). First, confirmatory factor analysis was used to compare nine different models of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as evaluated by the IES-R in bot...

This study aims to identify different outcome trajectories in a psychoanalytic hospitalization-based treatment in a sample of 70 patients with personality disorders using a naturalistic 12 month follow-up design. Trajectory analysis identified four groups of patients, i.e., patients showing (a) high initial symptom levels and considerable and consi...

In the 1890s, Daniel Paul Schreber (b. 1842, in Leipzig) was the “Senatspräsident”1 in the Kingdom of Saxony, one of the highest positions in the juridical system of the kingdom. He came from a very well-known medical family in the capital which had links with the leading players in European academic and cultural life. His father, Moritz Schreber,...

IVF treatment involves a reassessment of issues concerning autonomy and relatedness. This study aims to extend prior studies on the psychological impact of IVF/ICSI by studying the association between the personality dimensions of Self-Criticism and Dependency with the psychological well-being and quality of the couple relationship for women starti...

To extend existing research on the psychological impact of IVF by studying the association between the psychosocial factors of self-criticism and dependency, and romantic attachment, with the well-being and relationship satisfaction of couples across the different phases of IVF/intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) treatment. Prospective, three-w...

This article aims to investigate the role of romantic attachment versus the personality dimensions related to self-definition and relatedness for relationship satisfaction. Self-report instruments measuring romantic attachment, self-criticism and dependency, severity of depression, negative life events and relationship satisfaction were administrat...

Efectos de los Modelos Operativos Internos (MOI) generales y específicos en la satisfacción de la relación de pareja: Un estudio prospectivo* Este estudio examina los efectos sobre la satisfacción de la relación, en primer lugar, de los Modelos Operativos Internos (MOI) Generales, relacionados con la Autocrítica y la Dependencia, y, en segundo luga...

In a highly interesting discussion on the role of attachment theory in the psychology of religion from a recent issue of this journal, Granqvist (2006b) argued that the “traditional” psychodynamic approach to religion is fraught with many problems and pitfalls and that, as an inevitable result, this approach should be abandoned. Instead, attachment...

Dependency and self-criticism have been proposed as personality dimensions that confer vulnerability to depression. In this study we set out to investigate the diagnostic specificity of these personality dimensions and their relationship with gender differences, severity of depression, and specific depressive symptoms. Levels of dependency and self...

This paper critically reviews empirical findings regarding current key assumptions underlying the nature and treatment of depression which heavily rely on the DSM approach. This review shows that empirical evidence provides little support for these assumptions. In response to these findings, an etiologically based, biopsychosocial, dynamic interact...

In this study, the structure of guilt and shame reactions are investigated in three cultural groups (Peru, Hungary, and Belgium) using two newly constructed scenario-based inventories. Results show that it is possible to distinguish between a structure of guilt and shame reactions based on person variation and a structure based on situation variati...

Two quite different cultures are to be found within psychoanalysis, one more clinical in orientation, more focused on meaning and interpretation, and relying primarily on the traditional case study method, the other more research-oriented, focused on cause-and-effect relationships, and relying primarily on methods borrowed from the natural and soci...

Dentro del psicoanálisis hallamos dos culturas muy diferentes, una de orientación más clínica, más centrada en el significado y la interpretación, y basada principalmente en el método tradicional de estudio de casos, y la otra más orientada a la investigación, centrada en las relaciones causa-efecto y basada principalmente en métodos tomados de las...

This paper presents a psychodynamic approach to depression based on theoretical formulations and empirical findings from diverse perspectives including developmental psychopathology, cognitive and developmental psychology, social and personality theory, and psychiatric genetics. This approach considers depression not as a disease but as distortions...

Based on both a theological and a sociopsychological analysis, the goals of Roman Catholic religion were identified and translated in terms of Schwartz's (1992) 10 value types of Hedonism, Stimulation, Self-Direction, Universalism, Benevolence, Tradition, Conformity, Security, Power, and Achievement. The relations between these value types and Wulf...

This research examines whether religious conceptions of guilt in Protestant and Roman Catholic groups account for constructive or non-constructive guilt-reactions and for different guilt-frequency. Participants in three groups filled in the Leuven Guilt and Shame Scale (LEGSS), the Leuven Emotion Scale (LES) and the Post Critical Belief Scale (PCBS...

Nuestra visión sobre la depresión ha cambiado de manera considerable con la investigación reciente. El Plan estratégico para la investigación de los desórdenes del carácter del Instituto Nacional de Salud Mental (INSM, 2003) es una propuesta ambiciosa orientada a crear un nuevo ímpetu en la investigación de desórdenes del carácter por un lado, y po...

Kelley Raab (this issue) takes on a tough challenge in her article on mysticism and creativity. To begin with, despite the fact that the topic of mysticism and religious experience has been the object of much research (e.g., Hood, 1995) and has occupied an important place in the work of several founding fathers of the psychology of religion, such a...

Contents: One hundred years of psychology and religion: introduction; A field in crisis: is it time for the psychology of religion to start over?; Debates among German contemporaries of William James; Faith-state, emotion and hot cognition; In debt to William James: the Varieties as inspiration and blueprint; Measuring children's understanding of t...

The purpose of this study was to examine whether the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA; Tangney, J. P., Wagner, P. E., & Gramzow, R. (1989). The Test of Self-Concious Affect. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University) measures maladaptive forms or aspects of guilt and adaptive aspects of shame that have been described in the literature. First, a judg...

We investigated personality disorders (PDs) of young men with chronic authority conflicts using the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-I (MCMI-I; Millon, 1983). PDs occurred considerably more often in the young men with chronic authority conflicts (62%) compared with a clinical control group of young men with acute authority conflicts (39%). The...

Item analyses and confirmatory factor analyses on the Test of Self-Conscious Affect (TOSCA), in a student (N = 723) and an adult (N = 891) sample, supported the theorized four factor structure of proneness to reparation, negative self-evaluation, externalizing blame and unconcern. However, two-fifth of the items did not empirically differentiate be...

Mediante una investigación cualitativa se estudiaron las características que definen las emociones de culpa y vergüenza en una población de estudiantes limeños. Se analizó la descripción de todas las situaciones dentro del marco de un enfoque componencial de la emoción. Se construyeron categorías que referían el tipo de situación antecedente, evalu...

Het Minnesota-model hanteert, vanuit een ziektevisie op verslaving, een stappenbenadering waarbij de nadruk op abstinentie en revalidatie ligt. In dit artikel beschrijven we eerst de visie van het Minnesota-model (MM) op verslavingsproblematiek en de hieraan gerelateerde behandelvisie. Vervolgens bespreken we de therapeutische mechanismen die deze...

On the basis of Wulff's (1997) theoretical model of religious attitudes and of Schwartz's (1992; Schwartz & Huismans, 1995) value theory, a refined theoretical framework has been constructed and empirically tested concerning the relation between 5 types of religiosity and personal value orientation. Two theoretical value patterns associated with re...

S a m e n v a t t i n g ] Sinds Freuds Das Ich und das Es heeft er een opmerkelijke evolutie plaatsgevonden wat het psychoanalytisch denken over het Ik betreft. Binnen een ego-psychologische optiek wordt het Ik niet gedefinieerd vanuit zijn fundamentele gespletenheid tegenover de omgeving. Het is in de interactie tus-sen het jonge kind en die omgev...

In this article, we examined, first, the relationship between religiosity and mental health using the distinction introduced by Batson & Ventis (1982) between amount of religious involvement and religious orientations or attitudes. Second, we also investigated the relationship between amount of religious involvement and religious attitudes and a sh...

El artículo presenta diversas interpretaciones psicoanalítico-humanistas que se hacen en la literatura científica con respecto a los efectos que la acción terapéutica tiene sobre el psicólogo clínico, en él como persona, y en sus relaciones con los pacientes. Se discute la contribución de M.B. Sussman sobre la identidad de la psicoterapia profesion...

In this article, tribute is paid to Andre Godin, the Belgian Jesuit priest and psycho- analyst who died in June, 1997. His worldwide contributions to the psychology of religion are discussed. His establishment of Lumen Vitae Editions and the Interna- tional Prize in Scientific Psychology of Religion are particularly noted. The tribute was presented...

El artículo discute las distintas perspectivas que dentro del mismo psicoanálisis existen sobre el estatuto de la contratransferencia en el proceso terapéutico. Mientras que para unos (la tendencia clásica) ésta debe ser radicalmente reprimida para salvaguardar el ideal de una neutralidad aséptica, para otros (la tendencia humanista) ésta puede ser...