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Peter Theuns, PhD

Professor 

Tel. +32 2 629 20 56 / Fax +32 2 629 25 32
E-mail: peter.theuns@vub.ac.be

Office Hours:

Fall 2011

Subjects taught:

  • Methods of Social Scientific Inquiry
  • Methods of Social Scientific Inquiry (Lab)

Education:

Doctor of Psychology - 1992
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Masters of Business Administration - 1989
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Aggregation Higher Secondary Education - 1986
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Licentiate in Psychological Sciences - 1985
School of Clinical Psychology Children & Adolescents + Clinical Psychology Adults, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Brussels, Belgium

Research Interests:

  • Measurement of subjective constructs like “Quality of Life”, Fatigue, etc.
  • Psychophysics and Psychometrics of rating scales: (fundamental) research on measurement quality obtained with rating scales in surveys
  • Analysis of binary data: Boolean analysis
  • Quantitative Personnel management

Select Publications:

A comparison of Web-based and face-to-face Functional Measurement experiments., Psicologica. International Journal of Methodology, 33, 3, pp: 490 - 508,  Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences of the University of Valencia (Spain), ISBN-ISSN: 1576-8597, 2010, Frederik Van Acker, Peter Theuns (IF =  0.330)
http://www.uv.es/psicologica/articulos3FM.10/5VanAcker.pdf

An Experimental Approach to the Joint Effects of Relations with Partner, Friends and Parents on Happiness, Psicologica. International Journal of Methodology, 31, 3, pp: 629 - 645,  Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences of the University of Valencia (Spain), ISBN-ISSN: 1576-8597, 2010, Peter Theuns, Nico Verresen, Olivier Mairesse, Rianne Goossens, Lien Michiels, Els Peeters, Maarten Wastiau (IF =  0.330) http://www.uv.es/psicologica/articulos3FM.10/12Theuns.pdf

Cross-national comparability of the WHOQOL-BREF: A measurement invariance approach, Edition:Quality of Life Research, DOI: 10.1007/s11136-009-9577-9, 19, pp: 219 - 224,  Springer Netherlands, ISBN-ISSN: 1573-2649, 2010, Peter Theuns, Joeri Hofmans, Mehrdad Mazaheri, Frederik Van Acker, Jean Bernheim (IF =  2.985) http://www.springerlink.com/content/a21261027h105447/fulltext.pdf

The algebra of sleepiness: investigating the interaction of homeostatic (S) and circadian (C) processes in sleepiness using linear metrics”, Psicologica. International Journal of Methodology, 31, 3, pp: 541 - 559,   Department of Methodology of the Behavioral Sciences of the University of Valencia (Spain), ISBN-ISSN: 1576-8597, 2010, Olivier Mairesse, Joeri Hofmans, Daniel Neu, Armando Luis Dinis De Oliveira, Peter Theuns, Raymond Cluydts (IF =  0.330) http://www.uv.es/psicologica/articulos3FM.10/8Mairesse.pdf

Comparative sensitivity of outcome variables of a software-based Behavioral Sleep resistance Task, Industrial Health,  47, 1, pp: 80 - 88, ISBN-ISSN: 0019-8366, 2009, Olivier Mairesse, Daniel Neu, Yves Rosseel, Frederik Van Acker, Raymond Cluydts, Peter Theuns (IF =  0.911)

 

Languages:

Dutch, English, French and German

Nationality:

Belgian