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Positive illusions about one's partner's physical attractivenessPieternel Barelds-Dijkstra
Heymans Institute, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Body Image 5:99-108. 2008..Results support the theory that individuals hold positive illusions about their partner's physical attractiveness. Implications of these results in terms of relationship-enhancing biases are discussed...
Women's well-being: the role of individual differencesPieternel Dijkstra
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Scand J Psychol 50:309-15. 2009..Second, a clear positive relationship emerged between work participation and both types of well-being. Results are discussed in terms of the vulnerability stress model...
An inventory and update of jealousy-evoking partner behaviours in modern societyPieternel Dijkstra
University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands
Clin Psychol Psychother 17:329-45. 2010..In general, older individuals responded with less jealousy in response to a partner's unfaithful and suspicious behaviours. Clinical implications are discussed...
Examining a model of dispositional mindfulness, body comparison, and body satisfactionPieternel Dijkstra
University of Groningen, Department of Psychology, Groningen, The Netherlands
Body Image 8:419-22. 2011..However, a stronger indirect effect was noted in the alternative model, where mindfulness partially mediated the link between body comparison and body satisfaction...
Women's meta-perceptions of attractiveness and their relations to body imagePieternel Dijkstra
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2 1, Groningen, The Netherlands
Body Image 8:74-7. 2011..Self-ratings of attractiveness appeared to be lower than all meta-perceptions of attractiveness, suggesting that women are aware of their own negative self-bias and/or other people's positive bias...
Narcissistic Personality Inventory: structure of the adapted Dutch versionDick P H Barelds
University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Scand J Psychol 51:132-8. 2010..The validity of the NPI was supported by its relations with sex, age, personality, self-esteem, shame, guilt and social desirability...
Reactive, anxious and possessive forms of jealousy and their relation to relationship quality among heterosexuals and homosexualsDick P H Barelds
Department of Psychology, University of Groningen, Grote Kruisstraat 2 1, Groningen, 9712 TS, The Netherlands
J Homosex 51:183-98. 2006..The present study shows that distinguishing between different types of jealousy is necessary to entangle the diverse effects of jealousy on the quality of homosexual and heterosexual relationships...
Social comparisons in the classroom: an investigation of the better than average effect among secondary school childrenHans Kuyper
Faculty of Behavioral and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
J Sch Psychol 49:25-53. 2011..Theoretical and practical implications of these findings are discussed...
