Geert Crombez

Current issues and new directions in Psychology and Health : the costs and benefits of self-regulation : a call for experimental research (2009)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet, Eccleston, Christopher

Concern About Falls Elicits Changes in Gait Parameters in Conditions of Postural Threat in Older People (2009)

Delbaere, Kim, Sturnieks, Daina L., Crombez, Geert, Lord, Stephen R.

Background Previous studies have indicated that gait patterns in older people may be affected by concern about falling. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of concern about falling and...

Catastrophic thinking about pain as a predictor of length of hospital stay after total knee arthroplasty: a prospective study (2009)

Witvrouw, Erik, Pattyn, Els, Almqvist, Frederik, Crombez, Geert, ACCOE, CHARLOTTE, Cambier, Dirk, ...

This study prospectively investigates whether catastrophizing thinking is associated with length of hospital stay after total knee arthroplasty. Forty-three patients who underwent primary total knee...

The Validity of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory-Revised in a Community Sample (2009)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert

The relationship between high catastrophizing children's facial display of pain and parental judgment of their child's pain (2009)

Vervoort, Tine, Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert

Evaluation of work-related psychosocial factors and regional musculoskeletal pain: results from a EULAR Task Force (2008)

Macfarlane, Gary J., Pallewatte, Nirupa, Paudyal, Priya, Blyth, Fiona M., Coggon, David, Crombez, Geert, ...

The role of preparatory heart rate deceleration on balance beam performance (2008)

De Clercq, Dirk, Crombez, Geert, Lenoir, Matthieu

Preparatory heart rate deceleration occurs in tasks with an external focus of attention and is often assumed to facilitate balance performance. However, its effects upon sport-related complex balance...

Sex offender management using the polygraph : a critical review (2008)

Meijer, Ewout H., Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert

Is distraction less effective when pain is threatening? An experimental investigation with the cold pressor task (2008)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet

Expressive dimensions of pain catastrophizing: A comparative analysis of school children and children with clinical pain (2008)

Vervoort, Tine, CRAIG, KD, Goubert, Liesbet, DEHOORNE, J, JOOS, R, MATTHYS, D, ...

The role of preparatory heart rate deceleration on balance beam performance (2008)

Cottyn, Jorge, De Clercq, Dirk, Crombez, Geert, Lenoir, Matthieu

Parental emotional responses to their child's pain: The role of dispositional empathy and catastrophizing about their child's pain (2008)

Goubert, Liesbet, Vervoort, Tine, SULLIVAN, MJL, Verhoeven, Katrien, Crombez, Geert

Cognitive-motivational determinants of fat food consumption in overweight and obese youngsters: The implicit association between fat food and arousal. (2008)

Craeynest, Mietje, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, Haerens, Leen, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

The role of implicit attitudes towards food and physical activity in the treatment of youth obesity (2008)

Craeynest, Mietje, Crombez, Geert, Deforche, Benedicte, TANGHE, A, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

Is it better to have controlled and lost than never to have controlled at all? An experimental investigation of control over pain (2008)

Crombez, Geert, ECCELESTON, C, De Vlieger, Petra, Van Damme, Stefaan, De Clercq, Armand

The effects of parental presence upon the facial expression of pain: The moderating role of child pain catastrophizing (2008)

Vervoort, Tine, Goubert, Liesbet, ECCLESTON, C, Verhoeven, Katrien, De Clercq, Armand, Buysse, Ann, ...

Analgesic use and medication-overuse headache : the role of psychological factors (2008)

Lauwerier, Emelien, Crombez, Geert, Paemeleire, Koen

Attempting to solve the problem of pain: A questionnaire study in acute and chronic pain patients (2008)

Crombez, Geert, ECCELESTON, C, VAN HAMME, G, DE VLIEGER, P

Adolescent social development and chronic pain (2008)

ECCLESTON, C, WASTELL, S, Crombez, Geert, JORDAN, A

Psychosociale aspecten bij chronische pijn: een overzicht. (2008)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert

Deja vu! The effect of previewing test items on the validity of the Concealed Information polygraph Test (2008)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert

The role of acceptance in psychological functioning in adolescents with cystic fibrosis: A preliminary study (2008)

Casier, Annabelle, Goubert, Liesbet, HUSE, D, THEUNIS, M, FRANCKX, H, ROBBERECHT, E, ...

Combining physiological measures in the detection of concealed information (2008)

GAMER, M, Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, VOSSEL, G

Parental functioning in the context of adolescent chronic pain: A review of previously used measures (2008)

JORDAN, A, ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert

Sex offender management using the polygraph: A critical review (2008)

MEIJER, EH, Verschuere, Bruno, MERCKELBACH, HLGJ, Crombez, Geert

Coping with pain: A motivational perspective (2008)

Symptom Validity Testing for the detection of simulated amnesia: Not robust to coaching (2008)

Verschuere, Bruno, MEIJER, E, Crombez, Geert

Attentional Bias to Threat: A Perceptual Accuracy Approach (2008)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, Notebaert, Lies

Allocation of Spatial Attention to Emotional Stimuli Depends Upon Arousal and Not Valence (2008)

Vogt, Julia, De Houwer, Jan, Koster, Ernst, Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert

Expressive dimensions of pain catastrophizing: A comparative analysis of school children and children with clinical pain (2008)

Vervoort, Tine, Craig, K.D., Goubert, Liesbet, DEHOORNE, JO, Joos, R., Matthys, Dirk, ...

We investigated the role of the child's pain catastrophizing in explaining (1) children's self-reported tendency to verbally share their pain experience with others and (2) different dimensions of...

The role of acceptance in psychological functioning in adolescents with cystic fibrosis: A preliminary study (2008)

Casier, Annabelle, Goubert, Liesbet, Huse, D., THEUNIS, MARLEEN, Franckx, H., Robberecht, Eddy, ...

This study explored the role of acceptance in accounting for the heterogeneity in psychological functioning in adolescents suffering from cystic fibrosis. Thirty-four adolescents completed a battery...

Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Francophone Adolescents: A preliminary validation (2008)

Tremblay, B., Beaulieu, Y., Bernier, A., Crombez, Geert, Laliberté, S., Thibault, P., ...

Parental Functioning in the Context of Adolescent Chronic Pain: A Review of Previously used Measures (2008)

Jordan, Abbie, Eccleston, Christopher, Crombez, Geert

Objective To examine the use of instruments which assess the functioning of individuals who parent an adolescent with chronic pain. The study will focus on examining the population in which...

Hyperventilation in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: The role of coping strategies (2007)

Hubin, Morgane, ...

Hyperventilation has been suggested as a concomitant and possible maintaining factor that may contribute to the symptom pattern of chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Because patients accepting the...

Brief Report: The Accuracy of Parents for the Thoughts and Feelings of Their Adolescent Suffering from Chronic Fatigue: A Preliminary Study of Empathy (2007)

Vervoort, Tine, Crombez, Geert, Buysse, Ann, Goubert, Liesbet, Backer, Tine De, Ickes, William

Objective This study examined the actual and estimated empathic accuracy (EA) of the parents of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Methods The actual EA of both parents (n = 24) was...

The fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: current state of scientific evidence (2007)

Linton, Steven J, Crombez, Geert, Boersma, Katja

Research studies focusing on the fear-avoidance model have expanded considerably since the review by Vlaeyen and Linton (Vlaeyen J. W. S. & Linton, S. J. (2000). Fear-avoidance and its consequences...

An experimental investigation on attentional interference by threatening fixations of the neck in patients with chronic whiplash syndrome (2007)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Peters, Madelon, Goossens, Mariëlle, Crombez, Geert

Previous studies using a primary task procedure have demonstrated that an experimental pain stimulus interrupts ongoing task performance in healthy volunteers and patients, and that this interruption...

Development of and recovery from short- and long-term low back pain in occupational settings: A prospective cohort study (2007)

GHELDOF, Els, VINCK, Jan, Vlaeyen, Johan, Hidding, Alita, Crombez, Geert

Using the data of the EuroBack Unit prospective cohort study, this paper investigated the role of work-related physical factors and psychological variables in predicting the development of and...

Development of and recovery from short- and long-term low back pain in occupational settings: A prospective cohort study (2007)

GHELDOF, Els, VINCK, Jan, Vlaeyen, Johan, Hidding, Alita, Crombez, Geert

Using the data of the EuroBack Unit prospective cohort study, this paper investigated the role of work-related physical factors and psychological variables in predicting the development of and...

Hypervigilance, and attention to pain (2007)

Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, Van Damme, Stefaan

Muscle pain: the fear-avoidance model (2007)

Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J, Goubert, Liesbet

Disability, Fear of Movement (2007)

LEEUW, M, VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert

A time-course analysis of attentional cueing by threatening scenes (2007)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Verschuere, Bruno, VANVOLSEM, P, De Houwer, Jan

The fear-avoidance model of musculoskeletal pain: Current state of scientific evidence (2007)

LEEUW, M, GOOSSENS, MEJB, LINTON, SJ, Crombez, Geert, BOERSMA, K, VLAEYEN, JWS

Why women prefer epidural analgesia during childbirth: The role of beliefs about epidural analgesia and pain catastrophizing (2007)

Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, SULLIVAN, MJL

An experimental investigation on attentional interference by threatening fixations of the neck in patients with chronic whiplash syndrome (2007)

VANGRONSVELD, K, Van Damme, Stefaan, PETERS, M, VLAEYEN, J, GOOSSENS, M, Crombez, Geert

Brief report: The accuracy of parents for the thoughts and feelings of their adolescent suffering from study of empathy (2007)

Vervoort, Tine, Crombez, Geert, Buysse, Ann, Goubert, Liesbet, DE BACKER, T, ICKES, W

De rol van aanvaarding bij jongeren met mucoviscidose (2007)

Casier, Annabelle, Goubert, Liesbet, HUSE, D, THEUNIS, MARLEEN, FRANCKX, H, ROBBERECHT, E, ...

De Ziekte Cognitie Lijst bij chronische onverklaarde lichamelijke klachten (2007)

Logie, Herlinde, Crombez, Geert, EVERS, A

Do overweight youngsters like food more than lean peers? Assessing their implicit attitudes with a personalized Implicit Association Task (2007)

Craeynest, Mietje, Crombez, Geert, Haerens, Leen, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

Attention for emotional faces under restricted awareness revisited: Do emotional faces automatically attract attention? (2007)

Koster, Ernst, Verschuere, Bruno, BURSSENS, B, CLUSTERS, R, Crombez, Geert

The Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Construct validity of the two-factor structure (2007)

Uzieblo, Katarzyna, Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert

Assessment of attention to pain using handheld computer diaries (2007)

PETERS, ML, Crombez, Geert

Startling secrets: Startle eye blink modulation by concealed crime information (2007)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, Van Bockstaele, Bram, De Clercq, Armand

Development of and recovery from short- and long-term low back pain in occupational settings: A prospective cohort study (2007)

GHELDOF, ELM, VINCK, J, VLAEYEN, JWS, HIDDING, A, Crombez, Geert

Hyperventilation in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: The role of coping strategies (2007)

BOGAERTS, K, HUBIN, M, VAN DIEST, I, DE PEUTER, S, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B, VAN WAMBEKE, P, ...

Pain draws visual attention to its location: Experimental evidence for a threat-related bias (2007)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, LORENZ, J

Worry and chronic pain: A misdirected problem solving model (2007)

Science and Psychology of Pain (2007)

VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet

The psychology of chronic pain and its management (2007)

VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet

Antisociality, underarousal and the validity of the Concealed Information Polygraph Test (2007)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, De Clercq, Armand

Well-being in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of acceptance (2006)

Crombez, Geert, Mariman, An, Michielsen, Walter

OBJECTIVE: Research in chronic pain patients has shown that accepting the chronic nature of their illness is positively related to quality of life. The aim of this study was to investigate whether...

Catastrophic thinking about pain is independently associated with pain severity, disability, and somatic complaints in school children and children with chronic pain (2006)

Goubert, Liesbet, Eccleston, Christopher, Crombez, Geert

Objective To investigate the value of pain catastrophizing in explaining pain, disability, and somatic complaints, beyond negative affectivity (NA). Method Two cross-sectional studies, one in a...

Worrying about chronic pain. An examination of worry and problem solving in adults who identify as chronic pain sufferers (2006)

DE VLIEGER, P, Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C

Finding a solution to the problem of pain: Conceptual formulation and the development of the Pain Solutions Questionnaire (PaSol) (2006)

DE VLIEGER, P, ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert

The impact of chronic pain on adolescents: A review of previously used measures (2006)

ECCLESTON, C, JORDAN, AL, Crombez, Geert

Parental catastrophizing about their child's pain. The parent version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale (PCS-P): A preliminary validation (2006)

Goubert, Liesbet, ECCLESTON, C, Vervoort, Tine, JORDAN, A, Crombez, Geert

Hypervigilance to learned pain signals: A componential analysis (2006)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, Koster, Ernst

Catastrophic thinking about pain is independently associated with pain severity, disability, and somatic complaints in school children and children with chronic pain (2006)

Vervoort, Tine, Goubert, Liesbet, ECCLESTON, C, BIJTTEBIER, P, Crombez, Geert

Pain and pain-related fear are associated with functional and social disability in an occupational setting: Evidence of mediation by pain-related fear (2006)

GHELDOF, ELM, VINCK, J, VLAEYEN, JWS, HIDDING, A, Crombez, Geert

Response to Letter to the Editor regarding our manuscript "Facing others in pain: The effects of empathy" (2006)

Goubert, Liesbet, Vervoort, Tine, Crombez, Geert, CANO, A, CRAIG, KD, WILLIAMS, ACD

Cueing of visual attention by emotional facial expressions: The influence of individual differences in anxiety and depression (2006)

Koster, Ernst, Leyman, Lemke, De Raedt, Rudi, Crombez, Geert

Catastrophic thinking and heightened perception of pain in others (2006)

SULLIVAN, MJL, MARTEL, MO, TRIPP, DA, SAVARD, A, Crombez, Geert

The relation between catastrophizing and the communication of pain experience (2006)

SULLIVAN, MJL, MARTEL, MO, TRIPP, D, SAVARD, A, Crombez, Geert

The measurement of competitive amxiety during balance beam performance in gymnasts (2006)

Cottyn, Jorge, De Clercq, Dirk, Pannier, Jean, Crombez, Geert, Lenoir, Matthieu

Do children with obesity implicitly identify with sedentariness and fat food? (2006)

Craeynest, Mietje, Crombez, Geert, De Houwer, Jan, Deforche, Benedicte, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

Psychophysiological Analysis (PSPHA): A modular script-based program for analyzing psychophysiological data (2006)

De Clercq, Armand, Verschuere, Bruno, De Vlieger, Petra, Crombez, Geert

Components of attentional bias to threat in high trait anxiety: Facilitated engagement, impaired disengagement, and attentional avoidance (2006)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Verschuere, Bruno, DAMME, S, Wiersema, Roeljan

Attention to threat in anxiety-prone individuals: Mechanisms underlying attentional bias (2006)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Verschuere, Bruno, De Houwer, Jan

The role of extinction and reinstatement in attentional bias to threat: A conditioning approach (2006)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, HERMANS, D, Koster, Ernst, ECCLESTON, C

Well-being in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: The role of acceptance (2006)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B, MARIMAN, A, MICHIELSEN, W

Aandachtsvertekening en aandachtsmanipulatie bij pijn (2006)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert

The role of physical workload and pain related fear in the development of low back pain in young workers: evidence from the BelCoBack Study; results after one year of follow up (2006)

VAN NIEUWENHUYSE, A, SOMVILLE, PR, Crombez, Geert, BURDORF, A, VERBEKE, G, JOHANNIK, K, ...

Psychopathy and physiological detection of concealed information: A review (2006)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, Uzieblo, Katarzyna

Criminality, underarousal and the validity of the Concealed Information polygraph Test (2006)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, De Clercq, Armand

External validity of tee Concealed Information Test: Accuracy in prisoners versus community volunteers (2006)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, De Clercq, Armand

Postural performance in relationship to falling and fear of falling (2006)

Delbaere, Kim, Crombez, Geert, Van Den Noortgate, Nele, WILLEMS, D, Cambier, Dirk

The risk of being fearful or fearless of falls in older people: An empirical validation (2006)

Delbaere, Kim, Crombez, Geert, Van Den Noortgate, Nele, Willems, Tine, Cambier, Dirk

Catastrophic Thinking About Pain is Independently Associated with Pain Severity, Disability, and Somatic Complaints in School Children and Children with Chronic Pain (2006)

Vervoort, Tine, Goubert, Liesbet, Eccleston, Christopher, Bijttebier, Patricia, Crombez, Geert

Objective To investigate the value of pain catastrophizing in explaining pain, disability, and somatic complaints, beyond negative affectivity (NA). Method Two cross-sectional studies, one in a...

The Impact of Chronic Pain on Adolescents: A Review of Previously Used Measures (2006)

Eccleston, Christopher, Jordan, Abbie L., Crombez, Geert

Objective To review the use of instruments to assess the impact of adolescent chronic pain, focussing on the development of instruments, the domains covered, psychometric properties, and published...

Brief Report: The Accuracy of Parents for the Thoughts and Feelings of Their Adolescent Suffering from Chronic Fatigue: A Preliminary Study of Empathy (2006)

Vervoort, Tine, Crombez, Geert, Buysse, Ann, Goubert, Liesbet, De Backer, Tine, Ickes, William

Objective This study examined the actual and estimated empathic accuracy (EA) of the parents of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Methods The actual EA of both parents (n = 24) was...

Brief Report: The Accuracy of Parents for the Thoughts and Feelings of Their Adolescent Suffering from Chronic Fatigue: A Preliminary Study of Empathy (2006)

Vervoort, Tine, Crombez, Geert, Buysse, Ann, Goubert, Liesbet, De Backer, Tine, Ickes, William

Objective This study examined the actual and estimated empathic accuracy (EA) of the parents of adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Methods The actual EA of both parents (n = 24) was...

Effects of varied-stimulus exposure on overpredictions of pain and behavioural performance in low back pain patients (2005)

Stages of change for physical activity in a community sample of adolescents (2005)

The main objective of the present study was to investigate the benefits of exposure to a variety of movements versus exposure to the same movements on overprediction of pain and behavioural...

Philippaerts, Renaat, Crombez, Geert, Balduck, Anne-Line, ...

The aims of the present study were to investigate (1) the proportion of adolescents in each of the stages of change, (2) the differences in psychosocial factors and in physical activity between the...

Psychopathic traits and autonomic responding to concealed information in a prison sample (2005)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, De Clercq, Armand, Koster, Ernst

The role of neuroticism, pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in vigilance to pain: a structural equations approach. A comment on Goubert et al. (2004) - Response to Dr Kudel's letter to the editor (2005)

Van Den Bussche, Eva, Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert

Avoidance behavior can function as a negative occasion setter (2005)

De Houwer, Jan, Crombez, Geert, BAEYENS, F

The differential role of pain, work characteristics and pain-related fear in explaining back pain and sick leave in occupational settings (2005)

GHELDOF, ELM, VINCK, J, VLAEYEN, JWS, HIDDING, A, Crombez, Geert

The effect of eye orientation on slowly increasing pain (2005)

NAVETEUR, J, MARS, F, Crombez, Geert

Algometrie: psychologische aspecten (2005)

Angst voor terugkeer van borstkanker: de rol van somatosensore amplificatie en trekangst (2005)

Verhoeven, Katrien, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan

Meten en beoordelen van pijnproblemen bij patiënten : hoe en waarom? (2005)

Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J

Hypervigilance to pain: An experimental and clinical analysis (2005)

Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan, ECCLESTON, C

Predictors of trauma symptomatology in sexually abused adolescents - A 6-month follow-up study (2005)

Bal, Sarah, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Crombez, Geert, Van Oost, Paulette

Explicit and implicit attitudes towards food and physical activity in childhood obesity (2005)

Craeynest, Mietje, Crombez, Geert, De Houwer, Jan, Deforche, Benedicte, TANGHE, A, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

Attention and pain: merging behavioural and neuroscience investigations (2005)

Facing others in pain: the effects of empathy (2005)

Goubert, Liesbet, CRAIG, KD, Vervoort, Tine, MORLEY, S, SULLIVAN, MJL, WILLIAMS, ACD, ...

Effects of varied-stimulus exposure on overpredictions of pain and behavioural performance in low back pain patients (2005)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, LYSENS, R

The reluctance to generalize corrective experiences in chronic low back pain patients: a questionnaire study of dysfunctional cognitions (2005)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, DANNEELS, L

Mood-congruent attentional bias in dysphoria: Maintained attention to and impaired disengagement from negative information (2005)

Koster, Ernst, De Raedt, Rudi, Goeleven, Ellen, Franck, Erik, Crombez, Geert

Signals for threat modulate attentional capture and holding: Fear-conditioning and extinction during the exogenous cueing task (2005)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan, Verschuere, Bruno, De Houwer, Jan

Time-course of attention for threatening pictures in high and low trait anxiety (2005)

Koster, Ernst, Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan

An examination of word relevance in a modified stroop task in patients with chronic low back pain (2005)

ROELOFS, J, Crombez, Geert, PETERS, ML, Verschuere, Bruno, VLAEYEN, JWS

Aanvaarding na niet-aangeboren hersenletsel (2005)

Van Bost, Gunther, LORENT, G, Crombez, Geert

Beravioural responding to concealed information: Examining the role of relevance orienting (2005)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, VAN BAELEN, P

Stages of change for physical activity in a community sample of adolescents (2005)

De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Philippaerts, Renaat, Crombez, Geert, MATTON, L, Wijndaele, Katrien, Balduck, Anne-Line, ...

Is work-induced arousal manipulation a catastrophe for investigating the arousal-performance relationship? (2005)

Cottyn, Jorge, De Clercq, Dirk, Crombez, Geert, Pannier, Jean, Lenoir, Matthieu

Heart rate patterns during the preparation period of an acrobatic element on the balance beam: a case study (2005)

Cottyn, Jorge, De Clercq, Dirk, Crombez, Geert, Pannier, Jean, Lenoir, Matthieu

Well-being in patients with chronic fatigue syndrome: the role of acceptance (2005)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B, MARIMAN, AN, Michielsen, Walter

Stages of change for physical activity in a community sample of adolescents (2005)

De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Philippaerts, Renaat, Crombez, Geert, Matton, Lynn, Wijndaele, Katrien, Balduck, Anne-Line, ...

The aims of the present study were to investigate (1) the proportion of adolescents in each of the stages of change, (2) the differences in psychosocial factors and in physical activity between the...

Catastrophic Thinking About Pain is Independently Associated with Pain Severity, Disability, and Somatic Complaints in School Children and Children with Chronic Pain (2005)

Vervoort, Tine, Goubert, Liesbet, Eccleston, Christopher, Bijttebier, Patricia, Crombez, Geert

Objective To investigate the value of pain catastrophizing in explaining pain, disability, and somatic complaints, beyond negative affectivity (NA). Method Two cross-sectional studies, one in a...

The Impact of Chronic Pain on Adolescents: A Review of Previously Used Measures (2005)

Eccleston, Christopher, Jordan, Abbie L., Crombez, Geert

Objective To review the use of instruments to assess the impact of adolescent chronic pain, focussing on the development of instruments, the domains covered, psychometric properties, and published...

Conditional reasoning among chronic pain patients: Evidence for a beliefs-confirming reasoning pattern? (2004)

Vigilance for pain in patients with chronic back pain: The role of neuroticism, pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear (2004)

Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbeth

Catastrophic thinking about pain increases discomfort during internal atrial cardioversion (2004)

Timmermans, Carl, Rodriguez, Luz-Maria, Crombez, Geert, Van Horne, Wendy, Ayers, Gregory M., ...

OBJECTIVES: This study investigated whether pain catastrophizing is associated with distress and perceived disability in patients with atrial fibrillation, whether pain catastrophizing predicts pain...

The differential role of pain, work characteristics and pain-related fear in explaining back pain and sick leave in occupational settings (2004)

GHELDOF, Els, VINCK, Jan, Vlaeyen, Johan W.S., Hidding, Alita, Crombez, Geert

The differential role of pain, work characteristics and pain-related fear in explaining back pain and sick leave in occupational settings (2004)

GHELDOF, Els, VINCK, Jan, Vlaeyen, Johan W.S., Hidding, Alita, Crombez, Geert

Disengagement from pain: the role of catastrophic thinking about pain (2004)

Confirmatory factor analysis of the Tampa scale, for Kinesiophobia - Invariant two-factor model across low back pain patients and fibromyalgia patients (2004)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan, VLAEYEN, JWS, BIJTTEBIER, P, ROELOFS, J

The role of neuroticism, pain catastrophizing and pain-related fear in vigilance to pain: a structural equations approach (2004)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan

The role of hypervigilance in the experience of pain (2004)

ASMUNDSON, G, VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan, ECCLESTON, C, ROELOFS, J

Vigilantie voor pijn in patiënten met chronische rugpijn: de rol van neuroticisme, catastroferen en pijngerelateerde vrees (2004)

Van Den Bussche, Eva, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet

Differences in trauma symptoms and family functioning in intra- and extrafamilial sexually abused adolescents (2004)

Bal, Sarah, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Crombez, Geert, Van Oost, Paulette

Hypervigilance to pain in fibromyalgia - The mediating role of pain intensity and catastrophic thinking about pain (2004)

Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, Goubert, Liesbet, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B

Adolescent chronic pain: patterns and predictors of emotional distress in adolescents with chronic pain and their parents (2004)

ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert, SCOTFORD, A, CLINCH, J, CONNELL, H

Psychometric evaluation of the Pain Anxiety Symptoms Scale (PASS) in chronic pain patients (2004)

ROELOFS, J, MCCRACKEN, L, PETERS, ML, Crombez, Geert, VAN BREUKELEN, G, VLAEYEN, JWS

Fear-conditioned cues of impending pain facilitate attentional engagement (2004)

Van Damme, Stefaan, LORENZ, J, ECCLESTON, C, Koster, Ernst, De Clercq, Armand, Crombez, Geert

Orienting to guilty knowledge (2004)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst

Catastrophic thinking about pain increases discomfort during internal atrial cardioversion (2004)

VLAEYEN, JWS, TIMMERMANS, C, RODRIGUEZ, LM, Crombez, Geert, VAN HORNE, W, AYERS, GM, ...

Aanvaarden van chronische pijn : invloed op psychisch welzijn (2004)

Viane, Ilse, POPPE, CARINE, Crombez, Geert, Devulder, Jacques

Expliciete en impliciete attitudes ten aanzien van voeding en beweging bij kinderen en obesitas (2004)

Craeynest, Mietje, Crombez, Geert, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, De Houwer, Jan, DEFORCHE, B, TANGHE, E

Impaired disengagement from threatening cues of impending pain in a crossmodal cueing paradigm (2004)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, Goubert, Liesbet

Autonomic and behavioral responding to concealed information: Differentiating orienting and defensive responses (2004)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, De Clercq, Armand, Koster, Ernst

Implicit alcohol-related cognitions in a clinical sample of heavy drinkers (2004)

De Houwer, Jan, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst, DE BEUL, N

Low back pain, disability and back pain myths in a community sample: prevalence and interrelationships (2004)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

Does imminent threat capture and hold attention? (2004)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan, Verschuere, Bruno, De Houwer, Jan

Selective attention to threat in the dot probe paradigm: differentiating vigilance and difficulty to disengage (2004)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Verschuere, Bruno, De Houwer, Jan

Delbaere, Kim, Crombez, Geert, Vanderstraeten, Guy, Willems, Tine, Cambier, Dirk

The Tampa Scale for Kinesiophobia: further examination of psychometric properties in patients with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia (2004)

ROELOFS, J, Goubert, Liesbet, PETERS, ML, VLAEYEN, JWS, Crombez, Geert

The anticipation of pain modulates spatial attention: evidence for pain-specificity in high-pain catastrophizers (2004)

Acceptance of the unpleasant reality of chronic pain: effects upon attention to pain and engagement with daily activities (2004)

Viane, Ilse, Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, Devulder, Jacques, De Corte, Wilfried

Understanding and treating fear of pain (2004)

ASMUNDSON, G, VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert

Future challenges and research directions in fear of pain (2004)

ASMUNDSON, G, COONS, M, VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, PETERS, M

De rol van psychosociale variabelen bij kinderen met pijnklachten (2004)

Goubert, Liesbet, Vervoort, Tine, Crombez, Geert

Expectancy-learning and evaluative learning in human classical conditioning: Differential effects of extinction (2004)

HERMANS, D, Crombez, Geert, VANSTEENWEGEN, D, BAEYENS, F, EELEN, P

De invloed van aanvaarding op kwaliteit van leven bij patiënten met het chronisch vermoeidheidssyndroom (2004)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Viane, Ilse, PANIS, K, VAN DUYSE, A, MARIMAN, A, Michielsen, Walter, ...

De invloed van pijncatastroferen op somatische klachten en dysfunctioneren bij kinderen en jongeren met chronische pijn (2004)

Van Vlierberghe, Leen, Goubert, Liesbet, BIJTTEBIER, P, MERTENS, G, Crombez, Geert

Fear reduction in chronic pain: graded exposure in vivo with behavioral experiments (2004)

VLAEYEN, J, DE JONG, J, LEEUW, M, Crombez, Geert

Distraction from chronic pain during a pain-inducing activity is associated with greater post-activity pain (2004)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, Devulder, Jacques

How emotions influence the performance of female gymnasts on the balance beam (2004)

VAN HOYE, K, Lenoir, Matthieu, De Clercq, Dirk, Pannier, Jean, Crombez, Geert, Cottyn, Jorge

Delbaere, Kim, Crombez, Geert, Vanderstraeten, Guy, Willems, Tine, Cambier, Dirk

Objective: to investigate the relationship between fear-related avoidance of activities and physical frailty. Subjects and methods: fear-related avoidance of activities, physical performance, maximal...

Acceptance of pain is an independent predictor of mental well-being in patients with chronic pain: empirical evidence and reappraisal (2003)

Crombez, Geert, Eccleston, Christopher, Poppe, Carine, Devulder, Jacques, ...

This paper reports upon: (1) the value of acceptance of pain in predicting well-being in patients suffering from chronic pain and (2) the construct validity of acceptance by comparing two...

The role of social support in well-being and coping with self- reported stressful events in adolescents (2003)

Bal, Sarah, Crombez, Geert, Van Oost, Paulette, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse

The child version of the pain catastrophizing scale (PCS-C): a preliminary validation (2003)

Crombez, Geert, BIJTTEBIER, P, ECCLESTON, C, MASCAGNI, T, MERTENS, G, Goubert, Liesbet, ...

A simple and sensitive method to measure timing accuracy (2003)

De Clercq, Armand, Crombez, Geert, Buysse, Ann, Roeyers, Herbert

Implicit attitude towards pictures of back-stressing activities in pain-free subjects and patients with low back pain: an affective priming study (2003)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, HERMANS, D, VANDERSTRAETEN, G

The paradoxical effects of suppressing anxious thoughts during imminent threat (2003)

Koster, Ernst, RASSIN, E, Crombez, Geert, NARING, GWB

How can we learn to live with pain? A Q-methodological analysis of the diverse understandings of acceptance of chronic pain (2003)

RISDON, A, ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert, MCCRACKEN, L

Avoidant coping as a mediator between self-reported sexual abuse and stress-related symptoms in adolescents (2003)

Bal, Sarah, Van Oost, Paulette, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Crombez, Geert

Cognitive interference due to food cues in childhood obesity (2003)

Braet, Caroline, Crombez, Geert

Psychometrische evaluatie van de Nederlandstalige versie van de Agressie Beoordelingsschaal van Dodge en Coie (1987) (2003)

HENDRICKX, M, Crombez, Geert, Roeyers, Herbert

Aandachtsfocus tijdens exposurebehandeling van angst: theorie en empirie (2003)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, Verschuere, Bruno, De Raedt, Rudi

Angst in de tandartsenpraktijk: theoretische inzichten en behandelingsstrategieën (2003)

Koster, Ernst, Crombez, Geert, De Vlieger, Petra

De Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children: Predictieve validiteit in een klinische steekproef (2003)

VERSTRAETEN, K, BIJTTEBIER, P, Crombez, Geert, MERTENS, G, MASCAGNI, T, Goubert, Liesbet

A new method to measure competitive anxiety during sport performance (2003)

Cottyn, Jorge, De Clercq, Dirk, Pannier, Jean, Crombez, Geert, Lenoir, Matthieu

Self, identity, and acceptance in chronic pain (2003)

Crombez, Geert, MORLEY, S, MCCRACKEN, L, SENSKY, T, PINCUS, T

Exposure to physical movement in chronic back pain patients: no evidence for generalization across different movements (2002)

A confirmatory factor analysis of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale: invariant factor structure across clinical and non-clinical populations (2002)

This study investigated whether the effects of exposure to one movement generalize towards another dissimilar movement in patients with low back pain. Thirty-nine patients (11 male, 28 female; mean...

Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet

This study examined the factor structure of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale in three different Dutch-speaking samples: 550 pain-free students, 162 chronic low back pain patients, and 100 fibromyalgia...

De mediërende rol van vermijding bij stress-gerelateerde problemen. Zelfrapportageonderzoek bij niet-klinische adolescenten. (2002)

Bal, Sarah, Van Oost, Paulette, De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Crombez, Geert

Effects of distraction on treadmill running time in severely obese children and adolescents. (2002)

De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Crombez, Geert, Deforche, Benedicte, VINAIMONT, F, DEBODE, P, Bouckaert, Jacques

The effects of catastrophic thinking about pain upon attentional interference by pain: no mediation of negative affectivity in healthy volunteers and in low back pain patients. (2002)

Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B, Goubert, Liesbet

Exposure to physical movements in low back pain patients: Restricted effects of generalization. (2002)

Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, VLAEYEN, J, VANSTEENWEGEN, D, LYSENS, R, EELEN, P

Exposure in vivo bij patiënten met chronische pijn: het veranderen van opvattingen over pijn en letsel. (2002)

DE JONG, J, Goubert, Liesbet, VLAEYEN, JWS, Crombez, Geert

Exposure to physical movement in chronic back pain patients: no evidence for generalization across different movements. (2002)

Goubert, Liesbet, FRANCKEN, G, Crombez, Geert, VANSTEENWEGEN, D, LYSENS, R

De Meta-Cognities Vragenlijst. (2002)

HERMANS, D, Crombez, Geert, VAN RIJSOORT, S, LAEREMANS, I

Expectancy-learning and evaluative learning in human classical conditioning: differential effects of extinction. (2002)

HERMANS, D, Crombez, Geert, VANSTEENWEGEN, D, BAEYENS, F, EELEN, P

Expectancy-learning and evaluative learning in human classical conditioning: affective priming as an indirect and unobtrusive measure of conditioned stimulus valence. (2002)

HERMANS, D, VANSTEENWEGEN, D, Crombez, Geert, BAEYENS, F, EELEN, P

A confirmatory factor analysis of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale: invariant factor structure across clinical and non-clinical populations. (2002)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, BIJTTEBIER, P, Goubert, Liesbet, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B

Retarded disengagement from pain cues: the effects of pain catastrophizing and pain expectancy. (2002)

Graded exposure in vivo for pain-related fear. (2002)

VLAEYEN, J, DE JONG, J, HEUTS, P, Crombez, Geert

Graded exposure in vivo for pain-related fear. (2002)

VLAEYEN, J, DE JONG, J, SIEBEN, J, Crombez, Geert

Meten en beoordelen van pijnproblemen bij patiënten: hoe en waarom? (2002)

Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J

Attentional functioning in fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, and musculoskeletal pain patients (2002)

DICK, B, ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert

On the role of beliefs in observational flavor conditioning (2001)

Baeyens, Frank., Eelen, Paul., Crombez, Geert., De Houwer, Jan.

In previous research (Baeyens, Vansteenwegen et al., 1996) we demonstrated that when observers consume a series of CS+ and CS−flavored drinks while simultaneously watching a videotaped model who...

On the generality of the affective Simon effect (2001)

De Houwer, Jan., Crombez, Geert., Baeyens, Frank., Hermans, Dirk.

In affective Simon studies, participants are to select between a positive and negative response on the basis of a nonaffective stimulus feature (i.e., relevant stimulus feature) while ignoring the...

On the role of beliefs in observational flavor conditioning. (2001)

BAEYENS, F, EELEN, P, Crombez, Geert, De Houwer, Jan

Chronische pijnstoornis. (2001)

Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, JWS

On the generality of the affective Simon effect. (2001)

De Houwer, Jan, Crombez, Geert, BAEYENS, F, EELEN, P

De Pain Catastrophizing Scale for Children (PCS-C) : Eerst psychometrische bevindingen. (2001)

MASCAGNI, T, BIJTTEBIER, P, Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, JWS

Multidimensional pain assessment. (2001)

VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert

Worry and chronic pain patients : A description and analysis of individual differences. (2001)

ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert, ALDRICH, S, STANNARD, C

The international affective picture system: A Flemish validation study. (2001)

Verschuere, Bruno, Crombez, Geert, Koster, Ernst

Assessment van de patiënt met rugpijn. (2000)

Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, JWS

Motiveren van patiënten tot gedragsverandering. (2000)

De Bourdeaudhuij, Ilse, Crombez, Geert

De Tampa Schaal voor Kinesiofobie. Psychometrische karakteristieken en normering. (2000)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J, Van Damme, Stefaan, VAN HOUDENHOVE, BD

Pijnmeting, klinimetrie van chronische pijn. (2000)

KOKE, A, VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert

De Pain catastrophizing Scale : Psychometrische karakteristieken en normering. (2000)

Van Damme, Stefaan, Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J, Goubert, Liesbet, VAN HOUDENHOVE, BD

Hypervigilantie voor pijn bij patiënten met chronische pijn (2000)

VAN HOUDENHOVE, B, Crombez, Geert, Goubert, Liesbet, Van Damme, Stefaan, Viane, Ilse

Pre-extinction of sensory preconditioned electrodermal activity. (2000)

Vansteenwegen, Debora, Crombez, Geert, BAEYENS, F, HERMANS, D, EELEN, P

Chronische pijn en pijngerelateerde vrees. (2000)

Viane, Ilse, Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, Van Damme, Stefaan

Graduele exposure in vivo. (2000)

VLAEYEN, J, DE JONG, J, Crombez, Geert

When the whole is more than the sum of its parts, comments on Treede et al. (2000)

The emotional stroop task and chronic pain: what is threatening for chronic pain sufferers? (2000)

Crombez, Geert, HERMANS, D, ADRIAENSEN, H

Automatic attitude activation and efficiency: The fourth horseman of automaticity. (2000)

HERMANS, D, Crombez, Geert, EELEN, P

Worrying about chronic pain: vigilance to threat and misdirected problem solving. (2000)

ALDRICH, S, ECCLESTON, C, Crombez, Geert

Attention to chronic pain is dependent upon pain-related fear. (1999)

Crombez, Geert, ECCLESTON, C, BAEYENS, F, VAN HOUDENHOVE, B

Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J, HEUTS, PG, LYSENS, R

De rol van vrees en vermijding in chronische rugproblemen. (1999)

Goubert, Liesbet, Crombez, Geert, VLAEYEN, J

Fear of movement/(re)injury, avoidance and pain disability in chronic low back pain patients. (1999)

VLAEYEN, J, Crombez, Geert

Pain demands attention: A cognitive-affective model of the interruptive function of pain. (1999)