Peter Theuns

Biography

Education

• Licentiate of psychology (Clinical Psychology Children & Adults)
• Certified Teacher in Higher Secondary Education
• Supplementary licenciate in management (MBA)
• Doctor of psychology

Non-academic career

• 1986
  • Counselor Jongeren- en Gezinsadvies Centrum, St. Pieters Woluwe
• 1995 - 1996
  • Mediator, HR counselor, Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Academic career

• 1986 - 1992
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Center for Statistics and Operations Research
  • Teaching assistant: Maths and Stats in Psychology, Economics, and Social Science
• 1992 - ...
  • Vesalius College
  • Parttime Professor: Methods of Social Scientific Inquiry
• 1996 - 1998
  • University of Ghent, Faculty of Psychology (FPPW)
  • Parttime Visiting Professor: Data Analysis II, and Psychophysics
• 1998 - 2000
  • University of Ghent, Faculty of Psychology (FPPW)
  • Parttime Professor: Statistics I, Data Analysis II, and Psychophysics
• 1999 - ...
  • Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Psychology and Education Science
  • Fulltime Professor (Docent): Research methods I and II, Multivariate Data- Analysis, Survey Research, and Responsible for apprenticeships in Work and Industrial Psychology

Teaching

• Research methods I and II,
• Multivariate Data- Analysis,
• Survey Research

Research

• Methodology of Psychological and Social Sciences Research. Current research topics are:
• Cross cultural comparability of subjective Qualitiy of Life experience: Measurement invariance in Quality of Life
• Applications of Functional Measurement to Quality of life ratings
• Applicability of the Anamnestic Comparative Self-Assessment (ACSA) scale for Quality of Life assessment
• Data quality in websurveys : Context Effects in Surveys Other interests:
• Measurement quality obtained from rating scales in surveys: the impact of scale anchoring, labels, orientation, dimensionality etc.
• Electronic learning environments for education, specifically in the fields of mathematics, statistics, and methodological education.
• Ordinal data-analysis (Boolean analysis) and mathematical modeling of work-related social processes.
• Self-anchoring rating scales
• Response effects and rating scale formats

Publications

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