Peer-Reviewed Articles

Heekerens, J. B., Olderbak, S., Gross, J. J., Wingenfeld, K., & Roepke, S. (2024). The Process Model of Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (PMERQ): Psychometric properties and validity of a German version. European Journal of Psychological Assessment. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000863

Dreisoerner, A., Heekerens, J. B., Karle, V., & Pawelkiewicz, J. M. (2024). Fear-setting: A brief writing intervention increases motivation to reach personal goals and positive affect. Journal of Happiness Studies, 25(6). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-024-00767-2

Heekerens, J. B., Schulze, L., Enge, J., Renneberg, B., & Roepke, S. (2023). Increases in negative affective arousal precede lower self-esteem in patients with borderline personality disorder but not in patients with depressive disorders: an experience sampling approach. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-023-00229-w. Data and code available at https://osf.io/8xwtc/.

Heekerens, J. B., Gross, J. J., Kreibig, S. D., Wingenfeld, K., & Roepke, S. (2023). The temporal dynamics of dissociation: Protocol for an ecological momentary assessment and laboratory study in a transdiagnostic sample. BMC Psychology, 11(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-023-01209-z. Preprint available at https://psyarxiv.com/ty9pk. Code available at https://osf.io/qwz27/. Laboratory protocol available at https://www.protocols.io/view/tsst-cukywuxw.

Heekerens, J. B., Schulze, L., Enge, J., Renneberg, B., & Roepke, S. (2023). Affective arousal temporally precedes dissociation in patients with borderline personality disorder: A preliminary experience sampling study. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 6(7), 1129–1138. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001516. Preprint available at https://psyarxiv.com/eby5z. Data and code available at https://osf.io/qdheu/.

Graumann, L.*, Heekerens, J. B.*, Duesenberg, M., Metz, S., Spitzer, C., Otte, C., … Wingenfeld, K. (2023). Association between baseline dissociation levels and stress-induced state dissociation in patients with posttraumatic-stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, and major depressive disorder. Borderline Personality Disorder and Emotion Dysregulation, 10(1), 11. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40479-023-00215-2 | *shared first authorship

Heekerens, J. B., Schulze, L., Enge, J., Renneberg, B., & Roepke, S. (2022). The temporal relation of arousal and perceived rejection in patients with borderline personality disorder and depressive disorders: An experience sampling approach. Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment, 13(6), 597-608. https://doi.org/10.1037/per0000546. Preprint available at https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/p76ej. Data and code are available at https://osf.io/83b4x/.

Heekerens, J. B., Eid, M., Heinitz, K., & Merkle, B. (2022). Cognitive-affective responses to online positive-psychological interventions: The effects of optimistic, grateful, and self-compassionate writing. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 14(4), 1105-1128. https://doi.org/10.1111/aphw.12326 (Download)

Heekerens, J. B., & Eid, M. (2020). Inducing positive affect and positive future expectations using the best-possible-self intervention: A systematic review and meta-analysis. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 16(3), 322-347. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2020.1716052

Heekerens, J. B., Heinitz, K., & Eid, M. (2019). Dealing with conflict: Reducing goal ambivalence using the best-possible-self intervention. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 15(3), 325-337. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2019.1610479

Jarden, A., Rashid, T., Roache, A., Lomas, T., Heekerens, J. B., & Dreisörner, A. (2019). Ethical guidelines for positive psychology practice (version 1.0: German). International Journal of Wellbeing, 9(3), 1-30. https://doi.org/10.5502/ijw.v9i3.993 (Download)

Heekerens, J. B., & Heinitz, K. (2019). Looking forward: The effect of the best-possible-self intervention on thriving through relative intrinsic goal pursuits. Journal of Happiness Studies, 20, 1379-1395. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-018-9999-6

Doctoral Thesis

Heekerens, J. B. (2020). Cultivating happiness: Effects, underlying mechanisms, and moderators of positive-psychological interventions [Doctoral dissertation, Freie Universität Berlin]. Refubium. https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/27309 (Download)

Book Chapters

Koch, T., Holtmann, J., & Heekerens, J. B. (2021). Construction of informative priors for the application of CFA – MTMM models in small samples: A model-free approach. In J. L. Helm (Ed.), Advanced multitrait-multimethod analyses for the behavioral and social sciences (1st ed.). Routlege.