Educational Background
Gina Rossi was born on January, 1972, in Aalst, Belgium. She earned a social work diploma from Erasmus University College in 1993 and her MA in clinical psychology from Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1997. In 2004, she obtained a PhD in psychological sciences from Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the direction of Hedwig Sloore. She earned a Master of Quantitative Analysis in the social sciences degree from the University of Leuven in 2005.
Professional Career
Dr. Rossi became a full-time professor in 2007 at the Department of Clinical and Life Span Psychology of the Vrije Universiteit Brusseland teaches at the Faculty of Psychological and Educational Sciences and Faculty of Law and Criminology. She is responsible for the Bachelor and Master Program in clinical psychology and teaches courses on personality and general psychology. She is also lecturer in several postgraduate education programs. She is advisor for the National Academic Recognition Information...
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Uzieblo, K., Verschuere, B., Jelicic, M., Rossi, G., Maesschalck, C., & Crombez, G. (2010). PPI-R Vragenlijst voor psychopathische persoonlijkheid: Handleiding [PPI-R Psychopathic Personality Questionnair: Manual]. Amsterdam: Hogrefe.
van der Heijden, P., Derksen, J., Egger, J., Rossi, G., Laheij, M., & Bögels, T. (2013). MMPI-2-RF. Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 Restructured Form. Handleiding voor Afname, scoring en interpretatie [Manual for administration, scoring and interpretation: Dutch-Flemish translation]. Nijmegen: PEN Tests Publisher.
van der Heijden, P., Ingenhoven, T., Berghuis, H., & Rossi, G. (2014). DSM-5 persoonlijkheidsvragenlijst [DSM-5 personality inventory] (PID-5-NL). Nederlandstalige bewerking van [Dutch translation of] The Personality Inventory for DSM-5 ® (PID-5) —Adult, 2011 (American Psychiatric Association). Amsterdam: Boom.
Selected Bibliography
Debast, I., Rossi, G., van Alphen, S. P. J., Pauwels, E., Claes, L., Dierckx, E., Peuskens, H., Santens, E., & Schotte, C. K. W. (2015). Age-neutrality of categorically and dimensionally measured DSM-5 Section II personality disorder criteria. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97, 321–329. doi:10.1080/00223891.2015.1021814.
Rossi, G., & Derksen, J. L. L. (2015). International adaptations of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory: Construct validity and Clinical Applications. Journal of Personality Assessment, 97(6), 1–19. doi:10.1080/00223891.2015.1079531. Impact factor2015 2.258.
Rossi, G., & Sloore, H. (2008). Cross-cultural reliability and generality of the Megargee Offender Classification System. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 6(35), 725–740.
Rossi, G., Elklit, A., & Simonsen, E. (2010). Empirical evidence for a four factor framework of personality disorder organization: Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory – III Personality Disorder Scales across Belgian and Danish Data Samples. Journal of Personality Disorders, 24, 128–150. Impact factor: 2.034.
Rossi, G., Van den Broeck, J., Dierckx, E., Segal, D., & van Alpen, B. (2014). Personality assessment among older adults: The value of personality questionnaires unraveled. Aging and Mental Health, 18(8), 936–940. doi:10.1080/13607863.2014.924089.
Rossi, G., Debast, I., van Alphen, S.P.J. (2016). Measuring personality functioning in older adults: construct validity of the Severity Indices of Personality Functioning – Short Form (SIPP-SF). Aging and Mental Health. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2016.1154012.
Van Alphen, S. P. J., Rossi, G., Segal, D. L., & Rosowsky, E. (2013). Issues regarding the proposed DSM-5 personality disorders in geriatric psychology and psychiatry. International Psychogeriatrics, 25(1), 1–5. doi:10.1017/S1041610212001597.
Van den Broeck, J., Rossi, G., Declercq, B., & Dierickx, E. (2012). Potential age bias in the NEO-PI-R: Differential item functioning in older versus younger adults. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 3, 361–369. doi:10.1007/s10862-012-9287-4.
Van den Broeck, J., Rossi, G., De Clercq, B., Dierckx, E., & Bastiaansen, L. (2013). Validation of the FFM PD count technique for screening personality pathology in later middle-aged and older adults. Aging & Mental Health (1360–7863), 17(2), 180–188. doi:10.1080/13607863.2012.717258.
Videler, A. C., Rossi, G., Schoevaars, M., van der Feltz, C., & van Alphen, S. P. J. (2014). Effects of schema group therapy in older outpatients: A proof of concept study. International Psychogeriatrics, 26(10), 1709–1717. doi:10.1017/S1041610214001264.
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Rossi, G. (2016). Rossi, Gina. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_301-1
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