Research interest
Working as a truck driver, her husband suggested that dr. Lilian Jans-Beken should go to university, which she did at age 39. Dr. Lilian Jans-Beken became interested in positive psychology with a focus on gratitude and mental health. After meeting dr. Paul T.P. Wong, she became engaged in second wave positive psychology in general and existential gratitude specifically.
Education
| PhD Open University Netherlands, positive psychology | 2018 |
| MSc Open University Netherlands, lifespan psychology | 2014 |
| BSc Open University Netherlands, psychology | 2013 |
Professional experience
| Founder and independent researcher The Thriving Human Science Center | 2019 – present |
| Author, speaker, supervisor Self-employed | 2014 – present |
| Assistant Professor Lifespan Psychology Open University Netherlands | 2018 – 2019 |
| Teacher Social Work Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences | 2017 – 2018 |
| Psychologist in private practice (internship) TrainID | 2013 – 2013 |
Honors and awards
| Top 1% Peer Reviewer in the category Psychiatry and Psychology, part of the Global Peer Review Awards awarded by Publons | 2019 |
| Honourable mention Best Dissertation Award of the International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies | 2019 |
| Honourable mention in scholarship 10th Biennial International Meaning Conference in Vancouver, Canada, for paper Gratitude’s place in second wave positive psychology | 2018 |
| Participant 7th Hendrik Muller Summer Seminar of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (KNAW). Theme was ‘academic freedom and scientific integrity’. | 2015 |
| Nominated for the Jan Brouwer Thesis Award | 2015 |
Peer review journal articles
| Jans-Beken, L. (Accepted). Mature Gratitude in Positive Psychiatry. In J.R. Peteet (Eds.), The Virtues in Psychiatric Practice (pp…). Oxford University Press. |
| Jans-Beken, L. (Accepted). A Perspective on Mature Gratitude as a Way of Coping with COVID-19. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. [Pre-print][Original article] |
| Jans-Beken, L. (2019). Gratitude’s place in second wave positive psychology, International Journal of Existential Positive Psychology. 9(1) [Pre-print][Original article] |
| Frinking, E., Jans-Beken, L., Janssens, M., Peeters, S., Lataster, J., Jacobs, N., Reijnders, J. (Accepted). Gratitude and loneliness in adults over 40 years: examining the role of psychological flexibility and engaged living, Aging and Mental Health. |
| Jans-Beken, L. (2019). The Relationship of Spiritual Coping with Resilience and Perceived Stress: Validation of the Dutch Spiritual Coping Questionnaire, Spiritual Psychology and Counseling, 4(2), 93-108. |
| Jans-Beken, L. , Jacobs, N. , Janssens, M. , Peeters, S., Reijnders, J., Lechner, L., Lataster, J. (2019). Gratitude and Health: An Updated Review, Journal of Positive Psychology. |
| Jans-Beken, L. (2019). The Dialectic Dynamics Between Trait Gratitude Subjective Well-Being and Psychopathology Across 30 Weeks, Counselling Psychology Quarterly , 32(3-4) . |
| Jans-Beken, L. & Wong, P.T.P. (2019). Development and Preliminary Validation of the Existential Gratitude Scale (EGS), Counselling Psychology Quarterly. |
| Jans-Beken, L., Jacobs, N., Janssens, M., Peeters, S., Reijnders, J., Lechner, L., & Lataster, J. (2018). Reciprocal Relationships between State Gratitude and High- and Low-Arousal Positive Affects in Daily Life: A Time-lagged Ecological Assessment Study, Journal of Positive Psychology , 14(4). |
| Jans-Beken, L. G. P. J., Lataster, J., Peels, D., Lechner, L., & Jacob, N. (2017). Gratitude, psychopathology and subjective well-being: results from a 7.5-month prospective general population study. Journal of Happiness Studies , 19(6). |
| te Velde, A. A., Bezema, T., van Kampen, A. H., Kraneveld, A. D., A’t Hart, B., van Middendorp, H., … & Pieters, R. H. (2016). Embracing complexity beyond systems medicine: a new approach to chronic immune disorders. Frontiers in Immunology, 7. |
| Jans-Beken, L., Lataster, J., Leontjevas, R., & Jacobs, N. (2015). Measuring gratitude: a comparative validation of the Dutch Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ6) and Short Gratitude, Resentment, and Appreciation Test (SGRAT). Psychologica Belgica, 55(1). |
Dissertation
Grants
No grants were available up to now; all research is funded purely private.
Books
Jans-Beken, L. (2019). Een zoektocht naar dankbaarheid. Oudorp: Jans-Beken Publishing. ISBN: 978-90-9032119-6
Conference presenations
| 11th Biennial International Meaning Conference, Toronto Canada | 2020 |
| 10th Biennial International Meaning Conference, Vancouver Canada | 2018 |
| Annual Netherlands Congress of Public Health, Utrecht Netherlands | 2018 |
| Annual Conference of International Society of Quality of Life Studies, Innsbruck Austria | 2017 |
| European Congress for Psychology, Amsterdam Netherlands | 2017 |
| European Conference on Positive Psychology, Angers France | 2016 |
| European Congress for Psychology, Milan Italy | 2015 |
| European Conference on Positive Psychology, Amsterdam Netherlands | 2014 |
Peer review activities
Questionnaires
| Existential Gratitude Scale (EGS-EN) | Questionnaire; Validationstudy |
| Gratitude Questionnaire 6 (GQ6-NL) | Questionnaire; Validationstudy |
| Short Gratitude Resentment and Appreciation Test (SGRAT-NL) | Questionnaire; Validationstudy |
| Spiritual Coping Questionnaire (SCQ-NL) | Questionnaire; Validationstudy |
