Marbella PÉREZ PEÑA


Marbella Pérez Peña
PhD Student
HuoShen Grant holder

marbella.perezpena@uclouvain.be
 
Supervisor : Pierre Philippot
 
 
 

Research domains

  • Mindfulness-based interventions
  • Body awareness
  • Emotion regulation
  • Emotion differentiation
  • Adolescents and young adults
  • Experience sampling methodology
  • Questionnaire development

Publications

  • Pérez Peña, M., Dejonckheere, E., Erbas, Y., Geschwind, N., Peeters F., Wichers, M., Raes, F., Kuppens, P. & Van der Gucht, K., “A Replication Study Examining the Potential Impact of a Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Negative Emotion Differentiation”, Cognition & Emotion
  • Pérez-Peña, M., Notermans, J., Desmedt, O., Van der Gucht, K., & Philippot, P. (2022). Mindfulness-Based Interventions and Body Awareness. Brain Sciences, 12(2), 285. [pdf]
  • Roux, B., Pérez-Peña, M., & Philippot, P. (2021). A Mindfulness-Based Intervention for Adolescents with Behavior Disorders: Controlled Trial with Partial Randomization. Mindfulness, 12(11), 2794-2809.[pdf]

Posters and Talks

  • Pérez Peña, M., Van der Gucht, K., & Philippot P. (2021, August 16-20). A Mindful Body Awareness Questionnaire for Youth: Development of a short body awareness questionnaire tailored to a population of adolescents and young adults [Poster Presentation]. Mind & Life European Summer Research Institute 2021 “Care for Life: Enacting knowledge in an interdependent and uncertain world” Online. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/253449
  • Pérez Peña, M., Notermans, J., Desmedt, O., Van der Gucht, K., & Philippot P. (2021, July 5-9). The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on body awareness. [Poster Presentation]. International Conference on Mindfulness 2021 “Diversity and Equality” Online. http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/253438
  • Pérez Peña, M., Dejonckheere, E., Erbas, Y., Geschwind, N., Peeters F., Wichers, M., Kuppens, P., Raes, F., & Van der Gucht, K. (2019, October). A replication study examining the potential impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on negative emotion differentiation. Talk presented at the Emotions Conference 2019, Tilburg, the Netherlands.
  • Pérez Peña, M., Camerman, E., De Leeuw, I., Kuppens, P., Raes, F., & Van der Gucht, K. (2019, October). The impact of a mindfulness-based intervention on the staff of the refugee shelter Poelkapelle: A mixed methods pilot study. Poster presented at the National Mindfulness Symposium 2019, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
  • Hölscher, S., Pérez Peña, M., Dejonckheere, E., & Kuppens, P. (2019, May). Feeling bad about being sad: A cross-cultural examination of the perceived social pressure to avoid feeling negative emotions and its role for well-being. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Belgian Association for Psychological Sciences, Liège, Belgium.
  • Pérez Peña, M., De Leeuw, I., Glas, J., De Haene, L., Kuppens, P., Raes, F., & Van der Gucht, K. (2018, December). A mindfulness-based intervention for refugees and staff working in the shelters: two pilot studies assessing feasibility and impact. Talk presented at the KU Leuven Mindfulness Symposium, Leuven, Belgium.