A5051417892- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
- Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Face Recognition and Perception
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Neuroscience and Music Perception
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Media Influence and Health
- Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Traumatic Brain Injury Research
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Behavioral Health and Interventions
- Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Child Therapy and Development
Bar-Ilan University
2015-2025
University of Haifa
2024
Reichman University
2018
Alzheimer's Association of Israel
2015
Tel Aviv University
2013
Sheba Medical Center
2009
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2008
University of Pennsylvania
2000
Maternal postpartum depression (PPD) exerts long-term negative effects on infants; yet the mechanisms by which PPD disrupts emotional development are not fully clear. Utilizing an extreme-case design, 971 women reported symptoms of and anxiety following childbirth 215 high low depressive symptomatology again at 6 months. Of these, mothers diagnosed with major disorder (n = 22), disorders 19), controls 59) were visited 9 Mother-infant interaction was microcoded for maternal infant's social...
Abstract The present study examines the attentional bias hypothesis for individuals with generalised social phobia (GSPs). Socially phobic were hypothesised to exhibit towards threat stimuli relevant interpersonal situations. This was tested using face-in-the-crowd paradigm. GSPs and nonanxious controls (NACs) detected an angry, happy, neutral, or disgust target face in a crowd of 12 distracter photographs. Results indicated that, compared NACs, exhibited greater biases angry than happy...
An operationalization of mental pain is presented in three studies. The first study describes the and factor structure items produced by a content analysis self-reports yielding scale with nine factors: experience irreversibility, loss control, narcissistic wounds, emotional flooding, freezing, estrangement, confusion, social distancing, emptiness. Study 2 tested relationship between depression anxiety normal population. 3 focused on coping. Mental conceptualized as perception negative...
Shneidman (1996) proposed that intense mental pain is related to suicide. Relatedly, Frankl (1963) argued the loss of life's meaning pain. The first goal this research was test Shneidman's proposition by comparing suicidal and nonsuicidal individuals. Meaning in life optimism are polar opposites suicidality hopelessness, examination these variables relation undertaken provide a Frankl's proposition. In two studies, relationship between newly developed measure pain—the Orbach & Mikulincer...
The literature on eating disorders emphasizes the relationship between alexithymia and anorexia nervosa one hand, bulimia affect dysregulation other. In our study, two questions are addressed: (1) Are there different patterns of emotional processing deficiencies in bulimia? (2) Is a unique contribution to deficiencies? Participants were women with (ANs, n=20), (BNs, normal controls (NCs, n=20). Three hypotheses examined: Women will exhibit lower awareness more deficient regulation than NCs...
Significance In an age of globalization, emotional understanding is the central problem human interaction. Here, we show that historical heterogeneity, or extent to which a country’s present-day population descends from numerous (vs. few) source countries, predicts cultural variation in norms for expressivity. Reanalysis display rules 32 countries reveals heterogeneity associated with favoring greater addition, results study nine belief smiles signal social bonding motives vs. negotiation...
In two experiments, the authors examined memory for facial emotional expressions in patients with generalized social phobia (GSP) and nonanxious control (NAC) participants. Three main questions were addressed. First, do GSP differ from NAC participants their overall expressions? Second, exhibit a bias negative versus nonnegative Third, if such exists, is it specific to angry The results of both experiments indicated that have better all than Results experiment 2 suggest enhanced recognition...
Background Symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression are highly co-morbid following a traumatic event. Nevertheless, decisive evidence regarding the direction relationship between these clinical entities is missing. Method The aim present study was to examine nature this by comparing synchronous change model (PTSD time synchronous, possibly stemming from third common factor) with demoralization (i.e. PTSD symptoms causing depression) depressogenic depressive symptoms)....
Our objective in the present study was to examine temporal sequencing of posttraumatic and depressive symptoms during prolonged exposure therapy for stress disorder (PTSD) among children adolescents.Participants were 73 adolescents (56.2% female) between ages 8 18. Participants completed self-report measures depression prior every session. Measures included Child PTSD Symptom Scale, Beck Depression Inventory, Children's Inventory.Multilevel mediational analyses indicated reciprocal relations...
Abstract Background The impact of exclusion (affiliation-loss) events is theorized to be painful and personally meaningful, especially in social anxiety. However, specific data on the autobiographical anxiety scarce. To fill this gap, we conducted two studies. Methods Participants (Study 1: N = 246; Study 2: 273), including varying levels subclinical anxiety, recalled events. participants reported several indices events’ impact: emotional intensity, post-traumatic distress, centrality event...
Previous research has identified a complex relationship between client-therapist synchrony and therapy outcomes. We investigated the ways in which depression severity influences this relationship. The sample was comprised of 30 clients undergoing 16-session supportive-expressive dynamic for depression. Client-therapist interpersonal assessed using Client-Therapist Synchrony (CIB) coding system during five pre-selected sessions. After each session, evaluated their satisfaction with session....