Zeynep Akcaoglu

ORCID: 0000-0002-8619-6301
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Research Areas
  • Mental Health Research Topics
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research
  • Mental Health and Psychiatry
  • Schizophrenia research and treatment
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Health and Well-being Studies
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Identity, Memory, and Therapy

KU Leuven
2022-2024

Abstract Background Psychotic experiences (PEs) and social isolation (SI) seem related during early stages of psychosis, but the temporal dynamics between two are not clear. Literature so far suggests a self-perpetuating cycle wherein momentary increases in PEs lead to withdrawal, which, subsequently, triggers at next point time, especially when SI is associated with increased distress. The current study investigated daily-life associations PEs, as well role SI-related general affective...

10.1017/s0033291723003598 article EN Psychological Medicine 2024-01-05

Purpose: The COVID-19 pandemic is assumed to have had a large impact on the mental health of adolescents. Finding out for which youth was largest imperative strengthening future crisis responses. In this study, we aimed assess different sociodemographic groups general population adolescents in Flanders, Belgium. Methods: Adolescents were tested SIGMA at W1 (n=1913; mean age=13.8; 63.1% female; 2018/2019); W2 (n=272; age=16.5; 74.0% 2020); and W3 (n=227; age=18.0; 78.4% 2022/2023)....

10.31234/osf.io/vmj96 preprint EN 2024-09-05

Abstract Background and Hypothesis Sex differences in psychosis are reported across the spectrum, including subclinical stages. An important factor understanding these variations is subjective experience of everyday social interactions (SI). We investigated whether presence psychotic experiences (PEs), as well associated distress, differs between men women. focused on role daily-life SI quality its association with PEs varies by sex. Study Design included adolescents from SIGMA, a general...

10.1093/schbul/sbae177 article EN Schizophrenia Bulletin 2024-10-20

Adolescent solitude was drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As is crucial for adolescent development through its association with both positive and negative developmental outcomes, it critical to understand how adolescents' daily-life solitary experiences changed as a result of

10.1186/s12889-024-18458-1 article EN cc-by BMC Public Health 2024-04-26

Research increasingly highlights the importance of social disconnectedness for development psychosis. However, perspective individuals with psychosis remains largely underexplored. At present, there is also no comprehensive view role processes throughout different phases development. The current study aims to investigate 1) how a psychotic disorder experience disconnection and 2) We conducted two focus groups, diagnosed (N = 8). data were analyzed using interpretative phenomenological...

10.1080/09515089.2024.2366424 article EN Philosophical Psychology 2024-06-14

The COVID-19 pandemic posed a challenge to young people’s positive future orientation and mental health. current study’s objective was understand the role of daily-life anticipatory emotion regulation in health during pandemic. We used Experience Sampling Method investigate Belgian adolescents’ (aged 13 – 21) daily life relation psychopathology symptoms 2020 (N = 136, 121 females) 2021 53, 48 females). Adolescents generally perceived immediate events more positively than negatively...

10.31234/osf.io/mh7au preprint EN 2023-03-27

Key symptoms of anxiety include experiencing unpleasant emotions and hyperarousal. Growing evidence suggests the role delayed affective recovery from stress (DAR) in their maintenance development on a day-to-day basis. We aimed to investigate whether DAR is linked current future symptoms, independently depressive symptoms. Self-reported were assessed twice: at Wave 1 (N=1031) approximately 2.5 years later 2 (N=171) community sample adolescents. Additionally, 1, Experience Sampling Method...

10.31234/osf.io/2fxyb preprint EN 2023-03-28

Key symptoms of anxiety include experiencing unpleasant emotions and hyperarousal. Growing evidence suggests the role delayed affective recovery from stress (DAR) in their maintenance development on a day-to-day basis. We aimed to investigate whether DAR is linked current future symptoms, independently depressive symptoms. Self-reported were assessed twice: at Wave 1 (N=1031) approximately 2.5 years later 2 (N=171) community sample adolescents. Additionally, 1, Experience Sampling Method...

10.31234/osf.io/2fxyb_v1 preprint EN 2023-03-28

Background: Adolescent solitude was drastically impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. As is crucial for adolescent development through its association with both positive and negative developmental outcomes, it critical to understand how adolescents’ daily-life solitary experiences changed as a result of pandemic.Methods: Using three waves Experience Sampling Method data from longitudinal study, we compared in early (nT1=100; MAge=16.1; SDAge=1.9; 93% girls) mid-pandemic (nT2=204; MAge=16.5;...

10.31234/osf.io/d3n4g preprint EN 2022-09-07
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