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TOBB University of Economics and Technology · Department of Psychology

Primary stressors are direct outcomes of extreme events (e.g., viruses, floodwater) whereas secondary stressors stem from pre-disaster life circumstances and societal arrangements (e.g., illness, problematic pre-disaster policies) or from inefficient responses to the extreme event. Secondary stressors can cause significant long-term damage to peopl...

Objective: Vaccines are an effective means to reduce the spread of diseases, but they are sometimes met with hesitancy that needs to be understood. Method: In this study, we analyzed data from a large, cross-country survey conducted between June and August 2021 in 43 countries (N = 15,740) to investigate the roles of trust in government and science...

Contrary to primary stressors, which are inherent in extreme events themselves (e.g., viruses, floodwater, earthquakes), secondary stressors stem from pre-disaster life circumstances and social arrangements (e.g., illness, problematic pre-disaster policies) or from inefficient responses to the extreme event itself. Despite their significant impact,...

Mountains are home to a considerable share of the human population. Around a billion people live in mountainous areas, which harbor rich natural and sociocultural diversity. Today, many people living in mountainous areas worldwide face fundamental changes to their cultural and economic living conditions. At the same time, mountain communities have...

People across the world and throughout history have gone to great lengths to enhance their physical appearance. Evolutionary psychologists and ethologists have largely attempted to explain this phenomenon via mating preferences and strategies. Here, we test one of the most popular evolutionary hypotheses for beauty-enhancing behaviors, drawn from m...

The COVIDiSTRESS global survey is an international collaborative undertaking for data gathering on people’s experiences, behavior and attitudes during the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the survey focuses on psychological stress and compliance with behavioral guidelines to slow the spread of Coronavirus, and trust in governmental institutions an...

During the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the COVIDiSTRESS Consortium launched an open-access global survey to understand and improve individuals' experiences related to the crisis. a year later, we extended this line of research by launching a new survey to address the dynamic landscape of the pandemic. this survey was released with the goal of a...

The rapid outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has affected citizens' daily lives in an unprecedented way. To curb the spread of the pandemic, governments have taken numerous measures such as social distancing and quarantine, which may be associated with psychological consequences, namely stress and loneliness globally. To understand diff...

Given high prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders and associated dysfunctions, better understanding, preventing, and treating these disorders are crucial. Along with psychological and other biological causal factors and mechanisms, inflammatory biomarkers, especially cytokines, have also been implicated in etiology and maintenance of mood and anx...

Background Serious mental illness, including schizophrenia, have been shown to be associated with psychosocial vulnerabilities in the face of adverse events. While individuals with schizophrenia might undergo many psychosocial difficulties during the COVID-19 pandemic, they might also not be affected, or report increased subjective well-being. This...

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COVID-19 salgınını kontrol altına almak için aşılamanın çok önemli olduğu bilinse de bireylerin aşı niyetleri büyük ölçüde değişkenlik gösterebilir. Bu nedenle bireylerin aşı niyeti ile ilgili olabilecek değişkenlerin belirlenmesi önemlidir. Bu çalışmada bireylerin COVID-19 aşısı olma niyeti ile ilgili değişkenlerin incelenmesi amaçlanmıştır. Bu ça...

In order to gain a better understanding of what happens during the COVID-19 pandemic to those who were previously traumatized, this study investigated perceived stress and severity of PTSD symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in people who experienced the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It was also examined how reminders of past trauma an...

Background Developmental disabilities (DD) in close family members have profound effects on psychological adjustment of siblings of individuals with DD. One factor that influences the psychological adjustment of siblings is emotions. However, little is known about emotions among siblings of individuals with DD. Aims This study sought to examine ne...

The COVIDiSTRESS global survey collects data on early human responses to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic from 173 429 respondents in 48 countries. The open science study was co-designed by an international consortium of researchers to investigate how psychological responses differ across countries and cultures, and how this has impacted behaviour, copin...

Background: A worldwide health threat, the COVID-19 pandemic, has highlighted the need to focus on its mental health impact. However, literature on mental health effects including post-traumatic consequences of the pandemic is scarce. Objective: The current study examined post-traumatic stress (PTS), growth (PTG), and depreciation (PTD) during the...

Background To limit the rapid spread of COVID‐19, countries have asked their citizens to stay at home. As a result, demographic and cultural factors related to home life have become especially relevant to predict population well‐being during isolation. This pre‐registered worldwide study analyses the relationship between the number of adults and ch...

To limit the rapid spread of COVID-19, countries have asked their citizens to stay at home. As a result, demographic and cultural factors related to home life became especially relevant to predicting population well-being during isolation. This pre-registered worldwide study analyses the relationship between the number of adults and children in a h...

Aim of this study is to analyse how COVID-19 related measures of isolation and quarantine affect people who survived the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina in terms of war-trauma reminders, perceived stress levels and PTSD symptom severity. It is part of large COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey but includes newly added measures related to war trauma r...

1990’ların başından bu yana, öyküsel terapiler ruh sağlığı alanındaki uzmanlar tarafından daha yaygın olarak kullanılır hale gelmiştir. Yakın zamanda öyküsel terapinin, travma-odaklı yaklaşımlar gibi, daha özelleşmiş biçimleri geliştirilmiştir. Bu makalede, travma alanındaki öyküsel terapi yaklaşımları derlenmektedir. Travma-odaklı öyküsel terapile...

Bu çalışmanın amacı yaşanılan yerin ve erken dönem uyum bozucu şemaların evli bireylerin evlilik doyumu üzerindeki etkisini incelemektir. Çalışmanın örneklemi, 120’si kırsal ve 168’si kentsel bölgelerde yaşayan 268 evli bireyden (134 kadın ve 134 erkekten) oluşmuştur. Katılımcılara, sırasıyla Young Şema Ölçeği-Kısa Form 3, Çift Uyum Ölçeği ve demog...

Disaster risk management efforts worldwide are increasingly targeted at building the resilience capacities of individuals and communities for strengthening their resistance, absorption, accommodation, adaptation, transformation and recovery skills in the face of disasters. In addition, as a key element of resilience, preparedness is essential for e...

News camera operators are among the first responders to crises, emergencies, and other human suffering. This study is an attempt in the literature to explore trauma exposure and coping in news camera operators who are likely to experience primary and secondary traumatization simultaneously. Qualitative data from 20 news camera operators were analyz...

This chapter presents the perceptions of earthquake survivors and representatives of disaster‐related institutions on what they see as related to resilience in the face of earthquakes. It discusses the findings relation to the emBRACE resilience framework and policy implications. In this Turkish case study, individual and community resilience perti...

Afet psikolojisi, afetlerin psikososyal etkilerinin incelenmesi, bireylerin ve toplulukların afet sonrası iyilik halinin desteklenmesi için çeşitli psikososyal müdahalelerin geliştirilmesi, uygulanması ve etkililiklerinin değerlendirilmesi ve afetlere hazırlıklı olmak için bireyleri/toplumu harekete geçirmek gibi geniş yelpazedeki faaliyetleri kaps...

Objective: Around the globe, millions of people are exposed to disasters annually. Disasters may result in a wide range of psychological consequences in adult populations, including posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTS). How-ever, little is known about the effects of the impacts of type of disaster exposure on the symptoms of PTS. This study aimed to...

This study aimed to explore factors associated with psychological resilience in a sample of 360 survivors of the two earthquakes in Van, Turkey in 2011. Using a survey with measures on various pre-, within-, and post-disaster variables, it has been shown that psychological resilience was influenced by multiple factors, providing empirical evidence...