Mehmet Eskin

Mehmet Eskin
Koc University · Department of Psychology

Ph.D., Professor

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Introduction
My research is concentrated mainly in three areas: suicide, problem-solving therapy and sexual orientation. I am deeply interested in cultural factors in mental health.
Additional affiliations
January 1992 - April 1996
Stockholm University
Position
  • PhD Assistant
Description
  • PhD and Post-doc
January 1995 - January 1996
Stockholm University
Position
  • PostDoc Position
Description
  • Postdoc research
November 1987 - January 1989
Middle East Technical University
Position
  • Research Assistant

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Publications (136)
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Background Time perspective (TP) influences how individuals perceive and classify their past, present, and future, impacting their cognition, behavior, and psychological outcomes. Deviation from the balanced time perspective (DBTP) is associated with mental health problems (e.g., depression and anxiety). Emotion regulation (ER) encompasses cognitiv...
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) is a widely used self-report measure of subjective well-being, but studies of its measurement invariance across a large number of nations remain limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset–with data collected between 2020 and 2022 –to assess measurement invariance of the SWLS across 65...
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Background The present study aims to evaluate the preliminary content and face validity of the “ Perceptions on the Implementation of the CRPD in muniCIpalities Questionnaire (PICI-Q),” a self-report questionnaire built to assess the perceptions on how effectively municipalities implement the CRPD principles concerning social inclusion and particip...
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Background The perception of respect for users' rights is fundamental for organizational well-being in mental health services. This cross-sectional observational study examined the job satisfaction and perception of user rights among nursing staff compared to other health professionals across seven countries in the Mediterranean and Latin American...
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Individuals with gender dysphoria (GD) often exhibit suicidal inclinations. In the present study, we investigated the scope of suicidal ideation and attempts and the roles of perceived social support, stress, and psychological distress in mediating social problem‐solving and suicidality in individuals with GD. Two hundred and five adults with GD (1...
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Psychological research in many subfields focuses on dyads and dyadic relationships because they influence individual cognitions, emotions, and behavior. However, the measurement of relationship characteristics has been elusive. Although direct observational methods have been hailed as the gold standard, they have some disadvantages, such as their h...
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Detachment from nature is contributing to the environmental crisis and reversing this trend requires detailed monitoring and targeted interventions to reconnect people to nature. Most tools measuring nature exposure and attachment were developed in high-income countries and little is known about their robustness across national and linguistic group...
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Emotion reactivity (ER) captures the depth, sensitivity, and endurance of our emotional reactions, while deviation from a balanced time perspective (DBTP) characterizes our inflexibility and rigidity in adhering to specific time frames. This study investigates how ER and DBTP might predict the symptoms of depression and anxiety and DBTP’s mediating...
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Background Long-term deterioration in the mental health of healthcare workers (HCWs) has been reported during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Determining the impact of COVID-19 incidence and mortality rates on the mental health of HCWs is essential to prepare for potential new pandemics. This study aimed to investigate the association of COVID-19...
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 700,000 people take their own life every year globally. WHO also estimates that for every suicide, there are at least 10–20 acts of self-harm and about a hundred people have suicidal thoughts. Every suicide affects a large number of people in the victims immediate and extended circle of fa...
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 700,000 people take their own life every year globally. WHO also estimates that for every suicide, there are at least 10–20 acts of self-harm and about a hundred people have suicidal thoughts. Every suicide affects a large number of people in the victims immediate and extended circle of fa...
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Suicide is a public health issue that impacts an average of six family members and up to 135 community members. Persons bereaved by suicide may feel guilt, stigma, shame, and rejection. In Türkiye, suicide survivors may face additional challenges due to Islamic taboos and sanctions placed on suicide. This study explores the experiences and support...
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There is a scarcity of scientific investigations on suicidal behavior in Muslim-majority countries. This is especially troubling given that most Muslim nations are low- to middle-income nations, accounting for the majority of suicide deaths worldwide. This chapter reports on suicidal thoughts and behavior in Türkiye. To this end, we first briefly a...
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Background Studies have shown that psychological factors, notably interpersonal needs and emotion regulation, play a significant role in suicidal behavior. Interpersonal needs are significant contextual components that affect emotion regulation and contribute to a wide range of dysfunctional behaviors, such as suicidal behavior. It has been postula...
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Healthcare workers (HCWs) were at increased risk for mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, with prior data suggesting women may be particularly vulnerable. Our global mental health study aimed to examine factors associated with gender differences in psychological distress and depressive symptoms among HCWs during COVID-19. Across 22...
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Background: Suicide is a phenomenon related to social norms and cultural values. Studies show that suicidal behaviors and attitudes toward suicide have varied across cultures. Both social values and moral beliefs are essential in influencing attitudes toward a particular situation or behavior. In this study, we examined the relationship between sui...
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Background: Research on suicidality in low to middle-income countries is scarce. We addressed this issue by
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The Body Appreciation Scale-2 (BAS-2) is a widely used measure of a core facet of the positive body image construct. However, extant research concerning measurement invariance of the BAS-2 across a large number of nations remains limited. Here, we utilised the Body Image in Nature (BINS) dataset – with data collected between 2020 and 2022 – to asse...
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Purpose Healthcare workers (HCWs) were at increased risk for mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, with data from previous crises suggesting women may be particularly vulnerable. The objective of the study was to examine individual and social factors that may be associated with gender differences in psychological distress and depress...
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Substance use disorders (SUDs) are chronic conditions influenced by various societal, psychological, and physiological factors that considerably impact their course, maintenance, and recovery. Drug craving, as a proximal risk factor, can precipitate relapse and perpetuate substance use. Psychological distress (PD) and difficulties in emotion regula...
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Objective To evaluate the effects of online group problem-solving therapy (PST) for reducing negative problem orientation (NPO), psychological distress, and increasing quality of life in patients with Cushing’s disease (CD).Methods In this randomized trial, we allocated 55 eligible patients to either PST (n = 28) or treatment as usual (TAU) (n = 27...
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Turkish suicide survivors may face unique difficulties due to Islamic taboos and sanctions imposed on suicidal behavior in Turkey. Despite suicide prevention recommendations for this group, to the best of our knowledge, there are currently no services, programs, or interventions for Turkish suicide survivors. In this study, we analyzed responses fr...
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Research conducted in industrialized democracies where Christianity is the prevailing religion has suggested that religiosity may play an important role in identity development and well-being. This study examined the associations between religiosity, religious orientation, identity confusion, and psychological well-being in 488 Turkish university s...
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This study focused on the well-being of the survivors of suicide attempts and the well-being of their interpersonal relationships after the attempt. The data came from a sample of 392 college students from 10 Muslim majority countries who reported having attempted suicide in the last 4 years. Suicide was conceptualized as a goal-directed behaviour...
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This study focused on the well-being of the survivors of suicide attempts and the well-being of their interpersonal relationships after the attempt. The data came from a sample of 392 college students from ten Muslim majority countries who reported having attempted suicide in the last four years. Suicide was conceptualized as a goal-directed behavi...
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Background Values associated with neoliberal ideologies are blamed for damaging the social fabric. They may also have deleterious effects on suicidal ideation. Objective We investigated whether neoliberal values were associated with the risk for suicidal ideation through a set of mediating factors (suicide stigma, help-seeking attitudes, perceived...
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The study of Time has a long history, dating back to the earliest days of psychological science in the late 1800s. However, the conceptualization of time perspective has led to a better understanding of individuals' healthy and pathological attitudes toward time dimensions. Similarly, articulated psychological inflexibility components (i.e., Experi...
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Background Preliminary country-specific reports suggest that the COVID-19 pandemic has a negative impact on the mental health of the healthcare workforce. In this paper, we summarize the protocol of the COVID-19 HEalth caRe wOrkErS (HEROES) study, an ongoing, global initiative, aimed to describe and track longitudinal trajectories of mental health...
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Belief in free will reflects the view that behaviors can be controlled via willpower. If a condition is thought to result from a lack of willpower, individuals with that condition may be subject to higher levels of stigma due to greater attribution of blame. In a study conducted online, we manipulated belief in free will experimentally by giving 20...
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Based on their cultural orientation, people display approving/disapproving attitudes to suicide/suicidal persons that may be seen as either phenomenon excluding or person excluding. We tested whether cultural value orientations and suicidal attitudes were related to beliefs in the efficacy of excluding the phenomenon versus the person for preventin...
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Background : Research on suicidality in low to middle-income countries is scarce. We addressed this issue by investigating suicidality in a cross-national college student samples from 11 predominantly low to middle-income majority Muslim countries. Methods : The sample consisted of 7,427 college students (56% female) who reported to be affiliated...
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Emotion regulation has been dichotomized into two related but distinct domains, namely cognitive and behavioral. There has been an emphasis on the development of measures that evaluate these emotion regulation domains separately. Recently the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ) was developed. The present study aimed to assess the psy...
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Experiential avoidance and cognitive fusion are two transdiagnostic constructs underpinning psychological distress. This study aimed to explore the moderating role of experiential avoidance on the association between cognitive fusion and psychological distress. The sample consisted of 297 college students who were randomly selected by cluster sampl...
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Background: Teachers in the field of psychiatry has the responsibility to impart changes in students' attitude towards important areas of the subject. Suicide is the psychiatric emergency that a primary care practitioner is most likely to encounter in day to day practice. In this cross-sectional study, we looked into the change in the attitude of a...
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Objective: The study investigated the associations of religiosity, religious coping and suicide acceptance to suicide ideation and attempts in 7427 young adults affiliating with Islam from 11 Muslim countries. Method: A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect the data. We used F and χ2 tests and correlation analyses to report descriptiv...
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Introduction Suicidal behavior is a serious public health problem worldwide and shows large intersocietal variation. This study aimed at comparatively investigating the aspects of suicidal behavior in 22 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. Methods The study was conducted with official data retrieved from several sources. The suicidal mort...
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This is the editorial of a special issue of CPEMH on mental health in the Mediterranean area ".... in contacts and relationships between communities of the shores of the Mediterranean (north-south, east-west) .... science has always played a role .... A single-deck bridge spanning the Golden Horn design was found among Leonardo da Vinci's own docu...
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The associations of individualistic versus collectivistic value orientations with suicidal ideation and attempts, attitudes towards suicide and towards suicidal individuals, and psychological distress were investigated across 12 nations (N = 5572 university students). We expected differential associations of value orientations with suicidal behavio...
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INTRODUCTION[|]Suicidal behavior is serious public health problem. Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide-IPT tells that feelings of thwarted belongingness and perceived burden someness are composed of two perceptions that make people tend to suicide. But the theory argues that will is not sufficient for occurrence of a suicidal behaviour. I...
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İntihar tüm dünyada önemli bir halk sağlığı sorunu olarak kabul edilmektedir. Bu nedenle intihar davranışının tedavisine yönelik psikoterapi yaklaşımları önem kazanmaktadır. Bilişsel davranışçı terapi (BDT) intihar davranışının tedavisinde en yaygın olarak kullanılan yaklaşımlardan biridir. Hastayı terapi hakkında bilgilendirme, terapötik ilişkinin...
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Suicide is a serious public health problem. Approximately 800.000 people die by suicide annually and even more people attempt suicide. Every suicide affects 6-24 people. Although there are many studies focused on negative psychological effects of suicide on suicide survivors. There are few studies examining the positive effects.The current study ai...
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Objective: This study was conducted longitudinally with the aim of investigating the relationship between different types of childhood trauma and DSM-IV personality disorders. Method: The research's data were collected from 120 patients who were treated in a psychiatric clinic and a polyclinic between 2010-2013 at a university in the west. Patients...
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The loss of a loved one is one of the most stressful events in life. Studies on bereavement usually focus on negative psychological consequences after loss. Research in recent years have suggested that bereaved individuals may also experience some positive changes. This process, defined as posttraumatic growth, involves positive changes such as fee...
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There is a scarcity of research on suicidal phenomena in the Muslim world. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the self-reported prevalence of suicidal thoughts, attempts and motives in 12 Muslim countries. A total of 8417 (54.4% women) university students were surveyed by means of a self-report questionnaire. Overall, 22% of the participa...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the associations between religion, suicidal behavior, attitudes and psychological distress in 5572 students from 12 countries by means of a self-report questionnaire. Our results showed that an affiliation with Islam was associated with reduced risk for suicide ideation, however affiliating with Orthodox C...
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The rates of suicidal ideation, attempts and mortality present a large intersocietal variation. This variation is usually attributed to the role of culture but the issue is still poorly understood. How does culture contribute to the intersocietal or cross-cultural variation of suicidal behavior? How culture might be involved in the onset, maintenan...
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Objective: The Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale is a semistructured, interview-based assessment tool, which is increasingly being used for clinical and research purposes across the globe, despite its limited psychometric evaluation outside of English-speaking populations. The aim of this study was to linguistically adapt the measure and inve...
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Introduction Suicide is a major public health issue internationally and the impact of positive or negative attitudes amongst the mental health professional workforce warrants scrutiny. The study aimed to examine English and Turkish nursing students’ attitudes towards people with suicidal behaviour. Method This cross‐cultural study reports on attit...
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This study addresses longitudinal, expert, all data (LEAD) validity and reliability of the personality functioning ratings in Turkey, which are essential in assessing Criterion A for the entire DSM-5 alternative model for personality disorders (AMPD) diagnoses. A total of 120 consenting patients recruited at a university psychiatry clinic were rate...
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The purpose of this study was to determine the associations between religion, suicidal behavior, attitudes and psychological distress in 5572 students from 12 countries by means of a self-report questionnaire. Our results showed that an affiliation with Islam was associated with reduced risk for suicide ideation, however affiliating with Orthodox C...
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Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of sociodemographic variables on the knowledge of, demand for, and reception of psychotherapy as a treatment modality among psychiatric outpatients. Methods: Participants of the study were 240 psychiatric outpatients (170 females and 70 males). Data for mental health se...
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This study investigated the experience with and attitudes toward suicide and suicidality in 70 consenting imams serving in mosques in the province of Aydin which is located at the southwest part of Turkey. A self-report questionnaire was used to collect the data. Attitudes of imams to suicide and suicidality were compared with attitudes of male uni...
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This paper reports the results of a comparative investigation of attitudes to suicide and suicidal persons in 5,572 university students from 12 countries. Participants filled out two scales measuring attitudes towards suicide and suicidal persons, a measure of psychological distress together with the questions about suicidal behavior. Results showe...
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This study investigated the prevalence of suicidal behavior and psychological distress in university students across 12 nations. A total of 5,572 university students from 12 countries were surveyed about suicide ideation, suicide attempts, and psychological distress by means of a self-administered questionnaire. Almost 29% of the samples reported h...
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Objective: Nonheterosexual sexual orientation is an under researched topic in Muslim countries. The present study aimed at investigating aspects of same-sex sexual orientation in the Turkish cultural context. Methods: This web-based survey investigated the correlates of same-sex sexual orientation in 517 men and women in Turkey by means of a self-r...
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ENGLISH ABSTRACT Today, sexual violence has become a public health problem in terms of its prevalence and consequences. Besides resultant socialpsychological distress in victims and their relatives, acts of sexual violence involve some medicolegal aspects. Psychological assessment and treatment and/Ortopedi muayenesinde rehabilitation of sexual vio...
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The prevalence of suicidal behavior and the nature of attitudes toward suicide differ in Austria and Turkey. To see if there were differences in disclosure, 351 Turkish and 310 Austrian students answered questions about disclosing suicidal thoughts. More Austrian than Turkish reported suicidal ideation and believed that suicidal people disclose the...
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Psoriasis is a chronic dermatosis which may cause significant impairment of the patient's quality of life. The purpose of this study was to investigate the social problem-solving skills, perceived stress, negative life events, depression and life satisfaction in psoriasis patients. Data were gathered by means of questionnaires and clinical evaluati...
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Suicidal behavior and its variation across social contexts are of importance for the science of suicidology. Due to its special character controlled experimental studies on suicide are ruled out for ethical reasons. Cross-cultural studies may throw light on the etiology of both suicidal behavior and its cross-cultural variation. The present study c...
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This study aimed at investigating the effects of individualistic-collectivistic value orientations on non-fatal suicidal behavior and attitudes in Turkish adolescents and young adults. A questionnaire containing measures of individualism, collectivism (INDCOL), non-fatal suicidal behaviors and suicidal attitudes was used to collect the data. The re...
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This study aimed at investigating social problem solving, perceived stress, depression, and life-satisfaction in patients with tension type and migraine headaches. Forty-nine migraine and 42 tension type headache patients (n = 91) consenting to participate were compared to a total of 49 matched healthy control group. Participants filled in a questi...