Rivka Tuval-Mashiach
Biographic Data
| ID | 88694 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rivka Tuval-Mashiach |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rivka |
| FAMILY NAME | Tuval-Mashiach |
| SIGNATURE | TUVAL-MASHIACH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7741-1807 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Co-parenting in the context of child psychiatric hospitalization
The hospitalization of a child in psychiatric care presents parents with a confluence of emotional, relational, and practical challenges. This qualitative study explored co-parenting experiences in this context, focusing on how parents perceive the decision to hospitalize their child and interpret hospitalization's outcomes. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 26 parents (13 dyads) and analyzed using a multilevel approach. At the indiv…
Putting the Critical Voice Aside—Religion, Politics, and Therapy As Described by Secular Therapists Working with Ultra-Orthodox Clients
Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Jews (Haredi) are a culturally distinct and tightly-knit community. Since their lifestyle, which rests on the strict interpretation of religious sources, sets them as a cultural minority within the dominant secular culture of modern Israeli society, addressing mental health within this group requires tailored approaches that consider the community's values and lifestyle, as well as the distinct social and political dynamic…
Digital Storytelling
In recent years, with the increased accessibility of online resources, digital storytelling (DST) has emerged as a valuable and expanding database for qualitative nursing and health researchers to explore patients’ experiences, professional narratives, and community voices. While the current methodological literature offers various approaches for analyzing digital storytelling with regard to its specific content, many frameworks overlook the mult…
Embodiment-based self-management for Israeli breast cancer survivors after mind-body therapy
OBJECTIVE: As advances in breast cancer treatment have bolstered survival rates, post-treatment self-management has become crucial for survivors' well-being. METHODS: content and form analysis of 12 in-depth interviews, the authors explored self-management strategies in the narratives of female breast cancer survivors who underwent mind-body therapy. RESULTS: Three coping models emerged: (1) an illness-focused story overshadowing the body, (2) a …
Choosing your Own Path”
Most individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are advised to take psychiatric medication, but about half of them do not take it as prescribed. The binary concepts of "adherence" and "non-adherence" do not seem to capture the actual patterns of medication use. The current study mapped the different patterns of medication use among people with SMI and explored the characteristics of each pattern. Sixteen participants diagnosed with an SMI that…
Narrative identity in context
Integrating the selective reconstruction of the past with an imagined future, narrative identity is a person's internalized and evolving story of the self, functioning to provide life with some degree of meaning and purpose (McAdams & McLean, 2013). While narrative identity has been found to be associated with a range of psychological and social phenomena (e.g., Adler et al., 2015; McAdams & Guo, 2015), cross-national variation in narrative ident…
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines
To improve the provision of psychotherapy, many countries have now established clinical practice guidelines for the treatment of specific disorders and mental health concerns. These guidelines have typically been based on evidence from meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials with minimal consideration of findings from qualitative research designs. This said, there has been growing interest in incorporating qualitative research in guideline de…
Good Health Practices and Well-Being among Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease requiring medical adherence. However, among adolescents, non-adherence rates may reach up to 75%. Satisfaction or frustration with psychological needs is a crucial factor in the motivation and management of health-related behaviors. This study aimed to examine the differences in good health practices and psychological and physical well-being among adolescents with and without T1D and the mediating role o…
Is replication relevant for qualitative research
The experience of divine struggle following child loss
Child loss may undermine one's faith. Whereas much is known about religion's role following loss, less is known about the experience of divine struggle-namely, struggling with complex God-related emotions/beliefs-particularly among diverse sociocultural samples. Employing a narrative approach, we interviewed 20 bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents. Analysis revealed three types of divine struggle (explicit, implicit/silenced, none) differentiated by …
Connecting Veterans and Their Community Through Narrative
Attachment to God among Bereaved Jewish Parents
While much research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's interpersonal attachment, very little research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's attachment to God (ATG). Particularly, how ATG dimensions relate to different religious denominations (RD). To explore the relationship between ATG dimensions (avoidance/anxiety) and Jewish RDs. As the attachment theory was conceptualized to understand human …
Attachment to God as a mediator of the relationship between religious affiliation and adjustment to child loss
The findings highlight the need to examine internal religion-related variables, such as ATG, while addressing religion and loss. From a clinical perspective, the findings may help therapists implement culturally sensitive practice as a part of spiritually informed psychotherapy. Enhancing therapists' familiarity with the client's internal constructs will enable a better evaluation and accommodation of therapy when working with bereaved parents. (…
Between being unique and being like everyone else
Patterns of Romantic Pathways among 23 Year Olds and their Adolescent Antecedents
Raising the curtain
Methodological flexibility in qualitative research is not only unavoidable but also an inherent part of it. Each case of qualitative research is a singular process, requiring the researcher to craft his or her own method or make changes in accordance with the circumstances. As a result, the study’s
Alumni of National Civic Service
This article describes the perspectives of alumni of National Civic Service (NCS) in Israel on its impact at the individual level. We compared 250 young women who were identified as youth at risk with 295 mainstream volunteers. Overall, the two groups show similar outcomes that are typical to this developmental stage of life. Yet youth at risk experience more difficulties. While NCS aims at increasing equality between groups, it seems that it is …
Adolescent romantic competence and parenting attitudes
The current study examined the distinctive gender-related expressions of adolescent romantic competence and patterns of maternal and paternal attitudes toward daughters' and sons' romantic involvements. Employing a qualitative approach, an in-depth interview assessing romantic competence was given to 69 Israeli adolescents (37 boys) ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, M = 16.74 ( SD = .81). In addition, parents were interviewed regarding their at…
Self-stigma, insight, and family burden among Israeli mothers of people with serious mental illness
The current cross-sectional study investigated and compared the associations between insight, self-stigma, and family burden among Jewish and Arab mothers of an adult son or daughter with serious mental illness (SMI) in Israel. A total of 162 Israeli mothers of a person with SMI participated in the study; 95 were Jewish (58.6%), and 67 were Arab (41.4%). Insight, self-stigma, and family burden scales were administered. Jewish mothers reported hig…
Achieving Work and Love Authorship in Emerging Adulthood
The present study examined the achievement of work and romantic authorship in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 men) who were followed from age 22 to 29. At the age of 29, participants were asked to talk about their current occupational and romantic statuses and the changes they underwent and to reflect on the meaning of these changes. Qualitative analyses of the interviews yielded four types of achieving work and romantic authorship: in both or ei…
Religious meaning-making at the community level
The purpose of the current study was to describe the process of religious coping in a religious community that underwent a forced relocation. Whereas previous work on meaning-making processes has looked at individuals, we sought to understand what happens to the process of religious coping when an entire community experiences a shared stressful event. Using Park’s (2005) model of religion as a meaningmaking framework, we analyzed open-ended narra…
Loneliness and isolation in life-stories of Israeli veterans of combat and captivity
Loneliness holds detrimental ramifications for health and well-being. Nevertheless, loneliness references in the literature addressing combat-related trauma are few. Consequentially, the qualities and characteristics of such experiences in these posttraumatic realities remain uninvestigated empirically. In the current qualitative study we began filling this gap in the literature. We utilized thematic content analysis of life-stories of 19 combat …
Turning points in the romantic history of emerging adults
This study examined patterns of romantic relationship turning points in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 males) who were followed from age 22 to 29. Analyses of interviews at age 29 yielded four distinctive patterns of romantic transitions that are associated with different levels of concurrent well-being: positive outcome turning points, negative outcome turning points, formal turning points, and young people who could not identify any relational…
Ethiopian Emerging Adult Immigrants in Israel
Experiences of discrimination and racism and individual coping strategies were examined among 22 emerging adult Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. In-depth interviews explored the way they perceive, understand, respond to, and cope with experiences of discrimination. Qualitative analysis identified an initial contrast between those interviewees who refuted the existence of personal and/or general experiences of racism and those who felt it acutely. …
Post-Traumatic Stress and Growth following Forced Relocation
Forced relocation has been recognised as a traumatic event, which can generate pathological and positive responses. The current study focused on the situation of Israeli residents who were forced to relocate from their homes in the Gaza Strip. Two main questions were examined: the association between post-traumatic symptoms and post-traumatic growth responses following the forced relocation; and the contribution of contextual variables to the var…
The Embedded Narrative
Narrative psychology theoreticians emphasized the importance of context to the construction, communication, and understanding of individuals' life stories. Still, the various contexts in which, and in reference to which, life stories are told, the methodological implications of the importance of context, and the possible interpretive moves explicating the different contexts have not been worked out. Thus, drawing on various theoretical formulatio…
Ethiopian Emerging Adult Immigrants in Israel
Experiences of discrimination and racism and individual coping strategies were examined among 22 emerging adult Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. In-depth interviews explored the way they perceive, understand, respond to, and cope with experiences of discrimination. Qualitative analysis identified an initial contrast between those interviewees who refuted the existence of personal and/or general experiences of racism and those who felt it acutely. …
Resolution of Disagreements Between Romantic Partners, Among Adolescents, and Young Adults
The study was designed to explore qualitatively developmental differences in disagreement negotiation and resolution skills between adolescent and young adult romantic partners. Twenty adolescent and 20 young adult couples participated in the study. The Knox inventory was used to measure the level of disagreement between partners on ten domains (e.g., friends or money). Partners were asked to discuss and resolve their greatest disagreement. Joint…
Turning points in the romantic history of emerging adults
This study examined patterns of romantic relationship turning points in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 males) who were followed from age 22 to 29. Analyses of interviews at age 29 yielded four distinctive patterns of romantic transitions that are associated with different levels of concurrent well-being: positive outcome turning points, negative outcome turning points, formal turning points, and young people who could not identify any relational…
Narrating Human Actions
In this article, the authors offer a model for the exploration of the ways social actors narrate the forces that have driven their lives. They position this exploration in light of the notions of agency, structure, communion, and serendipity, as formulated in various social-science theories of human action, viewed as part of the cultural repertoire of discourses available to narrators. The authors suggest a model for understanding the interrelati…
Alumni of National Civic Service
This article describes the perspectives of alumni of National Civic Service (NCS) in Israel on its impact at the individual level. We compared 250 young women who were identified as youth at risk with 295 mainstream volunteers. Overall, the two groups show similar outcomes that are typical to this developmental stage of life. Yet youth at risk experience more difficulties. While NCS aims at increasing equality between groups, it seems that it is …
Adolescent romantic competence and parenting attitudes
The current study examined the distinctive gender-related expressions of adolescent romantic competence and patterns of maternal and paternal attitudes toward daughters' and sons' romantic involvements. Employing a qualitative approach, an in-depth interview assessing romantic competence was given to 69 Israeli adolescents (37 boys) ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, M = 16.74 ( SD = .81). In addition, parents were interviewed regarding their at…
Narrative identity in context
Integrating the selective reconstruction of the past with an imagined future, narrative identity is a person's internalized and evolving story of the self, functioning to provide life with some degree of meaning and purpose (McAdams & McLean, 2013). While narrative identity has been found to be associated with a range of psychological and social phenomena (e.g., Adler et al., 2015; McAdams & Guo, 2015), cross-national variation in narrative ident…
Romantic Fantasies, Cross-Gender Friendships, and Romantic Experiences in Adolescence
Findings of this study, conducted on 142 adolescents (67 ninth graders and 75 eleventh graders), show that romantic experiences among adolescents are manifested in different forms: romantic fantasies, cross-gender friendships, and sustained interactions with a romantic partner. These three forms of experience are manifested differently across age and gender. Romantic fantasies, although not accompanied by any actual interaction, are emotionally i…
Choosing your Own Path”
Most individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) are advised to take psychiatric medication, but about half of them do not take it as prescribed. The binary concepts of "adherence" and "non-adherence" do not seem to capture the actual patterns of medication use. The current study mapped the different patterns of medication use among people with SMI and explored the characteristics of each pattern. Sixteen participants diagnosed with an SMI that…
The experience of divine struggle following child loss
Child loss may undermine one's faith. Whereas much is known about religion's role following loss, less is known about the experience of divine struggle-namely, struggling with complex God-related emotions/beliefs-particularly among diverse sociocultural samples. Employing a narrative approach, we interviewed 20 bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents. Analysis revealed three types of divine struggle (explicit, implicit/silenced, none) differentiated by …
Connecting Veterans and Their Community Through Narrative
Attachment to God among Bereaved Jewish Parents
While much research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's interpersonal attachment, very little research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's attachment to God (ATG). Particularly, how ATG dimensions relate to different religious denominations (RD). To explore the relationship between ATG dimensions (avoidance/anxiety) and Jewish RDs. As the attachment theory was conceptualized to understand human …
Patterns of Romantic Pathways among 23 Year Olds and their Adolescent Antecedents
Post-Traumatic Stress and Growth following Forced Relocation
Forced relocation has been recognised as a traumatic event, which can generate pathological and positive responses. The current study focused on the situation of Israeli residents who were forced to relocate from their homes in the Gaza Strip. Two main questions were examined: the association between post-traumatic symptoms and post-traumatic growth responses following the forced relocation; and the contribution of contextual variables to the var…
Narrative Research
A concise volume aimed at researchers and academics in sociology, anthropology, psychology and interpersonal communication
"Where Is the Story Going?" Narrative Forms and Identity Construction in the Life Stories of Israeli Men and Women.
Resolution of Disagreements Between Romantic Partners, Among Adolescents, and Young Adults
The study was designed to explore qualitatively developmental differences in disagreement negotiation and resolution skills between adolescent and young adult romantic partners. Twenty adolescent and 20 young adult couples participated in the study. The Knox inventory was used to measure the level of disagreement between partners on ten domains (e.g., friends or money). Partners were asked to discuss and resolve their greatest disagreement. Joint…
Romantic Fantasies, Cross-Gender Friendships, and Romantic Experiences in Adolescence
Findings of this study, conducted on 142 adolescents (67 ninth graders and 75 eleventh graders), show that romantic experiences among adolescents are manifested in different forms: romantic fantasies, cross-gender friendships, and sustained interactions with a romantic partner. These three forms of experience are manifested differently across age and gender. Romantic fantasies, although not accompanied by any actual interaction, are emotionally i…
Narrating Human Actions
In this article, the authors offer a model for the exploration of the ways social actors narrate the forces that have driven their lives. They position this exploration in light of the notions of agency, structure, communion, and serendipity, as formulated in various social-science theories of human action, viewed as part of the cultural repertoire of discourses available to narrators. The authors suggest a model for understanding the interrelati…
The Embedded Narrative
Narrative psychology theoreticians emphasized the importance of context to the construction, communication, and understanding of individuals' life stories. Still, the various contexts in which, and in reference to which, life stories are told, the methodological implications of the importance of context, and the possible interpretive moves explicating the different contexts have not been worked out. Thus, drawing on various theoretical formulatio…
Multiple losses of social resources following collective trauma
Collective trauma may lead to a pervasive loss of personal and social resources. The current study used a mixed method design to explore losses of social connections and affiliations following the collective trauma of forced relocation. A sample of 269 relocated residents from Gush Katif completed open-ended questionnaires regarding their ability to cope following the relocation, as well as questionnaires regarding their sense of belonging to the…
Post-Traumatic Stress and Growth following Forced Relocation
Forced relocation has been recognised as a traumatic event, which can generate pathological and positive responses. The current study focused on the situation of Israeli residents who were forced to relocate from their homes in the Gaza Strip. Two main questions were examined: the association between post-traumatic symptoms and post-traumatic growth responses following the forced relocation; and the contribution of contextual variables to the var…
Ethiopian Emerging Adult Immigrants in Israel
Experiences of discrimination and racism and individual coping strategies were examined among 22 emerging adult Ethiopian immigrants in Israel. In-depth interviews explored the way they perceive, understand, respond to, and cope with experiences of discrimination. Qualitative analysis identified an initial contrast between those interviewees who refuted the existence of personal and/or general experiences of racism and those who felt it acutely. …
Religious meaning-making at the community level
The purpose of the current study was to describe the process of religious coping in a religious community that underwent a forced relocation. Whereas previous work on meaning-making processes has looked at individuals, we sought to understand what happens to the process of religious coping when an entire community experiences a shared stressful event. Using Park’s (2005) model of religion as a meaningmaking framework, we analyzed open-ended narra…
Loneliness and isolation in life-stories of Israeli veterans of combat and captivity
Loneliness holds detrimental ramifications for health and well-being. Nevertheless, loneliness references in the literature addressing combat-related trauma are few. Consequentially, the qualities and characteristics of such experiences in these posttraumatic realities remain uninvestigated empirically. In the current qualitative study we began filling this gap in the literature. We utilized thematic content analysis of life-stories of 19 combat …
Turning points in the romantic history of emerging adults
This study examined patterns of romantic relationship turning points in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 males) who were followed from age 22 to 29. Analyses of interviews at age 29 yielded four distinctive patterns of romantic transitions that are associated with different levels of concurrent well-being: positive outcome turning points, negative outcome turning points, formal turning points, and young people who could not identify any relational…
Achieving Work and Love Authorship in Emerging Adulthood
The present study examined the achievement of work and romantic authorship in 100 Israeli emerging adults (54 men) who were followed from age 22 to 29. At the age of 29, participants were asked to talk about their current occupational and romantic statuses and the changes they underwent and to reflect on the meaning of these changes. Qualitative analyses of the interviews yielded four types of achieving work and romantic authorship: in both or ei…
Raising the curtain
Methodological flexibility in qualitative research is not only unavoidable but also an inherent part of it. Each case of qualitative research is a singular process, requiring the researcher to craft his or her own method or make changes in accordance with the circumstances. As a result, the study’s
Alumni of National Civic Service
This article describes the perspectives of alumni of National Civic Service (NCS) in Israel on its impact at the individual level. We compared 250 young women who were identified as youth at risk with 295 mainstream volunteers. Overall, the two groups show similar outcomes that are typical to this developmental stage of life. Yet youth at risk experience more difficulties. While NCS aims at increasing equality between groups, it seems that it is …
Adolescent romantic competence and parenting attitudes
The current study examined the distinctive gender-related expressions of adolescent romantic competence and patterns of maternal and paternal attitudes toward daughters' and sons' romantic involvements. Employing a qualitative approach, an in-depth interview assessing romantic competence was given to 69 Israeli adolescents (37 boys) ranging in age from 15 to 18 years, M = 16.74 ( SD = .81). In addition, parents were interviewed regarding their at…
Self-stigma, insight, and family burden among Israeli mothers of people with serious mental illness
The current cross-sectional study investigated and compared the associations between insight, self-stigma, and family burden among Jewish and Arab mothers of an adult son or daughter with serious mental illness (SMI) in Israel. A total of 162 Israeli mothers of a person with SMI participated in the study; 95 were Jewish (58.6%), and 67 were Arab (41.4%). Insight, self-stigma, and family burden scales were administered. Jewish mothers reported hig…
Attachment to God as a mediator of the relationship between religious affiliation and adjustment to child loss
The findings highlight the need to examine internal religion-related variables, such as ATG, while addressing religion and loss. From a clinical perspective, the findings may help therapists implement culturally sensitive practice as a part of spiritually informed psychotherapy. Enhancing therapists' familiarity with the client's internal constructs will enable a better evaluation and accommodation of therapy when working with bereaved parents. (…
Between being unique and being like everyone else
Patterns of Romantic Pathways among 23 Year Olds and their Adolescent Antecedents
The experience of divine struggle following child loss
Child loss may undermine one's faith. Whereas much is known about religion's role following loss, less is known about the experience of divine struggle-namely, struggling with complex God-related emotions/beliefs-particularly among diverse sociocultural samples. Employing a narrative approach, we interviewed 20 bereaved Modern-Orthodox parents. Analysis revealed three types of divine struggle (explicit, implicit/silenced, none) differentiated by …
Connecting Veterans and Their Community Through Narrative
Attachment to God among Bereaved Jewish Parents
While much research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's interpersonal attachment, very little research has been devoted to examining individual differences in one's attachment to God (ATG). Particularly, how ATG dimensions relate to different religious denominations (RD). To explore the relationship between ATG dimensions (avoidance/anxiety) and Jewish RDs. As the attachment theory was conceptualized to understand human …
Is replication relevant for qualitative research
Good Health Practices and Well-Being among Adolescents with Type-1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic disease requiring medical adherence. However, among adolescents, non-adherence rates may reach up to 75%. Satisfaction or frustration with psychological needs is a crucial factor in the motivation and management of health-related behaviors. This study aimed to examine the differences in good health practices and psychological and physical well-being among adolescents with and without T1D and the mediating role o…
Psychology (28 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Developmental psychology (10 works) · Qualitative research (10 works) · Narrative (8 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Psychotherapist (7 works)