Shahar Shapira
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88912 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Shahar Shapira |
| NOMBRES | Shahar |
| APELLIDO | Shapira |
| FIRMA | SHAPIRA S |
| AFILIACIONES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6258-4935 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 24 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Parents' WhatsApp coping resources in the context of ongoing political conflicts
Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment. In this study, we examined how parents cope with prolonged political violence online, based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory…
Mental distress and depression among Israeli young adults in the aftermath of October 7th
The October 7, 2023, attack and the subsequent war in Israel constitute a collective trauma that has profoundly impacted young adults, a population vulnerable to mental health challenges. This study examined the impact of war-related risk factors on mental distress and depression among young adults exposed to prolonged threats. We further explored the role of resilience factors (personal resilience, social support, and community resilience) and c…
Direct and indirect pathways of climate-related impacts on vulnerable populations
Climate change exacerbates health and economic inequities, disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations. This study empirically validates and expands the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) risk framework—hazard, exposure, and vulnerability—by incorporating personal and collective dimensions such as risk appraisal, everyday adaptation, and community resilience. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and data from a national …
Cumulative Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress
This study explored how exposure to sexual and conflict-related violence relates to the severity of post-traumatic symptoms and how personal and community resilience factors and coping strategies mediate that relationship. Self-report questionnaires were completed by 568 Israeli women, who were classified into four exposure groups: (a) high sexual violence, (b) high conflict-related violence, (c) dual high exposure, and (d) low exposure. Signific…
Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations
Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 6…
Parent‐adolescent coping with prolonged geopolitical conflict
Adolescents who were raised in conflict‐ridden areas may face unique challenges that may also impact their transition to adulthood. We explored coping processes, distress symptoms, and resilience resources of late adolescents and their parents residing in Israeli communities bordering Gaza and exposed to ongoing conflict‐related violence. We conducted in‐depth interviews with late adolescents and one of their parents ( n = 8 dyads, 16 individual …
Energy poverty and ethnic disparities among Jewish and Muslim households in Israel
Reasoning about crowd evacuations as emergent phenomena when using participatory computational models
How do students apply systems thinking to make sense of a computational model of crowd evacuation? We developed a participatory simulation in which users play the role of evacuees that move through a narrow passageway. This simulation demonstrates that when exceeding a certain speed, moving through narrow bottlenecks, is more likely to create clogs, leading to a slower passing rate. The participatory simulation was introduced in a lesson about sc…
Parents’ Digital Coping Resources With Ongoing Political Conflicts
Mobile technologies such as the instant messaging application WhatsApp have become significant resources for information and social support in times of crisis, as well as for crisis communication. In times of crisis, these applications afford the exchange of real-time information and can influence users' coping behaviors. Conversely, they have also been reported to constitute a potential source of misinformation and increased exposure to emotiona…
Matching Digital Intervention Affordances with Tasks
During the first COVID-19 wave, we conducted a Zoom and WhatsApp digital group intervention that promoted community-dwelling seniors' mental health. A total of 82 community-dwelling adults participated in this intervention. Based on the media richness theory (MRT) and the affordances approach, we used netnography to explore how group moderators and technical support team members (n = 9), but not the seniors themselves, perceived the ways Zoom and…
No heat, no eat
Integrating drones in response to public health emergencies
The aim of the study was to propose and test an integrated model combining the technology acceptance model (TAM), task-technology fit (TTF), social motivation, and drone-related perceived risks to explore the intention to use drones in public health emergencies (PHEs). We conducted a survey among the Israeli population, yielding a sample of 568 participants. Structural equation modeling was implemented to test the research hypotheses. The results…
Trajectories of community resilience over a multi-crisis period
Community resilience is posited as a cornerstone in communities’ ability to cope with crises; however, the majority of studies that measured community resilience do not account for the dynamics over time and in the face of different adversities. A repeated cross-sectional design was used, analyzing a succession of surveys spanning a period of six years, to characterize changes in community resilience over a multi-crisis period among small communi…
Long-Term Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure
Healthcare services should prepare for increased hospitalization rates during the two years following wildfires for populations with underlying morbidity and those of low socio-economic status. Implementing preventive-medicine approaches may increase the resiliency of communities in the face of extreme climate-related events and prevent future health burdens. Additional research should focus on the specific mechanisms underpinning the long-term e…
Evaluation of a Short-Term Digital Group Intervention to Relieve Mental Distress and Promote Well-Being Among Community-Dwelling Older Individuals During the Covid-19 Outbreak
Older individuals are at an increased risk of experiencing adverse social and health consequences due to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to manage it, such as social distancing. To promote community-dwelling older individuals' well-being during this time, the aims of the current project are to develop effective strategies in order (a) to increase older individuals' digital literacy, and (b) to help them acquire behavioral and co…
Matching Digital Intervention Affordances With Tasks
During the first COVID-19 wave, we conducted a Zoom and WhatsApp digital group intervention that promoted community-dwelling older individuals’ mental health. Based on the media richness theory (MRT) and affordances approach, in this study we used netnography to explore how Zoom and WhatsApp technological affordances/constraints matched intervention tasks and increased intervention performance. We identified four Zoom and WhatsApp affordances: te…
Teaching and Practicing Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness Skills in a Web-Based Platform among Older Adults through the Covid-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an acceleration in the development of web-based interventions to alleviate related mental health impacts. The current study explored the effects of a short-term digital group intervention aimed at providing cognitive behavioral and mindfulness tools and skills to reduce loneliness and depression and to increase social support among older adults in Israel. This pilot randomized controlled trial incl…
Energy insecurity and community resilience
The Role of Culture/Ethnicity in Communicating with Cancer Patients About Mental Health Distress and Suicidality
Confidence in Health-Services Availability during Disasters and Emergency Situations—Does it Matter?—Lessons Learned from an Israeli Population Survey
The association between health and community resilience is well established in the literature. However, maintaining continuity of healthcare services during emergencies, and their contribution in the context of community resiliency have not been sufficiently studied. This study aims to explore the relationship between the public's confidence in the availability of healthcare services during and following emergencies, and community resilience. A c…
Giving a voice to medically vulnerable populations
Older adults in poor health represent a growing sector of the population worldwide. These medically vulnerable individuals often tend to be ill-prepared for emergencies. In times of crisis they are at higher risk of experiencing adverse health outcomes and are liable to place an additional burden on health and social care services. The aim of this study was to explore the unique perceptions and diverse needs of community-dwelling medically vulner…
Negotiating psychiatric cisgenderism-ableism in the transgender- autism nexus
Most of the literature on autism and gender is rooted in a medical deficiency model. This study aimed to critically examine the discursive position of mainstream clinicians-researchers and to explore how their position affects, and may be affected by, autistic transgender individuals. We analyzed nine psychiatric case studies depicting autistic transgender individuals, and five texts written by transgender Aspie (i.e. having Asperger’s syndrome) …
Please do not act violently towards the staff
Expressions of anger within the healthcare context are a common occurrence, particularly in clinical situations where patients can experience emotional distress in the face of illness. The purpose of this study was to examine one aspect of this phenomenon by looking at expressions and causes of anger among Israeli cancer patients and their families from the perspective of oncologists who treat them. Twenty-two Israeli oncologists were interviewed…
Oncologists’ Treatment Responses to Mental Health Distress in Their Cancer Patients
The objectives of this study were to identify how oncologists respond to mental health distress in their patients, what specific strategies they use in treating this distress, and what barriers they report responding to their patients’ emotional distress. Twenty-three oncologists at two cancer centers were interviewed. The grounded theory method of data collection and analysis was used. Oncologists varied in their response to patients’ emotional …
Negotiating psychiatric cisgenderism-ableism in the transgender- autism nexus
Most of the literature on autism and gender is rooted in a medical deficiency model. This study aimed to critically examine the discursive position of mainstream clinicians-researchers and to explore how their position affects, and may be affected by, autistic transgender individuals. We analyzed nine psychiatric case studies depicting autistic transgender individuals, and five texts written by transgender Aspie (i.e. having Asperger’s syndrome) …
Energy insecurity and community resilience
No heat, no eat
Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations
Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 6…
Energy poverty and ethnic disparities among Jewish and Muslim households in Israel
Oncologists’ Treatment Responses to Mental Health Distress in Their Cancer Patients
The objectives of this study were to identify how oncologists respond to mental health distress in their patients, what specific strategies they use in treating this distress, and what barriers they report responding to their patients’ emotional distress. Twenty-three oncologists at two cancer centers were interviewed. The grounded theory method of data collection and analysis was used. Oncologists varied in their response to patients’ emotional …
Confidence in Health-Services Availability during Disasters and Emergency Situations—Does it Matter?—Lessons Learned from an Israeli Population Survey
The association between health and community resilience is well established in the literature. However, maintaining continuity of healthcare services during emergencies, and their contribution in the context of community resiliency have not been sufficiently studied. This study aims to explore the relationship between the public's confidence in the availability of healthcare services during and following emergencies, and community resilience. A c…
Giving a voice to medically vulnerable populations
Older adults in poor health represent a growing sector of the population worldwide. These medically vulnerable individuals often tend to be ill-prepared for emergencies. In times of crisis they are at higher risk of experiencing adverse health outcomes and are liable to place an additional burden on health and social care services. The aim of this study was to explore the unique perceptions and diverse needs of community-dwelling medically vulner…
Negotiating psychiatric cisgenderism-ableism in the transgender- autism nexus
Most of the literature on autism and gender is rooted in a medical deficiency model. This study aimed to critically examine the discursive position of mainstream clinicians-researchers and to explore how their position affects, and may be affected by, autistic transgender individuals. We analyzed nine psychiatric case studies depicting autistic transgender individuals, and five texts written by transgender Aspie (i.e. having Asperger’s syndrome) …
Please do not act violently towards the staff
Expressions of anger within the healthcare context are a common occurrence, particularly in clinical situations where patients can experience emotional distress in the face of illness. The purpose of this study was to examine one aspect of this phenomenon by looking at expressions and causes of anger among Israeli cancer patients and their families from the perspective of oncologists who treat them. Twenty-two Israeli oncologists were interviewed…
The Role of Culture/Ethnicity in Communicating with Cancer Patients About Mental Health Distress and Suicidality
Evaluation of a Short-Term Digital Group Intervention to Relieve Mental Distress and Promote Well-Being Among Community-Dwelling Older Individuals During the Covid-19 Outbreak
Older individuals are at an increased risk of experiencing adverse social and health consequences due to both the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to manage it, such as social distancing. To promote community-dwelling older individuals' well-being during this time, the aims of the current project are to develop effective strategies in order (a) to increase older individuals' digital literacy, and (b) to help them acquire behavioral and co…
Matching Digital Intervention Affordances With Tasks
During the first COVID-19 wave, we conducted a Zoom and WhatsApp digital group intervention that promoted community-dwelling older individuals’ mental health. Based on the media richness theory (MRT) and affordances approach, in this study we used netnography to explore how Zoom and WhatsApp technological affordances/constraints matched intervention tasks and increased intervention performance. We identified four Zoom and WhatsApp affordances: te…
Teaching and Practicing Cognitive-Behavioral and Mindfulness Skills in a Web-Based Platform among Older Adults through the Covid-19 Pandemic
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to an acceleration in the development of web-based interventions to alleviate related mental health impacts. The current study explored the effects of a short-term digital group intervention aimed at providing cognitive behavioral and mindfulness tools and skills to reduce loneliness and depression and to increase social support among older adults in Israel. This pilot randomized controlled trial incl…
Energy insecurity and community resilience
Integrating drones in response to public health emergencies
The aim of the study was to propose and test an integrated model combining the technology acceptance model (TAM), task-technology fit (TTF), social motivation, and drone-related perceived risks to explore the intention to use drones in public health emergencies (PHEs). We conducted a survey among the Israeli population, yielding a sample of 568 participants. Structural equation modeling was implemented to test the research hypotheses. The results…
Trajectories of community resilience over a multi-crisis period
Community resilience is posited as a cornerstone in communities’ ability to cope with crises; however, the majority of studies that measured community resilience do not account for the dynamics over time and in the face of different adversities. A repeated cross-sectional design was used, analyzing a succession of surveys spanning a period of six years, to characterize changes in community resilience over a multi-crisis period among small communi…
Long-Term Health Impacts of Wildfire Exposure
Healthcare services should prepare for increased hospitalization rates during the two years following wildfires for populations with underlying morbidity and those of low socio-economic status. Implementing preventive-medicine approaches may increase the resiliency of communities in the face of extreme climate-related events and prevent future health burdens. Additional research should focus on the specific mechanisms underpinning the long-term e…
Reasoning about crowd evacuations as emergent phenomena when using participatory computational models
How do students apply systems thinking to make sense of a computational model of crowd evacuation? We developed a participatory simulation in which users play the role of evacuees that move through a narrow passageway. This simulation demonstrates that when exceeding a certain speed, moving through narrow bottlenecks, is more likely to create clogs, leading to a slower passing rate. The participatory simulation was introduced in a lesson about sc…
Parents’ Digital Coping Resources With Ongoing Political Conflicts
Mobile technologies such as the instant messaging application WhatsApp have become significant resources for information and social support in times of crisis, as well as for crisis communication. In times of crisis, these applications afford the exchange of real-time information and can influence users' coping behaviors. Conversely, they have also been reported to constitute a potential source of misinformation and increased exposure to emotiona…
Matching Digital Intervention Affordances with Tasks
During the first COVID-19 wave, we conducted a Zoom and WhatsApp digital group intervention that promoted community-dwelling seniors' mental health. A total of 82 community-dwelling adults participated in this intervention. Based on the media richness theory (MRT) and the affordances approach, we used netnography to explore how group moderators and technical support team members (n = 9), but not the seniors themselves, perceived the ways Zoom and…
No heat, no eat
Parent‐adolescent coping with prolonged geopolitical conflict
Adolescents who were raised in conflict‐ridden areas may face unique challenges that may also impact their transition to adulthood. We explored coping processes, distress symptoms, and resilience resources of late adolescents and their parents residing in Israeli communities bordering Gaza and exposed to ongoing conflict‐related violence. We conducted in‐depth interviews with late adolescents and one of their parents ( n = 8 dyads, 16 individual …
Energy poverty and ethnic disparities among Jewish and Muslim households in Israel
Direct and indirect pathways of climate-related impacts on vulnerable populations
Climate change exacerbates health and economic inequities, disproportionately impacting vulnerable populations. This study empirically validates and expands the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) risk framework—hazard, exposure, and vulnerability—by incorporating personal and collective dimensions such as risk appraisal, everyday adaptation, and community resilience. Using structural equation modeling (SEM) and data from a national …
Cumulative Violence and Post-Traumatic Stress
This study explored how exposure to sexual and conflict-related violence relates to the severity of post-traumatic symptoms and how personal and community resilience factors and coping strategies mediate that relationship. Self-report questionnaires were completed by 568 Israeli women, who were classified into four exposure groups: (a) high sexual violence, (b) high conflict-related violence, (c) dual high exposure, and (d) low exposure. Signific…
Exploring the climate change, infrastructure, health nexus and everyday adaptation among vulnerable populations
Despite the strong relationship between climate change, infrastructure, and health outcomes, the impacts of climate change on infrastructure and on health are commonly studied separately. The current study addresses this gap by examining the pathways through which critical infrastructures impact climate-related health risks among vulnerable individuals and the everyday adaptation practices they adopt in response. Data from ten focus groups (n = 6…
Parents' WhatsApp coping resources in the context of ongoing political conflicts
Mobile technologies have become significant resources for crisis communication and social support in recent years. However, despite empirical evidence pointing to the centrality of these technologies for parenthood in everyday life, it is yet unknown how parents' coping resources play a role in the digital environment. In this study, we examined how parents cope with prolonged political violence online, based on Bronfenbrenner's ecological theory…
Mental distress and depression among Israeli young adults in the aftermath of October 7th
The October 7, 2023, attack and the subsequent war in Israel constitute a collective trauma that has profoundly impacted young adults, a population vulnerable to mental health challenges. This study examined the impact of war-related risk factors on mental distress and depression among young adults exposed to prolonged threats. We further explored the role of resilience factors (personal resilience, social support, and community resilience) and c…
Psychology (18 obras) · Medicine (13 obras) · Social Psychology (10 obras) · Clinical Psychology (8 obras) · Mental health (8 obras) · Psychiatry (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Distress (6 obras) · Environmental health (6 obras) · Psychological resilience (6 obras)