Shaul Kimhi
Biographic Data
| ID | 115886 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaul Kimhi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaul |
| FAMILY NAME | Kimhi |
| SIGNATURE | KIMHI S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Hai Academic College |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2347-5941 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 48 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 178 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 48 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Social polarization and distress responses to the october 2023 Hamas invasion of Israel
The experience of war is associated with heightened distress symptoms that differentiate the members of various social groups from each other. The Israeli society is characterized by extreme social polarizations. Social polarization divides the population into opposing groups, with opposed beliefs and identities that undermine the pursuit of common goals. It can lead to extreme hostility, conflict, and even violence. Polarization signifies a sign…
Prediction of societal resilience components in a protracted war
Mapping societal resilience across eight European nations in the context of multifaceted associations with global indices: An ecological study
From compassion to controversy: Unraveling the impact of societal resilience on the tapestry of attitudes towards Ukrainian refugees
Global conflicts and geopolitical tensions are causing mass displacement, making refugee integration a pressing issue. The aftermath of Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine has resulted in over 5 million internally displaced Ukrainians and more than 8 million refugees settling across Europe. The success of their integration relies on the hospitality and attitudes of citizens of host nations. This study investigates factors influencing attitudes towa…
Prediction of individual, community and societal resilience in the Czech Republic compared to Slovakia during the war in Ukraine
The present study examines, as research questions, which and to what extent psychological and demographic variables significantly predict individual, community, and societal resilience among a sample of Czech Republic adults (N = 1,100) six months after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The research tools included the following scales: Societal, community, and individual resilience; hope, well-being; morale; distress symptoms; a sense of danger; a…
Measuring national resilience: Israel in the first week of the Gaza war
National resilience rise following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel as an indicator of collective post-traumatic growth
Impact of the war in Ukraine on resilience, protective, and vulnerability factors
War or armed conflict is one of the most severe human-made adversities. The current study examines the resilience, protective, and vulnerability factors of a sample of Ukrainian civilians, during the current Russian-Ukrainian war. The level of resilience and coping indicators were compared with the responses of an Israeli sample following an armed conflict in May 2021. The data were collected by an internet panel company. A representative sample …
Prediction of societal and community resilience among Ukrainian and Polish populations during the Russian war against Ukraine
Perceived partial social integration, levels of distress and resilience, and Covid-19 vaccine rejection of Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel
Introduction: The present study examines the role of perceived partial social integration (PPSI) in determining the rejection of the COVID-19 vaccine of Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel. Methods: The research hypotheses are examined using a relatively large sample of the Israeli public, including 208 Arab and 600 Jewish adults, who have responded to an anonymous questionnaire pertaining, among other issues, to partial social integration and the…
Belonging to Socially Excluded Groups as a Predictor of Vaccine Hesitancy and Rejection
The scientific call for vaccination against the COVID-19 pandemic has met hesitancy, postponement, and direct opposition of parts of the public in several countries. Mistrusting the COVID-19 vaccine, distrusting the authorities, and unrealistic optimism, are three major reasons employed in justifying vaccine hesitancy. The present study examines two major issues. First, it strives to identify individuals that are unwilling to adhere to the vaccin…
Partial Social Integration as a Predictor of Covid-19 Vaccine Rejection and Distress Indicators
Partial social integration refers to the perceived exclusion of individuals or groups, from full participation in their society. The current study claims that perceived partial social integration (PPSI) constitutes a substantial predictor of the rejection of the COVID-19 vaccine, a significant mediator of the impact of demographic variables (such as age and level of income) on this vaccine rejection, and an important predictor of indices of psych…
Impact of societal resilience on vaccine hesitancy and uptake: Lessons learned from the Israeli experience
Hope and Fear of Threats as Predictors of Coping with Two Major Adversities, the Covid-19 Pandemic and an Armed Conflict
Coping with adversities has been explained by two major theories: the fear appeal theory and the hope theory. The predictability of hope with that of fear of threats as variables explaining coping with two major adversities, the COVID-19 pandemic and an armed conflict, was compared. Participants were approached via an internet panel company in two different times: (1) January 2021 ( N = 699; age range: 18-82; 330 women), during the third wave of …
Do we cope similarly with different adversities? Covid-19 versus armed conflict
The results indicate that respondents tend to react in a similar pattern of associations among resilience, distress, and well-being across different adversities, such as COVID and armed conflict. However, individuals tend to regard unfamiliar, less predictable adversities as more complex to cope with, compared to better-known crises. Furthermore, respondents tend to underestimate the risks of potential familiar adversities. Healthcare professiona…
Fluctuations in National Resilience during the Covid-19 Pandemic
The current study measured national resilience (NR) in three different time frames during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Israel ( N = 804). We investigated two main issues: first, the direction and extent of NR changes during the crisis, and second, the predictors of NR. The results show the following: (a) the average NR score declined significantly across the three repeated measures, with a medium-size effect. (b) Three of t…
Morale and Perceived Threats as Predictors of Psychological Coping with Distress in Pandemic and Armed Conflict Times
The present study investigated predictors of psychological coping with adversity responses during the COVID-19 pandemic and an armed conflict. Two paired samples that represented the Israeli population that was exposed to both adversities were compared. Respondents rated five different psychological coping responses associated with the two adversities, such as anxiety or individual resilience. Perceived security, pandemic, economic, and political…
Bouncing back from Covid ‐19: Individual and ecological factors influence national resilience in adults from Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil
One way that countries may differ in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic is how they withstand extreme adversity while maintaining their societal values and institutions. This study explored national resilience in Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Crisis in Context Theory, cross-national understanding of national resilience was examined by assessing measurement models, exploring country differences in percept…
Distress and Resilience in Days of Covid-19: International Study of Samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines
We compared three types of resilience (individual, community, and national resilience), two indicators of distress (sense of danger and distress symptoms) and wellbeing, among samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines, during the “first-wave” of COVID-19 pandemic. Though significant differences were found among the samples regarding all variables, similarities were also emerged. Individual resilience and wellbeing negatively predicted dist…
Community and national resilience and their predictors in face of terror
Recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic: Distress and resilience
Distress and Resilience in the Days of Covid-19: Comparing Two Ethnicities
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing epidemic of coronavirus disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has spread recently worldwide. Efforts to prevent the virus from spreading include travel restrictions, lockdowns as well as national or regional quarantines throughout the international community. The major negative psychological outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the anxiety caused by it. The aim of the present study was to e…
A Renewed Outbreak of the Covid−19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Study of Distress, Resilience, and Subjective Well-Being
Considering the potential impact of COVID-19 on the civil society, a longitudinal study was conducted to identify levels of distress, resilience, and the subjective well-being of the population. The study is based on two repeated measurements conducted at the end of the pandemic's "first wave" and the beginning of the "second wave" on a sample ( n = 906) of Jewish Israeli respondents, who completed an online questionnaire distributed by an Intern…
Predictors of National and Community Resilience of Israeli Border Inhabitants Threatened by War and Terror
Coping with Moral Threat: Moral Judgment amid War on Terror
Moral dilemmas amid war on terrorism include repeated harsh moral choices, which often pose threats to one’s moral image. Given that people strive to view themselves as moral, how do they cope with such morally compromising decisions? We suggest and test two strategies to cope with morally threatening decision-making under in-group moral responsibility amid war on terrorism: (a) trivialization of the moral dilemma and (b) resentment toward the ta…
Community resilience and the impact of stress: Adult response to Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon
Against the background of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, we investigated the relationship between perceived community resilience and the effect of stress and life satisfaction. The research sample included 741 adults, aged 18–85. The participants were divided into four groups, three of which live close to the Israel–Lebanon border and were directly exposed to the threat created by war and terror. The fourth group was considered as a control…
Levels of resilience: Associations among individual, community, and national resilience
This article focuses on limited knowledge regarding the associations among three levels of resilience and the importance of these associations: individual, community, and national. The few studies that have examined these associations indicated the following: (a) There are significant positive low correlations among individual, community, and national resilience. (b) Some demographic variables significantly predict all three of them. (c) There is…
Resilience and demographic characteristics predicting distress during the Covid-19 crisis
Postwar Winners and Losers in the Long Run: Determinants of War Related Stress Symptoms and Posttraumatic Growth
Teenagers Response to Threat of War and Terror: Gender and the Role of Social Systems
Military Service and Self-Perceived Maturation Among Israeli Youth
Social systems and personal reactions to threats of war and terror
This study examines the impact of social systems (i.e., marital quality, significant others' stress and community resilience) on individual reactions to the threat of war and terror resulting from Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000. Quantitative results (N = 992) revealed that proximity to the threat of war influenced marital quality, community resilience, life satisfaction, and stress among significant others. Three social system varia…
Coping with Moral Threat: Moral Judgment amid War on Terror
Moral dilemmas amid war on terrorism include repeated harsh moral choices, which often pose threats to one’s moral image. Given that people strive to view themselves as moral, how do they cope with such morally compromising decisions? We suggest and test two strategies to cope with morally threatening decision-making under in-group moral responsibility amid war on terrorism: (a) trivialization of the moral dilemma and (b) resentment toward the ta…
Who Are the Palestinian Suicide Bombers
The current study uses the content analysis method while focusing on identification of repeated patterns of behavior by suicide terrorists and the society within which they grow and develop. The present study presents a typology—a classification into categories, each represented by a prototype, of suicide terrorists in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It also identifies prerequisite factors (as without these factors, there is little opportunity …
Measuring national resilience: A new short version of the scale (NR‐13)
This article is aimed at describing and validating a new short version of the National Resilience Scale (NR‐13). The available 25‐item National Resilience Scale has been employed and validated by several studies. However, the present data show that it can be substantially shortened without losing either its reliability or its validity. The new short version of the scale has been examined by the responses of an Israeli sample of adults ( N = 1022)…
Community Resilience of Civilians at War: A New Perspective
Getting a Life: Gender Differences in Postwar Recovery
A New Perspective on National Resilience: Components and Demographic Predictors
A new definition of national resilience (NR) is developed, based on strength to vulnerability ratio (perceived NR divided by sense of danger). Four resilience‐promoting variables predict components of this NR: gender, religiosity, political attitudes, and level of exposure to war. The study was conducted 4 months after the 2014 Israel‐Gaza war. The sample comprised a total of 510 Jewish Israeli civilians (age range 18–85 years): 251 live in south…
Predictors of National and Community Resilience of Israeli Border Inhabitants Threatened by War and Terror
National Resilience: A New Self-Report Assessment Scale
Moral justification and feelings of adjustment to military law-enforcement situation: The case of Israeli soldiers serving at army roadblocks
Bouncing back from Covid ‐19: Individual and ecological factors influence national resilience in adults from Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil
One way that countries may differ in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic is how they withstand extreme adversity while maintaining their societal values and institutions. This study explored national resilience in Israel, the Philippines, and Brazil during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using Crisis in Context Theory, cross-national understanding of national resilience was examined by assessing measurement models, exploring country differences in percept…
Risk Factors as Major Determinants of Resilience: A Replication Study
Terrorism in the eyes of the beholder: The impact of causal attributions on perceptions of violence
This research examined the effect of attributions on attitudes toward terrorism. Participants (111 Israeli Jews and 91 Israeli Palestinians) were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 violent scenarios (i.e., a Jew shooting a Palestinian or a Palestinian shooting a Jew) and answered questions on attributions and denunciation of violence. Results indicated that Palestinians attributed more external, local, and unstable motivations to perpetrators compared t…
Youth in the Military: Gendered Experiences in the Conscript Service in the Israeli Army
Conscript military service is a pivotal experience for young Israelis of both genders. Juxtaposing conflicting claims concerning women's military experience-the women's marginalization claim and the youth moratorial self-enhancing claim-we compare men's and women's retrospective evaluations of six aspects of their service in the Israeli army: hardship, adaptation, motivation, investment, service significance, and personal benefits. Military servi…
The Imprint of the Int fad: Response of Kibbutz-Born Soldiers to Military Service in the West Bank and Gaza
Israel Army veterans of kibbutz background who had served in the occupied territories during the Intifada were retrospectively asked how this service affected them. Some common themes were disclosed. Service in the territories deepened understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but increased fear and hate of Arabs. These feelings did not lead to a national extremism, but rather to a rationalistic position demanding a peaceful, political so…
National resilience rise following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel as an indicator of collective post-traumatic growth
Determinants of Students' Perceptions of Conventional and Unconventional War Threats
This study focuses on Israeli students' perceptions of two war threats: the Iranian and the Hezbollah war hazards. We examined potential determinants of these two perceived threats: individual and public resilience, sense of personal danger, subjective well-being, and denial tendency. We examined further associations between these perceived threats and biographical characteristics: gender, family income, exposure to negative events, and political…
Distress and Resilience in Days of Covid-19: International Study of Samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines
We compared three types of resilience (individual, community, and national resilience), two indicators of distress (sense of danger and distress symptoms) and wellbeing, among samples from Israel, Brazil, and the Philippines, during the “first-wave” of COVID-19 pandemic. Though significant differences were found among the samples regarding all variables, similarities were also emerged. Individual resilience and wellbeing negatively predicted dist…
Proximal and distal determinants of community resilience under threats of terror
Community resilience (CR) is a positive trajectory of adaptation of a commune after a disturbance, stress, or adversity. Previous studies have successfully predicted CR in times of stress by distal factors, such as demographic characteristics of the community members and by their psychological attributes. We submit that since all these variables are distal predictors, which are not directly related to the actual stressful condition, CR would be p…
The Imprint of the Int fad: Response of Kibbutz-Born Soldiers to Military Service in the West Bank and Gaza
Israel Army veterans of kibbutz background who had served in the occupied territories during the Intifada were retrospectively asked how this service affected them. Some common themes were disclosed. Service in the territories deepened understanding of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but increased fear and hate of Arabs. These feelings did not lead to a national extremism, but rather to a rationalistic position demanding a peaceful, political so…
Military Service and Self-Perceived Maturation Among Israeli Youth
Yassir Arafat: Behavioral and Strategic Analysis
This paper is a behavioral and strategic analysis of Palestinian Chairman, Yassir Arafat. The research is qualitatively compiled, using broad samples of behavior, referring to thoughts, feelings, and actions that have been reported in the media over a long period of time and in different situations. The method used is based upon data collection, classification into content categories and types of information, and analysis. The behavioral and stra…
Community resilience and the impact of stress: Adult response to Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon
Against the background of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, we investigated the relationship between perceived community resilience and the effect of stress and life satisfaction. The research sample included 741 adults, aged 18–85. The participants were divided into four groups, three of which live close to the Israel–Lebanon border and were directly exposed to the threat created by war and terror. The fourth group was considered as a control…
Who Are the Palestinian Suicide Bombers
The current study uses the content analysis method while focusing on identification of repeated patterns of behavior by suicide terrorists and the society within which they grow and develop. The present study presents a typology—a classification into categories, each represented by a prototype, of suicide terrorists in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It also identifies prerequisite factors (as without these factors, there is little opportunity …
Youth in the Military: Gendered Experiences in the Conscript Service in the Israeli Army
Conscript military service is a pivotal experience for young Israelis of both genders. Juxtaposing conflicting claims concerning women's military experience-the women's marginalization claim and the youth moratorial self-enhancing claim-we compare men's and women's retrospective evaluations of six aspects of their service in the Israeli army: hardship, adaptation, motivation, investment, service significance, and personal benefits. Military servi…
Teenagers Response to Threat of War and Terror: Gender and the Role of Social Systems
Social systems and personal reactions to threats of war and terror
This study examines the impact of social systems (i.e., marital quality, significant others' stress and community resilience) on individual reactions to the threat of war and terror resulting from Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in May 2000. Quantitative results (N = 992) revealed that proximity to the threat of war influenced marital quality, community resilience, life satisfaction, and stress among significant others. Three social system varia…
Moral justification and feelings of adjustment to military law-enforcement situation: The case of Israeli soldiers serving at army roadblocks
War, Ethnic Group, and the Public Image of Rival Political Leaders: Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and Lebanon Hezbollah Leader Nasrallah
Consistency and change of the public image of two Middle Eastern leaders were investigated in connection with the Second Lebanon war—the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Hezbollah Secretary-General in Lebanon, Hassan Nasrallah. A bi-polar questionnaire including 32 leader characteristics was administered to three samples of students in two studies. In the first study, the effects of the war were assessed by administering the research questi…
Terrorism in the eyes of the beholder: The impact of causal attributions on perceptions of violence
This research examined the effect of attributions on attitudes toward terrorism. Participants (111 Israeli Jews and 91 Israeli Palestinians) were randomly assigned to 1 of 2 violent scenarios (i.e., a Jew shooting a Palestinian or a Palestinian shooting a Jew) and answered questions on attributions and denunciation of violence. Results indicated that Palestinians attributed more external, local, and unstable motivations to perpetrators compared t…
Getting a Life: Gender Differences in Postwar Recovery
Postwar Winners and Losers in the Long Run: Determinants of War Related Stress Symptoms and Posttraumatic Growth
Determinants of Students' Perceptions of Conventional and Unconventional War Threats
This study focuses on Israeli students' perceptions of two war threats: the Iranian and the Hezbollah war hazards. We examined potential determinants of these two perceived threats: individual and public resilience, sense of personal danger, subjective well-being, and denial tendency. We examined further associations between these perceived threats and biographical characteristics: gender, family income, exposure to negative events, and political…
Someone to watch over me: Exposure to war events and trust in the armed forces in Israel as factors in war-related stress
This study examined the role of trust in the national armed and security forces in Israel as a potential protective factor in post-war stress symptoms, alongside other known correlates such as exposure to war events, sense of danger, and demographics. A cluster sample of 870 residents of the town of Kiryat-Shemona in Israel participated in this correlational study. The town was under heavy bombing during the second Lebanon war, and data collectio…
Community Resilience of Civilians at War: A New Perspective
A New Perspective on National Resilience: Components and Demographic Predictors
A new definition of national resilience (NR) is developed, based on strength to vulnerability ratio (perceived NR divided by sense of danger). Four resilience‐promoting variables predict components of this NR: gender, religiosity, political attitudes, and level of exposure to war. The study was conducted 4 months after the 2014 Israel‐Gaza war. The sample comprised a total of 510 Jewish Israeli civilians (age range 18–85 years): 251 live in south…
Levels of resilience: Associations among individual, community, and national resilience
This article focuses on limited knowledge regarding the associations among three levels of resilience and the importance of these associations: individual, community, and national. The few studies that have examined these associations indicated the following: (a) There are significant positive low correlations among individual, community, and national resilience. (b) Some demographic variables significantly predict all three of them. (c) There is…
Risk Factors as Major Determinants of Resilience: A Replication Study
Proximal and distal determinants of community resilience under threats of terror
Community resilience (CR) is a positive trajectory of adaptation of a commune after a disturbance, stress, or adversity. Previous studies have successfully predicted CR in times of stress by distal factors, such as demographic characteristics of the community members and by their psychological attributes. We submit that since all these variables are distal predictors, which are not directly related to the actual stressful condition, CR would be p…
Measuring national resilience: A new short version of the scale (NR‐13)
This article is aimed at describing and validating a new short version of the National Resilience Scale (NR‐13). The available 25‐item National Resilience Scale has been employed and validated by several studies. However, the present data show that it can be substantially shortened without losing either its reliability or its validity. The new short version of the scale has been examined by the responses of an Israeli sample of adults ( N = 1022)…
National Resilience: A New Self-Report Assessment Scale
Community and national resilience and their predictors in face of terror
Recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic: Distress and resilience
Distress and Resilience in the Days of Covid-19: Comparing Two Ethnicities
The COVID-19 pandemic is an ongoing epidemic of coronavirus disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome, which has spread recently worldwide. Efforts to prevent the virus from spreading include travel restrictions, lockdowns as well as national or regional quarantines throughout the international community. The major negative psychological outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic is the anxiety caused by it. The aim of the present study was to e…
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