Ehud Bodner
Biographic Data
| ID | 142156 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ehud Bodner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ehud |
| FAMILY NAME | Bodner |
| SIGNATURE | BODNER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2815-8734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Aging Resources and Vulnerability Across Targets: Self-Other Profiles in Israeli and Japanese Assisted-Living Residents
Views on aging (VoA) are multidimensional: they may differ by target (the aging self vs. older adults in general) and by evaluative content (resources vs. vulnerability). However, little is known about how these facets are configured across cultural contexts, or whether other-directed VoA are linked differently to personal self-views in different countries. In a cross-sectional two-country comparison, we analyzed 390 assisted-living records from …
The impact of war-related stressors on subjective views of aging in daily life
The experience of stress, adversity, and extreme life events can significantly impact the aging process. Yet, empirical evidence is sparse regarding the impact of war-related stress on midlife and older adults’ subjective views of aging, especially in short-term, daily contexts. We investigated the experience of war-related stress on subjective age, subjective accelerated aging, and subjective nearness to death in two samples of adults aged 50 an…
Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life
Conversations on echolalia: A qualitative inquiry into autistic adults' views on echolalia, language, and music
Introduction Considering the growing influence of the Neurodiversity movement on the literature on autism, we attempted to shed a new light on autistic echolalia in music therapy by exploring the topic from an identity-first viewpoint. We interviewed autistic adults and studied this phenomenon from their perspective
The interactive effect of aging anxiety and age awareness on meaning in life and psychological distress: A moderated mediation model
Attitudes to aging mediate the reciprocal effects of health anxiety and physical functioning
OBJECTIVE: To understand if attitudes to aging mediate the reciprocal effects of health anxiety and physical functioning among older adults with medical conditions. We examined: (1) if these effects are reciprocal; (2) if attitudes to aging (psychological loss, psychological growth, physical change) play a mediating role in these effects. DESIGN: = 6.29) reporting at least one chronic medical condition completed two phone interviews across six mo…
Perception of violin performance expression through expressive musical terms
Expressive musical terms (EMTs) are often used in classical Western music as verbal instructions to performers to convey particular forms of expression. Recently, Sulem et al. (2019) analyzed the perception of EMTs by professional string players without reference to heard musical performances, defining four representative categories of EMTs located in the four quadrants of the two-dimensional model of affect whose parameters are valence and arous…
Emotion regulation through music and mindfulness are associated with positive solitude differently at the second half of life
Mindfulness and emotion regulation through music listening are skills that share some attributes with the skill of positive solitude (PS; defined as an inner choice to dedicate time to a meaningful, enjoyable activity or experience managed by oneself, with or without the presence of others). Nevertheless, little is known about their relationship with PS in the second half of life. Hence, we recruited a convenience sample of community-dwelling adu…
The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults: Findings From Two Samples
This cross-sectional study examined whether views of aging (VoA) relate to subjective cognitive complaints in two separate cohorts of older adults. Ageist attitudes, attitudes to aging (psychological loss, physical change, and psychological growth), subjective age, and subjective successful aging were examined. A moderating effect of chronological age was also examined. Samples included 572 adults aged 50 or older (Sample 1; mean age = 67.63, SD …
Positive Solitude Scale: Theoretical Background, Development and Validation
The role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in coping with chronic physical pain: An integrative model
OBJECTIVE: This study focussed on the mutual role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in understanding the reciprocal effects of chronic pain and psychological distress. DESIGN: A longitudinal design was applied with a sample of 177 adults (mean age = 58.3, 57.1% women) suffering from chronic back/neck pain. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Assessments were conducted at three timepoints: pain and psychological distress upon referral to a p…
Flow and music performance anxiety: The influence of contextual and background variables
Recent studies have provided empirical support for the suggestion that there is an antithetical relationship between music performance anxiety (MPA) and flow, and that this antithetical relationship may have useful clinical applications for facilitating optimal performance by both encouraging flow and reducing MPA. In order to develop music performance skills interventions that can help facilitate optimal performance, promote psychological health…
Subjective accelerated aging moderates the association between Covid-19 health worries and peritraumatic distress among older adults
These findings indicate that negative views of aging may serve as an amplifying factor for traumatic distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although preliminary, the findings provide insight for potential screening and interventions of older adults at risk of developing peritraumatic distress symptoms during the global pandemic
Ageist Attitudes Are Associated with Will-to-Live and Moderated by Age, Medical Conditions and Attitudes toward Aging
The extent to which older adults' ageist attitudes associate with their will-to-live has barely been studied. Moreover, whether this effect is moderated by older adults' age, medical conditions, and attitudes toward their own aging has not been investigated. These associations were examined by two studies. Study 1 examined the relationship between ageist attitudes and will-to-live among individuals aged 48-97, and the moderating roles of age and …
The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the Covid-19 outbreak
Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age and Ageist Attitudes and Their Association With Depressive Symptoms
Results suggest that old-old individuals are more susceptible to a combination of negative views on aging on daily basis. Findings further support a daily assimilation process, whereby previous-day stereotypes are assimilated and manifested into one's identity and mental health, so that one feels older and more depressed on subsequent days
Countertransference responses of one music therapist to autistic echolalia
Introduction: In this article, the continuation of a previous study, we explored the phenomenon of echolalia in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from the perspective of one music therapist.Method: We micro-analyzed the music therapist’s responses to the echoing of three clients in 40 interaction segments that occurred during music therapy, focusing on their musical and interactive characteristics. We interpreted these responses as ste…
Subjective Age and Emotion Covariation: Findings From Two Daily Experience Studies
The relationship between subjective age and emotion covariation is discussed in light of lifespan theories
Subjective nearness-to-death and negative attitudes toward persons with disability: Attachment patterns moderate
We examined whether subjective nearness-to-death is associated with negative attitudes toward people with disabilities, and whether attachment patterns moderate this connection. A total of 462 Israeli adults, average age 57 years, completed scales measuring subjective nearness-to-death, negative attitudes toward people with disability, and attachment patterns. High levels of subjective nearness-to-death were associated with negative attitudes tow…
Musical features and interactional functions of echolalia in children with autism within the music therapy dyad
The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of echolalia in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through a musical and intersubjective prism. Echolalia, a parrot-like speech symptom, where the child repeats others' current or past words, is frequently used by children on the spectrum. In only a few studies in the literature is echolalia considered as part of the child's behavior within a dyad. Moreover, the musical aspects of …
The attitudes of music therapy students and professionals regarding the emotional valence of improvisations in music therapy
This study examined Israeli therapists' attitudes toward the valence of emotions expressed by clients in music therapy (MT), an issue discussed in-depth during supervision that has never been studied empirically. In the first study, 22 MT students were asked to recall a meaningful therapeutic session, describe the emotions that were part of this session, and rate their respective contribution to the therapeutic process. The prevalence of negative…
Emotion Recognition in Improvised Music: The Case of the Multicultural Israeli Society
The current study explored whether people of different cultures within the same country differ in emotion recognition, when recognizing emotions in improvisations played on different instruments. Participants ( n = 202) from several cultures in Israel (i.e., Israeli-born Jews [IBJs], Israeli-Russian immigrants, and Israeli-Arabs and Druze) listened to 40 pieces conveying five emotions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and serenity) and decoded th…
The Paths Leading From Attachment to Ageism: A Structural Equation Model Approach
The study introduces a model in which attachment patterns serve as predictors, empathy and fear of death as mediators, and ageism as the predicted variable. Data were collected from young adults (N = 440). Anxious attachment was directly and positively correlated with ageism, and also indirectly and positively by the mediator "fear of death." Avoidant attachment was indirectly and negatively correlated with ageism by the mediator "empathy". It is…
Music therapy students' reflections on their participation in a music therapy group
Participation in Music Therapy Group (MTG) is an important component of the education and training of music therapists. The notion of participation in MTG has rarely been studied in terms of the students' perspectives on their experiences in such groups. Thus, the objective of this retrospective exploratory study was to analyze students' reflections on their participation in the MTG during the course of a year. Each one of the 13 music therapy st…
Does the Relationship Between Affect Complexity and Self-Esteem Differ in Young-Old and Old-Old Participants
These findings may imply that the affect complexity is associated with buffering the noxious effect of deteriorating SE in old age. Future studies should examine further the intrapersonal relationship between affect complexity and SE in late life
Emotional Communicability in Music Therapy: Different Instruments for Different Emotions
In many instances the music therapist is called upon to choose a suitable instrument to communicate or express a certain emotional tone. We have examined music therapists 'expression of basic emotions on a variety of instruments. Four therapists made improvisations on five different emotions using four different instruments to convey each emotion. Seventy-six subjects, some of whom were music therapists and some non-therapists, listened to each i…
Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age and Ageist Attitudes and Their Association With Depressive Symptoms
Results suggest that old-old individuals are more susceptible to a combination of negative views on aging on daily basis. Findings further support a daily assimilation process, whereby previous-day stereotypes are assimilated and manifested into one's identity and mental health, so that one feels older and more depressed on subsequent days
Musical features and interactional functions of echolalia in children with autism within the music therapy dyad
The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of echolalia in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through a musical and intersubjective prism. Echolalia, a parrot-like speech symptom, where the child repeats others' current or past words, is frequently used by children on the spectrum. In only a few studies in the literature is echolalia considered as part of the child's behavior within a dyad. Moreover, the musical aspects of …
Does the Relationship Between Affect Complexity and Self-Esteem Differ in Young-Old and Old-Old Participants
These findings may imply that the affect complexity is associated with buffering the noxious effect of deteriorating SE in old age. Future studies should examine further the intrapersonal relationship between affect complexity and SE in late life
A Chronological Perspective on Suicide—The Last Days of Life
A combined psychological autopsy and narrative approach was used to study the completed suicides of 67 Israeli soldiers. Three issues were addressed. First, the authors examined the typology of the life narratives of suicide completed during active army duty. Second, focusing on the last 3 weeks of the soldiers' lives, they sought to examine their triggers for suicide, emotional state of mind, army duty functioning, and communication of suicidal …
Learned helplessness and the occurrence of depressive-like and paranoid-like responses: The role of attentional focus
Five experiments were performed to examine different manifestations of depressive- and paranoid-like responses after failure in unsolvable problems. Participants were exposed to no feedback, "universal" failures, or "personal" failures while their attention was focused on either themselves or the experimenter. Then, depressive and paranoid-related states of mind, interfering thoughts, self-schemata, others-schemata, and autobiographical memories …
The Paths Leading From Attachment to Ageism: A Structural Equation Model Approach
The study introduces a model in which attachment patterns serve as predictors, empathy and fear of death as mediators, and ageism as the predicted variable. Data were collected from young adults (N = 440). Anxious attachment was directly and positively correlated with ageism, and also indirectly and positively by the mediator "fear of death." Avoidant attachment was indirectly and negatively correlated with ageism by the mediator "empathy". It is…
Empathy mitigates the relationship between ageism and subjective age in late life
Conversations on echolalia: A qualitative inquiry into autistic adults' views on echolalia, language, and music
Introduction Considering the growing influence of the Neurodiversity movement on the literature on autism, we attempted to shed a new light on autistic echolalia in music therapy by exploring the topic from an identity-first viewpoint. We interviewed autistic adults and studied this phenomenon from their perspective
Countertransference responses of one music therapist to autistic echolalia
Introduction: In this article, the continuation of a previous study, we explored the phenomenon of echolalia in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from the perspective of one music therapist.Method: We micro-analyzed the music therapist’s responses to the echoing of three clients in 40 interaction segments that occurred during music therapy, focusing on their musical and interactive characteristics. We interpreted these responses as ste…
Subjective Age and Emotion Covariation: Findings From Two Daily Experience Studies
The relationship between subjective age and emotion covariation is discussed in light of lifespan theories
Subjective nearness-to-death and negative attitudes toward persons with disability: Attachment patterns moderate
We examined whether subjective nearness-to-death is associated with negative attitudes toward people with disabilities, and whether attachment patterns moderate this connection. A total of 462 Israeli adults, average age 57 years, completed scales measuring subjective nearness-to-death, negative attitudes toward people with disability, and attachment patterns. High levels of subjective nearness-to-death were associated with negative attitudes tow…
Emotion Recognition in Improvised Music: The Case of the Multicultural Israeli Society
The current study explored whether people of different cultures within the same country differ in emotion recognition, when recognizing emotions in improvisations played on different instruments. Participants ( n = 202) from several cultures in Israel (i.e., Israeli-born Jews [IBJs], Israeli-Russian immigrants, and Israeli-Arabs and Druze) listened to 40 pieces conveying five emotions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and serenity) and decoded th…
Music therapy students' reflections on their participation in a music therapy group
Participation in Music Therapy Group (MTG) is an important component of the education and training of music therapists. The notion of participation in MTG has rarely been studied in terms of the students' perspectives on their experiences in such groups. Thus, the objective of this retrospective exploratory study was to analyze students' reflections on their participation in the MTG during the course of a year. Each one of the 13 music therapy st…
Medical Mission to a Refugee Camp in Thailand
During the latter part of 1979, hundreds of thousands of Kampuchean refugees fled from all parts of their war-and hunger-ridden country to the Thai-Cambodian border, thousands perishing from hunger, disease and by stepping onto mine fields on their way. The majority of those who survived settled in several large villages straddling the border in relative security from the advancing Vietnamese army, receiving food and medical supplies from many in…
Medical Mission to a Refugee Camp in Thailand
During the latter part of 1979, hundreds of thousands of Kampuchean refugees fled from all parts of their war-and hunger-ridden country to the Thai-Cambodian border, thousands perishing from hunger, disease and by stepping onto mine fields on their way. The majority of those who survived settled in several large villages straddling the border in relative security from the advancing Vietnamese army, receiving food and medical supplies from many in…
Learned helplessness and the occurrence of depressive-like and paranoid-like responses: The role of attentional focus
Five experiments were performed to examine different manifestations of depressive- and paranoid-like responses after failure in unsolvable problems. Participants were exposed to no feedback, "universal" failures, or "personal" failures while their attention was focused on either themselves or the experimenter. Then, depressive and paranoid-related states of mind, interfering thoughts, self-schemata, others-schemata, and autobiographical memories …
Emotional Communicability in Music Therapy: Different Instruments for Different Emotions
In many instances the music therapist is called upon to choose a suitable instrument to communicate or express a certain emotional tone. We have examined music therapists 'expression of basic emotions on a variety of instruments. Four therapists made improvisations on five different emotions using four different instruments to convey each emotion. Seventy-six subjects, some of whom were music therapists and some non-therapists, listened to each i…
A Chronological Perspective on Suicide—The Last Days of Life
A combined psychological autopsy and narrative approach was used to study the completed suicides of 67 Israeli soldiers. Three issues were addressed. First, the authors examined the typology of the life narratives of suicide completed during active army duty. Second, focusing on the last 3 weeks of the soldiers' lives, they sought to examine their triggers for suicide, emotional state of mind, army duty functioning, and communication of suicidal …
On the Power of Music to Affect Intergroup Relations
In three experiments we examined whether songs that are widely used in times of crisis (crisis songs, CS) could resume their unifying effect when they are played off-context. In the first experiment, two conflictual groups, religious and secular Jews, were exposed to CS, to love songs (LS), or to no songs and were then asked to express their attitudes towards their outgroups. It was found that CS positively affected respondents' attitudes: stigma…
Co-Morbid Social Phobia in Schizophrenia
Background: The co-morbid occurrence of anxiety disorders and schizophrenia has recently begun to be investigated. Social anxiety may be especially important to diagnose and manage among patients with schizophrenia. Aim: To investigate the prevalence and correlates of social phobia in patients with schizophrenia. Method: Diagnosis of schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders as well as co-morbid anxiety disorders was established according to DS…
What are your thoughts when the national anthem is playing? An empirical exploration
It is believed that when exposed to the national anthem of their native country, people react with feelings of pride and patriotism and that the anthem has the power to unite people around similar associations. We examined these beliefs empirically. In Experiment 1, Israelis of various ages and subcultures listened to their anthem and to three other songs, and wrote down associations that came to mind. It was found that the anthem evoked more nat…
Does the Relationship Between Affect Complexity and Self-Esteem Differ in Young-Old and Old-Old Participants
These findings may imply that the affect complexity is associated with buffering the noxious effect of deteriorating SE in old age. Future studies should examine further the intrapersonal relationship between affect complexity and SE in late life
The Paths Leading From Attachment to Ageism: A Structural Equation Model Approach
The study introduces a model in which attachment patterns serve as predictors, empathy and fear of death as mediators, and ageism as the predicted variable. Data were collected from young adults (N = 440). Anxious attachment was directly and positively correlated with ageism, and also indirectly and positively by the mediator "fear of death." Avoidant attachment was indirectly and negatively correlated with ageism by the mediator "empathy". It is…
Music therapy students' reflections on their participation in a music therapy group
Participation in Music Therapy Group (MTG) is an important component of the education and training of music therapists. The notion of participation in MTG has rarely been studied in terms of the students' perspectives on their experiences in such groups. Thus, the objective of this retrospective exploratory study was to analyze students' reflections on their participation in the MTG during the course of a year. Each one of the 13 music therapy st…
Emotion Recognition in Improvised Music: The Case of the Multicultural Israeli Society
The current study explored whether people of different cultures within the same country differ in emotion recognition, when recognizing emotions in improvisations played on different instruments. Participants ( n = 202) from several cultures in Israel (i.e., Israeli-born Jews [IBJs], Israeli-Russian immigrants, and Israeli-Arabs and Druze) listened to 40 pieces conveying five emotions (anger, fear, sadness, happiness, and serenity) and decoded th…
The attitudes of music therapy students and professionals regarding the emotional valence of improvisations in music therapy
This study examined Israeli therapists' attitudes toward the valence of emotions expressed by clients in music therapy (MT), an issue discussed in-depth during supervision that has never been studied empirically. In the first study, 22 MT students were asked to recall a meaningful therapeutic session, describe the emotions that were part of this session, and rate their respective contribution to the therapeutic process. The prevalence of negative…
Subjective Age and Emotion Covariation: Findings From Two Daily Experience Studies
The relationship between subjective age and emotion covariation is discussed in light of lifespan theories
Subjective nearness-to-death and negative attitudes toward persons with disability: Attachment patterns moderate
We examined whether subjective nearness-to-death is associated with negative attitudes toward people with disabilities, and whether attachment patterns moderate this connection. A total of 462 Israeli adults, average age 57 years, completed scales measuring subjective nearness-to-death, negative attitudes toward people with disability, and attachment patterns. High levels of subjective nearness-to-death were associated with negative attitudes tow…
Musical features and interactional functions of echolalia in children with autism within the music therapy dyad
The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon of echolalia in children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through a musical and intersubjective prism. Echolalia, a parrot-like speech symptom, where the child repeats others' current or past words, is frequently used by children on the spectrum. In only a few studies in the literature is echolalia considered as part of the child's behavior within a dyad. Moreover, the musical aspects of …
The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the Covid-19 outbreak
Day-to-Day Variability in Subjective Age and Ageist Attitudes and Their Association With Depressive Symptoms
Results suggest that old-old individuals are more susceptible to a combination of negative views on aging on daily basis. Findings further support a daily assimilation process, whereby previous-day stereotypes are assimilated and manifested into one's identity and mental health, so that one feels older and more depressed on subsequent days
Countertransference responses of one music therapist to autistic echolalia
Introduction: In this article, the continuation of a previous study, we explored the phenomenon of echolalia in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) from the perspective of one music therapist.Method: We micro-analyzed the music therapist’s responses to the echoing of three clients in 40 interaction segments that occurred during music therapy, focusing on their musical and interactive characteristics. We interpreted these responses as ste…
Positive Solitude Scale: Theoretical Background, Development and Validation
The role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in coping with chronic physical pain: An integrative model
OBJECTIVE: This study focussed on the mutual role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in understanding the reciprocal effects of chronic pain and psychological distress. DESIGN: A longitudinal design was applied with a sample of 177 adults (mean age = 58.3, 57.1% women) suffering from chronic back/neck pain. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Assessments were conducted at three timepoints: pain and psychological distress upon referral to a p…
Flow and music performance anxiety: The influence of contextual and background variables
Recent studies have provided empirical support for the suggestion that there is an antithetical relationship between music performance anxiety (MPA) and flow, and that this antithetical relationship may have useful clinical applications for facilitating optimal performance by both encouraging flow and reducing MPA. In order to develop music performance skills interventions that can help facilitate optimal performance, promote psychological health…
Subjective accelerated aging moderates the association between Covid-19 health worries and peritraumatic distress among older adults
These findings indicate that negative views of aging may serve as an amplifying factor for traumatic distress during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although preliminary, the findings provide insight for potential screening and interventions of older adults at risk of developing peritraumatic distress symptoms during the global pandemic
Ageist Attitudes Are Associated with Will-to-Live and Moderated by Age, Medical Conditions and Attitudes toward Aging
The extent to which older adults' ageist attitudes associate with their will-to-live has barely been studied. Moreover, whether this effect is moderated by older adults' age, medical conditions, and attitudes toward their own aging has not been investigated. These associations were examined by two studies. Study 1 examined the relationship between ageist attitudes and will-to-live among individuals aged 48-97, and the moderating roles of age and …
Emotion regulation through music and mindfulness are associated with positive solitude differently at the second half of life
Mindfulness and emotion regulation through music listening are skills that share some attributes with the skill of positive solitude (PS; defined as an inner choice to dedicate time to a meaningful, enjoyable activity or experience managed by oneself, with or without the presence of others). Nevertheless, little is known about their relationship with PS in the second half of life. Hence, we recruited a convenience sample of community-dwelling adu…
The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults: Findings From Two Samples
This cross-sectional study examined whether views of aging (VoA) relate to subjective cognitive complaints in two separate cohorts of older adults. Ageist attitudes, attitudes to aging (psychological loss, physical change, and psychological growth), subjective age, and subjective successful aging were examined. A moderating effect of chronological age was also examined. Samples included 572 adults aged 50 or older (Sample 1; mean age = 67.63, SD …
Psychology (29 works) · Psychotherapist (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Psychiatry (11 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Aging and Gerontology Research (9 works) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works)