Georgia Panayiotou
Biographic Data
| ID | 1561288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georgia Panayiotou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georgia |
| FAMILY NAME | Panayiotou |
| SIGNATURE | PANAYIOTOU G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cyprus |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2471-9960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Development and Acceptability of a Theory-Based and Music-Enhanced Emotion Regulation Program for University Students
Musical engagement, including actively listening or participating in music-making experiences, fosters socio-emotional development, emotion regulation, and the overall health and well-being of individuals across the lifespan. Further, musical care offers the context for practices that are inclusive and accessible beyond traditional health care environments. Building on musical care principles, the current study explores the acceptability of a mus…
Women and Men Gamblers Compared
Women increasingly participate in gambling and present gambling-related problems. Research has not adequately addressed gender differences in etiology, maintenance, and treatment responses. This study compares women and men gamblers from a community sample ( Ν = 1347, 996 male, Mean age = 37.11) throughout the Republic of Cyprus in demographics, gambling patterns, gambling motives, and emotion regulation. Analyses of variance showed that women pr…
Coping with emotional pain
Enhancing Emotion Regulation Skills in High-Risk Adolescents Due to the Existence of Psychopathology in the Family
Targeted emotion regulation skills training is a potentially useful transdiagnostic intervention to prevent mental health problems in youth. Bringing the intervention to the school setting and involving counsellors in referring at-risk students can facilitate uptake and reduce dropout
Affective and psycholinguistic norms of Greek words
Can we predict experiential avoidance by measuring subjective and physiological emotional arousal
Machine learning advances the classification and prediction of responding from psychophysiological reactions
Feeling Down in Lockdown
We examined whether young adults with internalizing psychopathology during the pre-COVID-19 pandemic period exhibited different patterns of emotional responses than those without such psychopathology during the implementation of the “lockdown” in Cyprus, Greece. Two-wave longitudinal research was conducted i one hundred six college students completing measures of affective experiences, mental health, and quality of life during the prepandemic and…
Depression Conceptualization and Treatment
Population Screening of Gambling Behavior
The increase in gambling availability and the inclusion of gambling disorder as an addiction in DSM-5 highlight the importance of brief screening measures aiming to identify at-risk gamblers. The current study, using a brief telephone survey, assessed demographic characteristics and gambling behaviors in 2,118 adults. Questions were developed based on DSM-5 criteria for Gambling Disorder and common assessment tools. A 7% prevalence of as at-risk …
Depression Conceptualization and Treatment
Coping with the invisible enemy
Attentional processing of information related to illness
This study investigated attentional processing of illness-related information and associations with emotional reactivity. 100 young adults with low to high illness anxiety levels underwent free and cued viewing tasks, while eye-tracking and emotional reactivity were recorded. During free viewing, participants showed early orienting bias and sustained vigilance bias toward illness vs neutral pictures. Increased illness anxiety predicted vigilance …
Coping with psychosomatic symptoms
Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms; psychological flexibility was expected to moderate this impairment. Individuals from a random community sample ( N = 298; 182 females), who met screening criteria for somatization and illness anxiety, reported lower quality of life and psychological flexibility and greater avoidant coping …
Community sample evidence on the relations among behavioural inhibition system, anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and social anxiety in adolescents
Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety
Alexithymia predicts arousal-based processing deficits and discordance between emotion response systems during emotional imagery
Alexithymia is believed to involve deficits in emotion processing and imagery ability. Previous findings suggest that it is especially related to deficits in processing the arousal dimension of emotion, and that discordance may exist between self-report and physiological responses to emotional stimuli in alexithymia. The current study used a well-established emotional imagery paradigm to examine emotion processing deficits and discordance in part…
Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology
Maternal neuroticism predicts social anxiety in Cypriot youth
This study examines the degree to which parental social anxiety and parental personality, specifically Neuroticism and Extraversion (N and E), predict social anxiety in youth and if this association is mediated by child personality including Anxiety Sensitivity (AS). N, E and AS are considered as temperamental traits and are highly predictive of anxiety disorders. Questionnaire data were collected from a community sample of 102 families in Cyprus…
Beer, wine, and social anxiety
The social anxiety literature often cites the self-medication hypothesis (SMH) to explain why socially phobic clients often present with alcohol problems. Based on some earlier hints that social anxiety and drinking might be related in a curvilinear way, we sought to examine the SMH to assess for possible non-linear relationships, and to examine whether cultural differences affect these relationships. We surveyed self-reported social anxiety, alc…
Dimensionality of Coping
The construct of coping has received increasing attention over the past years in relation to psychological and physical health, yet its dimensional and conceptual understanding is not consistent across theoretical models. The present study investigates the dimensionality of coping in a sample of 1127 Greek-speaking adults using the Brief-COPE. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a structure comprised of eight factors, four …
Parental discipline practices and locus of control
Predicting bullying and victimization among early adolescents
Bullying is a common problem faced by children and adolescents in schools. One hypothesis that needs to be examined regarding the causation of this problem is whether being a bully or a victim may stem from disparate underlying patterns of psychopathology. Results are particularly scarce regarding the association between bully‐victim problems and disruptive behavior disorders. The present study sought to investigate the association between DSM‐IV…
Dimensionality of Coping
The construct of coping has received increasing attention over the past years in relation to psychological and physical health, yet its dimensional and conceptual understanding is not consistent across theoretical models. The present study investigates the dimensionality of coping in a sample of 1127 Greek-speaking adults using the Brief-COPE. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a structure comprised of eight factors, four …
Predicting bullying and victimization among early adolescents
Bullying is a common problem faced by children and adolescents in schools. One hypothesis that needs to be examined regarding the causation of this problem is whether being a bully or a victim may stem from disparate underlying patterns of psychopathology. Results are particularly scarce regarding the association between bully‐victim problems and disruptive behavior disorders. The present study sought to investigate the association between DSM‐IV…
Coping with psychosomatic symptoms
Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms; psychological flexibility was expected to moderate this impairment. Individuals from a random community sample ( N = 298; 182 females), who met screening criteria for somatization and illness anxiety, reported lower quality of life and psychological flexibility and greater avoidant coping …
Parental discipline practices and locus of control
Feeling Down in Lockdown
We examined whether young adults with internalizing psychopathology during the pre-COVID-19 pandemic period exhibited different patterns of emotional responses than those without such psychopathology during the implementation of the “lockdown” in Cyprus, Greece. Two-wave longitudinal research was conducted i one hundred six college students completing measures of affective experiences, mental health, and quality of life during the prepandemic and…
Predicting bullying and victimization among early adolescents
Bullying is a common problem faced by children and adolescents in schools. One hypothesis that needs to be examined regarding the causation of this problem is whether being a bully or a victim may stem from disparate underlying patterns of psychopathology. Results are particularly scarce regarding the association between bully‐victim problems and disruptive behavior disorders. The present study sought to investigate the association between DSM‐IV…
Parental discipline practices and locus of control
Dimensionality of Coping
The construct of coping has received increasing attention over the past years in relation to psychological and physical health, yet its dimensional and conceptual understanding is not consistent across theoretical models. The present study investigates the dimensionality of coping in a sample of 1127 Greek-speaking adults using the Brief-COPE. Both exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses revealed a structure comprised of eight factors, four …
Beer, wine, and social anxiety
The social anxiety literature often cites the self-medication hypothesis (SMH) to explain why socially phobic clients often present with alcohol problems. Based on some earlier hints that social anxiety and drinking might be related in a curvilinear way, we sought to examine the SMH to assess for possible non-linear relationships, and to examine whether cultural differences affect these relationships. We surveyed self-reported social anxiety, alc…
Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology
Maternal neuroticism predicts social anxiety in Cypriot youth
This study examines the degree to which parental social anxiety and parental personality, specifically Neuroticism and Extraversion (N and E), predict social anxiety in youth and if this association is mediated by child personality including Anxiety Sensitivity (AS). N, E and AS are considered as temperamental traits and are highly predictive of anxiety disorders. Questionnaire data were collected from a community sample of 102 families in Cyprus…
Alexithymia predicts arousal-based processing deficits and discordance between emotion response systems during emotional imagery
Alexithymia is believed to involve deficits in emotion processing and imagery ability. Previous findings suggest that it is especially related to deficits in processing the arousal dimension of emotion, and that discordance may exist between self-report and physiological responses to emotional stimuli in alexithymia. The current study used a well-established emotional imagery paradigm to examine emotion processing deficits and discordance in part…
Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety
Community sample evidence on the relations among behavioural inhibition system, anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and social anxiety in adolescents
Coping with psychosomatic symptoms
Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms; psychological flexibility was expected to moderate this impairment. Individuals from a random community sample ( N = 298; 182 females), who met screening criteria for somatization and illness anxiety, reported lower quality of life and psychological flexibility and greater avoidant coping …
Coping with the invisible enemy
Attentional processing of information related to illness
This study investigated attentional processing of illness-related information and associations with emotional reactivity. 100 young adults with low to high illness anxiety levels underwent free and cued viewing tasks, while eye-tracking and emotional reactivity were recorded. During free viewing, participants showed early orienting bias and sustained vigilance bias toward illness vs neutral pictures. Increased illness anxiety predicted vigilance …
Depression Conceptualization and Treatment
Population Screening of Gambling Behavior
The increase in gambling availability and the inclusion of gambling disorder as an addiction in DSM-5 highlight the importance of brief screening measures aiming to identify at-risk gamblers. The current study, using a brief telephone survey, assessed demographic characteristics and gambling behaviors in 2,118 adults. Questions were developed based on DSM-5 criteria for Gambling Disorder and common assessment tools. A 7% prevalence of as at-risk …
Depression Conceptualization and Treatment
Can we predict experiential avoidance by measuring subjective and physiological emotional arousal
Machine learning advances the classification and prediction of responding from psychophysiological reactions
Feeling Down in Lockdown
We examined whether young adults with internalizing psychopathology during the pre-COVID-19 pandemic period exhibited different patterns of emotional responses than those without such psychopathology during the implementation of the “lockdown” in Cyprus, Greece. Two-wave longitudinal research was conducted i one hundred six college students completing measures of affective experiences, mental health, and quality of life during the prepandemic and…
Affective and psycholinguistic norms of Greek words
Coping with emotional pain
Enhancing Emotion Regulation Skills in High-Risk Adolescents Due to the Existence of Psychopathology in the Family
Targeted emotion regulation skills training is a potentially useful transdiagnostic intervention to prevent mental health problems in youth. Bringing the intervention to the school setting and involving counsellors in referring at-risk students can facilitate uptake and reduce dropout
Women and Men Gamblers Compared
Women increasingly participate in gambling and present gambling-related problems. Research has not adequately addressed gender differences in etiology, maintenance, and treatment responses. This study compares women and men gamblers from a community sample ( Ν = 1347, 996 male, Mean age = 37.11) throughout the Republic of Cyprus in demographics, gambling patterns, gambling motives, and emotion regulation. Analyses of variance showed that women pr…
Development and Acceptability of a Theory-Based and Music-Enhanced Emotion Regulation Program for University Students
Musical engagement, including actively listening or participating in music-making experiences, fosters socio-emotional development, emotion regulation, and the overall health and well-being of individuals across the lifespan. Further, musical care offers the context for practices that are inclusive and accessible beyond traditional health care environments. Building on musical care principles, the current study explores the acceptability of a mus…
Psychology (21 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (15 works) · Developmental psychology (14 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (13 works) · Psychiatry (13 works) · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works)