Giora Keinan
Biographic Data
| ID | 214932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Giora Keinan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Giora |
| FAMILY NAME | Keinan |
| SIGNATURE | KEINAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The association between cumulative adversity and mental health: Considering dose and primary focus of adversity
Who is Prone to React to Coinciding Threats of Terrorism and War? Exploring Vulnerability Through Global Versus Differential Reactivity
Attitudes and reactions to media coverage of terrorist acts
The present study examined attitudes and reactions of individuals towards media coverage of terrorist acts. Shortly after a series of severe terrorist attacks had taken place in Israel, 534 people were asked to fill out a questionnaire that assessed their attitudes and reactions to the media's coverage of these acts as well as a questionnaire that examined their information‐seeking style. The results suggested that although a considerable proport…
The Effects of Stress and Desire for Control on the Formation of Causal Attributions
Effects of stress and tolerance of ambiguity on magical thinking
The present study investigated the relationship between psychological stress and magical thinking and the extent to which such a relationship may be moderated by individuals' tolerance of ambiguity. Questionnaires assessing different types of magical thinking and tolerance of ambiguity were administered to 174 Israeli citizens who, during the Gulf War, resided in areas that were either exposed (high-stress condition) or not exposed (low-stress co…
Humor and pain tolerance
Controlling the uncontrollable: Effects of stress on illusory perceptions of controllability
Individuals' failure to exercise actual control over an event might be compensated for by trying to bolster a generalized, subjective sense of control. Control might then be sought by undertaking acts the effect of which on the environment is illusory. This observation led to the hypothesis that stress, which undermines persons' sense of control, would engender illusory perceptions of controllability. The hypothesis was tested in 3 experiments th…
Predicting Women's Delay in Seeking Medical Care after Discovery of a Lump in the Breast: The Role of Personality and Behavior Patterns
Experts agree that the detection of breast cancer in the early stages significantly enhances the chance of recovery. Although most women are aware of this, many still delay in seeking medical care. This study examined the relationship between four personality measures--health locus of control, hopelessness, repression-sensitization, and trait anxiety--and women's delay in approaching a doctor after discovering a lump in the breast. The authors al…
The effects of stress, ambiguity tolerance, and trait anxiety on the formation of causal relationships
Moving as a stressful life event for adolescents
In this study, 15 stressful elements and 18 supportive elements relating to moving house were identified based on the reports of 69 male and 71 female adolescents and pre-adolescents. Three primary stress factors and three basic support factors were found. It seems that pre-adolescent girls represent the group most sensitive to the level of stress and to the amount of received support surrounding a move. Adolescents who move from one city to anot…
Perception of Self and Parents by Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors
This study's objectives were to test the emotional stability and self-perceptions of Holocaust survivors' offspring (HSO) and to investigate how HSO perceive their parents. It was assumed that the investigation of these two issues would broaden our understanding of the mediating processes through which the psychological burdens of the survivors might be transmitted to their descendants. Forty-seven subjects, all second-generation Holocaust surviv…
Decision making under stress: Scanning of alternatives under controllable and uncontrollable threats
This study tested the proposition that deficient decision making under stress is due, to a significant extent, to the individual's failure to fulfill adequately an elementary requirement of the decision-making process, that is, the systematic consideration of all relevant alternatives. One hundred one undergraduate students (59 women and 42 men), aged 20-40, served as subjects in this experiment. They were requested to solve decision problems, us…
Stress in Academe: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Israeli and American Academicians
This study of the sources and patterns of occupational stress experienced by Israeli faculty members is a partial replication of a study of faculty stress in American universities reported by Gmelch, Lorvich, and Wilke (1983, 1984). A total of 100 faculty members drawn from all Israeli universities were sampled. They were asked to fill out a Hebrew version of the questionnaire developed by Gmelch et al. to measure the degree of stress resulting f…
Measurement of Risk Takers' Personality
An inventory was constructed to assess risk takers' personality characteristics, enhance the understanding of risk takers' personality in general, and provide a tool for the selection of candidates for high-risk jobs. On the basis of extant knowledge on risk takers' personality attributes, items were selected for the construction of a questionnaire which assessed respondents' attitudes towards situations and actions characterized by tension, risk…
Decision making under stress: Scanning of alternatives under controllable and uncontrollable threats
This study tested the proposition that deficient decision making under stress is due, to a significant extent, to the individual's failure to fulfill adequately an elementary requirement of the decision-making process, that is, the systematic consideration of all relevant alternatives. One hundred one undergraduate students (59 women and 42 men), aged 20-40, served as subjects in this experiment. They were requested to solve decision problems, us…
Effects of stress and tolerance of ambiguity on magical thinking
The present study investigated the relationship between psychological stress and magical thinking and the extent to which such a relationship may be moderated by individuals' tolerance of ambiguity. Questionnaires assessing different types of magical thinking and tolerance of ambiguity were administered to 174 Israeli citizens who, during the Gulf War, resided in areas that were either exposed (high-stress condition) or not exposed (low-stress co…
Controlling the uncontrollable: Effects of stress on illusory perceptions of controllability
Individuals' failure to exercise actual control over an event might be compensated for by trying to bolster a generalized, subjective sense of control. Control might then be sought by undertaking acts the effect of which on the environment is illusory. This observation led to the hypothesis that stress, which undermines persons' sense of control, would engender illusory perceptions of controllability. The hypothesis was tested in 3 experiments th…
Attitudes and reactions to media coverage of terrorist acts
The present study examined attitudes and reactions of individuals towards media coverage of terrorist acts. Shortly after a series of severe terrorist attacks had taken place in Israel, 534 people were asked to fill out a questionnaire that assessed their attitudes and reactions to the media's coverage of these acts as well as a questionnaire that examined their information‐seeking style. The results suggested that although a considerable proport…
The Effects of Stress and Desire for Control on the Formation of Causal Attributions
Humor and pain tolerance
Stress in Academe: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Israeli and American Academicians
This study of the sources and patterns of occupational stress experienced by Israeli faculty members is a partial replication of a study of faculty stress in American universities reported by Gmelch, Lorvich, and Wilke (1983, 1984). A total of 100 faculty members drawn from all Israeli universities were sampled. They were asked to fill out a Hebrew version of the questionnaire developed by Gmelch et al. to measure the degree of stress resulting f…
The effects of stress, ambiguity tolerance, and trait anxiety on the formation of causal relationships
Measurement of Risk Takers' Personality
An inventory was constructed to assess risk takers' personality characteristics, enhance the understanding of risk takers' personality in general, and provide a tool for the selection of candidates for high-risk jobs. On the basis of extant knowledge on risk takers' personality attributes, items were selected for the construction of a questionnaire which assessed respondents' attitudes towards situations and actions characterized by tension, risk…
Decision making under stress: Scanning of alternatives under controllable and uncontrollable threats
This study tested the proposition that deficient decision making under stress is due, to a significant extent, to the individual's failure to fulfill adequately an elementary requirement of the decision-making process, that is, the systematic consideration of all relevant alternatives. One hundred one undergraduate students (59 women and 42 men), aged 20-40, served as subjects in this experiment. They were requested to solve decision problems, us…
Stress in Academe: A Cross-Cultural Comparison between Israeli and American Academicians
This study of the sources and patterns of occupational stress experienced by Israeli faculty members is a partial replication of a study of faculty stress in American universities reported by Gmelch, Lorvich, and Wilke (1983, 1984). A total of 100 faculty members drawn from all Israeli universities were sampled. They were asked to fill out a Hebrew version of the questionnaire developed by Gmelch et al. to measure the degree of stress resulting f…
Perception of Self and Parents by Second-Generation Holocaust Survivors
This study's objectives were to test the emotional stability and self-perceptions of Holocaust survivors' offspring (HSO) and to investigate how HSO perceive their parents. It was assumed that the investigation of these two issues would broaden our understanding of the mediating processes through which the psychological burdens of the survivors might be transmitted to their descendants. Forty-seven subjects, all second-generation Holocaust surviv…
Moving as a stressful life event for adolescents
In this study, 15 stressful elements and 18 supportive elements relating to moving house were identified based on the reports of 69 male and 71 female adolescents and pre-adolescents. Three primary stress factors and three basic support factors were found. It seems that pre-adolescent girls represent the group most sensitive to the level of stress and to the amount of received support surrounding a move. Adolescents who move from one city to anot…
Predicting Women's Delay in Seeking Medical Care after Discovery of a Lump in the Breast: The Role of Personality and Behavior Patterns
Experts agree that the detection of breast cancer in the early stages significantly enhances the chance of recovery. Although most women are aware of this, many still delay in seeking medical care. This study examined the relationship between four personality measures--health locus of control, hopelessness, repression-sensitization, and trait anxiety--and women's delay in approaching a doctor after discovering a lump in the breast. The authors al…
The effects of stress, ambiguity tolerance, and trait anxiety on the formation of causal relationships
Controlling the uncontrollable: Effects of stress on illusory perceptions of controllability
Individuals' failure to exercise actual control over an event might be compensated for by trying to bolster a generalized, subjective sense of control. Control might then be sought by undertaking acts the effect of which on the environment is illusory. This observation led to the hypothesis that stress, which undermines persons' sense of control, would engender illusory perceptions of controllability. The hypothesis was tested in 3 experiments th…
Humor and pain tolerance
Effects of stress and tolerance of ambiguity on magical thinking
The present study investigated the relationship between psychological stress and magical thinking and the extent to which such a relationship may be moderated by individuals' tolerance of ambiguity. Questionnaires assessing different types of magical thinking and tolerance of ambiguity were administered to 174 Israeli citizens who, during the Gulf War, resided in areas that were either exposed (high-stress condition) or not exposed (low-stress co…
The Effects of Stress and Desire for Control on the Formation of Causal Attributions
Attitudes and reactions to media coverage of terrorist acts
The present study examined attitudes and reactions of individuals towards media coverage of terrorist acts. Shortly after a series of severe terrorist attacks had taken place in Israel, 534 people were asked to fill out a questionnaire that assessed their attitudes and reactions to the media's coverage of these acts as well as a questionnaire that examined their information‐seeking style. The results suggested that although a considerable proport…
Who is Prone to React to Coinciding Threats of Terrorism and War? Exploring Vulnerability Through Global Versus Differential Reactivity
The association between cumulative adversity and mental health: Considering dose and primary focus of adversity
Psychology (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (9 works) · Clinical Psychology (7 works) · Developmental psychology (7 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Anxiety (4 works) · Big Five personality traits (3 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works)