Hasida Ben-Zur
Biographic Data
| ID | 4214889 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hasida Ben-Zur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hasida |
| FAMILY NAME | Ben-Zur |
| SIGNATURE | BEN-ZUR H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Post-traumatic Symptoms and Future Orientation among Israeli Adolescents Two Years after the Second Lebanese War
Resilience and Distress
Social Comparisons and Well-Being Following Widowhood and Divorce
A sample of 196 participants (mean age 45.94 years, 54% women) completed inventories assessing upward and downward positive and negative social comparisons and general well-being. Widows and widowers were higher on upward negative comparisons than divorced or married persons while being lower on well-being measures of life satisfaction and psychosocial adjustment. The divorced were higher than the widowed or married people on upward or downward p…
Personal resources, appraisal, and coping in the adaptation process of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
Between 1989 and 2005, Israel absorbed over a million new immigrants, about 90% of whom were from the Former Soviet Union (FSU). The present study investigated the adaptation of these FSU new immigrants in a sample of 301 participants (67% women, ages 25-45 years), who completed inventories measuring personal resources (tolerance of ambiguity and cognitive flexibility), cognitive appraisals (of employment, language, and housing problems), coping …
Stressful Life Events
A sample of 130 participants (mean age = 49.36, 44.9% males), 52.3% divorced and 47.7% widowed, completed inventories assessing current well-being and adjustment, as well as life satisfaction before and after separation or loss, and coping strategies used during separation or loss. Widowed individuals scored higher on life satisfaction before than after the loss, while divorced individuals showed the opposite pattern in relation to separation. Wi…
Pessimism, Lifestyle, and Survival
Afollow-up study was conducted to assess the survival of 168 patients who participated in 1995 in a survey study two to twenty months after undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). The patients' survival was examined over a seven-year period following the initial study. The surviving patients did not differ from those who died during the seven-year follow-up period on mean age, gender, family status, or education levels. Active lif…
Peer Risk Behavior and Denial of HIV/Aids Among Adolescents
The main purpose of this study was to investigate perceived risk behavior of peers in relation to sexual intercourse, and its associations with adolescents' personal risk behavior and their denial of HIV/AIDS risk. A sample of 291 Israeli adolescents, aged 14-18, who reported on their closest friend having been engaged in sexual intercourse assessed five peer sexual risk behaviors: age at first intercourse; number of sexual partners; use of any c…
Happy Adolescents
Does the MSW Curriculum Contribute to the Professional Specialization of the BSW-Educated Social Worker
The study evaluates the MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa in comparison with the BSW program in terms of values, knowledge and skills, whose usefulness at work was also assessed. The two samples were MSW degree-holders and current MSW students. The results showed that the BSW program was rated as emphasizing values and knowledge more than the MSW program. No difference was found in relation to skills. The MSW pro…
Bereavement of spouse caregivers of cancer patients
This study assessed bereavement aspects among 69 widowed spouses (mean age = 61.1; 36.2% men) of deceased cancer patients. They completed questionnaires related to psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (L. R. Derogatis, 1975a), psychosocial adjustment as measured by the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (L. R. Derogatis, 1975b), grief as measured by the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (T. Faschingbauer, S. Ziso…
Coping With Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were 1) to assess similarities and differences between patients with breast cancer and their spouses in terms of coping strategies and adjustment (psychosocial and psychological) to cancer and 2) to investigate the pattern of relationships between the patients' and spouses' coping strategies and between each of these strategies and the patient's adjustment to the illness using three types of models: patient…
Studies in Psychoneuroimmunology
Twenty-two male volunteers in Jerusalem were subjected to a battery of psychological tests at the height of the Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Israeli cities during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and again after the cessation of hostilities. Venous blood samples were taken at each time point. The separated mononuclear cells and plasma were cryopreserved, and a spectrum of immunological and neuroendocrine assays were performed on the preserved samples. …
What makes people angry
Sex differences in anxiety, curiosity, and anger
Happy Adolescents
Sex differences in anxiety, curiosity, and anger
Does the MSW Curriculum Contribute to the Professional Specialization of the BSW-Educated Social Worker
The study evaluates the MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa in comparison with the BSW program in terms of values, knowledge and skills, whose usefulness at work was also assessed. The two samples were MSW degree-holders and current MSW students. The results showed that the BSW program was rated as emphasizing values and knowledge more than the MSW program. No difference was found in relation to skills. The MSW pro…
What makes people angry
Resilience and Distress
Social Comparisons and Well-Being Following Widowhood and Divorce
A sample of 196 participants (mean age 45.94 years, 54% women) completed inventories assessing upward and downward positive and negative social comparisons and general well-being. Widows and widowers were higher on upward negative comparisons than divorced or married persons while being lower on well-being measures of life satisfaction and psychosocial adjustment. The divorced were higher than the widowed or married people on upward or downward p…
Sex differences in anxiety, curiosity, and anger
What makes people angry
Studies in Psychoneuroimmunology
Twenty-two male volunteers in Jerusalem were subjected to a battery of psychological tests at the height of the Iraqi Scud missile attacks on Israeli cities during the 1991 Persian Gulf War and again after the cessation of hostilities. Venous blood samples were taken at each time point. The separated mononuclear cells and plasma were cryopreserved, and a spectrum of immunological and neuroendocrine assays were performed on the preserved samples. …
Coping With Breast Cancer
OBJECTIVE: The objectives of this study were 1) to assess similarities and differences between patients with breast cancer and their spouses in terms of coping strategies and adjustment (psychosocial and psychological) to cancer and 2) to investigate the pattern of relationships between the patients' and spouses' coping strategies and between each of these strategies and the patient's adjustment to the illness using three types of models: patient…
Bereavement of spouse caregivers of cancer patients
This study assessed bereavement aspects among 69 widowed spouses (mean age = 61.1; 36.2% men) of deceased cancer patients. They completed questionnaires related to psychological distress as measured by the Brief Symptom Inventory (L. R. Derogatis, 1975a), psychosocial adjustment as measured by the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale (L. R. Derogatis, 1975b), grief as measured by the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief (T. Faschingbauer, S. Ziso…
Peer Risk Behavior and Denial of HIV/Aids Among Adolescents
The main purpose of this study was to investigate perceived risk behavior of peers in relation to sexual intercourse, and its associations with adolescents' personal risk behavior and their denial of HIV/AIDS risk. A sample of 291 Israeli adolescents, aged 14-18, who reported on their closest friend having been engaged in sexual intercourse assessed five peer sexual risk behaviors: age at first intercourse; number of sexual partners; use of any c…
Happy Adolescents
Does the MSW Curriculum Contribute to the Professional Specialization of the BSW-Educated Social Worker
The study evaluates the MSW program in the School of Social Work at the University of Haifa in comparison with the BSW program in terms of values, knowledge and skills, whose usefulness at work was also assessed. The two samples were MSW degree-holders and current MSW students. The results showed that the BSW program was rated as emphasizing values and knowledge more than the MSW program. No difference was found in relation to skills. The MSW pro…
Pessimism, Lifestyle, and Survival
Afollow-up study was conducted to assess the survival of 168 patients who participated in 1995 in a survey study two to twenty months after undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG). The patients' survival was examined over a seven-year period following the initial study. The surviving patients did not differ from those who died during the seven-year follow-up period on mean age, gender, family status, or education levels. Active lif…
Stressful Life Events
A sample of 130 participants (mean age = 49.36, 44.9% males), 52.3% divorced and 47.7% widowed, completed inventories assessing current well-being and adjustment, as well as life satisfaction before and after separation or loss, and coping strategies used during separation or loss. Widowed individuals scored higher on life satisfaction before than after the loss, while divorced individuals showed the opposite pattern in relation to separation. Wi…
Personal resources, appraisal, and coping in the adaptation process of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union
Between 1989 and 2005, Israel absorbed over a million new immigrants, about 90% of whom were from the Former Soviet Union (FSU). The present study investigated the adaptation of these FSU new immigrants in a sample of 301 participants (67% women, ages 25-45 years), who completed inventories measuring personal resources (tolerance of ambiguity and cognitive flexibility), cognitive appraisals (of employment, language, and housing problems), coping …
Social Comparisons and Well-Being Following Widowhood and Divorce
A sample of 196 participants (mean age 45.94 years, 54% women) completed inventories assessing upward and downward positive and negative social comparisons and general well-being. Widows and widowers were higher on upward negative comparisons than divorced or married persons while being lower on well-being measures of life satisfaction and psychosocial adjustment. The divorced were higher than the widowed or married people on upward or downward p…
Resilience and Distress
Post-traumatic Symptoms and Future Orientation among Israeli Adolescents Two Years after the Second Lebanese War
Psychology (13 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (4 works) · Distress (4 works) · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being (4 works) · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (4 works)