Liat Hamama
Biographic Data
| ID | 4369768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liat Hamama |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liat |
| FAMILY NAME | Hamama |
| SIGNATURE | HAMAMA L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5498-7443 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 90 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A gendered network analysis of somatic, psychological, and healthcare utilization patterns among parents of service members in wartime
Introduction: Parents of actively serving soldiers experience sustained stress that affects psychological, somatic, and behavioral health, yet the interrelations among these domains and gender differences are understudied. Methods: We studied 402 Israeli parents (201 mothers, 201 fathers from unrelated households) of sons/daughters aged 18-27 serving in regular or reserve duty during wartime, recruited via a national online panel (data collected …
Mothers’ psychological distress in wartime: The roles of intolerance of uncertainty, parental self-efficacy, and optimism
In the present study, we examined psychological distress, specifically symptoms of depression and anxiety, among mothers of children aged 0-17 years during a prolonged period of war and armed conflict. Guided by Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory, we focused on personal characteristics and resources, exploring how intolerance of uncertainty, parental self-efficacy, and optimism predicted mothers' psychological distress. The study included…
Exploring the long-term psychological impact of socio-political crisis in Israel: A network analysis
The findings underscore the profound psychological toll of socio-political crises on individuals, regardless of political affiliation. They highlight the need for targeted public mental health support during periods of social unrest, recognizing that psychological responses may vary depending on individuals' political ideologies
Adolescents during wartime: Vulnerability‐based profiles
Adolescents in war zones face the dual burden of normative developmental challenges and stressors from their proximity to active conflict, raising critical questions about their vulnerability during wartime. The aim of the current study was to identify distinct vulnerability profiles among Israeli adolescents (ages 11-18) during Israel's ongoing Swords of Iron War. Drawing on Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory, we assessed protective fact…
Adolescent siblings of children with cancer: Resource‐based profiles, normalization, and search for meaning in life
INTRODUCTION: Adolescent siblings of children with cancer jointly face the experience of having a brother or sister with cancer and being in the developmental period of adolescence themselves. Based on Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory, we aimed to identify profiles based on two distinct resources: sense of hope (personal resource) and perceived social support (social resource). Both have been found to be vital for optimal functioning du…
Young Adults and Parents’ Coping With Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy: A Focus Group Study
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD) are genetic disorders that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness. As such, individuals with DBMD may need constant assistance with medical and physical care, which is oftenE provided by their family members. An essential part of patients’ medical management and their parents’ care is to develop appropriate coping strategies. This study focuses on young adults in the developmental period of …
Adolescents’ posttraumatic growth during the Covid-19 pandemic: The links between differentiation of self, parents’ posttraumatic growth, and adolescents’ gender
Meaning in Life, Self-Control, Positive and Negative Affect: Exploring Gender Differences Among Adolescents
The present study explores gender differences in adolescence with regard to meaning in life and self-control skills and in relation to positive and negative affect. Participants were 500 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 years. Outcomes revealed that females reported higher negative affect and self-control skills in comparison with males. Moreover, the association between self-control skills and negative affect was stronger among females …
The Sibling Relationship in the Context of Child Maltreatment: What Do We Know? What Are the Directions for the Future
Siblings share a common and unique bond. It is one of the most enduring relationships during an individual’s life span. Thus, the impact of child maltreatment on sibling relationships is an important area of research to explore. The current article carries out a scoping review targeted at determining the existing knowledge and then identifying research priorities within the field of sibling relationship in the context of child maltreatment. The m…
Children with epilepsy: Assessing state anxiety through drawings and a self-report questionnaire
The findings indicate that despite potential critiques and limitations of the use of figure drawings as a research tool, future studies can incorporate both art therapy assessments and psychometric measures to address psychosocial aspects of epilepsy in children and adolescent
Positivity Ratio Links Self-control Skills to Physical Aggression and Happiness in Young Palestinians Living in Gaza
The study examined a potential underlying mechanism through which self-control skills (SCSs) may predict more happiness on the one hand and less hostility, anger and peer aggression on the other hand in an understudied sample of 744 Palestinian youngsters (Grades 8–12) from the Gaza Strip, a military conflict area. The hypothesized model was confirmed: self-reported SCS linked with happiness through positivity ratio as a mediator; SCS linked with…
Forensic interviews with children: Exploring the richness of children's drawing and the richness of their testimony
Multiple Facets of Self-Control in Arab Adolescents: Parallel Pathways to Greater Happiness and Less Physical Aggression
Adolescence is a period of dramatic change that necessitates using skills and strengths to reduce physical aggression and increase happiness. This study examined the multiple facets of self-control skills in achieving both goals simultaneously, in a sample of 248 Arab adolescents in Israel. We conceptualized and tested a new multi-mediator model that posited two parallel paths. Structural equation modeling with bootstrap analysis supported the hy…
Pathways to Adolescents' Flourishing: Linking Self-Control Skills and Positivity Ratio Through Social Support
This study focused on the ability to experience a high ratio of positive to negative emotions in 807 Israeli adolescents aged 12 to 15 years (50% girls). While considering possible gender differences, we tested a model positing that adolescents' self-control skills would link to their positivity ratio and indirectly through perceived social support from parents and classmates. Parental support was significantly higher than classmate support, and …
Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence: The Role of Self-Control, Social Support, Age, Gender, and Familial Crisis
Reducing child aggression through sports intervention: The role of self-control skills and emotions
Multiple Mediators for Peer-Directed Aggression and Happiness in Arab Adolescents Exposed to Parent–child Aggression
Draw me everything that happened to you”: Exploring children's drawings of sexual abuse
Predictors of aggression among Palestinians in Israel and Gaza: Happiness, need to belong, and self-control
Burnout in Social Workers Treating Children as Related to Demographic Characteristics, Work Environment, and Social Support
This study examined sense of burnout among 126 social workers who directly treat children and adolescents within the human service professions. Burnout was investigated in relation to social workers' demographic characteristics (age, family status, education, and seniority at work), extrinsic and intrinsic work conditions, and social support by colleagues, direct supervisors, and organization managers. Findings indicated, on average, a moderate i…
Self-control, social support, and aggression among adolescents in divorced and two-parent families
The link between developmental components (age and gender), need to belong and resources of self-control and feelings of happiness, and frequency of symptoms among Arab adolescents in Israel
Differences between Children's Social Workers and Adults' Social Workers on Sense of Burnout, Work Conditions and Organisational Social Support
This research study aimed to examine the experience of burnout among 232 Israeli social workers (126 who were directly treating children and adolescents and 106 who were directly treating adults). Burnout was investigated in relation to social workers’ demographic characteristics, extrinsic and intrinsic work conditions, and social support at the workplace by colleagues, their direct supervisor and the head of their agency. Social workers of chil…
Aggressive behaviour in at‐risk children: Contribution of subjective well‐being and family cohesion
We examined the contributors to aggressive behaviour in 111 at‐risk Israeli children aged 9–13 years who attended day centres over several years to prevent removal from their homes. This non‐normative transition to a day centre represents a difficult period of change for these children, which often manifests in aggressive behaviours, at least in the short term. To elucidate predictors of aggressive behaviour, we investigated a familial variable (…
A preliminary study of group intervention along with basic canine training among traumatized teenagers: A 3-month longitudinal study
Burnout in Social Workers Treating Children as Related to Demographic Characteristics, Work Environment, and Social Support
This study examined sense of burnout among 126 social workers who directly treat children and adolescents within the human service professions. Burnout was investigated in relation to social workers' demographic characteristics (age, family status, education, and seniority at work), extrinsic and intrinsic work conditions, and social support by colleagues, direct supervisors, and organization managers. Findings indicated, on average, a moderate i…
Self-control, social support, and aggression among adolescents in divorced and two-parent families
Aggressive behaviour in at‐risk children: Contribution of subjective well‐being and family cohesion
We examined the contributors to aggressive behaviour in 111 at‐risk Israeli children aged 9–13 years who attended day centres over several years to prevent removal from their homes. This non‐normative transition to a day centre represents a difficult period of change for these children, which often manifests in aggressive behaviours, at least in the short term. To elucidate predictors of aggressive behaviour, we investigated a familial variable (…
Children's drawings as a self‐report measurement
The present exploratory paper addresses school‐aged children's assessments of treatment outcomes using drawing as a self‐report measure with usefulness for assessment and therapy. The process of using drawing in therapy can provide information on how a particular child perceives and conceives his or her own world. Examples are presented of drawings by three children with oppositional defiant disorder aged 10–11 years who participated in group int…
Meaning in Life, Self-Control, Positive and Negative Affect: Exploring Gender Differences Among Adolescents
The present study explores gender differences in adolescence with regard to meaning in life and self-control skills and in relation to positive and negative affect. Participants were 500 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 years. Outcomes revealed that females reported higher negative affect and self-control skills in comparison with males. Moreover, the association between self-control skills and negative affect was stronger among females …
Draw me everything that happened to you”: Exploring children's drawings of sexual abuse
Differences between Children's Social Workers and Adults' Social Workers on Sense of Burnout, Work Conditions and Organisational Social Support
This research study aimed to examine the experience of burnout among 232 Israeli social workers (126 who were directly treating children and adolescents and 106 who were directly treating adults). Burnout was investigated in relation to social workers’ demographic characteristics, extrinsic and intrinsic work conditions, and social support at the workplace by colleagues, their direct supervisor and the head of their agency. Social workers of chil…
Predictors of aggression among Palestinians in Israel and Gaza: Happiness, need to belong, and self-control
Pathways to Adolescents' Flourishing: Linking Self-Control Skills and Positivity Ratio Through Social Support
This study focused on the ability to experience a high ratio of positive to negative emotions in 807 Israeli adolescents aged 12 to 15 years (50% girls). While considering possible gender differences, we tested a model positing that adolescents' self-control skills would link to their positivity ratio and indirectly through perceived social support from parents and classmates. Parental support was significantly higher than classmate support, and …
Reducing child aggression through sports intervention: The role of self-control skills and emotions
Multiple Mediators for Peer-Directed Aggression and Happiness in Arab Adolescents Exposed to Parent–child Aggression
The link between developmental components (age and gender), need to belong and resources of self-control and feelings of happiness, and frequency of symptoms among Arab adolescents in Israel
Forensic interviews with children: Exploring the richness of children's drawing and the richness of their testimony
A preliminary study of group intervention along with basic canine training among traumatized teenagers: A 3-month longitudinal study
Adolescents during wartime: Vulnerability‐based profiles
Adolescents in war zones face the dual burden of normative developmental challenges and stressors from their proximity to active conflict, raising critical questions about their vulnerability during wartime. The aim of the current study was to identify distinct vulnerability profiles among Israeli adolescents (ages 11-18) during Israel's ongoing Swords of Iron War. Drawing on Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory, we assessed protective fact…
Adolescents’ posttraumatic growth during the Covid-19 pandemic: The links between differentiation of self, parents’ posttraumatic growth, and adolescents’ gender
Positivity Ratio Links Self-control Skills to Physical Aggression and Happiness in Young Palestinians Living in Gaza
The study examined a potential underlying mechanism through which self-control skills (SCSs) may predict more happiness on the one hand and less hostility, anger and peer aggression on the other hand in an understudied sample of 744 Palestinian youngsters (Grades 8–12) from the Gaza Strip, a military conflict area. The hypothesized model was confirmed: self-reported SCS linked with happiness through positivity ratio as a mediator; SCS linked with…
Multiple Facets of Self-Control in Arab Adolescents: Parallel Pathways to Greater Happiness and Less Physical Aggression
Adolescence is a period of dramatic change that necessitates using skills and strengths to reduce physical aggression and increase happiness. This study examined the multiple facets of self-control skills in achieving both goals simultaneously, in a sample of 248 Arab adolescents in Israel. We conceptualized and tested a new multi-mediator model that posited two parallel paths. Structural equation modeling with bootstrap analysis supported the hy…
Children's drawings as a self‐report measurement
The present exploratory paper addresses school‐aged children's assessments of treatment outcomes using drawing as a self‐report measure with usefulness for assessment and therapy. The process of using drawing in therapy can provide information on how a particular child perceives and conceives his or her own world. Examples are presented of drawings by three children with oppositional defiant disorder aged 10–11 years who participated in group int…
Aggressive behaviour in at‐risk children: Contribution of subjective well‐being and family cohesion
We examined the contributors to aggressive behaviour in 111 at‐risk Israeli children aged 9–13 years who attended day centres over several years to prevent removal from their homes. This non‐normative transition to a day centre represents a difficult period of change for these children, which often manifests in aggressive behaviours, at least in the short term. To elucidate predictors of aggressive behaviour, we investigated a familial variable (…
A preliminary study of group intervention along with basic canine training among traumatized teenagers: A 3-month longitudinal study
Burnout in Social Workers Treating Children as Related to Demographic Characteristics, Work Environment, and Social Support
This study examined sense of burnout among 126 social workers who directly treat children and adolescents within the human service professions. Burnout was investigated in relation to social workers' demographic characteristics (age, family status, education, and seniority at work), extrinsic and intrinsic work conditions, and social support by colleagues, direct supervisors, and organization managers. Findings indicated, on average, a moderate i…
Self-control, social support, and aggression among adolescents in divorced and two-parent families
The link between developmental components (age and gender), need to belong and resources of self-control and feelings of happiness, and frequency of symptoms among Arab adolescents in Israel
Differences between Children's Social Workers and Adults' Social Workers on Sense of Burnout, Work Conditions and Organisational Social Support
This research study aimed to examine the experience of burnout among 232 Israeli social workers (126 who were directly treating children and adolescents and 106 who were directly treating adults). Burnout was investigated in relation to social workers’ demographic characteristics, extrinsic and intrinsic work conditions, and social support at the workplace by colleagues, their direct supervisor and the head of their agency. Social workers of chil…
Draw me everything that happened to you”: Exploring children's drawings of sexual abuse
Predictors of aggression among Palestinians in Israel and Gaza: Happiness, need to belong, and self-control
Multiple Mediators for Peer-Directed Aggression and Happiness in Arab Adolescents Exposed to Parent–child Aggression
Subjective Well-Being in Adolescence: The Role of Self-Control, Social Support, Age, Gender, and Familial Crisis
Reducing child aggression through sports intervention: The role of self-control skills and emotions
The Sibling Relationship in the Context of Child Maltreatment: What Do We Know? What Are the Directions for the Future
Siblings share a common and unique bond. It is one of the most enduring relationships during an individual’s life span. Thus, the impact of child maltreatment on sibling relationships is an important area of research to explore. The current article carries out a scoping review targeted at determining the existing knowledge and then identifying research priorities within the field of sibling relationship in the context of child maltreatment. The m…
Children with epilepsy: Assessing state anxiety through drawings and a self-report questionnaire
The findings indicate that despite potential critiques and limitations of the use of figure drawings as a research tool, future studies can incorporate both art therapy assessments and psychometric measures to address psychosocial aspects of epilepsy in children and adolescent
Positivity Ratio Links Self-control Skills to Physical Aggression and Happiness in Young Palestinians Living in Gaza
The study examined a potential underlying mechanism through which self-control skills (SCSs) may predict more happiness on the one hand and less hostility, anger and peer aggression on the other hand in an understudied sample of 744 Palestinian youngsters (Grades 8–12) from the Gaza Strip, a military conflict area. The hypothesized model was confirmed: self-reported SCS linked with happiness through positivity ratio as a mediator; SCS linked with…
Forensic interviews with children: Exploring the richness of children's drawing and the richness of their testimony
Multiple Facets of Self-Control in Arab Adolescents: Parallel Pathways to Greater Happiness and Less Physical Aggression
Adolescence is a period of dramatic change that necessitates using skills and strengths to reduce physical aggression and increase happiness. This study examined the multiple facets of self-control skills in achieving both goals simultaneously, in a sample of 248 Arab adolescents in Israel. We conceptualized and tested a new multi-mediator model that posited two parallel paths. Structural equation modeling with bootstrap analysis supported the hy…
Pathways to Adolescents' Flourishing: Linking Self-Control Skills and Positivity Ratio Through Social Support
This study focused on the ability to experience a high ratio of positive to negative emotions in 807 Israeli adolescents aged 12 to 15 years (50% girls). While considering possible gender differences, we tested a model positing that adolescents' self-control skills would link to their positivity ratio and indirectly through perceived social support from parents and classmates. Parental support was significantly higher than classmate support, and …
Meaning in Life, Self-Control, Positive and Negative Affect: Exploring Gender Differences Among Adolescents
The present study explores gender differences in adolescence with regard to meaning in life and self-control skills and in relation to positive and negative affect. Participants were 500 adolescents between the ages of 13 and 16 years. Outcomes revealed that females reported higher negative affect and self-control skills in comparison with males. Moreover, the association between self-control skills and negative affect was stronger among females …
Adolescent siblings of children with cancer: Resource‐based profiles, normalization, and search for meaning in life
INTRODUCTION: Adolescent siblings of children with cancer jointly face the experience of having a brother or sister with cancer and being in the developmental period of adolescence themselves. Based on Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory, we aimed to identify profiles based on two distinct resources: sense of hope (personal resource) and perceived social support (social resource). Both have been found to be vital for optimal functioning du…
Young Adults and Parents’ Coping With Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy: A Focus Group Study
Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy (DBMD) are genetic disorders that are characterized by progressive muscle weakness. As such, individuals with DBMD may need constant assistance with medical and physical care, which is oftenE provided by their family members. An essential part of patients’ medical management and their parents’ care is to develop appropriate coping strategies. This study focuses on young adults in the developmental period of …
Adolescents’ posttraumatic growth during the Covid-19 pandemic: The links between differentiation of self, parents’ posttraumatic growth, and adolescents’ gender
Exploring the long-term psychological impact of socio-political crisis in Israel: A network analysis
The findings underscore the profound psychological toll of socio-political crises on individuals, regardless of political affiliation. They highlight the need for targeted public mental health support during periods of social unrest, recognizing that psychological responses may vary depending on individuals' political ideologies
Adolescents during wartime: Vulnerability‐based profiles
Adolescents in war zones face the dual burden of normative developmental challenges and stressors from their proximity to active conflict, raising critical questions about their vulnerability during wartime. The aim of the current study was to identify distinct vulnerability profiles among Israeli adolescents (ages 11-18) during Israel's ongoing Swords of Iron War. Drawing on Hobfoll's conservation of resources theory, we assessed protective fact…
A gendered network analysis of somatic, psychological, and healthcare utilization patterns among parents of service members in wartime
Introduction: Parents of actively serving soldiers experience sustained stress that affects psychological, somatic, and behavioral health, yet the interrelations among these domains and gender differences are understudied. Methods: We studied 402 Israeli parents (201 mothers, 201 fathers from unrelated households) of sons/daughters aged 18-27 serving in regular or reserve duty during wartime, recruited via a national online panel (data collected …
Psychology (24 works) · Developmental psychology (20 works) · Clinical Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Aggression (7 works) · Happiness (6 works)