Ofra Maysele
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 643120 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ofra Maysele |
| PRENOMES | Ofra |
| SOBRENOME | Maysele |
| ASSINATURA | MAYSELE O |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5012-6400 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 227 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Living transcendence
What makes someone a spiritual exemplar to another
The aim of the study is to shed light on the perception of spiritual exemplars by those who consider them as such. The authors asked 300 experts in the religious-spiritual field from different traditions to nominate spiritual exemplars they knew and describe them “specifically indicating what it is that makes each of them exemplary.” Seventy-seven expert informants provided descriptions of 180 spiritual exemplars. In thematic analysis of the desc…
Should I Share
Spirituality has gained increasing legitimacy in psychotherapy; however, certain spiritual experiences, such as past life memories, remain marginalized in clinical settings. These experiences often arise outside therapy and may hold deep existential meaning for individuals, yet patients frequently hesitate to disclose them in conventional psychotherapy for fear of being pathologized. This qualitative study examines how individuals who experienced…
Preparing youth for participatory civil society
The Art of Working With Nature in Nature-Based Therapies
Background: Nature-based therapeutic approaches have largely centered on the significance of nature, as a unique setting. This article focuses on an additional perspective, that of nature as actively influencing the therapeutic process, providing significant content. Purpose: The main objective of this study was to shed light on how practitioners experience, perceive, and work with nature to serve therapeutic goals. Methodology/Approach: Grounded…
The Therapeutic Process in Nature-Based Therapies from the Perspectives of Facilitators
This article focuses on the therapeutic process in nature-based therapies (NBTs), shedding light on how the process is perceived, practiced, and evolves, from the perspective of practitioners from various approaches in the field. Building upon current conceptualizations, this study specifically focuses on the natural environment, as the setting and central ingredient in the therapeutic process. To gain a broad and empirically based understanding …
Surrender to Another Person
The experience and posture of surrender has been espoused by religious traditions as key to spiritual life and development for millennia. Within psychology, on the other hand, surrender’s position has been likened to an “unwanted bastard child,” and its research has been neglected. Moreover, when occurring in the context of a relationship with another person, the terms “submission” and “obedience,” laden with negative connotations, have been comm…
How Personal Transformation Occurs Following a Single Peak Experience in Nature
This study focuses on a particular form of positive transformation taking place in the wilderness, defined here as peak transformative experience. A large number of studies have been conducted on the negative transformative effect of a single traumatic event, while very little research has focused on positive transformational events. We addressed this lacuna by studying a unique case of quick positive transformation, taking place in nature. This …
Spiritual Identity outside Institutional Religion
This study explores the essence and meaning of the lived experience of spirituality outside institutional religion among individuals who experienced spiritual change. Based on a phenomenological analysis of in-depth interviews conducted with 25 Israeli adults, 12 men and 13 women between the ages of 25 and 66 years (M = 45.3), the findings indicate that the developmental process experienced by the participants yielded the establishment of a new i…
Finding a Meaningful Life as a Developmental Task in Emerging Adulthood
Two central life domains, love and work, are described as the focus of identity exploration in emerging adulthood. The present theoretical overview suggests an additional perspective. Current postmodern processes in Western industrialized countries set the stage for the saliency of a new developmental task in emerging adulthood: finding the meaningful life. This task is enacted in various domains of life including love and work. The pursuit in ei…
Shifting Internal Parent—Child Representations among Caregivers of Teens with Serious Behavior Problems
Buds of Parenting in Emerging Adult Males
The authors examine the precursors of parenting buds (representations regarding parenting before actual parenting) by following 60 men from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Quality of relationships with parents, and attachment representations (state of mind with respect to attachment and attachment styles) assessed in adolescence, contribute to the development of parenting buds in emerging adulthood (desire to have children, perceived parenting…
Representations of Mother-Child Attachment Relationships and Social-Information Processing of Peer Relationships in Early Adolescence
We examined the concurrent associations between early adolescents’ representations of mother-child attachment relationships and how they process social information in their peer relationships. Attachment representations were examined in a normative sample of 97 males and 88 females (mean age = 10.35 years), using an adaptation of the Attachment Doll Story Completion Task. Structural Equation Modeling was used to assess general latent structures o…
Disorganizing Experiences in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors
Second-generation Holocaust survivors might not show direct symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or attachment disorganization, but are at risk for developing high levels of psychological distress. We present themes of difficult experiences of second-generation Holocaust survivors, arguing that some of these aversive experiences might have disorganizing qualities even though they do not qualify as traumatic. Based on in-depth interviews with…
Attachment Patterns and Their Outcomes
Three insecure attachment patterns are described – two known patterns (ambivalent and avoidant), and a recently proposed pattern, termed disorganized for infants and controlling for adults. Three outcome variables are considered – extent of activation of attachment needs, sense of self-efficacy and being appreciated (positive self-regard), and orientation to objects or people. Avoidant individuals are postulated to highly deactivate their attachm…
Finding the authentic self in a communal culture
Finding and cultivating a sense of authentic self is an important life goal for emerging adults. In collectivist cultures, youngsters might need to distance themselves to find and discover their authentic selves separate of the expectations of society and significant others. Creating an autonomous time bubble that focuses on the present allows youngsters to forge a sense of personal meaning and authenticity that subsequently paves the way to rein…
Attachment and the leader-follower relationship
Leader-follower relationships have been thought to involve attachment dynamics, in particular when these relationships have an affective component. In this paper, I consider why and under what circumstances followers form attachment relationships with a leader and how both a follower's and a leader's attachment representations can affect the quality and characteristics of their relationship. Results from several studies, focused on different cont…
The Quality of Mentoring Relationships and Mentoring Success
Too close for comfort
This longitudinal study examined the ramifications of psychological control-guilt induction, parentification, triangulation, and blurring in parent-adolescent relationships for girls' individuation and adjustment. The study followed 120 girls in their transition from high school to military service. Results from the variable-centered and person-centered analyses merged in underscoring the somewhat different developmental path of two groups of ina…
Th e Role of Spirituality in Mental Health Interventions
Th is article presents a four-level developmental description of the extent to which clinicians apply spirituality in therapy. At the fi rst level, clinicians begin to sense dissonance regarding their traditional, positivist worldview while conducting conventional psychotherapy, especially in cases involving life-threatening situations or loss. At the second level, clinicians open up to the possibility of the existence of a metaphysical reality a…
On the Alert in an Unpredictable Environment
A fundamental tenet of much sociological, psychological and educational literature assumes that the creation of a predictable environment is crucial for nurturing a sense of well-being, as well as for generating a sense of trust in the wider social order. Still, the ways in which the environment is structured, and the very importance attached to the notion of predictability, will vary in different cultural contexts. Findings from an ethnography o…
Love as a Battlefield
The authors explored the attachment dynamics of heterosexual couples identified for male partner violence. Based on semistructured interviews, participants were assessed for attachment orientations. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews, two strategies for regulating distance within these relationships were identified: pursuit and distancing. Partners' abusive acts often appeared to serve one of these attachment strategies. As a pursuit …
Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Their Capacity for Intimacy in Close Relationships
A secure state of mind with regard to attachment , as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), as well as attachment styles as assessed by questionnaires (the two most prevalent facets of attachment representations assessed in adolescence and adulthood) were examined as potential contributors to adolescents' capacity for intimacy. Eighty male Israeli adolescents were administered the two measures and reported on their impulsiveness durin…
Home Leaving to Military Service
The home-leaving transition of male adolescents in Israel, where most 18-year-olds leave home to perform a 3-year mandatory military service, was examined. Transfer of attachment functions from parents to peers across the transition and adjustment to the basic-training period were investigated. Adolescents ( N = 143) filled out questionnaires 3 months before conscription and 6 months later, following their basic training. Before conscription, par…
Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Developmental Tasks in Emerging Adulthood
The association between attachment representations and adolescents' coping with 3 developmental tasks of emerging adulthood-leaving home, advancing in the capacity for mature intimacy, and developing individuation-was examined. Israeli male adolescents (N = 88) were administered the Adult Attachment Interview during their high-school senior year. A year later, they and their friends reported on the adolescents' adjustment to mandatory military se…
Classic and current social comparison research
This article assumes that social comparisons (a) constitute comparative judgments governed by the general process that applies to all judgments, (b) possess a common comparative structure including simple judgments of comparison stimuli and their juxtaposition, and (c) possess unique contents that determine the subjective meanings of comparison outcomes and their psychological implications. Examined in these terms, classical social comparison the…
Stability and discriminant validity of the Adult Attachment Interview
Fifty-nine male and female Israeli students were interviewed twice by 2 different interviewers at 3month intervals to assess the Adult Attachment Interview's (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) test-retest reliability and the effects of the interviewers on the interview itself as well as its subsequent classification. Various memory measures were used to obtain a wide range of information about subjects' memory abilities. Information was…
Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Developmental Tasks in Emerging Adulthood
The association between attachment representations and adolescents' coping with 3 developmental tasks of emerging adulthood-leaving home, advancing in the capacity for mature intimacy, and developing individuation-was examined. Israeli male adolescents (N = 88) were administered the Adult Attachment Interview during their high-school senior year. A year later, they and their friends reported on the adolescents' adjustment to mandatory military se…
The Quality of Mentoring Relationships and Mentoring Success
Love as a Battlefield
The authors explored the attachment dynamics of heterosexual couples identified for male partner violence. Based on semistructured interviews, participants were assessed for attachment orientations. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews, two strategies for regulating distance within these relationships were identified: pursuit and distancing. Partners' abusive acts often appeared to serve one of these attachment strategies. As a pursuit …
Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Their Capacity for Intimacy in Close Relationships
A secure state of mind with regard to attachment , as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), as well as attachment styles as assessed by questionnaires (the two most prevalent facets of attachment representations assessed in adolescence and adulthood) were examined as potential contributors to adolescents' capacity for intimacy. Eighty male Israeli adolescents were administered the two measures and reported on their impulsiveness durin…
Motivational effects in the social comparison of opinions
Four experiments were executed to test the effects of different epistemic motivations on subjects' tendency to compare with agreeing or disagreeing others. We found that under high (vs. low) fear of invalidity, subjects tend more to compare with disagreeing (vs. agreeing) others. By contrast, under high (vs. low) need for self-confirmation or a high (vs. low) need for cognitive structure, subjects tended more to compare with agreeing others. Thes…
Adolescents' Relationships with Father, Mother, and Same-Gender Friend
Examined in this study were age differences in autonomy and relatedness in adolescents' relationships with parents as well as the association between adolescents'relationships with mother and with father and with a same-gender friend. The Relationship with Father/Mother Questionnaire (RFMQ) and the Sharabany Intimacy Scale were administered to 205 Israeli adolescents (105 males and 100females)from two age groups: 9th grade (age X = 14.5) and 12th…
Home Leaving to Military Service
The home-leaving transition of male adolescents in Israel, where most 18-year-olds leave home to perform a 3-year mandatory military service, was examined. Transfer of attachment functions from parents to peers across the transition and adjustment to the basic-training period were investigated. Adolescents ( N = 143) filled out questionnaires 3 months before conscription and 6 months later, following their basic training. Before conscription, par…
From Authoritative Parenting Practices to an Authoritarian Context
This study examined whether authoritarian or authoritative parenting practices best prepare youth for coping with an authoritarian context (i.e., the mandatory military service of 18‐year‐old men in Israel) with specific reference to the issue of person–environment fit. A year before their conscription, 85 male adolescents ( M age=17.5) and their parents filled out questionnaires regarding their relationships; during basic training, they did so a…
Attachment and the leader-follower relationship
Leader-follower relationships have been thought to involve attachment dynamics, in particular when these relationships have an affective component. In this paper, I consider why and under what circumstances followers form attachment relationships with a leader and how both a follower's and a leader's attachment representations can affect the quality and characteristics of their relationship. Results from several studies, focused on different cont…
Mothers' Attachment with Spouse and Parenting in the First Year
This study examines the links between mother-spouse attachment dimensions and early parenting experiences. The sample consisted of 118 mothers who take part in a longitudinal investigation of child development. When their infants were 9 months old, mothers completed an attachment questionnaire and reported on maternal separation anxiety and on their attitudes toward developmental and socialization goals which they set for their child. It was foun…
Buds of Parenting in Emerging Adult Males
The authors examine the precursors of parenting buds (representations regarding parenting before actual parenting) by following 60 men from adolescence to emerging adulthood. Quality of relationships with parents, and attachment representations (state of mind with respect to attachment and attachment styles) assessed in adolescence, contribute to the development of parenting buds in emerging adulthood (desire to have children, perceived parenting…
Disorganizing Experiences in Second- and Third-Generation Holocaust Survivors
Second-generation Holocaust survivors might not show direct symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder or attachment disorganization, but are at risk for developing high levels of psychological distress. We present themes of difficult experiences of second-generation Holocaust survivors, arguing that some of these aversive experiences might have disorganizing qualities even though they do not qualify as traumatic. Based on in-depth interviews with…
Exposure to dissent and recall of information
Recent work on minority influence has led to a debate about whether majorities and minorities exercise different forms of influence.Nemeth (1986) has argued that consistent minorities induce different cognitive processes than do consistent majorities, with a resulting impact on the quality of the judgments rendered.Two experiments test this theory.In Experiment 1, Ss heard 3 tape-recorded lists of words and learned that either a minority or a maj…
Representations of Mother-Child Attachment Relationships and Social-Information Processing of Peer Relationships in Early Adolescence
We examined the concurrent associations between early adolescents’ representations of mother-child attachment relationships and how they process social information in their peer relationships. Attachment representations were examined in a normative sample of 97 males and 88 females (mean age = 10.35 years), using an adaptation of the Attachment Doll Story Completion Task. Structural Equation Modeling was used to assess general latent structures o…
Adults' attachment patterns
Gifted adolescents and intimacy in close same-sex friendships
Accuracy of estimates in the social comparison of abilities
How Personal Transformation Occurs Following a Single Peak Experience in Nature
This study focuses on a particular form of positive transformation taking place in the wilderness, defined here as peak transformative experience. A large number of studies have been conducted on the negative transformative effect of a single traumatic event, while very little research has focused on positive transformational events. We addressed this lacuna by studying a unique case of quick positive transformation, taking place in nature. This …
Accuracy of estimates in the social comparison of abilities
Motivational effects in the social comparison of opinions
Four experiments were executed to test the effects of different epistemic motivations on subjects' tendency to compare with agreeing or disagreeing others. We found that under high (vs. low) fear of invalidity, subjects tend more to compare with disagreeing (vs. agreeing) others. By contrast, under high (vs. low) need for self-confirmation or a high (vs. low) need for cognitive structure, subjects tended more to compare with agreeing others. Thes…
Exposure to dissent and recall of information
Recent work on minority influence has led to a debate about whether majorities and minorities exercise different forms of influence.Nemeth (1986) has argued that consistent minorities induce different cognitive processes than do consistent majorities, with a resulting impact on the quality of the judgments rendered.Two experiments test this theory.In Experiment 1, Ss heard 3 tape-recorded lists of words and learned that either a minority or a maj…
Classic and current social comparison research
This article assumes that social comparisons (a) constitute comparative judgments governed by the general process that applies to all judgments, (b) possess a common comparative structure including simple judgments of comparison stimuli and their juxtaposition, and (c) possess unique contents that determine the subjective meanings of comparison outcomes and their psychological implications. Examined in these terms, classical social comparison the…
Gifted adolescents and intimacy in close same-sex friendships
Stability and discriminant validity of the Adult Attachment Interview
Fifty-nine male and female Israeli students were interviewed twice by 2 different interviewers at 3month intervals to assess the Adult Attachment Interview's (AAI; C. George, N. Kaplan, & M. Main, 1985) test-retest reliability and the effects of the interviewers on the interview itself as well as its subsequent classification. Various memory measures were used to obtain a wide range of information about subjects' memory abilities. Information was…
Mothers' Attachment with Spouse and Parenting in the First Year
This study examines the links between mother-spouse attachment dimensions and early parenting experiences. The sample consisted of 118 mothers who take part in a longitudinal investigation of child development. When their infants were 9 months old, mothers completed an attachment questionnaire and reported on maternal separation anxiety and on their attitudes toward developmental and socialization goals which they set for their child. It was foun…
Adults' attachment patterns
Attachment concerns of mothers as manifested in parental, spousal, and friendship relationships
The present study examined the relation between attachment concerns of mothers and three of their close relationships: with their husband, best woman friend, and infant. Forty‐live mothers completed an Attachment Concerns Questionnaire based on the Hazan and Shaver attachment measure, and the Sharabany Intimacy scale regarding their relationships with their husband and with their same‐sex best friend; they were also observed with their infants (a…
Adolescents' Relationships with Father, Mother, and Same-Gender Friend
Examined in this study were age differences in autonomy and relatedness in adolescents' relationships with parents as well as the association between adolescents'relationships with mother and with father and with a same-gender friend. The Relationship with Father/Mother Questionnaire (RFMQ) and the Sharabany Intimacy Scale were administered to 205 Israeli adolescents (105 males and 100females)from two age groups: 9th grade (age X = 14.5) and 12th…
Maternal caregiving strategy—a distinction between the ambivalent and the disorganized profile
The present essay proposes a distinction between the characteristics of mothers of anxious/ambivalent infants and mothers of disorganized infants. Based on a recent meta-analysis it is argued that preoccupation and role reversal are not the main characteristics of mothers of ambivalent infants when the four-category partition of attachment patterns is employed. To clarify the distinction between mothers of ambivalent and disorganized infants, the…
Attachment security and adjustment to school in middle childhood
The concurrent association between security of attachment and adaptive functioning at school in middle childhood was examined. A sample of 113 children of 4th and 5th grade ” lled out a self-report measure of attachment security (Kerns, Klepac, & Cole, 1996) and were administered the Doll Story Completion task (Bretherton, Ridgeway, & Cassidy, 1990b) modi” ed for use with children in middle childhood to assess the quality and the security of atta…
What Does It Mean to Be an Adult? The Israeli Experience
This chapter examines the conceptions of adulthood of adolescents, emerging adults, and parents of adolescents in Israel. It shows a general consensus regarding the important markers of adulthood (similar to American middle-class conceptions) while identifying several cultural, age, and gender differences
From Authoritative Parenting Practices to an Authoritarian Context
This study examined whether authoritarian or authoritative parenting practices best prepare youth for coping with an authoritarian context (i.e., the mandatory military service of 18‐year‐old men in Israel) with specific reference to the issue of person–environment fit. A year before their conscription, 85 male adolescents ( M age=17.5) and their parents filled out questionnaires regarding their relationships; during basic training, they did so a…
Home Leaving to Military Service
The home-leaving transition of male adolescents in Israel, where most 18-year-olds leave home to perform a 3-year mandatory military service, was examined. Transfer of attachment functions from parents to peers across the transition and adjustment to the basic-training period were investigated. Adolescents ( N = 143) filled out questionnaires 3 months before conscription and 6 months later, following their basic training. Before conscription, par…
Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Developmental Tasks in Emerging Adulthood
The association between attachment representations and adolescents' coping with 3 developmental tasks of emerging adulthood-leaving home, advancing in the capacity for mature intimacy, and developing individuation-was examined. Israeli male adolescents (N = 88) were administered the Adult Attachment Interview during their high-school senior year. A year later, they and their friends reported on the adolescents' adjustment to mandatory military se…
Adolescents' Attachment Representations and Their Capacity for Intimacy in Close Relationships
A secure state of mind with regard to attachment , as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI), as well as attachment styles as assessed by questionnaires (the two most prevalent facets of attachment representations assessed in adolescence and adulthood) were examined as potential contributors to adolescents' capacity for intimacy. Eighty male Israeli adolescents were administered the two measures and reported on their impulsiveness durin…
Th e Role of Spirituality in Mental Health Interventions
Th is article presents a four-level developmental description of the extent to which clinicians apply spirituality in therapy. At the fi rst level, clinicians begin to sense dissonance regarding their traditional, positivist worldview while conducting conventional psychotherapy, especially in cases involving life-threatening situations or loss. At the second level, clinicians open up to the possibility of the existence of a metaphysical reality a…
On the Alert in an Unpredictable Environment
A fundamental tenet of much sociological, psychological and educational literature assumes that the creation of a predictable environment is crucial for nurturing a sense of well-being, as well as for generating a sense of trust in the wider social order. Still, the ways in which the environment is structured, and the very importance attached to the notion of predictability, will vary in different cultural contexts. Findings from an ethnography o…
Love as a Battlefield
The authors explored the attachment dynamics of heterosexual couples identified for male partner violence. Based on semistructured interviews, participants were assessed for attachment orientations. Based on a thematic analysis of the interviews, two strategies for regulating distance within these relationships were identified: pursuit and distancing. Partners' abusive acts often appeared to serve one of these attachment strategies. As a pursuit …
The Quality of Mentoring Relationships and Mentoring Success
Too close for comfort
This longitudinal study examined the ramifications of psychological control-guilt induction, parentification, triangulation, and blurring in parent-adolescent relationships for girls' individuation and adjustment. The study followed 120 girls in their transition from high school to military service. Results from the variable-centered and person-centered analyses merged in underscoring the somewhat different developmental path of two groups of ina…
Attachment Patterns and Their Outcomes
Three insecure attachment patterns are described – two known patterns (ambivalent and avoidant), and a recently proposed pattern, termed disorganized for infants and controlling for adults. Three outcome variables are considered – extent of activation of attachment needs, sense of self-efficacy and being appreciated (positive self-regard), and orientation to objects or people. Avoidant individuals are postulated to highly deactivate their attachm…
Finding the authentic self in a communal culture
Finding and cultivating a sense of authentic self is an important life goal for emerging adults. In collectivist cultures, youngsters might need to distance themselves to find and discover their authentic selves separate of the expectations of society and significant others. Creating an autonomous time bubble that focuses on the present allows youngsters to forge a sense of personal meaning and authenticity that subsequently paves the way to rein…
Attachment and the leader-follower relationship
Leader-follower relationships have been thought to involve attachment dynamics, in particular when these relationships have an affective component. In this paper, I consider why and under what circumstances followers form attachment relationships with a leader and how both a follower's and a leader's attachment representations can affect the quality and characteristics of their relationship. Results from several studies, focused on different cont…
Psychology (38 obras) · Developmental psychology (27 obras) · Social Psychology (24 obras) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (19 obras) · Social Psychology (15 obras) · Attachment theory (12 obras) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (11 obras) · Political science (9 obras) · Psychotherapist (9 obras) · Sociology (9 obras)