Dov Shmotkin
Israeli professor
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- PhD Computer Science Tel Aviv University
- Masters Computer Science Tel Aviv University
- Bachelors Computer Science Tel Aviv University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dov Shmotkin is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychological Sciences and Head of the Herczeg Institute on Aging at Tel Aviv University. Biography Dov Shmotkin was born in 1949 in Rishon Le-Zion, Israel. He is Professor Emeritus in the School of Psychological Sciences and Head of the Herczeg Institute on Aging, both at Tel Aviv University, where he also received his Ph.D. He is a senior clinical psychologist and was formerly the head of the clinical psychology graduate program in the School of Psychological Sciences. Shmotkin was Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Gerontology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor , and Honorary Fellow in the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin, Madison , USA. He has served as a senior researcher and member in the research teams of prominent nationwide surveys on the Israeli older population, namely the Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study and the Israeli branch of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe . He also directed a project that harmonized databases of CALAS, SHARE-Israel, and other studies of Israeli aging populations. Dov Shmotkin is a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America.
Dov Shmotkin's Published Works
Published Works
- Optimizing well-being: the empirical encounter of two traditions. (2002) (2765)
- Happiness in the Face of Adversity: Reformulating the Dynamic and Modular Bases of Subjective Well-Being (2005) (211)
- Subjective well-being as a function of age and gender: A multivariate look for differentiated trends (1990) (179)
- Beyond keeping active: concomitants of being a volunteer in old-old age. (2003) (133)
- Loneliness in old age: longitudinal changes and their determinants in an Israeli sample (2009) (123)
- Predictors of Mortality in the Old‐Old in Israel: The Cross‐Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study (2006) (103)
- The Effect of Homebound Status on Older Persons (2010) (99)
- A gender-based dynamic multidimensional longitudinal analysis of resilience and mortality in the old-old in Israel: the cross-sectional and longitudinal aging study (CALAS). (2005) (85)
- The role of time orientation in life satisfaction across the life span. (1991) (78)
- The Old, Old-Old, and the Oldest Old: Continuation or Distinct Categories? An Examination of the Relationship between Age and Changes in Health, Function, and Wellbeing (2013) (77)
- Tracing long-term effects of early trauma: a broad-scope view of Holocaust survivors in late life. (2003) (73)
- Subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors: an examination of overlooked differentiations. (1998) (73)
- Cumulative adversity and depressive symptoms among older adults in Israel: the differential roles of self-oriented versus other-oriented events of potential trauma (2009) (70)
- Homebound older persons: prevalence, characteristics, and longitudinal predictors. (2012) (69)
- Resilience and Vulnerability Among Aging Holocaust Survivors and Their Families: An Intergenerational Overview (2011) (68)
- Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life (1998) (64)
- Indoor and Outdoor Activities of Aged Women and Men as Related to Depression and Well-Being (1988) (61)
- Mental Health Among Israeli Homosexual Adolescents and Young Adults (2010) (55)
- The predicament of time near the end of life: Time perspective trajectories of life satisfaction among the old-old (2010) (53)
- Transgenerational effects of trauma in midlife: Evidence for resilience and vulnerability in offspring of Holocaust survivors. (2011) (52)
- Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health. (2010) (52)
- How subjective well-being and meaning in life interact in the hostile world? (2011) (49)
- Do Holocaust survivors show increased vulnerability or resilience to post-Holocaust cumulative adversity? (2010) (43)
- The association between cumulative adversity and mental health: considering dose and primary focus of adversity (2012) (41)
- The will to live and death-related decline in life satisfaction. (2013) (41)
- For better and for worse: the relationship between future expectations and functioning in the second half of life. (2011) (40)
- Expressions of Holocaust Experience and Their Relationship to Mental Symptoms and Physical Morbidity Among Holocaust Survivor Patients (2002) (38)
- Psychological distress around menopause. (2001) (37)
- Psychological Time in Later Life: Implications for Counseling. (2003) (36)
- Combining Happines’s and Suffering in a Retrospective View of Anchor Periods in Life: A Differential Approach to Subjective Well-Being (2006) (35)
- The Structure of the Life Satisfaction Index a in Elderly Israeli Adults (1991) (33)
- An Outlook on Subjective Well-Being in Older Israeli Adults: A Unified Formulation (1996) (33)
- Formal education level versus self-rated literacy as predictors of cognitive aging. (2012) (31)
- Potentially traumatic events at different points in the life span and mental health: findings from SHARE-Israel. (2012) (31)
- The hostile‐world scenario among Israeli homosexual adolescents and young adults (2013) (30)
- Predictors of longitudinal changes in older adults' physical activity engagement. (2010) (27)
- Parental bereavement increases mortality in older persons (2013) (26)
- Age-related and death-related differences in emotional complexity. (2014) (25)
- Motivations and attitudes of clinical psychologists regarding treatment of the elderly (1992) (25)
- “Kids Are Joy” (2014) (25)
- The Hostile-World Scenario and Mental Health Concomitants Among Gays and Lesbians (2016) (24)
- Can the past keep life pleasant even for old-old trauma survivors? (2008) (22)
- COHERENCE AS A MEASURE OF FUTURE TIME PERSPECTIVE IN CHILDREN AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO DELAY OF GRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL CLASS (1983) (22)
- Self-Perceived Parental Role and Mental Health Concomitants Among Israeli Gay and Heterosexual Fathers (2020) (21)
- Emotional ratings of anchor periods in life and their relation to subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors (2007) (21)
- The association between negative attitudes toward aging and mental health among middle-aged and older gay and heterosexual men in Israel (2018) (21)
- Aging with Trauma Across the Lifetime and Experiencing Trauma in Old Age: Vulnerability and Resilience Intertwined (2015) (21)
- Happiness and Suffering in the Life Story: An Inquiry into Conflicting Expectations Concerning the Association of Perceived Past with Present Subjective Well-Being in Old Age (2012) (21)
- The Pursuit of Happiness: Alternative Conceptions of Subjective Well-Being (2011) (20)
- The Meaning of Time-Related Concepts across the Life-Span: An Israeli Sample (1986) (20)
- Interpersonal Vulnerability and Its Association with Depressive Symptoms Among Gay and Heterosexual Men (2020) (19)
- Affective bonds of adult children with living versus deceased parents. (1999) (19)
- Subjective Well-Being and Meaning in Life in a Hostile World: Proposing a Configurative Perspective (2013) (19)
- Time orientation in Nazi concentration camp survivors: forty years after. (1985) (19)
- Understanding Well-Being in the Oldest Old: Does Trauma Linger into Old-Old Age? Using the Holocaust Experience as a Paradigm (2011) (18)
- The association between self-perceived parental role and meaning in life among gay and heterosexual fathers. (2016) (18)
- Functioning and Mortality of Holocaust Survivors: Physical Resilience and Psychosocial Vulnerabilities (2011) (18)
- The prediction of subjective wellness among the old-old: implications for the "fourth-age" conception. (2014) (17)
- How Do Meaning in Life and Positive Affect Relate to Adaptation to Stress? The Case of Firefighters Following the Mount Carmel Forest Fire. (2015) (15)
- The apprehensive respondent: failing to rate future life satisfaction in older adults. (1992) (15)
- A Longitudinal Evaluation of Medication Use Among the Old-Old Population in Israel (2008) (14)
- Profiles of functioning as predictors of mortality in old age: the advantage of a configurative approach. (2010) (13)
- Meaning in Life Among Middle-Aged and Older Gay and Heterosexual Fathers (2017) (12)
- The equivocal meanings of time: Exploratory and structural analyses (1991) (11)
- Interpersonal vulnerability among offspring of Holocaust survivors gay men and its association with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction (2018) (10)
- Self-Reported Functional Status Among the Old-Old (2012) (10)
- Gender differences in the prevalence and correlates of psychotropic medication use among older adults in Israel. (2014) (8)
- A Comparison of Three Types of Autobiographical Memories in Old-Old Age: First Memories, Pivotal Memories and Traumatic Memories (2010) (8)
- Who is Prone to React to Coinciding Threats of Terrorism and War? Exploring Vulnerability Through Global Versus Differential Reactivity (2011) (8)
- How does sexual orientation relate to openness to experience in adulthood (2018) (7)
- Subjective well-being and its domains across different age groups: An Israeli sample (1990) (7)
- Between the Subjective and the Objective: How Informative Is Subjective Evaluation of Memory Among the Old-Old? (2013) (7)
- Which Factors do Older Adults Consider When Estimating the Time Left for Them to Live? (2019) (7)
- Launching themes in Israeli fathers and mothers (1996) (6)
- The contribution of personal resources to physical and mental health: looking into age and gender effects. (1999) (6)
- Changes in Religiosity in Old Age (2016) (6)
- Do past and prospective adversities intersect? Distinct effects of cumulative adversity and the hostile-world scenario on functioning at later life (2020) (6)
- Older Adults Exposed to Ongoing versus Intense Time-Limited Missile Attacks: Differences in Symptoms of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (2017) (6)
- Inventory of complicated grief: Factor structure among middle-aged and older bereaved parents (2020) (5)
- Physical Versus Mental Predictors of Mortality Among the Old-Old in Israel: The CALAS Study (2010) (4)
- The Role of the Hostile-World Scenario in Predicting Physical and Mental Health Outcomes in Older Adults (2016) (4)
- The Moderating Role of the Hostile-World Scenario in the Connections Between COVID-19 Worries, Loneliness, and Anxiety (2021) (3)
- The moderation of socio-demographics in physical and mental health disparities among Israeli gay and heterosexual middle-aged and older men (2021) (3)
- Expectations for changes in midlife men (1994) (3)
- The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults: Findings From Two Samples (2022) (2)
- Which category of lifetime adversity accelerates physical impairment among Israeli older adults? (2016) (2)
- Vulnerability and Resilience in Sensitive Research: The Case of the Quantitative Researcher (2021) (2)
- Potentially Traumatic Events Inventory (2014) (1)
- The validity of simulated prediction of behavior. (1991) (1)
- Hostile-World Scenario Measure (2017) (0)
- Which category of lifetime adversity accelerates physical impairment among Israeli older adults? (2016) (0)
- Happiness and Suffering in the Life Story: An Inquiry into Conflicting Expectations Concerning the Association of Perceived Past with Present Subjective Well-Being in Old Age (2011) (0)
- Emotional ratings of meaningful life periods and their relation to subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors (2007) (0)
- Subjective Age and Late-Life Functional Status: Mediating and Moderating Effects. (2021) (0)
- Differential Characteristics of Clinical Psychologists Treating Younger and Older Clients (1993) (0)
- Interpersonal Vulnerability and Its Association with Depressive Symptoms Among Gay and Heterosexual Men (2019) (0)
- Subject Index Vol. 56, 2010 (2010) (0)
- Contents Vol. 56, 2010 (2010) (0)
- The Association of Couplehood and Parenthood with the Hedonic and Eudaimonic Well-Being of Older Gay Men (2023) (0)
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