עמית שרירא
Full Professor

Prof. Amit Shrira

Telephone
03-7384775
Email
amit.shrira@biu.ac.il
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AMIT SHRIRA, Ph.D.

 

A. Contact Details

E-mail: amit.shrira@biu.ac.il

Office number: 972-3-7384775

 

B. Education

2011-2012: Post-doctoral fellow, the Israel Gerontological Data Center, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.Supervisor: Prof. Howard Litwin

2005-2010: PhD, Tel Aviv University (Psychology).

Dissertation title: "Trauma in the life story: Holocaust-related expressions and time perspective as regulators of long-term traumatic effects on emotional experience." Supervisor: Prof. Dov Shmotkin.

2003-2005: MA, Tel Aviv University (Clinical Psychology).

1999-2003: BA, University of Haifa (Psychology and History of Art).

 

C. Academic Positions and Activities

2019-: Full professor, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.

2015-2018: Associate professor, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.

2012-2015: Senior lecturer, Interdisciplinary Department of Social Sciences, Bar-Ilan University.

2009-2011: Research Director, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2008-2013: Instructor of research seminars, Department of Education and Psychology, The Open University.

2008-2012: Teaching associate, Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

 

D. Scholarships and Awards

2015: Early Career Award, Stress and Anxiety Research Society.

2010: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for PhD students. Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2009: The Bergman Award for PhD dissertation by the Herczeg Institute on Aging, Tel Aviv University.

2009: Grant given by Myers-JDC-Brookdale Institute of Gerontology and Human Development and ESHEL - the Association for the Planning and Development of Services for the Aged in Israel.

2008: The Marmot Grant. Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2007: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for PhD students. The grant was named in the honor of Dr. Bar-Lev Moshe - Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2006: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for PhD students. The grant was named in the honor of Hermalin Yaankovska - Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2005: Excellence grant by the Dean of the Social Sciences Faculty for graduate students. The grant was named in the honor of Dr. Bar-Lev Moshe and Green Irving - Department of Psychology, Tel Aviv University.

2000: Outstanding Excellence grant for BA students - Department of Art Studies, University of Haifa.

 

E. Research Grants

2020: Principle investigator: research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): "The effects of older adult patients' views of aging and departmental ageism on post-hospitalization health." Other PI: Y. Hoffman, & E. Bodner (three-year study, IS 139,000 per year).

2019: Principle investigator: research funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (MOST): "What does not kill me makes me stronger? Strength and vulnerability among Holocaust survivors and their offspring." Other PI: M. Scharf, & Y. Palgi (three-year study, IS 100,000 per year).

2018: Principle investigator: research workshop funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): "Age-related and death-related perceptions and their relationship to health" Other PI: Y. Palgi, G. Kavé, & Shmotkin, D. (IS 70,000).

2016: Principle investigator: research funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Space (MOST): "Subjective age and subjective nearness to death: Their utility in predicting rehabilitation after stroke and osteoporotic fractures." Other PI: E. Bodner, Y. Palgi, & O. Zaslavsky (three-year study, IS 125,000 per year).

2015: Principle investigator: research funded by a special grant by the rector of Bar-Ilan University: "Aging successfully in the shadow of intergenerational transmission of trauma: An interdisciplinary perspective." Other CI: L. Ayalon, M. Bensimon, E. Bodner, T. Rosenbloom, & G. Yadid (one-year study, IS 30,000).

2014: Principle investigator: research funded by the Israel Science Foundation (ISF): " Subjective age and subjective closeness to death: Can self-evaluations predict functional decline, what moderates this prediction, and what factors affect the evaluation?" Other PI: Y. Palgi, G. Kavé, & Shmotkin, D. (three-year study, IS 84,000 per year).

2011: Co-investigator, research funded by the Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Health and the Ministry for Retirees Affairs: "Can happiness regulate late-life physical health and mortality risk under concrete realizations of the hostile-world scenario?" PI: D. Shmotkin (two-year study, IS 50,000 per year).

F. Editorial Postions & Ad Hoc Reviewer

Editorial positions

2018-: Editorial board, Frontiers in Psyciatry IF=4.157.

2019-: Editorial board, Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy IF=3.226.

2019-20: Guest editor, Journals of Gerontology: PS IF=4.077.

2020-: Editorial board, GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry

2020-: Associate editor, BMC Psychiatry IF=3.630.

2020-: Editorial board, Death Studies IF= 2.245.

2022-: Deputy editor, Stress and Health IF=3.519.

 

Ad Hoc Reviewer

Aging, Neuropsychology and Cognition; Aging and Health Research; Aging and Mental Health; Aging & Society; American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry; American Journal of Orthopsychiatry; American Journal of Preventive Medicine; Anxiety, Stress, and Coping; Biological Psychiatry: Global Open Science; BMC Geriatrics; BMC Medicine; BMC Psychiatry; BMJ Open Ophthalmology; Child Development; Child Maltreatment; Death Studies; Depression and Anxiety; European Journal of Psychotraumatology; European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation; Frontiers in Psychology; Frontiers in Psychiatry; Gerontology; Heliyon; Journal of Affective Disorders; Journal of Aging Research; Journal of Anxiety Disorders; Journal of Clinical Medicine; Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology; Journal of Gerontological Social Work; Journal of Happiness Studies; Journal of Medical Internet Research; Journal of Psychiatric Research; Journal of Social Work; Journal of the American Medical Directors Association; Journal of Traumatic Stress; Intelligence; International Journal of Behavioral Development; International Journal of Obesity; International Journal of Public Health; Israel Journal of Psychiatry; Personality and Individual Differences; PLoS ONE; Psychiatry Research; Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy; Psychology and Aging; Psychology Research and Behavior Management; Risk Management and Healthcare Policy; Social Science and Medicine; Stress and Health; The Gerontologist; Traumatology; Women & Therapy

 

G. Clinical Experience

2015-: Licensed clinical psychologist.

2013-2014: Internship in clinical psychology at Fligelman (Mazra) Psychiatric Hospital, Acre. 

2010-2013: Internship in clinical psychology at "Kupat Holim Clalit" - division of psychological services, Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa.

2005: Practicum in clinical psychology at "Kupat Holim Clalit" - division of psychological services, Kiryat Eliezer, Haifa.

2004: Practicum in clinical psychology at "Lev-Hasharon" psychiatric hospital, Pardesiya.

 

H. Keynote & Invited Presentations

1. Shrira, A. (2021). The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Holocaust survivors and their family members. Paper presented at the BIU Holocaust & Spiegel Fellows Forum Lecture Series. Ramat Gam, Israel (Zoom lecture). 

2. Shrira, A. (2021). The meaning of aging and coping with trauma. Paper presented at the Trauma and Complex PTSD: Implications for Clinical Practice and Research. Urbino, Italy (Zoom lecture).

3. Shrira, A. (2021). The meaning of aging and coping with trauma. Paper presented at the seminar of the Minerva Center on Intersectionality in Aging: MCIA. Haifa, Israel (Zoom lecture).

4. Shrira, A. (2021). Characteristics and reactions of Holocaust survivors to the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims meeting, Tel Aviv, Israel (Zoom lecture).

5. Shrira, A. (2021). Holocaust survivors and their family members coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the Nini Czopp Association meeting, Natanya, Israel (Zoom lecture).

6. Shrira, A. (2021). Multigenerational effects of the Holocaust trauma: Vulnerability and resilience intertwined. Paper presented at the Trauma, Places and Memories: A webinar on the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Urbino, Italy (Zoom lecture).

7. Shrira, A. (2020). Holocaust survivors and transmission of trauma: the Israeli context and possible implications for Rwanda. Paper presented at the Conference on the Transmission of Trauma. Kigali, Rwanda (Zoom lecture).

8. Shrira, A. (2020). Holocaust survivors and their family members coping with the COVID-19 pandemic. Paper presented at the Foundation for the Benefit of Holocaust Victims meeting. Tel Aviv, Israel (Zoom lecture).

9. Shrira, A. (2020). Aging in the shadow of intergenerational transmission of trauma: The case of adult Holocaust offspring. Paper presented as part of an online BIU conference series on the biology of aging. Haifa, Israel (Zoom lecture).

10. Shrira, A. (2018). Aging in the shadow of intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust: An interdisciplinary approach. Workshop on descendants of survivors, Bundesverband Information & Beratung fur NS-Verfolgte, Cologne, Germany.

11. Shrira, A. (2018). Intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust: new issues and fresh insights. Between wellbeing to trauma: pendulum in the meaning of life. Tel Aviv University, Israel.

12. Shrira, A. (2017). Intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust: new issues and fresh insights. AMCHA – the Israel support center for Holocaust survivors. Tel Aviv, Israel.

13. Shrira, A. (2017). Integrative panel on insights and implications from the MOST study: Aging in a hostile world: resilience or vulnerability? (other panel members included Bodner, E., Ginzburg, K., Malkinson, R., Palgi, Y., & Shenkman, G.). Tel-Aviv, Israel.  

14. Shrira, A. (2017). Does the Holocaust trauma affect the aging of the second generation? Paper presented at the Annual Seminar on Innovations and Challenges in the Fields of Gerontology & Geriatrics, Beer-Sheva, Israel.

15. Shrira, A. (2017). Aging in the shadow of intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust. Paper presented at the 6th International Conference of the Central Welfare Board of Jews in Germany (ZWST), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

16. Shrira, A. (2016). Studying the daily lives of older adults: difficulties and opportunities. Invited lecture presented at a workshop with Prof. Carol D. Ryff "Challenges and directions in research on aging." Tel Aviv, Israel.

17. Shrira, A. (2015). Vulnerability and resilience at the intersection of adversity and old age. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.

18. Shrira, A. (2013). The effect of lifetime cumulative adversity and depressive symptoms on age-related trajectories of functional status among older adults. Paper presented at the first SHARE-Israel conference. Tel Aviv, Israel.

19. Shrira, A. (2013). Parental behaviors and intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust in survivors' families. Paper presented at a study day in the memory of the late Dr. Natan Durst. Haifa, Israel.

20. Shrira, A. (2012). Long-term effects of cumulative adversity: The relationship between adversity type, well-being, and physical disability. Paper presented at SHARE-Israel Wave 2 First Results Conference, Jerusalem, Israel.

21. Shrira, A. (2012). Resilience and vulnerability intertwined among Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 9th meeting of SULAM program (the foundation for the benefit of Holocaust victims in Israel). Tel Aviv, Israel.

 

I. Conference Presentations and Active Participation in Conferences

1. Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2020). The hostile-world scenario during COVID-19: links with COVID-19 worries, loneliness, and anxiety. Paper presented at the 42nd International Conference of the Stress Trauma Anxiety and Resilience Society, Haifa, Israel.

2. Cohn-Schwartz, E., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2020). The longitudinal connections between cognitive function, posttraumatic stress and depressive symptoms. Paper presented at the 42nd International Conference of the Stress Trauma Anxiety and Resilience Society, Haifa, Israel.

3. Shrira, A. (2020). A microlongitudinal assessment of subjective age and mental health during rehabilitation following acute medical conditions. Paper presented (virtual presentation) at the 10th Asian Conference on Psychology and Behavioral Sciences (ACP), Tokyo, Japan.

4. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Bergman, Y. (2020). Daily variability in subjective age and ageism and their relationship to depressive symptoms. Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

5. Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2020). Physical health among older adults suffering from the comorbidity of PTSD and depression following missile attacks: The protective effect of feeling young. Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

6. Mitalis, R., Shrira, A., & Bergman, Y. (2020). Attachment patterns and caregiving burden among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

7. Shilo Levin, S., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2020). Sometimes there are advantageous to feeling old: Generativity, meaning in work and life satisfaction among workers who feel older than their age. Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

8. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Haymen, N., Zaslavsky, O., & Bodner, E. (2020). Daily perceptions of aging and mental health during rehabilitation from acute medical conditions. Paper presented at the 23rd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

9. Segel-Karpas, D., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2019). Daily fluctuations in subjective age and mental health: The roles of chronological age and attitudes to aging. Paper presented at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting. Austin, USA.

10. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Heyman, N., Zaslavsky, O., & Bodner, E. (2019). A microlongitudinal assessment of subjective age and mental health during rehabilitation. Paper presented at the GSA Annual Scientific Meeting. Austin, USA.

11. Ben-Ezra, M., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2019). The theoretical and psychometric properties of the subjective traumatic outlook (STO) questionnaire. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

12. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2019). The reciprocal effects of health anxieties and physical functioning are mediated by attitudes to aging. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

13. Fridel, S., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2019). Conceptual priming of ancestral Holocaust trauma. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

14. Grossman, E., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., & Anaki, D. (2019). Subjective age is more sensitive to sleepiness effects than subjective nearness-to-death. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

15. Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2019). PTSD-depression comorbidity and health among older adults exposed to missile attacks: The buffering effect of young subjective age. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

16. Palgi, Y., Avidor, S., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., Zaslavsky, O., & Hoffman, Y. (2019). Perception counts: The relationships of inner perception of trauma and PTSD symptoms across time. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

17. Rubinstein, T., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2019). Dyadic effects of family involvement and secondary traumatization among offspring of Holocaust survivors and their children. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

18. Shrira, A. (2019), Actual and perceived parental PTSD as concomitants of offspring successful aging. Paper presented at the 40th STAR conference. Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

19. Bergman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2019). Cultural differences in the physical and psychological effects of subjective age. Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European region (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden.

20. Bodner, E., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Palgi, Y. (2019). A light in a sea of darkness: The moderating role of emotional complexity in the PTSD symptoms-successful aging association. Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European region (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden.

21. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Kave, G., Rubinstein, T., & Shmotkin, D. (2019). Which factors do older adults consider when estimating the time left for them to live? Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European region (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden.

22. Shrira, A. (2019). Parents' PTSD and offspring perception of parental PTSD as concomitants of offspring successful aging. Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European region (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden.

23. Shrira, A., & Hoffman, Y. (2019). PTSD-depression comorbidity and health among older adults exposed to missile attacks: The moderating effect of subjective age. Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European region (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden.

24. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Heyman, N., Zaslavsky, O., & Bodner, E. (2019). A diary study on subjective age during rehabilitation following osteoporotic fractures and cerebrovascular disease. Paper presented at the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics - European region (IAGG-ER). Gothenburg, Sweden.

25. Shrira, A. (2019). Late-life manifestations of ancestral trauma. Paper presented at Epigenetics of the "incubation" of stress and addiction disorders: Implications in precision and personalized medicine. Ramat-Gan, Israel.

26. Shrira, A., Mollov, B., & Mudahogora, C. (2019). Parental complex PTSD increases transmission of trauma to offspring. Paper presented at the Kwibuka25 Trauma Symposium. Kigali, Rwanda.

27. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., & Bergman, Y. (2019). On day-to-day variability in perceptions of age discrimination and ageism. Paper presented at the ISF Workshop Advancing the field of subjective aging. Haifa, Israel.

28. Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2019). PTSD-depression comorbidity and health among older adults exposed to missile attacks: The buffering effect of young subjective age. Paper presented at the ISF Workshop Advancing the field of subjective aging. Haifa, Israel.

29. Shrira, A. (2019). Subjective aging and health: Charted and uncharted areas. Paper presented at the ISF Workshop Advancing the field of subjective aging. Haifa, Israel.

30. Segel-Karpas, D., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2019). Depression and physical morbidity: subjective age as a moderator. Paper presented at the ISF Workshop Advancing the field of subjective aging. Haifa, Israel.

31. Bergman, Y. S., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2018). Subjective nearness-to-death, ageism, and end-of-life anxieties: A moderation model. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

32. Bodner, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2018). The moderating effect of ageism on the relationship between body image and subjective successful aging among older adults. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

33. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Bergman, Y. (2018). Intensity of the grandparent-grandchild relationship as a moderating factor in the relationship between ageism and aging anxiety. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

34. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Bergman, Y. S. (2018). The connection between aging anxiety and ageism is moderated by bond importance with grandparents. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

35. Grossman, E., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2018). School-related PTSD among people with and without learning disabilities. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

36. Grossman, E., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2018). Subjective age, daily hassles and sleep problems. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

37. Halperin, M., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2018). What is it between future perceptions, interpersonal closeness and intimacy to late-life wellbeing? Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

38. Halperin, M., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2018). The relationship between future perspective, subjective nearness to death and mental and physical health. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

39. Hoffman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2018). The relationship between daily subjective age and psychological distress is moderated by age awareness. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

40. Hoffman, Y., Grossman, E., Shrira, A., Dinnayi, M., Bayaan, R., Kedar, M., Zivotofsky, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2018). Complex PTSD in a sample of female Yazidi's-former ISIS captives in northern Iraq. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

41. Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2018). Shadows of the past and threats of the future: sensitivity to threats resonating the grandparents' trauma among grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

42. Kalir, D., & Shrira, A. (2018). Gender-based perspective to the relationship between subjective age and rehabilitation from osteoporotic fractures and stroke. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

43. Koren, E., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Bergman, Y. S. (2018). Subjective nearness-to-death and attitudes toward disability: The moderating role of attachment patterns. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

44. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Avidor, S., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., & Bensimon, M. (2018). Feeling young mitigates the physical health consequences of PTSD symptoms. Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

45. Rubinstein, T., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2018). Reciprocal effects of intergenerational transmission: familial over-involvement and secondary trauamtization symptoms among offspring and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

46. Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2018). Interpersonal vulnerability, depressive symptoms and life satisfaction among midlife gay offspring of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

47. Shrira, A. (2018). Do perceptions of aging relate to coping with chronic medical conditions among community-dwelling older adults? Paper presented at a study day The wonders of age: Aging perceptions and coping with morbidity. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

48. Shrira, A. (2018). How old do Holocaust survivors and their offspring feel? Paper presented at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

49. Shrira, A. (2018). How old do Holocaust survivors and their offspring feel? Paper presented at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.

50. Ben-Ezra, M., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Grossman, E. S., Fridel-Cohen, S., Bodner, E. (2017). Who is afraid of ISIS? Associations of ISIS anxiety with media. Paper presented at the 38th STAR conference, Hong Kong, China.

51. Bergman, Y., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Grossman, E. S., Bonder, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2017). Cross-cultural effects of the media exposure–ISIS anxiety relationship: Differential media exposure effects on ISIS anxiety in Israeli Jews vs. Arabs. Paper presented at the 38th STAR conference, Hong Kong, China.

52. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2017). Younger subjective age, daily hassles, and passive death wishes in adulthood and late life. Paper presented at the 21st IAGG conference, San Francisco, USA.

53. Grossman, E. S., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Fridel-Cohen, S., Ben-Ezra, M., & Bodner, E. (2017). Sleeping with the enemy: Anxiety regarding the ISIS threat is related to sleep problems. Paper presented at the 38th STAR conference, Hong Kong, China.

54. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Grossman, E. S., Bonder, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2017). Shadows of the past and threats of the future: ISIS anxiety among grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 38th STAR conference, Hong Kong, China.

55. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Splater, T., Kave, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2017). Age-related and death-related differences in emotional complexity. Paper presented at the 21st IAGG conference, San Francisco, USA.

56. Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Hoffman, Y., & Palgi, Y. (2017). Subjective aging and emotional complexity of traumatized older adults. Paper presented at the 21st IAGG conference, San Francisco, USA.

57. Bergman, Y., Hoffman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2016). The effects of perceived media control on post-traumatic stress symptoms: The moderating role of prejudicial attitudes. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

58. Bergman, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2016). The moderating role of attachment patterns in the relationship between parental communication and aging and dying anxieties among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

59. Bodner, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2016). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as a function of the interactive effect of subjective age and subjective distance-to-death along the life-span. Paper presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.

60. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, Y. S., Cohen-Firdel, S., & Grossman, E. S. (2016). The interaction between aging and death anxieties predict ageism. Paper presented at the 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Tampere, Finland.

61. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2016). Posttraumatic reactions and mental health dimensions: Findings from the Longitudinal Survey of Older Adults Exposed to Missile Attacks in Southern Israel. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

62. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2016). Specific dimensions of meaning in life predict subjective successful aging in the second half of life. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

63. Cohen-Fridel, S., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2016). The interaction between media consumption level and use of social media on PTSD symptoms during a period of terrorist attacks. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

64. Cohen-Fridel, S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2016). The interaction between subjective age, subjective nearness to death and psychological distress: A diary study. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

65. Halperin, M., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2016). The relationship between perceptions of the future, social networks and physical and mental health at late-life. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

66. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Grossman, E. (2016). The relationship between missile warning time and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms in young and older adults. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

67. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Grossman, E. (2016). The relationship between trauma exposure and PTSD symptoms is moderated by the mutual effects of one's control over media exposure in conjunction with external locus of control. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

68. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Grossman, E. (2016). The relationship between missile warning time and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in young and older adults. Paper presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.

69. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Cohen-Fridel, S., Grossman, E., & Bodner, E. (2016). Subjective age, subjective nearness-to-death and trauma-related symptoms: evidence from two studies. Paper presented at the 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Tampere, Finland.

70. Muchtari, R., Shrira, A., & Bensimon, M. (2016). Offspring of Holocaust survivors who serve as caregivers to their parents: filial responsibility and filial anxiety. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

71. Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2016). Media use and PTSD symptoms among older adults exposed to missile attacks. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

72. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2016). Familial involvement and Holocaust salience among offspring and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

73. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2016). The interactive effect of subjective age and subjective closeness-to-death on meaning in life. Paper presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.

74. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2016). The meaning of years: the relationship between subjective age, subjective closeness to death and meaning in life. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

75. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2016). The reciprocal effects of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective age: Findings from the Longitudinal Survey of Older Adults Exposed to Missile Attacks in Southern Israel. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

76. Rubinstein-Shasha, T., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2016). Intergenerational transmission across three generations in Holocaust survivor families. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

77. Shrira, A. (2016). Aging in the shadow of intergenerational transmission of trauma: Offspring of Holocaust survivors cope with the second half of life. Paper presented at a study day: Intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust: Psychological, biological and clinical aspects. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.

78. Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2016). Feeling young and less troubled: a youthful subjective age buffers the negative effect of daily hassles. Paper presented at the 31st International Congress of Psychology, Yokohama, Japan.

79. Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2016). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, posttraumatic growth and subjective successful aging. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel. 

80. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2016). A differentiated look at trauma and the aging process: which categories of trauma accelerate physical health deterioration? Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

81. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2016). Offspring of Holocaust survivors who suffer from clinical level of mental distress shows accelerated aging: Findings from the Israeli component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe. Paper presented at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

82. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Bodner, E. (2016). The interaction between subjective age and subjective nearness-to-death is related to psychological distress: evidence from two samples. Paper presented at the 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Tampere, Finland.

83. Shrira, A., Shmotkin, D., Palgi, Y., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., & Litwin, H. (2016). Symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder among older adults exposed to ongoing and intense time-limited missile attacks: A differentiated outlook. Paper presented at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.

84. Bensimon, M., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2015). The emotional impact of musical context on young and old individuals with high levels of posttraumatic symptoms. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.

85. Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2015). Aging and dying anxieties among second-generation Holocaust survivors: The role of parental communication and attachment patterns. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

86. Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2015). Aging and dying anxieties among adult offspring of traumatized parents: The role of parental communication and attachment patterns. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.

87. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, E., Cohen-Fridel, C., & Palgi, Y. (2015). Emotional complexity attenuates the negative effect of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms on satisfaction with aging. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

88. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, E., Cohen-Fridel, C., & Palgi, Y. (2015). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and satisfaction with aging: the moderating role of emotional complexity. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.

89. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y. (2015). Specific dimensions of meaning in life predict subjective successful aging at the second half of life. Paper presented at the 1st International Congress of Logotherapy in Israel. Haifa, Israel.

90. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Zaslavsky, O., & Palgi, Y. (2015). Subjective age as a mediator of the reciprocal relationship between satisfaction with aging and functional limitation. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

91. Cohen-Fridel, S., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2015). PTSD symptomatology as a function of the interactive effect of subjective age and subjective distance-to-death along the life-span. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.

92. Hoffman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2015). The interactive effect of framing and priming on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel

93. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2015). Priming posttraumatic stress symptoms among individuals exposed to African refugees' violence. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel

94. Grossman, E., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2015). Exposure to context impairs sleep among individuals with acute stress disorder symptoms: evidence from civilians exposed to missile attacks. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel

95. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2015). The interactive effect of subjective age and subjective distance-to-death on meaning in life. Paper presented at the 1st International Congress of Logotherapy in Israel. Haifa, Israel.

96. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2015). The association between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and posttraumatic growth among older adults: Subjective age and distance-to-death as moderators. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

97. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Goodwin, R., Hamana-Raz, Y., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2015). Fear of aging moderates post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms among older adults exposed to Hurricane Sandy. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

98. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Zaslavsky, O. (2015). Quality of life attenuates age-related decline in functional status of older adults. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

99. Shrira, A. (2015). Feeling young and less troubled: A youthful subjective age buffers the negative effect of daily hassles. Paper presented at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.

100. Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2015). Younger subjective age mitigates the adverse effect of daily stress on the emotional experience of traumatized individuals. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

101. Shrira, A., Zaslavsky, O., & Palgi, Y. (2015). Global quality of life modifies terminal change in physical functioning among older adult women. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

102. Zaslavsky, O., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2015). The limits of optimism: the effect of dispositional optimism on age-related and death-related change in global quality of life. Paper presented at the 8th Congress of the International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics European Region. Dublin, Ireland.

103. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2014). Do objective risks are associated with subjective assessments of threats? The case of 2011 Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster. Paper presented at the 3rd International Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters (IPRED III). Tel-Aviv, Israel.

104. Bergman, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2014). Attachment patterns moderate the relationship between subjective closeness to death and meaning in life. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

105. Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2014). Attachment patterns moderate the relationship between subjective closeness to death and meaning in life. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

106. Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2014). Attachment moderates the relationship between subjective closeness to death and meaning in life. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, USA.

107. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, Y. S., & Cohen-Fridel, S. (2014). Can ageists age successfully? Age and death anxieties are negatively related to subjective successful aging through ageism. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

108. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, Y., & Cohen-Fridel, S. (2014). Can ageists age successfully? Age and death anxieties are negatively related to self-rated successful aging through ageism. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

109. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Bergman, Y. S., & Cohen-Fridel, S. (2014). Death and aging anxiety, emotional complexity, and psychological distress. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, USA.

110. Greenblat Kimron, L., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Rubinstein, T. (2014). Posttraumatic symptoms following difficult life events: offspring of Holocaust survivors show greater vulnerability to interpersonal losses. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

111. Kavé, G., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Bodner, E. (2014). Evaluation of life expectancy is related to functioning, especially when actual death is close. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, USA.

112. Kavé, G., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Bodner, E. (2014). The relationship between medical conditions or mortality to cognitive status is moderated by subjective distance to death. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

113. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2014). Physical health in midlife offspring of Holocaust survivors and secondary traumatization. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

114. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Hamama-Raz, Y., Haviv-Palgi, S., Goodwin, R., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2014). Do recollections moderate the association between exposure to Hurricane Sandy and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms? Paper presented at the 3rd International Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters (IPRED III). Tel-Aviv, Israel.

115. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2014). Self- and other-oriented potential traumatic events as predictors of physical and mental distress: a longitudinal and cross-cultural study. Paper presented at "Trauma and the Family: A Life-Span Perspective." Ramat-Gan, Israel.

116. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Bodner, E. (2014). How do subjective age and subjective closeness to death interact in regulating subjective successful aging? Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

117. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Bodner, E. (2014). How does the combination between subjective age and subjective closeness to death regulate psychological distress? Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

118. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2014). The interactive effect of subjective closeness to death and subjective age on distress. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, USA.

119. Shrira, A. (2014). Intergenerational communication on the Holocaust, secondary traumatization and perceptions on aging and dying among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

120. Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2014). Age, subjective closeness to death, subjective age and emotional complexity. Paper presented at the 67th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, USA.

121. Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2014). The will to live and subjective life expectancy of older adults. Paper presented at the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

122. Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2014). Who said that the table isn't lying?  The gap between subjective life expectancy and actuarial life expectancy, and the will to live. Paper presented at the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

123. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., Baruch, E., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2013). Subjective assessments of threats and their association to PTSD symptoms: The case of the 2011 Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster. Paper presented at the 34th international conference of the stress and anxiety research society (STAR). Faro, Portugal.

124. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). A cross-cultural perspective on the effect of cumulative adversity: A longitudinal examination of the associations between cumulative adversity and physical and mental distress among midlife adults. Paper presented at the 34th international conference of the stress and anxiety research society (STAR). Faro, Portugal.

125. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Hamama-Raz, Y., Goodwin, R., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2013). Not so close but still extremely loud: recollection of the World Trade Center terror attack and previous hurricanes moderate the association between exposure to Hurricane Sandy and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Paper presented at the 34th international conference of the stress and anxiety research society (STAR). Faro, Portugal.

126. Shmotkin, D., Avidor, S., & Shrira, A. (2013). Predicting physical and mental health at old age: The role of the hostile-world scenario. Paper presented at the European Health Psychology Society Conference. Bordeaux, France.

127. Shrira, A. (2013). "Accelerated aging" following exposure to difficult life events. Paper presented at a study day: An Interdisciplinary Outlook on Aging, Ramat Gan, Israel.

128. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). Past traumas and future threats: Iranian nuclear threat salience among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 34th international conference of the stress and anxiety research society (STAR). Faro, Portugal.

129. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). Secondary traumatization and physical health in midlife offspring of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the 13th Nahariya conference on morbidity and medicine during the Holocaust. Nahariya, Israel.

130. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Goodwin, R., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2013). Previous exposure to the World Trade Center terror attack and resilience among older adults following Hurricane Sandy. Paper presented at the 34th international conference of the stress and anxiety research society (STAR). Faro, Portugal.

131. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). Psychosocial symptoms among hospital nurses during the Gaza War: A repeated cross sectional study. Paper presented at the Second Israeli International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters (IPRED) Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.

132. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). The relationship between cumulative adversity and one's subjective traumatic outlook. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

133. Bodner, E., Palgi, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shrira, A. (2012). Attachment measures as predictors of death anxiety among young and old people. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.  

134. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Tal-Katz, P., Hamama-Raz, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). The Carmel fire disaster: What predicts posttraumatic distress among firefighters? Paper presented at the Second Israeli International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters (IPRED) Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.

135. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Emotional complexity and distance to death. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

136. Shmotkin, D., Avidor, S., Goldberg, S., & Shrira, A. (2012). Aspects of life adversity as predictors of functioning in SHARE-Israel. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

137. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., & Avidor, S. (2012). The role of meaningful life in regulatory failures of subjective well-being. Paper presented at the 7th Biennial International Meaning Conference, Toronto, Canada.

138. Shrira, A. (2012). A deeper look into the long-term effect of lifetime cumulative adversity on late-life functioning. Paper presented at the 65th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. San Diego, USA.

139. Shrira, A. (2012). Repressive coping style and reports of cumulative adversity in old age. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

140. Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Intergenerational transmission of resilience and vulnerability: Adult children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors cope with potentially traumatic events. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.  

141. Shrira, A., Litwin, H., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Cumulative adversity and mental health: Accounting for adversity type and time of occurrence. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

142. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Cross-cultural perspective on the effects of cumulative adversity: The relationship between cumulative adversity and psychological and physical functioning among Israeli-born Jews and Arabs in the first and second waves of SHARE-Israel. Paper presented at the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

143. Shrira, A., Shmotkin, D., & Litwin, H. (2012). Cumulative adversity and mental health: Considering time of occurrence and primary focus of adversity. Paper presented at the international conference focusing on trauma through the life cycle from a strengths-based perspective. Jerusalem, Israel.

144. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Wolf, J.J., & Shrira, A. (2011). Psychosomatic symptoms among hospital physicians during the Gaza War: A repeated cross sectional study. Paper presented at the 32nd international conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society. Münster, Germany.

145. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2011). Subjective well-being is associated with adherence to treatment among patients with gastric cancer. Paper presented at the 32nd international conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society. Münster, Germany.

146. Palgi, Y., Ayalon, L., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Siovitz-Ezra, S. (2011). Self and other oriented lifetime trauma as predictors of loneliness in the second half of life. Paper presented at the 32nd international conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society. Münster, Germany.

147. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Haber, Y., Wolf, J.J., Goldray, O., Shacham-Shmueli, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2011). Comorbidity of posttraumatic stress symptoms and depressive symptoms among gastric cancer patients. Paper presented at the 32nd international conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society. Münster, Germany.

148. Shrira, A., Litwin, H., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). Cumulative adversity and mental health: Accounting for adversity type and time of occurrence. Paper presented at the 64th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Boston, USA.

149. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Shrira, A., Essar, N., Abrahami, Y., Hodedi, E., Haber, Y., Wolf, J.J., Goldray, O., & Shacham-Shmueli, E. (2010). How does past trauma affect coping with cancer in adult and old age? Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

150. Palgi, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Shrira, A., & Wolf, J.J. (2010). A comparison of psychiatric symptoms between two conflicts. Paper presented at the First Israeli International Conference on Healthcare System Preparedness and Response to Emergencies and Disasters (IPRED) Conference, Tel Aviv, Israel.

151. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2010). Happiness in adverse circumstances. Paper presented at the meeting of the Israeli Psycho-Oncological Association, Givatayim, Israel.

152. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Shmotkin, D., & Kavé, G. (2010). Are subjective well-being and subjective health ratings mainly affected by the aging or by the dying process? Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

153. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Do Holocaust survivors show increased vulnerability or resilience to post-Holocaust cumulative adversity? Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

154. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). How meaning in life and subjective well-being co-regulate functioning among adults and old people with a background of cumulative adversity? Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

155. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Offspring of Holocaust survivors report they are happier but less healthy: Evidence from the Israeli component of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

156. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Physical resilience and psychosocial vulnerability among Holocaust survivors: Evidence from two national representative samples. Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

157. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). For better and for worse: The relationship between future expectations and functioning in the second half of life. Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

158. Shrira, A., Spalter, T., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). The relationship between functional deterioration and depression changes according to the balance between traumatic and positive life events. Paper presented at the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

159. Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2008). Can past keep life pleasant even for old-old trauma survivors? Paper presented at the U.S.-Israel Bi-national Science Foundation Workshop – Adding Life to Years: Development of Sociological and Psychological Theories in  U.S.-Israel Research, Genosar, Israel.

160. Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2008). Is the past pleasant or is its bad stronger than its good? A cross-cultural inquiry into conflicting expectations concerning the effects of past on present subjective well-being among the elderly. Paper presented at the 17th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.

161. Shrira, A. (2006). Trauma in the life story: The relationship between Holocaust-related expressions, time perspective and emotional experience. Paper presented at the Herczeg Institute Forum for Doctoral Students on Aging and Grontological Issues, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

162. Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2006). A thematic analysis of Holocaust-related expressions in life stories of Holocaust survivors. Paper presented at the National Conference on Health and Life Quality of Holocaust Survivors, Kiriat Sdeh Hateufa, Israel.

 

Organization of sessions, study days and conferences  

  1. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Kave, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2019). ISF Workshop Advancing the field of subjective aging. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.
  2. Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2018). Organizer of a study day: The wonders of age: Aging perceptions and coping with morbidity. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
  3. Shrira, A. (2018). Organizer and chair of the session: Aging perceptions and late-life adaptation to stress and trauma. Session included at the 39th  STAR conference, Lublin, Poland.
  4. Shrira, A. (2018). Organizer and chair of the session: Intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust: new issues and fresh insights. Session included at the 22nd Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  5. Shrira, A. (2016). Organizer and chair of the session: Age is more than just a number: perceptions of aging and mental health. Session included at the 23rd Nordic Congress of Gerontology, Tampere, Finland.
  6. Shrira, A. (2016). Organizer and chair of the session: Aging in the flames of war and terrorism. Session included at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.
  7. Shrira, A. (2016). Organizer and chair of the session: Death on live: media exposure to trauma and posttraumatic reactions. Session included at the 37th STAR conference, Zagreb, Croatia.
  8. Shrira, A. (2016). Organizer and chair of the session: Offspring of Holocaust survivors. Session included at the 21st Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  9. Shrira, A. (2016). Organizer of a study day: Intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust: Psychological, biological and clinical aspects. Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
  10. Shrira, A. (2015). Organizer and chair of the session: Late-life adaptation to stress and traumatic exposure: The role of perceptions of aging. Session included at the 36th Annual Conference of the Stress and Anxiety Research Society (STAR). Tel Aviv, Israel.
  11. Shrira, A. (2014). Organizer and chair of the session: "Starring at the sun": novel insights from research on self-perceptions of aging and dying. Session included at the 67th annual meeting of the Gerontological Society of America. Washington, USA.
  12. Shrira, A. (2014). Organizer and chair of the session: Aging of Holocaust survivors and offspring. Session included in the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  13. Shrira, A. (2014). Organizer of the session: Subjective evaluations of age and dying. Session included in the 20th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  14. Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2013). Organizer of a study day: An Interdisciplinary Outlook on Aging, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
  15. Shrira, A., & Lifshitz-Vahav, H. (2013). Co-chairing of the session: Adulthood and aging. A study day for the faculty of social sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
  16. Shrira, A. (2012). Organizer of the session: Lifetime cumulative adversity and late-life mental health. Session included in the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  17. Shrira, A. (2012). Organizer of the session: Psychological issues on death among the elderly. Session included in the 19th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
  18. Shrira, A. (2010). Organizer of the session: How past trauma affects the challenges of aging. Session included in the 18th Biennial Meeting of the Israel Gerontological Society, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Research
  1. Intergenerational transmission of trauma: Holocaust survivors, second and third generation 
  2. Trauma and aging
  3. Subjective views of aging and longevity
Courses

Psychopathology in old age

Psychology of older adults

Intergenerational transmission of trauma - research seminar

Resilience and vulnerability at the second half of life

 

Publications
  1. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (in press). Attitudes to aging mediate the reciprocal effects of health anxiety and physical functioning. Psychology & Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2021.1956496
  2. Cohn-Schwartz, E., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (in press). Reciprocal associations of post-traumatic stress symptoms and cognitive decline in community-dwelling older adults: The mediating role of depression. International Psychogeriatrics.
  3. Diamond, S., & Shrira, A. (in press). From "a nothing" to something special: Art as a space of holding attunement in the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000334
  4. Segel-Karpas, D., Shrira, A., Cohn-Schwartz, E., & Bodner, E. (in press). Daily fluctuations in subjective age and depressive symptoms: The roles of attitudes to ageing and chronological age. European Journal of Ageing. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-021-00681-z
  5. Weissberger, G., Bodner, E., Palgi, Y., Kavé, G., Shmotkin, D., & Shrira, A. (in press). The association between views of aging and subjective cognitive complaints in older adults: Findings from two samples. Research on Aging.
  6. Bergman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2022). Cultural differences in the association between subjective age and health: Evidence from the Israeli component of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE-Israel). Ageing and Society, 42(1), 32-47.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X20000707
  7. Petashnick, J. R., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2022). Subjective age and late-life functional status: Mediating and moderating effects. Journals of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 77(1), 61-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab181
  8. Bergman, Y. S., Maytles, R., Frenkel-Yosef, M., & Shrira, A. (2021). Activity engagement and psychological distress among Holocaust survivors during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Psychogeriatrics, 33(12), 1289-1296. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610221000910
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  10. Bodner, E., Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., & Bergman, Y. (2021). Day-to-day variability in subjective age and ageism and their association with depressive symptoms. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(5), 836-844. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbaa125
  11. Goldbart, A., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2021). The role of emotion covariation and psychological flexibility in coping with chronic physical pain: An integrative model. Psychology and Health, 36(11), 1299-1313. https://doi.org/10.1080/08870446.2020.1841766  
  12. Greenberg, D. M., Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Fricke, K. R. (2021). Decreasing stress through a spatial audio and immersive 3D environment: A pilot study with implications for clinical and medical settings. Music & Science, 4, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204321993992
  13. Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Ring, L., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2021). Subjective accelerated aging moderates the association between COVID-19 worries and peritraumatic distress among older adults. Global Mental Health, 8, e16. https://doi.org/10.1017/gmh.2021.13
  14. Greenblatt-Kimron, L., Shrira, A., Rubinstein, T., & Palgi, Y. (2021). Event centrality and secondary traumatization among Holocaust survivors' offspring and grandchildren: A three-generation study. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 81, 102401. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.janxdis.2021.102401
  15. Grossman, E., Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2021). COVID-19 related loneliness and sleep problems in older adults: Worries and resilience as potential moderators. Personality and Individual Differences, 168, 110371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2020.110371
  16. Halperin Ben Zvi, M., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2021). Qualities of social relationships as mediators of the relationship between future perceptions and health. Aging and Mental Health, 25(10), 1967-1975.  https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2020.1753012 
  17. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2021). PTSD symptoms, daily subjective age and psychological distress in old adults. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 34(4), 179-188. https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000256
  18. Maytles, R., Frenkel-Yosef, M., & Shrira, A. (2021). Caregiver burden among adults caring for their Holocaust survivor parents during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Psychogeriatrics, 33(12), 1327-1332. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610221001125
  19. Maytles, R., Frenkel-Yosef, M., & Shrira, A. (2021). Psychological reactions of Holocaust survivors with low and high PTSD symptom levels during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Affective Disorders, 282, 697-699. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2021.01.007
  20. Palgi, Y., Segel-Karpas, D., Mor, S. O., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2021). Positive solitude scale: Theoretical background, development and validation. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 3357-3384. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-021-00367-4 
  21. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Neupert, S. (2021). Views on aging and health: A multidimensional and multitemporal perspective. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B. The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, 76(5), 821-824. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab026
  22. Shilo-Levine, S., Shrira, A., & Hoffman, Y. (2021). Feeling older can be advantageous: A study on generativity, meaning in work and life satisfaction in Israeli workplaces. Journal of Happiness Studies, 22, 2873-2887. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-020-00344-3
  23. Shrira, A., & Felsen, I. (2021). Parental PTSD and psychological reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 13(4), 438-445. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0001014   
  24. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Lang, F. (2021). Posttraumatic manifestations among older adults. GeroPsych: The Journal of Gerontopsychology and Geriatric Psychiatry, 34(4), 167-168. https://doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000278 
  25. Bergman, Y. S., Cohen-Fridel, S., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). COVID-19 health worries and anxiety symptoms among older adults: The moderating role of ageism. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(11), 1371-1375. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220001258
  26. Diamond, S., Ronel, N., & Shrira, A. (2020). From a world of threat to a world at which to wonder: Self-transcendent emotions through the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 12(6), 609-618. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000590  
  27. Frenkel-Yosef, M., Maytles, R., & Shrira, A. (2020). Loneliness and its concomitants among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Psychogeriatrics, 32(10), 1257-1259. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610220003476
  28. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). Response to van Orden's commentary on "COVID-19 related loneliness and psychiatric symptoms among older adults: The buffering role of subjective age." American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(11), 1208-1209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.08.014
  29. Koren, E., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Bergman, Y. S. (2020). Subjective nearness-to-death and negative attitudes toward persons with disability: Attachment patterns moderate. Death Studies, 44, 312-318. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2018.1544949  
  30. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ring, L., Bodner, E., Avidor, S., Bergman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Keisari, S., & Hoffman, Y. (2020). The loneliness pandemic: Loneliness and other concomitants of depression, anxiety and their comorbidity during the COVID-19 outbreak. Journal of Affective Disorders, 275, 109-111. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2020.06.036
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  33. Shrira, A., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). COVID-19 related loneliness and psychiatric symptoms among older adults: The buffering role of subjective age. American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 28(11), 1200-1204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jagp.2020.05.018
  34. Shrira, A., Maytles, R., & Frenkel-Yosef, M. (2020). Suffering from infectious diseases during the Holocaust relates to amplified psychological reactions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 130, 421-423. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2020.08.024
  35. Shrira, A., Segel-Karpas, D., Bodner, E., & Palgi, Y. (2020). Subjective age and emotion covariation: Findings from two daily experience studies. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 75, 991-1000. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby125  
  36. Grossman, E. S., Hoffman, Y. S. G., Shrira, A., Kedar, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Dinnayi, M., & Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2019). Preliminary evidence linking complex-PTSD to insomnia in a sample of Yazidi genocide survivors. Psychiatry Research, 271, 161-166. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.044  
  37. Hoffman, Y. & Shrira, A. (2019). Variables connecting parental PTSD to offspring successful aging: Parent-child role reversal, secondary traumatization and depressive symptoms. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 718. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00718  
  38. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Avidor, S., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2019). Understanding the long-term connections between posttraumatic stress, subjective age and successful aging among midlife and older adults. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 10, 1583523. https://doi.org/10.1080/20008198.2019.1583523  
  39. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Kavé, G., Rubinstein, T., & Shmotkin, D. (2019). Which factors do older adults consider when estimating the time left for them to live? Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 69-73. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby048  
  40. Schwartz, E., & Shrira, A. (2019). Social connectedness moderates the relationship between warfare exposure, PTSD symptoms and health among older adults. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 82, 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2018.1534521  
  41. Shrira, A. (2019). Parental PTSD, health behaviors and successful aging among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Psychiatry Research, 271, 265-271. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.060  
  42. Shrira, A., Carmel, S., Tovel, H., & Raveis, V. H. (2019). Reciprocal relationships between the will-to-live and successful aging. Aging and Mental Health, 23, 1350-1357. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1499011  
  43. Shrira, A., Menashe, R., & Bensimon, M. (2019). Filial anxiety and sense of obligation among offspring of Holocaust survivors. Aging and Mental Health, 23, 752-761. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2018.1448970  
  44. Shrira, A., Mollov, B., & Mudahogora, C. (2019). Complex PTSD and intergenerational transmission of distress and resilience among Tutsi genocide survivors and their offspring: A preliminary report. Psychiatry Research, 271, 121-123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.11.040  
  45. Bergman, Y. S., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2018). Subjective nearness to death and end-of-life anxieties: the moderating role of ageism. Aging and Mental Health, 22, 678-685. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1286459  
  46. Bodner, E., Hoffman, Y., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2018). A light in a sea of darkness: The moderating role of emotional complexity in the PTSD symptoms-successful aging association. Aging and Mental Health, 22, 826-833. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2017.1317332  
  47. Diamond, S., & Shrira, A. (2018). Psychological vulnerability and resilience of Holocaust survivors engaged in creative art. Psychiatry Research, 264, 236-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2018.04.013  
  48. Hoffman, Y. S. G., Grossman, E. S., Shrira, A., Kedar, M., Ben-Ezra, M., Dinnayi, M., … Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2018). Complex PTSD and its correlates amongst female Yazidi victims of sexual slavery living in post-ISIS camps. World Psychiatry, 17, 112-113. https://doi.org/10.1002/wps.20475  
  49. Palgi, Y., Avidor, S., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., Zaslavsky, O., & Hoffman, Y. (2018). Perception counts: The relationships of inner perceptions of trauma and PTSD symptoms across time. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 81, 361-375. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2018.1485370  
  50. Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2018). Interpersonal vulnerability among gay offspring of Holocaust survivors and its association with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Psychiatry Research, 259, 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.10.017  
  51. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Hoffman, Y., Avidor, S., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., & Bensimon, M. (2018). Subjective age as a moderator in the reciprocal effects between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and self-rated physical functioning. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1746. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01746  
  52. Bensimon, M., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (2017). The emotional impact of national music on younger and older adults with posttraumatic stress symptoms. Aging and Mental Health, 21, 1090-1098. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2016.1196338  
  53. Grossman, E. S., Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2017). Trauma-related context increases sleep disturbances in people with acute stress disorder symptoms. Stress and Health, 33, 153-157. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.2679  
  54. Grossman, E. S., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2017). Enduring sleep complaints predict health problems: a six-year follow-up of the Survey of Health and Retirement in Europe. Aging and Mental Health, 21, 1155-1163. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2016.1209735  
  55. Hoffman, Y., & Shrira, A. (2017). Shadows of the past and threats of the future: ISIS anxiety among grandchildren of Holocaust survivors. Psychiatry Research, 253, 220-225. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.03.053  
  56. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Bodner, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2017). Prime and prejudice: the effect of priming context and prejudicial attitudes on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms following immigrant violence. Psychiatry Research, 254, 224-231. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.04.061  
  57. Lifshitz-Vahav, H., Shrira, A., & Bodner, E. (2017). The reciprocal relationship between participation in leisure activities and cognitive functioning: The moderating effect of literacy level. Aging and Mental Health, 21, 524-531. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2015.1124838  
  58. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2017). The theoretical and psychometric properties of the Subjective Traumatic Outlook (STO) questionnaire. Psychiatry Research, 253, 165-173. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.03.050  
  59. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Hoffman, Y. (2017). Negative and positive perceptions of media sources and PTSD symptoms among older adults exposed to missile attacks. Personality and Individual Differences, 119, 185-188. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.025  
  60. Segel-Karpas, D., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2017). The reciprocal relationship between depression and physical morbidity: the role of subjective age. Health Psychology, 36, 848-851. https://doi.org/10.1037/hea0000542  
  61. Shrira, A., Ayalon, L., Bensimon, M., Bodner, E., Rosenbloom, T., & Yadid, Y. (2017). Parental post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms are related to successful aging in offspring of Holocaust survivors. Frontiers in Psychology, 8. 1099. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01099  
  62. Shrira, A., Shmotkin, D., Palgi, Y., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., & Litwin, H. (2017). Older adults exposed to ongoing versus intense time-limited missile attacks: Differences in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 80, 64-78. https://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2016.1178028  
  63. Grossman, E. S., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., Palgi, Y., Gottlieb, M., Mesika, O., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shrira, A. (2016). Psychological effects following the Iran nuclear deal: Iranian nuclear threat salience moderates the relationship between PTSD symptoms and sleep problems. Psychiatry Research, 243, 292-294. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.06.032  
  64. Hoffman, Y., Cohen-Fridel, S., Bodner, E., Grossman, E., & Shrira, A. (2016). Confidence in the 'Iron Dome' missile defense system combined with sense of resilience reduced the effect of exposure on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms after missile attacks. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 77, 407-408. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.15l10024  
  65. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Cohen-Fridel, S., Grossman, E., & Bodner, E. (2016). Posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as a function of the interactive effect of subjective age and subjective nearness to death. Personality and Individual Differences, 102, 245-251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2016.07.017  
  66. Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Cohen-Fridel, S., Grossman, E., & Bodner, E. (2016). The effect of exposure to missile attacks on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms as a function of perceived media control and locus of control. Psychiatry Research, 244, 51-56. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2016.07.005  
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  32. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Goodwin, R., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2014). Previous exposure to the World Trade Center Terrorist Attack and posttraumatic symptoms among older adults following Hurricane Sandy. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 77, 374-385. https://doi.org/10.1521/psyc.2014.77.4.374    
  33. Bar-Tal, Y., Shrira, A., & Keinan, G. (2013). The effect of stress on cognitive structuring: A cognitive motivational model. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 17, 87-99. https://doi.org/10.1177/1088868312461309  
  34. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., Baruch, E., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2013). Subjective assessments of threats and their association to posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: the case of the 2011 Japan earthquake and nuclear disaster. Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, 74, 280. https://doi.org/10.4088/JCP.12l08055  
  35. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., & Shrira, A. (2013). Somatization and psychiatric symptoms among hospital nurses exposed to war stressors. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 50, 182-187.
  36. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2013). Against all odds: A preliminary study comparing hospital personnel and rescue personnel reactions to Haiti’s Earthquake. General Hospital Psychiatry, 35, e1-2. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2012.06.013  
  37. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2013). Reactions to 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami: A preliminary matching study comparing nurses and civilians. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 201, 534-536. https://doi.org/10.1097/NMD.0b013e318294828e  
  38. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Shacham-Shmueli, E., & Hamama-Raz, Y. (2013). The association between life satisfaction and adherence to treatment among patients with stage three gastric cancer. European Journal of Oncology, 18, 39-47.
  39. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Soffer, Y., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., & Shrira, A. (2013). Face it: Collecting mental health and disaster related data using Facebook vs. personal interview: The case of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Psychiatry Research, 208, 91-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2012.11.006  
  40. Carmel, S., Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). The will to live and death-related decline in life satisfaction. Psychology and Aging, 28, 1115-1123. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0034649  
  41. Haber, Y., Palgi, Y., Hamama-Raz, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2013). Predictors of professional quality of life among physicians: The role of risk and protective factors. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 50, 174-180.
  42. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). Mental health consequences of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster: are the grandchildren of people living in Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the drop of the atomic bomb more vulnerable? World Psychiatry, 11, 133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wpsyc.2012.05.011  
  43. Kavé, G., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Spalter, T., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Formal education level versus self-rated literacy as predictors of cognitive aging. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 67, 697-704. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbs031  
  44. Keinan, G., Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). The association between cumulative adversity and mental health: Considering dose and primary focus of adversity. Quality of Life Research, 21, 1149-1158. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-011-0035-0  
  45. Litwin, H., Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2012). Self-reported functional status among the old-old: A comparison of two Israeli cohorts. Journal of Aging and Health, 24, 846-862. https://doi.org/10.1177/0898264312436714  
  46. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., Baruch, E., Soffer, Y., & Shrira, A. (2012). Mental health and disaster related attitudes among Japanese after the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 46, 688-690. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.01.028  
  47. Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Essar, N., & Shrira, A. (2012). The effect of prolonged exposure to war-related stress among hospital personnel with different affect types: Lessons from the Second Lebanon and the Gaza "Cast Lead" operation. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 3, 7165. https://doi.org/10.3402/ejpt.v3i0.7165  
  48. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shiovitz-Ezra, S., & Ayalon, L. (2012). Self- and other-oriented potential lifetime traumatic events as predictors of loneliness in the second half of life. Aging and Mental Health, 16, 423-430. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2011.638903  
  49. Shmotkin, D., & Shrira, A. (2012). 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. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13, 389-409. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-011-9270-x  (Selected as a Key Research Article by the Psychology Progress website, January 2013)
  50. Shrira, A. (2012). The effect of lifetime cumulative adversity on change and chronicity in depressive symptoms and quality of life in older adults. International Psychogeriatrics, 24, 1988-1997. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610212001123  (Selected as a Key Research Article by the Psychology Progress website, May 2013)
  51. Shrira, A., Shmotkin, D., & Litwin, H. (2012). Potentially traumatic events at different points in the life span and mental health: Findings from SHARE-Israel. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 82, 251-259. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01149.x  
  52. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Essar, N., Abrahami, Y., Hodedi, E., Haber, Y., Wolf, J. J., Goldary, O., & Shacham-Shmueli, E. (2011). The association between previous trauma and mental health among gastric cancer patients. European Journal of Psychiatry, 25, 122-133. https://doi.org/10.4321/S0213-61632011000300002  
  53. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Wolf, J. J., & Shrira, A. (2011). Psychiatric symptoms and psychosocial functioning among hospital personnel during the Gaza War: A repeated cross-sectional controlled study. Psychiatry Research, 189, 392-395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2011.02.004  
  54. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Wolf, J. J., & Shrira, A. (2011). Psychosomatic symptoms among hospital physicians during the Gaza War: A repeated cross-sectional controlled study. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 48, 170-174.
  55. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2011). World assumptions and psychological functioning among ultra-orthodox and secular Holocaust survivors. Traumatology, 17, 14-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534765610395616  
  56. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Cohen-Fridel, S., & Bodner, E. (2011). The relationships between daily optimism, daily pessimism, and affect differ in young and old age. Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 1294-1299. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2011.02.030  
  57. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Haber, Y., Wolf, J. J., Goldray, O., Shacham-Shmueli, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2011). Comorbidity of posttraumatic stress and depression among gastric cancer patients. European Journal of Oncology Nursing, 15, 454-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejon.2010.11.011  
  58. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., Goldberg, S., & Palgi, Y. (2011). Resilience and vulnerability among aging Holocaust survivors and their families: An intergenerational overview. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 9, 7-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2011.544202  
  59. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). Functioning and mortality of Holocaust survivors: Physical resilience and psychosocial vulnerabilities. Journal of Loss and Trauma, 16, 67-83. https://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2010.519297  
  60. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). How subjective well-being and meaning in life interact in the hostile world? Journal of Positive Psychology, 6(4), 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2011.577090  
  61. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). Transgenerational effects of trauma in midlife: Evidence for resilience and vulnerability in offspring of Holocaust survivors. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 3, 394-402. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0020608  
  62. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2011). For better and for worse: The relationship between future expectations and functioning in the second half of life. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 66B, 195-203. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbq103  
  63. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Wolf, J. J., Haber, Y., Goldary, O., Shacham-Shmueli, E., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2011). The positivity ratio and functioning under stress. Stress and Health, 27, 265-271. https://doi.org/10.1002/smi.1349  
  64. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., & Shrira, A. (2010). Late effect of the Second Lebanon War: Level of exposure and rates of comorbidity of posttraumatic stress symptoms and depressive symptoms among Israelis from Northern and Center Israel. European Journal of Psychiatry, 24, 158-166. https://doi.org/10.4321/S0213-61632010000300004  
  65. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Sternberg, D., Essar, N., Berkley, D., Eldar, H., Gildai, Y., Moshe, L., & Shrira, A. (2010). Losing my religion: A preliminary study of changes in belief pattern after sexual assault. Traumatology, 16, 7-13. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534765609358465  
  66. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Sternberg, D., & Essar, N. (2010). Changes in post-traumatic symptom pattern during and after exposure to extreme war stress: An uncontrolled, preliminary study supporting the dose-response model. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, 25, 38-41. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1049023X00007640  
  67. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Shmotkin, D., & Kavé, G. (2010). Delineating terminal change in subjective well-being and subjective health. Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences, 65B, 61-64. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp095  
  68. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Do Holocaust survivors show increased vulnerability or resilience to post-Holocaust cumulative adversity? Journal of Traumatic Stress, 23, 367-375. https://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20524   
  69. Shrira, A., & Kaplan, O. (2009). Latent inhibition in within-subject designs: The roles of masking, schizotypy, and gender. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 922-927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.07.019  
  70. Shrira, A., & Tsakanikos, E. (2009). Latent inhibition as a function of positive and negative schizotypal symptoms: Evidence for a bi-directional model. Personality and Individual Differences, 47, 434-438. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2009.04.015  
  71. Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2008). Can past keep life pleasant even for old-old trauma survivors? Aging and Mental Health, 12, 807-819. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607860802428018  

 

Chapters in books

  1. Cohen, S., Bodner, E., & Shrira, A. (in press). An interpersonal approach to subjective views of aging. In Y. Palgi, A. Shrira, & M. Diehl (Eds.), Subjective views of aging: Theory, research, and practice. Springer.
  2. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Diehl, M. (in press). Advancing the field of subjective views of aging: An overview of recent achievements and future directions. In Y. Palgi, A. Shrira, & M. Diehl (Eds.), Subjective views of aging: Theory, research, and practice. Springer.  
  3. Shrira, A., & Hoffman, Y. (2021). PTSD-depression comorbidity and health among older adults exposed to missile attacks: the buffering effect of young subjective age. In K. E. Cherry, & A. Gibson (Eds.), The intersection of trauma and disaster behavioral health (pp. 47-64). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51525-6_4
  4. Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2021). Aging in the shadow of trauma: meaning in life as a resource for older adults in Israel. In O. Mayseless & P. Russo-Netzer (Eds.), Finding meaning: An existential quest in post-modern Israel (pp. 151-172). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190910358.003.0007
  5. Shrira, A. (2018). Altern im schatten transgenerativer weitergabe der Holocaust-erfahrungen (Aging in the shadow of transgenerational transmission of Holocaust experiences). In D. Kiesel, & N. Staszewski (Eds.), Shoah – Flucht – Migration: Multiple traumatisierung und ihre auswirkungen (pp. 88-102). Berlin: Hentrich and Hentrich.
  6. Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2015). Aging with trauma across the lifetime and experiencing trauma in old age: vulnerability and resilience intertwined. In K. E. Cherry (Ed.), Traumatic stress and long-term recovery: Coping with disasters and other negative life events (pp. 293-308). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18866-9
  7. Shmotkin, D., & Shrira, A. (2013). Subjective well-being and meaning in life in a hostile world: Proposing a configurative perspective. In J. A. Hicks & C. Routledge (Eds.), The experience of meaning in life: Classical perspectives, emerging themes, and controversies (pp. 77-86). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_6
  8. Shrira, A. (2013). Long-term effects of cumulative adversity: The relationship between adversity type and well-being and functional disability. In L. Achdut & H. Litwin (Eds.), Changes in the second half of life: Recent findings from SHARE-Israel: The longitudinal survey of people aged 50 and older, 2005-2010 (pp. 263-282). Jerusalem: The Hebrew University (in Hebrew).
  9. Shmotkin, D., & Shrira, A. (2012). On the distinction between subjective well-being and meaning in life: Regulatory versus reconstructive functions in the face of a hostile world. In P. T. P. Wong (Ed.), The human quest for meaning: theories, research, and applications (2nd ed., pp. 143-164). New York: Routledge.
  10. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2011). Does trauma linger into old-old age: Using the Holocaust experience as a paradigm. In L. W. Poon & J. Cohen-Mansfield (Eds.), Understanding well-being in the oldest old (pp. 81-95). New York: Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920974.007
  11. Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2010). Families of Holocaust survivors. In Y. Brick, & A. Lowenstein (Eds.), The elderly and the family: Multi-generational aspects of aging (pp. 129-145). Jerusalem: Eshel (in Hebrew).

 

Other Publications

  1. Farbstein, R., Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., & Ben-Ezra, M. (2015). The association between religious affiliation and psychological factors among Holocaust survivors. Gerontology, 42, 13-32. (in Hebrew).
  2. Frenkel-Yosef, M., Maytles, R., & Shrira, A. (in press). Variables related to loneliness among Israeli older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. Gerontology. (in Hebrew)
  3. Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2014). Future expectations and functioning in later life. In A. C. Michalos (Ed.), Encyclopedia of quality of life and well-being research (pp. 2386-2389). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5
  4. Ben-Ezra, M., Palgi, Y., Aviel, O., Dubiner, Y., Baruch, E., & Shrira, A. (2011). Japan worst nightmare has come to life. British Medical Journal, 342, e1987.
  5. Ben-Ezra, M., Shrira, A., & Palgi, Y. (2010). The hidden face of Haiti's earthquake tragedy. Science, 327, 1325.

Last Updated Date : 10/01/2023