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Shmotkin, D., Eyal, N., & Lomranz, J. (1993). Differential characteristics of clinical psychologists treating younger and older clients. Clinical Gerontologist, 12, 3-16. http://doi.org/10.1300/J018v12n03_02
Shmotkin, D., & Hadari, G. (1996). An outlook on subjective well-being in old age: An integrative formulation. International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 42, 271-289. http://doi.org/10.2190/JKMB-2TH6-YB74-L8PL
Shmotkin, D. (1998). Declarative and differential aspects of subjective well-being and its implications for mental health in later life. In J. Lomranz (Ed.), Handbook of aging and mental health: An integrative approach (pp. 15-43). Plenum.
Shmotkin, D., & Lomranz, J. (1998). Subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors: An examination of overlooked differentiations. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 141-155. http://doi.org/10.1037/0022-3514.75.1.141
Shmotkin, D. (1999). Affective bonds of adult children with living versus deceased parents. Psychology and Aging, 14, 473-482. http://doi.org/10.1037//0882-7974.14.3.473
Keyes, C. L. M., Shmotkin, D., & Ryff, C. D. (2002). Optimizing well-being: The empirical encounter of two traditions. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 82, 1007-1022. http://doi.org/10.1037//0022-3514.82.6.1007
Shmotkin, D, & Barilan, Y. M. (2002). Expressions of Holocaust experience and their relationship to mental symptoms and physical morbidity among Holocaust survivor patients. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 25, 115-134. http://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014880604065
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Shmotkin, D. (2003). Vulnerability and resilience intertwined: A review of research on Holocaust survivors. In R. Jacoby & G. Keinan (Eds.), Between stress and hope: From a disease-centered to a health-centered perspective (pp. 213-233). Praeger.
Shmotkin, D., Blumstein, T., & Modan, B. (2003). Beyond keeping active: Concomitants of being a volunteer in old-old age. Psychology and Aging, 18, 602-607. http://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.18.3.602
Shmotkin, D., Blumstein, T., & Modan, B. (2003). Tracing long-term effects of early trauma: A broad-scope view of Holocaust survivors in late life. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 71, 223-234. http://doi.org/10.1037/0022-006X.71.2.223
Shmotkin, D., & Eyal, N. (2003). Psychological time in later life: Implications for counseling. Journal of Counseling and Development, 81, 259-267. http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1556-6678.2003.tb00252.x
Shmotkin, D. (2005). Happiness in face of adversity: Reformulating the dynamic and modular bases of subjective well-being. Review of General Psychology, 9, 291-325. http://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.9.4.291
Walter-Ginzburg, A., Shmotkin, D., Blumstein, T., & Shorek, A. (2005). A gender-based dynamic multidimensional longitudinal analysis of resilience and mortality in the old-old in Israel: The Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study (CALAS). Social Science and Medicine, 60, 1705-1715. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2004.08.023
Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2006). Predictors of mortality in the old-old in Israel: The Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 54, 906-911. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2006.00741.x
Shmotkin, D., Berkovich, M., & Cohen, K. (2006). Combining happiness and suffering in a retrospective view of anchor periods in life: A differential approach to subjective well-being. Social Indicators Research, 77, 139-169. http://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-5556-x
Cohen, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2007). Emotional ratings of anchor periods in life and their relation to subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors. Personality and Individual Differences, 43, 495-506. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2006.12.018
Shmotkin, D. (2008). Mental health and trauma among Israelis aged 50+. In L. Achdut & H. Litwin (Eds.), The 50+ cohort: First results from SHARE-Israel. Data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (special issue of Social Security [Bitachon Sociali], No. 76, pp. 197-224). Jerusalem: The National Insurance Institute of Israel. (Hebrew)
Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2008). Can the past keep life pleasant even for old-old trauma survivors? Aging and Mental Health, 12, 807-819. http://doi.org/10.1080/13607860802428018
Cohen-Mansfield, J., Shmotkin, D., & Goldberg, S. (2009). Loneliness in old age: Longitudinal changes and their determinants in an Israeli sample. International Psychogeriatrics, 21, 1160-1170. http://doi.org/10.1017/S1041610209990974
Shmotkin, D., & Litwin, H. (2009). Cumulative adversity and depressive symptoms among older adults in Israel: The differential roles of self-oriented versus other-oriented events of potential trauma. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 44, 989-997. http://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-009-0020-x
Ben-Ezra, M., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). Physical versus mental predictors of mortality among the old-old in Israel: The CALAS study. Research on Aging, 32, 595–617. http://doi.org/10.1177/0164027510374283
Cohen-Mansfield, J., Shmotkin, D., Eyal, N., Reichental, Y., & Hazan, H. (2010). A comparison of three types of autobiographical memories in old-old age: First memories, pivotal memories and traumatic memories. Gerontology, 56, 564-573. http://doi.org/10.1159/000295113
Cohen-Mansfield, J., Shmotkin, D., & Hazan, H. (2010). The effect of homebound status on older persons. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 58, 2358–2362. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03172.x
Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2010). The predicament of time near the end of life: Time perspective trajectories of life satisfaction among the old-old. Aging and Mental Health, 14, 577-586. http://doi.org/10.1080/13607860903483086
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. http://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp095
Shmotkin, D., Lerner-Geva, L., Cohen‑Mansfield, J., Blumstein, T., Eyal, N., Shorek, A., Kave, G., & Hazan, H. (2010). Profiles of functioning as predictors of mortality in old age: The advantage of a configurative approach. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 51, 68-75. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2009.07.010
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. http://doi.org/10.1002/jts.20524
Shmotkin, D. (2011). The pursuit of happiness: Alternative conceptions of subjective well-being. In L. W. Poon & J. Cohen-Mansfield (Eds.), Understanding well-being in the oldest old (pp. 27-45). Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920974.004
Shmotkin, D, & Keinan, G. (2011). Who is prone to react to coinciding threats of terrorism and war? Exploring vulnerability through global versus differential reactivity. Community Mental Health Journal, 47, 35–46. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-010-9354-9
Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., Goldberg, S. C., & Palgi, Y. (2011). Resilience and vulnerability among aging Holocaust survivors and their families: An intergenerational overview. Journal of Intergenerational Relationships, 9, 7-21. http://doi.org/10.1080/15350770.2011.544202
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). Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511920974.007
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. http://doi.org/10.1080/15325024.2010.519297
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, 273-285. http://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2011.577090
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. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0020608
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. http://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbq103
Cohen-Mansfield, J., Shmotkin, D., & Hazan, H. (2012). Homebound older persons: Prevalence, characteristics, and longitudinal predictors. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 54, 55-60. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.archger.2011.02.016
Shmotkin, D., & Shrira, A. (2012). Happiness and suffering in the life story: An inquiry into conflicting expectations concerning the effect of perceived past on present subjective well-being in old age. Journal of Happiness Studies, 13, 389-409. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-011-9270-x
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. 143-163). Routledge.
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. http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1939-0025.2012.01149.x
Carmel, S., Shrira, A., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). The will-to-live and death-related decline in life satisfaction. Psychology and Aging, 28, 1115–1123. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0034649
Cohen-Mansfield, J., Shmotkin, D., Malkinson, R., Bartur, L., & Hazan, H. (2013). Parental bereavement increases mortality in older persons. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 5, 84-92. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0029011
Shenkman, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2013). The Hostile-World Scenario among Israeli homosexual adolescents and young adults. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 43, 1408-1417. http://doi.org/10.1111/jasp.12097
Shmotkin, D., Eyal, N., Hazan, H., Shkolnik, T., Shorek, A., & Cohen-Mansfield, J. (2013). Between the subjective and the objective: How informative is subjective evaluation of memory among the old-old? Clinical Gerontologist, 36, 294-315. http://doi.org/10.1080/07317115.2013.788115
Shmotkin, D., & Shrira, A. (2013). Subjective well-being and meaning in life in a hostile world: Proposing a configurative perspective. In J. Hicks and C. Routledge (Eds.), The experience of meaning in life: Classical perspectives, emerging themes, and controversies (pp. 77-86). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6527-6_6
Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Ben-Ezra, M., Spalter, T., Kavé, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2014). Age-related and death-related differences in emotional complexity. Psychology and Aging, 29, 284–296. http://doi.org/10.1037/a0036302
Shenkman, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2014). "Kids are joy": Psychological welfare among Israeli gay fathers. Journal of Family Issues, 35, 1926-1939. http://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X13489300
Shmotkin, D., Shrira, A., Eyal, N., Blumstein, T., & Shorek, A. (2014). The prediction of subjective wellness among the old-old: Implications for the "fourth age" conception. The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 69, 719-729. http://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbt052
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 (Ch. 16, pp. 293-308). Springer. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18866-9_16
Shmotkin, D. & Averbuch, I. (2015). La poursuite du bonheur dans un monde hostile: comment la santé mentale actuelle des personnes âgées est-elle influencée par la façon dont elles perçoivent leur passé et l'avenir? [The pursuit of happiness in a hostile world: How is present mental health of old people affected by the ways they conceive their past and future?]. Psychologie Clinique, 40, 19-35. (French) https://doi.org/10.1051/psyc/201540019
Shrira, A., Shmotkin, D., Palgi, Y., Soffer, Y., Hamama Raz, Y., Tal-Katz, P., Ben-Ezra, M., & Benight, C. C. (2015). How do meaning in life and positive affect regulate adaptation to stress? The case of firefighters following the Mount Carmel forest fire. Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences, 52(3), 68-70. PMID: 27357557
Shenkman, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2016). The association between self-perceived parental role and meaning in life among gay and heterosexual fathers. Journal of Family Psychology, 30, 552–561. http://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000213
Shenkman, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2016). The Hostile-World Scenario and mental health concomitants among gays and lesbians. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health, 20, 70-86. http://doi.org/10.1080/19359705.2015.1048915
Shmotkin, D., Avidor, S., & Shrira, A. (2016). The role of the Hostile-World Scenario in predicting physical and mental health outcomes in older adults. Journal of Aging and Health, 28, 863-889. http://doi.org/10.1177/0898264315614005
Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Bodner, E., & Shmotkin, D. (2016). Which category of lifetime adversity accelerates physical impairment among Israeli older adults? European Journal of Ageing, 13, 323-334. http://doi.org/10.1007/s10433-016-0366-3
Shrira, A., Shmotkin, D., Palgi, Y., Hoffman, Y., Bodner, E., Ben-Ezra, M., & Litwin, H. (2017). Older adults exposed to ongoing and intense time-limited missile attacks: Differences in symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. Psychiatry: Interpersonal and Biological Processes, 80, 64-78. http://doi.org/10.1080/00332747.2016.1178028
Ifrah, K., Shenkman, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2018). How does sexual orientation relate to openness to experience along adulthood? Personality and Individual Differences, 131, 164-173. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.04.030
Shenkman, G., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2018). Meaning in life among middle-aged and older gay and heterosexual fathers. Journal of Family Issues, 39, 2155-2173. http://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X17741922
Shenkman, G., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2018). The association between negative attitudes toward aging and mental health among middle-aged and older gay and heterosexual men in Israel. Aging and Mental Health, 22, 503-511. http://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2016.1274374
Shenkman, G., Shrira, A., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2018). Interpersonal vulnerability among offspring of Holocaust survivors gay men and its association with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction. Psychiatry Research, 259, 89-94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2017.10.017
Palgi, Y., Shrira, A., Kavé, G., Rubinstien, T., & Shmotkin, D. (2019). Which factors do older adults consider when estimating the time left for them to live? The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 74, 69-73. http://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gby048
Lifshitz, R., Ifrah, K., Markovitz, N., & Shmotkin, D. (2020). Do past and prospective adversities intersect? Distinct effects of cumulative adversity and the hostile-world scenario on functioning at later life. Aging and Mental Health, 24, 1116–1125. http://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2019.1597014
Shenkman, G., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2020). Interpersonal vulnerability and its association with depressive symptoms among gay and heterosexual men. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 17, 199–208. http://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-019-00383-3
Bergman, Y. S., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2021). The moderating role of the hostile-world scenario in the connections between COVID-19 worries, loneliness, and anxiety. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 645655. http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.645655
Bluvstein, I., Ifrah, K, Lifshitz R., Markovitz N., & Shmotkin, D. (2021). Behind the scenes of the hostile-world scenario research: Reflections on the emotional experience of quantitative researchers. Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, 16, 396–402. http://doi.org/10.1177/15562646211027418
Lifshitz, R., Ifrah, K., Markovitz, N., Bluvstein, I., & Shmotkin, D. (2022). Inventory of complicated grief: Factor structure among middle-aged and older bereaved parents. Death Studies, 46, 200-207. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481187.2020.1725931
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, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 77, 61–70. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbab181
Shenkman, G., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2022). The moderation of socio-demographics in physical and mental health disparities among Israeli gay and heterosexual middle-aged and older men. Aging and Mental Health, 26, 1061-1068. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2021.1901259
Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., & Shmotkin, D. (2022). 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 (Ch. 7, pp. 151-172). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190910358.003.0007
Shenkman, G., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2023). The contribution of couplehood and parenthood to the hedonic and eudaimonic well-being of older gay men. Journal of Happiness Studies, 24, 1419–1437. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10902-023-00645-3
Ifrah, K., Shenkman, G., & Shmotkin, D. (2024). Psychological flexibility in the face of potential adversity: Examining wellness among gay and heterosexual men. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/ort0000770 [Available online ahead of print]
Petashnick, J. R., Hoffman, Y., Shrira, A., Palgi, Y., Kavé, G., Shmotkin, D., & Cohn-Schwartz, E. (2024). Subjective age and personality traits in older adults: Reciprocal and indirect effects through positive and negative affect. Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/cbs0000401 [Available online ahead of print]
Shenkman, G., Ifrah, K., & Shmotkin, D. (2024). Evil-related threats and mental health concomitants among offspring of Holocaust survivors gay men. Aging & Mental Health. https://doi.org/10.1080/13607863.2024.2363342 [Available online ahead of print]
Shmotkin, D. & Bluvstein, I. (2024). Inquiry on threats of evil within the Hostile-World Scenario: Emerging content and mental health concomitants among Holocaust survivors. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment and Trauma. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2024.2369068 [Available online ahead of print]
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