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39
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10634
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8406
National Ranking
88

Avi Assor publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Avi Assor sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 88 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Avi Assor D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Avi Assor sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Avi Assor is affiliated with Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel and focuses research on psychology and social sciences with additional contributions related to medicine. The scholar's work primarily spans several fields and subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, applied psychology, and sociology and political science.

The researcher's studies address topics such as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, attachment and relationship dynamics, mindfulness and compassion interventions, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, behavioral health and interventions, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, and motivation and self-concept in sports.

Frequent publication venues for this author include:

  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Journal of Moral Education
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Journal of Happiness Studies

Some of the most recent papers authored or coauthored by Avi Assor are:

  • Sense of authentic inner compass as a moral resource across cultures: possible implications for resisting negative peer-pressure and for parenting (2020, Journal of Moral Education)
  • Feeling Free and Having an Authentic Inner Compass as Important Aspects of the Need for Autonomy in Emerging Adults' Interactions With Their Mothers (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • The Authentic Inner Compass as a Well-Being Resource: Predictive Effects on Vitality, and Relations with Self-Esteem, Depression and Behavioral Self-realization (2021, Journal of Happiness Studies)
  • The Process Linking Child-Invested Contingent Self-Esteem and Conditional Regard: The Roles of Maternal Anger and its Regulation (2022, Journal of Child and Family Studies)
  • How Should Mothers React When They First Learn About Their Child's Involvement With Deviant Peers? The Adolescents' Perspective (2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)

Collaborations have been frequent with coauthors such as Yaniv Kanat-Maymon, Rinat Cohen, Moti Benita, Noam Yitshaki, and Yael Geifman, indicating ongoing research partnerships within the academic community.

Best Publications

  • Choice is good, but relevance is excellent: autonomy-enhancing and suppressing teacher behaviours predicting students' engagement in schoolwork.

    Avi Assor;Haya Kaplan;Guy Roth

  • Autonomous motivation for teaching: How self-determined teaching may lead to self-determined learning.

    Guy Roth;Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Haya Kaplan

  • The emotional costs of parents' conditional regard: a self-determination theory analysis.

    Avi Assor;Guy Roth;Edward L. Deci

  • Directly controlling teacher behaviors as predictors of poor motivation and engagement in girls and boys: The role of anger and anxiety

    Avi Assor;Haya Kaplan;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Guy Roth

  • When Choice Motivates and When It Does Not

    Idit Katz;Avi Assor

  • The Emotional and Academic Consequences of Parental Conditional Regard: Comparing Conditional Positive Regard, Conditional Negative Regard, and Autonomy Support as Parenting Practices.

    Guy Roth;Avi Assor;Christopher P. Niemiec;Richard Michael Ryan

  • Identified versus introjected approach and introjected avoidance motivations in school and in sports: The limited benefits of self- worth strivings

    Avi Assor;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Avi Kaplan

  • The beliefs that underlie autonomy-supportive and controlling teaching: A multinational investigation

    Johnmarshall Reeve;Maarten Vansteenkiste;Avi Assor;Ikhlas Ahmad

  • Allowing choice and nurturing an inner compass: Educational practices supporting students' need for autonomy.

    Avi Assor

  • The costs of parental pressure to express emotions: Conditional regard and autonomy support as predictors of emotion regulation and intimacy

    Guy Roth;Avi Assor

  • When parents' affection depends on child's achievement: parental conditional positive regard, self-aggrandizement, shame and coping in adolescents.

    Avi Assor;Karen Tal

  • Interest as a Motivational Resource: Feedback and Gender Matter, but Interest Makes the Difference

    Idit Katz;Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Yoella Bereby-Meyer

  • The validity of students' self-reports as measures of performance affecting self-appraisals.

    Avi Assor;James P. Connell

  • Academic Goal Orientations, Multiple Goal Profiles, and Friendship Intimacy among Early Adolescents.

    Inbal Levy-Tossman;Avi Kaplan;Avi Assor

  • Towards a wider conception of autonomy support in adolescence: The contribution of reflective inner-compass facilitation to the formation of an authentic inner compass and well-being

    Avi Assor;Bart Soenens;Noam Yitshaki;Ohad Ezra

  • Mapping the Domain of Autonomy Support

    Avi Assor;Haya Kaplan

  • Parental Conditional Regard: Psychological Costs and Antecedents

    Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Guy Roth

  • Enhancing autonomy-supportive I–Thou dialogue in schools: conceptualization and socio-emotional effects of an intervention program

    Haya Kaplan;Haya Kaplan;Avi Assor

  • Assessing the experience of autonomy in new cultures and contexts

    Guy Roth;Avi Assor;Yaniv Kanat-Maymon;Haya Kaplan

  • The striving to develop an authentic inner compass as a key component of adolescents’ need for autonomy : Parental antecedents and effects on identity, well-being, and resilience

    Avi Assor

  • Choosing to Stay Religious in a Modern World: Socialization and Exploration Processes Leading to an Integrated Internalization of Religion among Israeli Jewish Youth

    Avi Assor;Maya Cohen-Malayev;Avi Kaplan;David Friedman

Frequent Co-Authors

Yaniv Kanat-Maymon
Yaniv Kanat-Maymon Reichman University
Avi Kaplan
Avi Kaplan Temple University
Maarten Vansteenkiste
Maarten Vansteenkiste Ghent University
Edward L. Deci
Edward L. Deci University of Rochester
Joseph Tzelgov
Joseph Tzelgov Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Johnmarshall Reeve
Johnmarshall Reeve Australian Catholic University
Bart Soenens
Bart Soenens Ghent University
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Richard M. Ryan
Richard M. Ryan Australian Catholic University
Shalom H. Schwartz
Shalom H. Schwartz Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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