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Overview

Dov Shmotkin is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology, with a focus on multiple subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, neuropsychology and physiological psychology, and applied psychology. Their research has centered on complex and diverse topics within psychology, encompassing migration, health and trauma, LGBTQ health, identity, and policy, intergenerational family dynamics and caregiving, aging and gerontology research, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, grief, bereavement, and mental health, as well as posttraumatic stress disorder research.

The scientist has coauthored several papers with frequent collaborators such as Kfir Ifrah, Geva Shenkman, Yuval Palgi, Amit Shrira, and Irit Bluvstein.

Notable papers published by Dov Shmotkin include:

  • The moderation of socio-demographics in physical and mental health disparities among Israeli gay and heterosexual middle-aged and older men, 2021, Aging & Mental Health
  • Inventory of complicated grief: Factor structure among middle-aged and older bereaved parents, 2020, Death Studies
  • Vulnerability and Resilience in Sensitive Research: The Case of the Quantitative Researcher, 2021, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics
  • The Association Between Views of Aging and Subjective Cognitive Complaints in Older Adults: Findings From Two Samples, 2022, Research on Aging
  • The Moderating Role of the Hostile-World Scenario in the Connections Between COVID-19 Worries, Loneliness, and Anxiety, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology

Dov Shmotkin's publications have appeared in frequent venues such as Aging & Mental Health, Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, Research on Aging, Death Studies, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Best Publications

  • Optimizing well-being: the empirical encounter of two traditions.

    Corey L. M. Keyes;Dov Shmotkin;Carol D. Ryff

  • Subjective well-being as a function of age and gender: A multivariate look for differentiated trends

    Dov Shmotkin

  • Happiness in the face of adversity: Reformulating the dynamic and modular bases of subjective well-being.

    Dov Shmotkin

  • Predictors of longitudinal changes in older adults' physical activity engagement.

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Dov Shmotkin;Shira Goldberg

  • Beyond keeping active: concomitants of being a volunteer in old-old age.

    Dov Shmotkin;Tzvia Blumstein;Baruch Modan

  • Loneliness in old age: longitudinal changes and their determinants in an Israeli sample

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Dov Shmotkin;Shira Goldberg

  • The Effect of Homebound Status on Older Persons

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Dov Shmotkin;Haim Hazan

  • The Old, Old-Old, and the Oldest Old: Continuation or Distinct Categories? An Examination of the Relationship between Age and Changes in Health, Function, and Wellbeing

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Dov Shmotkin;Zvia Blumstein

  • Subjective well-being among Holocaust survivors: An examination of overlooked differentiations.

    Dov Shmotkin;Jacob Lomranz

  • Resilience and Vulnerability Among Aging Holocaust Survivors and Their Families: An Intergenerational Overview

    Dov Shmotkin;Amit Shrira;Shira C. Goldberg Ma;Yuval Palgi

  • For Better and for Worse: The Relationship between Future Expectations and Functioning in the Second Half of Life

    Amit Shrira;Yuval Palgi;Menachem Ben-Ezra;Tal Spalter

  • Tracing long-term effects of early trauma: A broad-scope view of Holocaust survivors in late life.

    Dov Shmotkin;Tzvia Blumstein;Baruch Modan

  • Predictors of Mortality in the Old-Old in Israel: The Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Aging Study

    Menachem Ben-Ezra;Dov Shmotkin

  • 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).

    Adrian Walter-Ginzburg;Dov Shmotkin;Tzvia Blumstein;Aviva Shorek

  • Declarative and Differential Aspects of Subjective Well-Being and Its Implications for Mental Health in Later Life

    Dov Shmotkin

  • Homebound older persons: prevalence, characteristics, and longitudinal predictors.

    Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Jiska Cohen-Mansfield;Dov Shmotkin;Haim Hazan

  • The role of time orientation in life satisfaction across the life span.

    Dov Shmotkin

  • Indoor and Outdoor Activities of Aged Women and Men as Related to Depression and Well-Being

    Jacob Lomranz;Simon Bergman;Nitza Eyal;Dov Shmotkin

  • Transgenerational effects of trauma in midlife: Evidence for resilience and vulnerability in offspring of Holocaust survivors.

    Amit Shrira;Yuval Palgi;Menachem Ben-Ezra;Dov Shmotkin

  • Cumulative adversity and depressive symptoms among older adults in Israel: the differential roles of self-oriented versus other-oriented events of potential trauma

    Dov Shmotkin;Howard Litwin

  • Psychological Time in Later Life: Implications for Counseling.

    Dov Shmotkin;Nitza Eyal

Frequent Co-Authors

Yuval Palgi
Yuval Palgi University of Haifa
Menachem Ben-Ezra
Menachem Ben-Ezra Ariel University
Howard Litwin
Howard Litwin Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Åke Wahlin
Åke Wahlin Jönköping University
Karl Grammer
Karl Grammer University of Vienna
Lars-Göran Nilsson
Lars-Göran Nilsson Stockholm University
Giora Keinan
Giora Keinan Tel Aviv University
Sara Carmel
Sara Carmel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Corey L. M. Keyes
Corey L. M. Keyes Emory University
Carol D. Ryff
Carol D. Ryff University of Wisconsin–Madison

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