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Georgia Panayiotou

Georgia Panayiotou

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Psychology

D-Index
33
Citations
4325
World Ranking
10587
National Ranking
5

Overview

Georgia Panayiotou is affiliated with the University of Cyprus in Cyprus, with a research focus primarily in the field of psychology. Their scholarly work encompasses several subfields including clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, psychiatry and mental health, as well as cardiology and cardiovascular medicine.

Their research covers a range of main topics, notably:

  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Heart Rate Variability and Autonomic Control
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Gambling Behavior and Treatments
  • Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology

Panayiotou's recent publications include:

  • "Coping with the invisible enemy: The role of emotion regulation and awareness in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020) published in Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • "Gambling to escape: A systematic review of the relationship between avoidant emotion regulation/coping strategies and gambling severity" (2023) published in Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • "Comparing apples and oranges or different types of citrus fruits? Using wearable versus stationary devices to analyze psychophysiological data" (2020) published in Psychophysiology
  • "Comparison of the level of allostatic load between patients with major depression and the general population" (2021) published in Journal of Psychosomatic Research
  • "Alexithymia and Autistic Traits: Associations With Social and Emotional Challenges Among College Students" (2021) published in Frontiers in Neuroscience

The most frequent publication venues for Panayiotou's work include:

  • European Journal of Psychology Open
  • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science
  • Current Psychology
  • Psychophysiology
  • Cogent Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Panayiotou include:

  • Marios Theodorou
  • Klavdia Neophytou
  • Maria Karekla
  • Chrysanthi Leonidou
  • Maria Panteli

Their research typically intersects psychological processes and emotional regulation, especially in contexts related to mental health challenges such as anxiety, depression, gambling behavior, and the psychosocial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The use of both clinical and experimental methodologies is also reflected in their work on physiological measures and cognitive neuroscience.

Best Publications

  • Risky and aggressive driving in young adults: Personality matters

    Elena Constantinou;Georgia Panayiotou;Nikos Konstantinou;Anthi Loutsiou-Ladd

  • Predicting bullying and victimization among early adolescents: Associations with disruptive behavior disorders

    Constantinos M. Kokkinos;Georgia Panayiotou

  • Correlates of teacher appraisals of student behaviors

    Constantinos M. Kokkinos;Georgia Panayiotou;Aggeliki M. Davazoglou

  • Coping and experiential avoidance: unique or overlapping constructs?

    Maria Karekla;Georgia Panayiotou

  • Dimensionality of coping: an empirical contribution to the construct validation of the brief-COPE with a Greek-speaking sample.

    Margarita Kapsou;Georgia Panayiotou;Constantinos M. Kokkinos;Andreas G. Demetriou

  • Perceived social support helps, but does not buffer the negative impact of anxiety disorders on quality of life and perceived stress

    Georgia Panayiotou;Maria Karekla

  • Perceived seriousness of pupils' undesirable behaviours: the student teachers' perspective

    Constantinos M. Kokkinos;Georgia Panayiotou;Aggeliki M. Davazoglou

  • Do alexithymic individuals avoid their feelings? Experiential avoidance mediates the association between alexithymia, psychosomatic, and depressive symptoms in a community and a clinical sample

    Georgia Panayiotou;Chrysanthi Leonidou;Elena Constantinou;John Hart

  • The better of two evils? Evidence that children exhibiting continuous conduct problems high or low on callous-unemotional traits score on opposite directions on physiological and behavioral measures of fear

    Kostas A. Fanti;Georgia Panayiotou;Chrysostomos Lazarou;Raphaelia Michael

  • Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety

    Georgia Panayiotou;Maria Karekla;Chrysanthi Leonidou

  • Coping with the invisible enemy: The role of emotion regulation and awareness in quality of life during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Georgia Panayiotou;Maria Panteli;Chrysanthi Leonidou;Chrysanthi Leonidou

  • Effect of self‐focused attention on the startle reflex, heart rate, and memory performance among socially anxious and nonanxious individuals

    Georgia Panayiotou;Scott R. Vrana

  • Evidence of poor planning in children with attention deficits.

    Timothy C. Papadopoulos;Georgia Panayiotou;George Spanoudis;Demetrios Natsopoulos

  • Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness

    Georgia Panayiotou;Maria Karekla;Margarita Panayiotou

  • Adaptive and maladaptive emotion processing and regulation, and the case of alexithymia.

    Georgia Panayiotou;Maria Panteli;Elke Vlemincx

  • Parental discipline practices and locus of control: relationship to bullying and victimization experiences of elementary school students

    Constantinos M. Kokkinos;Georgia Panayiotou

  • A Review of the Factorial Structure of the Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI): Greek Evidence.

    Anthi Loutsiou-Ladd;Georgia Panayiotou;Constantinos M. Kokkinos

  • The Role of Self-Focus, Task Difficulty, Task Self-Relevance, and Evaluation Anxiety in Reaction Time Performance

    Georgia Panayiotou;Scott R. Vrana

  • Coping with psychosomatic symptoms: The buffering role of psychological flexibility and impact on quality of life:

    Chrysanthi Leonidou;Georgia Panayiotou;Aspasia Bati;Maria Karekla

  • Gambling to escape: A systematic review of the relationship between avoidant emotion regulation/coping strategies and gambling severity

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  • Emotion processing deficits in alexithymia and response to a depth of processing intervention.

    Elena Constantinou;Elena Constantinou;Georgia Panayiotou;Marios Theodorou

Frequent Co-Authors

Maria Karekla
Maria Karekla University of Cyprus
Constantinos M. Kokkinos
Constantinos M. Kokkinos Democritus University of Thrace
Kostas A. Fanti
Kostas A. Fanti University of Cyprus
Scott R. Vrana
Scott R. Vrana Virginia Commonwealth University
George Spanoudis
George Spanoudis University of Cyprus
Andreas Demetriou
Andreas Demetriou University of Cyprus
Olga Pollatos
Olga Pollatos University of Ulm
Kirsi Honkalampi
Kirsi Honkalampi University of Eastern Finland
Thröstur Björgvinsson
Thröstur Björgvinsson Harvard University
Andrew T. Gloster
Andrew T. Gloster University of Lucerne

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