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Overview

Jörg Wiltink is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Medicine, with notable contributions to Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental Health, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

Their work addresses a wide range of topics including:

  • Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
  • Cancer Survivorship and Care
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health Disparities and Outcomes

Jörg Wiltink has authored numerous publications, with frequent articles appearing in journals such as:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • BMC Psychiatry
  • Journal of Public Health
  • Zeitschrift für psychosomatische Medizin und Psychotherapie

Some recent representative papers include:

  • "Noise annoyance predicts symptoms of depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance 5 years later. Findings from the Gutenberg Health Study" (2020) published in European Journal of Public Health
  • "The German Guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders: first revision" (2021) published in European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience
  • "Frequency of stressful life events and associations with mental health and general subjective health in the general population" (2020) published in Journal of Public Health
  • "Anxiety Disorders in Patients With Somatic Diseases" (2020) published in Psychosomatic Medicine
  • "The association of chronic anxiousness with cardiovascular disease and mortality in the community: results from the Gutenberg Health Study" (2020) published in Scientific Reports

Collaborations play an important role in Wiltink's research profile. Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Manfred E. Beutel
  • Elmar Brähler
  • Mareike Ernst
  • Philipp S. Wild
  • Matthias Michal

Best Publications

  • Loneliness in the general population: prevalence, determinants and relations to mental health.

    Manfred E. Beutel;Eva M. Klein;Elmar Brähler;Iris Reiner

  • Noise Annoyance Is Associated with Depression and Anxiety in the General Population- The Contribution of Aircraft Noise

    Manfred E. Beutel;Claus Jünger;Eva M. Klein;Philipp Wild

  • Life satisfaction, anxiety, depression and resilience across the life span of men

    Manfred E Beutel;Heide Glaesmer;Jörg Wiltink;Hanna Marian

  • Dizziness: anxiety, health care utilization and health behavior--results from a representative German community survey.

    Jörg Wiltink;Regine Tschan;Matthias Michal;Claudia Subic-Wrana

  • Associations between depression and different measures of obesity (BMI, WC, WHtR, WHR)

    Jörg Wiltink;Matthias Michal;Philipp S Wild;Isabella Zwiener

  • Association between medicated obstructive pulmonary disease, depression and subjective health: results from the population-based Gutenberg Health Study

    Jasmin Ghaemi Kerahrodi;Elmar Brähler;Jörg Wiltink;Matthias Michal

  • Associations of fatigue to work-related stress, mental and physical health in an employed community sample

    D. M. Rose;A. Seidler;M. Nübling;U. Latza

  • Implementing Panic-Focused Psychodynamic Psychotherapy into Clinical Practice:

    Manfred E Beutel;Vera Scheurich;Achim Knebel;Matthias Michal

  • Type D personality is independently associated with major psychosocial stressors and increased health care utilization in the general population

    Matthias Michal;Jörg Wiltink;Gesine Grande;Manfred E. Beutel

  • Prevalence of distress, comorbid conditions and well being in the general population.

    Jörg Wiltink;Manfred E. Beutel;Yvonne Till;Francisco M. Ojeda

  • Deutsche S3-Leitlinie Behandlung von Angststörungen

    Borwin Bandelow;Jörg Wiltink;Georg W. Alpers;Cord Benecke

  • The Diagnosis of and Treatment Recommendations for Anxiety Disorders

    Borwin Bandelow;Thomas Lichte;Sebastian Rudolf;Jörg Wiltink

  • Patients’ psychological well-being and resilient coping protect from secondary somatoform vertigo and dizziness (SVD) 1 year after vestibular disease

    Regine Tschan;Christoph Best;Manfred E. Beutel;Achim Knebel

  • Type D Personality as a Cardiovascular Risk Marker in the General Population: Results from the Gutenberg Health Study

    M E Beutel;J Wiltink;Y Till;P S Wild

  • How is emotional awareness related to emotion regulation strategies and self-reported negative affect in the general population?

    Claudia Subic-Wrana;Manfred E. Beutel;Elmar Brähler;Yve Stöbel-Richter

  • Depression, anxiety and suicidal ideation among 1 st and 2 nd generation migrants - results from the Gutenberg health study

    Manfred E. Beutel;Claus Jünger;Eva M. Klein;Philipp Wild

  • The German guidelines for the treatment of anxiety disorders.

    Borwin Bandelow;Thomas Lichte;Sebastian Rudolf;Jörg Wiltink

  • Noise annoyance predicts symptoms of depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance 5 years later. Findings from the Gutenberg Health Study.

    Manfred E Beutel;Elmar Brähler;Mareike Ernst;Eva Klein

  • Regulation of emotions in the community: suppression and reappraisal strategies and its psychometric properties.

    Jörg Wiltink;Heide Glaesmer;Marco Canterino;Klaus Wölfling

  • Prevalence, correlates, and predictors of depersonalization experiences in the German general population.

    Matthias Michal;Jörg Wiltink;Claudia Subic-Wrana;Rüdiger Zwerenz

  • Validation of the German version of the Vertigo Symptom Scale (VSS) in patients with organic or somatoform dizziness and healthy controls.

    R. Tschan;J. Wiltink;C. Best;S. Bense

  • The social phobia psychotherapy research network. The first multicenter randomized controlled trial of psychotherapy for social phobia: rationale, methods and patient characteristics

    F. Leichsenring;J. Hoyer;M. Beutel;S. Herpertz

Frequent Co-Authors

Manfred E. Beutel
Manfred E. Beutel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Falk Leichsenring
Falk Leichsenring University of Giessen
Jürgen Hoyer
Jürgen Hoyer TU Dresden
Eric Leibing
Eric Leibing University of Göttingen
Ulrich Stangier
Ulrich Stangier Goethe University Frankfurt
Stephan Herpertz
Stephan Herpertz Ruhr University Bochum
Wolfgang Hiller
Wolfgang Hiller Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Klaus Wölfling
Klaus Wölfling Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Bernhard Strauss
Bernhard Strauss Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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