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Overview

Manfred E. Beutel is affiliated with Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany. Their research spans multiple disciplines within Medicine and Psychology, with particular emphasis on Clinical Psychology, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Health.

Their work addresses several main topics, including:

  • Health disparities and outcomes
  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Mental Health Treatment and Access
  • Health, psychology, and well-being
  • Family Support in Illness

Manfred E. Beutel has a significant portfolio of peer-reviewed publications, showing focus areas related to mental health and public health issues. Recent papers include:

  • Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis, 2022, published in American Psychologist
  • Similarities and Differences of Mental Health in Women and Men: A Systematic Review of Findings in Three Large German Cohorts, 2021, Frontiers in Public Health
  • The impact of lockdown stress and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health among university students in Germany, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Update of the standardization of the Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) in the general population, 2022, Journal of Affective Disorders
  • Noise annoyance predicts symptoms of depression, anxiety and sleep disturbance 5 years later. Findings from the Gutenberg Health Study, 2020, European Journal of Public Health

Their research output also includes a book published by Hogrefe Verlag entitled Chronische Depression, released in 2022.

Manfred E. Beutel frequently collaborates with several researchers, including:

  • Philipp S. Wild
  • Karl J. Lackner
  • Thomas Münzel
  • Elmar Brähler
  • Norbert Pfeiffer

Their articles are commonly published in journals such as Scientific Reports, Journal of Affective Disorders, Journal of Psychosomatic Research, Frontiers in Public Health, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Best Publications

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

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

  • The German version of the Perceived Stress Scale – psychometric characteristics in a representative German community sample

    Eva M. Klein;Elmar Brähler;Michael Dreier;Leonard Reinecke

  • Social support in the general population: standardization of the Oslo social support scale (OSSS-3).

    Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent;Lorenz Berg;Manfred E. Beutel;Andreas Hinz

  • Regular gaming behavior and internet gaming disorder in European adolescents: results from a cross-national representative survey of prevalence, predictors, and psychopathological correlates

    K. W. Müller;M. Janikian;M. Dreier;K. Wölfling

  • Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis.

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  • Psychodynamic Therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Social Anxiety Disorder: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial

    Falk Leichsenring;Simone Salzer;Manfred E. Beutel;Stephan Herpertz

  • Digital Stress over the Life Span: The Effects of Communication Load and Internet Multitasking on Perceived Stress and Psychological Health Impairments in a German Probability Sample

    Leonard Reinecke;Stefan Aufenanger;Manfred E. Beutel;Michael Dreier

  • 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

  • A hidden type of internet addiction? Intense and addictive use of social networking sites in adolescents

    K.W. Müller;M. Dreier;M.E. Beutel;E. Duven

  • Die Gutenberg Gesundheitsstudie

    P.S. Wild;T Zeller;M. Beutel;M. Blettner

  • Procrastination, Distress and Life Satisfaction across the Age Range - A German Representative Community Study.

    Manfred E. Beutel;Eva M. Klein;Stefan Aufenanger;Elmar Brähler

  • Neural substrates of the interaction of emotional stimulus processing and motor inhibitory control: An emotional linguistic go/no-go fMRI study

    Martin Goldstein;Gary Brendel;Oliver Tuescher;Oliver Tuescher;Hong Pan

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

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

  • Ready for eHealth? Health Professionals’ Acceptance and Adoption of eHealth Interventions in Inpatient Routine Care

    Severin Hennemann;Manfred E. Beutel;Rüdiger Zwerenz

  • Investigating risk factors for Internet gaming disorder: a comparison of patients with addictive gaming, pathological gamblers and healthy controls regarding the big five personality traits.

    Kai W. Müller;M. E. Beutel;B. Egloff;K. Wölfling

  • Theory of mind and emotional awareness deficits in patients with somatoform disorders.

    Claudia Subic-Wrana;Manfred E. Beutel;Achim Knebel;Richard D. Lane

  • Myopia and level of education: results from the Gutenberg Health Study.

    Alireza Mirshahi;Katharina A. Ponto;René Hoehn;Isabella Zwiener

  • Sexual desire and sexual activity of men and women across their lifespans: results from a representative German community survey.

    Manfred E. Beutel;Yve Stöbel-Richter;Elmar Brähler

  • Efficacy of Short-term Treatment of Internet and Computer Game Addiction: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

    Klaus Wölfling;Kai W. Müller;Michael Dreier;Christian Ruckes

  • Prevalence of internet addiction in the general population: results from a German population-based survey

    Kai W. Müller;Heide Glaesmer;Elmar Brähler;Klaus Woelfling

  • Changes of brain activation pre- post short-term psychodynamic inpatient psychotherapy: An fMRI study of panic disorder patients

    Manfred E. Beutel;Rudolf Stark;Hong Pan;David Silbersweig

  • Personality and video gaming

    Beate Braun;Juliane M. Stopfer;Kai W. Müller;Manfred E. Beutel

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas Münzel
Thomas Münzel Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Norbert Pfeiffer
Norbert Pfeiffer Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Jörg Wiltink
Jörg Wiltink Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Klaus Wölfling
Klaus Wölfling Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Karl J. Lackner
Karl J. Lackner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Maria Blettner
Maria Blettner Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz
Elmar Brähler
Elmar Brähler Leipzig University
Tanja Zeller
Tanja Zeller Universität Hamburg
Stefan Blankenberg
Stefan Blankenberg Universität Hamburg
Wolfgang Weidner
Wolfgang Weidner University of Giessen

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