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Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
37
Citations
5569
World Ranking
6253
National Ranking
43

Overview

Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia is affiliated with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. Their research focuses primarily on psychology and social sciences, with a substantial contribution to clinical psychology and health-related subfields.

Their work extensively covers topics related to intimate partner and family violence, child abuse and trauma, as well as migration, health, and trauma. Additionally, they address subjects such as resilience and mental health, homelessness and social issues, health psychology, well-being, and family support in illness.

Frequent publication venues for Haj-Yahia include Child Abuse & Neglect, Violence Against Women, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Child & Family Social Work, and the Journal of Family Violence.

  • The relationship between exposure of Palestinian youth to community violence and internalizing and externalizing symptoms: Do gender and social support matter? (2020, Child Abuse & Neglect)
  • "Pay Attention to Me": Children's Subjective Perceptions of the Process of Leaving Home With Their Mothers to Shelters for Battered Women (2020, Violence Against Women)
  • Childhood exposure to parental violence, attachment insecurities, and intimate partner violence perpetration among Arab adults in Israel (2022, Child Abuse & Neglect)
  • Exposure to Parental Violence During Childhood and Later Psychological Distress Among Arab Adults in Israel: The Role of Gender and Sense of Coherence (2022, Journal of Interpersonal Violence)
  • The ambivalent visit: Children's experiences of relating with their fathers during staying in shelters for women survivors of domestic violence (2022, Child & Family Social Work)

Their frequent coauthors include Shireen Sokar, Charles W. Greenbaum, Anat Vass, B. Leshem, and Neil B. Guterman, indicating a collaborative research environment across several projects.

Best Publications

  • Wife abuse and battering in the sociocultural context of Arab society

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Toward culturally sensitive intervention with Arab families in Israel.

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Association between exposure to political violence and intimate-partner violence in the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional study

    Cari Jo Clark;Susan A Everson-Rose;Shakira Franco Suglia;Rula Btoush

  • Beliefs About Wife Beating Among Arab Men from Israel: The Influence of Their Patriarchal Ideology

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Beliefs About Wife Beating Among Palestinian Women The Influence of Their Patriarchal Ideology

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • The rates of child sexual abuse and its psychological consequences as revealed by a study among Palestinian university students

    Muhammad M Haj-Yahia;Safa Tamish

  • A Patriarchal Perspective of Beliefs About Wife Beating Among Palestinian Men From the West Bank and the Gaza Strip

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • The Incidence of Wife Abuse and Battering and Some Sociodemographic Correlates as Revealed by Two National Surveys in Palestinian Society

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Attitudes of Arab Women Toward Different Patterns of Coping With Wife Abuse

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Beliefs of Jordanian Women About Wife-Beating

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Posttraumatic Symptoms, Functional Impairment, and Coping among Adolescents on Both Sides of the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A Cross‐Cultural Approach

    Ruth Pat-Horenczyk;Radwan Qasrawi;Roseanne Lesack;Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Individual and Collective Dimensions of Resilience Within Political Violence

    Cindy A. Sousa;Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia;Guy Feldman;Jessica Lee

  • Issues in intervention with battered women in collectivist societies.

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia;Elisheva Sadan

  • Implications of Wife Abuse and Battering for Self-Esteem, Depression, and Anxiety as Revealed by the Second Palestinian National Survey on Violence Against Women:

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • On the Lived Experience of Battered Women Residing in Shelters

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia;Hilla Chaya Cohen

  • Wife Abuse and Its Psychological Consequences as Revealed by the First Palestinian National Survey on Violence Against Women

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • Divorce is a part of my life... resilience, survival, and vulnerability: young adults' perception of the implications of parental divorce.

    Dorit Eldar-Avidan;Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia;Charles W. Greenbaum

  • The incidence of witnessing interparental violence and some of its psychological consequences among Arab adolescents.

    Muhammad M Haj-Yahia

  • Can people's patriarchal ideology predict their beliefs about wife abuse? The case of Jordanian men

    Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

  • The "geography" of child maltreatment in Israel: Findings from a national data set of cases reported to the social services.

    Asher Ben-Arieh;Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia

Frequent Co-Authors

Asher Ben-Arieh
Asher Ben-Arieh Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Rami Benbenishty
Rami Benbenishty Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ron Avi Astor
Ron Avi Astor University of California, Los Angeles
Ariel Knafo
Ariel Knafo Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michalinos Zembylas
Michalinos Zembylas Open University of Cyprus

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