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Overview

Murat Yıldırım is affiliated with Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University in Turkey. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a significant contribution to clinical psychology, social psychology, applied psychology, general health professions, and sociology and political science. The total number of publications in psychology exceeds 400, indicating a sustained engagement with the field.

The scientist's work explores a range of topics, notably:

  • COVID-19 and Mental Health
  • Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
  • Resilience and Mental Health
  • Optimism, Hope, and Well-being
  • Impact of Technology on Adolescents
  • Healthcare professionals' stress and burnout
  • Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research

Representative recent publications include:

  • The impacts of vulnerability, perceived risk, and fear on preventive behaviours against COVID-19 (2020) in Psychology Health & Medicine
  • COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale (2020) in Death Studies
  • Exploring the associations between resilience, dispositional hope, preventive behaviours, subjective well-being, and psychological health among adults during early stage of COVID-19 (2020) in Current Psychology
  • COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey (2020) in Death Studies

The scientist has collaborated frequently with the following researchers:

  • Gökmen Arslan
  • Francesco Chirico
  • Amelia Rizzo
  • Juan Gómez-Salgado
  • Izaddin Ahmad Aziz

Publications have appeared repeatedly in a set of core venues, reflecting areas of interest and specialization:

  • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
  • Current Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • CNS Spectrums
  • Psychology Health & Medicine

The scientist has also contributed to academic books, notably publishing with Ankara Pegem Akademi Yayıncılık eBooks. One such work is titled Okulda Pozitif Psikoloji Kuramdan Uygulamaya (2021).

Best Publications

  • The impacts of vulnerability, perceived risk, and fear on preventive behaviours against COVID-19.

    Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Ekmel Geçer;Ömer Akgül

  • Coronavirus Stress, Optimism-Pessimism, Psychological Inflexibility, and Psychological Health: Psychometric Properties of the Coronavirus Stress Measure.

    Gökmen Arslan;Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Ahmet Tanhan;Metin Buluş

  • COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale.

    Murat Yıldırım;Fatma Solmaz

  • Exploring the associations between resilience, dispositional hope, preventive behaviours, subjective well-being, and psychological health among adults during early stage of COVID-19.

    Murat Yıldırım;Gökmen Arslan

  • COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey.

    Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Abdurrahim Güler

  • Positivity explains how COVID-19 perceived risk increases death distress and reduces happiness

    Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Abdurrahim Güler

  • Factor analysis of the COVID-19 Perceived Risk Scale: A preliminary study.

    Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Abdurrahim Güler

  • Perceived Risk and Mental Health Problems among Healthcare Professionals during COVID-19 Pandemic: Exploring the Mediating Effects of Resilience and Coronavirus Fear.

    Murat Yıldırım;Gökmen Arslan;Ahmet Özaslan

  • Social Support, Resilience and Subjective Well-being in College Students

    Murat Yıldırım;Fatma Çelik Tanrıverdi

  • Coronavirus stress, meaningful living, optimism, and depressive symptoms: a study of moderated mediation model

    Gökmen Arslan;Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım

  • Meaningful Living to Promote Complete Mental Health Among University Students in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic.

    Gökmen Arslan;Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Zeynep Karataş;Zekavet Kabasakal

  • A proposed framework based on literature review of online contextual mental health services to enhance wellbeing and address psychopathology during covid-19

    Ahmet Tanhan;K. Fatih Yavuz;J. Scott Young;Ahmet Nalbant

  • Meaningful living, resilience, affective balance, and psychological health problems among Turkish young adults during coronavirus pandemic.

    Murat Yıldırım;Gökmen Arslan;Paul T. P. Wong

  • Coronavirus Anxiety and Psychological Adjustment in College Students: Exploring the Role of College Belongingness and Social Media Addiction.

    Gökmen Arslan;Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Masood Zangeneh

  • Mediating Role of Resilience in the Relationships Between Fear of Happiness and Affect Balance, Satisfaction With Life, and Flourishing

    Murat Yildirim

  • An international study on psychological coping during COVID-19: Towards a meaning-centered coping style

    Nikolett Eisenbeck;David F. Carreno;Paul T.P. Wong;Joshua A. Hicks

  • Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students

    Gökmen Arslan;Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Mert Aytaç

  • The Effect of COVID-19 Anxiety on General Health: the Role of COVID-19 Coping.

    Murat Yıldırım;Ömer Akgül;Ekmel Geçer

  • The perceived risk of being infected at work: An application of the job demands-resources model to workplace safety during the COVID-19 outbreak.

    Alessandra Falco;Damiano Girardi;Laura Dal Corso;Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım

  • Meaning in Life, Religious Coping, and Loneliness During the Coronavirus Health Crisis in Turkey.

    Murat Yıldırım;Murat Yıldırım;Muhammed Kızılgeçit;İsmail Seçer;Fuat Karabulut

  • Gratitude and Life Satisfaction: Mediating Role of Perceived Stress

    Murat Yildirim;Zainab Shalal Alanazi

Frequent Co-Authors

Gökmen Arslan
Gökmen Arslan Mehmet Akif Ersoy University
John Maltby
John Maltby University of Leicester
Paul T. P. Wong
Paul T. P. Wong Trent University
Panos Vostanis
Panos Vostanis University of Leicester
John H. Grych
John H. Grych Marquette University
Victoria L. Banyard
Victoria L. Banyard Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Sherry Hamby
Sherry Hamby Sewanee: The University of the South
Mohsen Joshanloo
Mohsen Joshanloo University of Melbourne
Joshua A. Hicks
Joshua A. Hicks Texas A&M University

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