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Vladan Starcevic

Vladan Starcevic

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Psychology

D-Index
57
Citations
14887
World Ranking
3994
National Ranking
210

Overview

Vladan Starcevic is a researcher affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their work primarily spans the fields of psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with a particular focus on clinical psychology, sociology and political science, psychiatry and mental health, experimental and cognitive psychology, and applied psychology.

Their research interests cover a range of topics including the impact of technology on adolescents, obsessive-compulsive spectrum disorders, psychosomatic disorders and their treatments, digital mental health interventions, body image and dysmorphia studies, and broader mental health research topics, as well as anxiety, depression, psychometrics, treatment, and cognitive processes.

Vladan Starcevic has contributed to multiple scientific articles, some notable recent papers include:

  • "Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review," 2020, Clinical Psychology Review
  • "The Four Horsemen of Fear: An Integrated Model of Understanding Fear Experiences During the Covid-19 Pandemic," 2020, PubMed
  • "Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study," 2021, Addiction
  • "Is cyberchondria a new transdiagnostic digital compulsive syndrome? A systematic review of the evidence," 2020, Comprehensive Psychiatry
  • "Recent Insights Into Cyberchondria," 2020, Current Psychiatry Reports

Their research has been published in frequent venues including:

  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Computers in Human Behavior
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Journal of Psychiatric Research
  • PubMed

Collaborative efforts feature prominently in their work, with frequent coauthors including Joël Billieux, Adriano Schimmenti, David Berle, Daniel L. King, and Alessandro Giardina.

Best Publications

  • World Federation of Societies of Biological Psychiatry (WFSBP) Guidelines for the Pharmacological Treatment of Anxiety, Obsessive-Compulsive and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders – First Revision

    Borwin Bandelow;Josef Zohar;Eric Hollander;Siegfried Kasper

  • Scholars’ open debate paper on the World Health Organization ICD-11 Gaming Disorder proposal

    Espen Aarseth;Anthony M. Bean;Huub Boonen;Michelle Colder Carras

  • Cyberbullying: Review of an Old Problem Gone Viral

    Elias Aboujaoude;Matthew W. Savage;Vladan Starcevic;Wael O. Salame

  • Cyberchondria: towards a better understanding of excessive health-related Internet use

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle

  • Working towards an international consensus on criteria for assessing Internet Gaming Disorder: a critical commentary on Petry et al (2014)

    Mark D. Griffiths;Antonius J. Van Rooij;Daniel Kardefelt-Winther;Vladan Starcevic

  • The relationships between health anxiety, online health information seeking, and cyberchondria: Systematic review and meta-analysis.

    Ryan D. McMullan;David Berle;Sandra Arnáez;Vladan Starcevic

  • The four horsemen of fear: An integrated model of understanding fear experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Adriano Schimmenti;Joël Billieux;Vladan Starcevic

  • Recognizing problem video game use.

    Guy Porter;Vladan Starcevic;David Berle;Pauline Fenech

  • A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err on the side of caution

    Antonius J. van Rooij;Christopher J. Ferguson;Michelle Colder Carras;Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

  • Reliability of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression: A meta-analysis over a period of 49 years

    Goran Trajković;Vladan Starčević;Vladan Starčević;Milan Latas;Miomir Leštarević

  • Screening and assessment tools for gaming disorder: A comprehensive systematic review.

    Daniel L. King;Samuel R. Chamberlain;Natacha Carragher;Joel Billieux

  • Thought-action fusion: review of the literature and future directions.

    David Berle;Vladan Starcevic

  • Pathological worry in major depression: a preliminary report

    Vladan Starcevic

  • Comorbidity, age of onset and suicidality in obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD): An international collaboration☆☆☆

    V. Brakoulias;V. Starcevic;A. Belloch;C. Brown

  • Is Internet addiction a useful concept

    Vladan Starcevic

  • Cyberchondria: Challenges of Problematic Online Searches for Health-Related Information.

    Vladan Starcevic

  • Expert appraisal of criteria for assessing gaming disorder: an international Delphi study.

    Jesús Castro-Calvo;Daniel L. King;Dan J. Stein;Matthias Brand

  • Is cyberchondria a new transdiagnostic digital compulsive syndrome? A systematic review of the evidence.

    Matteo Vismara;Valentina Caricasole;Vladan Starcevic;Eduardo Cinosi

  • Internet addiction: reappraisal of an increasingly inadequate concept.

    Vladan Starcevic;Elias Aboujaoude

  • Cognitive specificity of anxiety disorders: a review of selected key constructs

    Vladan Starcevic;David Berle

  • Cyberchondria, cyberbullying, cybersuicide, cybersex: “new” psychopathologies for the 21st century?

    Vladan Starcevic;Elias Aboujaoude

  • A weak scientific basis for gaming disorder: Let us err on the side of caution

    Antonius J. van Rooij;Christopher J. Ferguson;Michelle Colder Carras;Daniel Kardefelt-Winther

Frequent Co-Authors

David Berle
David Berle Australian National University
Joël Billieux
Joël Billieux University of Lausanne
Adriano Schimmenti
Adriano Schimmenti Università degli Studi di Enna Kore
Leonardo F. Fontenelle
Leonardo F. Fontenelle Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Fiammetta Cosci
Fiammetta Cosci University of Florence
Andrew J. Martin
Andrew J. Martin University of New South Wales
Naomi A. Fineberg
Naomi A. Fineberg University of Hertfordshire
Yasser Khazaal
Yasser Khazaal University of Lausanne
Richard Balon
Richard Balon Wayne State University
Daniel King
Daniel King Flinders University

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