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Yael Benyamini

Yael Benyamini

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
47
Citations
21649
World Ranking
3249
National Ranking
15

Overview

Yael Benyamini is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel and has contributed extensively to the field of medicine, with a particular focus on pediatrics, perinatology, and child health. Their scholarly work also spans public health, environmental and occupational health, clinical psychology, general health professions, and obstetrics and gynecology.

The researcher's studies concentrate on several core topics, including assisted reproductive technology and twin pregnancy, maternal and perinatal health interventions, family dynamics and relationships, reproductive health and technologies, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, nutritional studies and diet, and nutrition and health in aging.

Yael Benyamini has published in multiple scientific venues, with a notable number of publications appearing in Research Square, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, PLoS ONE, Annals of Epidemiology, and Circulation.

  • Research Square (Research Square)
  • Mayo Clinic Proceedings
  • PLoS ONE
  • Annals of Epidemiology
  • Circulation

The researcher has frequent collaborations with other scientists in the field. Notable coauthors include Heidi Preis, Yariv Gerber, Uri Goldbourt, Pnina Mor, and Sorina Grisaru-Granovsky.

  • Heidi Preis
  • Yariv Gerber
  • Uri Goldbourt
  • Pnina Mor
  • Sorina Grisaru-Granovsky

Representative recent papers authored or coauthored by Yael Benyamini include:

  • "Fertility intentions and the way they change following birth - a prospective longitudinal study" (2020), published in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
  • "'What I thought was so important isn't really that important': international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic" (2021), published in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine
  • "The Role of Personal Risk Experience-An Investigation of Health and Terrorism Risk Perception in Germany and Israel" (2021), published in Risk Analysis
  • "Association of Diet Quality With Longevity and Successful Aging in Israeli Adults 65 Years or Older" (2022), published in JAMA Network Open
  • "Who benefits most from skin-to-skin mother-infant contact after birth? Survey findings on skin-to-skin and birth satisfaction by mode of birth" (2020), published in Midwifery

Best Publications

  • Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies

    Ellen L. Idler;Yael Benyamini

  • Illness representations: Theoretical foundations.

    Howard Leventhal;Yael Benyamini;Susan Brownlee;Michael Diefenbach

  • Community Studies Reporting Association between Self-Rated Health and Mortality: Additional Studies, 1995 to 1998

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler

  • Positive Affect and Function as Influences on Self-Assessments of Health Expanding Our View Beyond Illness and Disability

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler;Howard Leventhal;Elaine A. Leventhal

  • Gender differences in processing information for making self-assessments of health.

    Yael Benyamini;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Gender Differences in the Self-Rated Health–Mortality Association: Is It Poor Self-Rated Health That Predicts Mortality or Excellent Self-Rated Health That Predicts Survival?

    Yael Benyamini;Tzvia Blumstein;Ayala Lusky;Baruch Modan

  • Self-rated oral health as an independent predictor of self-rated general health, self-esteem and life satisfaction

    Yael Benyamini;Howard Leventhal;E A Elaine A Leventhal

  • Why does self-rated health predict mortality? An update on current knowledge and a research agenda for psychologists.

    Yael Benyamini

  • Women's psychological experiences of physiological childbirth: a meta-synthesis.

    Ibone Olza;Patricia Leahy-Warren;Yael Benyamini;Maria Kazmierczak

  • Self-assessments of health: What do people know that predicts their mortality?

    Yael Benyamini;Elaine A. Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Variability in the difficulties experienced by women undergoing infertility treatments.

    Yael Benyamini;Miri Gozlan;Ehud Kokia

  • Community Studies Reporting Association Between Self-Rated Health and Mortality

    Yael Benyamini;Ellen L. Idler

  • Elderly people's ratings of the importance of health-related factors to their self-assessments of health.

    Yael Benyamini;Yael Benyamini;Elaine A Leventhal;Howard Leventhal

  • Optimism buffers the detrimental effect of negative self-perceptions of ageing on physical and mental health

    Susanne Wurm;Yael Benyamini

  • Implementation intention and planning interventions in Health Psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice.

    Martin S Hagger;Aleksandra Luszczynska;Aleksandra Luszczynska;John de Wit;Yael Benyamini

  • Smoking status and long-term survival after first acute myocardial infarction a population-based cohort study.

    Yariv Gerber;Laura J. Rosen;Uri Goldbourt;Yael Benyamini

  • Women's and men's perceptions of infertility and their associations with psychological adjustment: a dyadic approach.

    Yael Benyamini;Miri Gozlan;Ehud Kokia

  • The experience of miscarriage in first pregnancy: the women's voices.

    Paula Gerber-Epstein;Ronit D Leichtentritt;Yael Benyamini

  • Can high optimism and high pessimism co-exist? Findings from arthritis patients coping with pain

    Yael Benyamini

  • Investigating the associations of self-rated health: heart rate variability is more strongly associated than inflammatory and other frequently used biomarkers in a cross sectional occupational sample.

    Marc N. Jarczok;Marcus E. Kleber;Julian Koenig;Adrian Loerbroks

Frequent Co-Authors

Howard Leventhal
Howard Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Elaine A. Leventhal
Elaine A. Leventhal Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Zahava Solomon
Zahava Solomon Tel Aviv University
Ellen L. Idler
Ellen L. Idler Emory University
Maria Karekla
Maria Karekla University of Cyprus
Susan Garthus-Niegel
Susan Garthus-Niegel Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Marie Johnston
Marie Johnston University of Aberdeen
Tsachi Ein-Dor
Tsachi Ein-Dor Reichman University
Aleksandra Luszczynska
Aleksandra Luszczynska University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Liat Ayalon
Liat Ayalon Bar-Ilan University

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