PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

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Ada H Zohar

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Ph.D. in Psychology and Behavior Genetics in 1989 from HUJI. 1990-1992 Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Yale Medical School in Psychiatric Genetics. As of 2000 at the Ruppin Academic Center (RAC). Research focuses on personality, psychopathology, and health.

Psychiatry & Psychology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

UNIK - Center for Technology at Kjeller, University of Oslo

Work details

Professor of Psychology

Ruppin Academic Center

Psychology

PeerJ Contributions

May 16, 2025

Adult picky eating and associations with childhood picky eating, maternal feeding, aversive sensory responsiveness, disgust and obsessive-compulsive symptoms

Ada H. Zohar, Dorin Barhum Shapira, Lilac Lev-Ari, Rachel Bachner-Melman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19444 PubMed 40391031

April 10, 2023

Mediating roles of character traits and parenting in the relationship between maternal effortful control and children’s conduct problems

Maor Yeshua, Ada H. Zohar, Andrea Berger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15211 PubMed 37065687

August 5, 2021

Eating for numbing: a community-based study of trauma exposure, emotion dysregulation, dissociation, body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms

Lilac Lev-ari, Ada H. Zohar, Rachel Bachner-Melman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11899 PubMed 34430083

May 29, 2019

Active and passive procrastination in terms of temperament and character

Ada H. Zohar, Lior Pesah Shimone, Meirav Hen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6988 PubMed 31179184

January 10, 2018

An exploratory study of adolescent response to fluoxetine using psychological and biological predictors

Ada H. Zohar, Tamar Eilat, Maya Amitai, Michal Taler, Romi Bari, Alon Chen, Alan Apter, Avraham Weizman, Silvana Fennig

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4240 PubMed 29340244

September 13, 2016

Distinctive personality profiles of fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome patients

Jacob N. Ablin, Ada H. Zohar, Reut Zaraya-Blum, Dan Buskila

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2421 PubMed 27672497

February 9, 2016

Is type-D personality trait(s) or state? An examination of type-D temporal stability in older Israeli adults in the community

Ada H. Zohar

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1690 PubMed 26893971

November 12, 2015 - Version: 1

Is type-D personality trait(s) or state? An examination of type-D temporal stability in older Israeli adults in the community

Ada H Zohar

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1499v1

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July 18, 2024

Treatment gap and barriers to access mental healthcare among women with postpartum depression symptoms in Pakistan

Aqsa Sajjad, Shahid Shah, Ghulam Abbas, Ayesha Aslam, Fawad Randhawa, Haris Khurram, Abdullah Assiri

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.17711 PubMed 39035151

August 11, 2023

The moderating and mediating effects of personality on the association between morningness and well-being

Soo Jin Lee, Sudong Jeong, Han Chae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15861 PubMed 37583915

December 14, 2022

The use of audio self-hypnosis to promote weight loss using the transtheoretical model of change: a randomized clinical pilot trial

Jumana Antoun, Marielle El Zouki, Myrna Saadeh

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14422 PubMed 36536625

May 19, 2022

The variability of emotions, physical complaints, intention, and self-efficacy: an ecological momentary assessment study in older adults

Iris Maes, Lieze Mertens, Louise Poppe, Geert Crombez, Tomas Vetrovsky, Delfien Van Dyck

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13234 PubMed 35611175

May 9, 2022

An assessment of sensory sensitivity in women suffering from depression using transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation

Joanna Witkoś, Agnieszka Fusińska-Korpik, Magdalena Hartman-Petrycka, Agnieszka Nowak

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13373 PubMed 35573182

March 30, 2021

Insomnia partially mediates the relationship between pathological personality traits and depression: a case-control study

Fenglan Chen, Xiujin Lin, Yuli Pan, Xuan Zeng, Shengjie Zhang, Hong Hu, Miaoyu Yu, Junduan Wu

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11061 PubMed 33850653

January 29, 2021

Occupation and life satisfaction among individuals with mental illness: the mediation role of self-reported psychophysiological health

Alexandre Granjard, Marko Mihailovic, Clara Amato, Maryam Kazemitabar, Franco Lucchese, Christian Jacobsson, Nobuhiko Kijima, Danilo Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10829 PubMed 33575134

September 8, 2020

Reduced organizational skills in adults with ADHD are due to deficits in persistence, not in strategies

Guillaume Durand, Ioana-Smarandita Arbone, Monica Wharton

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9844 PubMed 33194353

June 3, 2020

Association of FKBP5 polymorphisms with patient susceptibility to coronary artery disease comorbid with depression

Haidong Wang, Chao Wang, Xingfa Song, Hai Liu, Yun Zhang, Pei Jiang

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9286 PubMed 32547886

December 10, 2018

Behavior problems and personality in Korean high school students

Soo Jin Lee, Soo Hyun Park, C Robert Cloninger, Han Chae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6106 PubMed 30581682

June 21, 2018

Psychological, pharmacological, and combined treatments for binge eating disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Ata Ghaderi, Jenny Odeberg, Sanna Gustafsson, Maria Råstam, Agneta Brolund, Agneta Pettersson, Thomas Parling

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5113 PubMed 29942715

March 27, 2018

Temperament and character effects on late adolescents’ well-being and emotional-behavioural difficulties

Cristiano Crescentini, Marco Garzitto, Andrea Paschetto, Paolo Brambilla, Franco Fabbro

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4484 PubMed 29607254

January 16, 2018

Attentional biases toward body images in males at high risk of muscle dysmorphia

Xinhong Jin, Yahong Jin, Shi Zhou, Shun-nan Yang, Shuzhi Chang, Hui Li

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4273 PubMed 29362698

May 30, 2017

Character strengths, social anxiety, and physiological stress reactivity

Tingting Li, Wenjie Duan, Pengfei Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3396 PubMed 28584721

January 26, 2017

Causal events enter awareness faster than non-causal events

Pieter Moors, Johan Wagemans, Lee de-Wit

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2932 PubMed 28149698

September 6, 2016

The influence of temperament and character profiles on specialty choice and well-being in medical residents

Martin Sievert, Igor Zwir, Kevin M. Cloninger, Nigel Lester, Sandor Rozsa, C. Robert Cloninger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2319 PubMed 27651982

May 18, 2016

Biopsychological structure of Yin-Yang using Cloninger’s Temperament model and Carver and White’s BIS/BAS scale

Soo Jin Lee, Soo Hyun Park, Han Chae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2021 PubMed 27231654

March 22, 2016

Psychometric properties of the Greek TCI-R and its clinical correlates: schizotypy and the self-regulation of affective and cognitive functioning

Stella G. Giakoumaki, Leda Karagiannopoulou, Sándor Rózsa, Chrysoula Zouraraki, Penny Karamaouna, C. Robert Cloninger

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1830 PubMed 27019787

October 8, 2015

Under which conditions can introverts achieve happiness? Mediation and moderation effects of the quality of social relationships and emotion regulation ability on happiness

Rosario Cabello, Pablo Fernandez-Berrocal

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1300 PubMed 26500814

August 20, 2015

Personality and intelligence: persistence, not self-directedness, cooperativeness or self-transcendence, is related to twins’ cognitive abilities

Fariba Mousavi, Sandor Rozsa, Thomas Nilsson, Trevor Archer, Henrik Anckarsäter, Danilo Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1195 PubMed 26312186

July 2, 2015

Factor structure of the happiness-increasing strategies scales (H-ISS): activities and coping strategies in relation to positive and negative affect

Ali Al Nima, Danilo Garcia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1059 PubMed 26157626

April 7, 2015

Association between virtues and posttraumatic growth: preliminary evidence from a Chinese community sample after earthquakes

Wenjie Duan, Pengfei Guo

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.883 PubMed 25870774

February 17, 2015

Body image, visual working memory and visual mental imagery

Stephen Darling, Clare Uytman, Richard J. Allen, Jelena Havelka, David G. Pearson

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.775 PubMed 25737815

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November 12, 2024

The associations between well-being and Cloninger’s personality dimensions in a Korean community sample

Soo Jin Lee, C. Robert Cloninger, Han Chae

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.18379 PubMed 39553721

June 12, 2017

The ways parents cope with stress in difficult parenting situations: the structural equation modeling approach

Agnieszka Szymańska, Kamila Anna Dobrenko

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3384 PubMed 28626606

January 5, 2016

Shinichiro Tomitaka, Yohei Kawasaki, Kazuki Ide, Hiroshi Yamada, Toshiaki A. Furukawa, Yutaka Ono

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1547 PubMed 26788427

August 18, 2015

Interactions between donor Agreeableness and recipient characteristics in predicting charitable donation and positive social evaluation

Tal Yarkoni, Yoni K. Ashar, Tor D. Wager

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1089 PubMed 26312168

September 30, 2014

Factors associated with leisure time physical inactivity in black individuals: hierarchical model

Francisco José Gondim Pitanga, Ines Lessa, Paulo José B. Barbosa, Simone Janete O. Barbosa, Maria Cecília Costa, Adair da Silva Lopes

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.577 PubMed 25289177