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/ Prof. Hasida (Hassi) Ben-Zur
School of Social Work
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Stress and Coping

Decision Making and Risk Taking

B.A. - 1970-1973:University of Haifa, Departments of:

1) Psychology
2) Art
M.A. - 1974-1978:University of Haifa. Department: Psychology
Master Thesis: The Effect of Time Pressure on Risk Taking
Ph.D. - 1979-1984:University of Haifa
Ph.D.: Automatic and Directed Search Processes in Solving Semantic-Memory Problems

Associate Professor

Gilbar, O. & Ben-Zur, H. (2002). Cancer and the family caregiver: Distress and coping. Ill: Charles C. Thomas Pub. (315 pages).

Michael, K., & Ben-Zur, H. (2007). Risk taking among adolescents:
Associations with social and affective factors. Journal of Adolescence, 30,17-31.
Michael, K., & Ben-Zur, H. (2007). Stressful life events: Coping and adjustment
to separation or loss of spouse. Illness, crisis and Loss, 15, 53-67.
Ben-Zur, H., & Michael, K. (2007). Burnout, social support, and coping at work
among social workers, psychologists, and nurses: The role ofchallenge/control appraisals.
Social Work in Health Care, 45, 63-82.
Cohen, M., Ben-Zur, H., & Rosenfeld, M. (2008). Sense of coherence,
coping strategies, and test anxiety as predictors of test performance among
college students. International Journal of Stress Management, 15, 289-303.
Yakhnich, L., & Ben-Zur, H. (2008) Personal resources, appraisal, and coping
inthe adaptation process of immigrants from the former soviet union.
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 78, 152-162.
Yagil, D., & Ben-Zur, H. (2008). Breaching the contract: Aggressive
interpersonal behaviors in paternalistic relationships.Journal of Aggression,
Maltreatment, and Trauma, 16, 55-71.
Ben-Zur, H. (2008). Personal resources of mastery-optimism, and communal
support beliefs, as predictors of posttraumatic stress in uprooted Israelis.
Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 21, 295-307.
Ben-Zur, H. & Michael, K. (2009). Social comparisons and well-being
following widowhood and divorce. Death Studies, 33, 220-238.
Ben-Zur, H., & Zeidner, M. (2009). Threat to life and risk-taking
behaviors: A review of empirical findings and explanatory models.
Personality and Social Psychology Review, 13, 109-128.
Appeared also in Hebrew, short version, in Psycho-actualia, May 2011.
Ben-Zur, H. (2009). Coping styles and affect. International Journal of Stress
Management, 16, 87-101.
Ben-Zur, H., & Gilbar, O. (2009). Personal resources and political uprooting:
The Israeli experience. IJSM, 16, 273-290.
Yagil, D., & Ben-Zur, H. (2009). Self-serving attributions and burnout
among service employees. International Journal of Organizational Analysis,
17, 320-338.
Gilbar, O., Ben-Zur, H., & Lubin, G. (2010). Coping, mastery, stress
appraisals, mental preparation, and unit cohesion predicting distress and
performance: A longitudinal study of soldiers undertaking evacuation tasks.
Anxiety, Stress and Coping, 23, 547-62.
Zeidner, M., Ben-Zur, H., & Reshef-Weil, S. (2011). Vicarious life
threat: An experimental test of conservation of resources (COR) theory.
Personality and Individual Differences, 50, 641-645.

Yagil, D., Ben-Zur, H. & Tamir, I. (2011). Do employees cope

effectively with abusive supervision at work? An exploratory study. IJSM, 18,

5-23.

Ben-Zur, H., & Gilbar, O. (2011). Resilience and distress: Israelis respond to

the disengagement from Gaza and the second Lebanesewar. Community

Mental Health, 47, 551-559.