Browsing by Author "Panayiotou, Georgia"
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The counteractive aspects of distraction away from illness-related information: Associations with less reappraisal and more beliefs about having an illness despite medical reassurance
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia (2019)
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Dealing with Crisis Involving Aggressive Behavior in Schools.
Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria (Ministry of Education and Culture, 2010)
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Depressed mood: The role of negative thoughts, self-consciousness, and sex role stereotypes
Panayiotou, Georgia; Papageorgiou, Maria (2007)Research typically finds that depression is twice as common among women as among men. This may relate to differences in socialization that result in different emotions, cognitions, and coping reactions. Sex-role stereotypes, ...
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Dimensionality of coping: An empirical contribution to the construct validation of the Brief-COPE with a Greek-speaking sample
Kapsou, Margarita; Panayiotou, Georgia; Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Demetriou, Andreas G. (2010)The construct of coping has received increasing attention over the past years in relation to psychological and physical health, yet its dimensional and conceptual understanding is not consistent across theoretical models. ...
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Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness
Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria; Panayiotou, Margarita (2014)Using mediated and moderated regression, this study examined the hypothesis that anxiety sensitivity, the tendency to be concerned about anxiety symptoms, and behavioral inhibition, the tendency to withdraw from novel and ...
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Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology: Avoidance predicts distress
Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria; Mete, I. (2014)Anxiety disorders entail avoidance of feared situations and anxious experiences, which is believed to maintain anxiety pathology. It remains unclear if predominant coping styles, like avoidance, are similar across anxiety ...
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The Disruptive Adolescent as a Grown-Up: Predicting Adult Startle Responses to Violent and Erotic Films from Adolescent Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits
Kyranides, Melina-Nicole; Fanti, Kostas A.; Panayiotou, Georgia (2016)The current study aimed to identify heterogeneous groups of adolescents differing on their levels of conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits, and compare them on startle reactivity to emotional videos ...
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Do alexithymic individuals avoid their feelings? Experiential avoidance mediates the association between alexithymia, psychosomatic, and depressive symptoms in a community and a clinical sample
Panayiotou, Georgia; Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Constantinou, Elena; Hart, J.; Rinehart, K. L.; Sy, J. T.; Björgvinsson, T. (2015)Objective Alexithymia is defined as the trait associated with difficulty in identifying and describing feelings as well as poor fantasy and imagery. While alexithymia is related to psychopathology in general, it has been ...
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Effect of self-focused attention on the startle reflex, heart rate, and memory performance among socially anxious and nonanxious individuals
Panayiotou, Georgia; Vrana, Scott R. (1998)The present study examined the effect of self-focused attention on the startle reflex and heart rate and assessed the assumption that socially anxious individuals become self-focused in evaluative situations. Twenty- five ...
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The Effectiveness of Levosimendan in Clinical Characteristics and Haemodynamic, in Patients Undergoing High-Risk Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review of Randomized, Clinical Trials
Iordanou, Stelios; Panayiotou, Georgia; Fassia, Maria (International Journal of Caring Sciences, 2016)To evaluate the haemodynamic effects, perioperative and post-operative clinical characteristics of Levosimendan in in patients undergoing high-risk cardiac surgery. The review of the literature was based on a keyword ...
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The Effects of Attention and Tone Pitch on Startle Prepulse Inhibition and Facilitation
Robinson, J. D.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Vrana, Scott R. (1995)
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The Effects of Auditory and Visual Emotional Imagery on Heart-Rate and Reaction-Time to Auditory and Visual Probes
Witvliet, CV; Panayiotou, Georgia; Vrana, Scott R. (1995)
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Effects of parents beliefs about the control of child behavior on discipline practices
Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Panayiotou, Georgia (2004)
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Effects of self-focus and evaluation anxiety on task performance
Panayiotou, Georgia (1999)Research examining self-focus effects on task performance has indicated facilitation in some instances and inhibition in others. The present study examines the role of task type, task difficulty, method of self-focus ...
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Effects of self-focused attention on recognizing previously presented self-relevant and irrelevant stimuli
Panayiotou, Georgia; Vrana, Scott R. (Hellenic Psychological Society, 2007)Self-focused attention elevates individuals’ awareness of the self as an object and directs attentional resources toward it. It facilitates the performance of well learned tasks or the recall of information pertaining to ...
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Effects of tone-cued fear and pleasant imagery on reaction times to early probes, heart rate, and skin conductance
Witvliet, CV; Robinson, JR; Panayiotou, Georgia; Vrana, Scott R. (1996)
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Effects of Valence and Arousal of Emotional Imagery and a Secondary Reaction-Time-Task of the Startle Reflex and Heart-Rate
Panayiotou, Georgia; Robinson, J. D.; Witvliet, CV; Vrana, Scott R. (1995)
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Emotion dysregulation in alexithymia: Startle reactivity to fearful affective imagery and its relation to heart rate variability
Panayiotou, Georgia; Constantinou, Elena (2017)Alexithymia is associated with deficiencies in recognizing and expressing emotions and impaired emotion regulation, though few studies have verified the latter assertion using objective measures. This study examined startle ...
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Emotion processing and driving behavior: Reactivity to emotional imagery among high and low risk drivers in Cyprus
Panayiotou, Georgia; Kapsou, Margarita; Constantinou, Elena; Kyriakou, Anna (2008)
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Emotion processing deficits in alexithymia and response to a depth of processing intervention
Constantinou, Elena; Panayiotou, Georgia; Theodorou, Marios (2014)Findings on alexithymic emotion difficulties have been inconsistent. We examined potential differences between alexithymic and control participants in general arousal, reactivity, facial and subjective expression, emotion ...