Browsing by Author "Panayiotou, Georgia"
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Achievement testing with the Wechsler Quicktest: An examination of its psychometric properties and applied utility with a Greek-Cypriot sample
Vrachimi-Souroulla, Andry; Panayiotou, Georgia; Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Lamprianou, Iasonas (2011)
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Achievement testing with the Wechsler Quicktest: An examination of its psychometric properties and applied utility with a Greek-Cypriot sample
Vrachimi-Souroulla, A.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Lamprianou, Iasonas (2011)The study aimed to field-test a Greek version of the Wechsler Quicktest and to examine its psychometric properties. The Quicktest was individually administered to 208 students, aged 5-14 years, along with a reading test. ...
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Adaptive and maladaptive emotion processing and regulation, and the case of alexithymia
Panayiotou, Georgia; Panteli, Maria; Vlemincx, Elke (2019)In this conceptual review, we discuss models of emotion and its regulation and identify a spectrum of processes that characterise adaptive adjustment to the affective environment. We describe a dynamic-phasic model of ...
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Alcohol Outcome Expectancies Mediate the Relationship Between Social Anxiety and Alcohol Drinking in University Students: The Role of Gender
Papachristou, Harilaos; Aresti, Evi; Theodorou, Marios; Panayiotou, Georgia (2018)College alcohol drinking is a public health concern worldwide. A line of research indicates that higher social anxiety is associated with more severe college drinking. However, other studies reveal a protective role of ...
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Book Chapter
Alexithymia as a Core Trait in Psychosomatic and Other Psychological Disorders
Panayiotou, Georgia (Springer International Publishing, 2018)Somatoform and psychosomatic disorder symptoms show strong correlations with alexithymia, a trait believed to constitute a general risk factor for psychopathology and physical health problems. Difficulties stemming from ...
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Alexithymia predicts arousal-based processing deficits and discordance between emotion response systems during emotional imagery
Peasley-Miklus, Catherine; Panayiotou, Georgia; Vrana, Scott R. (American Psychological Association, 2016)Alexithymia is believed to involve deficits in emotion processing and imagery ability. Previous findings suggest that it is especially related to deficits in processing the arousal dimension of emotion, and that discordance ...
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Anxiety Disorders Revisited: Differences in Physiology and Self Report
Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria; Kapsou, Margarita; Georgiou, Dora (2011)
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Associating Parental to Child Psychological Symptoms: Investigating a Transactional Model of Development
Fanti, Kostas A.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Fanti, S. (2013)The current study investigated the longitudinal transactional association among paternal and maternal depressive symptoms and child internalizing and externalizing difficulties. Data were collected on preschool- to ...
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Beer, wine, and social anxiety: Testing the "self-medication hypothesis" in the US and Cyprus
Strahan, E. Y.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Clements, R.; Scott, J. (2011)The social anxiety literature often cites the self-medication hypothesis (SMH) to explain why socially phobic clients often present with alcohol problems. Based on some earlier hints that social anxiety and drinking might ...
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The better of two evils? Evidence that children exhibiting continuous conduct problems high or low on callous-unemotional traits score on opposite directions on physiological and behavioral measures of fear
Fanti, Kostas A.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Lazarou, Chrysostomos; Michael, R.; Georgiou, G. (Cambridge University Press, 2015)The present study examines whether heterogeneous groups of children identified based on their longitudinal scores on conduct problems (CP) and callous-unemotional (CU) traits differ on physiological and behavioral measures ...
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Big Five Personality dimensions predict coping styles
Kapsou, Margarita; Panayiotou, Georgia; Kokkinos, Constantinos M. (2009)
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The bold and the fearless among us: Elevated psychopathic traits and levels of anxiety and fear are associated with specific aberrant driving behaviors
Panayiotou, Georgia (Elsevier Science, 2015)In spite of the well-documented connection between personality traits like impulsivity, sensation seeking and fearlessness with aberrant driving behaviors, scarce research exists to examine the association between risky ...
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Chronic Self-Consciousness and Its Effects on Cognitive Performance, Physiology, and Self-Reported Anxiety
Panayiotou, Georgia (University of North Carolina Dept of Psychology, 2005)Self-focused attention, as induced in the lab, facilitates task performance in some instances and inhibits it in others. Less is know about the effects of trait self-consciousness on performance. The present study examines ...
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Community sample evidence on the relations among behavioural inhibition system, anxiety sensitivity, experiential avoidance, and social anxiety in adolescents
Papachristou, Harilaos; Theodorou, Marios; Neophytou, Klavdia; Panayiotou, Georgia (2018)Social anxiety in adolescence can have severe consequences including underachievement and school drop-out, psychopathology, and substance use disorders. The development of social anxiety in adolescents is a complex and ...
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Coping and experiential avoidance: Unique or overlapping constructs?
Karekla, Maria; Panayiotou, Georgia (Elsevier Science, 2011)The present study examined associations between coping as measured by the Brief COPE and experiential avoidance as measured by the AAQ-II and the role of both constructs in predicting psychological distress and well-being. ...
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Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety
Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria; Leonidou, Chrysanthi (2017)To-date no models adequately address the higher vulnerability of women to anxiety pathology, in contrast to other disorders, such as depression where ruminative thinking has been identified as accounting for women's greater ...
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Coping with psychosomatic symptoms: The buffering role of psychological flexibility and impact on quality of life
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia; Bati, Aspasia; Karekla, Maria (2019)Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms
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Coping with psychosomatic symptoms: The buffering role of psychological flexibility and impact on quality of life
Leonidou, Chrysanthi; Panayiotou, Georgia; Bati, Aspasia; Karekla, Maria (Sage Publications, 2016)Individual differences in avoidant coping were hypothesized to exacerbate quality of life impairment associated with somatization and illness anxiety symptoms; psychological flexibility was expected to moderate this ...
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Conference Object
Coping, Social Support and Gender as Moderators of the Relationship Between Perceived Stress and Health among Cypriot Adults.
Andreou, A.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Karekla, Maria; Kapsou, Margarita (2009)
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Correlates of teacher appraisals of student behaviors
Kokkinos, Constantinos M.; Panayiotou, Georgia; Davazoglou, A. M. (2005)The purpose of this study was to assess whether burnout and personality were linked to the perceived severity of 24 undesirable student behaviors among experienced and trainee teachers. Results indicated that teaching ...