[HTML][HTML] The development-based taxonomy of stressors and traumas: An initial empirical validation

I Kira - Psychology, 2021 - scirp.org
The development-based trauma framework (DBTF) proposed a comprehensive taxonomy of
stressors and traumas based on the salience of existence and identity development. The …

[HTML][HTML] Toward an integrative theory of self-identity and identity stressors and traumas and their mental health dynamics

I Kira - Psychology, 2019 - scirp.org
Self-identity is a flexible and linear/non-linear dynamic system that consists of various
identities and hierarchical sub-modules and operating processes and develops (grows or …

[HTML][HTML] Cumulative stressors and traumas and suicide: A non-linear cusp dynamic systems model

I Kira, B Barger, H Shuwiekh, J Kucharska… - Psychology, 2019 - scirp.org
The unpredictability of suicide is one of the mental health challenges. Based on the
threshold model cumulative stressors and traumas interact with a person's characteristics to …

[HTML][HTML] Mental health dynamics of interfaith spirituality in believers and non-believers: The two circuit pathways model of coping with adversities: Interfaith Spirituality …

I Kira, NA Özcan, H Shuwiekh, J Kucharska… - Psychology, 2021 - scirp.org
Objective: The study was designed to examine the differential effects of spirituality on the
mental health of believers and non-believers coping with adversities. Method …

[HTML][HTML] The threshold non-linear model for the effects of cumulative stressors and traumas: A chained cusp catastrophe analysis

I Kira, B Barger, H Shuwiekh, J Kucharska… - Psychology, 2020 - scirp.org
Studying the macro-dynamics of traumatization should significantly advance psychological
science. The current article tested the validity of the non-linear threshold model of the effects …

[HTML][HTML] A conceptual model and measurement of identity-based, existential annihilation anxieties (EAA)

IA Kira, T Templin, L Lewandowski, H Shuwiekh - Psychology, 2018 - scirp.org
Existential (annihilation) anxiety (EAA) and its significant role in PTSD, complex PTSD and
mental and physical health, were a long ignored variable in the mainstream clinical science …

[HTML][HTML] Screening for psychopathology using the three factors model of the structure of psychopathology: A modified form of GAIN short screener

IA Kira, H Shuwiekh, J Kucharska - Psychology, 2017 - scirp.org
The goal of this paper is to develop a valid and reliable screening tool for mental health that
is based on empirically and conceptually valid structure of psychopathology. Recently …

[HTML][HTML] Gender discrimination (GD): A conceptual trauma-based framework for GD and the development of gender discrimination inventory

IA Kira, S Hanaa, M Bujold-Bugeaud - Psychology, 2015 - scirp.org
A comprehensive plausible conceptual model of Gender Discrimination (GD) and accurate
measures of its components are lacking. Current study developed a conceptual model of GD …

[HTML][HTML] Is complicated birth one of the early childhood traumas? A framework for birthing trauma, its impacts, and proliferation

IA Kira, L Lewandowski, L Chiodo, A Laddis - Psychology, 2016 - scirp.org
Objective: Birthing trauma (BT)(ie, complicated birth) is an early life complex trauma for the
baby and mother that never been empirically examined or considered within the trauma field …

[HTML][HTML] A Critical Outlook on Stress and Trauma Field in the Era of COVID-19 and Beyond: The Linear and Non-Linear Effects of Cumulative Stressors and Traumas …

IA Kira, H Shuwiekh, AH Al-Huwailah, NA Özcan… - Psychology, 2022 - scirp.org
Objective: The study aimed to clarify and refine the conceptual framework of cumulative
stressors and trauma (CST) dynamics, its relationships to the centrality of an event to an …