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  1. Using values interventions to improve exposure therapy engagement in specific phobias.

    Article • Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, December 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Maria Karekla

  2. How to Effectively Promote Eco-Friendly Behaviors: Insights from Contextual Behavioral Science

    Article • Sustainability, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  3. Virtual Painkillers: Designing Accessible Virtual Reality Experiences for Helping Cancer Patients Manage Pain at Home

    Article • April 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Prof Constantinos Pattichis, Maria Karekla

  4. Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating AcceptME—A Digital Gamified Acceptance and Commitment Early Intervention Program for Individuals at High Risk for Eating Disorders

    Article • Journal of Clinical Medicine, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  5. Randomized Clinical Trial Evaluating a Digital Gamified Acceptance and Commitment Early Intervention Program for Individuals at High-Risk for Eating Disorders

    Article • February 2022, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  6. Mental Health and Adherence to COVID-19 Protective Behaviors among Cancer Patients during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An International, Multinational Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • Cancers, December 2021, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  7. COVID-19 Scientific Facts vs. Conspiracy Theories: Is Science Failing to Pass Its Message?

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  8. Transmission of Vaccination Attitudes and Uptake Based on Social Contagion Theory: A Scoping Review

    Article • Vaccines, June 2021, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  9. Patterns of Psychological Responses among the Public during the Early Phase of COVID-19: A Cross-Regional Analysis

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, April 2021, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  10. The Role of Illness Perceptions, Coping, and Self-Efficacy on Adherence to Precautionary Measures for COVID-19

    Article • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Maria Karekla

  11. Technology in mental healthcare

    Article • Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, June 2020, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Tom Van Daele, João Salgado, prof Angelo Compare, Maria Karekla

  12. Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale: Greek adaptation, psychometric properties, and invariance testing across three pain samples.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, March 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Maria Karekla

  13. Best Practices and Recommendations for Digital Interventions to Improve Engagement and Adherence in Chronic Illness Sufferers

    Article • European Psychologist, January 2019, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Maria Karekla

  14. Network analysis: A new psychometric approach to examine the underlying ACT model components

    Article • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, October 2018, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  15. Experiential Avoidance as a Common Psychological Process in European Cultures

    Article • European Journal of Psychological Assessment, July 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Maria Karekla

  16. Correction to Ebert, Van Daele, Nordgren, Karekla, Compare, Zarbo, …, Baumeister, 2018

    Article • European Psychologist, July 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Maria Karekla

  17. Trait Persistence Moderates the Association between Gender and Change in Smoking Urge Across Repeated Cue Exposure Trials

    Article • The Journal of Smoking Cessation, April 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Maria Karekla

  18. Internet- and Mobile-Based Psychological Interventions: Applications, Efficacy, and Potential for Improving Mental Health

    Article • European Psychologist, April 2018, Hogrefe Publishing Group

    Maria Karekla

  19. The Common Sense Model of Self-Regulation and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: integrating strategies to guide interventions for chronic illness

    Article • Health Psychology Review, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Evangelos Karademas, Maria Karekla

  20. Inducing negative affect using film clips with general and eating disorder-related content

    Article • Eating and Weight Disorders - Studies on Anorexia Bulimia and Obesity, February 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Karekla

  21. Cognitive defusion versus experiential avoidance in the reduction of smoking behaviour: an experimental and preliminary investigation

    Article • Addiction Research & Theory, February 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Karekla

  22. Construct validity of the G-CPAQ and its mediating role in pain interference and adjustment.

    Article • Psychological Assessment, February 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Maria Karekla

  23. Predictors of urge to smoke under stressful conditions: An experimental investigation utilizing the PASAT-C task to induce negative affect in smokers.

    Article • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, November 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Maria Karekla

  24. Psychophysiological and self-reported reactivity associated with social anxiety and public speaking fear symptoms: Effects of fear versus distress

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  25. The impact of experiential avoidance on the relations between illness representations, pain catastrophising and pain interference in chronic pain

    Article • Psychology & Health, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Karekla

  26. Greek Version of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth: Psychometric Evaluation and Gender Multigroup Invariance in Adolescents

    Article • Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, June 2017, SAGE Publications

    Maria Karekla

  27. Coping through avoidance may explain gender disparities in anxiety

    Article • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, April 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  28. Validation and invariance testing of the Greek adaptation of the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire -II across clinical vs. nonclinical samples and sexes

    Article • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, January 2017, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  29. Factorial structure of the perceived stress scale and implications for scoring

    Article • European Review of Applied Psychology, November 2016, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  30. Implementation intention and planning interventions in Health Psychology: Recommendations from the Synergy Expert Group for research and practice

    Article • Psychology & Health, March 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Karekla, Dr Angel Marie Chater

  31. Impact of psychiatric illness upon asthma patients’ health care utilization and illness control. Are all psychiatric comorbidities created equal?

    Article • Psychology Health & Medicine, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Karekla

  32. Direct and indirect predictors of social anxiety: The role of anxiety sensitivity, behavioral inhibition, experiential avoidance and self-consciousness

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, November 2014, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  33. Dispositional coping in individuals with anxiety disorder symptomatology: Avoidance predicts distress

    Article • Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science, October 2014, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  34. Patient Health Questionnaire: Greek language validation and subscale factor structure

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, November 2012, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  35. Perceived social support helps, but does not buffer the negative impact of anxiety disorders on quality of life and perceived stress

    Article • Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, June 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Maria Karekla

  36. Coping and experiential avoidance: Unique or overlapping constructs?

    Article • Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry, June 2011, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  37. Religious Coping and Cancer: Proposing an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Approach

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, November 2010, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  38. Relationship between physical activity and type of smoking behavior among adolescents and young adults in Cyprus

    Article • Nicotine & Tobacco Research, June 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Karekla

  39. Smoking prevalence and tobacco exposure among adolescents in Cyprus

    Article • European Journal of Public Health, May 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Maria Karekla

  40. A comparative evaluation of panicogenic processes and quality of life in a sample of non-clinical panickers and age and sex matched non-panicking controls

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, January 2008, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  41. Sex differences in response to a panicogenic challenge procedure: An experimental evaluation of panic vulnerability in a non-clinical sample

    Article • Behaviour Research and Therapy, October 2006, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  42. Evaluating the role of panic disorder in emotional sensitivity processes involved with smoking

    Article • Journal of Anxiety Disorders, January 2005, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  43. Psychopathology in the Workplace

    Article • August 2004, Taylor & Francis

    Maria Karekla

  44. A survey of graduate training in empirically supported and manualized treatments: A preliminary report

    Article • Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, March 2004, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla

  45. Emotional avoidance and panicogenic responding to a biological challenge procedure

    Article • Behavior Therapy, January 2004, Elsevier

    Maria Karekla