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  1. Humor in Sexual Communication and Sexual Well-Being Outcomes Among Mother–Daughter Dyads

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, April 2026, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  2. Compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) and problematic pornography use (PPU): A comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and expert-informed narrative review with suggested future directions

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, April 2026, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  3. “Feeling unseen”: Generation and psychometric validation of a scale assessing sense of absence

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, April 2026, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  4. Longitudinal study of probable compulsive sexual behavior disorder and problematic pornography use profiles: their prospective impact on psychopathology during wartime

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, April 2026, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  5. A Network Analysis of Addictive Behaviors: Risk and Protective Factors Among Israeli Youth in a Cross-Sectional Study

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, October 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  6. The landscape of youth addiction in Israel: Identifying high-risk behaviors

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  7. Effectiveness of pupils’ perceptions of teacher communication strategies for addressing child sexual abuse and harassment in Israel: a six-month prospective study

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, October 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  8. Young Adults Coping with Sibling Loss: Risk and Protective Factors for Substance Use Disorder

    Article • Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, September 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  9. A network analysis of early life trauma, parent-adolescent communication, parental warmth, and parental monitoring among adolescents with behavioral addictions

    Article • Child Abuse & Neglect, September 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  10. Seeking Satisfaction Among Israeli Young Adults: The Roles of Gratification, Compensation, Reward Deficiency Syndrome, and Compulsivity in Relation to Addictive Behaviors

    Article • Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, July 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  11. Profiles of Alcohol Use Disorders, Problematic Pornography Use, and Compulsive Sexual Behavior: The Role of Mental Health, Moral Disapproval, Thought Suppression, and Self-Concealment Among Israeli–Arab Adolescents

    Article • Archives of Sexual Behavior, June 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  12. Psychometric properties of the Reward Deficiency Syndrome Questionnaire among a non-clinical sample and its relationship with the characteristics of potentially addictive behaviors

    Article • Addictive Behaviors Reports, June 2025, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati, Dr Mark D Griffiths

  13. The relationship between compulsive sexual behavior and pedophilic preference in an incarcerated sample of individuals convicted of sexual offenses—implications for treatment

    Article • Sexual Medicine, May 2025, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  14. Health Side Story: Scoping Review of Literature on Narrative Therapy for ADHD

    Article • Healthcare, May 2025, MDPI AG

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  15. Balancing promise and concern in AI therapy: a critical perspective on early evidence from the MIT–OpenAI RCT

    Article • Frontiers in Medicine, May 2025, Frontiers

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  16. How Does Parents’ Psychopathology Associate with Parent-Adolescent Communication Related and Unrelated to Sex?

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  17. Family and Parental Factors Related to Pornography Use and Problematic Pornography Use Among Adolescents and Young Adults

    Article • Current Addiction Reports, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  18. Teacher Communication Strategies for Addressing Child Sexual Abuse: a Latent Profile Analysis

    Article • Child Indicators Research, February 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  19. Student–teacher relational entitlement and its association with students' and teachers' characteristics

    Article • British Journal of Educational Psychology, July 2024, Wiley

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  20. Effective parental strategies against problematic smartphone use among adolescents: A 6-month prospective study

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, July 2024, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  21. Development and Validation of the Metacognitions about Sex Scale: Exploring its Role as a Mediator between Negative Affect, Emotion Dysregulation Strategies, and Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, October 2023, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  22. Parent-child quality of sex-related communication before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, October 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  23. Latent Profile Analysis of Problematic Smartphone Use and Parental Strategies: A Six-month Prospective Study

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, August 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  24. “I have no control over how much time I play” the metacognitions about online gaming scale: Evidence from a cross-cultural validation among Israeli adolescents

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, June 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  25. Risk and protective factor profiles predict addictive behavior among adolescents

    Article • Comprehensive Psychiatry, May 2023, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  26. Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Roles of Personality, Attachment Orientations, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Psychopathology

    Article • Cognitive Therapy and Research, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  27. Parental practices as predictors of adolescents’ compulsive sexual behavior: a 6-month prospective study

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  28. Just Talk to Them! The Importance of Teacher-pupil Communication About Child Sexual Abuse and Harassment as a Preventive Measure: Data from an Israeli Sample of Pupils and Their Homeroom Teachers

    Article • Sexuality Research and Social Policy, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  29. A Bridge of Distress: Distress as the Critical Mediator Between Substance Use Disorders and Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder Among Women

    Article • International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, November 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  30. Early-life trauma, negative and positive life events, compulsive sexual behavior disorder and risky sexual action tendencies among young women with substance use disorder

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, October 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  31. Early Maladaptive Schemas are Associated with Adolescents’ Substance and Behavioral Addictions

    Article • Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, September 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  32. Mothers’ Perceptions of Children’s Screen Use During the COVID-19 Lockdown in Israel

    Article • Journal of Child and Family Studies, August 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  33. Self-perceived substance and behavioral addictions among Jewish Israeli adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Article • Addictive Behaviors Reports, June 2022, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  34. Common Features in Compulsive Sexual Behavior, Substance Use Disorders, Personality, Temperament, and Attachment—A Narrative Review

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

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  35. A study on the relationship between shame, guilt, self-criticism and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder

    Article • Current Psychology, August 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  36. Adolescents who solely engage in online sexual experiences are at higher risk for compulsive sexual behavior

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, July 2021, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  37. Modelling the Contribution of Metacognitions, Impulsiveness, and Thought Suppression to Behavioural Addictions in Adolescents

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

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  38. Early Maladaptive Schemas Are Highly Indicative of Compulsive Sexual Behavior

    Article • Evaluation & the Health Professions, December 2020, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  39. Parents’ Psychopathology Promotes the Adoption of Ineffective Pornography-Related Parenting Mediation Strategies

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, October 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  40. Desire thinking as a predictor of compulsive sexual behaviour in adolescents: Evidence from a cross-cultural validation of the Hebrew version of the Desire Thinking Questionnaire

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, October 2020, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  41. Who becomes addicted and to what? psychosocial predictors of substance and behavioral addictive disorders

    Article • Psychiatry Research, September 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  42. Are adolescents who consume pornography different from those who engaged in online sexual activities?

    Article • Children and Youth Services Review, April 2020, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  43. Problematic and Non-problematic Pornography Use and Compulsive Sexual Behaviors Among Understudied Populations: Children and Adolescents

    Article • Current Addiction Reports, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  44. Negative and positive life events and their relation to substance and behavioral addictions

    Article • Drug and Alcohol Dependence, November 2019, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  45. Adolescents’ compulsive sexual behavior: The role of parental competence, parents’ psychopathology, and quality of parent–child communication about sex

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, September 2019, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  46. Compulsive sexual behavior and sexual offending: Differences in cognitive schemas, sensation seeking, and impulsivity

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, September 2019, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  47. The Effect of Early Life Trauma on Compulsive Sexual Behavior Among Members of a 12-Step Group

    Article • The Journal of Sexual Medicine, May 2019, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  48. Parental Mediation Regarding Children’s Pornography Exposure: The Role of Parenting Style, Protection Motivation and Gender

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati, Michal Dolev-Cohen

  49. The Relation of Intra-Psychic and Relational Aspects of the Self to Compulsive Sexual Behavior

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  50. A Response to Pirutinsky’s (2018) Religion and Compulsive Sexuality

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, December 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  51. Understanding and predicting profiles of compulsive sexual behavior among adolescents

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, December 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  52. The Use of Online Pornography as Compensation for Loneliness and Lack of Social Ties Among Israeli Adolescents

    Article • Psychological Reports, September 2018, SAGE Publications

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  53. Personality profiles of substance and behavioral addictions

    Article • Addictive Behaviors, July 2018, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati, Yehuda Neumark

  54. Compulsive sexual behavior: A twelve-step therapeutic approach

    Article • Journal of Behavioral Addictions, June 2018, Akademiai Kiado

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  55. Adolescents with a Disposition toward Compulsive Sexual Behavior: The Role of Shame in Willingness to Seek Help and Treatment

    Article • Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, May 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  56. God, I Can’t Stop Thinking About Sex! The Rebound Effect in Unsuccessful Suppression of Sexual Thoughts Among Religious Adolescents

    Article • The Journal of Sex Research, April 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  57. Treating Compulsive Sexual Behavior

    Article • Current Sexual Health Reports, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  58. Adolescent compulsive sexual behavior: Is it a unique psychological phenomenon?

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, March 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  59. Normative and Clinical Self-Perceptions of Sexuality and Their Links to Psychopathology among Adolescents

    Article • Psychopathology, January 2018, Karger Publishers

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  60. Individual-based Compulsive Sexual Behavior scale: Its development and importance in examining compulsive sexual behavior

    Article • Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  61. The sense of entitlement in romantic relationships: ethnic and religious aspects

    Article • Mental Health Religion & Culture, December 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  62. It takes an insecure liar to catch a liar: The link between attachment insecurity, deception, and detection of deception

    Article • Personality and Individual Differences, July 2017, Elsevier

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  63. Effective Disengagement: Insecure People Are More Likely to Disengage From an Ongoing Task and Take Effective Action When Facing Danger

    Article • Journal of Personality, March 2017, Wiley

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  64. The sense of relational entitlement among adolescents toward their parents (SREap) – Testing an adaptation of the SRE

    Article • Journal of Adolescence, October 2016, Wiley

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati

  65. Sense of Relational Entitlement Among Adolescents Toward Their Parents Scale

    Article • January 2016, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Prof. Yaniv Efrati