Publications

 Klebanov, B., Tsur, N., & Katz, C. (2023). "Many bad things had been happening to me": children's perceptions and experiences of polyvictimization in the context of child physical abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 145, 106429.

Tsur, N., Talmon, AD. & *Shemesh, N. (2023). Peritraumatic pain in child maltreatment: a systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380231194069.

Tsur, N., Najjar, A. A., & Katz, C. (2023). “When I was a child, the doctor advised me to have sex more gently”: The perceptions and experiences with the healthcare system as conveyed by adult survivors of child sexual abuse. Social Science & Medicine, 115685.

Talmon AN., Norman, J., Talmon, AD. & Tsur, N. (2023). Maltreatment in daycare settings: a review of empirical studies in the field. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 15248380231155528.

Tsur, N. (2023). Pain Flashbacks: Exploration of intrusive pain symptoms following child abuse. Children and Youth Services Review, 145, 106765.

Tsur, N., Noyman-Veksler, G., Elbaz, I., Weisman, L., Brill, S., Shalev, H., Rudich, Z. & Shahar, G. (2023). The Personification of Chronic Pain: an Examination Using the Ben-Gurion University Illness Personification Scale (BGU-IPS). Psychiatry, 1-20.

Tsur, N. & Talmon, AD. (2023). Posttraumatic orientation to bodily signals: A systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 15248380211025237.

Tsur, N., Attrash-Najjar, A., Katz, C. (2022). “Explode into small pieces”: Suicidal ideation among child sexual abuse survivors. Child Abuse & Neglect.

Tsur, N., Katz, C., Kalbanov, B. (2022). Peritraumatic pain in child sexual abuse: Children’s descriptions of pain as conveyed in their testimonies following child sexual abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260520958653.

Tsur, N. & Katz, C. (2022). “And then Cinderella was lying in my bed”: Dissociation displays in forensic interviews with children following intra familial child sexual abuse. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 08862605211016347.

Tsur, N. (2022). Chronic pain personification following child abuse: The imprinted experience of child abuse in later chronic pain. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 0886260520944529.

Tsur, N., Bachem, R., Zhou, X., Levin, Y., Abu-Raiya, H., & Maercker, A. (2021). Cross-cultural investigation of COVID-19 related acute stress: A network analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 143, 309-316.

Talmon, AN., & Tsur, N. (2021). Intergenerational transmission of childhood maltreatment and eating disorder behaviors: shedding light on the mother-daughter dyad and grandmother-mother-daughter triad. Children and Youth Services Review, 129, 106209.

Tsur, N., Katz, C. & Talmon, AN. (2021). The shielding effect of not responding: Peritraumatic responses to child abuse and their links to posttraumatic symptomatology. Child Abuse & Neglect, 121, 105224.

Ronen, T., Berger, R., Rahav, R., Segal, S., Agbaria, Q., Tsur, N. & Savaya, R. (2021). Flourishing in Palestinian Israeli and Jewish Israeli Adolescents: The Role of Positive/Negative Affect and Family/Peer Support or Undermining. Child and Adolescents Social Work Journal, 1-15.

Tsur, N. & Haller, C. S. (2021). Self-rated health among patients with severe traumatic brain injury and their close relatives: the role of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Psychosomatic Medicine, 83(5), 449-456.

Katz, C., Tsur, N., Talmon, AN. & Nicolet, R. (2021). Beyond Fight, Flight and Freeze: Towards a conceptualization of responses to child sexual abuse based on retrospective reports of adult survivors. Child Abuse & Neglect, 112, 104905.

Tsur, N., Katz, C. & Kalbanov, B. (2021). "I don’t have fur to protect me": Children’s experience of pain as communicated in forensic interviews following parental physical abuse. Children and Youth Services Review, 120, 105420.

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., Haller, C. S., Berkovitz, K & Langer, E. J. (2021). The effect of mindful attention training for pain modulation capacity: Exploring the mindfulness-pain link. Journal of Clinical Psychology, 77(4), 896-909.

Katz, C., Tsur, N., Nicola, R., Kalbanov, B & Carmel, N. (2021). Children's responses to maltreatment: Key conclusions from a systematic literature review. Trauma, Violence & Abuse, 1524838020908851.

Crompton, L., Plotkin, G. Tsur, N. & Solomon, Z. (2021). Tattoos in the wake of trauma: Transforming personal stories of suffering into public stories of coping. Deviant Behavior, 1-4. 

Bachem, R., Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Abu-Raiya, H. & Maercker, A (2020). Negative affect, fatalism, and perceived institutional betrayal in times of the Coronavirus pandemic: A cross-cultural investigation of control beliefs. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 11, 589914.

Tsur, N. & Abu-Raiya, H. (2020). COVID-19-related fear and stress among individuals who experienced child abuse: The mediating effect of complex posttraumatic stress disorder. Child Abuse & Neglect, 110, 104694.

Katz, C., Tsur, N. & Kalbanov, B. (2020). No way to run or hide: Children’s perceptions of their responses during intrafamilial child sexual abuse. Child Abuse & Neglect, 106, 104541.

Geartner, L., Tsur, N. & Haller, C. S. (2020). Patients’ recovery after severe TBI is associated with their close relatives’ interpersonal functioning: a 12-months prospective cohort study. Brain Injury, 34(6), 764-772.

Tsur, N. (2020). “My own flesh and blood”: The implications of child maltreatment for the orientation towards the body among dyads of mothers and daughters. Child Abuse & Neglect, 104, 104469. 

Tsur, N. Defrin, R., Shahar, G. Solomon, Z. (2020). Dysfunctional pain perception and modulation among torture survivors: The role of pain personification. Journal of Affective Disorders, 265, 10-17. 

Ein-Dor, T., Hirschberger, G., Tsur, N., Mikulincer, M., Buchris Bazak, S. & Solomon, Z (2020). The link between attachment orientations and cellular aging among former prisoners of war. Attachment & Human Development, 22(3), 352-366.

Tsur, N. & Haller, C. S. (2020). Physical and mental health and functioning among traumatic brain injury close relatives: The role of posttraumatic stress symptoms. Family Process, 59(2), 666-680.

Tsur, N., Levin Y., Stein, J. Y., Siegel, A., & Solomon, Z. (2019). Loneliness and subjective physical health among war veterans: Long term reciprocal effects. Social Science & Medicine, 234, 112373. 

Lahav, Y., Solomon, Z., Siegel, A., Tsur, N., & Defrin, R. (2020). Punishing the Self: Post-Traumatic Guilt Mediates the Link Between Trauma and Deficient Pain Modulation. The Journal of Pain, 21(3-4), 364-374.

Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Itzhaky, L. Defrin, R. & Solomon, Z. (2019). Pain perception and modulation in ex-POWs who underwent torture: The role of subjective and objective suffering. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy, 11(8), 820 – 827.

Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Abumock, H. & Solomon, Z. (2018). One “knows”: Self rated health and telomere length among ex-prisoners of war. Psychology & Health, 33(12), 1503-1518.

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., Lahav, Y. & Solomon, Z. (2018). The traumatized body: Long-term PTSD and its implications for the orientation towards bodily signals. Psychiatry Research, 261, 281-289.

Tsur, N., Shahar, G., Defrin, R., Lahav, Y. & Ginzburg, K. (2017). Torturing personification of chronic pain among torture survivors. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 99, 155-161.

Solomon, Z., Tsur, N., Levin, Y., Ohry, A., Lahav, M. (2017). The implications of war captivity and long term psychopathology trajectories for telomere length. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 81, 122-128.

Tsur, N., Defrin, R., & Ginzburg, K. (2017). Posttraumatic stress disorder, orientation to pain, and pain perception in ex-prisoners of war who underwent torture. Psychosomatic Medicine, 79, 655-663.

Ginzburg, K., Biran, I., Goor Arieh, I., Tsur, N. & Defrin, R. (2017). Pain perception and body awareness among individuals with borderline personality disorder. Journal of Personality Disorders, 32(5), 618-635.

Tsur, N., Berkovitz, N., & Ginzburg, K. (2016). Body awareness, emotional clarity, and authentic behavior: The moderating role of mindfulness. Journal of Happiness Studies, 17, 1451–1472.

Ginzburg, K., Tsur, N., Karmin, C., Speizman, T., Tourgeman, R., & Defrin, R. (2015). Body awareness and pain habituation: The role of orientation towards somatic signals. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 38, 876-885.

Ginzburg, K., Tsur, N., Barak-Nahum, A. & Defrin, R. (2014). Body awareness: Differentiating between sensitivity to and monitoring of bodily signals. Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 37, 564-575.