פרופ' יניב אפרתי

Articles in periodicals

1. Efrati, Y., Shmulewitz, D., Skvirsky, V., Vider, M., Kor, A., Lev-Ran, S., & Mikulincer, M. (2026). Longitudinal Study of Probable Compulsive Sexual Behavior Disorder and Problematic Pornography Use Profiles: Their Prospective Impact on Psychopathology During Wartime, Addictive Behaviors,175,108589.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108589

2. Efrati, Y., & Potenza, M.N. (2026). “Feeling Unseen”: Generation and Psychometric Validation of a Scale Assessing Sense of Absence, Journal of Behavioral Addictions, online first.

3. Efrati, Y. (2025). A network analysis of addictive behaviors: Risk and protective factors among Israeli youth in a cross-sectional study, International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction,1-34. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-025-01569-0

4. Shaer, B.G, Gross, Z., & Efrati, Y. (2025). Young adults coping with sibling loss: risk and protective factors for substance use disorder. Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, 1-15.  https://doi.org/10.1007/s40653-025-00758-2

5. Efrati, Y. (2025). Effectiveness of pupils’ perceptions of teacher communication strategies for addressing child sexual abuse and harassment in Israel: A six-month prospective study. Children and Youth Services Review, 177, 108477. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2025.108477

6. Hosen, R., Gross, Z., & Efrati, Y. (2025). A network analysis of early life trauma, parent-adolescent communication, parental warmth, and parental monitoring among adolescents with behavioral addictions. Child Abuse & Neglect, 167, 107588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chiabu.2025.107588

7. Efrati, Y., Demetrovics, Z., Horváth, Z., Griffiths, M.D., Potenza, M.N., Blum, K., Czakó, A., & Kotyuk, E. (2025). Seeking satisfaction among Israeli young adults: The roles of gratification, compensation, reward deficiency syndrome, and compulsivity in relation to addictive behaviors. Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation, 16, 177–191.https://doi.org/10.2147/SAR.S527209

8. Efrati, Y. (2025). The landscape of youth addiction in Israel: Identifying high-risk behaviors. Addictive Behaviors, 169, 108396. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2025.108396

9. Ophir, Y., Tikochinski, R., Rosenberg, H., and Efrati, Y. (2025). Health side story: A scoping review of the literature on narrative therapy for ADHD. Healthcare, 13(11), 1247. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare13111247

10. Epstein, R., Abulafia, J., Shukron, O., & Efrati, Y. (2025). The relationship between compulsive sexual behaviour and paedophilic preference in an incarcerated sample of individuals convicted of sexual offences – implications for treatment. Sexual Medicine, 13 (3), qfaf040.   https://doi.org/10.1093/sexmed/qfaf040

11. Ophir, Y., Tikochinski, R., Elyoseph, Z., Efrati, Y., and Rosenberg, H. (2025). Balancing promise and concern in AI therapy: A critical perspective on early evidence from the MIT–OpenAI RCT. Frontiers in Medicine, 12: 1612838. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1612838  

12. Efrati, Y. (2025). How does parents’ psychopathology associate with parent-adolescent communication related and unrelated to sex? Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 51(5), 477–490. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2025.2498436

13. Kabaha, M., & Efrati, Y. (2025). 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. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 54:2269–2286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-025-03179-2

14. Villena-Moya, A., Efrati, Y., Chiclana-Actis, C., & Testa, G. (2025). Family and parental factors related to pornography use and problematic pornography use among adolescents and young adults. Current Addiction Reports, 12:38.   https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-025-00653-8

15. Kotyuk, E., Demetrovics, Z., Urbán, R., Czakó, A., Blum, K., Griffiths, M.D., Potenza, M.N., & Efrati, Y. (2025). Empirical validation of the Reward Deficiency Syndrome Questionnaire among a non-clinical sample and its relationship with behavioral addictions, Addictive Behaviors Reports,21, 100598. doi: https://doi.org/ 10.1016/j.abrep.2025.100598   

16. Efrati, Y. (2025). Teacher communication strategies for addressing child sexual abuse: A latent profile analysis. Child Indicators Research, 18:1185–1207. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12187-025-10225-x

17. Tolmacz, R., Ben-Eliyahu, A., Mikulincer, M., & Efrati, Y. (2024). Student- teacher relational entitlement and its association with students’ and teachers’ characteristics. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 94:1109–1131. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjep.12708

18. Efrati, Y., Rosenberg, H., & Ophir, Y. (2024). Effective Parental Strategies Against Problematic Smartphone Use Among Adolescents: a 6-month Prospective Study. Addictive Behaviors,154, 108024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2024.108024

19. Bőthe, B., Vaillancourt-Morel, M. P., Bergeron, S., Hermann, Z., Ivaskevics, K., Kraus, S. W., & Grubbs, J. B., & Problematic Pornography Use Machine Learning Study Consortium (2024). Uncovering the most robust predictors of problematic pornography use: A large-scale machine learning study across 16 countries. Journal of Psychopathology and Clinical Science, 133(6):489-502. https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000913

20. Efrati, Y. (2024). Parental practices as predictors of adolescents’ compulsive sexual behavior: a 6-month prospective study. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 33: 241–253. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-023-02155-2

21. Efrati, Y., & Spada, M.M. (2024). 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. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 50 (1):76-93. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2023.2259894

22. Efrati, Y., & Rosenberg, H. (2025). Latent profile analysis of problematic smartphone use and parental strategies: A six-month prospective study. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 23:894–919. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-023-01144-5

23. Efrati, Y. (2023). Do parents correctly perceive the quality of sex-related communication with their children in times of a COVID-19 pandemic? Children and Youth Services Review, 153, 107105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107105

24. Efrati, Y. (2023). Risk and protective factor profiles predict addictive behavior among adolescents. Comprehensive Psychiatry, 123,152387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comppsych.2023.152387

25. Efrati, Y. (2023). Compulsive sexual behavior in adolescents: The roles of personality, attachment orientations, cognitive mechanisms, and psychopathology. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 47: 469–482. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-023-10359-8

26. Efrati, Y., & Spada, M.M. (2023). "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. Addictive Behaviors,  141, 107638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2023.107638

27. Efrati, Y., Gewirtz-Meydan, A., (2023). Just talk to them! The importance of teacher-pupil communication about child sexual abuse and harassments as preventative measure: Data from an Israeli sample of pupils and their home-room teachers. Sexuality Research and Social Policy, 20:273–286. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13178-022-00778-9

28. Efrati, Y., Goldman, K., Levin, K., & Rosca, P. (2024). A bridge of distress: distress as the key mediator between substance use disorders among women and the co-occurrence of compulsive sexual behavior disorder. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, 22; 1900–1920. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-022-00964-1

29. Efrati, Y., Kolubinski, C.D, Marino, C., & Spada, M.M. (2023). Early maladaptive schemas are associated with adolescents’ substance and behavioral addictions. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 41, 690–709.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-022-00478-8

30. Ophir, Y., Rosenberg, H., Efrati, Y., Tikochinski, R., (2023). Mothers’ perceptions of children’s screen use During the COVID-19 lockdown in Israel. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 32, 81–92. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02399-7 

31. Efrati, Y., Goldman, K., Levin, K., & Rosca, P. (2022).  Early-life trauma, negative and positive life events, compulsive sexual behavior disorder and risky sexual action tendencies among young women with substance use disorder, Addictive Behaviors, 133, 107379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2022.107379

32. Efrati, Y., & Spada, M.M. (2022). Self-perceived substance and behavioral addictions among Jewish Israeli adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Addictive Behaviors Report, 15, 100431. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.abrep.2022.100431

33. Efarti, Y., Kraus, W.S., Kaplan, G. (2022). Common features in compulsive sexual behavior, substance use disorders, personality, temperament, and attachment – a narrative review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 296. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19010296

34. Sassover, E., Abrahamovitch, Z., Amsel,Y., Halle, D., Mishan, Y., & Efrati, Y., & Weinstein, A. (2023). A study on the relationship between shame, guilt, self-criticism and compulsive sexual behaviour disorder. Current Psychology, 42(10), 8347-8355. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-021-02188-3

35. Efrati, Y., Kolubinski, C.D, Marino, C., & Spada, M.M. (2021). Modelling the contribution of metacognitions, impulsiveness, and thought suppression to behavioural addictions in adolescents. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 3820. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18073820

36. Efrati, Y., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2021). Adolescents who solely engage in online sexual experiences are at higher risk for compulsive sexual behavior. Addictive Behaviors. Volume 118, 106874.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2021.106874

37. Efrati, Y., Shukron, O., & Epstein, R. (2021). Early maladaptive schemas are highly indicative of compulsive sexual behavior. Evaluation & the Health Professions. 44, 142-151.

38. Efrati, Y., & Boniel-Nissim, M. (2021). Parents’ psychopathology promotes the adoption of ineffective pornography-related parenting mediation strategies. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 47, 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2020.1835759

39. Efrati, Y. Kolubinski, C.D, Caselli, G., & Spada, M.M. (2020). 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. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 9, 797–807. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.2020.00062

40. Zilberman, N., Yadid, G., Efrati, Y., Rassovsky, Y. (2020). Who becomes addicted and to what? Psychosocial predictors of substance and behavioral addictive disorders. Psychiatry Research. Volume 291, 113221. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychres.2020.113221

41. Efrati, Y., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2020). Are adolescents who consume pornography different from those who engaged in online sexual activities? Children and Youth Services Review. Volume 111, 104843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104843

42. Efrati, Y. (2020). Problematic and non-problematic pornography use and compulsive sexual behaviors among understudied populations: Children and adolescents. Current Addicton Reports, 7, 68–75. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40429-020-00300-4

43. Boniel-Nissim, M., Efrati., Y, & Dolev-Cohen, M. (2020). Parental mediation regarding children's pornography exposure : The role of parenting style, protection motivation and gender. Journal of Sex Research, 57, 42-51. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2019.1590795

44. Efrati, Y. (2019). Normal Versus Abnormal Sexual Behavior in Adolescents. Psychiatric Times. 36, 9,14.

45. Zilberman, N., Yadid, G., Efrati, Y., Rassovsky, Y. (2019). Negative and positive life events and their relation to substance and behavioral addictions. Drug and Alcohol Dependence. Volume 204, 107562.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2019.107562

46. Efrati, Y., Shukron, O., & Epstein, R. (2019). Compulsive sexual behavior and sexual offending: Differences in cognitive schemas, sensation seeking and impulsivity. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8, 432–441.  https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.8.2019.36

47. Efrati, Y., & Gola, M. (2019). Adolescents’ compulsive sexual behavior: The role of parental competence, parents’ psychopathology, and quality of parent-child communication about sex. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8, 420–431. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.8.2019.33

48. Efrati, Y., & Gola, M. (2019). The effect of early-life trauma on compulsive sexual behavior among members of a twelve-step group. Journal of Sexual Medicine. 16, 803-811. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsxm.2019.03.272

49. Efrati, Y, Gerber., Z., & Tolmacz, R. (2019). The relation of intra-psychic and relational aspects of the self to compulsive sexual behavior. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 45, 618-631. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2019.1599092

50. Efrati, Y. (2019). A response to Pirutinsky's (2019) religion and compulsive sexuality. Journal of Sex Research. 56, 144-145. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1552752

51. Efrati, Y., & Amichai-Hamburger, Y. (2019). The use of online pornography as compensation for loneliness and lack of social ties among Israeli adolescents. Psychological Reports, 122, 1865–1882.         https://doi.org/10.1177/0033294118797580

52. Efrati, Y., (2019). God, I can't stop thinking about sex! The rebound effect in unsuccessful suppression of sexual thoughts among religious adolescents. Journal of Sex Research. 56, 146-155. https://doi.org/10.1080/00224499.2018.1461796

53. Efrati, Y & Dannon, P. (2019). Normative and clinical self-perceptions of sexuality and their links to psychopathology among adolescents. Psychopathology, 51 (6) :380–389. https://doi.org/10.1159/000495842

54. Efrati, Y., & Gola, M. (2018). Understanding and predicting profiles of compulsive sexual behavior among adolescents. Journal of Behavioral Addictions,7, 1004–1014. https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.100

55. Efrati, Y., & Gola, M. (2018). Compulsive sexual behavior: A Twelve-step Therapeutic Approach. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7, 445–453.  https://doi.org/10.1556/2006.7.2018.26

56. Efrati, Y., (2018). Adolescents with a disposition toward compulsive sexual behavior: The role of shame in willingness to seek help and treatment. Sexual Addiction & Compulsivity, 25, 28-45. https://doi.org/10.1080/10720162.2018.1454371

57. Efrati, Y., & Gola, M. (2018). Treating compulsive sexual behavior. Current Sexual Health Reports, 10, 57–64. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11930-018-0143-8

58. Efrati, Y., (2018). Adolescent compulsive sexual behavior: Is it a unique psychological phenomenon. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy. 44, 687-700. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2018.1452088

59. Zilberman, N., Yadid, G., Efrati, Y., Neumark, Y., Rassovsky, Y., (2018). Personality profiles of substance and behavioral addictions. Addictive Behaviors, 82, 174-181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.addbeh.2018.03.007

60. Efrati, Y., & Mikulincer, M. (2018). Individual-based compulsive sexual behavior scale: Its development and importance in examining compulsive sexual behavior. Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 44, 249-259. https://doi.org/10.1080/0092623X.2017.1405297

61. Ein-Dor, T., Perry-Paldi, A., Merrin, J., Efrati, Y., & Hirschberger, G. (2018). Effective disengagement: Insecure people are more likely to disengage from an ongoing task and take effective action when facing danger. Journal of Personality. 86, 233–246. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12308

62. Tolmacz, R., Mahajna, S. & Efrati, Y. (2017). The sense of entitlement in romantic relationships: ethnic and religious aspects, Mental Health, Religion & Culture, 20, 728-740. https://doi.org/10.1080/13674676.2017.1405249

63. Ein-Dor, T., Perry-Paldi, A., Zohar-Cohen, K., Efrati, Y., & Hirschberger, G. (2017). It takes an insecure liar to catch a liar: The link between attachment insecurity, deception, and detection of deception. Personality and Individual Differences. 113, 81–87. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.015

64. Tolmacz, R., Efrati, Y., & Ben-David, B. (2016). The sense of relational entitlement among adolescents toward their parents (SREap) e Testing an adaptation of the SRE. Journal of adolescence, 53, 127-140. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2016.09.003

Chapter in Books

1. Efrati, Y. (2023). Just talk to them! The importance of communication between parents, teachers and children in sexual behaviors and in the treatment of sexual abuse. In Harpaz, Y. & Hurvitz, E. (Eds.), "Save the Middle School". (In Hebrew).

2. Efrati, Y. (2023). Pornography among adolescents - Four points of view. In Harpaz, Y. & Hurvitz, E. (Eds.), "Save the Middle School". (In Hebrew).

3. Efrati, Y. (2018). Hypersexual behavior. In Dannon, P. (Eds.), Chronicle of addiction in the 21^st century: from pleasure to dependence and addiction (pp. 95-107). Helicon books. (In Hebrew).