Publications by authors named "Daniella Mahfoud"
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- Resilience is key for mental health, and the study aims to explore its relationship with personality traits, particularly in Lebanese adults, noting a gap in research in Lebanon and the Arab world.
- A total of 387 adults participated in a cross-sectional study using validated scales to assess resilience, post-traumatic growth, and personality traits.
- Results indicate that post-traumatic growth acts as a mediator between certain personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness) and resilience, suggesting that promoting post-traumatic growth can enhance resilience in individuals facing adversity.*
Background: Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is a relatively new potential eating disorder characterized by an intense fixation on one's eating habits and the imposition of rigid and inflexible rules on oneself. Psychological factors such as obsessive-compulsive tendencies, perfectionism and self-esteem may interact in complex ways and contribute to the development and maintenance of ON.
Methods: This cross-sectional study included 977 participants from Italy, Lebanon, and Poland.
Background: Even though there is an increasing amount of evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging studies to suggest that pathological inner speech plays a role in the emergence of auditory verbal hallucinations (AVH), studies investigating the mechanisms underlying this relationship are rather scarce. Examining moderators might inform the development of new treatment options for AVH. We sought to extend the existing knowledge by testing the moderating role of cognitive impairment in the association between inner speech and hallucinations in a sample of Lebanese patients with schizophrenia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: While the relationship between negative aspects of body image and positive schizophrenia symptoms was extensively investigated and is relatively well-established, there is a dearth of literature on the relationship between positive symptoms and positive aspects of body image, such as body appreciation and functionality appreciation, in patients with schizophrenia. This study aimed to (1) compare weight stigma, body and functionality appreciation between obese/overweight and normal-weight patients with schizophrenia, and (2) explore the associations between these variables and positive psychotic symptoms in the obese/overweight group.
Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the Psychiatric Hospital of the Cross, Lebanon during September 2022 recruiting selected in-patients diagnosed with schizophrenia.
Background: Coping involves attempts to mitigate the negative repercussions of stressful situations including psychological distress. The aim of this study was to assess factors affecting coping and examine the role of social support and religiosity in moderating the association between psychological distress and coping strategies in a sample of Lebanese adults.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was carried out between May and July 2022, enrolling 387 participants.