Publications

 Czik, A., Elizarov, E., & Ziv, Y. (2025). The Association between Caregivers’ Social Information Processing and Kindergarten Children’s Behaviors via the Mother-Child Relationship quality and Children’s Social Information Processing. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Elizarov, I., Benish-Wiesman, M., & Ziv, Y. (2025). Fostering Academic Performance in 5-Year-Olds: The Role of Self-Direction Values, Presented Self-Esteem, and Positive Self-Perception. Early Education and Development.

Sofri, I., Czik, A., & Ziv, Y. (2025). The Association between Parent-Child Emotional Availability, Children’s Early Emotional Reflectivity Skills, and Social Behavior in Kindergarten. Family relations.

Elizarov, I., Czik, A., & Ziv, Y. (2024). Kindergarten Children Academic Engagement: A Dual Pathway Model including Social Information Processing, Social Behavior in Class, and Teacher-Child Relationships quality. European Journal of Psychology of Education.

 Ghanayim, Y. & Ziv, Y. (2024). Mothers’ perceptions of the Jewish–Arab conflict and social information processing patterns: Relations to their kindergarten children’s stereotypical perceptions and social adjustment. Early Childhood Research Quarterly.

Elizarov, I., Benish-Wiesman, M., & Ziv, Y. (2024). Personal Values and Social Behavior in Early Childhood: Understanding the contribution of Social Information Processing and Attitudes. European Journal of Psychology of Education.

 Scharf, N., & Ziv, Y. (2024). “‘I want to succeed for her, so I can assure a better future for her.” Parenting in the Bedouin society in Israel. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry. 

Sher-Censor, E., Gur-Yaish, N., ##Polachek, E., & Ziv, Y. (2024). Fathers’ Rejection Sensitivity: Links with Fathers’ and Children’s Social Information Processing. Family Relations.

Badarneh, M., Arbel, R., & Ziv, Y. (2024). Executive functions and social cognition from early childhood to pre-adolescents: A systematic review. Developmental Review.

Sofri, I., & Ziv, Y. (2024). Can You Ride a Bike? Mindful and Alert Story Processing as a New Assessment Procedure for Bibliotherapists. Journal of Poetry Therapy, 37 (2), 87-104.

Elizarov, I., Benish-Wiesman, M., & Ziv, Y.  (2023). Teacher-Child Relational Conflict and Maladaptive Social Behaviors: The Moderating Role of Children’s Values. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 233, 105689.

Shilderman, T., & Ziv, Y. (2023). The association between research, teaching, and practice in education in Israeli higher education institutions: A mixed methods study on the effects of MALAG’s initiated evaluation committees in Israel’s higher education institutions focusing on education. Iyunim Bechinuch, 22, 96-116. (in Hebrew)

Weisberger, I., Ziv, Y. (2023). The Child-Mother-Father-Teacher Relationship Network in kindergarten and its Association with Children's Social and Academic Development: An Ecological Perspective. Children. 10, 1102.

 Poltorak, M., Kizel, A, & Ziv, Y. (2023). The kindergarten as an arena for humanistic dialogue - associations between team members' dialogue and the educational climate. Iyunim Bechinuch, 22, 157-176. (in Hebrew)

Sofri, I., Czik, A., & Ziv, Y. (2023). Are You Ready for a Story? Kindergarten Children's Emotional Responses During a Story-Reading Situation is Associated with their Readiness for School. Education Sciences, 13, 1169.

Barel Refaeli, L., Rodrigues, M., Neaman, A., Bertele, N., Ziv, Y., Talmon, A., & Enav, Y. (2023). Supporting the transition to parenthood: a critical review of empirical studies on interventions for first-time parents. Patient Education and Counseling, 108090.

Polachek, E., Gur-Yaish, N., Sher-Censor, E. & Ziv, Y. (2023). Associations of Mothers’ Rejection Sensitivity with Children’s Cognitions About Peer Rejection and Social Self-Perceptions. Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 6, 1792-1809.

Ziv, Y., Sofri, I., Kapps Umphlet, K., Olarte, S., Venza, J. (2021). Changing developmental trajectory in high-risk families: The efficacy of a preventive intervention Therapeutic  Nursery Program (TNP) for preschool children with complex emotional and behavioral  problems. Attachment and Human Development, 23. 274-292.

Ziv, Y., & Arbel, R. (2021). Parenting practices, aggressive response  evaluation and decision (RED), and maladaptive behavior in kindergarten  children: the role of fathers. Aggressive Behavior, 47, 148-160. 

Ziv, Y., & Kupermintz, H. (2021). Exposure to domestic and political violence in early childhood: Differences in the quality of the parent-child relationship and children's  social cognition and behavior. International Journal of Psychology, 56, 12-21.

Ziv, Y. & Hadad, B. (2021). Understanding the mental roots of social behavior: An integrated social information-processing perspective. Heliyon, 7, e06168 . 

Arbel, R., Sofri, I., Elizarov, E., & Ziv, Y., (2021). Preschool Children’s Social   Information Processing Mediates the Link between the Quality of the Parent-Child Relationship and the Child’s Learning Difficulties. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 1972. 

Ziv, Y. & Arbel, R. (2020). The associations between mother's and child's mental health in  preschool: The mediating role of the child's  social  cognition. International Journal of  Environmental Research and Public Health, 17, 358.

Ziv, Y. (2020). Segregated but equal? The case of migration and (dis)integration in the Israeli early education system. In E. Aslan (Ed.). Viennese contributions to Islamic research. Zurich: Springer.

Ziv, Y. & Elizarov, E. (2019). Social information processing model. In S. Hupp and J. Jewell (Eds.).  Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Ziv, Y., Sofri, I., Kapps Umphlet, K., Olarte, S., Venza, J. (2018). Children and caregivers' exposure  to adverse childhood experiences (ACES): association with children's and caregivers' psychological outcomes in a therapeutic nursery program   International Journal of  Environmental Research and Public Health, 15, 646.

Ziv, Y., Kapps Umphlet, K., Olarte, S. & Venza, J. (2018). Early Childhood Trauma in High-Risk  Families: Associations with caregiver emotional availability and insightfulness, and child’s social information processing and social behavior Attachment and Human Development, 20,  309-320.

Golden, D., Aviezer, O, & Ziv, Y. (2018). Modern pedagogy, local concerns:  The "Junkyard" on  the kibbutz kindergarten. Paedagogica Historica, 54, 355-370.

Ziv, Y., Benita, M., & Sofri, I. (2017). Self-regulation in childhood: A developmental perspective.   In J.L. Matson (Ed.). Handbook of social behavior and skills of children (pp. 149-173). New   York: Springer.

Ziv, Y., Kaplan, B., & Venza, J. (2016). Practicing attachment in the real world: Improving maternal insightfulness and dyadic emotional availability at an outpatient community mental health clinic. Attachment & Human Behavior, 18, 292-315.

Weisberger, I., & Ziv, Y. (2016). Maltreated preschool children in out of home care: Implications for Attachment-related Representations, Social Information Processing, Self-Esteem, and Social Behavior. In K. Moore, P. Buchwald, F. N. Abu Alhija, & M. Israelashvili. Stress and  Anxiety: Strategies, Opportunities, and Adaptations (pp. 51-60) Berlin: Logos Verlag.

Ziv, Y., Kupermintz, H., & Aviezer, O. (2016). The associations among maternal negative control, social information processing patterns, and teachers' perceptions of children's behavior in preschool. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 18-35.

Ziv, Y. & Hotam Y.  (2015) Theory and Measure in the Psychological field: The Case of  Attachment Theory and the Strange Situation Procedure. Theory and Psychology, 25, 274-291.

Ziv, Y., Golden, D., & Goldberg, T. (2015). Teaching traumatic historical events in kindergarten: the case of holocaust studies in Israeli kindergartens. Early Education and Development, 26, 520-533.

Ziv, Y. (2015). The social information processing interview – preschool version. PsychTESTS.

Hadad, B., & Ziv, Y. (2015). Strong bias towards analytic perception in ASD does not come at the price of impaired global processing. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 45, 1499-1512.  

Ziv, Y., Hadad, B., Khateeb, Y., & Terkel-Dawer, R. (2014). Social information processing in preschool children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 44, 846-860.

Ziv, Y., Leibovitz, I., and Shechtman, T. (2013). Bullying and Victimization in Early Adolescence:  Relations to Social Information Processing Patterns.  Aggressive Behavior, 39, 482-492.

Ziv, Y. (2013). Social Information Processing Patterns, Social Skills, and School Readiness in Preschool Children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 114, 306-320

Ziv, Y. (2012). Exposure to violence, social information processing, and problem behavior in preschool children.  Aggressive Behavior, 38, 429-441.

Ziv, Y., & Sorongon, A. (2011). Social information processing in preschool children: Relations to sociodemographic risk and problem behavior. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109(4), 412-429. 

Ziv, Y., Alva, S., & Zill, N.  (2010). Understanding Head Start children problem behaviors in the  context of arrest or incarceration of a household member. Early Childhood Research Quarterly. 25, 396-408. 

Cassidy, J., Ziv, Y., Stupica, B., Sherman, L. J., Butler, H. M., Karfgin, A., Cooper, G., Hoffman, K., Powell, B. (2010).  Enhancing attachment security in the infants of women in a jail-diversion program. Attachment and Human Development, 12, 333-353.

Ziv, Y. (2009). An Evaluation of the DC Preparatory and KIPP:LEAP Preschool Programs in the District of Columbia. Report Prepared for the CityBridge Foundation. Rockville, MD: Westat.

Zill, N., Kim, K., Sorongon, A., Ziv, Y., Resnick, G., et al. (2009). Head Start FACES 2003: Recent  Trends in program performance. Washington, DC: Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Dykas, M., Ziv, Y., & Cassidy, J. (2008). Attachment and peer relations in adolescence. Attachment  and Human Development, 10, 123-141.

Ziv, Y. (2007). Social information processing in preschool children: Preliminary evidence regarding a promising new measurement tool. In J. A. Zebrowski (Ed.). New Research on Social Perception (pp.47-74). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Zill, N., &  Ziv, Y. (2007). Toward A Global Indicator of Early Child Development. New York, NY: UNICEF. 

Kobak, R., Cassidy, J., Lyons-Ruth, K. & Ziv, Y. (2006) Attachment, Stress and Psychopathology: 

A Developmental Pathways Model. In D. Cicchetti (Ed.), Developmental Psychopathology, Volume 1, Theory and Method, 2nd Edition (pp. 333-369).  New York, NY: Wiley.

Zill, N., Resnick, G., Kim, K., O’Donnell, K., Sorongon, A., Ziv, Y., et al. (2006). Head Start Performance Measures Center Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES 2000). Washington, DC: Administration for Children, Youth, and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Alva, S., Zill, N., & Ziv, Y. (2006). Parental criminality among Head Start children: associations with children problem behaviors Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America. Los Angeles, CA. 

Ziv, Y.  (2005). Attachment-based intervention programs: Implications for attachment theory and research. In L. Berlin, Y. Ziv, L. Amaya-Jackson & M. Greenberg (Eds.) Enhancing early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy (pp. 61-78). New York: Guilford Press.

Berlin, L., Ziv, Y., Amaya-Jackson, L., & Greenberg, M. (Eds.). (2005) Enhancing early attachments: Theory, research, intervention, and policy. New York: Guilford Press.

Alva, S., Ziv, Y., & Zill, N. (2005). Family Environment, program Quality, and children social-emotional development in Head Start and kindergarten. Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Population Association of America. Philadelphia, PA. 

Ziv, Y., Oppenheim, D., & Sagi, A. (2004). Social information processing in middle childhood: Relations to infant-mother attachment.  Attachment and Human Development, 6, 327-348.

Kobak, R., Cassidy, J., & Ziv, Y. (2004), Attachment-related trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder.  In W. S. Rholes & J. A. Simpson (Eds.). Adult attachment: Theory, research, and clinical implications (pp. 388-407). New York: Guilford Press.

Cassidy, J., Ziv, Y., Mehta, T. G., & Feeney, B. (2003). Feedback-seeking in children and adolescents: Associations with self-perceptions, attachment representations, and depression. Child Development, 73, 612-628.

Sagi, A., Koren-Karie, N., Gini, M., Ziv, Y. & Joels, T. (2002). Shedding further light on the effects of various types and quality of early child-care on infant-mother attachment relationship: The Haifa study of early child-care. Child Development, 73, 1166-1186. [the contribution of the authors is equal]

Ziv, Y., & Cassidy, J. (2002).  Maternal responsiveness and infant irritability: The contribution of Crockenberg and Smith’s “Antecedents of mother-infant interaction and infant irritability in the first three months of life.” Infant Behavior and Development, 25, 16-20.

Ziv, Y., Aviezer, O., Gini, M., Sagi, A., & Koren-Karie, N. (2000). Emotional availability in the mother-infant dyad as related to the quality of infant-mother attachment relationship. Attachment and Human Development, 2, 149-169.

Aviezer, O., Sagi, A., Joels, T., & Ziv, Y. (1999). Dyadic emotional availability and attachment representations in Kibbutz infants and their mothers. Developmental Psychology, 35, 811-821.

Hebrew Publications

Ziv, Y., Ziv, K., Cohen, D., Meyer, V., Stolarski, E., Raz, D., & Sagi Schwartz, A. (2019). The  Infant-Toddler Environmental Scales – Third Edition (ITERS-3) – Hebrew Version. Haifa; Pardes.

Ziv, Y. & Sagi-Schwartz, A. (2018). A manual for evaluating daycare centers in Israel: Supervision  standards. Jerusalem: Department of Welfare and Social Services.

Ziv, Y., Sagi-Schwartz, A. & Aviezer, O. (2015). Evaluating classroom climate in Israeli Kindergartens and the effects of a CLASS-based intervention program. Jerisalem: Department of Education.

Ziv, Y., Golden, D., & Goldberg, T. (2014). The new Israeli ministry of education initiative for holocaust studies in kindergarten: A multidisciplinary perspective. Iyunim Bechinuch, 40, 497-508.

Ziv, Y., & Aviezer, O. (2014). Using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS) in Israeli Kindergarten for evaluating and shaping classroom climate. Hed Hagan, 78 (3), 22-29. (in Hebrew)

Aviezer, O., & Ziv, Y. (2013). Evaluation and Assessment in Teacher Education Programs: The Role of the Teacher-Child Interaction. Mofet Journal, 51, 49-54 (in Hebrew).