Psychotherapy Research

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Do routine outcome monitoring measures tell the same story? Evaluating outcome trajectories and clinical outcomes for the outcome rating scale and outcome questionnaire - 45	70
Correction	54
Somatic symptom profiles are associated with pre-treatment depression and anxiety symptom severity but not inpatient therapy outcomes	41
Fluctuations in therapist responsiveness facing clients with borderline personality disorder: Starting therapy on the right foot	36
Lessons from ten years of psychotherapy process research	24
Do patients internalize the positive regard they are offered? A dyadic test of a Rogerian condition	24
Does emotional processing predict 18-month post-therapy outcomes in the experiential treatment of major depression?	20
The nature, motives, and perceived consequences of therapist dishonesty	19
A person-centered, transdiagnostic schema and mode profile approach to predict outcome in time-limited schema group therapy	19
A longitudinal view of an approach to responsiveness: Principles followed and lessons learned	18
First impressions count: Therapists’ impression on patients’ motivation and helping alliance predicts psychotherapy dropout	16
Comparing helpful and hindering processes in good and poor outcome cases: A qualitative metasynthesis of eight Hermeneutic Single Case Efficacy Design studies	15
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	14
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	14
Self-invalidation in borderline personality disorder: A content analysis of patients’ verbalizations	14
Assessing therapist skills in teletherapy: the development and validation of the tele-facilitative interpersonal skills task	14
Rater effects in evaluating therapist competencies using structured case reports: A mixed-methods study	13
The therapeutic alliance and dropout in cognitive behavioral therapy of depression	13
Effectiveness of solution-focused brief therapy: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	13
Illustrating systemic change in family therapy: How therapists’ and clients’ alliance perceptions codevelop over time	13
Comorbidity as a moderator of the differential efficacy of transdiagnostic behavior therapy and behavioral activation for affective disorders	12
A randomized controlled trial of an adapted group cognitive-behavioral therapy for burned-out teachers	12
Seeing the past in a new light: change in reports of childhood abuse and neglect before and after inpatient psychotherapy and its relevance for change in depression symptoms	12
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	12
Unraveling the optimal balance of problem-related affective experiences and need satisfaction in cognitive-behavioral therapy: A response surface analysis	11

Symptom-specific improvement across therapies and their putative mediators: A mediation network intervention analysis	11
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	11
Development and validation of a psychotherapy change motivation scale	11
The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy	10
Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measure (CORE-OM) in Chile	10
Meditation, mindfulness, and acceptance methods in psychotherapy: A systematic review	10
What time-varying network models based on functional analysis tell us about the course of a patient's problem	10
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	10
Clinical factors and early life experiences associated with therapeutic alliance development in treatment for depression or binge eating	10
Therapists’ responsiveness in the process of ruptures and resolution: Are patients and therapists on the same page?	9
The role of experiential avoidance in the early stages of an online mindfulness-based intervention: Two mediation studies	9
Therapist-guided internet-based cognitive behavioral therapy versus face-to-face CBT for depression/anxiety symptoms in infertile women with adjustment disorders: A randomized controlled trial	9
Sudden gains in PTSD symptoms and social functioning in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	9
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	9
Risk factors for initial appointment non-attendance at Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services: A retrospective analysis	8
Innovative moments in recovered cases treated with the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders	8
Repeated assessments of depressive symptoms in randomized psychosocial intervention trials: best practice for analyzing symptom change over time	8
Do specific modules of cognitive behavioral therapy for depression have measurable effects on youth internalizing symptoms? An idiographic analysis	8
Symptom change trajectories in patients with persistent somatic symptoms and their association to long-term treatment outcome	8
Mechanisms of change in multicomponent group-based treatment for patients suffering from medically unexplained physical symptoms	8
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	8
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	8
Therapists’ perceptions of interpersonally challenging patients in generalized anxiety disorder	8
Bridging the feedback implementation gap: A comparison of empirical and rational decision rules in naturalistic psychotherapy	7
“Business as usual won’t work … ”: Therapists’ experiences and preparedness for providing refugees with trauma-related interventions	7
Quality of the therapeutic working alliance as a factor in intensive residential treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder	7
Emotional arousal and reflective functioning among parents participating in attachment-based family therapy for LGBTQ+ young adults and their nonaccepting parents	7
Client-counselor behavioral and inter-brain synchronization among dismissing and secure clients and its association with alliance quality and outcome	7
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	7
Implicit relational aspects of the therapeutic relationship in psychoanalytic treatments: an examination of linguistic style entrainment over time	7
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	7
The meaning and feeling of the time and space between psychotherapy sessions and everyday life: Client experiences of transitions	7
Machine learned text topics improve drop-out risk prediction but not symptom prediction in online psychotherapies for depression and anxiety	7
Child-therapist and parent-therapist alliances and outcome in the treatment of children with oppositional defiant/conduct disorder	7
Emotion-focused group therapy among women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: A randomized clinical trial	7
Development of a brief therapist presence inventory in China using multilevel factor analysis and item response theory	7
A first look at diversity gaps in psychotherapy research publications and representation	7
The evaluation of religious and spirituality-based therapy compared to standard treatment in mental health care: A multi-level meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	6
Engaging with difficult topics and emotional experiences in psychotherapy: A study of helpful therapist acts	6
Practices of personalized treatment selection among German psychotherapists: A preregistered mixed methods study	6
Does psychological process change during psychotherapy predict long-term depression outcome after successful cognitive therapy or interpersonal psychotherapy? Secondary analysis of a randomized trial	6
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	6
Treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction of a virtual partial hospital program: A mixed-method study	6
Avoidance and fear day by day in social anxiety disorder	6
Student counsellor experiences of mindfulness-based intervention training: A systematic review of the qualitative literature	6
Therapists' perception of the working alliance, real relationship and therapeutic presence in in-person therapy versus tele-therapy	6
Comparing counseling outcome for college students: Metaverse and in-person approaches	6
Participant factors as correlates of patients’ psychotherapy outcome expectation: A meta-analytic and box-count review	6
Electrodermal and respiratory synchrony in couple therapy in distinct therapeutic subsystems and reflection periods	6
Is symptom outcome the whole story?—A multilevel meta-analysis of systemic therapy for adults including family system functioning	6

Prediction of adolescent psychotherapy outcomes using youth- and caregiver-reported symptoms data	5
Mechanism engagement as a potential evidence-based approach to personalized treatment termination	5
Is it me, is it you or is it both of US? Applying the social relations model to disentangle the components of the therapeutic bond	5
Love yourself as a therapist, doubt yourself as an institution? Therapist and institution effects on outcome, treatment length, and dropout	5
Therapists’ experiences of negative effects in intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy: A qualitative interview study	5
Is the quality of therapeutic collaboration associated with the assimilation of problematic experiences progress? A comparison of two cases	5
Clients’ experiences with a Trauma-sensitive mindfulness and compassion group intervention: a first-person perspective on change and change mechanisms	5
Antecedents and consequences of open and closed questions in intake sessions of psychodynamic psychotherapy	5
Causal inference in a complex world — Innovations and practical approaches for psychotherapy research	5
Sensitivity to change of the Systemic Therapy Inventory of Change (STIC) intersession scales	5
A double-blind study of empathic support and expectation as mechanisms of symptom change	5
Are some therapists better at facilitating and consolidating sudden gains than others?	5
Client-Therapist Convergence on Sleep Difficulty and its Impact on Treatment Outcomes	5
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	5
Client preferences, therapy activities and preference-activity match as predictors of therapy outcome	5
Patient motivation in group metacognitive therapy for generalized anxiety disorder	5
Exploring access and engagement with Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services, before, during, and after the COVID-19 lockdown: A service evaluation in the Northwest of England	5
Content and attainment of individual treatment goals in CBT	5
Shedding light on the effects of supportive techniques on nonverbal synchrony and their moderators in psychotherapy for depression	5
Can cognitive inflexibility reduce symptoms of anxiety and depression? Promoting the structural nested mean model in psychotherapy research	5
Do treatments for mental disorders affect relationship satisfaction? A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	4
Correction	4
Detecting defense mechanisms from Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) transcripts using machine learning	4
Mapping the growth of the CORE system tools in psychotherapy research from 1998 to 2021: Learning from historical evidence	4
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	4
What to think or how to think – is symptom reduction in posttraumatic symptomatology associated with change in posttraumatic cognitions or perseverative thinking? A latent change score model approach	4
Empirical examination of long-term and intensive psychodynamic psychotherapy for severely disturbed patients	4
Predicting resistance management skill from psychotherapy experience, intellectual humility and emotion regulation	4
“It Felt Like I Was Being Tailored to the Treatment Rather Than the Treatment Being Tailored to Me”: Patient Experiences of Helpful and Unhelpful Psychotherapy	4
Therapist responsiveness in the blank landscape of depression: A qualitative study among psychotherapists	4
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	4
Emotion cascade: Harnessing emotional sequences to enhance chair work interventions and reduce self-criticism	4
What makes inpatient treatment for PTSD effective? Investigating daily therapy process factors	4
What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data	4
Some directions for research and theory on countertransference	4
The person of the therapist: therapists’ personal characteristics as predictors of alliance and treatment outcomes	4
Exploring alliance ruptures through the lenses of therapeutic distance	4
Assessing the quality of digital patient-therapist communication: the development and validation of a text-based facilitative interpersonal skills task	4
Are perceptions of the psychotherapist affected by the audiovisual quality of a teletherapy session?	4
Effects and experiences of idiographic patient-reported outcome measures for feedback in psychotherapy: A systematic review and secondary analysis of the empirical literature	4
Effectiveness of an online dialectical behavior therapy skills training in adults with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A randomized controlled trial	4
For whom should psychotherapy focus on problem coping? A machine learning algorithm for treatment personalization	4
Informing patients about possible negative effects of psychological treatment: A survey of Swedish clinical psychologists’ attitudes and practices	4
Outcome expectations and working alliance may be more important for patients from rural areas during the transition to college life: An exploratory within-patient analysis	3
Effectiveness of brief group transdiagnostic therapy for emotional disorders in primary care: A randomized controlled trial identifying predictors of outcome	3
Disclosure in psychotherapy versus in anonymous and non-anonymous online spaces	3
Statement of Retraction: Examining therapy dynamics and session outcome using differential equations model and multilevel data disaggregation	3
Direct retrospective measurement of therapeutic changes: an example using the Czech version of the Questionnaire of Personal Changes (Q-PC)	3
Schema therapists’ perceptions of the influence of their early maladaptive schemas on therapy	3
Enhancing the effect of psychotherapy through systematic client feedback in outpatient mental healthcare: A cluster randomized trial.	3
Race, racial matching, and cultural understanding as predictors of treatment engagement in youth mental health services	3
Development and content validity of EVAD: A novel tool for evaluating and classifying the severity of adverse events for psychotherapeutic clinical trials	3
Using the experience sampling method to support clinical practice: An illustration with problematic cannabis use	3
Client-therapist congruence in session-helpfulness ratings and its association with therapy outcomes	3
The effect of mechanical feedback on outcome in self-care support tool based on solution-focused brief therapy	3
Enhancing the effectiveness of CBT for patients with unipolar depression by integrating digital interventions into treatment: A pilot randomized controlled trial	3
Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy for long-term posttraumatic stress disorder, major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders in victims of terrorism: A randomized clinical trial	3
Corrective attachment episodes in attachment-based family therapy: the power of enactment	3
Matching research and practice: Prediction of individual patient progress and dropout risk for basic routine outcome monitoring	3
Client-therapist temporal congruence in perceiving immediate therapist self-disclosure and its association with treatment outcome	3
How qualitative methods advance the study of causation in psychotherapy research	3
Change in reflective functioning in interpersonal psychotherapy and cognitive behavioral therapy for major depressive disorder	3
Quasi-randomized trial of solution-focused brief therapy intervention for readiness to change and alcohol and other drug use in a Brazilian community-based treatment center	3
The combined effect of psychodynamic psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy on healthcare cost	3
Relational depth from the perspective of the psychotherapy dyad: Psychometric properties of the Relational Depth Frequency Scale	3
Strength-based methods – a narrative review and comparative multilevel meta-analysis of positive interventions in clinical settings	3
Using classification trees to identify psychotherapy patients at risk for poor treatment adherence	3
Change in avoidance and negative grief-related cognitions mediates treatment outcome in older adults with prolonged grief disorder	3
Temporal sequencing of change in trauma-related beliefs and therapeutic alliance during prolonged exposure and sertraline for chronic PTSD	3
Trajectories of change in general psychopathology levels among depressed adolescents in short-term psychotherapies	3
How to manage endings in unsuccessful therapy: A qualitative comparison of youth and clinician perspectives	3
Development of a new observer-rated measure to assess the real relationship in psychotherapy sessions	3
Addressing cultural topics during psychotherapy: Evidence-based do’s and don’ts from an ethnic minority perspective*	3
Predicting dropout from psychological treatment using different machine learning algorithms, resampling methods, and sample sizes	3
Trauma-focused treatments for victims of interpersonal violence: A comparison of treatment interventions and outcomes	3
Individual behavioral activation in the treatment of depression: A meta analysis	3
Toward an experimental analysis of verbal shaping in psychotherapy	3
Exploring the temporal associations between avoidance behavior and cognitions during the course of cognitive behavioral therapy for clients with symptoms of social anxiety disorder	3
Psychotherapy process research: Identifying productive in-session processes to enhance treatment outcomes and therapist responsiveness	3

Efficacy of systemic therapy on adults with depressive disorders: A meta-analysis	2
The utility of completing adjuvant video lessons based on the unified protocol during psychotherapy: A retrospective study using a telehealth platform in routine clinical care	2
Predicting optimal treatment outcomes using the Personalized Advantage Index for patients with persistent somatic symptoms	2
Short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy with depressed adolescents: Comparing in-session interactions in good and poor outcome cases	2
Therapeutic techniques and session impact: A practice-research network study in private practice	2
Does the STIC measurement and feedback system improve multisystemic outcomes in individual, couple and family therapy? A randomized clinical trial	2
Examining within- and between-member cohesion and working alliance effects on group members’ motivation: a preliminary actor-partner interdependence study	2
The competence development of German psychotherapy trainees: A naturalistic, longitudinal and multidimensional outcome study	2
Clinician perceptions of nomothetic and individualized patient-reported outcome measures in measurement-based care	2
“I know that all this is me” Pathways of change in complex dissociative disorder	2
Limited reparenting as a corrective emotional experience in schema therapy: A preliminary task analysis	2
Feasibility of generic, short, and easy-to-use assessment of psychological distress during psychotherapy: Longitudinal measurement invariance of CORE-10 and -OM	2
Therapist affiliation and hostility in cognitive–behavioral therapy with and without motivational interviewing for severe generalized anxiety disorder	2
Development of the Cultural Humility Scale—Short Form (CHS-SF)	2
Therapist competence, homework engagement, and client characteristics in CBT for youth depression: A study of mediation and moderation in a community-based trial	2
Individual treatment selection for patients with post-traumatic stress disorder: External validation of a personalised advantage index	2
Does attachment predict the outcome of cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in adolescent patients with interpersonal traumatization?	2
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Meaning in life measure: a five-Item short form and its measurement invariance across gender, age, and cultural contexts	2
Development of the Psychotherapist Character Virtues (PCV) Interview	2
Change in emotion-based narrative as a potential mechanism of change in a brief treatment for borderline personality disorder	2
Exploring job demands and resources in psychotherapists treating displaced people—A scoping review	2
Therapist verification of patient self-concepts as a responsive precondition for early alliance development and subsequent introject change	2
Enhancing emotion regulation	2
Dramatic storytelling and naming subjective experiences in psychodynamic treatments of depressed women: An exploratory study of assimilative functions of narrating	2
Does the working alliance mediate the therapist competence-outcome relationship in cognitive behavior therapy for depression?	2
The therapeutic effects of the therapists’ ability to pass their patients’ tests in psychotherapy	2
Physiological activation and co-activation in an imagery-based treatment for test anxiety	2
The relationship between youth involvement, alliance and outcome in trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy	2
I Look at my whole body and i feel better: attentional bias, emotional and psychophysiological response by pure exposure treatment in women with obesity	2
Within- and between-session changes of in-session reflective functioning of mothers in dyadic parent–infant psychotherapy	1
Negative experiences in psychotherapy from clients’ perspective: A qualitative meta-analysis	1
Misery loves company: Predictors of treatment response to a loneliness intervention	1
Therapy matchmaking: Patient-therapist match in personality traits and attachment style	1
The effects of emotion-focused skills training on parental mental health, emotion regulation and self-efficacy: Mediating processes between parents and children	1
Alliance ruptures and resolutions in short-term psychoanalytic psychotherapy for adolescent depression: An empirical case study	1
Two kinds of sudden gains in brief psychotherapy	1
Points of departure: A qualitative study exploring relational facilitators and barriers in the first treatment session	1
Using implementation intentions to prevent relapse after remission from psychological treatment for depression: The SMArT intervention	1
Therapist responsiveness in psychotherapy: Introduction to the special section	1
Countertransference in the treatment of patients with personality disorders: A longitudinal study	1
Improved dropout prediction in group cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) using classification trees	1
Research evidence on psychotherapist skills and methods: Foreword and afterword	1
Empathic reflections by themselves are not effective: Meta-analysis and qualitative synthesis	1
Therapeutic alliance and clinical outcomes in teletherapy and in-person psychotherapy: A noninferiority study during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
A cohort study of engagement in telehealth psychotherapy versus in-person services	1
Using machine learning methods to identify trajectories of change and predict responders and non-responders to short-term dynamic therapy	1
An examination of therapists’ professional characteristics as moderators of the effect of feedback on psychological treatment outcomes	1
Direction of dependence analysis for pre-post assessments using non-Gaussian methods: a tutorial	1
From intuition to innovation: Empirical illustrations of multimodal measurement in psychotherapy research	1
Investigating predictors of treatment response in Dialectical Behavior Therapy for borderline personality disorder using LASSO regression	1
Patient perspectives on working with preferences in psychotherapy: A consensual qualitative research study	1
Cognitive–behavioral therapy for patients with somatoform disorders: A pilot preliminary randomized controlled trial	1
Therapist cultural humility in early psychotherapy: A catalyst for improved client functioning at treatment termination	1
Measuring psychotherapist functioning with the Therapist Work Involvement Scales (TWIS): reliability, factor structure, and measurement invariance	1
Session Reactions Scale-3: Initial psychometric evidence	1
Assessing mental health professionals’ attitudes toward routine outcome monitoring across Eastern and Western cultures: an examination of invariance and latent mean differences†	1
Developing psychoanalytic case conceptualization skills through didactic teaching: A randomized controlled trial	1
Effects of panic-specific cognitive behavioural and psychodynamic psychotherapies on work ability in a doubly randomised clinical trial	1
Exploring Therapist Self-Efficacy Change Profiles Using Latent Growth Curve Analysis	1
Therapists’ emotional responses and their relation to patients’ experience of attunement and responsiveness	1
Assessing the implementation of suicide-focused treatments delivered in hybrid telemental health format in a real-world setting	1
“Vulnerability can breed strength”: The role of borderline personality disorder severity in movement synchrony among patients with major depressive disorder	1
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Correction	1
Association of patients’ pre-therapy strengths and alliance in outpatient psychotherapy: A multilevel growth curve analysis	1
Emotional and interpersonal states following dialectical behavioral therapy in adolescent borderline personality disorder: A proof-of-concept ecological momentary assessment outcome study	1
Association between nonverbal synchrony, alliance, and outcome in psychotherapy: Systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy: Main results of a practice–research network study	1
Examining therapist estimation of client working alliance and client symptom outcome using truth and bias model and response surface analysis	1
Pretreatment insight as a predictor of alliance strengthening in supportive vs. supportive-expressive treatment	1
First impressions matter: The influence of initial assessments on psychological treatment initiation and subsequent dropout	1
Is there an elephant in the room? A study of convergences and divergences of adult attachment measures commonly used in clinical studies	1
Therapist and treatment credibility in treatment outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of clients’ perceptions in individual and face-to-face psychotherapies	1
Outcomes of brief versions of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy for diagnostically heterogeneous groups in a routine care setting	1
Using clinician and patient input to assess utility, accuracy, efficiency, and therapeutic implementation of a new data-driven digital therapeutic for personalized clinical eating disorder treatment:	1
The role of symptom reduction in improving health-related quality of life through brief cognitive behavioral therapy	1
Exploring the factor structure of a Chinese version of the CORE-OM: insights from network approach and bifactor modeling	1
Adapting brief problem-solving therapy for pregnant women experiencing depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence in rural Ethiopia	1
How mood is affected by environment and upsetting events: The moderating role of psychological flexibility	1
Who are the skilled therapists? Associations between personal characteristics and interpersonal skills of future psychotherapists	1
Correction	1
Transgender and gender diverse adults’ self-reported mental health diagnoses, engagement in mental health services, and perceptions of therapists	1
Correction	1
Therapeutic relationships in cognitive behavioral therapy: Tailoring the therapeutic alliance	1
The effect of Oxytocin administration on patient-therapist alliance congruence: Results from a randomized controlled trial	1
Differences in psychotherapy preferences between psychotherapy trainees and laypeople	1
Effectiveness of the Unified Protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders in group format in Spain: Results from a randomized controlled trial with 6-months follow-up	1
Decentering as a mediator of the effect of mindfulness on emotional distress: Evidence from cross-sectional and longitudinal designs	1
The association of early response with the outcome of psychosomatic rehabilitation in patients with mental disorders and its link to treatment and illness beliefs—A prospective longitudinal cohort stu	1
Relationship between outcomes and processes in patients with chronic low back pain plus depressive symptoms: idiographic analyses within a randomized controlled trial	1
Four perspectives on traumatized youths’ therapeutic alliance: Correspondence and outcome predictions	1
The development of the Epistemic Trust Rating System (ETRS)	1
Direct and indirect effects of adverse and protective childhood experiences on symptom improvement in psychotherapy	1
Improved outcomes for depressed elder abuse victims with video-delivered psychotherapy during COVID-19	1
Learning from mothers who received focused parent–infant psychotherapy for the treatment of their child’s regulatory disorders	1
A comparison of the effect of two types of brief psychodynamic group therapy on perfectionism-related attitudes, self-relatedness, and self-esteem	1