Biography

  Ph.D., Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, ongoing

  M.S., Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, 2021

  B.S., Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, 2018

Research Areas

Psychosocial factors that relate to health, perceived inequality, relative deprivation theory.

Master's Thesis

The impact of perceived relative deprivation on health-related outcomes: Mediating roles of locus of control and length of unemployment & moderating roles of dispositional optimism and perceived social support (2021) Thesis Advisor: Özlem Bozo.

Publications

Mercan, M.N., Güvenç, İ.B., Cingöz-Ulu, B. (2024). Internalised homonegativity and depressive symptoms: a meta-analysis. Psychology & Sexuality, 1–23.

Güvenç, İ. B., & Bozo, Ö. (2024). Health-related quality of life of women with endometriosis: An Attachment-Diathesis Model of Chronic Pain perspective. Health Care for Women International, 45(4), 412–429.

Conference Presentations

Güvenç, İ. B., & Bozo, Ö. (2024, September). The impact of gender role expectations on pain experience: An experimental study [Oral presentation]. 38th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society, (EHPS), Cascais, Portugal.

Bozo, Ö., Güvenç, İ. B., & Erol, Y. (2021, August). A qualitative analysis of psychosocial adjustment process of veteran soldiers with amputation. [Poster presentation]. 35th Annual Conference of the European Health Psychology Society (EHPS).