Biography
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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
Erdil, İ. E. G., Kapdi, P., Erdoğan, İ. B. G., & Bozo, Ö. (2026). A Cross-Sectional Survey of Pregnant Women’s Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccine: The Roles of Fear of COVID-19 and Perceived Partner Attitudes. International Journal of Childbirth.
Kezik, İ., Toy, A. Y., Erdoğan, İ. B. G., & Bozo, Ö. (2025). Stress Levels of the Cancer Patients During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Roles of Self-Efficacy and Spiritual Exercises. Spiritual Psychology and Counseling, 10(3), 367-383.
Güvenç Erdoğan, İ. B., & Bozo, Ö. (2025). Perceived relative deprivation and health of the unemployed; Mediating roles of locus of control & duration of unemployment. Psicologia Sociale, 20(2), 183-205.
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).