IUS Publications

F. Obuća and Aydın, O., “Investigating the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Therapy on Sleep Quality Among Bosnian Young Adults: A Pilot Study”, Sleep and Vigilance, pp. 1-7, 2025.

F. Obuća and Aydın, O., “Investigating the Relationship Between Sleep Quality and Sociodemographic, Lifestyle, and Psychological Factors in Bosnian Young Adults”, in European Psychiatry, Madrid, Spain, 2025, vol. 68, pp. S1154 - S1155.

A. Basovic, Ünal-Aydın, P., Buyukdagli, O., and Aydın, O., “Smartphone Addiction, Sleep, and Mental Health: Exploring Causal Pathways and Behavioral Profiles among University Students”. Proceedings of ACM womENcourage conference (womENcourage’25). ACM, Brașov, Romania, 2025.

P. Ünal-Aydın and Aydın, O., “Technological Addictions and Cognitive Functions”, in Psychiatric Disorders and Cognitive Functions, 2025, pp. pg177-187.

A. Hromic-Jahjefendic, Šutković, J., Aydın, O., and Ünal-Aydın, P., “The Aftermath of COVID-19: Exploring the Long-Term Effects on Organ Systems”, Biomedicines, vol. Vol 12, no. Issue 4, p. p913, 2024.

O. Aydın, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Başer, L. Mustoo, “The associations between mindfulness, metacognition and hba1c levels among diabetic pregnant patients: A case control study”, Psihologija, no. 00, 2024.

F. Obuća, Aydın, O., Çakıroğlu, S., and Ünal-Aydın, P., “The Combined Role of Metacognition and Mindfulness in Social Anxiety Symptoms: a Path Model”, Psihologija, 2024.

M. Güçlü-Aydogan, P. Aydın, Ü. -, and Aydın, O., “Examining the Relationship Between Smartphone Addiction, Mood Disorders, and Psychological Well-Being Among University Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, VI. International Social Sciences Congress. 2024.

M. Güçlü Aydoğan, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Aydın, O., “Examining the Relationship Between Smartphone Addiction, Mood Disorders, and Psychological Well-Being Among University Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina ”, VI. International Social Sciences Congress. 2024.

Y. Özkan, Öztürk, M., Tvrtkovic, S., Aydın, O., and Ünal-Aydın, P., “Exploring the associations between symptom severity, metacognition, problematic social media use and cyberbullying in treatment naïve adolescents with Attention Deficit and Hyperactivity Disorder”, Addictive Behaviors, 2024.

F. Obuća and Aydın, O., “Investigating the Efficacy of Virtual Reality Therapy on Sleep Quality Among Young Adult Population: An Exploratory Study”, in 20th International Conference "Days of Applied Psychology 2024", Niš, Serbia, 27th–28th September 2024, 2024, p. 93.

M. Güçlü-Aydogan, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Aydın, O., “The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Metacognitions about Problematic Smartphone Use among University Students in Bosnia”, 15th International Congress on Psychopharmacology & International Symposium on Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2024.

M. Güçlü Erdoğan, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Aydın, O., “The Relationship between Smartphone Addiction and Metacognitions about Problematic Smartphone Use among University Students in Bosnia”, 15th International Congress on Psychopharmacology & International Symposium on Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology. 2024.

P. Ünal-Aydın and Aydın, O., “TEKNOLOJİK BAĞIMLILIKLAR VE BİLİŞSEL İŞLEVLER”, in PSİKİYATRİK BOZUKLUKLAR VE BİLİŞSEL İŞLEVLER, 2024.

P. Ünal-Aydın, Tvrtkovic, S., and Aydın, O., “Understanding Internet Gaming Disorder in the Technology Era”, in Integrated Science for Sustainable Development Goal 3 , Springer, Cham, 2024.

F. Obuća, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Aydın, O., “Using Virtual Reality Assisted Therapy to Reduce Cognitive Test Anxiety and Dysfunctional Metacognitions”, in European Psychiatry, Budapest, Hungary, 2024, vol. 67, p. p. 427.

P. Ünal-Aydın, Tvrtkovic, S., and Aydın, O., “THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN COVID-19 ANXIETY AND WELLBEING AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA”, in 31th European Congress of Psychiatry, 2023, vol. 66.

P. Ünal-Aydın, Başer, L. Mustoo, and Aydın, O., “Associations of Metacognition and Internet Gaming Disorder Among University Students in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, in 6th ‘’International CEO (Communication, Economics, Organization) Social Sciences Congress (CEO SSC)’’, 2023.

O. Aydın, Esen-Danacı, A., Sarandöl, A., and Onur, E., “The comparison of plasma zonulin levels between symptom exacerbation and treatment response periods in schizophrenia: a case-control study with follow-up”, in 31th European Congress of Psychiatry, 2023, vol. 66.

A. Arslan, Aydın, O., and Çökmüş, F. P., “Editorial: The inflammation markers in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder: Do we have promising results?”, Frontiers in Psychiatry, vol. 13, 2023.

O. Aydın, Tvrtkovic, S., Çakıroğlu, E., Ünal-Aydın, P., and Esen-Danacı, A., “The effect of emotion recognition and mindfulness on depression symptoms: A case–control study”, Scandinavian Journal of Psychology, 2023.

M. Güçlü-Aydogan, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Aydın, O., “The Effects of Psychological Resilience, Self-efficacy and Metacognition on Cyberbullying Among Adolescents”, Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 2023.

N. McGuire, Gumley, A., Hasson‐Ohayon, I., Allan, S., Aunjitsakul, W., Aydın, O., Bo, S., Bonfils, K. A., Bröcker, A. ‐L., de Jong, S., Dimaggio, G., Inchausti, F., Jansen, J. Einar, Lecomte, T., Luther, L., MacBeth, A., Montag, C., Pedersen, M. Buch, Pijnenborg, G. Henrika Ma, Popolo, R., Schwannauer, M., Trauelsen, A. ‐M., van Donkersgoed, R., Wu, W., Wang, K., Lysaker, P. H., and McLeod, H., “Investigating the relationship between negative symptoms and metacognitive functioning in psychosis: An individual participant data meta‐analysisAbstractPurposeMethodsResultsConclusions”, Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice, 2023.

P. Ünal-Aydın, Özkan, Y., Öztürk, M., Aydın, O., and Spada, M. M., “The role of metacognitions in cyberbullying and cybervictimization among adolescents diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder and Anxiety Disorders: A case‐control study”, Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 2023.

F. Obuća, Bilge, A., Ünal-Aydın, P., Aydın, O., Kolubinski, D. C., and Spada, M. M., “The Turkish COVID-19 Anxiety Syndrome Scale: Psychometric validation and association with psychological symptoms”, in European Psychiatry, Paris, 2023, vol. 66, pp. 838-839.

O. Aydın, Kaya, A., Cengiz, Z., Kesen, E. Sena, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Spada, M. M., “Beliefs About the Need to Control One’s Thoughts and Cognitive Self-consciousness Are Associated with Sexual Stigma”, Sexuality Research and Social Policy, pp. 1-8, 2022.

O. Aydın, Tvrtkovic, S., Çakıroğlu, E., Ünal-Aydın, P., and Danaci, A. Esen, “The effect of emotion recognition and mindfulness on depression symptoms: A case-control study”, in European Psychiatry Association, 2022, vol. 65, no. Special Issue S1, pp. 586-587.

O. Aydın, Obuća, F., Çakıroğlu, E., Ünal-Aydın, P., and Esen-Danacı, A., “The effect of mindfulness and metacognition on anxiety symptoms: a case-control study”, Middle East Current Psychiatry, vol. 29, no. 1, 2022.

F. Obuća, Aydın, O., Çakıroğlu, E., Ünal-Aydın, P., and Esen-Danacı, A., “The evaluation of the effect of mindfulness and metacognition on anxiety symptoms: A case-control study”, in European Psychiatry, Budapest, 2022, vol. 65, pp. 394-395.

M. Güçlü, Ünal-Aydın, P., and Aydın, O., “The Examination of Psychological Resilience and Self-Efficacy as Predictors of Cyberbullying Among Adolescents”. Horizons of Psychology, 2022.

F. Poyraz Çökmüş, Ünal-Aydın, P., Balıkçı, K., and Aydın, O., “The excessive utilization of social networking sites affects the symptom severity across patients with anxiety disorders”, International Journal of Mobile Communications, vol. 1, no. 1, p. 1, 2022.

A. Arslan, Ünal-Aydın, P., doğan, taner, and Aydın, O., “Optogenetic Animal Models of Depression: From Mice to Men”, in Kim YK., Amidfar M. (eds) Translational Research Methods for Major Depressive Disorder. Neuromethods., vol. 179, New York, NY: Humana Press , 2022, pp. 167-191.

O. Aydın, Ünal-Aydın, P., G., C., and Spada, M. M., “Psychometric validation of the desire thinking questionnaire in a Turkish adolescent sample: Associations with internet gaming disorder”, Addictive Behaviors, 2022.

F. Obuća, Başer, L. Mustoo, Cökmüş, F. Poyraz, Tvrtkovic, S., Ünal-Aydın, P., Aydın, O., and Spada, M. M., “The role of desire thinking in problematic social networking sites use among adults”, in 7th Congress of Psychologists of Bosnia and Herzegovina with International Participation, Tuzla, 2022, p. 57.

L. Mustoo Başer, Cökmüş, F. Poyraz, Tvrtkovic, S., Obuća, F., Ünal-Aydın, P., Aydın, O., and Spada, M. M., “The role of desire thinking in the problematic use of social networking sites among adults”, Addictive Behaviors Reports, vol. 16, p. 100463, 2022.