Publications

Recent publications

Based on our technologies

  • David, O. A., & Tomoiagă, C. (2025). Game-Based Assessment of Emotion Regulation Abilities in College Students. A Usability Study of the REThink Life Game Assessment System. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–8. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2462749. View full text here
  • Sîrbu, V., David, O. A., Sanchez-Lopez, A., & Blanco, I. (2025). Comparative efficacy of PsyPills and OCAT mobile psychological interventions in reducing depressive, anxiety and stress symptoms: A blinded randomized trial. Journal of Affective Disorders. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.10.052. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Tomoiagă, C., & Fodor, L. A. (2024). The MoodWheel app: validation and factor structure of a new tool for the assessment of mood based on the experience sampling method. The Journal of General Psychology, 1-17. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00221309.2024.2378284. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Tomoiagă, C., & Fodor, L. A. (2024). Gamified assessment of the emotion-regulation abilities in youths: Validation of the rethink online game-based assessment system. Games for Health Journal. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2023.0011. View full text here
  • Bischops, A.C., Sieper, L., Dukart, J. et al. Resilience strengthening in youth with a chronic medical condition: a randomized controlled feasibility trial of a combined app and coaching program. Eur Child Adolescent Psychiatry (2024). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-024-02395-w. View full text here
  • Sieper, L., Kerth, J., Schneble, D., Tomoiaga, C., David, O., Mayatepek, E., Meissner, T., & Bischops, A. C. (2024). A qualitative study exploring adolescents’ perspectives of resilience trainings for chronic medical conditions. Doi:  https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4081993/v1.  View full text here
  • Tomoiagă, C., Gheorghiu, R., & David, O. A. (2024). USABILITY OF AN ECOLOGICAL MOMENTARY ASSESSMENT APP FOR MOOD EVALUATION IN YOUNG ADULTS – THE MOODWHEEL APP. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 24(1), 135-143. Doi: 10.24193/jebp.2024.1.8 View full text here
  • David, D., & Fodor, L. A. (2023). Are gains in emotional symptoms and emotion-regulation competencies after the REThink therapeutic game maintained in the long run? A 6-month follow-up. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 32(10), 1853-1862. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02002-w. View full text here
  • David, O., & Fodor, L. A. (2023). Preventing mental illness in children that experienced maltreatment the efficacy of REThink online therapeutic game. Npj Digital Medicine, 6(1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41746-023-00849-0. View full text here
  • Iuga, I. A., Tomoiaga, C. T., & David, O. A.  (2023). The REThink Online Therapeutic Game: A Usability Study. Children (Basel), 10(8), 1276. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/children10081276. View full text here
  • Tomoiagă, C., & David, O. (2022). The Efficacy of Guided and Unguided Game-Based Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy in Reducing Distress in College Students. Games for Health Journal, 11(6), 403-413. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1089/g4h.2021.0195. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Magurean, S., & Tomoiagă, C. (2022). Do Improvements in Therapeutic Game-Based Skills Transfer to Real Life Improvements in Children’s Emotion-Regulation Abilities and Mental Health? A Pilot Study That Offers Preliminary Validity of the REThink In-game Performance Scoring. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 325. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2022.828481. View full text here
  • David, O. A., & Magurean, S. (2022). Positive attention bias trained during the REThink therapeutic online game and related improvements in children and adolescents’ mental health. Children, 9(11), 1600. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/children9111600. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Stroian, P. I., Predatu, R., & Maffei, A. (2022). State anxiety and frontal alpha asymmetry effects of the REThink online video game for children and adolescents: A six-month follow-up. Personality and Individual Differences, 196, 111725. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111725. View full text here
  • David, O. A., & Fodor, L. A. (2022). Are gains in emotional symptoms and emotion-regulation competencies after the REThink therapeutic game maintained in the long run? A 6-month follow-up. European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 1-10. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02002-w. View full text here
  • David, O. A., & David, D. O. (2022). How can we Best Use Technology to Teach Children to Regulate Emotions? Efficacy of the Cognitive Reappraisal Strategy Based on Robot Versus Cartoons Versus Written Statements in Regulating Test Anxiety. Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-021-00440-0. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Predatu, R., & Cardoș, R. A. I. (2021). Effectiveness of the REThink therapeutic online video game in promoting mental health in children and adolescents. Internet Interventions, 25, 100391. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.invent.2021.100391. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Costescu, C., Cardos, R. & Mogoase, C. (2020). How Effective are Serious Games for Promoting Mental Health and Health Behavioral Change in Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Child Youth Care Forum. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10566-020-09566-1. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Predatu, R., & Maffei, A. (2020). REThink online video game for Children and Adolescents: Effects on State Anxiety and Frontal Alpha Asymmetry. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s41811-020-00077-4. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Cardos, R. A. I., & Matu, S. A. (2019). Is REThink therapeutic game effective in preventing emotional disorders in children and adolescents? Outcomes of a randomized clinical trial. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1192-2. View full text here
  • David, O. A., & David, D. (2019). Managing distress using mobile prescriptions of psychological pills: A first 6-month effectiveness study of the PsyPills app. Frontiers in psychiatry, 10, 201. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00201. View full text here
  • David, Oana. (2019). “The Rational Parenting Coach app: REThink parenting! A mobile parenting program for offering evidence-based personalized support in the prevention of child externalizing and internalizing disorders”. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies. Doi: https://doi.org/10.24193/jebp.2019.2.15 View full text here
  • David, O. A., Cardos, R. A. I., & Matu, S. A. (2019). Changes in irrational beliefs are responsible for the efficacy of the REThink therapeutic game in preventing emotional disorders in children and adolescents: mechanisms of change analysis of a randomized clinical trial. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 28(3), 307-318. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-018-1195-z. View full text here
  • David, O. A. & Predatu, R. & Cardos, R. (2018). A pilot study of the REThink online video game applied for coaching emotional understanding in children and adolescents in the therapeutic video game environment: The Feeling Better resources game. Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies, 18. 57-68. Doi: 10.24193/jebp.2018.1.5. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Capris, D., & Jarda, A. (2017). Online coaching of emotion-regulation strategies for parents: Efficacy of the online rational positive parenting program and attention bias modification procedures. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 500. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00500. View full text here

Meta-analyses

  • Sîrbu, V., & David, O. A. (2024). Efficacy of app-based mobile health interventions for stress management: A systematic review and meta-analysis of self-reported, physiological, and neuroendocrine stress-related outcomes. Clinical Psychology Review, 102515. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpr.2024.102515 View full text here
  • Iuga, I. A., & David, O. A. (2024). Emotion Regulation and Academic Burnout Among Youth: a Quantitative Meta-analysis. Educational Psychology Review, 36(3), 106. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-024-09930-w. View full text here
  • Leijten, P., Rienks, K., Groenman, A., Anand, M., Kömürcü Akik, B., David, O., Kızıltepe, R., Thongseiratch, T., & Catarina Canário, A. (2024). Online parenting Support: Meta-Analyses of Non-Inferiority and additional value to In-Person support. Children and Youth Services Review, 107497. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107497.  View full text here
  • Pei, J., Amanvermez, Y., Vigo, D., Puyat, J., Kessler, R. C., Mortier, P., Bruffaerts, R., Rankin, O., Chua, S. N., Martínez, V., Rapsey, C., Fodor, L. A., David, O. A., Garcia, C., & Cuijpers, P. (2024). Sociodemographic correlates of mental health treatment seeking among college students: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychiatric Services. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.20230414. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Fodor, L. A., Dascăl, M. D., & Miron, I. S. (2023). The efficacy of online parenting interventions in addressing emotional problems in children and adolescents: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 00207640231156034. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/00207640231156034. View full text here
  • David, D., Iuga, I. A., & Miron, I. S. (2023). Parenting: there is an app for that. A systematic review of parenting interventions apps. Children and Youth Services Review, 156, 107385. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.childyouth.2023.107385. View full text here

Projects-based publications

  • Mason, A., Rapsey, C., Sampson, N., Lee, S., Albor, Y., Al-Hadi, A. N., … & van der Heijde, C. (2025). Prevalence, age-of-onset, and course of mental disorders among 72,288 first-year university students from 18 countries in the World Mental Health International College Student (WMH-ICS) initiative. Journal of Psychiatric Research. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2025.02.016. View full text here
  • Cardoș, R. A., Dumitru, E. P., & David, O. A. (2024). ØCD: Protocol for the development and evaluation of a cognitive-behavioral prevention program for obsessive-compulsive disorder. BMC Psychiatry, 24(1). Doi: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-05791-3. View full text here
  • Roșca, G. M., Iuga, I. A., & David, D. (2023). “Inside-out mechanisms of parental practices and children’s externalizing problems: the role of authoritarian parenting style, parental irrational beliefs, emotion regulation, and distress”. Current Psychology. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-023-04539-8. View full text here
  • Terjesen, M. D., Artıran, M., Claffey, J., David, O., Jordana, A., Outar, L., Palmer, S., Goldman, S., & Turner, M. J. (2023). The Science of REBT as it Relates to Performance: Are We in the Starting Blocks or Near the Finish Line? Journal of Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy, 41(2), 272-289. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10942-023-00500-7. View the full text here
  • Iuga, I. A., David, O., & Danet, M. (2023). Student Burnout in Children and Adolescents: The role of attachment and Emotion Regulation. Children (Basel), 10(9), 1443. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/children10091443. View full text here
  • David, O., Azucena Garcia, and Arnold AP van Emmerik (2023). “RE-THINKING CBT: PROVIDING STRATEGIES FOR A NEW WAY OF LIVING.” Journal of Evidence-Based Psychotherapies 23: 1-2. View full text here
  • Burkova, V.,…David, O.A. et al. (2021). Predictors of Anxiety in the COVID-19 Pandemic from a Global Perspective: Data from 23 Countries. Sustainability, 13(7), 4017. Doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/su13074017. View full text here
  • Predatu, R., David, O. A., David, D. O., & Maffei, A. (2021). Emotion regulation abilities as a predictor of emotional response experienced by children and adolescents in the face of stress. Anxiety, Stress, & Coping, 15(1), 1061-5806. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10615806.2020.1867717. View full text here
  • David, O. A. (2020). Rational Emotive Parent Education. In M. Bernard & M. Terjesen (Eds). Rational-Emotive and Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches to Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Theory, Practice, Research, Applications. New York: Springer Publishing House. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-53901-6. View full text here
  • Ko, A., Pick, C. M., Kwon, J. Y., Barlev, M., Krems, J. A., Varnum, M. E. W., … David, O. A., …Kenrick, D. T. (2019). Family Matters: Rethinking the Psychology of Human Social Motivation. Perspectives on Psychological Science. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619872986. View full text here
  • David, O. A., Cardos, R. A. I., & Oltean, H-R. (2019). REBT and Parenting Intervention. In M. Bernard and W. Dryden (Eds.), Advances in REBT: Theory, Practice, Research, Measurement, Prevention and Promotion. New York: Springer Publishing House. Doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-93118-0_15. View full text here