Elitsa Dimitrova

@iphs.eu

Department of Demography
Institute for Population and Human Studies

Elitsa Dimitrova


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EDUCATION

2002 MA in Sociology in Sociology, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski
2003-2006 PhD in Sociology (Population Studies), Center for Population Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2007 - present Researcher at the Institute for Population and Human Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Fertility and family studies, family and reproduction policy, research methods in social sciences, health and social inequalities, adolescent health and well-being
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Scopus Publications

490

Scholar Citations

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Scopus Publications

  • Immigrant Status, Family Support, and Psychoactive Substance Use Among Adolescents: A Multilevel Analysis of the Cross-National HBSC Study Data
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Apolinaras Zaborskis
    Societies, 2026
    Background: Immigrant adolescents experience distinct risk and protective factors related to substance use; however, cross-national differences between immigrant and native-born youth remain insufficiently understood. This study examines differences in the prevalence of psychoactive substance use between immigrant and non-immigrant 15-year-old adolescents and assesses the protective role of family support across Europe, Central Asia, and North America. Materials and Methods: Data were drawn from nationally representative samples of the 2021/2022 WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey, including 15-year-olds from 32 countries, representing Belgium by two separate regions (n = 66,400). Outcomes included cigarette smoking, electronic cigarette use, alcohol consumption, drunkenness, and cannabis use in the past 30 days. Key predictors were immigrant status and family support. Multilevel analyses incorporated country-level indicators, including the proportion of immigrant youth and the Inclusiveness Index, and were adjusted for sex and family affluence. Results: Substantial cross-national variation in substance use prevalence was observed. Immigrant adolescents were more likely to smoke cigarettes, use electronic cigarettes, and use cannabis, whereas alcohol consumption was more common among non-immigrant adolescents. However, in countries with a low proportion of immigrant youth (<5%), immigrant adolescents showed an elevated likelihood of engaging in all forms of psychoactive substance use, including alcohol consumption. Low family support emerged as the strongest and most consistent predictor of substance use across all outcomes. Conclusions: Immigrant adolescents living in countries with low immigration rates constitute a particularly vulnerable group facing increased risk of substance use. Family support is protective against adolescent substance use for both immigrant and non-immigrant youth, with the strongest effect for alcohol use in low-immigration contexts.
  • Changing Fatherhood: Social Differences in Parental Leave Uptake and Childcare Participation Among Bulgarian Men
    Tatyana Kotzeva, Elitsa Dimitrova, Kalina Ilieva
    Social Inclusion, 2026
    This study investigates social disparities in the uptake of paid parental leave (PPL) and engagement in childcare by Bulgarian fathers within the context of shifting gender norms and recent policy reforms. Based on survey data from 503 fathers of young children, it examines attitudes toward involved fatherhood, motivations and obstacles to PPL use, and the interaction between gender stereotypes and socioeconomic conditions. Despite EU‐aligned measures such as a two‐month non‐transferable paternal leave, uptake remains limited due to enduring male breadwinner expectations, income‐related disincentives, and traditional caregiving models centered on mothers. Findings indicate a hybrid model of fatherhood: While maternal dominance in caregiving persists, a growing number of fathers, particularly those with higher education or remote work opportunities, are adopting more egalitarian roles. Logistic regression results highlight key predictors of PPL uptake, including the number of children, household income, and workplace flexibility. Moreover, PPL use of fathers correlates positively with egalitarian gender attitudes, implying that paternal leave functions as both a reflection and a catalyst of cultural transformation. Nonetheless, ambivalence endures among lower‐income and less educated fathers, for whom caregiving often conflicts with masculine identity. Overall, the analysis underscores that although normative shifts are emerging, sustained progress requires comprehensive support through policy, workplace culture, and broader societal change to promote equitable parenting and normalize active fatherhood. The findings enrich ongoing discussions on gender equality, social inclusion, and evolving masculinities in post‐socialist societies.
  • Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Apolinaras Zaborskis
    Children, 2025
    This Special Issue, titled “Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives”, brings together a diverse collection of ten articles that examine the complex challenges and opportunities shaping children’s and adolescents’ lives today [...]
  • Perceived Difficulties in Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Associations with Adolescent Mental Health
    Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova, Krasimira Mineva, Elitsa Dimitrova, Tatyana Kotzeva
    Child and Youth Care Forum, 2025
  • Family Support, Communication with Parents, and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviour: A Case of HBSC Study from Bulgaria and Lithuania
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Apolinaras Zaborskis
    Children, 2025
    Objective: This study aimed to explore the association between adolescents’ health risk behaviours (excessive use of alcohol, (e)cigarette smoking, cannabis use) and familial factors. A special objective of this study was to compare findings between Bulgarian and Lithuanian adolescents aged 15 years. Material and Methods: National samples from the WHO Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in 2021/2022 were analysed. The focus was on adolescents aged 15 (n = 64,349), including those from Bulgaria (n = 793) and Lithuania (n = 1137). The set of outcome variables included drunkenness, smoked cigarettes, e-cigarettes, and used cannabis (all variables were measured during the last 30 days); their indicators were child’s talking separately to their father and separately to their mother, as well as the four-item family support scale. All variables were dichotomised and their associations were analysed using Structural Equation Modelling with a WLSMV estimator. Results: In the total sample, the prevalence of drunkenness was 14.9%, cigarette smoking at 12.6%, e-cigarette smoking at 18.4%, and cannabis use at 5.9%; while in Bulgaria, in contrast to Lithuania, these behaviours were much more prevalent, at 27.0%, 29.9%, 29.8%, and 11.1%, respectively. The use of substances was significantly associated with selected familial factors, which were more pronounced among girls than boys in most subsamples. Low family support showed the strongest association with increased substance use (in the total sample, regression weight B varied from 0.231 to 0.382). Adolescents’ difficulty in talking to mother was more pronounced (B = 0.123 to 0.204) than difficulty in talking to their father (B = 0.058 to 0.140). Comparison of data samples from Bulgaria and Lithuania showed stronger relationships in Bulgarian adolescents compared to other countries, which are more pronounced among boys. In addition, among Bulgarian adolescents, easy communication with their father had an inverse association (increasing prevalence) with cannabis use. Conclusions: Adolescent health risk behaviours, such as use of substances, are associated with familial factors, including parent–teen communication and family support. Generally, these associations are more pronounced among girls than boys, and more evident among Bulgarian adolescents than their Lithuanian counterparts. Identifying environmental factors in families helps to plan interventions to prevent development of multiple health risk behaviours in adolescents.
  • Family Dynamics, Socioeconomic Hardships, and Health Risk Behaviours of Bulgarian Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova
    Children, 2024
    Background/Objectives: This study aims to explore family dynamics and the economic hardships experienced by families during the COVID-19 pandemic and their associations with adolescents’ health risk behaviours (HRBs). Methods: Based on a representative study of adolescents aged 11–16 conducted in Bulgaria during the COVID-19 pandemic and HBSC data from the pre-pandemic period, logistic regression models were applied, assessing cigarette smoking, vaping, alcohol use, drunkenness, and cannabis use. The independent variables included demographics, Family Affluence Scale (FAS III), family structure, ease of communication with parents, and the authors’ developed questions on parents’ income and economic status change, family conflicts, and missing contact with extended family due to the pandemic. Results: Material status of the family showed increasing differentials in adolescents’ HRBs during the pandemic. Parental unemployment, income reduction, and temporary lay-offs were associated with a higher risk of substance use. Family conflicts, missing contact with extended family, and difficulties in communication with the mother were related to a higher risk of substance use. Communication with the father was significantly associated with alcohol use and drunkenness. Boys had lower odds of vaping and higher odds of alcohol use, drunkenness, and cannabis use. Higher age and minority status were associated with an increase in adolescents’ HRBs. Conclusions: This study highlights the need for special family-focused interventions in times of health and economic crises.
  • Social differences in the attitudes towards the timing of parenthood in Bulgaria. Results from the European Social Survey
    Elitsa Dimitrova
    Environment and Social Psychology, 2024
    The study focuses on the gendered nature and the influence of social positioning on of the attitudes towards the timing of motherhood and fatherhood among young adults in Bulgaria. The European Social Survey (ESS), conducted in 2018 with a sub-sample of respondents at age 15-45 years, was used in the analysis. We first studied the perceptions about the timing of motherhood and fatherhood in an international comparative perspective. Next, we ran multiple linear regression models on the ages, considered ideal, too young or old to become a mother/father. The international comparisons reveal the gendered nature of the attitudes of the timing of parenthood. The reproductive "youthfulness" of a woman is more strongly emphasised and shapes the attitudes towards the timing of motherhood in Eastern and Central European countries. The socioeconomic “maturity” of a man shapes the attitudes and the social expectations about the timing of fatherhood in Southern and Western European countries. The social positioning (social status) is associated with the differences in the attitudes towards the timing of motherhood and fatherhood. The attitudes supporting the model of “younger” parenthood prevail among the respondents with low education, living in small residential areas, and belonging to ethnic minorities. Highly educated respondents, the individuals, living in big cities and those from Bulgarian ethnicity have stronger preferences towards motherhood and fatherhood at later ages.
  • Adolescent Toothbrushing and Its Association with Sociodemographic Factors—Time Trends from 1994 to 2018 in Twenty Countries
    Apolinaras Zaborskis, Aistė Kavaliauskienė, Sharon Levi, Riki Tesler, Elitsa Dimitrova
    Healthcare Switzerland, 2023
    Regular toothbrushing is the primary self-care method to prevent the most common dental diseases and is considered an important public health indicator. This retrospective observational study aimed to examine cross-national time trends in adolescent toothbrushing behaviour and its association with sociodemographic factors between 1994 and 2018. We studied data from 20 countries that conducted seven surveys of the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study. Adolescents aged 11, 13 and 15 years responded to questions on their toothbrushing frequency, family affluence and structure. Altogether, reports of 691,559 students were analysed using descriptive statistics and binominal logistic regression. The findings showed an overall positive trend in the prevalence of more-than-once-a-day toothbrushing frequency during the entire study period mainly due to a noticeable increase from 1994 to 2010 (except Denmark and Sweden); this trend continued significantly thereafter in 12 of 20 countries. Across all countries, girls and adolescents from more affluent families were more likely to brush their teeth regularly. These relationships remained unchanged throughout the study period, whereas the age-related difference in toothbrushing prevalence decreased noticeably, and the negative relationship between toothbrushing and living in a non-intact family became evident. While the prevalence of regular toothbrushing among adolescents has increased in recent decades, it is still far behind the recommended level of twice-daily brushing for everyone across all countries. The promotion of toothbrushing needs to start at an early age, with a special focus on boys and adolescents from low-affluence and non-intact families.
  • Biopsychosocial Factors of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from an Empirical Study
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova
    Societies, 2023
    The paper focuses on the association between Bulgarian adolescents’ health risk behaviours (cigarette smoking, vaping, alcohol use and drunkenness) and biopsychosocial factors at individual and interpersonal levels, using data from the pre-pandemic and the pandemic periods, i.e. Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) study (2018) and the study of adolescent health and well-being in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic (2022/2023). Logistic regression models reveal a positive association with age in both periods, decreasing gender difference in smoking, presistant effect of family structure, strengthened effect of the material status of the family and a differenciating effect of ethnicity at the end of the pandemic. Family support is positively asociated with substance (mis)use in both periods. At the end of the pandemic generalized anxiety is positively associated with substance (mis)use, loneliness has a negative association with drunkenness, and limited social interaction and vaping are in a positive relationship. The experience of COVID-19 infection in the family is associated with higher risk of smoking, while treatment in hospital for COVID-19 of the adolescent or a family member is associated with a higher risk of vaping and drunkenness. Interactions with COVID-19 experience and psychosocial variables reveal a divergence in health risk behaviours, including also engagement in substance (mis)use. Effective interventions, targeting the identified risk factors and risk groups, are needed for promotion of healthy lifestyles among adolescents.
  • Pathways of Adolescent Life Satisfaction Association with Family Support, Structure and Affluence: A Cross-National Comparative Analysis
    Apolinaras Zaborskis, Aistė Kavaliauskienė, Elitsa Dimitrova, Charli Eriksson
    Medicina Lithuania, 2022
    Background and Objectives: Despite the importance of life satisfaction for health and well-being, there is a paucity of cross-national comparative studies in life satisfaction related to the family environment. The present research examined the pathways of life satisfaction association with perceived family support and other family environment variables among adolescents aged from 11 to 15 years in 45 countries. Materials and Methods: Samples from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC) survey in 2017/2018 were analysed (n = 188,619). Path analysis was applied to evaluate the associations among the study variables. Results: A positive association between the life satisfaction score and high family support was identified in all 45 countries (standardized regression weight ranged from 0.067 to 0.420, p < 0.05). In majority of countries, living with both parents and higher levels of family affluence had a positive effect on adolescent life satisfaction both directly and indirectly through family support. In the described path model, the proportion of life satisfaction score variance that was accounted for by family support, family structure, family affluence, gender and age was up to 25.3%. The path models made it possible to group the participating countries into two clusters. In the first cluster (10 countries) the Eastern and Southern European countries dominated, while the second cluster (35 countries) united the countries of Western and Central Europe. Conclusions: There is evidence that countries with high level of adolescent life satisfaction differ in the high rate of intact family structure and the strong relation between family support and perceived life satisfaction.
  • Family Structure through the Adolescent Eyes: A Comparative Study of Current Status and Time Trends over Three Decades of HBSC Study
    Apolinaras Zaborskis, Aistė Kavaliauskienė, Charli Eriksson, Elitsa Dimitrova, Joana Makari
    Societies, 2022
  • Contested Parenthood: Attitudes Toward Voluntary Childlessness as a Life Strategy in Post-Socialist Bulgaria
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Tatyana Kotzeva
    Social Inclusion, 2022
  • Adolescent risk behaviours and family settings in Bulgaria: An evidence-based approach to effective family support policies
    Elitsa Dimitrova, T. Kotzeva
    Journal of Mother and Child, 2021
  • Family support as smoking prevention during transition from early to late adolescence: a study in 42 countries
    Apolinaras Zaborskis, Aistė Kavaliauskienė, Charli Eriksson, Ellen Klemera, Elitsa Dimitrova, et al.
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
  • Satisfaction with Working Time before the Covid-19 Pandemic in European Societies: Results of Multilevel Analysis
    E.K. Dimitrova and
    Economy of Regions, 2021
  • “What I thought was so important isn’t really that important”: international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
    Irina Todorova, Liesemarie Albers, Nicole Aronson, Adriana Baban, Yael Benyamini, et al.
    Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2021
  • Psychosocial school environment and health risk behaviours of adolescents in Bulgaria: results from multilevel analysis
    Elitsa Dimitrova, Tatyana Kotzeva, Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova
    International Journal of Public Health, 2020
  • Emigration from the perspective of the school-To-work transition in Bulgaria
    Rumiana Stoilova, Elitsa Dimitrova
    Sociologicky Casopis, 2017
  • Organizational hierarchies in Bulgarian hospitals and perceptions of justice
    Irina L. G. Todorova, Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova, Yulia Panayotova, Elitsa Dimitrova
    British Journal of Health Psychology, 2014
  • Nationalism and declining population in Bulgaria after 1990
    Tatyana Kotzeva, Elitsa Dimitrova
    Comparative Population Studies, 2014
  • Managing uncertainty: Healthcare professionals' meanings regarding the HPV vaccine
    Irina Todorova, Anna Alexandrova-Karamanova, Yulia Panayotova, Elitsa Dimitrova, Tatyana Kotzeva
    International Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 2014
  • Overcoming job demands to deliver high quality care in a hospital setting across Europe: The role of teamwork and positivity
    Patrícia L. Costa, Ana M. Passos, Sílvia A. Silva, Ema Sacadura-Leite, Susana M. Tavares, et al.
    Revista De Psicologia Del Trabajo Y De Las Organizaciones, 2014
  • Detecting the evolution of deliberate fertility control before the demographic transition in Germany
    Aliaksandr Amialchuk, Elitsa Dimitrova
    Demographic Research, 2012
  • The recent marital transition in Bulgaria between historical diversity and Pan-European integration
    Elitsa K. Dimitrova
    History of the Family, 2008

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Immigrant Status, Family Support, and Psychoactive Substance Use Among Adolescents: A Multilevel Analysis of the Cross-National HBSC Study Data
    E Dimitrova, A Zaborskis
    Societies 16 (3), 100 , 2026
    2026
  • Changing fatherhood: Social differences in parental leave uptake and childcare participation among Bulgarian men
    T Kotzeva, E Dimitrova, K Ilieva
    Social Inclusion 14 , 2026
    2026
    Citations: 1
  • Equal in Sharing, Unequal in Care: Social Differences in Attitudes toward Shared Parental Leave in European Societies
    E Dimitrova
    MDPI , 2026
    2026
  • Parenting and Child/Adolescent Development: Current Updates and Global Perspectives
    E Dimitrova, A Zaborskis
    Children 12 (10), 1368 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 3
  • Perceived Difficulties in Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Associations with Adolescent Mental Health
    A Alexandrova-Karamanova, K Mineva, E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva
    Child & Youth Care Forum 54 (5), 1047-1070 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • (New) Fathers in Bulgaria: Towards More Equal Participation in Childcare and More Shared Parental Leave
    T Kotzeva, EK Dimitrova, I Georgieva, K Ilieva
    5th ISA Forum of Sociology (6-11 July 2025) , 2025
    2025
  • Family Support, Communication with Parents, and Adolescent Health Risk Behaviour: A Case of HBSC Study from Bulgaria and Lithuania
    E Dimitrova, A Zaborskis
    Children 12 (5), 654 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 2
  • Moderators of peer influence
    NC Gawde, E Dimitrova, AE Manampiring, JM Murray, RF Hunter, ...
    2025
  • Biopsychosocial Determinants of Glycemic Control and Microvascular Health: An Interdisciplinary Approach
    P Miteva, A Alexandrova-Karamanova, N Antonova, E Dimitrova
    Series on Biomechanics , 2024
    2024
  • Family Dynamics, Socioeconomic Hardships, and Health Risk Behaviours of Bulgarian Adolescents during the COVID-19 Pandemic
    E Dimitrova, A Alexandrova-Karamanova
    Children 11 (8), 1016 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 2
  • Adolescent health literacy, distance education and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic
    TI Kotzeva, K Mineva, A Alexandrova-Karamanova, E Dimitrova, ...
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY 59, 360-360 , 2024
    2024
  • SOCIAL DIFFERENCES IN THE ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE TIMING OF PARENTHOOD IN BULGARIA. RESULTS FROM THE EUROPEAN SOCIAL SURVEY
    E DIMITROVA
    ENVIRONMENT 9 (11) , 2024
    2024
  • Adolescent toothbrushing and its association with sociodemographic factors—time trends from 1994 to 2018 in twenty countries
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, S Levi, R Tesler, E Dimitrova
    Healthcare 11 (24), 3148 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 15
  • Perceived Difficulties in Compliance with COVID-19 Public Health Measures: Impact on Adolescent Life Satisfaction
    A Alexandrova-Karamanova, E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva, K Mineva, ...
    EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OPEN 82, 8-9 , 2023
    2023
  • European comparative surveys: what can we learn (or not) about parenting leave policy?
    I Dobrotić, E Dimitrova, M Valentova, M Mercan, K Ilieva, Z Makay, ...
    Parenting leave policy data gaps: a comparative critical analysis: COST … , 2023
    2023
  • Biopsychosocial Factors of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from an Empirical Study
    E Dimitrova, A Alexandrova-Karamanova
    Societies 13 (7), 169 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Contested parenthood: Attitudes toward voluntary childlessness as a life strategy in post‐socialist Bulgaria
    E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva
    Social Inclusion 10 (3), 172-183 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 20
  • Pathways of adolescent life satisfaction association with family support, structure and affluence: A cross-national comparative analysis
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, E Dimitrova, C Eriksson
    Medicina 58 (7), 970 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 39
  • Risk Behaviours: Tracking Youth Health and Well-Being in Bulgaria 2006–2018
    T Kotzeva, E Dimitrova
    Wohlbefinden und Gesundheit im Jugendalter: Theoretische Perspektiven … , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 4
  • Family structure through the adolescent eyes: A comparative study of current status and time trends over three decades of HBSC study
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, C Eriksson, E Dimitrova, J Makari
    Societies 12 (3), 88 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 15

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • “What I thought was so important isn’t really that important”: international perspectives on making meaning during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
    I Todorova, L Albers, N Aronson, A Baban, Y Benyamini, S Cipolletta, ...
    Health psychology and behavioral medicine 9 (1), 830-857 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 52
  • Pathways of adolescent life satisfaction association with family support, structure and affluence: A cross-national comparative analysis
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, E Dimitrova, C Eriksson
    Medicina 58 (7), 970 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 39
  • Detecting the evolution of deliberate fertility control before the demographic transition in Germany
    A Amialchuk, E Dimitrova
    Demographic Research 27, 507-542 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 38
  • Family support as smoking prevention during transition from early to late adolescence: A study in 42 countries
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, C Eriksson, E Klemera, E Dimitrova, ...
    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (23), 12739 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 37
  • Organizational hierarchies in B ulgarian hospitals and perceptions of justice
    ILG Todorova, A Alexandrova‐Karamanova, Y Panayotova, E Dimitrova
    British journal of health psychology 19 (1), 204-218 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 31
  • Overcoming job demands to deliver high quality care in a hospital setting across Europe: The role of teamwork and positivity
    PL Costa, AM Passos, SA Silva, E Sacadura-Leite, SM Tavares, F Spanu, ...
    Revista de Psicología del Trabajo y de las Organizaciones 30 (3), 105-112 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 24
  • Psychosocial school environment and health risk behaviours of adolescents in Bulgaria: Results from multilevel analysis
    E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva, A Alexandrova-Karamanova
    International Journal of Public Health 65 (8), 1331-1344 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 23
  • Nationalism and declining population in Bulgaria after 1990
    T Kotzeva, E Dimitrova
    Comparative Population Studies 39 (4) , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 22
  • Managing uncertainty: healthcare professionals' meanings regarding the HPV vaccine
    I Todorova, A Alexandrova-Karamanova, Y Panayotova, E Dimitrova, ...
    International journal of behavioral medicine 21 (1), 29-36 , 2014
    2014
    Citations: 22
  • Emigration from the Perspective of the School-to-Work Transition in Bulgaria
    R Stoilova, E Dimitrova
    Sociologicky Casopis 53 (6), 903-933 , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 21
  • Contested parenthood: Attitudes toward voluntary childlessness as a life strategy in post‐socialist Bulgaria
    E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva
    Social Inclusion 10 (3), 172-183 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 20
  • Adolescent toothbrushing and its association with sociodemographic factors—time trends from 1994 to 2018 in twenty countries
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, S Levi, R Tesler, E Dimitrova
    Healthcare 11 (24), 3148 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 15
  • Family structure through the adolescent eyes: A comparative study of current status and time trends over three decades of HBSC study
    A Zaborskis, A Kavaliauskienė, C Eriksson, E Dimitrova, J Makari
    Societies 12 (3), 88 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 15
  • Adolescent risk behaviours and family settings in Bulgaria: An evidence-based approach to effective family support policies
    E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva
    Journal of mother and child 25 (3), 139 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 9
  • Stratifying Reproduction: Social Inequalities and Second Birth in Bulgaria After 1990
    E Dimitrova
    international journal of sociology 42 (3), 34-52 , 2012
    2012
    Citations: 8
  • Risk behaviors of the Bulgarian school-aged children: family predictors and determinants
    E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva
    Bulgarian Journal of Psychology. The South-East Regional Conference of … , 2009
    2009
    Citations: 8
  • Biopsychosocial Factors of Adolescent Health Risk Behaviours during the COVID-19 Pandemic—Insights from an Empirical Study
    E Dimitrova, A Alexandrova-Karamanova
    Societies 13 (7), 169 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 7
  • Second Demographic Transition in Bulgaria: Preconditions, Transformations, Implications
    E Dimitrova
    Centre for Population Studies (Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Science … , 2006
    2006
    Citations: 7
  • Bulgaria country note
    E Dimitrova, T Kotzeva, K Ilieva
    International review of leave policies and research, 129-144 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6
  • Satisfaction by the balance of working and personal time depending on social metrics of respondents: Russian and European cases
    E Dimitrova, N Tonkikh
    Journal «Human Progress» http://progress-human. com 6 (1) , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 6

Publications

Dimitrova, E. 2012. “Stratifying the Reproduction: Social Inequalities and Second Birth in Bulgaria after 1990”. International Journal of Sociology, vol. 42, pp. 34-52.
Dimitrova, E., Panayotova, Y., Todorova, I. and Alexandrova-Karamanova, A. 2012. “Doctors’ and Parents’ Perspectives on Communication Regarding the HPV Vaccine in Bulgaria”. In: Ilkilic, I., Erkin, H., Bromer, R., Zeeb, H. (eds). Health, Culture and Human Body. Epidemiology, Ethics and History of Medicine, Perspectives from Turkey and Central Europe. Conference Proceedings. Istanbul, 13-15.08.2012. Istanbul: Betim Central Press.
Amialchuk, A. and Dimitrova, E. 2012. “Detecting the Evolution of Deliberate Fertility Control Before the Demographic Transition in Germany”. Demographic Research, vol. 27, art. 19, pp. 507-542.
Kotzeva, T. and Dimitrova, E. 2014. “Nationalism and Declining Population in Bulgaria after 1990”. Comparative Population Studies, vol. 39 (4), pp. 767-788.
Stoilova, R. and Dimitrova, E. 2017. “Emigration in the Perspective of the School to Work Transition in Bulgaria”, Czech Sociological Review, Vol. 53, No. 6, pp. 903–933.
Dimitrova, Е. 2019. Social determinants of self-rated health of the population in Bulgaria. Results of European Social Survey. Papers of BAS. Humanities and Social Sciences, 5, 2, pp. 200-215.
Dimitrova, E., Kotzeva, T. & Alexandrova-Karamanova, A. 2020. Psychosocial school
environment and health risk behaviours of adolescents in Bulgaria: results from multilevel analysis.