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Moderators of the Dynamic Link Between Alcohol Use and Aggressive Behavior among Adolescent MalesHelene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854 8001, USA
J Abnorm Child Psychol 41:211-22. 2013..Interventions designed to reduce aggressive behaviors should consider targeting not only alcohol use, but also individual and environmental risk factors that contribute to this link...
Adolescent risk factors for late-onset smoking among African American young menHelene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:153-61. 2007..More research is needed to examine contextual factors in late adolescence and early adulthood that protect against and precipitate late-onset of smoking for African Americans...- Parental modeling and parenting behavior effects on offspring alcohol and cigarette use. A growth curve analysisH R White
Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
J Subst Abuse 12:287-310. 2000..This paper examined the effects of parental drinking and smoking, parental warmth and hostility, and their interactions on offsprings' drinking and smoking over time... - Long-term effects of brief substance use interventions for mandated college students: sleeper effects of an in-person personal feedback interventionHelene R White
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 31:1380-91. 2007..However, none of the existing studies has followed students' past 6 months. Therefore, we compared the long-term efficacy of 2 brief substance use feedback interventions for mandated college students... - Do brief personalized feedback interventions work for mandated students or is it just getting caught that works?Helene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 22:107-16. 2008..Therefore, it appears that the incident and/or reprimand are important instigators of mandated student change and that written PFIs do not enhance these effects on a short-term basis but may on a longer term basis... - Congruence between adolescents' self-reports and their adult retrospective reports regarding parental discipline practices during their adolescenceHelene Raskin White
Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Psychol Rep 101:1079-94. 2007..Research is needed to identify how best to obtain accurate histories of childhood maltreatment... - Three potential mediators of the effects of child abuse and neglect on adulthood substance use among womenHelene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 8001, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:337-47. 2008..This study examined mechanisms that might account for the association between early childhood abuse and neglect, and substance use and related problems in adulthood for women... - Identifying two potential mechanisms for changes in alcohol use among college-attending and non-college-attending emerging adultsHelene R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Dev Psychol 44:1625-39. 2008..Prevention efforts should focus on (a) reducing opportunities for heavy drinking for college and noncollege emerging adults as they leave home and (b) increasing prosocial involvement among college students not living at home... - Transitions into and out of light and intermittent smoking during emerging adulthoodHelene R White
Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 11:211-9. 2009..The purpose of this study was to examine transitions in smoking from adolescence into emerging adulthood and to identify factors that might influence these transitions, specifically, movement into and out of light and intermittent smoking... - Prospective associations among alcohol use-related sexual enhancement expectancies, sex after alcohol use, and casual sexHelene R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 23:702-7. 2009..The findings provide some support for prevention programs that focus on alcohol-related sexual expectancies to reduce sexually transmitted illnesses among emerging adults... - Associations between heavy drinking and changes in impulsive behavior among adolescent boysHelene R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 35:295-303. 2011.... - Stages and sequences of initiation and regular substance use in a longitudinal cohort of black and white male adolescentsHelene R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 8001, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:173-81. 2007..This study examined whether developmental sequences and stages of substance-use initiation and regular use differed and, if so, whether they varied for black and white adolescent males... - Developmental trajectories of cigarette use from early adolescence into young adulthoodHelene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 65:167-78. 2002..Future research should examine transitions and turning points from adolescence to adulthood that may affect cessation and escalation differently for males and females... - Psychopathology as a predictor of adolescent drug use trajectoriesH R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854 8001, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 15:210-8. 2001..Only conduct disorder predicted linear growth in alcohol use, and none of the measures predicted growth in marijuana use. The results suggest that drug use prevention programs should target youths with early symptoms of psychopathology... - Problem drinking and intimate partner violenceHelene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854 8001, USA
J Stud Alcohol 63:205-14. 2002..We assessed (1) whether the relationship between problem drinking and IPV was spurious and (2) if relationship dissatisfaction and partner drinking mediated the effects of problem drinking on IPV... - Adolescence-limited versus persistent delinquency: extending Moffitt's hypothesis into adulthoodH R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway 08854 8001, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 110:600-9. 2001..Overall, few of the factors that are related to childhood-to-adolescence persistence were associated with persistence in delinquency beyond adolescence... - Evaluating two brief substance-use interventions for mandated college studentsHelene R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:309-17. 2006.... - Racial differences in trajectories of cigarette useHelene R White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 76:219-27. 2004..Overall, the results indicate that developmental trends in smoking differ by race and that cigarette smoking remains more prevalent and more frequent for White than African-American males, at least through young adulthood... - Risk for excessive alcohol use and drinking-related problems in college student athletesDavid A Yusko
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
Addict Behav 33:1546-56. 2008..Overall, the results suggest that already proven brief intervention strategies, with minor adaptations related to the roles of sensation seeking and drinking to cope, may be helpful for student athletes... - Alcohol, tobacco, illicit drugs, and performance enhancers: a comparison of use by college student athletes and nonathletesDavid A Yusko
The Center of Alcohol Studies, The State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, Piscataway
J Am Coll Health 57:281-90. 2008..The authors compared the prevalence and pattern of substance use in undergraduate student athletes and nonathletes from 2005-2006... - Associations between first use of substances and change in internalizing symptoms among girls: differences by symptom trajectory and substance use typeNaomi R Marmorstein
Department of Psychology, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ 08102, USA
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol 39:545-58. 2010..Links between initial use and internalizing symptoms depended on the type of substance, type of internalizing symptom, and trajectory group... - Changes in drinking before a mandated brief intervention with college studentsThomas J Morgan
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 69:286-90. 2008..The primary aim of this study was to assess the extent to which students significantly reduce their drinking between the time of an alcohol-related violation and the sanctioned intervention... - Risk profile of male college athletes who use performance-enhancing substancesJennifer F Buckman
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854 8001, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 70:919-23. 2009..This study sought to determine whether users of PESs report high-risk patterns of alcohol and other drug use and demonstrate risk behaviors associated with problematic substance use... - Individual and situational factors that influence the efficacy of personalized feedback substance use interventions for mandated college studentsEun Young Mun
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 77:88-102. 2009.... - Longitudinal effects of age at onset and first drinking situations on problem drinkingLynn A Warner
School of Social Work, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08901, USA
Subst Use Misuse 38:1983-2016. 2003..In particular, further research focusing on the subjective effects experienced by youth when they first drink may be merited... - Transformations of covariates for longitudinal dataWesley K Thompson
Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08855, USA
Biostatistics 4:353-64. 2003..We use the model-based parametric approach to examine the association between alcohol use at an early stage of adolescent development and delinquency over the course of adolescence... - Ethnic differences in positive alcohol expectancies during childhood: the Pittsburgh Girls StudyTammy Chung
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 32:966-74. 2008..This study used measurement invariance methods to examine ethnic differences in the development of alcohol expectancies, and examined risk factors associated with girls' positive expectancies... - The self and mental health: self-salience and the emergence of internalizing and externalizing problemsSarah Rosenfield
Department of Sociology, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903, USA
J Health Soc Behav 46:323-40. 2005..Results show that self-salience underlies both internalizing and externalizing problems. In addition, schemas about self-salience help explain the gender differences found in mental health problems... - Long-term effects of child abuse and neglect on alcohol use and excessive drinking in middle adulthoodCathy Spatz Widom
Department of Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
J Stud Alcohol Drugs 68:317-26. 2007..The purpose of this study was to determine the long-term effects of child abuse and neglect on alcohol use in middle adulthood... - Childhood victimization and illicit drug use in middle adulthoodCathy Spatz Widom
Department of Psychiatry, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ, USA
Psychol Addict Behav 20:394-403. 2006..These new results reinforce the need for targeted interventions with abused and neglected children, adolescents, and adults, and particularly for women... - Inattention as a key predictor of tobacco use in adolescenceJeffrey D Burke
Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 116:249-59. 2007..Peer substance use, parental substance use, and conduct disorder also predicted increases in tobacco use. African American ethnicity was strongly protective against later tobacco use... - Developmental trajectories of male physical violence and theft: relations to neurocognitive performanceEdward D Barker
Research Unit on Children s Psychosocial Maladjustment, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Arch Gen Psychiatry 64:592-9. 2007..However, studies examining this association tend to aggregate a variety of problem behaviors that may be differently affected by neurocognitive deficits... - An examination of pathways from childhood victimization to violence: the role of early aggression and problematic alcohol useCathy Spatz Widom
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Psychology Department, City University of New York, NY 10019, USA
Violence Vict 21:675-90. 2006..Interventions for victims of childhood maltreatment need to recognize the role of early aggressive behavior and alcohol problems as risk factors for subsequent violence... - Early adolescent psychopathology as a predictor of alcohol use disorders by young adulthoodDustin Pardini
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 201 N Craig St, Sterling Building Suite 408, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 88:S38-49. 2007..No evidence was found for a relation between attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder symptoms and AUD symptoms or diagnoses after controlling for co-occurring psychopathology... - Diverse research on alcohol and aggression in humans: in memory of John A. CarpenterPeter R Giancola
Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506 0044, USA
Alcohol Clin Exp Res 27:198-208. 2003..Finally, Kenneth E. Leonard presented data on personal and contextual factors influencing alcohol-related barroom violence... - Does childhood victimization increase the risk of early death? A 25-year prospective studyHelene Raskin White
Center for Alcohol Studies, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, USA
Child Abuse Negl 27:841-53. 2003..Abuse and neglect have been shown to influence the mental and physical health of children; however, few studies have examined whether childhood victimization leads to an increased risk of early death... - Increases in alcohol and marijuana use during the transition out of high school into emerging adulthood: The effects of leaving home, going to college, and high school protective factorsHelene Raskin White
Center of Alcohol Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 607 Allison Road, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854-8001, USA
J Stud Alcohol 67:810-22. 2006..In addition, youths with high sensation seeking might be targeted for added intervention...
Research Grants
- Persistence and Desistence in Heavy Drinking and ViolenceHelene R White; Fiscal Year: 2010..Within a 2-year period, we will be able to make a significant contribution to the scholarly literature and provide data to be used in the development of targeted pre,vention programs. ..