Ross E O’hara

Biographic Data

ID3575970
NAMERoss E O’hara
GIVEN NAMESRoss E
FAMILY NAMEO’hara
SIGNATUREO’HARA R E
AFFILIATIONSUConn Health
ORCID0000-0001-8271-8910
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS11
TOTAL CITATIONS98
AUTHOR COUNT11
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX4

  • Thanksgiving Day Alcohol Use

    Open AccessRoss E O’hara, Wenhuan Wang et al.ARTICLEPsychological Reports2019

    Thanksgiving is known for celebration, indulgence, and, unfortunately, alcohol-related consequences. No research to date, however, has explored predictors of Thanksgiving drinking that may help to explain the risky behaviors commonly observed over this holiday. We examined whether Thanksgiving Day drinking is related to expectations about the holiday and negative affect, as well as gender differences in these associations. This study is the first…

  • Prospecting Prejudice

    Open AccessFrederick X Gibbons, Michelle L Stock et al.CHAPTERDrug Use Trajectories among…2016

  • Does Drinking Improve the Quality of Sexual Experience

    Open AccessM Lynne Cooper, Ross E O’hara et al.ARTICLEAIDS and Behavior2015

  • Bidirectional Associations Between Alcohol Use and Sexual Risk-Taking Behavior from Adolescence into Young Adulthood

    Open AccessRoss E O’hara, M Lynne CooperARTICLEArchives of Sexual Behavior2015References: 49

  • Perceived Racial Discrimination and Negative-Mood–Related Drinking Among African American College Students

    Ross E O’hara, Stephen Armeli et al.ARTICLEJournal of Studies on Alcohol and…2015Cited by: 4References: 24

    These findings provide further evidence that the cumulative impact of racial discrimination may produce a vulnerability to negative-mood-related drinking--but only for African American men. Importantly, these effects emerged only for nonsocial drinking, which may further explain the robust association between discrimination and problematic alcohol use

  • A Mediational Model of Racial Discrimination and Alcohol-Related Problems Among African American College Students

    Marcella H Boynton, Ross E O’hara et al.ARTICLEJournal of Studies on Alcohol and…2014Cited by: 27References: 17

    The results suggest that, for African Americans whose drinking leads to drinking-related problems, discrimination and poor affective self-regulation are highly relevant and predictive factors, especially for men

  • Emotional stress-reactivity and positive affect among college students

    Ross E O'Hara, Ross E O’hara et al.ARTICLEEmotion2013

    Multiple theories posit that people with a history of depression are at higher risk for a depressive episode than people who have never experienced depression, which may be partly due to differences in stress-reactivity. In addition, both the dynamic model of affect and the broaden-and-build theory suggest that stress and positive affect interact to predict negative affect, but this moderation has never been tested in the context of depression hi…

  • Specificity of early movie effects on adolescent sexual behavior and alcohol use

    Open AccessRoss E O'Hara, Ross E O’hara et al.ARTICLESocial Science & Medicine2013Cited by: 4References: 51

  • The erosive effects of racism

    Frederick X Gibbons, Ross E O’hara et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2012Cited by: 17

    Perceived racial discrimination, self-control, anger, and either substance use or use cognitions were assessed in 2 studies conducted with samples of African American adolescents. The primary goal was to examine the relation between discrimination and self-control over time; a 2nd goal was to determine whether that relation mediates the link between discrimination and substance use found in previous research. Study 1, which included a latent grow…

  • Perceived Racial Discrimination as a Barrier to College Enrollment for African Americans

    Open AccessRoss E O’hara, Frederick X Gibbons et al.ARTICLEPersonality and Social Psychology…2011Cited by: 19References: 15

    African Americans trail European Americans in terms of academic achievement, even when accounting for differences in socioeconomic status. One cause of this gap may be racial discrimination. In the current article the authors hypothesized that early perceived racial discrimination (by 5th grade) would predict college enrollment, mediated by changes from 7th grade to 10th grade in academic orientation, college aspirations and expectations, and dev…

  • Exploring the link between racial discrimination and substance use

    Frederick X Gibbons, Paul E Etcheverry et al.ARTICLEJournal of Personality and Social…2010Cited by: 27

    The relation between perceived racial discrimination and substance use was examined in 2 studies that were based on the prototype-willingness model (Gibbons, Gerrard, & Lane, 2003). Study 1, using structural equation modeling, revealed prospective relations between discrimination and use 5 years later in a panel of African American adolescents (M age 10.5 years at Time 1 [T1]) and their parents. For both groups, the relation was mediated by anger…