Michael D Newcomb
Biographic Data
| ID | 72595 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael D Newcomb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael D |
| FAMILY NAME | Newcomb |
| SIGNATURE | NEWCOMB M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southern California |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 692 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 69 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Psychosocial predictors and correlates of dysphoria in adolescent and young adult Latinas
This study determined how multiple ecodevelopmental domains influenced dysphoria in a community sample of Latina adolescents. Risk factors tested include childhood maltreatment, parental alcohol‐related problems, and polysubstance problems. Protective factors include general self‐efficacy, social conformity, and family connection. Female participants ( N = 904) were recruited from the Los Angeles area. Many significant correlations were found bet…
Alcohol-related problems, anger, and marital satisfaction in monoethnic Latino, biethnic Latino, and European American newlywed couples
Prior studies on alcohol use and marital functioning have largely overlooked the possibility that these variables operate differently in Latino and European American couples. The present study addresses this gap by examining the role of alcohol-related problems and anger as correlates of marital satisfaction among newlywed monoethnic Latino couples (n = 13), biethnic Latino couples (n = 28), and European American couples (n = 89). Higher self-rep…
Childhood Experiences and Psychosocial Influences on Risky Sexual Behavior, Condom Use, and HIV Attitudes-Behaviors Among Latino Males
Psychosocial Predictors and Correlates of Suicidality in Teenage Latino Males
Multiple ecodevelopmental factors were tested as they influence suicidality in a community sample of Latino adolescent males. Risk factors tested included childhood maltreatment, parental alcohol-related problems, and polysubstance problems. Protective factors included general self-efficacy, social conformity, and family bonding. Male participants (N = 349) were recruited from the Los Angeles area. About 80% of the sample reported some suicidal i…
Adult Trauma and HIV Status Among Latinas
Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire
Childhood experiences and psychosocial influences on HIV risk among adolescent Latinas in Southern California
This study determined how adverse childhood experiences influenced risky sexual behavior in a community sample of Latina adolescents in Los Angeles (N = 904) within a modified ecodevelopmental perspective. Psychosocial, sociocultural, and environmental mediators of the relations between childhood experiences and risky sexual behavior were tested. Many direct and mediated paths were revealed using structural equation modeling. Childhood maltreatme…
A Multidimensional Approach to Homosexual Identity
The existing developmental stage models of homosexual identity do not consider the diversity of human sexual experience. The stage models stem from an essentialist perspective, in which the process of homosexual identity formation is largely a matter of becoming aware of one's underlying, or real, sexual orientation. Once homosexual orientation is identified, the only legitimate outcome is to develop homosexual identity and eventually incorporate…
Adolescent drug use in Mexico and among Mexican American adolescents in the United States
The authors compared high school students in Baja California Norte (BCN), Mexico (n = 775), with Mexican American students in Los Angeles (LA), California (n = 516). The students' use of cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, cocaine, inhalants, and other illicit drugs were compared, because these vary by gender, country, and their age of first drug use and are influenced by demographic variables, individual characteristics, and environmental influences…
Predictors of early high school dropout
This study compared the adequacy of 5 theories to predict dropping out of high school before the 10th grade. These theories include full mediation by academic achievement and direct effects related to general deviance, deviant affiliation, family socialization, and structural strains. Nested latent variable models were used to test these theories on prospective data from an ethnically diverse urban sample. Poor academic achievement mediated the e…
Ethnic belonging and traditional masculinity ideology among African Americans, European Americans, and Latinos
Ethnic belonging and traditional masculinity ideology among African Americans, European Americans, and Latinos
African American, European American, and Latino males (N = 378) completed the Ethnic Belonging scale of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; 3. S. Phinney, 1992), the Male Role Norms Scale (MRNS; E. H. Thompson & J. H. Pleck, 1986; a traditional masculinity ideology questionnaire), and demographic items including participant age and family income. Ethnic belonging was the best predictor of traditional masculinity ideology, a finding uniq…
The different voices of helping
Adult Outcomes of Adolescent Conventional and Agentic Orientations
The impact of early adolescent conventional attitudes and friendships, positive goals, and drug use on age-appropriate developmental behaviors was assessed using the theoretical paradigm of the Erikson developmental stages of identity, intimacy, and generativity. Assessment points at Years 1, 13, and 21 from a longitudinal community study (N = 477) were used. Outcomes examined when the participants were in their 20s and 30s included agency and ef…
Vulnerability for drug use among Latino adolescents
In this study we developed separate risk and protective factor indices to examine vulnerability to drug use among Latino high school students. Survey data were collected from 516 Latino 9th and 10th grade youth in the Los Angeles area. Frequency and quantity of use data were collected for cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana, inhalants, cocaine, and other illicit drugs. Few gender differences emerged in prevalence of drug use and about 25% were already…
Drug problems and psychological distress among a community sample of adults
Although the comorbidity of drug abuse and psychological distress is well established in adult-treatment samples, the directionality of this association is in question. There is less evidence that this relationship exists among community samples of adults. The prospective relationships between psychological distress and drug problems (e.g., alcohol, marijuana, and cocaine) were examined in a community sample of 470 adults. Results addressed three…
Dimensions of the Male Gender Role
The Role of Intergenerational Discrepancy of Cultural Orientation in Drug Use among Latina Adolescents
The role of intergenerational discrepancy for cultural orientation was examined in the etiology of drug use among Latina adolescents and in the context of family support. Intergenerational discrepancy occurs when a family member of one generation differs from a family member of another generation in cultural identity factors; this is usually manifested in conflict between a first generation child and the immigrant generation parent. It was hypoth…
Sexual Risk Behavior among Youth
Sexual activity among high-school-aged youths has steadily increased since the 1970s, emerging as a significant public health concern. Yet, patterns of youth sexual risk behavior are shaped by social class, race, and gender. Based on sociological theories of financial deprivation and collective socialization, we develop and test a model of the relationships among neighborhood poverty; family structure and social class position; parental involveme…
Modeling the Etiology of Adolescent Substance Use
The social development model is a general theory of human behavior that seeks to explain antisocial behaviors through specification of predictive developmental relationships. It incorporates the effects of empirical predictors (“risk factors” and “protective factors”) for antisocial behavior and attempts to synthesize the most strongly supported propositions of control theory, social learning theory, and differential association theory. This arti…
Adolescence
On fighting versus accepting stressful circumstances
The primacy of primary control over secondary control and ethnic differences in control processes were tested in HIV-positive male state prison inmates. They rated their perceptions of control and psychological distress at an initial interview (N = 95) and 3 months later (N = 78). Regression analyses revealed that primary control had primacy as it had greater adaptive value. However, secondary control did not function as a backup to primary contr…
A Multidimensional Measure of Cultural Identity for Latino and Latina Adolescents
Sexual Abuse and Consensual Sex
A Multidimensional Measure of Cultural Identity for Latino and Latina Adolescents
Many scales are available to measure acculturation. Unfortunately, most rely on a single indicator scale and fail to consider biculturality. Therefore, the multidimensional and multifaceted aspects of the complex phenomenon of cultural identity have not been adequately appreciated or assessed. Latino(a) college students (N = 130) responded to multiple items regarding language use, values/attitudes, behavior, and familiarity with aspects of Americ…
A Multidimensional Measure of Cultural Identity for Latino and Latina Adolescents
Many scales are available to measure acculturation. Unfortunately, most rely on a single indicator scale and fail to consider biculturality. Therefore, the multidimensional and multifaceted aspects of the complex phenomenon of cultural identity have not been adequately appreciated or assessed. Latino(a) college students (N = 130) responded to multiple items regarding language use, values/attitudes, behavior, and familiarity with aspects of Americ…
A Multidimensional Approach to Homosexual Identity
The existing developmental stage models of homosexual identity do not consider the diversity of human sexual experience. The stage models stem from an essentialist perspective, in which the process of homosexual identity formation is largely a matter of becoming aware of one's underlying, or real, sexual orientation. Once homosexual orientation is identified, the only legitimate outcome is to develop homosexual identity and eventually incorporate…
A Multidimensional Assessment of Stressful Life Events among Adolescents
Michael D. Newcomb, George J. Huba, Peter M. Bentler, A Multidimensional Assessment of Stressful Life Events among Adolescents: Derivation and Correlates, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 400-415
Substance use and abuse among children and teenagers
Risk factors for drug use among adolescents
We examined the concurrent and longitudinal associations between risk factors and substance use for a sample of high school students. Ten risk factors were defined that assessed numerous important personal and social areas of life. These factors were found to be associated with ever using, frequency of use, and heavy use of cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and hard drugs. Few effects were noted for nonprescription medication. No sex differences wer…
Life events and substance use among adolescents
Throughout history, alcohol and other drugs have been used to provide relief in times of stress and frustration. Research has confirmed this association between disruptive life change events and substance use. It was hypothesized that two psychological constructs facilitate and mediate this relation between stress and substance use. Uncontrollable stress (negative life change events) was assumed to create a sense of loss of control, which in turn…
Ethnic belonging and traditional masculinity ideology among African Americans, European Americans, and Latinos
African American, European American, and Latino males (N = 378) completed the Ethnic Belonging scale of the Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure (MEIM; 3. S. Phinney, 1992), the Male Role Norms Scale (MRNS; E. H. Thompson & J. H. Pleck, 1986; a traditional masculinity ideology questionnaire), and demographic items including participant age and family income. Ethnic belonging was the best predictor of traditional masculinity ideology, a finding uniq…
Multiple protective and risk factors for drug use and abuse
Sexual Risk Behavior among Youth
Sexual activity among high-school-aged youths has steadily increased since the 1970s, emerging as a significant public health concern. Yet, patterns of youth sexual risk behavior are shaped by social class, race, and gender. Based on sociological theories of financial deprivation and collective socialization, we develop and test a model of the relationships among neighborhood poverty; family structure and social class position; parental involveme…
The Role of Intergenerational Discrepancy of Cultural Orientation in Drug Use among Latina Adolescents
The role of intergenerational discrepancy for cultural orientation was examined in the etiology of drug use among Latina adolescents and in the context of family support. Intergenerational discrepancy occurs when a family member of one generation differs from a family member of another generation in cultural identity factors; this is usually manifested in conflict between a first generation child and the immigrant generation parent. It was hypoth…
Influence of sensation seeking on general deviance and specific problem behaviors from adolescence to young adulthood
Indicators of a Sensation Seeking latent construct were assessed during adolescence and used to predict changes in repeatedly gathered measures of a latent construct of General Deviance. A community sample of 595 male and female Ss was assessed 3 times over a 5-year period from late adolescence to young adulthood. Most Ss reported use of licit drugs, about one half had tried illicit drugs, and a substantial minority had engaged in other delinquen…
Childhood play activities of male and female homosexuals and heterosexuals
Dimensions of the Male Gender Role
Stability and change in personality
Determinants of sexual and dating behaviors among adolescents
The study of adolescent sexual development has typically focused on the incidence and age of onset of particular behaviors. Recent developments in the analysis of covariance structures permit more powerful simultaneous tests of the determinants of adolescent sexual behavior. These new methods allow the assessment and evaluation of the interrelatedness between unobserved, latent constructs. Data were obtained from 183 males and 193 females ranging…
A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents
Felipe G. Castro, Ebrahim Maddahian, Michael D. Newcomb, P. M. Bentler, A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 273-289
Adult Outcomes of Adolescent Conventional and Agentic Orientations
The impact of early adolescent conventional attitudes and friendships, positive goals, and drug use on age-appropriate developmental behaviors was assessed using the theoretical paradigm of the Erikson developmental stages of identity, intimacy, and generativity. Assessment points at Years 1, 13, and 21 from a longitudinal community study (N = 477) were used. Outcomes examined when the participants were in their 20s and 30s included agency and ef…
Interactive and Higher-Order Effects of Social Influences on Drug Use
The study of moderators and higher-order effects of social influences on drug use has many implications for theories of health behavior. In the present study, we investigated the longitudinal predictive effects of some of the prominent moderator variables that represent forms of susceptibility toward social influence in teenage drug use. We also studied the possibility that social influence may predict drug use in nonlinear (quadratic) forms, con…
Internal and External Mediators of Women's Rape Experiences
Internal and external factors are examined as mediational processes and/or coping strategies that link four aspects of women's rape experiences to the initial and lasting effects on their post-rape adjustment, attitude toward sex and intimacy, and lifestyle changes to prevent future assaults. Data are from a multiethnic community sample of 55 women who had been victims of rape or attempted rape. A measured or observed variable simultaneous path a…
Nuclear attitudes and reactions
For 40 years the world has lived with the threat of nuclear war and, recently, with the possibility of nuclear power plant accidents. Although virtually every generation must confront various national or international crises, the threat of nuclear war is unprecedented in its destructive potential. This study is an attempt to assess attitudes and amount of distress associated with the ever-present threat of nuclear war and the possibility of accid…
Mothers' influence on the drug use of their children
On etudie ici l'influence que pourrait avoir la mere en tant que modele sur les conduites des enfants par rapport aux drogues, au tabac et a l'alcool
Risk and Protective Factors for Drug Use among Latino and White Adolescents
Several different theories have been suggested to account for drug use among Latinos, however, no one theory adequately explains this behavior. The authors developed a model of drug use that incorporated many potential risk and protective factors and tested both direct and buffering influences on drug involvement. From data on Latino, Latina, and White teenagers, 14 factors related to drug use were selected and assigned empirically to either a mu…
Social Support by Many Other Names
Social support is a provision of the social environment and one important aspect of exchange between a person and the social world. This perspective may enhance appreciation for the common features shared by diverse types of interpersonal connectedness, such as bonding, attachment, friendship, intimacy and companionship. At least three hypotheses follow: (1) social support should be moderately stable across time and developmental periods; (2) soc…
An 8-year study of multiple influences on drug use and drug use consequences
Multiple long-term influences on young adult drug use and abuse were tested within an interactionist perspective using latent-variable causal models. Intrapersonal influences included early drug use and social conformity. Proximal interpersonal influences were captured by perceived peer drug use, perceived adult drug use, and family disruption. More distal influences included perceptions of community approval or disapproval for drug use. Outcome …
Drug use, educational aspirations, and work force involvement
The impact of high school drug use and academic potential on high school outcome (graduate or dropout) and young adult work force involvement, college involvement, and educational aspirations was examined. Frequency of drug use, grade point average, and educational plans were assessed for 479 adolescents while in high school. Four years later this same group of individuals, now in their early 20s, reported their current level of drug use, present…
Longitudinal Study of Marital Success and Failure
A Multidimensional Assessment of Stressful Life Events among Adolescents
Michael D. Newcomb, George J. Huba, Peter M. Bentler, A Multidimensional Assessment of Stressful Life Events among Adolescents: Derivation and Correlates, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Dec., 1981), pp. 400-415
Childhood play activities of male and female homosexuals and heterosexuals
Mothers' influence on the drug use of their children
On etudie ici l'influence que pourrait avoir la mere en tant que modele sur les conduites des enfants par rapport aux drogues, au tabac et a l'alcool
Dimensions of subjective female orgasmic responsiveness
Results of recent psychological research have been at odds with the major physiological evidence on the nature of female orgasmic responsiveness. Although female orgasm appears to be a single process physiologically, subjective reports by women indicate that individual differences in their experience is multidimensional. The basis for the discrepant findings is analyzed via two studies of reported orgasmic experiences in women. One sample of 115 …
Sexual Experience among Men and Women
In the context of examining a wide range of correlates of sexual experience—defined as the lifetime number of sexual partners—an hypothesis is tested that sexual experience enhances personality by bolstering self-esteem and self-confidence. Three independent samples are examined separately and then compared ( ns = 173, 136, and 148). These groups vary by sex and amount of sexual experience. Within each of these samples, correlates of sexual exper…
The role of perceived relative parent personality in the development of heterosexuals, homosexuals, and transvestites
Stability and change in personality
Desirability of various life change events among adolescents
Drug use, educational aspirations, and work force involvement
The impact of high school drug use and academic potential on high school outcome (graduate or dropout) and young adult work force involvement, college involvement, and educational aspirations was examined. Frequency of drug use, grade point average, and educational plans were assessed for 479 adolescents while in high school. Four years later this same group of individuals, now in their early 20s, reported their current level of drug use, present…
Risk factors for drug use among adolescents
We examined the concurrent and longitudinal associations between risk factors and substance use for a sample of high school students. Ten risk factors were defined that assessed numerous important personal and social areas of life. These factors were found to be associated with ever using, frequency of use, and heavy use of cigarettes, alcohol, cannabis, and hard drugs. Few effects were noted for nonprescription medication. No sex differences wer…
Sexual behavior of cohabitors
I tested the hypothesis that cohabitors, as a component of their lifestyle choice to live together without being married, would be more sexually experienced and sexually active than noncohabitors. Differences between cohabitors and noncohabitors were examined in three independent samples (Ns = 173, 136, and 148). Within each group, differences between cohabitors and noncohabitors were examined in regard to background variables, perceived parent s…
Life events and substance use among adolescents
Throughout history, alcohol and other drugs have been used to provide relief in times of stress and frustration. Research has confirmed this association between disruptive life change events and substance use. It was hypothesized that two psychological constructs facilitate and mediate this relation between stress and substance use. Uncontrollable stress (negative life change events) was assumed to create a sense of loss of control, which in turn…
Determinants of sexual and dating behaviors among adolescents
The study of adolescent sexual development has typically focused on the incidence and age of onset of particular behaviors. Recent developments in the analysis of covariance structures permit more powerful simultaneous tests of the determinants of adolescent sexual behavior. These new methods allow the assessment and evaluation of the interrelatedness between unobserved, latent constructs. Data were obtained from 183 males and 193 females ranging…
Nuclear attitudes and reactions
For 40 years the world has lived with the threat of nuclear war and, recently, with the possibility of nuclear power plant accidents. Although virtually every generation must confront various national or international crises, the threat of nuclear war is unprecedented in its destructive potential. This study is an attempt to assess attitudes and amount of distress associated with the ever-present threat of nuclear war and the possibility of accid…
Cohabitation, Marriage and Divorce among Adolescents and Young Adults
This study examines a variety of important aspects of marriage, cohabitation, and divorce among young adults. Using longitudinal data obtained in high school, men and women in their early twenties were compared on the basis of whether they have or have not cohabited, in general, and, for those who married, whether they had cohabited prior to marriage. Prior to cohabiting, future cohabitors reported significantly more frequent drug use, poorer rel…
Self-Report Methods of Assessing Health Status and Health Service Utilization
Self reports are often used to determine health status and extent of health service utilization. These assessments are frequently used as indicators of health quality. Using a sample of 739 young adults, this study examines gender differences and the factor structure of 15 self-reported measures of health and health seeking behavior. Women consistently reported more physical problems, less physical hardiness, more physical symptoms, and more util…
A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents
Felipe G. Castro, Ebrahim Maddahian, Michael D. Newcomb, P. M. Bentler, A Multivariate Model of the Determinants of Cigarette Smoking Among Adolescents, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Sep., 1987), pp. 273-289
An 8-year study of multiple influences on drug use and drug use consequences
Multiple long-term influences on young adult drug use and abuse were tested within an interactionist perspective using latent-variable causal models. Intrapersonal influences included early drug use and social conformity. Proximal interpersonal influences were captured by perceived peer drug use, perceived adult drug use, and family disruption. More distal influences included perceptions of community approval or disapproval for drug use. Outcome …
The impact of late adolescent substance use on young adult health status and utilization of health services
Impact of adolescent drug use and social support on problems of young adults
The impact of family context, deviant attitudes, and emotional distress on adolescent drug use
Social Support Among Young Adults
Although a variety of social support measures have been developed, their conceptual distinctiveness and similarity have not been addressed in an empirical manner. This study presents a latent-variable approach to separate several sources and types of support and to determine the validity of a social support battery administered to a group of 739 young adults. Three theoretically distinct components of social support were considered: Type of suppo…
Drug Use in the Workplace
Description of the Study Prevalence Rates of General and Disruptive Substance Abuse Structure of Disruptive Substance Abuse Demographic Correlates of Disruptive Substance Use Relationship Between General Drug Use and Disruptive Drug Use Disruptive Drug Use and Work-Related Factors Psychosocial Correlates of Disruptive Drug Use Disruptive Drug Use and Other Deviant Attitudes and Behaviors Stability and Change of Disruptive Drug Use Adolescent Pers…
Substance use and abuse among children and teenagers
Psychology (67 works) · Developmental psychology (41 works) · Clinical Psychology (31 works) · Social Psychology (31 works) · Psychiatry (30 works) · Medicine (26 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Sociology (14 works)