Thomas W Wojciechowski
Biographic Data
| ID | 127119 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas W Wojciechowski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wojciechowski |
| SIGNATURE | WOJCIECHOWSKI T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5439-1399 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 63 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 63 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Childhood Exposure to Violence as a Risk Factor for Polydrug Use: Examining Dual Systems Imbalance and Major Depressive Disorder as Mediating Mechanisms
Polydrug use presents a priority public health issue because of the range of physical and mental health issues that may follow from the use of multiple types of drugs. Exposure to violence has been identified as a risk factor for polydrug use, but there remains limited work that has identified mechanisms linking these constructs. Major depressive disorder and differential development of dual systems (impulse control; sensation-seeking) may provid…
Predicting Hallucinogen Use During Adolescence and Early Adulthood in Justice-Involved Youth Using the Dual Systems Model: Does Salience Vary Across the Life-Course
BACKGROUND: Hallucinogen use among justice-involved youth presents an understudied public health problem. Variation in cognitive development of impulse control and sensation-seeking may be relevant for predicting this behavior. That said, there remains a dearth of research which has examined these relationships from a life-course perspective. The present study addresses this gap in the literature by examining sensation-seeking and impulse control…
Latent Clusters of Peer Behaviors in Childhood and Relevance for Understanding Substance Use in Early Adolescence
Peers have been found to be an important influence on adolescent behavior. However, there remains limited research examining childhood peer behaviors as predictors of later substance use. Examinations have not included full behavior profiles comprising both antisocial and prosocial peer behaviors. This study sought to identify latent clusters of peer behaviors during childhood and their relevance for understanding substance use. The Adolescent Br…
The Prediction of Impulsivity Dimensions From PTSD, Neighborhood Context, and Their Interaction in a Sample of Justice Involved Women
This study investigated the associations of PTSD, neighborhood crime, and their interaction with dimensions of impulsivity in a sample of 402 justice-involved women. PTSD was examined as a predictor of impulsivity dimensions and neighborhood crime was examined as a moderator of the effect of PTSD on each impulsivity dimension. Factor analysis identified dimensions of impulsivity and ordinary least squares regression examined the effect of PTSD sy…
Predictors of Attrition in the Pathways to Desistance Study: Testing for Differential Salience Across Time
There is limited research examining predictors of attrition in the Pathways to Desistance study. There is also a paucity of research examining time-varying effects of predictors of attrition. Changes in characteristics across a study period may lead to the emergence of increases/decreases in attrition risk across time. The Pathways to Desistance dataset (11 waves) was analyzed. Cox proportional hazard modeling was used to examine effects of time-…
Examining the influence of violent extremist group membership on online behavior among violent and non-violent right-wing extremists
Identifying violent extremists online before their engagement in physical violence is an ongoing need for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers around the world. Yet the evidence base about their posting footprints or differences in their online behaviors compared to their non-violent counterparts is noticeably scarce. Even less is empirically known about the relationship between their posting behaviors, membership in a violent extremist g…
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: Examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective
Social Learning Theory and Gateway Hypothesis as a Causal Pathway Linking Rule-Breaking Peer Association to Marijuana Use via Nicotine Vaping
The gateway hypothesis posits that the use of some "gateway drugs" may precipitate initiation of use of other drugs. A commonly examined pathway in this regard is the use of tobacco/nicotine leading to the use of marijuana. There is a dearth of research that has examined nicotine vaping specifically as a predictor of marijuana and that has integrated social learning processes of rule-breaking peer association into this pathway. The present study …
Gender Differences in Heavy-Episodic Drinking Among Justice-Involved Youth: Testing for Cognitive vs. Social Mediation
BACKGROUND: There exist gender disparities in heavy-episodic drinking, with male adolescents reporting elevated risk for the behavior. Variation in cognitive development and exposure to antisocial peers may explain these disparities. Deviant peer association may provide a social mechanism and the imbalance in development of dual systems constructs of impulse control and sensation-seeking may provide a cognitive mechanism. Deviant peer association…
Traumatic Stress Exposure as a Predictor of Dual Systems Model Development: Examining Deviant Peer Association as a Social Mediating Mechanism
Traumatic stress exposure has been identified as a robust risk factor for atypical cognitive development in childhood. While most research focuses on neurological mechanisms underpinning these relationships, peer influences may also provide a social mechanism. The present study examined deviant peer association as a mediator in this regard within the context of the dual systems model in childhood and adolescence. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive De…
Deviant Peer Association as a Risk Factor for Firearm Carrying Among Justice-Involved Youth: The Mediating Roles of Exposure to Violence and Moral Disengagement
Deviant peer association has been identified as a risk factor for firearm carrying among adolescents. However, there remains a dearth of research examining mechanisms explaining this relationship. This study addressed this gap in the literature by examining victimization and moral disengagement as mediators of the relationship between deviant peer association and firearm carrying risk among a sample of justice-involved youth. The first four waves…
Examining the Online Posting Behaviors and Trajectories of Incel Forum Members
Involuntary celibates, or incels , have been of heightened interest to scholars and practitioners due to their ongoing engagement in misogynistic and violent discourse. The incel subculture is complex, requiring unique strategies to develop effective interventions. The present study investigates patterns in incels’ online posting behaviors and whether acceptance of subcultural beliefs is reflected in variations of user engagement and posting beha…
Understanding Intergenerational Transmission of Recidivism Risk Among Justice-Involved Youth: Testing for Mediation via Dual Systems Model Processes
Research has indicated that criminality may be transmitted from parent to offspring. However, there remains limited research examining risk for offspring recidivism in this regard and mechanisms underpinning this relationship. The present study examined dual systems imbalance as a potential mediator using the first three waves of the Pathways to Desistance data. Generalized structural equation modeling was used to test for direct and indirect eff…
Timing of and Disparities in Initiation into Deviant Peer Groups Among Youth in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study: Do these Effects Vary Across the Life-Course
This study sought to examine predictors of onset of deviant peer association during childhood and adolescence and determine whether the salience of predictors varied across time. The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data were analyzed. Cox proportional hazard modeling was used to examine the relevance of gender, race, ethnicity, income, and traumatic stress variables for predicting differential timing of onset of deviant peer association. M…
Developmental pathway from associating with antisocial peers to cyber and traditional bullying
These results suggest that associating with antisocial peers has long-term consequences, including online and in-person aggression. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Timing of traumatic brain injury as a predictor of dual systems development: Testing for moderation effects of concurrent age
Longitudinal Comorbidity of Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms: The Risk of Cyber Sexual Harassment
Exploring the evolution of posting behavior and language use in a racially and ethnically motivated extremist forum
Testing for recency effects of early life exposure to violence variety on risk for carrying firearms among adjudicated youth: A hazard modeling approach
Reducing firearm carrying among youth may help to prevent gun violence. Exposure to violence has been identified as a risk factor for firearm carrying, but there is a dearth of research that has examined exposure to violence variety as a predictor in this regard. Similarly, research on recency effects of exposure to violence on this outcome is also limited. This study analyzed data from all 11 waves of the Pathways to Desistance study. Cox propor…
Association between marijuana use and cognitive development: Relevance for dual systems
Income and gender as predictors of violent offending in childhood: Testing for interactive effects
Examining gang membership and victimisation as predictors of gun violence perpetration: Testing for Interactive Effects
Research has indicated the relevance of gang membership and victimisation as risk factors for predicting the perpetration of gun violence. However, there is a dearth of research that has examined the potential that gang membership may moderate the impact of victimisation on gun violence perpetration. This study examined this prospect within a sample of justice-involved youth. The Pathways to Desistance dataset was analysed. Generalised estimating…
Testing a probabilistic model of desistance from online posting in a right-wing extremist forum: Distinguishing Between Violent and Non-Violent Users
Little is known about online behaviours of violent extremists generally or differences compared to non-violent extremists who share ideological beliefs. Even less is known about desistance from posting behaviour. A sample of 99 violent and non-violent right-wing extremists to compare their online patterns of desistance within a sub-forum of the largest white supremacy web-forum was analysed. A probabilistic model of desistance was tested to deter…
The Effects of Neighborhood Disorder on Polydrug Use: Examining Depressive Symptoms and Deviant Peer Association as Mediating Mechanisms
Neighborhood disorder is a risk factor for substance use, but research is limited with regard to the effect of such disorder on polydrug use. Further, research on potential mechanisms underlying this relationship is similarly limited. The current study examined the direct effect of neighborhood disorder on drug use variety and examined deviant peer association and depressive symptoms as mediators among a sample of justice-involved youth. The firs…
The transition from physical sibling abuse to bullying perpetration through trait anger: A longitudinal study
Objectives Experiencing physical sibling abuse is a form of family violence that is common but understudied. While it is often perceived as a normative aspect of sibling relationships, there are apparent behavioral consequences. The current study aims to advance the literature by utilizing the displaced aggression model and I 3 theory to longitudinally examine trait anger as a pathway linking physical sibling abuse to bullying perpetration. Metho…
Comparing the Online Posting Behaviors of Violent and Non-Violent Right-Wing Extremists
Despite the ongoing need for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to identify and assess the online activities of violent extremists prior to their engagement in violence offline, little is empirically known about their online behaviors generally or differences in their posting behaviors compared to non-violent extremists who share similar ideological beliefs particularly. In this study, we drew from a unique sample of violent and non-vio…
The relevance of the dual systems model of self-control for age-related deceleration in offending variety among juvenile offenders
Victimization Recency, Development of Anger, and Violent Offending in Early Adulthood: A Developmental Test of General Strain Theory
This research provides a test of general strain theory examining the relevance of strain recency, the role of victimization history for predicting anger development, and the relevance of anger development for mediating this relationship. Analyses utilized group-based trajectory modeling to elucidate patterns of anger development and also utilized multinomial logistic regression to examine the relevance of victimization history for predicting ange…
Examining the Developmental Pathways of Online Posting Behavior in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums
Many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are concerned about online communities that are known to facilitate violent right-wing extremism, but little is empirically known about these digital spaces in general and the developmental posting behaviors that make up these spaces in particular. In this study, group-based trajectory modeling—derived from a criminal career paradigm—was used to identify posting trajectories found in the open-acce…
Pathways to Self-Injury: A Qualitative Exploration of Social Psychological Processes
Self-injury is a deviant behavior often understood as the intentional infliction of harm onto one’s own body that exists absent of suicidal. This study uses a qualitative methodology to examine the etiology and perpetuation of self-injury using the terminology of relevant social-psychological theories to determine which processes best describe a causal pathway leading to self-injury and its perpetuation after the onset of the behavior. Data obtai…
Pathways to Self-Injury: A Qualitative Exploration of Social Psychological Processes
Self-injury is a deviant behavior often understood as the intentional infliction of harm onto one’s own body that exists absent of suicidal. This study uses a qualitative methodology to examine the etiology and perpetuation of self-injury using the terminology of relevant social-psychological theories to determine which processes best describe a causal pathway leading to self-injury and its perpetuation after the onset of the behavior. Data obtai…
Initiation, Desistence, and Recovery: A Qualitative Examination of Self-Injury from a Life-Course Perspective
Self-injury is typically defined as the intentional harm caused to one’s own body. This phenomenon has historically been studied mainly from a psychological perspective and has focused less on social forces related to engagement in this behavior. While research on self-injury has examined etiology extensively, there has yet to be an examination of how changes in exposure to risk and protective factors may lead to changes in self-injury habits. Th…
PTSD and PTSD-Linked Victimization Sensitivity as Risk Factors for Alcohol Use among Juvenile Offenders: A Group-Based Trajectory Modeling Approach
Research has indicated that post-traumatic stress disorder is linked to heightened levels of alcohol use. Sensitivity to strain may increase alcohol use as a coping strategy among this population. Using the Pathways to Desistance dataset, this research examines these effects among juvenile offenders and the experience of victimization as strain. Results indicated a near tripling of the relative risk of assignment to the high alcohol use group if …
Trajectories of Binge Drinking Behavior across Adolescence among Juvenile Offenders and the Role of ADHD for Predicting Development
Binge drinking has been linked to numerous health issues. Juvenile offenders may be at increased risk for binge drinking. ADHD has been demonstrated to be a predictor of substance use. The development of binge drinking behavior and the role of ADHD for predicting this development among this population has not yet been explored. This research uses group-based trajectory modeling to describe binge drinking development. Multinomial logistic regressi…
Victimization Recency, Development of Anger, and Violent Offending in Early Adulthood: A Developmental Test of General Strain Theory
This research provides a test of general strain theory examining the relevance of strain recency, the role of victimization history for predicting anger development, and the relevance of anger development for mediating this relationship. Analyses utilized group-based trajectory modeling to elucidate patterns of anger development and also utilized multinomial logistic regression to examine the relevance of victimization history for predicting ange…
Racial Disparities in Community Mental Health Service Use Among Juvenile Offenders
Binge Drinking in Adolescence and Early Adulthood: The Salience of PTSD and PTSD-Linked Strain Sensitivity from a Developmental Perspective
Background: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been identified by past research as a risk factor for substance use. Further, past research has indicated that individuals with PTSD may demonstrate an increased sensitivity to strain. Despite this, no study has examined the relevance of these processes for understanding binge drinking behaviors from a developmental perspective. Purpose/Objectives: Understand the relevance of PTSD-linked strai…
Early Life Poly-Victimization and Differential Development of Anxiety as Risk Factors for the Continuity of Substance Dependence in Adulthood
Background: Abuse of psychoactive substances may lead to physical and/or physiological dependence on said substances. While a great deal of research has focused on risk factors predicting onset, there has been little research focused on risk factors influencing continued dependence on substances in adulthood following onset early in life. Purpose/Objectives: The present study examined poly-victimization and developmental patterns of anxiety as pr…
Racial differences in developmental patterns of social consequences of drug use
This study sought to examine differences in developmental patterns of social consequences of drug use among youth offenders and investigate the relevance of race for predicting trajectory-group assignment. The Pathways to Desistance data were used in analyses, comprising the responses of 1,354 juvenile offenders followed across 84 months after an adjudication for a serious offense. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify developmenta…
The relevance of the dual systems model of self-control for age-related deceleration in offending variety among juvenile offenders
The Development of Marijuana Dealing Behavior During Adolescence and Early Adulthood Among Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors for Development
Despite the amount of attention paid to marijuana use, there has yet to be any research that examines heterogeneity in the development of marijuana dealing behavior across time. This research used group-based trajectory modeling to elucidate developmental trends in this behavior and examines how risk factors may predict heterogeneity in marijuana dealing among a sample of juvenile offenders. The Pathways to Desistance data set, a sample of 1,354 …
The Development of Romantic Partner Involvement and Tolerance of Deviance among Juvenile Offenders: Relevance for Offending Behaviors in Early Adulthood
This study sought to elucidate heterogeneity in developmental patterns of romantic relationship characteristics and examine the relevance of patterns for predicting offending in adulthood. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to elucidate trajectory groups describing developmental heterogeneity of odds of having a romantic partner and romantic partners’ tolerance of deviance. Poisson regression was used to estimate the effects of group assign…
The Relevance of the Dual Systems Model for Social Learning Theory: Testing for Moderation Effects
Social learning theory is one of the most prominent criminological theories of the 20th century. The dual systems model represents an emerging framework in recent years, which may help to better understand how social learning processes are influenced by sensation-seeking and impulse control. This study utilized data from all waves of the Pathways to Desistance study. A series of mixed-effects models were utilized to test for moderating effects of…
Feeding the Habit? Relationships Between Longitudinal Patterns of Drug Dealing and Drug use Trajectories During Adolescence Among Juvenile Offenders
Drug dealers may be at increased risk for drug use. However, there is a dearth of research focused on how these relationships develop across time. Group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) was used to assess heterogeneity in the development of drug dealing behavior. Line graphs modeling the average frequency of use of drugs across time based on trajectory membership described drug use patterns. T-tests were used to test for significant differences b…
The Role of Major Depressive Disorder and its Moderating Effect on the Impact of Exposure to Violence for Predicting Recidivism among Juvenile Offenders: A Survival Analysis Approach
Past research has indicated that Major Depressive Disorder and exposure to violence are risk factors for offending. However, researchers have yet to examine how this disorder may predict recidivism risk among juvenile offenders and how the disorder moderates the effect of exposure to violence. Kaplan-Meier survival analysis was used to determine the impact of Major Depressive Disorder on time to recidivism. Cox proportional hazard modeling was ap…
Latent Profile Analysis of Personality Dimensions Among Juvenile Offenders: Relevance for Predicting Offending Seriousness
There is a burgeoning base of research identifying personality as a predictor of offending. However, research has focused on personality dimensions, rather than full personality profiles as predictors. The present study utilized the Pathways to Desistance data to examine the relationship between personality profiles and offending. This sample comprised 1,354 juvenile offenders followed during the study period of 2000 to 2010. Latent profile analy…
A Life-Course Approach to Understanding Differential Relevance of Deviant Peers for Predicting Cocaine/Crack Use
Deviant peer association has been identified as a risk factor for cocaine/crack use. However, understanding is more limited regarding the stability in the salience of this effect across the life-course. The present study utilized the Pathways to Desistance data to test for variance in the magnitude of the relationship between deviant peer association and cocaine/crack use using mixed effects ordered logistic modeling. Results indicated that cocai…
PTSD as a Risk Factor for Chronic Gang Membership During Adolescence and Early Adulthood: A Group-Based Trajectory Modeling Approach
This study sought to identify developmental patterns of gang membership among a sample of juvenile offenders during adolescence and early adulthood. Examine the relevance of PTSD for predicting development. The Pathways to Desistance data were used in analyses. Group-based trajectory modeling was used to identify developmental patterns of gang membership. Multinomial logistic regression examined if PTSD predicts trajectory group membership. A fiv…
Borderline Personality Disorder as a Predictor of Drug Use Variety: Cognitive Vs. Affective Mechanisms
Borderline personality disorder has been identified as a risk factor for polydrug use. Despite this, there remains a lack of understanding of which characteristics of the disorder provide the mechanisms for this relationship. This study examined a set of constructs as mechanisms explaining the borderline personality disorder-polydrug use relationship that are divided into affective and cognitive categories. The Pathways to Desistance data were us…
Testing Relationships Between Exposure to Violence and Substance Use: Comparing Cognitive and Mental Health Mediation and Integrating Propensity Score Matching
Exposure to violence has been identified as a robust risk factor for substance use. While criminological theories have also been demonstrated to be relevant for predicting this behaviour, there is limited research that compares the role that exposure to violence plays in this regard across multiple theories. There have also been issues in not accounting for pre-existing levels of mediators in specifying mechanisms underpinning these relationships…
Exposure to Violence Variety as a Risk Factor for Cigarette Smoking: Relevance of Sensation-Seeking and Impulsivity as Mediators
BACKGROUND: Prior research has indicated that exposure to violence is a risk factor associated with cigarette smoking. However, the relevance of variety of exposure for predicting this outcome has remained underexplored. This is problematic, as increased variety of exposure may represent a measure of severity of trauma exposure with less recall bias than other measures. Further, related constructs of sensation-seeking and impulsivity have yet to …
Survival Analysis of Time to Opioid Use and the Role of PTSD-Linked Stress Sensitivity for Predicting Onset Risk for Juvenile Offenders Following Adjudication
This study sought to understand how PTSD predicts opioid use onset rates and how subsequent exposures to violence also influence this risk following adjudication. Survival analysis was used to examine the moderating role that baseline PTSD status plays for predicting rates of opioid use onset risk following adjudication. Hazard models used to examine the role of time-varying covariates for predicting opioid onset risk following adjudication. PTSD…
The Relevance of Hostility and Self-Control as Mediators of the Relationship Between Antisocial Personality Disorder and Offending
Hostility and low self-control are two hallmark characteristics of antisocial personality disorder and are also risk factors for offending. This study tested for mediating effects of these concepts for explaining the antisocial personality disorder-offending relationship. The Pathways to Desistance data were used in analyses. Generalized structural equation modeling was used to estimate these relationships. A Clogg Z test was used to test the equ…
Validating a geospatial healthfulness index with self-reported chronic disease and health outcomes
Examining the Developmental Pathways of Online Posting Behavior in Violent Right-Wing Extremist Forums
Many researchers, practitioners, and policymakers are concerned about online communities that are known to facilitate violent right-wing extremism, but little is empirically known about these digital spaces in general and the developmental posting behaviors that make up these spaces in particular. In this study, group-based trajectory modeling—derived from a criminal career paradigm—was used to identify posting trajectories found in the open-acce…
Psychology (56 works) · Developmental psychology (33 works) · Medicine (33 works) · Clinical Psychology (27 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (25 works) · Poison control (22 works) · Social Psychology (22 works) · Psychiatry (19 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (19 works) · Logistic regression (14 works)