Daniel M Blonigen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1743410 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel M Blonigen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel M |
| FAMILY NAME | Blonigen |
| SIGNATURE | BLONIGEN D M |
| AFFILIATIONS | VA Palo Alto Health Care System |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3420-6704 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Criminogenic risk and suicidality among justice-involved homeless veterans with comorbid mental health and substance use disorders
This study was preregistered at https://ClinicalTrials.gov with registration number NCT04523337
Risk for Acute Care Utilization in Housing-Insecure Adults: A National Study of a Hot Spotter Program in the US Veterans Health Administration
BACKGROUND: To identify patients at the highest risk for acute care utilization, health care systems have developed "hot spotter" programs. Homelessness is a robust social determinant of acute care utilization. OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of meeting criteria for a hot spotter program among housing-insecure adults in the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA). RESEARCH DESIGN: Among veterans on the VHA Homeles…
Personal Health Goals in Homeless-Experienced Veterans: Rates, Patterns, and Associations With Health-Related Needs
OBJECTIVE: To advance patient-centered care for high-need homeless-experienced patients, we identified the rates of various personal health goals, the broader domains that underlie these goals, and associations between these domains and the health-related needs of this population. METHOD: The sample consisted of 176 veterans from 3 VA Medical Centers who were enrolled in primary care, on VA's Homeless Registry, and high utilizers of acute care. A…
Assessing the impact of combat trauma on the severity, expression, and course of posttraumatic stress disorder in justice-involved veterans
The findings illustrate the need to consider trauma type in future research on the relationship between PTSD and justice involvement in veterans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
A Whole-Person Measurement Strategy for Vulnerable Veterans: Revisiting Maslow’s Hierarchy
“Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. The appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need.” —Abraham Maslow, Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) State of the Art (SOTA) conference on March 29-30, 2023, on the measurement of whole-person outcomes (ie, indices of well-being that capture what matters most to patients rather t…
Disentangling the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, criminogenic risk, and criminal history among veterans
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is positively associated with involvement in the criminal justice system among veterans. Research that examines whether this association is confounded by risk factors ("criminogenic needs") from the risk-need-responsivity model of correctional rehabilitation can inform risk management with this population. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that (a) veterans with probable PTSD would score higher on all cri…
Trauma-related differences in socio-emotional functioning predict housing and employment outcomes in homeless veterans
Clients of VA-Housed Legal Clinics: Legal and Psychosocial Needs When Seeking Services and Two Months Later
Veterans often need civil legal services, yet little is known about veterans’ use and consequences of these services. This study examined veterans seeking legal services at VA-housed legal clinics. Baseline data from 61 clients of two VA-housed legal clinics were used to identify clients’ legal needs and psychosocial characteristics. Data collected from 49 (80%) of the same clients two months later were used to address clients’ improvement and sa…
Stability and invariance of psychopathic traits from late adolescence to young adulthood
Genetic and environmental influences on personality trait stability and growth during the transition to adulthood: A three-wave longitudinal study
During the transition to adulthood individuals typically settle into adult roles in love and work. This transition also involves significant changes in personality traits that are generally in the direction of greater maturity and increased stability. Competing hypotheses have been offered to account for these personality changes: The intrinsic maturation hypothesis suggests that change trajectories are endogenous, whereas the life-course hypothe…
Course of antisocial behavior during emerging adulthood: Developmental differences in personality
Using existing self-report inventories to measure the psychopathic personality traits of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality
Stability and Change in Personality Traits From Late Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin Study
We conducted a longitudinal‐biometric study examining stability and change in personality from ages 17 to 24 in a community sample of male and female twins. Using Tellegen's (in press) Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), facets of Negative Emotionality (NEM) declined substantially at the mean and individual levels, whereas facets of Constraint (CON) increased over time. Furthermore, individuals in late adolescence who were lowest on…
Capturing Abnormal Personality With Normal Personality Inventories: An Item Response Theory Approach
Correlational and factor‐analytic methods indicate that abnormal and normal personality constructs may be tapping the same underlying latent trait. However, they do not systematically demonstrate that measures of abnormal personality capture more extreme ranges of the latent trait than measures of normal range personality. Item Response Theory (IRT) methods, in contrast, do provide this information. In the present study, we use IRT methods to eva…
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to…
Factor Structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Validity and Implications for Clinical Assessment.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by impulsive antisocial deviance in the context of emotional and interpersonal detachment. A factor analysis of the subscales of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) yielded evidence for 2 factors. One factor showed relations with external criteria mirroring those of the emotional-interpersonal facet of psychopathy, including high dominance, low anxiety, and venturesomeness. The other fa…
Genetic and environmental influences on personality trait stability and growth during the transition to adulthood: A three-wave longitudinal study
During the transition to adulthood individuals typically settle into adult roles in love and work. This transition also involves significant changes in personality traits that are generally in the direction of greater maturity and increased stability. Competing hypotheses have been offered to account for these personality changes: The intrinsic maturation hypothesis suggests that change trajectories are endogenous, whereas the life-course hypothe…
Using existing self-report inventories to measure the psychopathic personality traits of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality
Stability and invariance of psychopathic traits from late adolescence to young adulthood
Course of antisocial behavior during emerging adulthood: Developmental differences in personality
Factor Structure of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Validity and Implications for Clinical Assessment.
Psychopathy is a personality disorder characterized by impulsive antisocial deviance in the context of emotional and interpersonal detachment. A factor analysis of the subscales of the Psychopathic Personality Inventory (PPI) yielded evidence for 2 factors. One factor showed relations with external criteria mirroring those of the emotional-interpersonal facet of psychopathy, including high dominance, low anxiety, and venturesomeness. The other fa…
The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to…
Stability and Change in Personality Traits From Late Adolescence to Early Adulthood: A Longitudinal Twin Study
We conducted a longitudinal‐biometric study examining stability and change in personality from ages 17 to 24 in a community sample of male and female twins. Using Tellegen's (in press) Multidimensional Personality Questionnaire (MPQ), facets of Negative Emotionality (NEM) declined substantially at the mean and individual levels, whereas facets of Constraint (CON) increased over time. Furthermore, individuals in late adolescence who were lowest on…
Capturing Abnormal Personality With Normal Personality Inventories: An Item Response Theory Approach
Correlational and factor‐analytic methods indicate that abnormal and normal personality constructs may be tapping the same underlying latent trait. However, they do not systematically demonstrate that measures of abnormal personality capture more extreme ranges of the latent trait than measures of normal range personality. Item Response Theory (IRT) methods, in contrast, do provide this information. In the present study, we use IRT methods to eva…
Using existing self-report inventories to measure the psychopathic personality traits of Fearless Dominance and Impulsive Antisociality
Course of antisocial behavior during emerging adulthood: Developmental differences in personality
Stability and invariance of psychopathic traits from late adolescence to young adulthood
Genetic and environmental influences on personality trait stability and growth during the transition to adulthood: A three-wave longitudinal study
During the transition to adulthood individuals typically settle into adult roles in love and work. This transition also involves significant changes in personality traits that are generally in the direction of greater maturity and increased stability. Competing hypotheses have been offered to account for these personality changes: The intrinsic maturation hypothesis suggests that change trajectories are endogenous, whereas the life-course hypothe…
Clients of VA-Housed Legal Clinics: Legal and Psychosocial Needs When Seeking Services and Two Months Later
Veterans often need civil legal services, yet little is known about veterans’ use and consequences of these services. This study examined veterans seeking legal services at VA-housed legal clinics. Baseline data from 61 clients of two VA-housed legal clinics were used to identify clients’ legal needs and psychosocial characteristics. Data collected from 49 (80%) of the same clients two months later were used to address clients’ improvement and sa…
Trauma-related differences in socio-emotional functioning predict housing and employment outcomes in homeless veterans
Disentangling the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder, criminogenic risk, and criminal history among veterans
OBJECTIVE: Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is positively associated with involvement in the criminal justice system among veterans. Research that examines whether this association is confounded by risk factors ("criminogenic needs") from the risk-need-responsivity model of correctional rehabilitation can inform risk management with this population. HYPOTHESES: We hypothesized that (a) veterans with probable PTSD would score higher on all cri…
A Whole-Person Measurement Strategy for Vulnerable Veterans: Revisiting Maslow’s Hierarchy
“Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. The appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need.” —Abraham Maslow, Hierarchy of Needs: A Theory of Human Motivation The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) State of the Art (SOTA) conference on March 29-30, 2023, on the measurement of whole-person outcomes (ie, indices of well-being that capture what matters most to patients rather t…
Assessing the impact of combat trauma on the severity, expression, and course of posttraumatic stress disorder in justice-involved veterans
The findings illustrate the need to consider trauma type in future research on the relationship between PTSD and justice involvement in veterans. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Criminogenic risk and suicidality among justice-involved homeless veterans with comorbid mental health and substance use disorders
This study was preregistered at https://ClinicalTrials.gov with registration number NCT04523337
Risk for Acute Care Utilization in Housing-Insecure Adults: A National Study of a Hot Spotter Program in the US Veterans Health Administration
BACKGROUND: To identify patients at the highest risk for acute care utilization, health care systems have developed "hot spotter" programs. Homelessness is a robust social determinant of acute care utilization. OBJECTIVES: To describe the prevalence, patterns, and correlates of meeting criteria for a hot spotter program among housing-insecure adults in the US Veterans Health Administration (VHA). RESEARCH DESIGN: Among veterans on the VHA Homeles…
Personal Health Goals in Homeless-Experienced Veterans: Rates, Patterns, and Associations With Health-Related Needs
OBJECTIVE: To advance patient-centered care for high-need homeless-experienced patients, we identified the rates of various personal health goals, the broader domains that underlie these goals, and associations between these domains and the health-related needs of this population. METHOD: The sample consisted of 176 veterans from 3 VA Medical Centers who were enrolled in primary care, on VA's Homeless Registry, and high utilizers of acute care. A…
Psychology (13 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Personality (8 works) · Big Five personality traits (7 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Personality Disorders and Psychopathology (6 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (4 works) · MEDLINE (4 works)