Mark D Litt
Biographic Data
| ID | 194340 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mark D Litt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mark D |
| FAMILY NAME | Litt |
| SIGNATURE | LITT M D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Connecticut |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8319-6090 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 97 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Provider Implicit Racial Bias in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease
Daily Stress, Drinking Motives and Alcohol Co-Use with Other Drugs
Background: Recent evidence indicates that alcohol and other substance co-use, compared to alcohol-only use, might be more closely associated with negative reinforcement processes, and thus more likely during periods of increased stress. The present study examined this possibility by using data from an intensive longitudinal (daily) study of college student drinkers (N = 1461, 54% women). We also examined individual differences in coping and enha…
Visualizing the Influence of Social Networks on Recovery
Background: Social recovery capital (SRC) refers to resources and supports gained through relationships and is vital to adolescent addiction recovery. Much is known about how substance use relates to social networks, but little is known about how other dimensions of social networks influence recovery (e.g., network size/exposure, degree of conflict). Methods: This mixed-methods study sampled 28 adolescents who received treatment for alcohol and o…
A qualitative examination of addiction disclosure and stigma among recovering adolescents
These results support recommendations for family, peers, and youth-facing providers to engage youth in treatment. Future work should aim to increase disclosure skills and coping strategies for adolescents experiencing AOD recovery, and educational efforts for practitioners, families, and peers on ways to have conversations around AOD recovery with adolescents that best support their recovery
E-Cigarette Use in Young Adult Never Cigarette Smokers with Disabilities
Young adult never cigarette smokers with disabilities may be at particular risk for adopting e-cigarettes, but little attention has been paid to these people. This study examines the associations between different types of disability and e-cigarette use in this population. Young adult never-smokers from the 2016-2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey who were either never or current e-cigarette users ( n = 79,177) were sel…
Cigarette smoking and electronic cigarette vaping patterns as a function of e-cigarette flavourings
The findings suggest that adoption of e-cigarettes in smokers may influence smoking rates and that e-cigarette flavourings can moderate this effect. e-Cigarette vaping rates are also influenced by flavourings. These findings may have implications for the utility of e-cigarettes as a nicotine replacement device and for the regulation of flavourings in e-cigarettes for harm reduction
The role of self-efficacy in the treatment of substance use disorders
The Dynamics of Stress, Coping, and Health
The idea of coping has been central to our understanding of adaptation to stressors for more than 30 years. Models of coping have included factors such as traits or other dispositions, appraisals, expectancies, moods, characteristics of the situation, and health outcomes themselves. Despite the fact that coping theory was initially construed as dynamic and transactional in nature, most models of coping have been unidirectional, and have treated c…
Self-Efficacy as a Moderator of Perceived Control Effects on Cardiovascular Reactivity
We have found that enhanced control has an attenuating effect on cardiovascular reactivity when effort of responding is maintained constant; however, not all individuals will react to increased control in the same manner. In the present study, 40 subjects engaged in a mental arithmetic task under high control (self-paced) and low control (externally paced) conditions. Subjects' self-efficacy concerning this task was assessed. As expected, signifi…
Self-efficacy and perceived control
The cold-pressor task was used with 102 female undergraduates in 2 experiments to determine (a) whether self-efficacy has validity as a true causal determinant of behavior change or is a correlate of change that has already occurred and (b) how perceptions of control and self-efficacy interact to determine choice behavior, persistence, and the impact of an aversive stimulus. Results of Experiment 1 indicate that self-efficacy expectations affecte…
The Dynamics of Stress, Coping, and Health
The idea of coping has been central to our understanding of adaptation to stressors for more than 30 years. Models of coping have included factors such as traits or other dispositions, appraisals, expectancies, moods, characteristics of the situation, and health outcomes themselves. Despite the fact that coping theory was initially construed as dynamic and transactional in nature, most models of coping have been unidirectional, and have treated c…
Self-efficacy and perceived control
The cold-pressor task was used with 102 female undergraduates in 2 experiments to determine (a) whether self-efficacy has validity as a true causal determinant of behavior change or is a correlate of change that has already occurred and (b) how perceptions of control and self-efficacy interact to determine choice behavior, persistence, and the impact of an aversive stimulus. Results of Experiment 1 indicate that self-efficacy expectations affecte…
Self-efficacy and perceived control
The cold-pressor task was used with 102 female undergraduates in 2 experiments to determine (a) whether self-efficacy has validity as a true causal determinant of behavior change or is a correlate of change that has already occurred and (b) how perceptions of control and self-efficacy interact to determine choice behavior, persistence, and the impact of an aversive stimulus. Results of Experiment 1 indicate that self-efficacy expectations affecte…
Self-Efficacy as a Moderator of Perceived Control Effects on Cardiovascular Reactivity
We have found that enhanced control has an attenuating effect on cardiovascular reactivity when effort of responding is maintained constant; however, not all individuals will react to increased control in the same manner. In the present study, 40 subjects engaged in a mental arithmetic task under high control (self-paced) and low control (externally paced) conditions. Subjects' self-efficacy concerning this task was assessed. As expected, signifi…
The Dynamics of Stress, Coping, and Health
The idea of coping has been central to our understanding of adaptation to stressors for more than 30 years. Models of coping have included factors such as traits or other dispositions, appraisals, expectancies, moods, characteristics of the situation, and health outcomes themselves. Despite the fact that coping theory was initially construed as dynamic and transactional in nature, most models of coping have been unidirectional, and have treated c…
The role of self-efficacy in the treatment of substance use disorders
Cigarette smoking and electronic cigarette vaping patterns as a function of e-cigarette flavourings
The findings suggest that adoption of e-cigarettes in smokers may influence smoking rates and that e-cigarette flavourings can moderate this effect. e-Cigarette vaping rates are also influenced by flavourings. These findings may have implications for the utility of e-cigarettes as a nicotine replacement device and for the regulation of flavourings in e-cigarettes for harm reduction
E-Cigarette Use in Young Adult Never Cigarette Smokers with Disabilities
Young adult never cigarette smokers with disabilities may be at particular risk for adopting e-cigarettes, but little attention has been paid to these people. This study examines the associations between different types of disability and e-cigarette use in this population. Young adult never-smokers from the 2016-2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) survey who were either never or current e-cigarette users ( n = 79,177) were sel…
Daily Stress, Drinking Motives and Alcohol Co-Use with Other Drugs
Background: Recent evidence indicates that alcohol and other substance co-use, compared to alcohol-only use, might be more closely associated with negative reinforcement processes, and thus more likely during periods of increased stress. The present study examined this possibility by using data from an intensive longitudinal (daily) study of college student drinkers (N = 1461, 54% women). We also examined individual differences in coping and enha…
Visualizing the Influence of Social Networks on Recovery
Background: Social recovery capital (SRC) refers to resources and supports gained through relationships and is vital to adolescent addiction recovery. Much is known about how substance use relates to social networks, but little is known about how other dimensions of social networks influence recovery (e.g., network size/exposure, degree of conflict). Methods: This mixed-methods study sampled 28 adolescents who received treatment for alcohol and o…
A qualitative examination of addiction disclosure and stigma among recovering adolescents
These results support recommendations for family, peers, and youth-facing providers to engage youth in treatment. Future work should aim to increase disclosure skills and coping strategies for adolescents experiencing AOD recovery, and educational efforts for practitioners, families, and peers on ways to have conversations around AOD recovery with adolescents that best support their recovery
Provider Implicit Racial Bias in Pediatric Sickle Cell Disease
Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (4 works) · Internal Medicine (4 works) · Developmental psychology (3 works) · Psychiatry (3 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (3 works) · Alcohol (2 works)