Lucy E Napper
Biographic Data
| ID | 214411 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy E Napper |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy E |
| FAMILY NAME | Napper |
| SIGNATURE | NAPPER L E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lehigh University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2510-3407 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 255 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
Background: Understanding college students’ reasons for limiting heavy drinking can inform and enhance harm reduction initiatives. Objectives: This study provided further psychometric evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking (RFLHD) scale, including model fit, construct validity, and test–retest reliability, among two national samples of college students across the United States. Study 1 consisted of 537 college students (Mage = 19.4…
Utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour for predicting parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against Covid-19
Vaccination is a crucial form of primary prevention, and it is important to understand the factors that influence parents' decisions to vaccinate their children. The current study examines the utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and anticipated affect for explaining parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. Parents ( N = 843) living in the United States completed an online survey. The TPB variables explained 6…
Looking out for You and Me: College students’ Strategies for Preventing Sexual Assault in Drinking Contexts
Background: Sexual assault and heavy alcohol use are prevalent and interrelated public health concerns on university campuses. Surprisingly, however, few alcohol harm reduction interventions address this intersection to help students reduce both personal and community risks for sexual assault in college drinking contexts. Objectives: In the current study, students (ages 18–24) shared strategies they use to protect themselves and others from sexua…
Protective behavioral strategies convey greater protection against alcohol-related problems for members of Greek life than non-members
To err is human: Bias salience can help overcome resistance to medical AI
Capturing connections during Covid-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging
Past research has highlighted a range of factors that impact college students' sense of belonging. It is less clear how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped college students' experience of belonging. The current study used a reflective photography approach to examine US college students' experience of belonging to their institution during the COVID-19 pandemic. Student responses included themes of: Physical Space, Community, Adaptation/Continuity, Id…
Utility of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire-Drinking Game (B-Yaacq-DG) scale in screening hazardous alcohol use among university student drinking gamers in the United States
Background Many young adults who are enrolled in a university play drinking games (DG), a risky drinking practice that is known to facilitate heavy alcohol consumption. DG participation is associated with increased risk for harm and as such, identifying university students at risk for experiencing DG harms is key. Standardized instruments designed to assess DG behavior and related outcomes are limited by having no established cutoffs to identify …
Mental Health Risk Profiles and Related Substance Use During Coronavirus Pandemic Among College Students Who Use Substances
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behavior with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on nav…
Mama Don’t Preach’: Young Adults’ Perceptions of Maternal Messages about Underage Drinking
College students commonly report that their parents provide advice about how to drink safely; however, there is very little research exploring the content of parent-child harm-reduction conversations. The present study explores the types of advice mothers provide underage college students about drinking. A random sample of college students (ages 18 to 20) completed an online survey about their alcohol use and conversations they had with their mot…
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Individual differences in self-affirmation: Distinguishing self-affirmation from positive self-regard
Research into self-affirmation has almost exclusively employed experimental manipulations. In this paper we address individual differences in the tendency to respond to threats with self-affirming cognitions and distinguish this from two overlapping constructs: habitual positive self-thought and trait self-esteem. Items we designed to measure self-affirmation were represented by three first-order factors and loaded on a higher-order factor, creat…
Assessing the Personal Negative Impacts of Hooking Up Experienced by College Students: Gender Differences and Mental Health
Hooking up is a normative behavior among college students that is associated with a range of positive and negative consequences. While previous research has primarily focused on women's negative experiences of hooking up, the current study explored the relationships among hooking up behaviors, psychological distress, and a broad range of negative effects of hooking up in both male and female college students. Using a multisite sample of college s…
The Longitudinal Relationships Among Injunctive Norms and Hooking Up Attitudes and Behaviors in College Students
Limited research has explored the influence of perceived injunctive norms for distal (e.g., typical student) and proximal (e.g., close friend and parents) referents on hooking up. The current study examined the longitudinal relationships among perceived injunctive norms, personal approval, and hooking up behavior, and the moderating effects of gender in a sample of heavy-drinking college students. At Time 1, participants completed Web-based asses…
Acculturation-Related Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Among Three Generations of Hispanic Adolescents
Stress associated with acculturation and minority status among Hispanic youth is understudied. Using survey data from the Hispanic Stress Inventory–Adolescent Version (HSI-A), we examined psychosocial stress across eight domains including family economic stress and acculturation-gap stress in a national sample of three generations (first, second, and third or higher) of Hispanic adolescents ( N = 1,263). Research questions addressed generation di…
Development of the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale
Past studies have used various methods to assess perceived risk of HIV infection; however, few have included multiple items covering different dimensions of risk perception or have examined the characteristics of individual items. This study describes the use of Item Response Theory (IRT) to develop a short measure of perceived risk of HIV infection scale (PRHS). An item pool was administered by trained interviewers to 771 participants. Participa…
African American Men and Hiv Testing in Long Beach, California
Methamphetamine and Viagra Use: Relationship to Sexual Risk Behaviors
Recent studies show that Viagra and methamphetamine use are associated with unprotected anal intercourse among men who have sex with men (MSM). In Long Beach, California, we have reported on an association between Viagra use and the use of amphetamines during sex. The current research investigated the use of both Viagra and amphetamine in men in Long Beach, California. Data on 1,839 men recruited into HIV prevention and testing programs were coll…
Proposing a Tentative Cut Point for the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory
Heterosexual Anal Sex Reported by Women Receiving HIV Prevention Services in Los Angeles County
Developing and Testing a Self-affirmation Manipulation
We developed a new manipulation of self-affirmation that is simple to use, can be employed when circumstances prevent pre-screening or using essay-based methods, and has a highly equivalent control task. In the process, we addressed theoretical and empirical questions highlighted in a recent review as requiring attention. In comparison to five controls, the manipulation promoted positive changes on measures designed to test whether people are sel…
Self-Affirmation and the Biased Processing of Threatening Health-Risk Information
Self-affirming before reading about the link between alcohol and breast cancer promoted increased message acceptance among young women at higher risk. Differences were maintained on variables measured up to 1 month later. Relative to their nonaffirmed counterparts, higher risk, self-affirmed participants had higher ratings of risk, imagination, intention to reduce alcohol consumption, and negative affect, such as fear, while reading the leaflet. …
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Acculturation-Related Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Among Three Generations of Hispanic Adolescents
Stress associated with acculturation and minority status among Hispanic youth is understudied. Using survey data from the Hispanic Stress Inventory–Adolescent Version (HSI-A), we examined psychosocial stress across eight domains including family economic stress and acculturation-gap stress in a national sample of three generations (first, second, and third or higher) of Hispanic adolescents ( N = 1,263). Research questions addressed generation di…
Assessing the Personal Negative Impacts of Hooking Up Experienced by College Students: Gender Differences and Mental Health
Hooking up is a normative behavior among college students that is associated with a range of positive and negative consequences. While previous research has primarily focused on women's negative experiences of hooking up, the current study explored the relationships among hooking up behaviors, psychological distress, and a broad range of negative effects of hooking up in both male and female college students. Using a multisite sample of college s…
The Longitudinal Relationships Among Injunctive Norms and Hooking Up Attitudes and Behaviors in College Students
Limited research has explored the influence of perceived injunctive norms for distal (e.g., typical student) and proximal (e.g., close friend and parents) referents on hooking up. The current study examined the longitudinal relationships among perceived injunctive norms, personal approval, and hooking up behavior, and the moderating effects of gender in a sample of heavy-drinking college students. At Time 1, participants completed Web-based asses…
Methamphetamine and Viagra Use: Relationship to Sexual Risk Behaviors
Recent studies show that Viagra and methamphetamine use are associated with unprotected anal intercourse among men who have sex with men (MSM). In Long Beach, California, we have reported on an association between Viagra use and the use of amphetamines during sex. The current research investigated the use of both Viagra and amphetamine in men in Long Beach, California. Data on 1,839 men recruited into HIV prevention and testing programs were coll…
Utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour for predicting parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against Covid-19
Vaccination is a crucial form of primary prevention, and it is important to understand the factors that influence parents' decisions to vaccinate their children. The current study examines the utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and anticipated affect for explaining parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. Parents ( N = 843) living in the United States completed an online survey. The TPB variables explained 6…
Proposing a Tentative Cut Point for the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory
Self-Affirmation and the Biased Processing of Threatening Health-Risk Information
Self-affirming before reading about the link between alcohol and breast cancer promoted increased message acceptance among young women at higher risk. Differences were maintained on variables measured up to 1 month later. Relative to their nonaffirmed counterparts, higher risk, self-affirmed participants had higher ratings of risk, imagination, intention to reduce alcohol consumption, and negative affect, such as fear, while reading the leaflet. …
Developing and Testing a Self-affirmation Manipulation
We developed a new manipulation of self-affirmation that is simple to use, can be employed when circumstances prevent pre-screening or using essay-based methods, and has a highly equivalent control task. In the process, we addressed theoretical and empirical questions highlighted in a recent review as requiring attention. In comparison to five controls, the manipulation promoted positive changes on measures designed to test whether people are sel…
Heterosexual Anal Sex Reported by Women Receiving HIV Prevention Services in Los Angeles County
Development of the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale
Past studies have used various methods to assess perceived risk of HIV infection; however, few have included multiple items covering different dimensions of risk perception or have examined the characteristics of individual items. This study describes the use of Item Response Theory (IRT) to develop a short measure of perceived risk of HIV infection scale (PRHS). An item pool was administered by trained interviewers to 771 participants. Participa…
African American Men and Hiv Testing in Long Beach, California
Methamphetamine and Viagra Use: Relationship to Sexual Risk Behaviors
Recent studies show that Viagra and methamphetamine use are associated with unprotected anal intercourse among men who have sex with men (MSM). In Long Beach, California, we have reported on an association between Viagra use and the use of amphetamines during sex. The current research investigated the use of both Viagra and amphetamine in men in Long Beach, California. Data on 1,839 men recruited into HIV prevention and testing programs were coll…
Proposing a Tentative Cut Point for the Compulsive Sexual Behavior Inventory
Acculturation-Related Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Among Three Generations of Hispanic Adolescents
Stress associated with acculturation and minority status among Hispanic youth is understudied. Using survey data from the Hispanic Stress Inventory–Adolescent Version (HSI-A), we examined psychosocial stress across eight domains including family economic stress and acculturation-gap stress in a national sample of three generations (first, second, and third or higher) of Hispanic adolescents ( N = 1,263). Research questions addressed generation di…
The Longitudinal Relationships Among Injunctive Norms and Hooking Up Attitudes and Behaviors in College Students
Limited research has explored the influence of perceived injunctive norms for distal (e.g., typical student) and proximal (e.g., close friend and parents) referents on hooking up. The current study examined the longitudinal relationships among perceived injunctive norms, personal approval, and hooking up behavior, and the moderating effects of gender in a sample of heavy-drinking college students. At Time 1, participants completed Web-based asses…
Assessing the Personal Negative Impacts of Hooking Up Experienced by College Students: Gender Differences and Mental Health
Hooking up is a normative behavior among college students that is associated with a range of positive and negative consequences. While previous research has primarily focused on women's negative experiences of hooking up, the current study explored the relationships among hooking up behaviors, psychological distress, and a broad range of negative effects of hooking up in both male and female college students. Using a multisite sample of college s…
Individual differences in self-affirmation: Distinguishing self-affirmation from positive self-regard
Research into self-affirmation has almost exclusively employed experimental manipulations. In this paper we address individual differences in the tendency to respond to threats with self-affirming cognitions and distinguish this from two overlapping constructs: habitual positive self-thought and trait self-esteem. Items we designed to measure self-affirmation were represented by three first-order factors and loaded on a higher-order factor, creat…
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a massive global health crisis. Because the crisis requires large-scale behaviour change and places significant psychological burdens on individuals, insights from the social and behavioural sciences can be used to help align human behavior with the recommendations of epidemiologists and public health experts. Here we discuss evidence from a selection of research topics relevant to pandemics, including work on nav…
Mama Don’t Preach’: Young Adults’ Perceptions of Maternal Messages about Underage Drinking
College students commonly report that their parents provide advice about how to drink safely; however, there is very little research exploring the content of parent-child harm-reduction conversations. The present study explores the types of advice mothers provide underage college students about drinking. A random sample of college students (ages 18 to 20) completed an online survey about their alcohol use and conversations they had with their mot…
Using social and behavioural science to support Covid-19 pandemic response
Mental Health Risk Profiles and Related Substance Use During Coronavirus Pandemic Among College Students Who Use Substances
Capturing connections during Covid-19: Using photography to assess US college students’ sense of belonging
Past research has highlighted a range of factors that impact college students' sense of belonging. It is less clear how the COVID-19 pandemic has shaped college students' experience of belonging. The current study used a reflective photography approach to examine US college students' experience of belonging to their institution during the COVID-19 pandemic. Student responses included themes of: Physical Space, Community, Adaptation/Continuity, Id…
Utility of the Brief Young Adult Alcohol Consequences Questionnaire-Drinking Game (B-Yaacq-DG) scale in screening hazardous alcohol use among university student drinking gamers in the United States
Background Many young adults who are enrolled in a university play drinking games (DG), a risky drinking practice that is known to facilitate heavy alcohol consumption. DG participation is associated with increased risk for harm and as such, identifying university students at risk for experiencing DG harms is key. Standardized instruments designed to assess DG behavior and related outcomes are limited by having no established cutoffs to identify …
Looking out for You and Me: College students’ Strategies for Preventing Sexual Assault in Drinking Contexts
Background: Sexual assault and heavy alcohol use are prevalent and interrelated public health concerns on university campuses. Surprisingly, however, few alcohol harm reduction interventions address this intersection to help students reduce both personal and community risks for sexual assault in college drinking contexts. Objectives: In the current study, students (ages 18–24) shared strategies they use to protect themselves and others from sexua…
Protective behavioral strategies convey greater protection against alcohol-related problems for members of Greek life than non-members
To err is human: Bias salience can help overcome resistance to medical AI
A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
Background: Understanding college students’ reasons for limiting heavy drinking can inform and enhance harm reduction initiatives. Objectives: This study provided further psychometric evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking (RFLHD) scale, including model fit, construct validity, and test–retest reliability, among two national samples of college students across the United States. Study 1 consisted of 537 college students (Mage = 19.4…
Utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour for predicting parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against Covid-19
Vaccination is a crucial form of primary prevention, and it is important to understand the factors that influence parents' decisions to vaccinate their children. The current study examines the utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) and anticipated affect for explaining parents' intentions to vaccinate their children against COVID-19. Parents ( N = 843) living in the United States completed an online survey. The TPB variables explained 6…
Psychology (21 works) · Medicine (14 works) · Social Psychology (13 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Social Psychology (7 works) · Clinical Psychology (6 works) · Public health (6 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (5 works)