Alan W Stacy
Biographic Data
| ID | 303902 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alan W Stacy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alan W |
| FAMILY NAME | Stacy |
| SIGNATURE | STACY A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Claremont Graduate University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3217-9271 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Effectiveness of drug-attention-control training on detoxified drug users’ attentional bias and other treatment indices
Validity and Reliability of a Revised S-UPPS-P Impulsive Behavior Scale: The Interplay between Impulsivity and Working Memory
Impulsivity is a multidimensional construct. The UPPS-P model of impulsivity differentiates five distinct dimensions: negative urgency, positive urgency, lack of premeditation, lack of perseverance, and sensation seeking. The present study, reports the first translation and validation of the recently revised short form of the UPPS-P scale (S-UPPS-P) on a Persian-speaking sample, examining the relationship between impulsivity and working memory. w…
Working Memory and Response Inhibition Effects on At-Risk Youth’s Willingness to Use Multiple Nicotine and Tobacco Products
Purpose: Past research has suggested that executive functions, such as working memory and response inhibition, predict the use of nicotine and tobacco products (NTPs). The current study extends prior research by assessing whether response inhibition and working memory are associated with at-risk youth’s willingness to use NTPs. Methods: A sample of 1060 at-risk youth were recruited from alternative high schools in southern California. Participant…
The Effect of E-cigarette Commercials on Youth Smoking: A Prospective Study
Objectives: In this study, we assessed whether commercials for electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) influence the use of e-cigarettes, cigarettes, and cigars among high-risk youth in southern California. Methods: We recruited students (N = 1060) from 29 alternative high schools into a prospective cohort study. We used multilevel Poisson regression models to examine whether exposure to e-cigarette commercials and perceptions of their appeal predic…
Trajectories of cannabis-related associative memory among vulnerable adolescents: Psychometric and longitudinal evaluations
Indirect tests of memory associations relevant to cannabis have been shown to be useful in explaining and predicting adolescent cannabis use habits. This study sought to increase the understanding of adolescent cannabis-related associative memory and cannabis use behavior over time. A longitudinal sample of alternative high school students (N = 775) was assessed yearly for 3 years. The study first conducted extensive longitudinal measurement anal…
Predictive utility and measurement properties of the Strength of Implementation Intentions Scale (Siis) for condom use
Self-regulation interventions to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in adolescents
The development of a new condom use expectancy scale for at-risk adults
Inhibitory control effects in adolescent binge eating and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and snacks
Measuring Acculturation Gap Conflicts Among Hispanics: Implications for Psychosocial and Academic Adjustment
This study examined the factor structure and validity of the Acculturation Gap Conflicts Inventory (AGCI), a new instrument developed to measure the types of recurring conflicts that young people experience as part of the parent-child acculturation gap. Participants included 283 Hispanic young adults who completed the AGCI and existing measures of acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial, and academic adjustment. Principal axis factor analysi…
Effects of a one-hour intervention on condom implementation intentions among drug users in Southern California
Approximately 36% of HIV cases are related to substance abuse. Substance abusers, including non-injection drug users, are at a high-risk for contracting HIV due to risky behaviors, including unprotected sex. Due to these behavioral and infection risks, feasible interventions that focus on condom use within this population are imperative. The current study involved the development of brief intervention designed to increase implementation intention…
Sweetened drink and snacking cues in adolescents. A study using ecological momentary assessment
Dual Process Interaction Model of HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Drug Offenders
Implicit Cognition and Addiction: A Tool for Explaining Paradoxical Behavior
Research on implicit cognition and addiction has expanded greatly during the past decade. This research area provides new ways to understand why people engage in behaviors that they know are harmful or counterproductive in the long run. Implicit cognition takes a different view from traditional cognitive approaches to addiction by assuming that behavior is often not a result of a reflective decision that takes into account the pros and cons known…
Are alcohol expectancies associations? Comment on Moss and Albery (2009)
Moss and Albery presented a dual-process model of the alcohol-behavior link, integrating alcohol expectancy and alcohol myopia theory. Their integrative theory rests on a number of assumptions including, first, that alcohol expectancies are associations that can be activated automatically by an alcohol-relevant context, and second, that alcohol selectively reduces propositional reasoning. As a result, behavior comes under the control of associati…
Automatic and controlled processes and the development of addictive behaviors in adolescents: A review and a model
Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction
Content Analysis of Drug Offenders' Sketches on the Draw-an-Event Test for Risky Sexual Situations
Objectives: To evaluate the utility of the Draw-an-Event Test for risky sexual situations (DET-RS), a nonverbal memory-based assessment tool used for productions of spontaneous content associated with risky sex. Methods: Traditional holistic coding analysis of 298 drug offenders' content productions. Results: Content analyses of DET-RS sketches provided increased understanding of substance use and other context preceding risky sexual situations w…
Exposure to Televised Alcohol Ads and Subsequent Adolescent Alcohol Use
Although replication is warranted, results showed that exposure was associated with an increased risk of subsequent beer consumption and possibly other consumption variables
Alcohol Advertising Exposure and Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Comparison of Exposure Measures
Previous studies have noted an association between exposure to alcohol advertising and adolescent alcohol use. However, exposure to alcohol advertising has been measured in various ways by many researchers. This study examined several different measures of exposure to alcohol advertising, including general television exposure, exposure to televised sports, perceived frequency of alcohol advertising exposure, advertisement recognition, receptivity…
Self-Reported High-Risk Locations of Drug Use among Drug Offenders: Ethnic and Gender Differences
This study provides a detailed multiple-choice self-report analysis of home, work, and other public locations where drug offenders report using drugs. Specific settings were examined as a function of gender and Latino versus Anglo ethnicity. The participants for this study were 391 individuals attending drug diversion programs in Southern California. The single most frequently reported location of use was the participants’living rooms with a smal…
Habit, Intention, and Drug Use as Interactive Predictors of Condom Use Among Drug Abusers
One-year Prediction of Violence Perpetration Among High-risk Youth
OBJECTIVE: Measures of drug use, law-abidance beliefs, sensation seeking, fear of victimization, high-risk group identification, self-protection needs and behaviors, and demographics were investigated as longitudinal predictors of violence perpetration among 870 high-risk adolescents. METHOD: Self-reports from the same youth were obtained 1-year apart. RESULTS: In addition tobaseline violence perpetration, marijuana use, relatively young age, mal…
Project towards no tobacco use: 1-Year Behavior Outcomes
OBJECTIVES. We present 1-year follow-up data from a school-based tobacco use prevention project designed to test the effectiveness of three main components of social influence programs. The components teach refusal skills, awareness of social misperceptions about tobacco use, and misconceptions about physical consequences. METHODS. Four different curricula were developed and tested in a randomized experiment involving 48 junior high schools. The …
The alcohol warning label and adolescents: The first year
Awareness of the alcohol labeling law and exposure to, beliefs about, and memory for the government-mandated alcohol warning label were measured in a sample of adolescents immediately before the label was required to appear (in the fall of 1989) and 1 year after the label was required. After the label was required, there were increases in awareness, exposure, and recognition memory, but there were not substantial changes in alcohol use or beliefs…
Inhibitory control effects in adolescent binge eating and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and snacks
Measuring Acculturation Gap Conflicts Among Hispanics: Implications for Psychosocial and Academic Adjustment
This study examined the factor structure and validity of the Acculturation Gap Conflicts Inventory (AGCI), a new instrument developed to measure the types of recurring conflicts that young people experience as part of the parent-child acculturation gap. Participants included 283 Hispanic young adults who completed the AGCI and existing measures of acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial, and academic adjustment. Principal axis factor analysi…
Sweetened drink and snacking cues in adolescents. A study using ecological momentary assessment
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…
Expectancy models of alcohol use
The primary goal of the present article is to compare expectancy models with competing attitude models of alcohol use. First, several methodological issues in expectancy research were addressed, to more adequately compare the theoretical models. Study 1 examined the effect of possible self-report biases on associations among expectancy constructs and alcohol use. In Studies 2 and 3, the basic distinction between general factors of positive and ne…
On the scope of alcohol expectancy research: Remaining issues of measurement and meaning
An article by Leigh (1989d) examined certain substantive and measurement-related limitations of research on alcohol outcome expectancies. Leigh (1989d) criticized research in this field on both conceptual and methodological grounds and speculated on future theoretical directions for research in the field. In their response, Goldman, Brown, Christiansen, and Smith (1991) contended that Leigh's critique is faulty in important respects. However, som…
Self-regulation interventions to reduce consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in adolescents
Project towards no tobacco use: 1-Year Behavior Outcomes
OBJECTIVES. We present 1-year follow-up data from a school-based tobacco use prevention project designed to test the effectiveness of three main components of social influence programs. The components teach refusal skills, awareness of social misperceptions about tobacco use, and misconceptions about physical consequences. METHODS. Four different curricula were developed and tested in a randomized experiment involving 48 junior high schools. The …
The alcohol warning label and adolescents: The first year
Awareness of the alcohol labeling law and exposure to, beliefs about, and memory for the government-mandated alcohol warning label were measured in a sample of adolescents immediately before the label was required to appear (in the fall of 1989) and 1 year after the label was required. After the label was required, there were increases in awareness, exposure, and recognition memory, but there were not substantial changes in alcohol use or beliefs…
Music preference as a diagnostic indicator of adolescent drug use
Music preference as a diagnostic indicator of adolescent drug use. C W Dent, J Galaif, S Sussman, A W Stacy, D Burton, and B R FlayCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.82.1.124 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Personality, problem drinking, and drunk driving: Mediating, moderating, and direct-effect models
Three different general explanations of the effect of personality on problems from drinking alcohol were investigated. One general explanation involved mediating effects. The 2nd explanation involved direct effects of personality. The 3rd general personality process held that alcohol consumption and personality interact as moderating effects on drinking problems. Results provided support for each of the 3 general explanations of personality effec…
Structural-equation models of current drug use: Are appropriate models so simple(x)
The development of a new condom use expectancy scale for at-risk adults
Are alcohol expectancies associations? Comment on Moss and Albery (2009)
Moss and Albery presented a dual-process model of the alcohol-behavior link, integrating alcohol expectancy and alcohol myopia theory. Their integrative theory rests on a number of assumptions including, first, that alcohol expectancies are associations that can be activated automatically by an alcohol-relevant context, and second, that alcohol selectively reduces propositional reasoning. As a result, behavior comes under the control of associati…
Validity of self-reports of alcohol and other drug use: A multitrait-multimethod assessment
Four methods (self-reported rating, self-reported intake, peer-reported rating, peer-reported intake) and multiple analytical criteria were employed to assess the construct validity of reports of three types of substance use (alcohol, marijuana, and cigarettes) in a study of 194 college students who were members of friendship pairs. The resulting multitrait-multimethod matrix was analyzed in the traditional fashion as well as with confirmatory fa…
Structural-equation models of current drug use: Are appropriate models so simple(x)
Expectancy models of alcohol use
The primary goal of the present article is to compare expectancy models with competing attitude models of alcohol use. First, several methodological issues in expectancy research were addressed, to more adequately compare the theoretical models. Study 1 examined the effect of possible self-report biases on associations among expectancy constructs and alcohol use. In Studies 2 and 3, the basic distinction between general factors of positive and ne…
Biases in the perception of drinking norms among college students.
Individual drinking patterns and the perceived typical drinking patterns of close friends and reference groups were assessed in two different studies with college students. In both studies virtually all students reported that their friends drank more than they did. These effects were found across different levels of individual drinking, within different types of samples, across gender of subjects and with different types of questionnaire assessme…
Personality, problem drinking, and drunk driving: Mediating, moderating, and direct-effect models
Three different general explanations of the effect of personality on problems from drinking alcohol were investigated. One general explanation involved mediating effects. The 2nd explanation involved direct effects of personality. The 3rd general personality process held that alcohol consumption and personality interact as moderating effects on drinking problems. Results provided support for each of the 3 general explanations of personality effec…
On the scope of alcohol expectancy research: Remaining issues of measurement and meaning
An article by Leigh (1989d) examined certain substantive and measurement-related limitations of research on alcohol outcome expectancies. Leigh (1989d) criticized research in this field on both conceptual and methodological grounds and speculated on future theoretical directions for research in the field. In their response, Goldman, Brown, Christiansen, and Smith (1991) contended that Leigh's critique is faulty in important respects. However, som…
Music preference as a diagnostic indicator of adolescent drug use
Music preference as a diagnostic indicator of adolescent drug use. C W Dent, J Galaif, S Sussman, A W Stacy, D Burton, and B R FlayCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.82.1.124 Published Online: October 07, 2011
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…
Project towards no tobacco use: 1-Year Behavior Outcomes
OBJECTIVES. We present 1-year follow-up data from a school-based tobacco use prevention project designed to test the effectiveness of three main components of social influence programs. The components teach refusal skills, awareness of social misperceptions about tobacco use, and misconceptions about physical consequences. METHODS. Four different curricula were developed and tested in a randomized experiment involving 48 junior high schools. The …
The alcohol warning label and adolescents: The first year
Awareness of the alcohol labeling law and exposure to, beliefs about, and memory for the government-mandated alcohol warning label were measured in a sample of adolescents immediately before the label was required to appear (in the fall of 1989) and 1 year after the label was required. After the label was required, there were increases in awareness, exposure, and recognition memory, but there were not substantial changes in alcohol use or beliefs…
Habit, Intention, and Drug Use as Interactive Predictors of Condom Use Among Drug Abusers
One-year Prediction of Violence Perpetration Among High-risk Youth
OBJECTIVE: Measures of drug use, law-abidance beliefs, sensation seeking, fear of victimization, high-risk group identification, self-protection needs and behaviors, and demographics were investigated as longitudinal predictors of violence perpetration among 870 high-risk adolescents. METHOD: Self-reports from the same youth were obtained 1-year apart. RESULTS: In addition tobaseline violence perpetration, marijuana use, relatively young age, mal…
Self-Reported High-Risk Locations of Drug Use among Drug Offenders: Ethnic and Gender Differences
This study provides a detailed multiple-choice self-report analysis of home, work, and other public locations where drug offenders report using drugs. Specific settings were examined as a function of gender and Latino versus Anglo ethnicity. The participants for this study were 391 individuals attending drug diversion programs in Southern California. The single most frequently reported location of use was the participants’living rooms with a smal…
Alcohol Advertising Exposure and Adolescent Alcohol Use: A Comparison of Exposure Measures
Previous studies have noted an association between exposure to alcohol advertising and adolescent alcohol use. However, exposure to alcohol advertising has been measured in various ways by many researchers. This study examined several different measures of exposure to alcohol advertising, including general television exposure, exposure to televised sports, perceived frequency of alcohol advertising exposure, advertisement recognition, receptivity…
Exposure to Televised Alcohol Ads and Subsequent Adolescent Alcohol Use
Although replication is warranted, results showed that exposure was associated with an increased risk of subsequent beer consumption and possibly other consumption variables
Content Analysis of Drug Offenders' Sketches on the Draw-an-Event Test for Risky Sexual Situations
Objectives: To evaluate the utility of the Draw-an-Event Test for risky sexual situations (DET-RS), a nonverbal memory-based assessment tool used for productions of spontaneous content associated with risky sex. Methods: Traditional holistic coding analysis of 298 drug offenders' content productions. Results: Content analyses of DET-RS sketches provided increased understanding of substance use and other context preceding risky sexual situations w…
Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction
Automatic and controlled processes and the development of addictive behaviors in adolescents: A review and a model
Implicit Cognition and Addiction: A Tool for Explaining Paradoxical Behavior
Research on implicit cognition and addiction has expanded greatly during the past decade. This research area provides new ways to understand why people engage in behaviors that they know are harmful or counterproductive in the long run. Implicit cognition takes a different view from traditional cognitive approaches to addiction by assuming that behavior is often not a result of a reflective decision that takes into account the pros and cons known…
Are alcohol expectancies associations? Comment on Moss and Albery (2009)
Moss and Albery presented a dual-process model of the alcohol-behavior link, integrating alcohol expectancy and alcohol myopia theory. Their integrative theory rests on a number of assumptions including, first, that alcohol expectancies are associations that can be activated automatically by an alcohol-relevant context, and second, that alcohol selectively reduces propositional reasoning. As a result, behavior comes under the control of associati…
Dual Process Interaction Model of HIV-Risk Behaviors Among Drug Offenders
Effects of a one-hour intervention on condom implementation intentions among drug users in Southern California
Approximately 36% of HIV cases are related to substance abuse. Substance abusers, including non-injection drug users, are at a high-risk for contracting HIV due to risky behaviors, including unprotected sex. Due to these behavioral and infection risks, feasible interventions that focus on condom use within this population are imperative. The current study involved the development of brief intervention designed to increase implementation intention…
Sweetened drink and snacking cues in adolescents. A study using ecological momentary assessment
Inhibitory control effects in adolescent binge eating and consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and snacks
Measuring Acculturation Gap Conflicts Among Hispanics: Implications for Psychosocial and Academic Adjustment
This study examined the factor structure and validity of the Acculturation Gap Conflicts Inventory (AGCI), a new instrument developed to measure the types of recurring conflicts that young people experience as part of the parent-child acculturation gap. Participants included 283 Hispanic young adults who completed the AGCI and existing measures of acculturation, family dynamics, psychosocial, and academic adjustment. Principal axis factor analysi…
Psychology (31 works) · Behavioral Health and Interventions (17 works) · Medicine (17 works) · Developmental psychology (16 works) · Social Psychology (16 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (13 works) · Environmental health (13 works) · Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes (11 works) · Cognition (10 works)