Alexander L Chapman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3604306 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexander L Chapman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexander L |
| FAMILY NAME | Chapman |
| SIGNATURE | CHAPMAN A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5236-3554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Temporal stability and volatility in population-level high-risk illicit polysubstance use by gender and marital status in the United States, 2002–2019
The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes and Pregnancy-Related Health
Income is positively correlated with pregnancy health and birth outcomes, but the causal evidence for this association is limited. Leveraging a natural experiment based on the Pennsylvania boom economy created by the extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale geological formation, we test whether area-level income gains impact birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and preterm birth) and pregnancy health (prepregnancy and prena…
Residential Immobility and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Quality
The research on residential mobility and residential displacement offers insight into racial and ethnic disparities in housing quality; however, scholars would benefit from contextualizing mobility and displacement within the overall housing picture. We expand the residential attainment framework by examining whether there are racial and ethnic differences in who makes residential moves and whether a higher immobility among Black and Hispanic hou…
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts
The growing use of digitized mental health applications requires new reliable early screening tools to identify user suicide risk. We used a lexicon-based random forest machine learning algorithm to predict suicide ideation scores from 714 online community text posts from December 2019 to April 2020. We validated predicted scores against expert-rated suicide ideation scores. The algorithm-predicted scores offered high validity and a low error rat…
The Opioid Crisis and Child Maltreatment Across Counties and Time in the United States, 2007–2017
Rising opioid mortality coincides with reported rises in child maltreatment since the early 2000s. I consider mechanisms that link the opioid epidemic and child maltreatment, focusing on social disorganization, the geographic and temporal patterns of opioid mortality, and community-level substance use and child maltreatment. I combine data from the ACS, CDC WONDER, and NCANDS in county-level analyses. I show a positive association between adult o…
Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century
The study of social networks is increasingly central to health research for medical sociologists and scholars in other fields. Here, we review the innovations in theory, substance, data collection, and methodology that have propelled the study of social networks and health from a niche subfield to the center of larger sociological and scientific debates. In particular, we contextualize the broader history of network analysis and its connections t…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Treatment of Emotion Dysregulation
Developed to treat highly suicidal patients and often associated with the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has evolved into a transdiagnostic treatment addressing emotion dysregulation. DBT is an emotion-focused, comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment including individual therapy, group skills training, between-session skills coaching (phone coaching), and a therapist consultation team. …
Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns of Substance Use in the U.S. Opioid Crisis
Descriptions of the contemporary U.S. opioid crisis emphasize several “waves” of overdose deaths. However, a focus on trends in overdose deaths may obscure important sociological dynamics. The authors provide heatmap visualizations of estimated annual rates of past-year substance use, rather than overdose deaths, for prescription pain relievers and heroin. These visualizations are based on weighted analyses of self-reports, cross-classified by ag…
Racial and ethnic differences in the associations between social integration, C-reactive protein and depressive symptoms
This study evaluates whether the associations between social integration, inflammation, and depressive symptoms vary by race/ethnicity in the United States. Our study includes 5,634 respondents age 40 and older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2005-2008. We fit multivariate logistic regression models with interactions between C-reactive protein (CRP) and race/ethnicity as well as social integration and race/ethnicity …
What Can Sociogenomics Learn from Social By Nature ? A review of social by nature, by Catherine Bliss
Social by Nature , the recent book by Catherine Bliss on the development and state of the field of sociogenomics, is far from perfect. Yet, this flawed book levies a mixture of erroneous and compelling questions about the state of the field of sociogenomics, many of which we as a field would benefit from considering: How should we bring the environment back in the post-GWAS era? How do the publication and funding incentives of our field influence…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger
The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook for anxiety
The role of emotional responding and childhood maltreatment in the development and maintenance of deliberate self-harm among male undergraduates
Despite recent findings indicating comparable rates of deliberate self-harm across gender (Gratz, Conrad, & Roemer, 2002; Klonsky, Oltmanns, & Turkheimer, 2003; Muehlenkamp & Gutierrez, 2004; Zoroglu et al., 2003), little research has examined the pathogenesis of self-harm among men. Thus, the prese
Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm
Developmental Guidance
The role of emotional responding and childhood maltreatment in the development and maintenance of deliberate self-harm among male undergraduates
Despite recent findings indicating comparable rates of deliberate self-harm across gender (Gratz, Conrad, & Roemer, 2002; Klonsky, Oltmanns, & Turkheimer, 2003; Muehlenkamp & Gutierrez, 2004; Zoroglu et al., 2003), little research has examined the pathogenesis of self-harm among men. Thus, the prese
Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century
The study of social networks is increasingly central to health research for medical sociologists and scholars in other fields. Here, we review the innovations in theory, substance, data collection, and methodology that have propelled the study of social networks and health from a niche subfield to the center of larger sociological and scientific debates. In particular, we contextualize the broader history of network analysis and its connections t…
The Opioid Crisis and Child Maltreatment Across Counties and Time in the United States, 2007–2017
Rising opioid mortality coincides with reported rises in child maltreatment since the early 2000s. I consider mechanisms that link the opioid epidemic and child maltreatment, focusing on social disorganization, the geographic and temporal patterns of opioid mortality, and community-level substance use and child maltreatment. I combine data from the ACS, CDC WONDER, and NCANDS in county-level analyses. I show a positive association between adult o…
Developmental Guidance
Solving the puzzle of deliberate self-harm
The role of emotional responding and childhood maltreatment in the development and maintenance of deliberate self-harm among male undergraduates
Despite recent findings indicating comparable rates of deliberate self-harm across gender (Gratz, Conrad, & Roemer, 2002; Klonsky, Oltmanns, & Turkheimer, 2003; Muehlenkamp & Gutierrez, 2004; Zoroglu et al., 2003), little research has examined the pathogenesis of self-harm among men. Thus, the prese
The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook for anxiety
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anger
What Can Sociogenomics Learn from Social By Nature ? A review of social by nature, by Catherine Bliss
Social by Nature , the recent book by Catherine Bliss on the development and state of the field of sociogenomics, is far from perfect. Yet, this flawed book levies a mixture of erroneous and compelling questions about the state of the field of sociogenomics, many of which we as a field would benefit from considering: How should we bring the environment back in the post-GWAS era? How do the publication and funding incentives of our field influence…
Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Treatment of Emotion Dysregulation
Developed to treat highly suicidal patients and often associated with the treatment of borderline personality disorder (BPD), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has evolved into a transdiagnostic treatment addressing emotion dysregulation. DBT is an emotion-focused, comprehensive cognitive-behavioral treatment including individual therapy, group skills training, between-session skills coaching (phone coaching), and a therapist consultation team. …
Visualizing Age, Period, and Cohort Patterns of Substance Use in the U.S. Opioid Crisis
Descriptions of the contemporary U.S. opioid crisis emphasize several “waves” of overdose deaths. However, a focus on trends in overdose deaths may obscure important sociological dynamics. The authors provide heatmap visualizations of estimated annual rates of past-year substance use, rather than overdose deaths, for prescription pain relievers and heroin. These visualizations are based on weighted analyses of self-reports, cross-classified by ag…
Racial and ethnic differences in the associations between social integration, C-reactive protein and depressive symptoms
This study evaluates whether the associations between social integration, inflammation, and depressive symptoms vary by race/ethnicity in the United States. Our study includes 5,634 respondents age 40 and older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey for 2005-2008. We fit multivariate logistic regression models with interactions between C-reactive protein (CRP) and race/ethnicity as well as social integration and race/ethnicity …
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts
The growing use of digitized mental health applications requires new reliable early screening tools to identify user suicide risk. We used a lexicon-based random forest machine learning algorithm to predict suicide ideation scores from 714 online community text posts from December 2019 to April 2020. We validated predicted scores against expert-rated suicide ideation scores. The algorithm-predicted scores offered high validity and a low error rat…
The Opioid Crisis and Child Maltreatment Across Counties and Time in the United States, 2007–2017
Rising opioid mortality coincides with reported rises in child maltreatment since the early 2000s. I consider mechanisms that link the opioid epidemic and child maltreatment, focusing on social disorganization, the geographic and temporal patterns of opioid mortality, and community-level substance use and child maltreatment. I combine data from the ACS, CDC WONDER, and NCANDS in county-level analyses. I show a positive association between adult o…
Analytic Advances in Social Networks and Health in the Twenty-First Century
The study of social networks is increasingly central to health research for medical sociologists and scholars in other fields. Here, we review the innovations in theory, substance, data collection, and methodology that have propelled the study of social networks and health from a niche subfield to the center of larger sociological and scientific debates. In particular, we contextualize the broader history of network analysis and its connections t…
Residential Immobility and Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Housing Quality
The research on residential mobility and residential displacement offers insight into racial and ethnic disparities in housing quality; however, scholars would benefit from contextualizing mobility and displacement within the overall housing picture. We expand the residential attainment framework by examining whether there are racial and ethnic differences in who makes residential moves and whether a higher immobility among Black and Hispanic hou…
The Causal Effect of Increasing Area-Level Income on Birth Outcomes and Pregnancy-Related Health
Income is positively correlated with pregnancy health and birth outcomes, but the causal evidence for this association is limited. Leveraging a natural experiment based on the Pennsylvania boom economy created by the extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale geological formation, we test whether area-level income gains impact birth outcomes (birth weight, gestational length, and preterm birth) and pregnancy health (prepregnancy and prena…
Temporal stability and volatility in population-level high-risk illicit polysubstance use by gender and marital status in the United States, 2002–2019
Psychology (10 works) · Psychiatry (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Demography (5 works) · Population (4 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (4 works) · Clinical Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works)