Dana C Leighton

Biographic Data

ID4394950
NAMEDana C Leighton
GIVEN NAMESDana C
FAMILY NAMELeighton
SIGNATURELEIGHTON D C
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0003-0500-8530
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS18
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1967
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • Political Extremity, Social Media Use, Social Support, and Well-Being for Emerging Adults During the 2016 Presidential Election Campaign

    Open AccessDana C Leighton, Mark J Brandt et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2019

    The 2016 U.S. presidential election was marked by hostile political discourse, often on social media, where users were exposed to divergent, and potentially distressing, political discourse. This research explores the effects of this election on the well-being of emerging adults who receive the majority of their news via social media. Using data from the Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Institutions 2 Study, we expected greater social medi…

  • Emerging Adulthood MoA/Idea-8 Scale Characteristics From Multiple Institutions

    Open AccessCaitlin Faas, Joseph P Mcfall et al.ARTICLEEmerging Adulthood2018

    We tested psychometric properties of the Markers of Adulthood (MoA) importance scale and a revised Inventory of the Dimensions of Emerging Adulthood (IDEA-8) in a large, diverse multisite and multinational sample the Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Institutions 2 project. We used multilevel confirmatory factor analyses and multilevel alphas to examine external validity and internal consistency of the scales. We also performed correlationa…

  • Early Communications in the War Against Terrorism

    Open AccessPeter Suedfeld, Dana C LeightonARTICLEPolitical Psychology2002Cited by: 17References: 15

    Integrative complexity reflects the degree to which the source of a communication perceives several dimensions and points of view relevant to the topic (differentiation) and the degree to which such characteristics are seen as related to each other (integration). During international crises, bilateral decreases in the integrative complexity of communications frequently precede the outbreak of war; a unilateral decrease reliably precedes surprise …

  • Measuring stress levels in school children as a program-monitoring device

    Dana C LeightonARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health1972Cited by: 1References: 3

    Measuring stress levels in school children as a program-monitoring device. D C LeightonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.62.6.799 Published Online: October 07, 2011

  • Reliability of newly trained raters in community case finding

    Abraham Goldfarb, L E Moses et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health…1967

    Reliability of newly trained raters in community case finding. A Goldfarb, L E Moses, J J Downing, and D C LeightonCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.57.12.2149 Published Online: August 29, 2011