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Abby L. Goldstein

Abby L. Goldstein

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Psychology

D-Index
31
Citations
3371
World Ranking
11234
National Ranking
780

Overview

Abby L. Goldstein is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and has contributed significantly to the field of Psychology, with a primary focus on clinical psychology. Their research spans diverse subfields including clinical psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, general health professions, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their scholarly work addresses a range of topics, notably COVID-19 and mental health, psychological well-being and life satisfaction, homelessness and social issues, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, family support in illness, substance abuse treatment and outcomes, and mental health treatment and access.

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Abby L. Goldstein include:

  • When social isolation is nothing new: A longitudinal study on psychological distress during COVID-19 among university students with and without preexisting mental health concerns, 2020, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
  • Stressful Experiences in University Predict Non-suicidal Self-Injury Through Emotional Reactivity, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Access to mental health and addiction services for youth and their families in Ontario: perspectives of parents, youth, and service providers, 2023, International Journal of Mental Health Systems
  • Navigating inequities in the delivery of youth mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic: perspectives of youth, families, and service providers, 2022, Canadian Journal of Public Health
  • Dynamics of daily positive and negative affect and relations to anxiety and depression symptoms in a transdiagnostic clinical sample, 2022, Depression and Anxiety

Abby L. Goldstein frequently collaborates with other researchers in their field. Notable co-authors include:

  • Chloe A. Hamza
  • Nancy L. Heath
  • Lexi Ewing
  • Toula Kourgiantakis
  • Eunjung Lee

Their publications have appeared repeatedly in venues such as Emerging Adulthood, Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Journal of Child and Family Studies, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Best Publications

  • When social isolation is nothing new: A longitudinal study psychological distress during COVID-19 among university students with and without preexisting mental health concerns

    Chloe A. Hamza;Lexi Ewing;Nancy L. Heath;Abby L. Goldstein

  • The relationship among internal resilience, smoking, alcohol use, and depression symptoms in emerging adults transitioning out of child welfare.

    Abby L. Goldstein;Breanne Faulkner;Christine Wekerle

  • Child maltreatment, alcohol use and drinking consequences among male and female college students: An examination of drinking motives as mediators.

    Abby L. Goldstein;Gordon L. Flett;Christine Wekerle

  • Examining alcohol outcome expectancies in laboratory and naturalistic bar settings: A within-subject experimental analysis.

    Anne-Marie Wall;Sherry A. Mckee;Riley E. Hinson;Abby Goldstein

  • "I'll never drink like that again": characteristics of alcohol-related incidents and predictors of motivation to change in college students.

    Nancy P. Barnett;Abby L. Goldstein;James G. Murphy;Suzanne M. Colby

  • Antecedents, correlates, and consequences of feeling like you don't matter: Associations with maltreatment, loneliness, social anxiety, and the five-factor model

    Gordon L. Flett;Abby L. Goldstein;Ingrid G. Pechenkov;Taryn Nepon

  • Brief alcohol intervention in the emergency department: moderators of effectiveness.

    Maureen A Walton;Abby L Goldstein;Abby L Goldstein;Stephen T Chermack;Ryan J McCammon

  • Rates and correlates of violent behaviors among adolescents treated in an urban emergency department.

    Maureen A. Walton;Rebecca M. Cunningham;Abby L. Goldstein;Stephen T. Chermack

  • Three-month follow-up of brief computerized and therapist interventions for alcohol and violence among teens.

    Rebecca M. Cunningham;Maureen A. Walton;Abby Goldstein;Stephen T. Chermack

  • Perfectionism, mattering, and depression: A mediational analysis

    Gordon L. Flett;Ingrid Galfi-Pechenkov;Danielle S. Molnar;Paul L. Hewitt

  • Drinking in Conjunction With Sexual Experiences Among At-Risk College Student Drinkers

    Abby L. Goldstein;Nancy P. Barnett;C. Teal Pedlow;James G. Murphy

  • Measuring adolescent dating violence: Development of ‘conflict in adolescent dating relationships inventory’ short form

    Liria Fernández-González;Christine Wekerle;Abby L Goldstein

  • Personality, child maltreatment, and substance use: Examining correlates of deliberate self-harm among university students.

    Abby L. Goldstein;Gordon L. Flett;Christine Wekerle;Anne-Marie Wall

  • Personality, alcohol use, and drinking motives: a comparison of independent and combined internal drinking motives groups

    Abby L. Goldstein;Gordon L. Flett

  • Effects of an implicit mood prime on the accessibility of smoking expectancies in college women.

    Sherry A. McKee;Anne-Marie Wall;Riley E. Hinson;Abby Goldstein

  • Pathways from childhood maltreatment to emerging adulthood: investigating trauma-mediated substance use and dating violence outcomes among child protective services-involved youth

    Breanne Faulkner;Abby L. Goldstein;Christine Wekerle

  • Correlates of Gambling Among Youth in an Inner City Emergency Department

    Abby L. Goldstein;Maureen A. Walton;Rebecca M. Cunningham;Stella M. Resko

  • Violence and substance use as risk factors for depressive symptoms among adolescents in an urban emergency department.

    Abby L. Goldstein;Maureen A. Walton;Rebecca M. Cunningham;Matthew J. Trowbridge

  • Accessibility of alcohol expectancies from memory: impact of mood and motives in college student drinkers.

    Abby L Goldstein;Anne-Marie Wall;Sherry A McKee;Riley E Hinson

  • Childhood sexual abuse, sexual motives, and adolescent sexual risk-taking among males and females receiving child welfare services

    Christine Wekerle;Abby L. Goldstein;Masako Tanaka;Lil Tonmyr

Frequent Co-Authors

Christine Wekerle
Christine Wekerle McMaster University
Sherry H. Stewart
Sherry H. Stewart Dalhousie University
Gordon L. Flett
Gordon L. Flett York University
Maureen A. Walton
Maureen A. Walton University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Paul L. Hewitt
Paul L. Hewitt University of British Columbia
Joanna Henderson
Joanna Henderson Centre for Addiction and Mental Health
Stephen T. Chermack
Stephen T. Chermack University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Marc A. Zimmerman
Marc A. Zimmerman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nancy P. Barnett
Nancy P. Barnett Brown University
Sherry A. McKee
Sherry A. McKee Yale University

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