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  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Byron L. Zamboanga is affiliated with the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, medicine, and social sciences, with significant focus on epidemiology, clinical psychology, and applied psychology. The scientist's work also engages with sociology, political science, and general health professions.

Their research concentrates on several core topics, including substance abuse treatment and outcomes, behavioral health and interventions, gambling behavior and treatments, racial and ethnic identity research, alcohol consumption and health effects, migration, health and trauma, as well as child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Byron L. Zamboanga has published extensively, contributing to a number of journals and venues. The most frequent publication venues include:

  • Substance Use & Misuse
  • Journal of American College Health
  • Emerging Adulthood
  • Addictive Behaviors
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Their recent papers highlight key areas of their research focus and include:

  • "Disentangling relationships between bicultural stress and mental well-being among Latinx immigrant adolescents." (2020, Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology)
  • "A meta-analysis of drinking game participation and alcohol-related outcomes." (2021, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors)
  • "Alcohol use severity among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining the roles of bicultural self-efficacy and acculturation." (2020, Addictive Behaviors)
  • "Directional Effects in Cultural Identity: A Family Systems Approach for Immigrant Latinx Families." (2021, Journal of Youth and Adolescence)
  • "Prologue to the special issue on predrinking and drinking game behaviors among adolescents and young adults in the United States and across the globe: Definitions and overview of prevalence rates." (2023, Addictive Behaviors)

The scientist's frequent collaborators include:

  • Lindsay S. Ham
  • Amie R. Newins
  • Alan Meca
  • Seth J. Schwartz
  • Michael B. Madson

Byron L. Zamboanga received the Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA) award in 2021.

Best Publications

  • Rethinking the concept of acculturation: implications for theory and research.

    Seth J. Schwartz;Jennifer B. Unger;Byron L. Zamboanga;José Szapocznik

  • The Questionnaire for Eudaimonic Well-Being: Psychometric properties, demographic comparisons, and evidence of validity

    Alan S. Waterman;Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Russell D. Ravert

  • Testing Berry's model of acculturation: A confirmatory latent class approach.

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga

  • Identity in emerging adulthood: Reviewing the field and looking forward

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Koen Luyckx;Alan Meca

  • Examining the Light and Dark Sides of Emerging Adults’ Identity: A Study of Identity Status Differences in Positive and Negative Psychosocial Functioning

    Seth J. Schwartz;Wim Beyers;Koen Luyckx;Bart Soenens

  • Ethnic identity and acculturation in Hispanic early adolescents: Mediated relationships to academic grades, prosocial behaviors, and externalizing symptoms.

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Lorna Hernandez Jarvis

  • Barriers to Community Mental Health Services for Latinos: Treatment Considerations

    Haig Kouyoumdjian;Byron L. Zamboanga;Byron L. Zamboanga;David J. Hansen

  • Communalism, familism, and filial piety: Are they birds of a collectivist feather?

    Seth J. Schwartz;Robert S. Weisskirch;Eric A. Hurley;Byron L. Zamboanga

  • The relationships of personal and ethnic identity exploration to indices of adaptive and maladaptive psychosocial functioning

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Robert S. Weisskirch;Liliana Rodriguez

  • Dimensions of acculturation: associations with health risk behaviors among college students from immigrant families.

    Seth J. Schwartz;Robert S. Weisskirch;Byron L. Zamboanga;Linda G. Castillo

  • Measuring Identity From an Eriksonian Perspective: Two Sides of the Same Coin?

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Wei Wang;Janine V. Olthuis

  • Acculturation and Substance Use Among Hispanic Early Adolescents: Investigating the Mediating Roles of Acculturative Stress and Self-Esteem

    Byron L. Zamboanga;Seth J. Schwartz;Lorna Hernandez Jarvis;Kathryne Van Tyne

  • The Structure of Cultural Identity in an Ethnically Diverse Sample of Emerging Adults

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Liliana Rodriguez;Sherry C. Wang

  • A Two-Factor Model of Ethnic Identity Exploration: Implications for Identity Coherence and Well-Being

    Moin Syed;Lovey H. M. Walker;Richard M. Lee;Adriana J. Umaña-Taylor

  • Academic Aptitude and Prior Knowledge as Predictors of Student Achievement in Introduction to Psychology

    Ross A. Thompson;Byron L. Zamboanga

  • Trajectories of Cultural Stressors and Effects on Mental Health and Substance Use Among Hispanic Immigrant Adolescents

    Seth J. Schwartz;Jennifer B. Unger;Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati;Byron L. Zamboanga

  • Depressive symptoms and externalizing behaviors among Hispanic immigrant adolescents: Examining longitudinal effects of cultural stress

    Miguel Ángel Cano;Seth J. Schwartz;Linda G. Castillo;Andrea J. Romero

  • Meaning in Life in Emerging Adulthood: A Person‐Oriented Approach

    Jessie Dezutter;Alan S. Waterman;Seth J. Schwartz;Koen Luyckx

  • Broadening the Study of the Self: Integrating the Study of Personal Identity and Cultural Identity

    Seth J. Schwartz;Byron L. Zamboanga;Robert S. Weisskirch

  • Risky business: Is there an association between casual sex and mental health among emerging adults?

    Melina M. Bersamin;Byron L. Zamboanga;Seth J. Schwartz;M. Brent Donnellan

  • The Multidimensionality of Prosocial Behaviors and Evidence of Measurement Equivalence in Mexican American and European American Early Adolescents

    Gustavo Carlo;George P. Knight;Meredith McGinley;Byron L. Zamboanga

Frequent Co-Authors

Seth J. Schwartz
Seth J. Schwartz The University of Texas at Austin
Lindsay S. Ham
Lindsay S. Ham University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Jennifer B. Unger
Jennifer B. Unger University of Southern California
Robert S. Weisskirch
Robert S. Weisskirch California State University, Monterey Bay
Miguel Ángel Cano
Miguel Ángel Cano The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Brian Borsari
Brian Borsari University of California, San Francisco
Daniel W. Soto
Daniel W. Soto University of Southern California
Susan Krauss Whitbourne
Susan Krauss Whitbourne University of Massachusetts Amherst
José Szapocznik
José Szapocznik University of Miami
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati
Lourdes Baezconde-Garbanati University of Southern California

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