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Overview

David R. Johnson is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, predominantly mathematics and psychology, with significant contributions to subfields including statistics and probability, clinical psychology, sociology and political science, health information management, and economics and econometrics.

The scientist's main research topics encompass advanced causal inference techniques, statistical methods and inference, income, poverty, and inequality, child therapy and development, counseling, therapy, and family dynamics, child abuse and trauma, and the use of film in education and therapy.

Frequent publication venues for David R. Johnson include arXiv (Cornell University), the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology, Drama Therapy Review, and the Journal of Clinical Psychology.

  • Multiple Imputation with Massive Data: An Application to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2021, Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology)
  • A DvT-based clinical assessment of toxic stress in young children (2020, Drama Therapy Review)
  • Achieving presence in film and psychotherapy (2020, Journal of Clinical Psychology)
  • Multiple Imputation with Massive Data: An Application to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • Extending the Joint Probability Method to Compound Flooding: Statistical Delineation of Transition Zones and Design Event Selection (2025, arXiv (Cornell University))

David R. Johnson has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including Yajuan Si, Steve Heeringa, Roderick J. A. Little, Wenshuo Liu, and Fabian T. Pfeffer, each with multiple joint publications.

Best Publications

  • Childhood physical abuse and combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder in Vietnam veterans

    J D Bremner;S M Southwick;D R Johnson;R Yehuda

  • Deficits in short-term memory in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    Bremner Jd;Scott Tm;Delaney Rc;Southwick Sm

  • Alone Together: How Marriage in America Is Changing

    Paul R. Amato;Alan Booth;David R. Johnson;Stacy J. Rogers

  • Continuity and Change in Marital Quality Between 1980 and 2000

    Paul R. Amato;David R. Johnson;Alan Booth;Stacy J. Rogers

  • Marital Happiness, Marital Duration, and the U-Shaped Curve: Evidence from a Five-Wave Panel Study

    Jody VanLaningham;David R. Johnson;Paul Amato

  • Ordinal measures in multiple indicator models: A simulation study of categorization error.

    David Richard Johnson;James C. Creech

  • Toward best practices in analyzing datasets with missing data: Comparisons and recommendations

    David R. Johnson;Rebekah Young

  • Measuring Marital Instability.

    Alan Booth;David Johnson;John N. Edwards

  • Noradrenergic and Serotonergic Function in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

    Steven M. Southwick;John H. Krystal;J. Douglas Bremner;C. A. Morgan

  • Two-wave panel analysis: Comparing statistical methods for studying the effects of transitions.

    David Johnson

  • An Empirical Test of Crisis, Social Selection, and Role Explanations of the Relationship Between Marital Disruption and Psychological Distress: A Pooled Time‐Series Analysis of Four‐Wave Panel Data

    David R. Johnson;Jian Wu

  • Age and religiosity : Evidence from a three-wave panel analysis

    Amy Argue;David R. Johnson;Lynn K. White

  • Low salivary cortisol levels and externalizing behavior problems in youth

    Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff;Douglas A. Granger;Alan Booth;David Johnson

  • Dimensions of Marital Quality Toward Methodological and Conceptual Refinement

    David R. Johnson;Lynn K. White;John N. Edwards;Alan Booth

  • Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Success

    Alan Booth;David Johnson

  • Handling Missing Values in Longitudinal Panel Data With Multiple Imputation

    Rebekah Young;David R. Johnson

  • Declining health and marital quality

    Alan Booth;David R. Johnson

  • Stability and Developmental Change in Marital Quality: A Three-Wave Panel Analysis.

    David R. Johnson;Teodora O. Amoloza;Alan Booth

  • Belief and behavior: Does religion matter in today's marriage?

    Alan Booth;David R. Johnson;Ann Branaman;Alan Sica

  • Use of the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders for systematic assessment of dissociative symptoms in posttraumatic stress disorder.

    J D Bremner;M Steinberg;S M Southwick;D R Johnson

  • Women, Outside Employment, and Marital Instability

    Alan Booth;David R. Johnson;Lynn White;John N. Edwards

Frequent Co-Authors

Alan Booth
Alan Booth Pennsylvania State University
Paul R. Amato
Paul R. Amato Pennsylvania State University
Douglas A. Granger
Douglas A. Granger University of California, Irvine
Lynn K. White
Lynn K. White University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Steven M. Southwick
Steven M. Southwick Yale University
Ann C. Crouter
Ann C. Crouter Pennsylvania State University
Sam A. Hardy
Sam A. Hardy Brigham Young University
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff
Elizabeth A. Shirtcliff Iowa State University
Rachel Yehuda
Rachel Yehuda United States Department of Veterans Affairs
Galen P. Dively
Galen P. Dively University of Maryland, College Park

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