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Overview

James Jaccard is affiliated with New York University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with a particular emphasis on clinical psychology, general health professions, social psychology, sociology and political science, and psychiatry and mental health.

The scientist has contributed to 58 publications in the field of psychology, with 35 specifically in clinical psychology. Other subfields include 13 publications in general health professions, 11 in social psychology, 11 in sociology and political science, and 8 in psychiatry and mental health.

Their research topics encompass several areas, including:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
  • Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
  • Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
  • Migration, Health and Trauma
  • Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes

James Jaccard's recent papers include:

  • State-Level Policy Stigma and Non-Prescribed Hormones Use among Trans Populations in the United States: A Mediational Analysis of Insurance and Anticipated Stigma, 2021, Annals of Behavioral Medicine
  • Associations Between Mother-Adolescent and Father-Adolescent Relationships and Young Adult Health, 2023, JAMA Network Open
  • Does Training Parents in Reinforcement Skills or Relationship Skills Enhance Individual Youths' Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety? Outcome, Specificity, and Mediation, 2021, Clinical Psychological Science
  • Outcomes of a Metaintervention to Improve Treatment Engagement Among Young Adults With Serious Mental Illnesses: Application of a Pilot Randomized Explanatory Design, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Engagement intervention versus treatment as usual for young adults with serious mental illness: a randomized pilot trial, 2020, Pilot and Feasibility Studies

Frequent coauthors collaborating with James Jaccard include:

  • Michelle R. Munson
  • Wendy K. Silverman
  • Jeremy W. Pettit
  • Yasmin Rey
  • Carla E. Marin

They have published extensively in several venues, with notable frequencies in:

  • Trials
  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
  • Biological Psychiatry
  • Annals of Behavioral Medicine

Best Publications

  • Interaction effects in multiple regression

    James Jaccard;Robert Turrisi;Choi K. Wan

  • LISREL Approaches to Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression

    James Jaccard;Choi K. Wan

  • Interaction effects in logistic regression

    James Jaccard

  • Predicting ethnic and racial discrimination: a meta-analysis of IAT criterion studies.

    Frederick L. Oswald;Gregory Mitchell;Hart Blanton;James Jaccard

  • The Detection and Interpretation of Interaction Effects Between Continuous Variables in Multiple Regression.

    James Jaccard;Choi K. Wan;Robert Turrisi

  • Arbitrary metrics in psychology.

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard

  • Theory Construction and Model-Building Skills: A Practical Guide for Social Scientists

    James Jaccard;Jacob Jacoby

  • Components of Reading Ability: Multivariate Evidence for a Convergent Skills Model of Reading Development

    Frank R. Vellutino;William E. Tunmer;James J. Jaccard;RuSan Chen

  • Measurement error in the analysis of interaction effects between continuous predictors using multiple regression: Multiple indicator and structural equation approaches.

    James Jaccard;Choi K. Wan

  • Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

    James Jaccard

  • Variables that moderate the attitude–behavior relation: Results of a longitudinal survey.

    Andrew R. Davidson;James J. Jaccard

  • Maternal Correlates of Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behavior

    James Jaccard;Patricia J. Dittus;Vivian V. Gordon

  • Peer influences on risk behavior: an analysis of the effects of a close friend

    James Jaccard;Hart Blanton;Tonya Dodge

  • The sources, meaning, and validity of consumer complaint behavior: A psychological analysis

    James Jaccard;J. Jacoby

  • Adolescents' perceptions of maternal disapproval of sex: relationship to sexual outcomes.

    Patricia J Dittus;James Jaccard

  • Parent-Adolescent Congruency in Reports of Adolescent Sexual Behavior and in Communications about Sexual Behavior

    James Jaccard;Patricia J. Dittus;Vivian V. Gordon

  • Parent-adolescent communication about sex and birth control: a conceptual framework.

    James Jaccard;Tonya Dodge;Patricia Dittus

  • Cross-cultural model testing: Toward a solution of the etic-emic dilemma.

    Andrew R. Davidson;James J. Jaccard;Harry C. Triandis;Maria Luisa Morales

  • Strong Claims and Weak Evidence: Reassessing the Predictive Validity of the IAT

    Hart Blanton;James Jaccard;Jonathan Klick;Barbara Mellers

  • Applying theory-driven approaches to understanding and modifying clinicians' behavior: what do we know?

    M.B.A. Matthew B. Perkins;Peter S. Jensen;James Jaccard;Peter Gollwitzer

  • Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression

    Sudeep Haldar;James Jackard;Robert Turrisi;Choi K. Wan

Frequent Co-Authors

Hart Blanton
Hart Blanton Texas A&M University
Rob Turrisi
Rob Turrisi Pennsylvania State University
Edward B. Blanchard
Edward B. Blanchard University at Albany, State University of New York
Wendy K. Silverman
Wendy K. Silverman Yale University
Laurie Keefer
Laurie Keefer Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Philip E. Tetlock
Philip E. Tetlock University of Pennsylvania
Jeremy W. Pettit
Jeremy W. Pettit Florida International University
Frederick L. Oswald
Frederick L. Oswald Rice University
Leonard Katz
Leonard Katz Haskins Laboratories
Barbara A. Mellers
Barbara A. Mellers University of Pennsylvania

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