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Overview

Jennifer L. Maggs is affiliated with Pennsylvania State University in the United States. Their research spans several fields, primarily Medicine and Psychology, with a focus on subfields such as General Health Professions, Epidemiology, Physiology, Clinical Psychology, and Applied Psychology.

Their research topics emphasize areas including Substance Abuse Treatment and Outcomes, Smoking Behavior and Cessation, Homelessness and Social Issues, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Alcohol Consumption and Health Effects, and Health disparities and outcomes.

Recent publications by Jennifer L. Maggs cover adolescent behaviors related to alcohol and substance use, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include:

  • Parents Who First Allowed Adolescents to Drink Alcohol in a Family Context During Spring 2020 COVID-19 Emergency Shutdowns, 2021, Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Adolescent Life in the Early Days of the Pandemic: Less and More Substance Use, 2020, Journal of Adolescent Health

Other relevant studies linked to their research interests include:

  • Changes in family chaos and family relationships during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from a longitudinal study., 2021, Developmental Psychology
  • Adolescent electronic cigarette use and tobacco smoking in the Millennium Cohort Study, 2021, Addiction
  • Sibling influences on adolescent alcohol use during the spring 2020 COVID-19 pandemic shutdown., 2022, Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Jennifer L. Maggs has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

  • Brian C. Kelly
  • Jeremy Staff
  • Mike Vuolo
  • Shawn D. Whiteman
  • Sarah Mustillo

Their work has appeared predominantly in the following publication venues:

  • Journal of Adolescent Health
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence
  • Addiction
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Psychology of Addictive Behaviors

Best Publications

  • A developmental perspective on alcohol use and heavy drinking during adolescence and the transition to young adulthood.

    John E Schulenberg;Jennifer L Maggs

  • A Developmental Perspective on Alcohol and Youths 16 to 20 Years of Age

    Sandra A. Brown;Matthew McGue;Jennifer Maggs;John Schulenberg

  • Health Risks and Developmental Transitions during Adolescence

    John E. Schulenberg;Jennifer Maggs;Klaus Hurrelmann

  • Changes in Eating and Physical Activity Behaviors Across Seven Semesters of College Living On or Off Campus Matters

    Meg Small;Lisa Bailey-Davis;Nicole Morgan;Jennifer Maggs

  • Substance Use Changes and Social Role Transitions: Proximal Developmental Effects on Ongoing Trajectories from Late Adolescence through Early Adulthood

    Jeremy Staff;John E. Schulenberg;Julie Maslowsky;Jerald G. Bachman

  • Extreme Binge Drinking Among 12th-Grade Students in the United States: Prevalence and Predictors

    Megan E. Patrick;John E. Schulenberg;Meghan E. Martz;Jennifer L. Maggs

  • Latent transition analysis: Benefits of a latent variable approach to modeling transitions in substance use

    Stephanie T. Lanza;Megan E. Patrick;Jennifer L. Maggs

  • Trajectories of Alcohol Use During the Transition to Adulthood

    Jennifer L. Maggs;John E. Schulenberg

  • Alcohol use and binge drinking as goal-directed action during the transition to postsecondary education.

    Jennifer L. Maggs

  • Risky Business: The Paradoxical Meaning of Problem Behavior for Young Adolescents

    Jennifer L. Maggs;David M. Almeida;Nancy L. Galambos

  • Family needs of parents of children and youth with cerebral palsy

    R. J. Palisano;R. J. Palisano;N. Almarsi;L. A. Chiarello;L. A. Chiarello;M. N. Orlin;M. N. Orlin

  • Childhood and adolescent predictors of alcohol use and problems in adolescence and adulthood in the National Child Development Study

    Jennifer L. Maggs;Jennifer L. Maggs;Megan E. Patrick;Leon Feinstein

  • Out-of-school care of young adolescents and self-reported behavior.

    Nancy L. Galambos;Jennifer L. Maggs

  • How and Why the Understanding of Developmental Continuity and Discontinuity is Important

    John E. Schulenberg;Jennifer L. Maggs;Patrick M. O’Malley

  • The problem of college drinking: insights from a developmental perspective.

    John Schulenberg;Jennifer L. Maggs;Stephen W. Long;Kenneth J. Sher

  • Does drinking lead to sex? Daily alcohol-sex behaviors and expectancies among college students.

    Megan E. Patrick;Jennifer L. Maggs

  • Leisure activities, the social weekend, and alcohol use: evidence from a daily study of first-year college students.

    Andrea K. Finlay;Nilam Ram;Jennifer L. Maggs;Linda L. Caldwell

  • Losing Sleep Over It: Daily Variation in Sleep Quantity and Quality in Canadian Students' First Semester of University

    Nancy L. Galambos;Andrea L. Dalton;Jennifer L. Maggs

  • The Long Arm of Expectancies: Adolescent Alcohol Expectancies Predict Adult Alcohol Use

    Megan E. Patrick;Laura Wray-Lake;Andrea K. Finlay;Jennifer L. Maggs

  • On Peer Influences to Get Drunk:A Panel Study of Young Adolescents

    John Schulenberg;Jennifer L. Maggs;Ted E. Dielman;Sharon L. Leech

Frequent Co-Authors

Megan E. Patrick
Megan E. Patrick University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
John E. Schulenberg
John E. Schulenberg University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Nancy L. Galambos
Nancy L. Galambos University of Alberta
Christine M. Lee
Christine M. Lee University of Washington
Stephanie T. Lanza
Stephanie T. Lanza Pennsylvania State University
Eva S. Lefkowitz
Eva S. Lefkowitz University of Connecticut
David M. Almeida
David M. Almeida Pennsylvania State University
Kenneth J. Sher
Kenneth J. Sher University of Missouri
Christopher S. Martin
Christopher S. Martin University of Pittsburgh
M. Lynne Cooper
M. Lynne Cooper University of Missouri

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