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Overview

Stephen G. West is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with emphases on Clinical Psychology, Statistics and Probability, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

Their work addresses a range of topics including Mental Health Research, Advanced Causal Inference Techniques, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Behavioral Health and Interventions, Personality Disorders and Psychopathology, Psychometric Methodologies and Testing, and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics.

Recent publications by Stephen G. West include:

  • Beyond Experiments, 2022, Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Hidden framings and hidden asymmetries in the measurement of personality--A combined lens-model and frame-of-reference perspective, 2020, Journal of Personality
  • Forecasting Causal Effects of Interventions versus Predicting Future Outcomes, 2020, Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Depression in mothers and the externalizing and internalizing behavior of children: An attempt to go beyond association., 2020, Journal of Abnormal Psychology
  • Horizons and Group Motivational Enhancement Therapy: HIV Prevention for Alcohol-Using Young Black Women, a Randomized Experiment, 2021, American Journal of Preventive Medicine

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Lissette M. Saavedra
  • Antonio A. Morgan-López
  • Julian Schulze
  • Stefan Krumm
  • William E. Pelham

Stephen G. West has published multiple times in several academic venues, notably:

  • Multivariate Behavioral Research
  • Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • Journal of Personality
  • Structural Equation Modeling A Multidisciplinary Journal
  • Journal of Abnormal Psychology

Best Publications

  • Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences

    Jacob Cohen;Patricia Cohen;Stephen G. West;Leona S. Aiken

  • Multiple regression : testing and interpreting interactions

    Leona S Aiken;Stephen G West;Raymond R Reno

  • Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions

    Leona S. Aiken;Stephen G. West

  • A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects.

    David P. MacKinnon;Chondra M. Lockwood;Jeanne M. Hoffman;Stephen G. West

  • The robustness of test statistics to nonnormality and specification error in confirmatory factor analysis.

    Patrick J. Curran;Stephen G. West;John F. Finch

  • Structural equation models with nonnormal variables: Problems and remedies.

    Stephen G. West;John F. Finch;Patrick J. Curran

  • The Science of Prevention: A Conceptual Framework and Some Directions for a National Research Program

    John D. Coie;Norman F. Watt;Stephen G. West;J. David Hawkins

  • Model fit and model selection in structural equation modeling.

    Stephen G. West;Aaron B. Taylor;Wei Wu

  • Validity of self-evaluation of ability: A review and meta-analysis

    Paul A. Mabe;Stephen G. West

  • The Analysis of Count Data : A Gentle Introduction to Poisson Regression and Its Alternatives

    Stefany Coxe;Stephen G. West;Leona S. Aiken

  • Structural equation models with non-normal variables: Problems and remedies

    SG West;JF Finch;PJ Curran

  • Teacher's Corner: Testing Measurement Invariance of Second-Order Factor Models

    Fang Fang Chen;Karen H. Sousa;Stephen G. West

  • A Comparison of Bifactor and Second-Order Models of Quality of Life.

    Fang Fang Chen;Fang Fang Chen;Stephen G. West;Karen H. Sousa

  • A Dispositional and Situational Assessment of Children's Coping: Testing Alternative Models of Coping

    Tim S. Ayers;Irwin N. Sandler;Stephen G. West;Mark W. Roosa

  • The problem of units and the circumstance for POMP

    Patricia Cohen;Jacob Cohen;Leona S. Aiken;Stephen G. West

  • Experimental personality designs: Analyzing categorical by continuous variable interactions.

    Stephen G. West;Leona S. Aiken;Jennifer L. Krull

  • Coping, Stress, and the Psychological Symptoms of Children of Divorce: A Cross‐sectional and Longitudinal Study

    Irwin N. Sandler;Jenn-Yun Tein;Stephen G. West

  • The investigation of personality structure: Statistical models

    John F. Finch;Stephen G. West

  • Putting the individual back into individual growth curves.

    Paras D. Mehta;Stephen G. West

  • The science of prevention: methodological advances from alcohol and substance abuse research.

    Kendall J. Bryant;Michael T. Windle;Stephen G. West

  • Propensity Score Analysis

    Stephen G. West;Heining Cham;Felix Thoemmes

Frequent Co-Authors

Leona S. Aiken
Leona S. Aiken Arizona State University
Jan N. Hughes
Jan N. Hughes Texas A&M University
Irwin N. Sandler
Irwin N. Sandler Arizona State University
Jacob Cohen
Jacob Cohen New York University
Oi-Man Kwok
Oi-Man Kwok Texas A&M University
David P. MacKinnon
David P. MacKinnon Arizona State University
Jeremy C. Biesanz
Jeremy C. Biesanz University of British Columbia
Jenn-Yun Tein
Jenn-Yun Tein Arizona State University
William G. Graziano
William G. Graziano Purdue University West Lafayette
Angela D. Bryan
Angela D. Bryan University of Colorado Boulder

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