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Stephen Kulis is affiliated with Arizona State University in the United States and has contributed extensively to research in medicine, psychology, and health professions. Their work spans several interdisciplinary subfields including clinical psychology, general health professions, epidemiology, electrical and electronic engineering, and sociology and political science.

The scientist's research focuses on substance abuse treatment and outcomes, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, community health and development, health policy implementation science, racial and ethnic identity research, prenatal substance exposure effects, and smoking behavior and cessation.

Stephen Kulis has published research in several academic venues, frequently appearing in:

  • Journal of Instrumentation
  • Prevention Science
  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Journal of Prevention
  • Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Kulis include the following:

  • Keepin' It REAL-Mantente REAL in Mexico: a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial of a Culturally Adapted Substance Use Prevention Curriculum for Early Adolescents, 2021, Prevention Science
  • Testing a Culturally Adapted Youth Substance Use Prevention Program in a Mexican Border City: Mantente REAL, 2020, Substance Use & Misuse

Collaborators frequently working with Stephen Kulis include:

  • Flavio F. Marsiglia
  • Olalla Cutrín
  • Stephanie L. Ayers
  • María Elena Medina-Mora
  • José Antonio Gómez Fraguela

Kulis's contributions explore the applicability of prevention programs targeting early adolescents and community health challenges, especially in culturally diverse contexts. Their work addresses behavioral and emotional problems in youth by examining factors such as parental support and knowledge within longitudinal frameworks.

Best Publications

  • Culturally Grounded Substance Use Prevention: An Evaluation of the keepin' it R.E.A.L. Curriculum

    Michael L. Hecht;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Elvira Elek;David A. Wagstaff

  • Technology, Proximity, and Measures of Kin Support.

    Eugene Litwak;Stephen Kulis

  • Ethnic Labels and Ethnic Identity as Predictors of Drug Use among Middle School Students in the Southwest.

    Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis;Michael L. Hecht

  • More Than a Pipeline Problem: Labor Supply Constraints and Gender Stratification Across Academic Science Disciplines

    Stephen Kulis;Diane Sicotte;Shawn Collins

  • Ethnicity and ethnic identity as predictors of drug norms and drug use among preadolescents in the US Southwest.

    Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis;Michael L. Hecht;Stephen Sills

  • Perceived ethnic discrimination versus acculturation stress: influences on substance use among Latino youth in the Southwest.

    Stephen Kulis;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Tanya Nieri

  • God Forbid! Substance Use Among Religious and Nonreligious Youth

    Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis;Tanya Nieri;Monica Parsai

  • The protective and risk effects of parents and peers on substance use, attitudes and behaviors of Mexican and Mexican American female and male adolescents.

    Monica Parsai;Sarah Voisine;Flavio F. Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis

  • Effects of Familism and Family Cohesion on Problem Behaviors among Adolescents in Mexican Immigrant Families in the Southwest U.S.

    Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Monica Parsai;Stephen Kulis

  • Ethnic pride, biculturalism, and drug use norms of urban American Indian adolescents

    Stephen Kulis;Maria Napoli;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia

  • Mexican/Mexican American Adolescents and keepin' it REAL: An Evidence-Based Substance Use Prevention Program

    Stephen Kulis;Flavio F. Marsiglia;Elvira Elek;Patricia Dustman

  • Gender Identity, Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Drug Use: Exploring Differences among Adolescents in the Southwest.

    Stephen Kulis;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Donna Hurdle

  • Physician satisfaction in a changing health care environment : The impact of challenges to professional autonomy, authority, and dominance

    Mary Guptill Warren;Rose Weitz;Stephen Kulis

  • A Continuum of Approaches Toward Developing Culturally Focused Prevention Interventions: From Adaptation to Grounding

    Scott K. Okamoto;Stephen Kulis;Flavio F. Marsiglia;Lori K. Holleran Steiker

  • Women scientists in academia: Geographically constrained to big cities, college clusters, or the coasts?

    Stephen Kulis;Diane Sicotte

  • Sense of Belonging in School as a Protective Factor Against Drug Abuse Among Native American Urban Adolescents

    Maria Napoli;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis

  • Neighborhood Effects on Youth Substance Use in a Southwestern City

    Stephen Kulis;Flavio Francisco Marsiglia;Diane Sicotte;Tanya Nieri

  • Hopelessness, Family Stress, and Depression among Mexican-Heritage Mothers in the Southwest

    Flavio F. Marsiglia;Stephen Kulis;Hilda Garcia Perez;Monica Bermudez-Parsai

  • Spirituality and religion: intertwined protective factors for substance use among urban American Indian youth.

    Stephen Kulis;David R. Hodge;Stephanie L. Ayers;Eddie F. Brown

  • Gender Segregation among College and University Employees

    Stephen Kulis

  • Promoting Reduced and Discontinued Substance Use among Adolescent Substance Users: Effectiveness of a Universal Prevention Program

    Stephen Kulis;Tanya Nieri;Scott Yabiku;Layne K. Stromwall

Frequent Co-Authors

Flavio F. Marsiglia
Flavio F. Marsiglia Arizona State University
Michael L. Hecht
Michael L. Hecht Pennsylvania State University
Felipe González Castro
Felipe González Castro Arizona State University
David R. Hodge
David R. Hodge Arizona State University

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