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Overview

W. Alex Mason is affiliated with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in the United States. Their research spans the intersecting fields of psychology and medicine, with a focus on clinical psychology, public health, environmental and occupational health, health toxicology, and mutagenesis. Mason has contributed extensively in areas related to child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, maternal mental health during pregnancy and postpartum, early childhood education and development, child abuse and trauma, birth, development, and health, as well as eating disorders and behaviors and obesity, physical activity, and diet.

Among Mason's recent publications are:

  • Child Maltreatment, Youth Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Elder Mistreatment: A Review and Theoretical Analysis of Research on Violence Across the Life Course (2020), published in Trauma Violence & Abuse
  • Associations of Pre- and Postnatal Air Pollution Exposures with Child Behavioral Problems and Cognitive Performance: A U.S. Multi-Cohort Study (2022), published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Placental transcriptomic signatures of spontaneous preterm birth (2022), published in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • A Comprehensive Assessment of Associations between Prenatal Phthalate Exposure and the Placental Transcriptomic Landscape (2021), published in Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Childhood Cognitive Flexibility and Externalizing and Internalizing Behavior Problems: Examination of Prospective Bidirectional Associations (2021), published in Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology

Mason frequently collaborates with other researchers, including:

  • Kaja Z. LeWinn
  • Nicole R. Bush
  • Timothy D. Nelson
  • Catherine J. Karr
  • Kimberly Andrews Espy

Their research has been published most often in the following venues:

  • Environmental Health Perspectives
  • Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Journal of Youth and Adolescence
  • Environment International
  • Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Best Publications

  • Reciprocal relations between adolescent substance use and delinquency: A longitudinal latent variable analysis.

    W. Alex Mason;Michael Windle

  • Adolescent school failure predicts later depression among girls.

    Carolyn A. McCarty;W. Alex Mason;Rick Kosterman;J. David Hawkins

  • Latent growth modeling of the relationship between depressive symptoms and substance use during adolescence.

    Charles B. Fleming;W. Alex Mason;James J. Mazza;Robert D. Abbott

  • Growth in adolescent delinquency and alcohol use in relation to young adult crime, alcohol use disorders, and risky sex: a comparison of youth from low‐ versus middle‐income backgrounds

    W. Alex Mason;Julia E. Hitch;Rick Kosterman;Carolyn A. McCarty

  • Pathways from physical childhood abuse to partner violence in young adulthood.

    Todd I. Herrenkohl;W. Alex Mason;Rick Kosterman;Liliana J. Lengua

  • Self-Esteem and Delinquency Revisited (Again): A Test of Kaplan's Self-Derogation Theory of Delinquency Using Latent Growth Curve Modeling

    W. Alex Mason

  • A Longitudinal Study of the Effects of Religiosity on Adolescent Alcohol Use and Alcohol-Related Problems

    W. Alex Mason;Michael Windle

  • Predicting Depression, Social Phobia, and Violence in Early Adulthood from Childhood Behavior Problems.

    W. Alex Mason;Rick Kosterman;J. David Hawkins;Todd I. Herrenkohl

  • General and Specific Predictors of Behavioral and Emotional Problems Among Adolescents

    Michael Windle;W. Alex Mason

  • Sexual and physical abuse among incarcerated youth: implications for sexual behavior contraceptive use and teenage pregnancy.

    W.Alex Mason;Laura Zimmerman;William Evans

  • Reducing adolescents' growth in substance use and delinquency: randomized trial effects of a parent-training prevention intervention.

    W. Alex Mason;Rick Kosterman;J. David Hawkins;Kevin P. Haggerty

  • Gender, Self-control, and Informal Social Control in Adolescence: A Test of Three Models of the Continuity of Delinquent Behavior

    W. Alex Mason;Michael Windle

  • Gender moderation and social developmental mediation of the effect of a family-focused substance use preventive intervention on young adult alcohol abuse.

    W. Alex Mason;Rick Kosterman;Kevin P. Haggerty;J. David Hawkins

  • Effects of growth in family conflict in adolescence on adult depressive symptoms: mediating and moderating effects of stress and school bonding.

    Todd I. Herrenkohl;Rick Kosterman;J. David Hawkins;W. Alex Mason

  • Longitudinal associations among depression, obesity and alcohol use disorders in young adulthood.

    Carolyn A. McCarty;Rick Kosterman;W. Alex Mason;Elizabeth McCauley

  • The relationship between psychological distress and adolescent polydrug use.

    Adrian B. Kelly;Gary C. K. Chan;W. Alex Mason;Joanne W. Williams

  • Developmental consistency in associations between depressive symptoms and alcohol use in early adolescence

    Carolyn A. McCarty;Brian T. Wymbs;Kevin M. King;W. Alex Mason

  • Sequence of alcohol involvement from early onset to young adult alcohol abuse: differential predictors and moderation by family‐focused preventive intervention

    W. Alex Mason;Richard L. Spoth

  • Effects of Parenting and Deviant Peers on Early to Mid-Adolescent Conduct Problems

    Linda Trudeau;W. Alex Mason;G. Kevin Randall;Richard L. Spoth

  • Child Maltreatment, Youth Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, and Elder Mistreatment: A Review and Theoretical Analysis of Research on Violence Across the Life Course.

    Todd I Herrenkohl;Lisa Fedina;Karen A Roberto;Kira L Raquet

  • Emergence of delinquency and depressed mood throughout adolescence as predictors of late adolescent problem substance use.

    W. Alex Mason;Julia E. Hitchings;Richard L. Spoth

Frequent Co-Authors

Kevin P. Haggerty
Kevin P. Haggerty University of Washington
Richard Spoth
Richard Spoth Iowa State University
Todd I. Herrenkohl
Todd I. Herrenkohl University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Charles B. Fleming
Charles B. Fleming University of Washington
J. David Hawkins
J. David Hawkins University of Washington
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin
Marjo-Riitta Järvelin Imperial College London
Cleve Redmond
Cleve Redmond Iowa State University
Carolyn A. McCarty
Carolyn A. McCarty Seattle Children's Hospital
Richard F. Catalano
Richard F. Catalano University of Washington
Elizabeth McCauley
Elizabeth McCauley University of Washington

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