Andrea Howard
| Degrees: | Ph.D. (Alberta) |
Keywords: transition to university, depression, anxiety, substance use, quantitative methods
Research Interests
Dr. Andrea Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at Carleton University, with a research program focused on promoting well-being and mental health in adolescence and the transition to adulthood. The unique challenges of the transition to university figure prominently in her work. Current projects capture repeated measures across the academic year and examine emotion-substance use links, changing patterns of depression and anxiety symptoms, challenges faced by youth with ADHD, and roles of parent support and involvement in a successful transition to university.
Selected Publications (trainees’ names in italics):
Macdonald, E. P., & Howard, A. L. (in press). Peer information and substance use decision-making in street-involved youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence.
Howard, A. L., Alexander, S. M., & Dunn, L. C. (in press). Helicopter parenting is unrelated to student success and well-being: A latent profile analysis of perceived parenting and academic motivation during the transition to university. Emerging Adulthood.
Howard, A. L., Kennedy, T. M., Mitchell, J. T., Sibley, M. H., Hinshaw, S. P., Arnold, L. E., Roy, A., Stehli, A., Swanson, J. M., & Molina, B. S. G. (2020). Early substance use in the pathway from childhood ADHD to young adult substance use: Evidence of statistical mediation and substance specificity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 34(2), 282-292.
Howard, A. L., Kennedy, T. M., Macdonald, E. P., Mitchell, J. T., Sibley, M. H., Roy, A., Arnold, L. E., Epstein, J. N., Hinshaw, S. P., Hoza, B., Stehli, A., Swanson, J. M., & Molina, B. S. G. (2019). Depression and ADHD-related risk for substance use in adolescence and early adulthood: Concurrent and prospective associations in the MTA. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(12), 1903-1916.
Barker, E. T., Howard, A. L., Villemaire-Krajden, R., & Galambos, N. L. (2018). The rise and fall of depressive symptoms and academic stress in two samples of university students. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47(6), 1252-1266.