Selected Recent Publications

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Macdonald, E. P., & Howard, A. L. (in press). Peer information and substance use decision making in street-involved youth. Journal of Research on Adolescence. Access the article

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. Access the article

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 attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) to young adult substance use: Evidence of statistical mediation and substance specificity. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 34(2), 281-292.

Howard, A. L., Kennedy, T. M., Macdonald, E. P., Mitchell, J. T., Sibley, M. H., Roy, A., … & 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.

Kennedy, T. M., Howard, A. L., Mitchell, J. T., Hoza, B., Arnold, L. E., Hechtman, L., Swanson, J. M., Stehli, A., & Molina, B. S. G. (2019). Adult substance use as a function of growth in peer use across adolescence and young adulthood in the context of ADHD: Findings from the MTA. Addictive Behaviors, 99, 106106.

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.

Molina, B. S. G., Howard, A. L., Swanson, J. M., Stehli, A., Mitchell, J. T., Kennedy, T. M., … & Hoza, B. (2018). Substance use through adolescence into early adulthood after childhood-diagnosed ADHD: Findings from the MTA longitudinal study. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59(6), 692-702.

Howard, A. L., & Pritchard, T. R. (2017). Heavy drinking in university students with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder: Contributions of drinking motives and protective behavioural strategies. Substance Abuse: Research and Treatment, 11, 1-10.

Newcomb-Anjo, S. E., Barker, E. T., & Howard, A. L. (2017). A person-entered analysis of risk factors that compromise wellbeing in emerging adulthood. Journal of Youth & Adolescence, 46(4), 867-883.

Bainter, S. A. & Howard, A. L. (2016). Comparing within-person effects from multivariate longitudinal models. Developmental Psychology, 52(11), 1955-1968.

Barker, E. T., Howard, A. L., Galambos, N. L., & Wrosch, C. (2016). Tracking affect and academic success across university: Happy students benefit from bouts of negative mood. Developmental Psychology, 52(11), 2022-2030.

Howard, A. L., Strickland, N., Murray, D., Tamm, L., Hinshaw, S. P., Swanson, J. M., Arnold, L. E., & Molina, B. S. G., (2016). Progression of impairment in adolescents with ADHD through the transition out of high school: Contributions of parent involvement and college attendance. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 125(2), 233-247. Access the article

Howard, A. L. (2015). Leveraging time-varying covariates to test within- and between-person effects and interactions in the multilevel linear model. Emerging Adulthood, 3(6), 400-412.

Howard, A. L., Patrick, M. E., & Maggs, J. L. (2015). College student affect and heavy drinking: Variable associations across days, semesters, and people. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 29(2), 430-443. Access the article

Howard, A. L., Molina, B. S. G., Swanson, J. M., Hinshaw, S. P., Belendiuk, K. A., Harty, S. C., Arnold, L. E., Abikoff, H. B., Hechtman, L., Stehli, A., Greenhill, L. L., Newcorn, J. H., & Wigal, T. (2015). Developmental progression to early adult binge drinking and marijuana use from worsening versus stable trajectories of adolescent ADHD and delinquency. Addiction, 110(5), 784-795. Access the article

Krahn, H. J., Howard, A. L., & Galambos, N. L. (2015). Exploring or floundering? The meaning of employment and educational fluctuations in emerging adulthood. Youth & Society, 47(2), 245-266.

Curran, P. J., Howard, A. L., Bainter, S. A., Lane, S., & McGinley, J. (2014). The separation of between- and within-person components of individual change over time: A latent curve model with structured residuals. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 82(5), 879-894 Download PDF

Howard, A. L., Galambos, N. L., & Krahn, H. J. (2014). Forecasting life and career satisfaction in midlife from young adult depressive symptoms. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 35(1), 51-57.

Bauer, D. J., Howard, A. L., Baldasaro, R., Curran, P. J., Hussong, A. M., Chassin, L., & Zucker, R. (2013). A tri-factor model for integrating ratings across multiple informants. Psychological Methods, 18(4), 475-493 . Access the article