Phyllis L. Ellickson

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Senior Behavioral Scientist
Santa Monica Office

Education

Ph.D. in political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.A., Mount Holyoke College

Overview

Research Focus

Recent Projects

  • Effects of advertising on alcohol and other drug consumption by children and teenagers
  • Middle school drug prevention
  • The patterns, antecedents, and consequences of adolescent and young adult smoking, drinking, and other drug use
  • Violent behavior
  • The links between HIV risk, violence, and drug use

Selected Publications

J. S. Tucker et al., "Does Solitary Substance Use Increase Adolescents' Risk for Poor Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes? A 9-Year Longitudinal Study Comparing Solitary and Social Users," Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 20(4), 2006

P. L. Ellickson et al., "Does Alcohol Advertising Promote Adolescent Drinking? Results from a Longitudinal Assessment," Addiction, 100(2), 2005

D. Longshore et al., "National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and School-Based Drug Prevention: Evidence for a Synergistic Effect in ALERT Plus," Addictive Behaviors [Epub June 23, 2005

P. L. Ellickson et al., "Scope of HIV Risk and Co-Occurring Psychosocial Health Problems Among Young Adults: Violence, Victimization, and Substance Use," Journal of Adolescent Health, 36(5), 2005

P. L. Ellickson et al., "Marijuana Use from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Multiple Developmental Trajectories and Their Associated Outcomes," Health Psychology, 23(3), 2004

Recent Media Appearances

Interviews: Associated Press; Biotech Week; HealthDay.com; Reuters Health; Washington Times

Publications

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables - 2010

Running Away from Home: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Risk Factors and Young Adult Outcomes - 2010

Creating a Developmentally Sensitive Measure of Adolescent Alcohol Misuse: An Application of Item Response Theory - 2009

Long-term Effects of Drug Prevention on Risky Sexual Behavior Among Young Adults - 2009

Multiple Trajectories of Peer and Parental Influence and Their Association with the Development of Adolescent Heavy Drinking - 2009

Recanting of Life-Time Inhalant Use: How Big a Problem and What to Make of It - 2009

Developmental Trajectories of Substance Use from Early to Late Adolescence: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Youth - 2008

Growing Up in a Permissive Household: What Deters At-Risk Adolescents from Heavy Drinking? - 2008

Marijuana Use and High School Dropout: The Influence of Unobservables - 2008

Multiple Trajectories of Physical Aggression Among Adolescent Boys and Girls - 2008

Reducing Early Smokers' Risk for Future Smoking and Other Problem Behavior: Insights from a Five-Year Longitudinal Study - 2008

Temporal Associations of Cigarette Smoking with Social Influences, Academic Performance, and Delinquency: A Four-Wave Longitudinal Study from Ages 13-23 - 2008

Understanding Differences in Substance Use Among Bisexual and Heterosexual Young Women - 2008

A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23 - 2007

Are Adolescent Substance Users Less Satisfied with Life as Young Adults and If So, Why? - 2007

Association of Sexual Abstinence in Adolescence with Mental Health in Adulthood - 2007

But Others Do It! Do Misperceptions of Schoolmate Alcohol and Marijuana Use Predict Subsequent Drug Use Among Young Adolescents? - 2007

Early Adolescent Exposure to Alcohol Advertising and Its Relationship to Underage Drinking - 2007

High School Drug Use Predicts Job-Related Outcomes at Age 29 - 2007

New Perspectives on Marijuana and Youth: Abstainers Are Not Maladjusted, but Lone Users Face Difficulties - 2007

School-based Drug Prevention Among At-Risk Adolescents: Effects of ALERT Plus - 2007

The Role of Substance Use in Young Adult Divorce - 2007

A Discrete Time Hazards Model of Smoking Initiation Among West Coast Youth from Age 5 to 23 - 2006

Adolescent Predictors of Generalized Health Risk in Young Adulthood: A 10-Year Longitudinal Assessment - 2006

An Update on Adolescent Drug Use: What School Counselors Need to Know - 2006

Are Drug Experimenters Better Adjusted Than Abstainers and Users? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Marijuana Use - 2006

Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes - 2006

Does Solitary Substance Use Increase Adolescents' Risk for Poor Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes? A 9-Year Longitudinal Study Comparing Solitary and Social Users - 2006

Exploring the Link Between Substance Abuse and Abortion: The Roles of Unconventionality and Unplanned Pregnancy. - 2006

Forging the Link Between Alcohol Advertising and Underage Drinking - 2006

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign and School-Based Drug Prevention: Evidence for a Synergistic Effect in ALERT Plus - 2006

Project ALERT Plus May Leverage the Effect of the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign - 2006

Socio-environmental Influences on Adolescents' Alcohol Outcome Expectancies: A Prospective Analysis - 2006

The Relationship Between High School Marijuana Use and Annual Earnings Among Young Adult Males - 2006

Time Trends and Demographic Differences in Youth Exposure to Alcohol Advertising on Television - 2006

Concurrent Use of Alcohol and Cigarettes from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: An Examination of Developmental Trajectories and Outcomes - 2005

Cross-lagged Relationships Between Substance Use and Intimate Partner Violence Among a Sample of Young Adult Women - 2005

Developmental Considerations for Substance Use Interventions from Middle School Through College - 2005

Does Alcohol Advertising Promote Adolescent Drinking? Results from a Longitudinal Assessment - 2005

Effects of Early and Later Marriage on Women's Alcohol Use in Young Adulthood: A Prospective Analysis - 2005

Isolating the Nexus of Substance Use, Violence and Sexual Risk for HIV Infection Among Young Adults in the United States - 2005

Marijuana Use and Later Problems: When Frequency of Recent Use Explains Age of Initiation Effects (and When It Does Not) - 2005

Measuring Developmental Changes in Alcohol Expectancies - 2005

Mediation Analysis of a School-Based Drug Prevention Program: Effects of Project ALERT - 2005

Predictors of Attempted Quitting and Cessation Among Young Adult Smokers - 2005

Prevalence of Substance Use Among White and American Indian Young Adolescents in a Northern Plains State - 2005

Processes Linking Adolescent Problems to Substance-Use Problems in Late Young Adulthood - 2005

Saturated in Beer: Awareness of Beer Advertising in Late Childhood and Adolescence - 2005

Scope of HIV Risk and Co-Occurring Psychosocial Health Problems Among Young Adults: Violence, Victimization, and Substance Use - 2005

Stopping Violence Before It Starts: Identifying Early Predictors of Adolescent Violence - 2005

Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking, and Marijuana Use - 2005

Antecedents and Outcomes of Marijuana Use Initiation During Adolescence - 2004

Classroom Drug Prevention Works - 2004

Developmental Trajectories of Cigarette Smoking and Their Correlates from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood - 2004

From Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Smoking - 2004

Integrating Four Theories of Adolescent Smoking - 2004

Marijuana Use from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Multiple Developmental Trajectories and Their Associated Outcomes - 2004

Modifying Pro-Drug Risk Factors in Adolescents: Results from Project ALERT - 2004

Preventing Adolescent Drug Use: Long-Term Results of a Junior High Program - 2004

Substance Use and Early Marriage - 2004

Substance Use and Vulnerability to Sexual and Physical Aggression: A Longitudinal Study of Young Adults - 2004

Explaining Racial/ethnic Differences in Smoking During the Transition to Adulthood - 2003

Five-Year Prospective Study of Risk Factors for Daily Smoking in Adolescence Among Early Nonsmokers and Experimenters - 2003

New Inroads in Preventing Adolescent Drug Use: Results From a Large-Scale Trial of Project ALERT in Middle Schools - 2003

Patterns and Correlates of Binge Drinking Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Young Adulthood - 2003

Predictors of Beer Advertising Awareness Among Eighth Graders - 2003

Predictors of the Transition to Regular Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood - 2003

Social Context and Adolescent Health Behavior: Does School-Level Smoking Prevalence Affect Students' Subsequent Smoking Behavior? - 2003

Ten-year Prospective Study of Public Health Problems Associated with Early Drinking - 2003

Does Early Smoking Signal Later Problems? - 2002

Predictors of Late-Onset Smoking and Cessation Over 10 Years - 2002

Prospective Risk Factors for Alcohol Misuse in Late Adolescence - 2002

Smoking Cessation During the Transition from Adolescence to Young Adulthood - 2002

The Temporal Relationship Between Emotional Distress and Cigarette Smoking During Adolescence and Young Adulthood - 2002

Comparison of the ROST and the CAGE Alcohol Screening Instruments in Young Adults - 2001

Cross-Lagged Relationships Among Adolescent Problem Drug Use, Delinquent Behavior, and Emotional Distress - 2001

High-Risk Behaviors Associated with Early Smoking: Results From a 5-Year Follow-Up - 2001

Sex Differences in Predictors of Adolescent Smoking Cessation - 2001

Early Predictors of Adolescent Violence - 2000

Effects of Incentive Size and Timing on Response Rates to a Follow-Up Wave of Longitudinal Mailed Survey - 2000

Helping Adolescents Resist Drugs - 2000

Identifying Adolescents at Risk for Hard Drug Use: Racial/Ethnic Variations - 2000

School-based Drug Prevention: Challenges in Designing and Analyzing Social Experiments - 2000

Adolescent use of illicit drugs other than marijuana : how important is social bonding and for which ethnic groups? - 1999

School-based Substance-Abuse Prevention: What Works, for Whom, and How? - 1999

Simultaneous polydrug use among teens : prevalence and predictors - 1999

Adjusting for attrition in school-based samples : bias, precision, and cost trade-offs of three methods - 1998

Does Early Drug Use Increase the Risk of Dropping Out of High School? - 1998

Preventing Adolescent Substance Abuse: Lessons from the Project ALERT Program - 1998

Profiles of violent youth : substance use and other concurrent problems - 1998

Teenage Alcohol Misuse: A Big Problem and a Different Solution - 1998

Youth Violence: A Public-Health Problem with Disturbing Correlates - 1998

Associations Between Drug Use and Deviant Behavior in Teenagers - 1996

Concurrent risk factors for adolescent violence - 1996

Getting and keeping schools and kids for evaluation studies - 1996

Teenagers and Alcohol Misuse in the United States: By Any Definition, It's a Big Problem - 1996

What is adolescent alcohol misuse in the United States according to the experts? - 1996

Do drug prevention effects persist into high school? : how Project ALERT did with ninth graders - 1993

Forgotten Ages, Forgotten Problems: Adolescents’ Health - 1993

Challenges to Social Experiments: A Drug Prevention Example - 1992

Antecedents of Drinking among Young Adolescents with Different Alcohol Use Histories - 1991

Do Teens Tell the Truth? : The Validity of Self-Reported Tobacco Use by Adolescents - 1991

How Accurate Are Adolescent Reports of Drug Use? - 1991

Baseline Nonresponse in Project ALERT: Does It Matter? - 1990

Drug Prevention in Junior High: A Multisite, Longitudinal Test - 1990

How Generalizable Are Adolescents' Beliefs About Pro-Drug Pressures and Resistance Self-Efficacy? - 1990

Longitudinal Scalogram Analysis: A Methodology and Microcomputer Program for Guttman Scale Analysis of Longitudinal Data - 1990

Prospects for Preventing Drug Use Among Young Adolescents - 1990

An Assessment of Active Versus Passive Methods for Obtaining Parental Consent - 1989

Does Pooling Saliva for Cotinine Testing Save Money Without Losing Information? - 1989

Limiting Nonresponse in Longitudinal Research: Three Strategies for School-Based Studies - 1989

Containing Attrition in School-Based Research: An Innovative Approach - 1988

Designing and Implementing Project ALERT: A Smoking and Drug Prevention Experiment - 1988

Toward More Effective Drug Prevention Programs - 1987

Designing an Effective Prevention Program: Principles Underlying the RAND Smoking and Drug Prevention Experiment - 1984

Project ALERT, A Smoking and Drug Prevention Experiment: First-Year Progress Report - 1984

Strategies for Controlling Adolescent Drug Use - 1984

Implementing New Ideas in Criminal Justice - 1983

Codebook for the attitude module of the landlord survey, site II, baseline - 1981

Codebook for the attitude module of the survey of tenants and homeowners, site II, baseline - 1981

Who Applies for Housing Allowances? : Early Lessons from the Housing Assistance Supply Experiment - 1981

Fiscal Containment of Local and State Government - 1979

Public perceptions of housing allowances : the first two years - 1979

Resolving Environmental Issues in Energy Development: Roles for the Department Of Energy and Its Field Offices - 1979

The Fiscal Limitation Movement: Present Context and Outlook - 1979

The Role of Department of Energy Field Offices in the Commercialization of Energy Technologies - 1979

Balancing energy and the environment : the case of geothermal development - 1978

How the public views housing allowances - 1978

Public Knowledge and Evaluation of Housing Allowances: St. Joseph County, Indiana, 1975. - 1978