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Joan S. Tucker

Santa Monica Office

Senior Behavioral Scientist

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Education

Ph.D. in social psychology, University of California, Riverside; B.A. in psychology, University of California, Irvine

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Research Focus

Substance use and abuse; HIV risk and prevention; interpersonal influences on health and health behaviors

RAND Research Areas

Child Policy; Health and Health Care

Recent Projects

Adolescent substance use
Substance use and risky sex among the homeless (youth, women)
Social network influences on health behaviors

Selected Publications

Joan S. Tucker et al., "Are Drug Experimenters Better Adjusted Than Abstainers and Users? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Marijuana Use", Journal of Adolescent Health [Epub June 28, 2006

Joan S. Tucker et al., "Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes", Women's Health Issues, 16(1), 2006

Joan 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

Joan S. Tucker et al., "Predictors of Unprotected Sex with Non-Cohabitating Primary Partners Among Sheltered and Low-Income Housed Women in Los Angeles County", Journal of Health Psychology, 11(5), 2006

Joan S. Tucker et al., "Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking and Marijuana Use", Journal of Drug Issues, 35(2), 2005

Related RAND Resources

Research Focus

Substance use and abuse, HIV risk and prevention, interpersonal influences on health and health behaviors

Recent Projects

Adolescent substance use
Substance use and risky sex among the homeless (youth, women)
Social network influences on health behaviors

Selected Publications

"Does Solitary Substance Use Increase Adolescents' Risk for Poor Psychosocial and Behavioral Outcomes? A 9-Year Longitudinal Study Comparing Solitary and Social Users," Joan S. Tucker et al., Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, Vol. 20, No. 4, Dec 2006

"Are Drug Experimenters Better Adjusted Than Abstainers and Users? A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Marijuana Use," Joan S. Tucker et al., Journal of Adolescent Health [Epub June 28, 2006], Vol. 39, No. 4, Oct 2006

"Predictors of Unprotected Sex with Non-Cohabitating Primary Partners Among Sheltered and Low-Income Housed Women in Los Angeles County," Joan S. Tucker et al., Journal of Health Psychology, Vol. 11, No. 5, Sept 2006

"Cigarette Smoking from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Women's Developmental Trajectories and Associates Outcomes," Joan S. Tucker et al., Women's Health Issues, Vol. 16, No. 1, Jan/Feb 2006

"Substance Use Trajectories from Early Adolescence to Emerging Adulthood: A Comparison of Smoking, Binge Drinking and Marijuana Use," Joan S. Tucker et al., Journal of Drug Issues, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2005