Introduction
Laurie Chassin is Regents Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. She is a clinical psychologist who conducts research on the development of substance use (particularly alcohol and tobacco use) and substance use disorders, and the pathways by which substance use disorders are passed down across generations.
Early Life and Educational Background
Dr. Chassin was born on February 2, 1950 in New York City. She earned her B.A. in Psychology in 1971 from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University under the direction of Dr. Gerald Weinberger in 1977. She completed postdoctoral training in the Department of Sociology at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana in an interdisciplinary program in the self and mental health funded by the National Institute of Mental Health. She was mentored by Dr. Richard Young from the Department of Psychology. She then served as a...
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Barton, J., Chassin, L., Presson, C. C., & Sherman, S. J. (1982). Social image factors as motivators of smoking initiation in early and middle adolescence. Child Development, 53, 1499–1511.
Chassin, L., Tetzlaff, C., & Hershey, M. (1985). Self-image and social-image factors in adolescent alcohol use. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 46, 39–47.
Chassin, L., Flora, D. B., & King, K. M. (2004). Trajectories of alcohol and drug use and dependence from adolescence to adulthood: The effects of familial alcoholism and personality. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 483–408.
Chassin, L., Dmitrieva, J., Modecki, K., Steinberg, L., Cauffman, E., Piquero, A., Knight, G., & Losoya, S. (2010). Does adolescent alcohol and marijuana use predict suppressed growth in psychosocial maturity among male juvenile offenders? Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 48–60. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017692.
Colder, C. R., & Chassin, L. (1997). Affectivity and impulsivity: Temperament risk for adolescent alcohol involvement. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 11, 83–97.
Elam, K., Chassin, L., Wang, F., Bountress, K., Lemery-Chalfant, K., Pandika, D. (2016). Predicting substance use in emerging adulthood: A genetically informed study of developmental transactions between impulsivity and family conflict. Development and Psychopathology, 28(3):673–688.
Handley, E. D., Chassin, L., Haller, M. M., Bountress, K. E., Dandreaux, D., & Beltran, I. (2011). Do executive and reactive disinhibition mediate the effects of familial substance use disorders on adolescent externalizing outcomes? Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120, 528–542. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0024162.
King, K. M., & Chassin, L. (2004). Mediating and moderated effects of adolescent behavioral undercontrol and parenting in the prediction of drug use disorders in emerging adulthood. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 18, 239–249.
Loukas, A., Krull, J. L., Chassin, L., & Carle, A. (2000). The relation of personality to alcohol abuse/dependence in a high-risk sample. Journal of Personality, 68, 1153–1175.
Monahan, K., King, K. M., Shulman, E. P., Cauffman, E., & Chassin, L. (2015). The effects of violence exposure on the development of impulse control and future orientation across adolescence and early adulthood: Time-specific and generalized effects in a sample of juvenile offenders. Development and Psychopathology, 27, 1267–1283. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0954579414001394.
Wang, F., Pandika, D., Chassin, L., Lee, M., & King, K. M. (2016). Testing the relations among family disorganization, delay discounting, and adolescent alcohol use: A genetically informed study. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 40, 846–856. https://doi.org/10.1111/acer.12999.
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Chassin, L. (2020). Chassin, Laurie. In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T.K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24612-3_397
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