Byron L. Zamboanga Data-verified

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Last publication 2025 Last refreshed 2026-05-22

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58 h-index 304 pubs 13,469 cited

Biography and Research Information

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Byron L. Zamboanga is a Professor at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville whose research focuses on adolescent and young adult substance use, particularly alcohol consumption. His work has investigated drinking game participation, the effectiveness of protective behavioral strategies, and the motives behind such behaviors among university students. Zamboanga has also examined the mental health risks and substance use patterns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic among college students, exploring personal identity as a resource during this period.

His scholarship includes a significant body of work with an h-index of 58 and over 13,000 citations across more than 300 publications. He has served as Principal Investigator on a $75,000 grant from the NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to study protective behavioral strategies in risky drinking contexts. Zamboanga collaborates with multiple researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Lindsay S. Ham and Kayla Ford.

His research also extends to cultural identity, with a focus on family systems approaches for immigrant Latinx families. This broader interest in identity and its role in well-being is reflected in his publications on personal identity as a resource for college students.

Metrics

  • h-index: 58
  • Publications: 304
  • Citations: 13,469

Selected Publications

  • Pressure to Acculturate Amplifies Coping-Depression Associations With Alcohol Consequences in Hispanic/Latino College Students. (2026)
  • Alcohol use severity and intragroup marginalization among Hispanic emerging adult college students: Examining the moderating roles of ethnic identity and nativity status (2025)
  • Presenting the Evading Responsibility Following Alcohol-Related Harms as Strategy for Emotion Regulation (ERASER) Model (2025)
  • “Drink like a man!” masculine drinking norms, alcohol protective behavioral strategies, and severity of hazardous alcohol use among college men. (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Pregaming in the digital age: drinking before joining a virtual social event with friends or family among university students (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Cultural values and practices in alcohol and other drug use among immigrant youth: A systematic review (2025)
    2 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • The Structural Validity of the Barkley Deficits in Executive Functioning Scale-Short Form Among College Students Who Drink Alcohol (2025)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The party’s not over: Living situation, perceived party norms, and drinking games behavior among college students during the pandemic (COVID-19) (2024)
  • Motives to play drinking games and their unique associations with drinking game behaviors and consequences in a national sample of university students in the United States (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • A replication and extension of the factor structure of the Masculine Drinking Norms Measure (MDNM) and associations with drinking behaviors in a multisite sample of college men. (2024)
    3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Longitudinal relations between parenting practices and prosocial behaviors in recent immigrant Latino/a adolescents: Familism values and ethnic identity as mediators (2024)
  • Disentangling the directionality among cultural stressors and psychosocial outcomes in recently immigrated Hispanic families: A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model approach (2024)
    1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • Alcohol Protective Behavioral Strategy use and Negative Consequences Across Heavy Alcohol Users and Risky Drinkers (2024)
  • Social Anxiety, Pregaming Motives/Behaviors, and Negative Alcohol Consequences Among a Multisite Sample of University Students (2024)
  • Conformity to masculine norms and its association with drinking behaviors and alcohol-related consequences among adult men: A meta-analysis (2024)
    5 citations DOI OpenAlex

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Federal Grants 1 $75,000 total

NIH/National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism Contact PI Jun 2024 - Nov 2026

Protective Behavioral Strategies in Risky Drinking Contexts: A Mixed Method Study

National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism $75,000 R03

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