Thad R. Leffingwell
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Thad R. Leffingwell's research program investigates factors influencing college student well-being, with a particular focus on substance use, mental health, and risk behaviors. His work has explored the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on substance use patterns among college students and examined the effectiveness of protective behavioral strategies for marijuana use. Leffingwell has also investigated the relationship between short-term mating orientation and alcohol use, as well as risky sexual behavior.
Additional areas of study include understanding perceptions of nonsuicidal self-injury and social norms surrounding alcohol consumption, particularly within American Indian/Alaska Native college student populations. He has also examined student reactions to campus smoking bans. Leffingwell's scholarship includes work on minoritized graduate student identity and mental health risks. He has received NIH funding for a mixed-method study on protective behavioral strategies in risky drinking contexts.
Leffingwell is a highly cited researcher with an h-index of 21 and over 1,800 citations. He has published 81 works and recently collaborated with Lindsay S. Ham, Lucy E. Napper, and Byron L. Zamboanga on multiple publications.
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- h-index: 21
- Publications: 81
- Citations: 1,812
Selected Publications
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Cannabis, ENDS, and Tobacco Co-use and Co-exposures Among ECHO Adolescents and Emerging Adults (2026)
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The role of distress tolerance in treatment of posttraumatic stress and substance use disorders: a systematic review (2026)
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A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students (2025)
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Minoritized graduate student identity, well-being, and mental health risks for suicidality. (2024)
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Protective behavioral strategies convey greater protection against alcohol-related problems for members of Greek life than non-members (2023)
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Intentions to Reduce Alcohol Use Following Brief Alcohol-Related Health Messages Among College Students (2022)
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Social norms of alcohol use among American Indian/Alaska Native college students. (2022)
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Evaluating the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale (PBSM) short-form: Support for a two-factor structure and measurement invariance (2022)
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Mental Health Risk Profiles and Related Substance Use During Coronavirus Pandemic Among College Students Who Use Substances (2022)
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Incorporating Values into Personalized Feedback Interventions for Young Adult Drinking: A Pilot Randomized Trial (2021)
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Short-term mating orientation as a predictor of alcohol use and risky sexual behavior (2021)
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Displacement imposition scale assesses reactions of cigarette and e-cigarette users impacted by a campus-wide smoking ban (2021)
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Understanding Perceptions of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Descriptive and Injunctive Norms (2021)
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Motivational Interviewing (2020)
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Depressive symptoms as a moderator of college student response to computerized alcohol intervention (2020)
Federal Grants 1 $75,000 total
Protective Behavioral Strategies in Risky Drinking Contexts: A Mixed Method Study
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- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
- A Psychometric Evaluation of the Reasons for Limiting Heavy Drinking Scale in a National Sample of College Students
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