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Thad R. Leffingwell
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Professor
21 h-index
81 pubs
1,812 cited
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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.
Metrics
- h-index: 21
- Publications: 81
- Citations: 1,812
Positions
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Professor 2000–presentOklahoma State University Stillwater Psychology ORCID
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ProfessorUniversity of Arkansas at Fayetteville ORCID
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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Using Alcohol and Sleep Sensors to Understand Blackout Risk in Young Adults’ Natural Settings (The Lights Out Study): Protocol for an Intensive Longitudinal Pilot Study (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)
Federal Grants 1 $75,000 total
NIH
Co-PI
Jun 2024 - May 2026
Protective Behavioral Strategies in Risky Drinking Contexts: A Mixed Method Study
Collaboration Network
Top Collaborators
Eleanor L.S. Leavens
24 shared publications
- Electronic cigarette use and sleep health in young adults
- Mindfulness as a mediator of the association between adverse childhood experiences and alcohol use and consequences
- A Meta-analysis of Brief Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problematic Gambling
- JUUL in school: JUUL electronic cigarette use patterns, reasons for use, and social normative perceptions among college student ever users
- Trait mindfulness and protective strategies for alcohol use: Implications for college student drinking
Showing 5 of 24 shared publications
Mary Beth Miller
University of Missouri Hospital (US)
22 shared publications
- Personalized feedback interventions for college alcohol misuse: An update of Walters & Neighbors (2005).
- Meta-analysis of motivational interviewing for adolescent health behavior: Efficacy beyond substance use.
- A systematic review of treatment fatigue among HIV-infected patients prescribed antiretroviral therapy
- Electronic cigarette use and sleep health in young adults
- A Meta-analysis of Brief Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problematic Gambling
Showing 5 of 22 shared publications
Emma I. Brett
19 shared publications
- Electronic cigarette use and sleep health in young adults
- Mindfulness as a mediator of the association between adverse childhood experiences and alcohol use and consequences
- A Meta-analysis of Brief Personalized Feedback Interventions for Problematic Gambling
- JUUL in school: JUUL electronic cigarette use patterns, reasons for use, and social normative perceptions among college student ever users
- Trait mindfulness and protective strategies for alcohol use: Implications for college student drinking
Showing 5 of 19 shared publications
Ellen Meier
University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (US)
18 shared publications
- Personalized feedback interventions for college alcohol misuse: An update of Walters & Neighbors (2005).
- A systematic review of treatment fatigue among HIV-infected patients prescribed antiretroviral therapy
- Assessment reactivity: A randomized controlled trial of alcohol-specific measures on alcohol-related behaviors
- Mental Health Risk Profiles and Related Substance Use During Coronavirus Pandemic Among College Students Who Use Substances
- The Valued Living Questionnaire for Alcohol Use: Measuring value-behavior discrepancy in college student drinking.
Showing 5 of 18 shared publications
Susanna V. Lopez
Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences (US)
11 shared publications
- Electronic cigarette use and sleep health in young adults
- Mindfulness as a mediator of the association between adverse childhood experiences and alcohol use and consequences
- The Role of Unrealistic Optimism in College Student Risky Sexual Behavior
- Descriptive and injunctive norms of waterpipe smoking among college students
- Short-term mating orientation as a predictor of alcohol use and risky sexual behavior
Showing 5 of 11 shared publications
Michael B. Madson
Lehigh University (US)
10 shared publications
- Mental Health Risk Profiles and Related Substance Use During Coronavirus Pandemic Among College Students Who Use Substances
- Evaluating the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale (PBSM) short-form: Support for a two-factor structure and measurement invariance
- Evaluating the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale (PBSM) short-form: Support for a two-factor structure and measurement invariance
- Evaluating the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale (PBSM) short-form: Support for a two-factor structure and measurement invariance
- Evaluating the Protective Behavioral Strategies for Marijuana Scale (PBSM) short-form: Support for a two-factor structure and measurement invariance
Showing 5 of 10 shared publications
Kasey Claborn
9 shared publications
- Personalized feedback interventions for college alcohol misuse: An update of Walters & Neighbors (2005).
- A systematic review of treatment fatigue among HIV-infected patients prescribed antiretroviral therapy
- Randomized trial comparing computer-delivered and face-to-face personalized feedback interventions for high-risk drinking among college students
- Pilot study examining the efficacy of an electronic intervention to promote HIV medication adherence
- The Inability of Self-affirmations to Decrease Defensive Bias Toward an Alcohol-Related Risk Message Among High-Risk College Students
Showing 5 of 9 shared publications
Nathaniel Lombardi
7 shared publications
- Normative perceptions of alcohol-related consequences among college students
- The Valued Living Questionnaire for Alcohol Use: Measuring value-behavior discrepancy in college student drinking.
- Theories of behaviour change and personalised feedback interventions for college student drinking
- Enhancing the efficacy of computerized feedback interventions for college alcohol misuse: An exploratory randomized trial.
- A computer-based feedback only intervention with and without a moderation skills component
Showing 5 of 7 shared publications
Theodore L. Wagener
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (US)
6 shared publications
- Electronic cigarette use and sleep health in young adults
- Randomized trial comparing computer-delivered and face-to-face personalized feedback interventions for high-risk drinking among college students
- JUUL in school: JUUL electronic cigarette use patterns, reasons for use, and social normative perceptions among college student ever users
- Concurrent Alcohol Use and Waterpipe Tobacco Smoking: Smoking Topography, Toxicant Exposure, and Abuse Liability
- Descriptive and injunctive norms of waterpipe smoking among college students
Showing 5 of 6 shared publications
Delaney S. Dunn
Oklahoma State University (US)
5 shared publications
- Short-term mating orientation as a predictor of alcohol use and risky sexual behavior
- Understanding Perceptions of Nonsuicidal Self-Injury: Descriptive and Injunctive Norms
- Displacement imposition scale assesses reactions of cigarette and e-cigarette users impacted by a campus-wide smoking ban
- Incorporating Values into Personalized Feedback Interventions for Young Adult Drinking: A Pilot Randomized Trial
- Intentions to Reduce Alcohol Use Following Brief Alcohol-Related Health Messages Among College Students
Frank L. Collins
4 shared publications
- Teaching evidence‐based practice: Implications for psychology
- Pharmacology and treatment of substance abuse: Evidence- and outcome-based perspectives
- Graduate Training in Evidence-Based Practice in Psychology
- Pharmacology and Treatment of Substance Abuse
Ronald E. Smith
4 shared publications
- Can people remember how they coped? Factors associated with discordance between same-day and retrospective reports.
- Can people remember how they coped? Factors associated with discordance between same-day and retrospective reports.
- Sport psychology training within a clinical psychology program and a department of intercollegiate athletics.
- Exercise: A Tonic for Both Body and Mind?
Melissa J. Leedy
Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City (US)
4 shared publications
- Defensively biased responding to risk information among alcohol-using college students
- Social Psychology and Motivational Interviewing: A Review of Relevant Principles and Recommendations for Research and Practice
- Evaluation of a Measure of Incidental Legal Risk Behaviors in College Students WHO Use Alcohol
- Making Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Work: Clinical Process for New Practitioners Deborah Roth Ledley, Brian P. Marx and Richard G. Heimberg New York: The Guilford Press, 2005. pp. 254. $34.00US (€27.22) (hb). ISBN: 1-59385-142-1
Melissa Mignogna
4 shared publications
- Randomized trial comparing computer-delivered and face-to-face personalized feedback interventions for high-risk drinking among college students
- Self-esteem and gender influence the response to risk information among alcohol using college students
- Testing of a Web-Based Program to Facilitate Parental Smoking Cessation Readiness in Primary Care
- Ten things to love about drug courts
Ashley B. Cole
4 shared publications
- Alcohol use and the interpersonal theory of suicide in American Indian young adults
- Displacement imposition scale assesses reactions of cigarette and e-cigarette users impacted by a campus-wide smoking ban
- Minoritized graduate student identity, well-being, and mental health risks for suicidality.
- Social norms of alcohol use among American Indian/Alaska Native college students.
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