Research Papers

Afghani, A., Xie, B., Wiswell, R. A., Gong, J., Li, Y., & Johnson, C. A. (May 2003). Bone mass of Asian adolescents in China: Influence of physical activity and smoking. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise 35(5), 720-729.

Baluja, K. F., Park, J., & Myers, D. (April 2003). Inclusion of immigrant status in smoking prevalence rates. American Journal of Public Health, 93(4), 642-646.

Baluja, K., Park, J., & Myers, D. (October 2003). Response to letter to the editor by William J McCarthy, Hozefa A. Divan, Dipanwita B. Shah, Immigrant status and smoking. [Letter to the editor]. American Journal of Public Health, 93(10), 1616-1617.

Chen, X., Cruz, T. B., Schuster, D., Unger, J. B., & Johnson, C. A. (2002). Receptivity to pro-tobacco media and its impact on cigarette smoking among ethnic minority youths in California. Journal of Health Communication, 7(2), 95-111.

Chen, X., Li, Y., Unger, J. B., Gong, J., Johnson, C. A., & Guo, Q. (May 2001). Hazard of smoking initiation by age among adolescents in Wuhan, China. Preventive Medicine, 32(5), 437-445.

Chen, X., Stacy, A., Zheng, H., Shan, J., Spruijt-Metz, D., Unger, J. B., Gong, J., Gallaher, P., Liu, C., Azen, S., Shakib, S., & Johnson, C. A. (August 2003). Sensations from initial exposure to nicotine predicting adolescent smoking in China: A potential measure of vulnerability to nicotine. Nicotine & Tobacco Research, 5(4), 455-463.

Chen, X., Zheng, H., Sussman, S., Stacy, A., Gallaher, P., Dent, C., Azen, S., Unger, J. B., Johnson, C. A., Gong, J., Xia, J., & Shan, J. (2002). Use of the Fagerstrom tolerance questionnaire for measuring nicotine dependence among adolescent smokers in China: A pilot test. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 16(3), 260-263.

Chou, C.-P. & Bentler, P. M. (December 2002). Model modification in structural equation modeling by imposing constraints. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 41(2), 271-287.

Islam, S. M. & Johnson, C. A. (November 2003). Correlates of smoking behavior among Muslim Arab-American adolescents. Ethnicity & Health, 8(4), 319-337.

Liu, C., Johnson, C.A., Li, Y., Shan, J., Xie, B., Gong, J., & Xia, J. (January 2002). The survey on consumption of invigorant among the parents and adolescents. Chinese Primary Health Care, 16(1), 40-42. Chinese language

Liu, C., Xie, B., Li, Y., Johnson, C. A., & Chen, J. (August 2002). Determinants of invigorant consumption among adolescents. Journal of Hygiene Research, 31(4), 311. Chinese language

London, S. J., Xia, J., Lehman, T. A., Yang, J.-H., Granada, E., Chunhong, L., Dubeau, L., Li, T., David-Beabes, G. L., & Li, Y. (2001). Collection of buccal cell DNA in seventh-grade children using water and a toothbrush. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, 10, 1227-1230.

Mouttapa, M., Huang, T. T.-K., Shakib, S., Sussman, S., & Unger, J. B. (November 2003). Authority-related conformity as a protective factor against adolescent health risk behaviors. [Letter to the Editor]. Journal of Adolescent Health, 33(5), 320-321.

Shakib, S., Mouttapa, M., Johnson, C. A., Ritt-Olson, A., Trinidad, D., Gallaher, P., & Unger, J. B. (August 2003). Ethnic variation in parenting characteristics and adolescent smoking. Journal of Adolescent Health, 33(2), 88-97.

Trinidad, D. R., Chou, C.-P., Unger, J. B., Johnson, C. A., Li, Y. (July 2003). Family harmony as a protective factor against adolescent tobacco and alcohol use in Wuhan, China. Substance Use and Misuse, 38(8), 1159-1171.

Trinidad, D., & Johnson, C. A. (January 2002). The association between emotional intelligence and early adolescent tobacco and alcohol use. Personality and Individual Differences, 32(1), 95-105.

Unger, J. B. (2001). California adolescents offer a glimpse into the future of multiethnicity. American Journal of Public Health, 91(7), 1136-1137.

Unger, J. B., Gallaher, P., Shakib, S., Ritt-Olson, A., Palmer, P. H., & Johnson, C. A. (August 2002). The AHIMSA acculturation scale: A new measure of acculturation for adolescents in a multicultural society. Journal of Early Adolescence, 22(3), 225-251.

Unger, J. B., Li, Y., Chen, X., Jiang, X., Azen, S., Guo, Q., Tan, S., Gong, J., Sun, P., Liu, C., Chou, C.-P., Zheng, H. & Johnson, C. A. (October 2001). Adolescent smoking in Wuhan, China: Baseline data from the Wuhan smoking prevention trial. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 21(3), 162-169.

Unger, J. B., Li, Y., Shakib, S., Rohrbach, L. A., Chen, X., Guo, Q., Chou, C.-P., Shan, J., Azen, S., Zheng, H., & Johnson, C. A. (April 2002) Peer influences and access to cigarettes as correlates of adolescent smoking: A cross-cultural comparison of Wuhan, China, and California. Preventive Medicine, 34(4), 476-484.

Unger, J. B., Ritt-Olson, A., Teran, L., Huang, T., Hoffman, B. R., & Palmer, P. (May-June, 2002). Cultural values and substance use in a multiethnic sample of California adolescents. Addiction Research & Theory, 10(3), 257-279.

Unger, J. B. (September 2003). Peers, family, media, and adolescent smoking: Ethnic variation in risk factors in a national sample. Adolescent & Family Health, 3(2), 65-70.

Valente, T. W., Hoffman, B. R., Ritt-Olson, A., Lichtman, K., & Johnson, C. A. (November 2003). Effects of a social-network method for group assignment strategies on peer-led tobacco prevention programs in schools. American Journal of Public Health, 93(11), 1837-1843.

Xie, B., Liu, C., Chou, C.-P., Xia, J., Spruijt-Metz, D., Gong, J., Li, Y., Wang, H., & Johnson, C. A. (September 2003). Weight perception and psychological factors in Chinese adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Health, 33, 202-210.