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Coping With COVID-19: The Benefits of Anticipating Future Positive Events and Maintaining Optimism by Leslie-Miller, Calissa J, Waugh, Christian E, Cole, Veronica T

“…In early 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced a large portion of the world into quarantine, leading to an extensive period of stress making it necessary to…”
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Positive distraction in daily activities as a predictor of good coping: A "day in the life" during the COVID-19 pandemic by Leslie-Miller, Calissa J, Cole, Veronica T, Waugh, Christian E

“…The early part of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) was a chronic stressor that led to decreased life satisfaction, increased psychopathology, and decreased…”
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Internalizing and externalizing pathways to high-risk substance use and geographic location in Australian adolescents by Willis, Bailey M., Kersh, Phereby P., Buchanan, Christy M., Cole, Veronica T.

“…One specific instantiation of the storm-and-stress view of adolescence is the idea that “normal” adolescence involves high-risk substance use behaviors…”
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Simplifying the Assessment of Measurement Invariance over Multiple Background Variables: Using Regularized Moderated Nonlinear Factor Analysis to Detect Differential Item Functioning by Bauer, Daniel J., Belzak, William C. M., Cole, Veronica T.

“…Determining whether measures are equally valid for all individuals is a core component of psychometric analysis. Traditionally, the evaluation of measurement…”
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Psychosocial functioning among college students who misuse stimulants versus other drugs by Cole, Veronica T., Hussong, Andrea M.

“…•Prescription stimulant misuse is linked with the use of marijuana, tobacco, alcohol, and hard drugs among college students.•Higher levels of stimulant misuse…”
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Coping with COVID-19: the efficacy of disengagement for coping with the chronic stress of a pandemic by Waugh, Christian E., Leslie-Miller, Calissa J., Cole, Veronica T.

“…The COVID-19 pandemic was a novel chronic stressor that necessitated figuring out how to cope with it. We hypothesized that disengagement coping - coping with…”
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Simplifying the implementation of modern scale scoring methods with an automated R package: Automated moderated nonlinear factor analysis (aMNLFA) by Gottfredson, Nisha C., Cole, Veronica T., Giordano, Michael L., Bauer, Daniel J., Hussong, Andrea M., Ennett, Susan T.

“…When generating scores to represent latent constructs, analysts have a choice between applying psychometric approaches that are principled but that can be…”
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Peer Connectedness and Substance Use in Adolescence: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Cole, Veronica T., Richmond-Rakerd, Leah S., Bierce, Lydia F., Norotsky, Rachel L., Peiris, Shayari T., Hussong, Andrea M.

“…Objective: Adolescents' relationships with their peers play a pivotal role in their substance-use behaviors. As such, decades of research have examined how…”
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Informing Harmonization Decisions in Integrative Data Analysis: Exploring the Measurement Multiverse by Cole, Veronica T., Hussong, Andrea M., Gottfredson, Nisha C., Bauer, Daniel J., Curran, Patrick J.

“…Combining datasets in an integrative data analysis (IDA) requires researchers to make a number of decisions about how best to harmonize item responses across…”
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Adapting Latent Profile Analysis to Take Into Account Measurement Noninvariance by Cole, Veronica T.

“…Multivariate Behavioral Research Adapting Latent Profile Analysis to Take Into Account Measurement Noninvariance…”
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The broader impact of new trends in adolescent substance use: A special section editorial summary by Hussong, Andrea M., Rothenberg, W. Andrew, Cole, Veronica T.

“…The focus of this special section of Addictive Behaviors is on how new trends in substance use have a broader impact on youth development, most notably on the…”
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Psychosocial functioning associated with prescription stimulant and opioid misuse versus illicit drug use among college students by Kerr, David C. R., Bae, Harold, Cole, Veronica T., Hussong, Andrea M.

“…Objective: College students' prescription stimulant and opioid misuse (PSM and POM) share psychosocial risks with other substance use. We sought to extend a…”
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A Note on the Use of Mixture Models for Individual Prediction by Cole, Veronica T., Bauer, Daniel J.

“…Mixture models capture heterogeneity in data by decomposing the population into latent subgroups, each of which is governed by its own subgroup-specific set of…”
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Do We Know Whether We're Happier? Corroborating Perceived Retrospective Assessments of Improvements in Well-Being by Bossert, Stephanie A., Tsukayama, Eli, Blackie, Laura E.R, Cole, Veronica T., Jayawickreme, Eranda

“…To what extent do our beliefs about how our well-being has improved over time correspond to observed changes? Participants (N = 1,247 from Qualtrics Panels)…”
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Recovering Predictor-Criterion Relations Using Covariate-Informed Factor Score Estimates by Curran, Patrick J., Cole, Veronica T., Bauer, Daniel J., Rothenberg, W. Andrew, Hussong, Andrea M.

“…Although it is currently best practice to directly model latent factors whenever feasible, there remain many situations in which this approach is not…”
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Assessing the Robustness of Mixture Models to Measurement Noninvariance by Cole, Veronica T., Bauer, Daniel J., Hussong, Andrea M.

“…Recent work reframes direct effects of covariates on items in mixture models as differential item functioning (DIF) and shows that, when present in the data…”
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Social network isolation mediates associations between risky symptoms and substance use in the high school transition by Hussong, Andrea M, Ennett, Susan T, McNeish, Daniel M, Cole, Veronica T, Gottfredson, Nisha C, Rothenberg, W Andrew, Faris, Robert W

“…The current study examined whether social status and social integration, two related but distinct indicators of an adolescent's standing within a peer network,…”
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Longitudinal associations between conflict monitoring and emergent academic skills: An event‐related potentials study by Isbell, Elif, Calkins, Susan D., Cole, Veronica T., Swingler, Margaret M., Leerkes, Esther M.

“…Identifying the links between specific cognitive functions and emergent academic skills can help determine pathways to support both early academic performance…”
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The Role of Social Position Within Peer Groups in Distress-Motivated Smoking Among Adolescents by Cole, Veronica T, Hussong, Andrea M, McNeish, Daniel M, Ennett, Susan T, Rothenberg, Andrew W, Gottfredson, Nisha C, Faris, Robert W

“…The relationship between smoking and adolescents' peer relationships is complex, with studies showing increased risk of smoking for adolescents of both very…”
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Intra-individual variability across neuropsychological tasks in schizophrenia: A comparison of patients, their siblings, and healthy controls by Cole, Veronica T, Weinberger, Daniel R, Dickinson, Dwight

“…Abstract Recently, higher degrees of intra-individual variability (IIV) across neuropsychological tasks have been linked to risk for developing schizophrenia…”
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