John Schulenberg

John Schulenberg, Ph.D.
Research Professor, CHGD;
Research Professor and Associate Director, Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research;
Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology

The ongoing research program of John Schulenberg focuses on psychosocial development during adolescence and young adulthood, with specific emphasis on the link between developmental transitions and health and well-being, on alcohol and other drug use, on developmental intervention and prevention research, and on the conceptualization and analysis of change. Representative conceptual and empirical questions currently being pursued include:

How can we best understand from a societal and individual perspective
why health risks tend to increase during adolescence?
How can we combine nomothetic and more idiographic approaches to the study of change to maximize our understanding of the description and explanation of developmental change?
How can we account for discontinuity in functioning and adjustment during the transition from adolescence to young adulthood?
What are the individual and social context causes of convergences and divergences in developmental trajectories of substance use during the transition to young adulthood?
Are there long-term effects of early adolescent substance abuse prevention efforts? For whom? What are the causal mechanisms?

In 2004, Schulenberg was honored with the Lansdowne Lectureship, University of Victoria, Victoria Canada (sponsored by their Centre of Addictions and Department of Psychology)