Publications.

AU College Experiences (and Beyond) Study

Secondary Data Publications

*indicates graduate student author

**indicates undergraduate student author

Samek, D.R., Duke-Marks, A., *Crumly-Goodwin, B., *Akua, B.A. (2025). Assessing racial trauma experienced by first-year students of color attending a mostly White university in the American Southeast. Emerging Adulthood, online first publication, 1-18.

Samek, D.R., *Crumly-Goodwin, B., *Akua, B.A., Duke-Marks, A. & Hinnant, B. (2025). Negative emotions associated with recent national/international traumatic events, links to internalizing symptoms, and exacerbation by frequent/intense social media use. Emerging Adulthood, 13(5), 1110-1130.

*Crumly-Goodwin, **New, O., & Samek, D.R. (2025). Exploring the role of negative affect in the association between social media use and internalizing symptoms: Indirect associations and moderation. Personality and Individual Differences, 244, 113252.

Samek, D.R., *Crumly, B., *Akua, B.A., *Dawson, M., & Duke-Marks, A. (2024). Microaggressions, perceptions of campus climate, mental health, and alcohol use among first-year students of color. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 34, 96-113.

Samek, D.R., & *Dawson, M.R. (2024). Negative emotionality, stress, and depressive symptoms in the transition through college. Personality and Individual Differences, 216, 112403.

*Akua, B.A. & Samek, D.R. (2023). The developmental unfolding of substance use disorders and academic achievement in the transition into and out of college. Addictive Behaviors, 137, 107530.

Samek, D.R., & *Akua, B.A. (2022). Predictors of stable alcohol use disorder and potentially co-occurring depressive symptoms: Insights from the longitudinal College Experiences Study. Journal of Adolescence, 94(6), 844-854.

*Dawson, M.D.R., & Samek, D.R. (2022). Parent and peer social-emotional support as predictors of depressive symptoms in the transition into and out of college. Personality and Individual Differences, 192, 111588.

*Nichols, L.R., Samek, D.R., *McConnell, L. (2019). Key personality traits and alcohol use disorder symptoms in first and second year college students: Detangling antecedent from consequence. Addictive Behaviors, 89, 178-187.

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*Akua, B.A., & Samek, D.R. (2025). Cumulative micro-contextual risk as a predictor of impulsivity among preteens: A latent change score analysis. Journal of Early Adolescence, online first publication, 1-33.

*Crumly-Goodwin, B. & Samek, D.R. (2024). Contextualizing the development of emotion regulation in early adolescence: Results from the ABCD Study. Journal of Early Adolescence, online first publication, 1-25.

Samek, D.R., *Akua, B.A., *Crumly, B., Duke-Marks, A. (2024). Increasing mental health issues in college students from 2016-2019: Assessing the intersections of race/ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation. Journal of Affective Disorders, 354, 216-223.

Other (selected) publications

Samek, D.R., *Akua, B.A., *Crumly, B. (2024). Alcohol use. In. E. Neblett, W. Troop-Gordon, M. Kit (Eds.), Encyclopedia of adolescence, 2nd edition. Volume 3: Risk, resilience, and well-being (pp. 51-62). Elsevier.

*Goodman, R.J., Samek, D.R., Wilson, S., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M. (2019). Features of interpersonal relationship context and major depressive disorder symptoms: Exploring antecedent vs. consequence using a developmental cascade approach. Development and

Psychopathology, 31, 1451 - 1465.

Samek, D.R., Hicks, B., Durbin, E. Hinnant, J.B., McGue, M., & Iacono, W.G. (2018). Co-development between key personality traits and alcohol use disorder from adolescence through young adulthood. Journal of Personality, 86, 261-282.

Samek, D.R., *Goodman, R.J., *Riley, L., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M (2018). The developmental unfolding of sibling influences on alcohol use over time. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 47, 349-368.

Samek, D.R., Hicks, B., Keyes, M.A., McGue, M., & Iacono, W.G. (2017). Antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing disorders: Evidence for gene x environment x development interaction. Development and Psychopathology, 29, 155-172.

Samek, D.R., *Goodman, R., Erath, S. McGue, M., & Iacono, W.G. (2016). Antisocial peer affiliation and externalizing disorders in the transition from adolescent to young adulthood: Selection versus socialization effects. Developmental Psychology, 52, 813-823.

Samek, D.R., Rueter, M.A., Keyes, M.A., McGue, M., & Iacono, W.G. (2015). Parent involvement, sibling companionship, and adolescent substance use: A longitudinal, genetically-informed design. Journal of Family Psychology, 29(4), 614-623.

- Awarded the 2015 Outstanding New Professional Paper Award by the Families and Health Section of the National Council of Family Relations

Samek, D.R., Elkins, I.J., Keyes, M.A., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M. (2015). High school sports involvement diminishes the association between childhood conduct disorder and adult antisocial behavior. Journal of Adolescent Health, 57(1), 107-112.

Samek, D.R., & Hicks, B.M. (2014). Externalizing disorders and environmental risk: Mechanisms of gene-environment interplay and strategies for intervention. Clinical Practice. 11, 537-547.

Samek, D.R., & Rueter, M.A. (2011). Considerations of elder sibling closeness in predicting younger sibling substance use: Social learning versus social bonding explanations. Journal of Family Psychology, 25, 931 - 941.

Diana R. Samek, Ph.D.

Publications.

AU College Experiences (and Beyond) Study

Secondary Data Publications

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Other (selected) publications

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