Publications.

AU College Experiences (and Beyond) Study

*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, 14(1), 93-110.

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.

Dr. Samek's full CV:

Secondary Data Publications

Crumly-Goodwin, B., & Samek, D. R. (2026). Contextualizing the Development of Emotion Regulation in Early Adolescence: Results From the ABCD Study. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 46(2), 153-177.

Akua, B. A., & Samek, D. R. (2026). Cumulative Micro-Contextual Risk as a Predictor of Impulsivity Among Preteens: A Latent Change Score Analysis. The Journal of Early Adolescence, 46(5), 692-724.

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

See Google Scholar, ResearchGate, or PubMed for (full) linked list (42 peer-reviewed, 1 book chapter)

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

Vanyukov, M.M., Maes, H.H.M., Iacono, W.G., Kirisci, L., Samek, D.R., Silberg, J.L., Zimmerman, E.B., Prom-Wormley, E.C. (2023). The concept of resistance to substance use and a research approach: The Resist! Project. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 26(1), 31-39.

Brisin, S.J., Clark, A., Heitzeg, M.M., Samek, D.R., Iacono, W.G., McGue, M., & Hicks, B.M. (2021). Co-development of alcohol use problems and antisocial peer affiliation from ages 11 to 34: Selection, socialization, and genetic and environmental influences. Addiction, 116(8), 1999-2007.

Samek, D.R., Hicks, B.M., Iacono, W.G., & McGue, M. (2020). Personality, romantic relationships, and alcohol use disorder symptoms in adolescence and young adulthood: An evaluation of personality x social context interplay. Development and Psychopathology, 32, 1097-1112.

*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., 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.