Stephanie Lanza

About

Stephanie Lanza is the Director of The Edna Bennett Pierce Prevention Research Center and a Professor of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies, an M.A.S. in Applied Statistics, and an M.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State, as well as a B.S. in Mathematical Science and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research primarily focuses on advancing finite mixture models, particularly latent class analysis, and applying new statistical models to reveal dynamic processes. She collaborates with researchers such as Bethany Bray, John Dziak, Megan Patrick, Runze Li, Michael Russell, and Sara Vasilenko to address research questions related to health behavior, age- and time-varying effects, and social data analytics.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Management science
• Psychology
• Statistics
• Mathematics
• Engineering
• Data science

Selected publications

• College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Mental Health Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

  Journal of Adolescent Health · 2021-12-07 · 171 citations

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• Simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use in daily life: Implications for level of use, subjective intoxication, and positive and negative consequences.

  Psychology of Addictive Behaviors · 2020-01-23 · 128 citations

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  = 154; 57.8% female, 72.7% non-Hispanic/Latinx White) were 18-25 years old, reported past-month SAM use, and reported past 2-week binge drinking. Participants completed up to 14 daily assessments on their substance use behavior. Multilevel models indicated that, relative to alcohol days, SAM days had more negative consequences. SAM and alcohol days were not statistically different on level of use, level of subjective alcohol intoxication, or positive consequences. Relative to marijuana days, SAM…

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• Exploring Resilience and Its Determinants in the Forced Migration of Ukrainian Citizens: A Psychological Perspective

  International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health · 2024-10-24 · 10 citations

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  This study enhances the understanding of resilience in forced migration through a psychological lens, highlighting the importance of identifying resilience determinants and evidence-based interventions. By fostering resilience, policymakers and practitioners can support the well-being and adaptive capacities of forcibly displaced Ukrainians, promoting psychological recovery, social integration, and positive long-term outcomes for affected individuals and communities. To determine the key resilie…

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• Exploring the Utility of a Real‐Time Approach to Characterising Within‐Person Fluctuations in Everyday Stress Responses

  Stress and Health · 2024-11-12 · 3 citations

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  Few studies have measured components of stress responses in real time-an essential step in designing just-in-time interventions targeting moments of risk. Using ecological momentary assessment (EMA), we characterised stress response components to everyday stressors, including reactivity (the response following a stressor), recovery (the return towards baseline), and pile-up (the accumulation of stressors) (RRPs) by quantifying the dynamics of response indicators (i.e., subjective stress, negativ…

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• Patterns of substance use on a given day in a national sample of U.S. young adults

  Addictive Behaviors · 2025-04-29 · 2 citations

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Recent grants

• Center for Complex Data to Knowledge in Drug Abuse and HIV Behavioral Science

  NIH · $26.8M · 2015–2022

• NIH Grant R01CA168676

  NIH · $498k · 2016

• NIH Grant R03DA023032

  NIH · $126k · 2009

Frequent coauthors

• Ashley N. Linden‐Carmichael

  University of Oregon

  43 shared

• Sara A. Vasilenko

  Syracuse University

  24 shared

• Linda M. Collins

  New York University

  23 shared

• Constantino Lagoa

  19 shared

• Martha J. Cox

  18 shared

• John J. Dziak

  University of Illinois Chicago

  18 shared

• Samuel W. Stull

  Pennsylvania State University

  17 shared

• Joshua M. Smyth

  17 shared

Labs

• Social Data AnalyticsPI

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