Early childhood adversity and emerging adult development | Emerging Adulthood
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Professor Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Children, Youth and Families.
Professor Davis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Children, Youth and Families.
Jordan Davis is an assistant professor in the department of Children, Youth and Families. He has devoted much of his career to research addressing substance use and the developmental needs of marginalized and vulnerable populations. Davis also focuses on the utility and development of longitudinal data analyses in the structural equation modeling framework. Davis’ primary research focuses on substance use disorder treatment among marginalized youth. His intervention work mainly concentrates on Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention and how it can be utilized to address issues facing at-risk youth. Davis has conducted the first randomized controlled trial assessing Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention and the effect on stress, craving and substance use among at-risk young adults in residential treatment. Davis’ research spans to understanding both psychological and physiological stress responses and self-regulation, and how changes in these systems can alter treatment and developmental outcomes. Recently, Davis has focused on understanding how the development of early life risk and protective factors are associated with sexual violence victimization and perpetration, as well as teen dating violence. Davis has been funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the Fahs Beck Fund for Experimentation, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has been named a Fahs-Beck scholar, a Society for Social Work Research Doctoral fellow, and has received numerous awards for his doctoral work on marginalized young adults. To reference the work of Jordan Davis online, we ask that you directly quote their work where possible and attribute it to "Jordan Davis, a faculty at the USC Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work” (LINK: https://dworakpeck.usc.edu)
PhD 2017
MSW 2009
BS 2007
Early childhood adversity and emerging adult development | Emerging Adulthood
Effect of victimization on binge drinking and impulse control among serious juvenile offenders from adolescence through young adulthood | Journal of Youth and Adolescence
Multifaceted impulsivity as a moderator of social anxiety and cannabis use during pregraming | Journal of Anxiety Disorders
Opioid misuse during late adolescence and its effects on risk behaviors, social functioning, health, and emerging adult roles | Addictive Behaviors
Opioid misuse has emerged in recent years as a major public health concern in the United States, particularly for adolescents and emerging young adults. We examined the association of opioid misuse from ages 18 to 20 with four domains at age 21–22: risk behaviors and consequences; health; social functioning; and emerging adult roles. Participants were surveyed annually from 2008 through 2019. The sample includes N = 2880 youth from waves 8–11. The sample was approximately 18 years old at wave 8; 54% female, 46% Hispanic, 20% white, 20% Asian, 2% Black, and 11% multiracial. Opioid misuse was low in this general sample of young adults, with about 4% reporting misuse from age 18–20. We used latent growth curve modeling to examine how misuse from ages 18–20 was associated with functioning at age 21–22. Adolescents who reported opioid misuse at age 18 also reported more negative consequences from alcohol and cannabis use and greater odds of other prescription drug misuse at age 21–22 than those with no misuse. Those reporting opioid misuse at age 18 were also more likely to engage in sexual risk behaviors, report delinquent behavior, and have a higher likelihood of experiencing sexual victimization and engaging in sexual perpetration at age 21–22 than those with no misuse. Neither the intercept nor slope of opioid misuse was associated with depression, anxiety, physical health or ailments, satisfaction with friends, romantic relationship functioning, or emerging adult roles at wave 11. Findings highlight the importance of screening and brief intervention for adolescents reporting opioid misuse.
Predictors of Opioid Misuse During Emerging Adulthood: An Examination of Adolescent Individual, Family and Peer Factors | Drug and Alcohol Dependence
Opioid misuse has reached epidemic proportions among emerging adults in the U.S. To inform prevention efforts, this study examined adolescent factors related to alcohol and marijuana (AM) use that are associated with a higher or lower risk for opioid misuse during emerging adulthood.
Protective Factors for Sexual Violence: Understanding How Trajectories Relate to Perpetration in High School | Prevention Science
Substance use outcomes for mindfulness based relapse prevention are partially mediated by reductions in stress: Results from a randomized trial | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment
Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Outcomes for Emerging Adults in Non-College Settings: A Meta-analysis | Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
Lying or longing for likes? Narcissism, peer belonging, loneliness and normative versus deceptive like-seeking behavior on Instagram in emerging adulthood | Computers and Human Behavior
A longitudinal examination of homophobic name-calling perpetration in middle school: bullying, traditional masculinity, and sexual harassment as predictors | Psychology of Violence
A longitudinal analysis of adolescent popularity motivations as a predictor of engagement in relational aggression and risk behaviors | Youth and Society
How to change conscientiousness: The sociogenomic trait intervention model | Personality Disorders: Theory, Research, and Treatment.
Predictive validity of a single item motivational measure for remerging adults in substance use disorder treatment | Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research
Testing a matching hypothesis for emerging adults in Project MATCH: During-treatment and 1-year outcomes | Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 78(1), 140-145
Social ecological determinants of substance use treatment entry among serious juvenile offenders | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 71, 8-15.
Young adulthood is the crucible of personality development | Emerging Adulthood
Informed assent recall errors among adolescents in substance use treatment outcome research | Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 1-11.
The longitudinal associations between substance use, crime, and social risk among emerging adults: A longitudinal within and between-person latent variables analysis | Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 165(1), 71-78.
Brief Motivational Interviewing and Normative Feedback for Adolescents: Change Language and Alcohol Use Outcomes | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 65, 66-73.
Six month outcomes of a peer-enhanced community reinforcement approach for emerging adults with substance misuse: A preliminary study | Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 61, 66-73.
Cannabis withdrawal, post treatment abstinence, and days to first cannabis use among emerging adults in substance use treatment | Journal of Drug Issues, 46(1), 64-83.
Examining within-person and between-person effects of victimization and social risk on cannabis use among emerging adults in substance use treatment | Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 30, 52-63.
[Review of the book The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma] | Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions 15(1), 131-133.
Normative feedback and adolescent readiness to change: A small randomized trial | Research on Social Work Practice, 25(7), 801-814.
Racial Matching and Adolescent Self-Disclosure of Substance Use and Mental Health Symptoms | Ethnicity and Substance Use, 1-13.
Self-perceived emerging adult status and substance use | Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 28(3), 935.
Motivational interviewing with and without normative-feedback for adolescents with substance use problems: A preliminary study | A preliminary study. Substance Abuse, 36(3), 350-358.
A conceptual framework for understanding the association between school bullying victimization and substance misuse. | The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 84 (6) 696-710.