Stan Sadava
My students and I are conducting research with two longitudinal data sets, both of people in their third decade of life. One data set is based on a six-year follow-up of a cohort of graduating university students, and the other is based on a community sample of young adults. Here are some areas of recent interest:
(1) A structural model of problem drinking in which drinking behaviour and alcohol problems are seen as related but distinct dimensions. This allows us, for example, to study who some drinkers are more or less vulnerable to alcohol problems, after accounting for the effects of their consumption.
(2) Stress-related drinking and alcohol problems, including negative life events, daily hassles and male role stress; while stress is not a strong predictor of drinking itself, stress-related drinking is related to more problems.
(3) The impact of employment problems on problem drinking, health status and depression. We have found that both unemployment and underemployment predict poorer health, even after controlling for their impact on health behaviour and on household income.
(4) The relationship of adult attachment style to health, and how emotional distress and a lack of social support may mediate this relationship.
(5) Motivations for drinking (emotional enhancement and coping, sociability, avoiding rejection) and reasons for not drinking or limiting drinking, and how these impact drinking patterns and problems. Developing lines of research include elaboration of an affective change model of problem drinking, impact over time of unemployment and underemployment, and the socioeconomic and social relationship bases of health and illness.
Primary Interests:
- Applied Social Psychology
- Close Relationships
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
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Books:
- Alcock, J. D., Carment, D. W., & Sadava, S. W. (2005). A textbook of social psychology (6th ed.). Scarborough: Pearson Educational.
- Sadava, S. W., & McCreary, D. R. (Eds.). (1997). Applied social psychology. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Journal Articles:
- DeCourville, N., & Sadava, S. W. (1997). The structure of problem drinking in adulthood: A confirmatory approach. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 58, 146-154.
- McCreary, D. R., & Sadava, S. W. (2000). Stress, alcohol use and alcohol-related problems: The influence of positive and negative affect in two cohorts of young adults. Journal of studies on Alcohol, 61, 466-474.
- McCreary, D. R., Newcomb, M. D., & Sadava, S. W. (1999). The male role, alcohol use, and alcohol problems: A structural modelling examination in adult women and men. Journal of Counseling Psychology.
- McCreary, D. W., & Sadava, S. W. (1998). Stress, drinking and the adverse consequences of drinking in two samples of young adults. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 12.
- Sadava, S. W., & Pak, A. W. (1994). Problem drinking and close relationships during the third decade of life. Psychology of Addictive Behavior, 8, 251-258.
- Sadava, S. W., O'Connor, R., & McCreary, D. (2000). Employment status and health in young adults: Economic and behavioural mediators. Journal of Health Psychology, 5(4).
Stan Sadava
Department of Psychology
Brock University
St. Catharines, Ontario L2S 3A1
Canada
- Phone: (905) 688-5550, ext. 3462
