R. Jay Turner
Marie E. Cowart Professor of Sociology and Epidemiology; Professor of Psychology
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Ph.D., Syracuse University
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| Studies mental health,
mental illness, and substance abuse problems. Awards from the American
Public Health Association, the Mental Health Sections of the Society for
the Study of Social Problems and the ASA, and the Medical Sociology
Section of the ASA have recognized his research. |
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AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Research Interests
Stress and mental health/substance use problems
Psychiatric epidemiology
Risk and protective factors for mental health and substance use problems
Teaching & Professional Experience
Professor, Department of Sociology, Florida State University (2002-present)
Professor, College of Health and Urban Affairs; Director, Life Course and Health
Research Center, Florida International University (1999-2002)
Research Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Miami (1995-1999)
Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto (1989-1995)
Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of British Columbia (1986-1989)
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western
Ontario (1977-1986)
Associate Professor to Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Western
Ontario (1972-1986)
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Department of Psychiatry,
Temple University (1968-1972)
Senior Research Scientist, New York State Mental Health Research Unit, Syracuse
University (1964-1968)
Recent Research Grants
Drug Use Trajectories: Racial/Ethnic Contrasts,
National Institute on Drug Abuse (1997-2002)
Physical Disability, Mental Health and Substance Use
National Institute on Drug Abuse (1999-2004)
Physical Disability and Drug Use; Longitudinal Analyses
National Institute on Drug Abuse (2002-2007)
Ethnic Contrasts in Mental Health and Substance Problems
National Institute on Drug Abuse (2005-2008)
Selected Recent Peer Reviewed Articles
Turner, R. Jay, Andres Gil, 2002. "Psychiatric and Substance Disorders in
South Florida: Racial/Ethnic and Gender Contrasts in a Young Adult Cohort."
Archives of General Psychiatry 59:43-50.
Turner, R. Jay and Lloyd, Donald, 2003. "Cumulative Adversity and Drug
Dependence in Young Adults: Racial/Ethnic Contrasts."
Addiction, 98,(3), (292-305).
Turner, R. Jay. 2003.
"The Pursuit of Socially Modifiable Contingencies in Mental Health."
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 44(1), 1-17.
Turner, R. Jay and William
R. Avison. 2003. "Status Variations in Stress Exposure Among Young Adults:
Implications for the Interpretation of Prior Research."
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 44, 488-505.
Lloyd, Donald A. and R.
Jay Turner. 2003. "Cumulative Adversity and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder:
Evidence from a Diverse Community Sample of Young Adults."
American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73:381-391.
Turner, R. Jay, John Taylor and Karen Van Gundy. 2004. "Ethnicity, Personal
Resources, and Depression in Young Adulthood."
Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 45, (March): 34-52.
Turner, R. Jay and Donald
A. Lloyd. 2004. "Stress Burden and the Lifetime Incidence of Psychiatric
Disorder in Young Adults: Racial/Ethnic Contrasts."
Archives of General Psychiatry, 61,(May), (481-488).
Barrett, Anne E. and R.
Jay Turner, 2006. "Family Structure and Substance Use Problems in
Adolescence and Young Adulthood."
Addition, 101, 109-120.
Turner, R. Jay, Lloyd, Donald A. and John Taylor. 2006. "Stress Burden,
Drug Dependence, and the Hispanic Nativity Paradox."
Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 83(1), 79-89.
Turner, R. Jay, Lloyd,
Donald A. and John Taylor. (in press). "Physical Disability and Mental
Health: An Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Disorders."
Rehabilitation Psychology.
Turner, R. Jay, Glover,
Regan, Hutto, Pamela and David Russell. (in press) "The Social Distribution
and Antecedents of Anger Proneness."
Journal of Health and Social Behavior.