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Home  People Jackie Wiersma, Ph.D.
Jackie Wiersma, Ph.D.
PAMT Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Methodology Center and The Prevention Research Center
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The Methodology Center
The Pennsylvania State University
204 E. Calder Way, Suite 400
State College, PA 16801
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814-865-1225 |
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814-863-0000
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| Education: |
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Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 2008 (Human Development and Family Studies)
M.S., Arizona State University, 2006 (Family Studies and Human Development)
B.A., The University of Northern Iowa, 2003 (Psychology)
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| Research Interests: |
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I am interested in the associations of alcohol use and adolescent and young adult romantic relationships. I have focused on the congruency and discrepancy in young adult drinking patterns and how this contributes to couples’ satisfaction, commitment, alcohol-related problems, alcohol abuse (Wiersma, Fischer, & Fitzpatrick, 2009), and intimate partner violence in romantic relationships (Herrera, Wiersma, & Cleveland, 2008). Recently, I have been focusing on the processes of selection and socialization as it relates to young adult drinking in romantic relationships. For example, my dissertation found that romantic partner drinking was significantly associated with young adult drinking within unmarried relationships, and both selection and socialization effects played a role in young adults’ continued use of drinking in romantic relationships.
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Currently, I am working with Jennifer Maggs on the University Life Study. The ULS was designed to examine links between motivations, daily activities, college experiences, and risk behaviors using semester baseline data and a series of 14 consecutive daily surveys from the fall of freshman to senior year. I am investigating the associations among heavy alcohol use, casual sex behaviors, and romantic relationship sex behaviors. I am also examining differences in substance use for individuals with romantic partners and individuals with non-romantic partners.
I am also continuing my four-year work on the Add Health dataset, working alongside Bo Cleveland, to examine patterns of drinking in adolescent and young adulthood romantic relationships. Using the Add Health, I am planning on learning various techniques to analyze couple-level data that can be used with multilevel models in order to better understand selection and socialization processes in romantic partner drinking.
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Peer-reviewed Papers |
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Gute, G., Eshbaugh, E., & Wiersma, J. D. (2008). Sex for you, but not for me: Discontinuity in undergraduate emerging adults’ definitions of “having sex.” Journal of Sex Research, 45, 329-337.
Eng, S., Kanitar, K., Cleveland, H. H., Fischer, J. L., Herbert, R., & Wiersma, J. D. (2008). School achievement differences among Chinese and Filipino American students: Acculturation and the family. Educational Psychology, 28, 535-550.
Herrera, V. M., Wiersma, J. D., & Cleveland, H. H. (2008). The influence of individual and partner characteristics on the perpetration of intimate partner violence in young adult relationships. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 37, 284-296.
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Book Chapters |
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Wiersma, J. D., Fischer, J. L., & Fitzpatrick, J. (2009). The role of romantic partners' drinking and binging patterns in relationship quality and alcohol-related problems. In K. I. DiGuarde (Ed.), Binge Drinking Research Progress (pp. 39-61). New York: Nova Science.
Cleveland, H. H., Wiersma, J. D., & Wiebe, R. P. (2009). The characteristics of social networks within The Collegiate Recovery Community. In H. H. Cleveland & K. Harris (Eds.), Substance abuse recovery in college: Building communities to support sustained abstinence. Springer Publications.
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