Michael Russell
Mike Russell's research focuses on connections between stress, affect, and health behaviors in the day-to-day lives of adolescents/young adults, using advanced statistical modeling and ambulatory assessment methods.
University Park, PA 16802
- ambulatory assessment
- intensive longitudinal data analysis
- alcohol abuse, misuse, and dependence
- dynamics of stress, emotion, and substance use in everyday life
My research program blends longitudinal observational and randomized intervention designs to study risk and protection for alcohol and substance use consequences and disorders in young adults’ natural settings. I have led and collaborated on numerous projects spanning observational and randomized controlled designs with intensive longitudinal data including wearable sensors (e.g., transdermal alcohol concentration (TAC) sensors) and ecological momentary assessments (EMA). My work integrates these interests with advances in statistical modeling of growth, change, and within-person variability in both frequentist and Bayesian multilevel and structural equation modeling (SEM) frameworks. I take a social ecological approach to understanding the causes and consequences of substance misuse and substance use disorders in young adults and work toward the identification of malleable psychosocial mechanisms of change.