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PSB Home C. David Dooley
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Professor and Chair
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles
Phone: (949) 824-5293
Office: 3309 Social Ecology II
I am interested in the connection of economic stress to behavioral disorder. At the individual level I study the reciprocal relationship between changes in employment (e.g. leaving school or welfare to enter the work force or losing a job) and changes in well-being (e.g. depression, self-esteem, alcohol abuse). Combined with aggregate-level information such as the local unemployment rate, this becomes cross-level research permitting the analysis of the interaction between personal and aggregate economic variables. Such cross- level, longitudinal research requires large panel data sets, and the most recent research has analyzed the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Epidemiologic Catchment Area files. Currently I am interested in the impacts of employment change involving not only unemployment vs employment but also the intermediate categories of underemployment as they affect depression, substance abuse, and, for working mothers, their babies' birthweight.
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Web Links of Research Sites
Selected Publications
- Dooley, D., & Prause, J. (2004). The Social Costs of Underemployment. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Dooley, D, & Prause, J. (2005). Birth weight and mothers' adverse employment change. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 46, 141-155.
- Dooley, D., Prause, J. Ham-Rowbottom, K.A., & Emptage, N. (2005). Age of alcohol drinking onset: Precursors and the mediation of alcohol disorder. Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse, 15 (2), 19-37.
- Dooley, D., & Prause, J. (2002). Mental health and welfare transitions: Depression and alcohol abuse in AFDC women. American Journal of Community Psychology, 30, 787-813.
- Dooley, D., Prause, J., & Ham-Rowbottom, K.A. (2000). Underemployment and depression: Longitudinal relationships. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 41, 421-436.
- Dooley, D., & Catalano, R. (2000). Group interventions and the limits of behavioral medicine. Behavioral Medicine, 26, 116-128.
- Dooley, D., & Prause, J. (1998). Underemployment and alcohol misuse in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 59, 669-680.
- Dooley, D., & Prause, J. (1997). School-leavers' self- esteem and unemployment: Turning point or a station on a trajectory? In I.H. Gotlib & B. Wheaton (Eds.), Trajectories and turning points: Stress and adversity over the life course (91-113). New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Dooley, D. (2001). Social research methods (4e). Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.
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