James Cranford
- SPN Mentor
Dr. James Cranford is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center (UMARC), Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Cranford was a Research Fellow on the Center's NIAAA funded training grant. He received his Ph.D. in Social/Personality Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Quantitative Training for Mental Health Research at New York University and in the Substance Abuse Interdisciplinary Training Program at the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center (UMSARC).
Dr. Cranford's research focuses on (1) short- and long-term developmental trajectories of substance use disorders, mood and anxiety disorders, and their co-occurrence in children, adolescents, and adults; (2) differences between alcoholic and nonalcoholic couples in the short- and long-term effects of marital interaction on drinking behavior, negative and positive affect, and marital stability; and (3) application of daily process and other longitudinal statistical methods to studies of stress, affect, and substance use.
Primary Interests:
- Emotion, Mood, Affect
- Health Psychology
- Interpersonal Processes
- Motivation, Goal Setting
Journal Articles:
- Cranford, J. A. (2004). Stress-buffering or stress-exacerbation? Social support and social undermining as moderators of the association between perceived stress and depressive symptoms among married people. Personal Relationships, 11, 23-40.
- Cranford, J. A., Eisenberg, D., & Serras, A. S. (2009). Substance use and mental health problems in a probability sample of college students: Prevalence, co-occurrence, and use of mental health services. Addictive Behaviors, 34, 134-145.
- Cranford, J. A., Floyd, F. J., Schulenberg, J. E., & Zucker, R. A. (2011). Husbands' and wives' alcohol use disorders and marital interactions as longitudinal predictors of marital adjustment. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 120(1), 210-222. doi: 10.1037/a0021349
- Cranford, J. A., McCabe, S. E., Boyd, C. J., Lange, J. E., Reed, M. B., Ketchie, J., & Scott, M. S. (2009). Effects of residential learning communities on drinking trajectories during the first two years of college. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 16 (supp), 86-95.
- Cranford, J. A., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Zucker, R. A. (2011). Alcohol involvement as a function of co-occurring alcohol use disorders and major depressive episode: Evidence from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 117(2–3), 145-151. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2011.01.011
- Cranford, J. A., Shrout, P. E., Iida, M., Rafaeli, E., Yip, T., & Bolger, N. (2006). A procedure for evaluating sensitivity to within-person change: Can mood measures in diary studies detect change reliably? Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 32, 917-929.
- Cranford, J. A., Tennen, H., & Zucker, R. A. (2010). Feasibility of using interactive voice response to monitor daily drinking, moods, and relationship processes on a daily basis in alcoholic couples. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 34, 499-508.
- Cranford, J. A., Zucker, R. A., Jester, J. M., Puttler, L. I., & Fitzgerald, H. E. (2010). Parental alcohol involvement and adolescent alcohol expectancies predict alcohol involvement in male adolescents. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 386-396.
- McCabe, S. E., Boyd, C. J., Cranford, J. A., & Teter, C. J. (2009). Motives for nonmedical use of prescription opioids among high school seniors in the United States: Self-treatment and beyond. Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, 163(8), 739-744.
- Rafaeli, E., Cranford, J. A., Green, A. S., Bolger, N., & Shrout, P. E. (2008). The good and bad of relationships: How social hindrance and social support affect relationship moods in daily life. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 34, 1703-1718.
- Serras, A. M., Saules, K. K., Cranford, J. A., & Eisenberg, D. (2010). Self-injury, substance use, and associated risk factors in a multi-campus probability sample of college students. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 24, 119-128.
- Teter, C. J., Falone, A. E., Cranford, J. A., Boyd, C. J., & McCabe, S. E. (2010). Nonmedical use of prescription stimulants and depressed mood among college students: Frequency and routes of administration. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 38, 292-298.
Courses Taught:
- Personality Psychology
- Social Psychology
- Statistical Methods in Psychology
James Cranford
Addiction Research Center
Department of Psychiatry
Room 2609, Rachel Upjohn Building
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48105
United States of America
- Phone: (734) 232-0215
- Fax: (734) 998-7992
- Email: jcranfor@med.umich.edu