Phone:(480) 965-3494
Fax: (480) 965-8544

E-mail: leona.aiken@asu.edu

Websites:
www.public.asu.edu/~atlsa
www.asu.edu/resilience

Leona Aiken, PhD, 1970, Purdue University

Social, Quantitative (Chair)

Research Interests: My research interests include both quantitative methods and health psychology. In quantitative methods I am interested in continuous variable interactions in multiple regression. I am also interested in the use of design approaches and mediational analysis to untangle the effects of individual components in multi-component interventions. In health psychology I am interested in adoption of health protective behaviors across the life span, particularly among women, both from the perspectives of psychosocial models of the putative determinants of health protective behavior and from the perspective of interventions to increase health protective behavior. I have studied mammography screening, condom use, sun protection, and the adoption of hormone replacement therapy.

Teaching: Multiple Regression, Multivariate Analysis,
Introduction to Statistics, Health Psychology.

Research projects
Health psychology projects: Determinants of perceived susceptibility to diseases of aging, post-decisional processes following the adoption of hormone replacement therapy, strategies for piercing perceptions of invulnerability to disease, understanding of osteoporosis risk and osteoporosis protective health practices among young women, determinants of use of sun protection against skin cancer among young adult males.

Quantitative psychology projects: Analysis of coarsely categorized outcome variables in multiple regression

Selected Publications:

Books

Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G. (1991). Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Newbury Park, CA.: Sage.

Cohen, J., Cohen, P., West, S., & Aiken, L. (2003). Applied multiple regression/correlation analysis for the behavioral sciences. 3rd Ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Selected Articles and Chapters (Methodology, Health Psychology):

Methodology

Kreft, I. G. G., DeLeeuw, J. & Aiken, L. S. (1995). Variable centering in hierarchical linear models: Model parameterization, estimation, and interpretation. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 30, 1-21.

West, S. G., Aiken, L. S., & Krull, J. (1996). Experimental personality designs: analyzing categorical by continuous variable interactions. Journal of Personality, 64, 1-47.

West, S. G., & Aiken, L. S. (1997). Towards understanding individual effects in multiple component prevention programs: Design and analysis strategies. In K. Bryant, M. Windle, & S. West (Eds.). The science of Prevention: Methodological advances from alcohol and substance abuse research. Washington, D. C.: American Psychological Association, pp. 167-209.

Aiken, L. S., West, S. G., Schwalm, D. E., Carroll, J., & Hsiung, S. (1998). Comparison of a randomized and two quasi-experiments in a single outcome evaluation: Efficacy of a university-level remedial writing program. Evaluation Review., 22(2), 207-244.

Cohen, P., Cohen, J., Aiken, L., & West, S. (1999). The problem of units and the circumstance for POMP. Multivariate Behavioral Research., 34(3), 315-346.

Aiken, L. S., West, S. G., & Pitts, S. C. (2003). Multiple Regression Analysis. In John A. Schinka & Wayne F. Velicer (Eds.) Comprehensive Handbook of Psychology. Volume 2. Research Methods in Psychology. New York: Wiley.

Health Psychology

Aiken, L. S., West, S. G., Reno, R. R., Woodward, C., & Reynolds. (1994) . Increasing screening mammography in asymptomatic women: Evaluation of a Second Generation, theory-based program. Health Psychology, 13, 526-538.

Bryan, A. D., Aiken, L. S., & West, S. G. (1996). Increasing condom use: Evaluation of a theory-based intervention to prevent sexually transmitted disease in young women. Health Psychology, 15, 371-382.

Aiken, L. S., Jackson, K. M., & Lapin, A. (1998) Mammography screening for women under 50: women's response to medical controversy and changing practice guidelines. Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy., 4(3), 169-197.

Aiken, L. S., Jackson, K. M., Castro, F. G., & Pero, V. I. (2000). Mediators of the linkage from acculturation to mammography screening compliance among urban Hispanic women. Women and Cancer, 2(1), 4-16.

Jackson, K. M., & Aiken, L. S. (2000). A psychosocial model of sun-protection and sunbathing in young women: The impact of health beliefs, attitudes, norms, and self-efficacy for sun-protection. Health Psychology, 19, 469-478.

Aiken, L. S., Gerend, M. A., & Jackson, K. M. (2001). Subjective risk and health protective behavior: Cancer screening and cancer prevention. in A. Baum, T. Revenson, & J. Singer (Eds). Handbook of Health Psychology. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. , Chapter 44, pp. 727-746.