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Principal Investigators of the Research Institute
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Sociology
 Primary Research Areas
Adolescent alcohol and substance use; family issues;
parenting; general population surveys.
Current Projects
Sports, Gender, & Adolescent Substance Use (funded by NIDA). Extending previous research by this team into the nature of the relationships between sports and other specific extracurricular activities and substance use and other risky adolescent behaviors (in collaboration with RIA’s Kathleen E. Miller, Ph.D., Michael Farrell, Ph.D. of UB’s Department of Sociology; Donald Sabo, Ph.D. of D’Youville College; and Merrill Melnick, Ph.D., of SUNY College at Brockport).
College Sports, Gender, and Substance Use (funded by NIDA). Examining longitudinal relationships between high school sports participation and substance use as well as developing comprehensive measures of athletic involvement, gender and substance use in college students (in collaboration with RIA Principal Investigator Kathleen E. Miller, Ph.D., Michael Farrell, Ph.D. of UB’s Department of Sociology; Donald Sabo, Ph.D. of D’Youville College; and Merrill Melnick, Ph.D., of SUNY College at Brockport).
Gambling and Substance Use Among Youth in the U.S. (funded by NIMH). Examining the prevalence of pathological gambling among U.S. youth, youth gambling and gambling opportunities, and other problem behaviors (in collaboration with Principal Investigator John W. Welte, Ph.D.).
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On-going Research
Co-occurrence of Gambling and Substance Use in the U.S. (funded by NIAAA). Nationwide study of adults and gambling including a geographic analysis of census data and distances from participants’ home to gambling facilities (in collaboration with Principal Investigator John W. Welte, Ph.D. and co-investigator William F. Wieczorek, Ph.D. of Buffalo State College’s Center for Health and Social Research).
Family and Adolescents Study (funded by NIAAA).
A six-wave longitudinal study of family influences on the development of alcohol adolescent misuse (in collaboration with Michael Farrell, Ph.D. of UB’s Department of Sociology). Representative and Recent Publications
Barnes, G. M., Hoffman, J. H., Welte, J. W., Farrell, M. P., & Dintcheff, B. A. (2007). Adolescents' time use: Effects on substance use, delinquency and sexual activity. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 36, 697-710.
Barnes, G. M., Hoffman, J. H., Welte, J. W., Farrell, M. P., & Dintcheff, B. A. (2006). Effects of parental monitoring and peer deviance on substance use and delinquency. Journal of Marriage and Family, 68, 1084-1104. Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., & Hoffman, J.
H. (2002). Relationship of alcohol use to delinquency and illicit drug
use in adolescents: Gender, age, and racial/ethnic differences. Journal
of Drug Issues, 32, 153-178.
Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., &
Dintcheff, B. A. (2002). Effects of alcohol misuse on gambling patterns
in youth. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63, 767-775.
Barnes, G. M., Reifman, A. S., Farrell, M. P., & Dintcheff,
B. A. (2000). The effects of parenting on the development of adolescent
alcohol misuse: A six-wave latent growth model. Journal of
Marriage and the Family, 62, 175-186.
Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., & Dintcheff,
B. A. (1999). Gambling and alcohol use among youth: Influences of demographic,
socialization, and individual factors. Addictive Behaviors, 24,
749-767.
Miller, K. E., Sabo, D. F., Farrell, M. P., Barnes,
G. M., & Melnick, M. J. (1998). Athletic participation and sexual behavior
in adolescents: The different worlds of boys and girls. Journal of
Health and Social Behavior, 39, 108-123.
Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., & Dintcheff B. A. (1997).
Family socialization effects on alcohol abuse and related problem behaviors
among female and male adolescents. In R. W. Wilsnack & S. C. Wilsnack
(Eds.), Gender and alcohol: Individual and social perspectives
(pp. 156-175). New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies.
Barnes, G. M., Welte, J. W., Hoffman, J. H., & Dintcheff,
B. A. (1997). Changes in alcohol use and alcohol-related problems among
7th to 12th grade students in New York State, 1983-1994. Alcoholism:
Clinical and Experimental Research, 21, 916-922.
Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., & Banerjee, S. (1995).
Family influences on alcohol abuse and other problem behaviors among
black and white adolescents in a general population sample. In G. M.
Boyd, J. Howard, & R. A. Zucker (Eds.), Alcohol problems among adolescents:
Current directions in prevention research (pp. 13-32). Hillsdale,
NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
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