RIA: Principal Investigator - Kathleen E. Miller, PhD

Principal Investigator

Sociology

Primary Research Areas

Energy drink use, substance use and risk-taking in young adults; adolescent athletic involvement and problem behavior; sports, gender and sexual risk.

Ongoing Research

College Sports, Gender, and Substance Use (funded by NIDA). Examined longitudinal relationships between high school sports participation and substance use and other health-risk behaviors in college-age young adults, and developed measures of athletic involvement in high school and college populations (in collaboration with Co-investigators Grace M. Barnes, PhD, RIA; Michael Farrell, PhD, UB Department of Sociology; Merrill Melnick, SUNY College at Brockport; and Don Sabo, D’Youville College).

Sports, Gender, & Adolescent Substance Use (funded by NIDA). Investigated the nature of relationships between sports and other specific extracurricular activities and substance use and other risky adolescent behaviors (in collaboration with Co-Principal Investigator Grace M. Barnes, PhD; and team of collaborating scientists including Michael Farrell, PhD, UB Department of Sociology; Merrill Melnick, SUNY College at Brockport; and Don Sabo, D’Youville College).

Representative and Recent Publications

Miller, K. E., & Quigley, B. M. (2011). Energy drink use and substance use among musicians. Journal of Caffeine Research, 1, 67-73.

Miller, K. E. (2009). Sport-related identities and the “toxic jock.” Journal of Sport Behavior, 32, 69-91.

Miller, K. E. (2008). Energy drinks, race, and problem behaviors among college students. Journal of Adolescent Health, 43, 490-497.

Miller, K. E. (2008). Wired: Energy drinks, jock identity, masculine norms, and risk taking. Journal of American College Health, 56, 481-490.

Miller, K. E., Melnick, M. J., Barnes, G. M., Sabo, D. F., & Farrell, M. P. (2007). Athletic involvement and adolescent delinquency. Journal of Youth & Adolescence 36, 711-723.

Miller, K. E., Melnick, M. J., Farrell, M. P., Sabo, D. F., & Barnes, G. M. (2006). Jocks, gender, binge drinking, and adolescent violence. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 21, 105-120.

Miller, K. E., Farrell, M. P., Barnes, G. M., Melnick, M. J., & Sabo, D. F. (2005). Gender/racial differences in jock identity, dating, and adolescent sexual risk. Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 34, 123-136.

Miller, K. E., Melnick, M. J., Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., & Sabo, D. F. (2005). Untangling the links among athletic involvement, gender, race, and adolescent academic outcomes. Sociology of Sport Journal, 22, 178-193.

Miller, K. E., Hoffman, J. H., Barnes, G. M., Farrell, M. P., Sabo, D. F., & Melnick, M. J. (2003). Jocks, gender, race, and adolescent problem drinking. Journal of Drug Education, 33, 445-462.

Miller, K. E., Barnes, G. M., Melnick, M. J., Sabo, D. F., & Farrell, M. P. (2002). Gender and racial/ethnic differences in predicting adolescent sexual risk: Athletic participation vs. exercise. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 43, 436-450.

Miller, K. E., Barnes, G. M., Sabo, D. F., Melnick, M. J., & Farrell, M. P. (2002). Anabolic-androgenic steroid use and other adolescent problem behaviors: Rethinking the male athlete assumption. Sociological Perspectives, 45 ,467-489.

Miller, K. E., Sabo, D. F., Farrell, M. P., Barnes, G. M., & Melnick, M. J. (1999). Sports, sexual activity, contraceptive use, and pregnancy among female and male high school students: Testing cultural resource theory. Sociology of Sport Journal, 16, 366-387.

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.