RIA: Principal Investigator - Kathleen A. Parks, Ph.D.

Principal Investigator

Kathleen A. Parks, Ph.D.

Behavioral Psychology

Primary Research Areas

Women’s substance use and misuse; victimization; drinking contexts.

Current Projects

College Women: The Alcohol and Victimization Link (funded by NIAAA). Investigating the rates of alcohol consumption and alcohol-related victimization among college age women. (UB Women's Connection).

Women Bar Drinkers: Exploring Risks for HIV (funded by NIAAA). Investigating the role of alcohol in increased risk for heterosexual HIV transmission among women (in collaboration with Co-investigators R. Lorraine Collins, Ph.D., of UB’s School of Public Health and Health Professions, and Amy M. Buddie, Ph.D., of Kennesaw State University in Georgia).

Representative and Recent Publications

Hequembourg, A. L., Parks, K. A., & Vetter, C. (in press). Sexual identity and gender differences in substance use and violence: An exploratory study. Journal of LGBT Issues in Counseling.

Parks, K. A., Hequembourg, A. L., & Dearing, R. L. (in press). Women's social behavior when meeting new men: The influence of alcohol and childhood sexual abuse. Psychology of Women Quarterly.

Parks, K. A., Hsieh, Y., Bradizza, C. M., & Romosz, A. M. (in press). Factors influencing the temporal relationship between alcohol consumption and experiences with aggression among college women. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors.

Parks, K. A., Romosz, A. M., Bradizza, C. M., & Hsieh, Y. (2008). A dangerous transition: Women's drinking and related victimization from high school to the first year at college. Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 69, 65-74.

Parks, K. A., Pardi, A. M., & Bradizza, C. M. (2006). Collecting data on alcohol use and alcohol- related victimization: A comparison of telephone and web-based survey methods. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 67, 318-323.

Parks, K. A., & Kennedy, C. L. (2004). Club drugs: Reasons for and consequences of use. Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 36, 295-302.

Parks, K. A., & Fals-Stewart, W. (2004). The temporal relationship between college women’s alcohol consumption and victimization experiences. Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, 28, 625-629.

Buddie, A., & Parks, K. (2003). The role of the bar context and social behaviors on women’s risk for aggression. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18, 1378-1393.

Fals-Stewart, W., Birchler, G. R., Hoebbel, C., Kashdan, T. B., Golden, J., & Parks, K. (2003). An examination of indirect risk of exposure to HIV among wives of substance-abusing men. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 70, 65-76.

Parks, K. A., & Quigley, B.M. (2001). Riskier lifestyle, aggression and public drinking: Findings from a general population of adults in the United States. In M. Martinez (Ed.), Proceedings of the International Society on Aggression, Valencia, Spain: Prevention and control of aggression and the impacts on its victims. London: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishing.

Parks, K. A., & Scheidt, D. M. (2000). Male bar drinkers’ perspective on female bar drinkers. Sex Roles, 43, 927-941.