Clyde W. Dent, Ph.D.

Education

1979 - University of California, Los Angeles - B.A., Quantitative Psychology

1980 - University of California, Los Angeles - M.A., Research Methods & Evaluation

1984 - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Quantitative Psychology

Professional Experience

1984-86
Research Associate, Health Behavior Research Institute, USC

1986-95
Assistant Professor of Research, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, USC

1995-present
Associate Professor of Research, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, USC

2000-present
Research Scientist, Oregon Research Institute

Current ORI Projects
Tobacco Control Activities and Adolescent Tobacco Use (OHT)
National Cancer Institute, 2000 - 2009

Selected Publications

Dent CW, Sussman S, Johnson CA, Hansen WB & Flay BR. (1987). Adolescent smokeless tobacco incidence: Relations with other drugs and psychosocial variables. Prev Med, 16(3), 422-31.

Flay BR, Hansen WB, Johnson CA, Collins LM, Dent CW et al. (1987). Implementation effectiveness trial of a social influences smoking prevention program using school and television. Hlth Ed Res: Theory Practice, 2, 385-400.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Mestel JS, Johnson CA, Hansen WB & Flay BR. (1988). Adolescent nonsmokers, triers, and regular smokers estimates of cigarette smoking prevalence: When do overestimates occur and by whom? J Applied Soc Psychol, 18(7), 537-51.

Brannon BR, Dent CW, Flay BR, Hansen WB, Johnson CA, Smith G et al. (1989). The television school and family project V: The impact of curriculum delivery format on program acceptance. Prev Med, 18, 492-502.

Sobol DF, Rohrbach LA, Dent CW, Gleason L, Brannon B, Flay BR et al. (1989). The integrity of curriculum delivery. Special Issue: Smoking Health Education Research, 4(1), 59-67.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Flay BR, et al. (1989). Media manipulation of adolescents' personal level judgments regarding consequences of smokeless tobacco use. J Drug Educ, 19(1), 43-57.

Stacy A, Dent CW, Sussman S, Raynor A, Burton D & Flay BR. (1990). Expectancy accessibility and the influence of outcome expectancies on adolescent ST use. J Applied Soc Psychol, 20, (10), 802-17.

Barovich M, Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy A, Burton D, & Flay BR. (1991). Availability of tobacco products at stores located near public schools. Inter J Addict, 26(8), 843-56.

Sussman S, Burton D, Dent CW, Stacy A & Flay BR. (1991). Use of focus groups in developing an adolescent tobacco use cessation program: Collective norm effect . J Applied Soc Psychol, 21, 1772-82.

Stacy AW, Sussman S, Dent CW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1992). Moderators of social influence in adolescent smoking. Personality Soc Psychol Bulletin, 18(2), 163-72.

Dent CW, Galaif J, Sussman S, Stacy S, Burton D, & Flay BR. (1993). Demographic, psychosocial and behavioral differences in samples of actively and passively consented adolescents. Addict Behav, 18, 51-6.

Dent CW, Sussman S & Flay BR. (1993). The use of archival data to select and assign schools in a drug prevention trial. Eval Review, 17, 159-81.

Sussman S, Brannon BR, Dent CW, Hansen WB, Johnson CA & Flay BR. (1993). Relations of coping strategies, coping effort and perceived stress with cigarette smoking. Inter J Addict, 28, 599-612.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Simon TS, Stacy AW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1993). Identification of which high-risk youth smoke cigarettes regularly. Health Val, 17, 42-53.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Hodgson C, Burton D & Flay BR (1993). Project Towards No Tobacco Use: Implementation, process, and posttest knowledge evaluation. Health Ed Res: Theory & Practice, 8, 109-23.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Sun P, Craig S, Simon TR et al. (1993). Project Towards No Tobacco Use one-year behavior outcomes. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1245-50.

Sussman S, Stacy AW, Dent CW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1993). Refusal assertion versus conversational skill role-play competence: Relevance to prevention of tobacco use. Statistical Medicine, 12(3/4), 365-76.

Turner GE, Burciaga C, Sussman S, Klein-Selski E, Craig S, Dent CW et al. (1993). Which lesson components mediate refusal assertion skill improvement in school-based adolescent tobacco use prevention? Inter J Addict, 28(8), 749-66.

Sussman S, Dent CW, McAdams LA, Stacy AW, Burton D, Flay BR. (1994). Group self-identification and adolescent cigarette smoking: A one-year prospective study. J Abnormal Psychology, 103(3), 576-80.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Severson H & Craig S. (1994). Prevalence of tobacco use in the California lumber mill industry. Health Values 18, 19-24.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Wang E, Cruz NTB, Sanford D & Johnson CA. (1994). Participants and non-participants of a mass media self-help smoking cessation program. Addictive Behaviors, 19(6), 643-54.

Dent CW, Sussman S, Stacy AW, Craig S, Burton D & Flay BR. (1994). Two-year behavior outcomes of Project Towards No Tobacco Use. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 676-77.

Dent CW, Galaif ER, Sussman S & Stacy AW. (1996) Use of the "theme study" as a means of curriculum development in continuation high schools. Journal of Drug Education, 26, 377-93.

Dent CW, Sussman S, Ellickson P, Brown P & Richardson J. (1996). Is drug abuse prevention programming generalizable across ethnic groups? American Behavioral Scientist, 39, 911-19.

Donaldson, S.I., Dent, C.W., Sussman, S., Stoddard, J.L., & Severson, H.H. (1996). The organizational implications of smokeless tobacco use in the lumber mill industry. Addictive Behaviors, 21, 259-67.

Murray DM, Moskowitz JM, & Dent CW. (1996). Design and analysis issues in community-based drug abuse prevention. American Behavioral Scientist, 39, 853-67.

Simon TR, Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1996). Predictors of misreporting tobacco use initiation among adolescents. Eval Rev, 20, 552-67.

Stoddard JL, Sussman S, Dent CW, Donaldson SI & Severson HH. (1997) Characteristics of tobacco use in the lumber industry. Am J Health Behav Educ Promo, 21, 91-99.

Sussman S, Galaif ER, Newman T, Hennesy M, Pentz MA, Dent CW et al. (1997). Implementation and process evaluation of a student “school-as-community” group: A component of a school-based drug-abuse prevention program. Eval Rev, 21, 94-123.

Dent, CW., Sussman, S., & Stacy, A. (1997). The impact of a written parental consent policy on estimates from a school based drug use survey. Eval Rev, 21, 698-712.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Nezami E, Stacy AW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1998). Reasons for quitting and smoking temptation among adolescent smokers: Gender differences. Substance Use & Misuse, 33, 2703-20.

Sussman S, Dent CW, Severson HH, Burton D & Flay BR. (1998). Self-initiated quitting among adolescent smokers. Prev Med, 27(5), Suppl S, A19-A28.

Stoddard JL, Johnson CA, Sussman S, Dent C & Boley-Cruz T. (1998). Tailoring outdoor tobacco advertising to minorities in Los Angeles County. J Health Com, 3(2), 137-46.

Dent CW, Sussman S, Hennessy M, et al. (1998). Implementation and process evaluation of a school-based drug abuse prevention program: Project Towards No Drug Abuse. Journal of Drug Education, 28, 361-75.

Milam JE, Sussman S, Ritt-Olson A & Dent CW. (2000). Perceived invulnerability and cigarette smoking among adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 25, 71-80.

Unger JB, Palmer PH, Dent CW, Rohrbach LA, & Johnson CA. (2000). Ethnic differences in adolescent smoking prevalence in California: are multi-ethnic youth at higher risk? Tobacco Control, 9(Suppl 2), II9-14.

Skara SN, Sussman S & Dent CW. (2001). Predicting regular cigarette use among continuation high schools students. American Journal of Health Behavior, 25, 147-56.

Dent CW, Sussman S, McCullar WJ & Stacy AW. (2001). Drug abuse prevention among youth at comprehensive high schools. Preventive Medicine, 32, 514-20.

Wang LY, Crossett L, Dent CW & Sussman S. (2001). Cost-effectiveness of a school-based tobacco use prevention program. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, 155, 1043-50.

Sussman S, Dent CW & Lichtman KL. (2001). Project EX: Outcomes of a teen smoking cessation program. Addictive Behaviors, 26, 425-38.

Dent CW, Sussman S, McCullar WJ & Stacy AW. (2001). Drug abuse prevention among youth at comprehensive high schools. Preventive Medicine, 32, 514-20.

Chen X, Zheng H, Sussman S, Gong J, Stacy A, Xia J, Gallaher P, Dent C et al. (2002). Can Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire be used for measuring tobacco/nicotine dependence among adolescent smokers in China? Psychology of Addictive Behavior,16(3), 260-263.

Rohrbach LA, Howard-Pitney B, Unger J, Dent CW, et al. (2002). Independent evaluation of the California Tobacco Control Program: Relationships between program exposure and outcomes, 1996-1998. American Journal of Public Health, 92(6), 975-983.

Sussman, S., McCuller, WJ, & Dent, CW. (2003). The associations of social self-control, personality disorders, and demographics with drug use among high-risk youth. Addictive Behaviors, 28(6), 1159-1166.

Uunger, JB, Sussman, S, & Dent, CW. (2003). Interpersonal conflict tactics and substance use among high-risk adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 28(5), 979-987.

Unger, JB, Schuster, D, Zogg, J, Dent, CW & Stacy, AW. (2003). Alcohol advertising exposure and adolescent alcohol use: A comparison of exposure measures. Addiction Research and Theory, 11(3), 177-193.

Sussman, S, Sun, P, McCuller, WJ, & Dent, CW. (2003). Project Towards No Drug Abuse: Two-year outcomes of a trial that compares health educator delivery to self-instruction. Preventive-Medicine, 37 (2), 155-162.

Sussman, S, Yang, D, Baezconde-Garbanati, L, & Dent, CW. (2003). Drug Abuse Prevention Program Development: Results Among Latino and Non-Latino White Adolescents. Evaluation and Health Professions, 26(4), 355-379.

Dent, CW, Grube, JW, & Biglan, A. (2005). Community level alcohol availability and enforcement of possession laws a predictors of youth drinking. Preventive Medicine, 40, 355-362.

Weiner, MD, Sussman, S, Sun, P, & Dent, CW (2005). Explaining the link between violence perpetration, victimization and drug use. Addictive Behaviors, 30, 1261-1266.

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		Clyde W. Dent, Ph.D. Education Professional Experience Current ORI Projects Selected Publications
Education 1979 - University of California, Los Angeles - B.A., Quantitative Psychology 1980 - University of California, Los Angeles - M.A., Research Methods & Evaluation 1984 - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Ph.D., Quantitative Psychology Professional Experience 1984-86 Research Associate, Health Behavior Research Institute, USC 1986-95 Assistant Professor of Research, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, USC 1995-present Associate Professor of Research, Dept. of Preventive Medicine, USC 2000-present Research Scientist, Oregon Research Institute Current ORI Projects Tobacco Control Activities and Adolescent Tobacco Use (OHT) National Cancer Institute, 2000 - 2009 Selected Publications Dent CW, Sussman S, Johnson CA, Hansen WB & Flay BR. (1987). Adolescent smokeless tobacco incidence: Relations with other drugs and psychosocial variables. Prev Med, 16(3), 422-31. Flay BR, Hansen WB, Johnson CA, Collins LM, Dent CW et al. (1987). Implementation effectiveness trial of a social influences smoking prevention program using school and television. Hlth Ed Res: Theory Practice, 2, 385-400. Sussman S, Dent CW, Mestel JS, Johnson CA, Hansen WB & Flay BR. (1988). Adolescent nonsmokers, triers, and regular smokers estimates of cigarette smoking prevalence: When do overestimates occur and by whom? J Applied Soc Psychol, 18(7), 537-51. Brannon BR, Dent CW, Flay BR, Hansen WB, Johnson CA, Smith G et al. (1989). The television school and family project V: The impact of curriculum delivery format on program acceptance. Prev Med, 18, 492-502. Sobol DF, Rohrbach LA, Dent CW, Gleason L, Brannon B, Flay BR et al. (1989). The integrity of curriculum delivery. Special Issue: Smoking Health Education Research, 4(1), 59-67. Sussman S, Dent CW, Flay BR, et al. (1989). Media manipulation of adolescents' personal level judgments regarding consequences of smokeless tobacco use. J Drug Educ, 19(1), 43-57. Stacy A, Dent CW, Sussman S, Raynor A, Burton D & Flay BR. (1990). Expectancy accessibility and the influence of outcome expectancies on adolescent ST use. J Applied Soc Psychol, 20, (10), 802-17. Barovich M, Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy A, Burton D, & Flay BR. (1991). Availability of tobacco products at stores located near public schools. Inter J Addict, 26(8), 843-56. Sussman S, Burton D, Dent CW, Stacy A & Flay BR. (1991). Use of focus groups in developing an adolescent tobacco use cessation program: Collective norm effect . J Applied Soc Psychol, 21, 1772-82. Stacy AW, Sussman S, Dent CW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1992). Moderators of social influence in adolescent smoking. Personality Soc Psychol Bulletin, 18(2), 163-72. Dent CW, Galaif J, Sussman S, Stacy S, Burton D, & Flay BR. (1993). Demographic, psychosocial and behavioral differences in samples of actively and passively consented adolescents. Addict Behav, 18, 51-6. Dent CW, Sussman S & Flay BR. (1993). The use of archival data to select and assign schools in a drug prevention trial. Eval Review, 17, 159-81. Sussman S, Brannon BR, Dent CW, Hansen WB, Johnson CA & Flay BR. (1993). Relations of coping strategies, coping effort and perceived stress with cigarette smoking. Inter J Addict, 28, 599-612. Sussman S, Dent CW, Simon TS, Stacy AW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1993). Identification of which high-risk youth smoke cigarettes regularly. Health Val, 17, 42-53. Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Hodgson C, Burton D & Flay BR (1993). Project Towards No Tobacco Use: Implementation, process, and posttest knowledge evaluation. Health Ed Res: Theory & Practice, 8, 109-23. Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Sun P, Craig S, Simon TR et al. (1993). Project Towards No Tobacco Use one-year behavior outcomes. American Journal of Public Health, 83, 1245-50. Sussman S, Stacy AW, Dent CW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1993). Refusal assertion versus conversational skill role-play competence: Relevance to prevention of tobacco use. Statistical Medicine, 12(3/4), 365-76. Turner GE, Burciaga C, Sussman S, Klein-Selski E, Craig S, Dent CW et al. (1993). Which lesson components mediate refusal assertion skill improvement in school-based adolescent tobacco use prevention? Inter J Addict, 28(8), 749-66. Sussman S, Dent CW, McAdams LA, Stacy AW, Burton D, Flay BR. (1994). Group self-identification and adolescent cigarette smoking: A one-year prospective study. J Abnormal Psychology, 103(3), 576-80. Sussman S, Dent CW, Severson H & Craig S. (1994). Prevalence of tobacco use in the California lumber mill industry. Health Values 18, 19-24. Sussman S, Dent CW, Wang E, Cruz NTB, Sanford D & Johnson CA. (1994). Participants and non-participants of a mass media self-help smoking cessation program. Addictive Behaviors, 19(6), 643-54. Dent CW, Sussman S, Stacy AW, Craig S, Burton D & Flay BR. (1994). Two-year behavior outcomes of Project Towards No Tobacco Use. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 63, 676-77. Dent CW, Galaif ER, Sussman S & Stacy AW. (1996) Use of the "theme study" as a means of curriculum development in continuation high schools. Journal of Drug Education, 26, 377-93. Dent CW, Sussman S, Ellickson P, Brown P & Richardson J. (1996). Is drug abuse prevention programming generalizable across ethnic groups? American Behavioral Scientist, 39, 911-19. Donaldson, S.I., Dent, C.W., Sussman, S., Stoddard, J.L., & Severson, H.H. (1996). The organizational implications of smokeless tobacco use in the lumber mill industry. Addictive Behaviors, 21, 259-67. Murray DM, Moskowitz JM, & Dent CW. (1996). Design and analysis issues in community-based drug abuse prevention. American Behavioral Scientist, 39, 853-67. Simon TR, Sussman S, Dent CW, Stacy AW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1996). Predictors of misreporting tobacco use initiation among adolescents. Eval Rev, 20, 552-67. Stoddard JL, Sussman S, Dent CW, Donaldson SI & Severson HH. (1997) Characteristics of tobacco use in the lumber industry. Am J Health Behav Educ Promo, 21, 91-99. Sussman S, Galaif ER, Newman T, Hennesy M, Pentz MA, Dent CW et al. (1997). Implementation and process evaluation of a student “school-as-community” group: A component of a school-based drug-abuse prevention program. Eval Rev, 21, 94-123. Dent, CW., Sussman, S., & Stacy, A. (1997). The impact of a written parental consent policy on estimates from a school based drug use survey. Eval Rev, 21, 698-712. Sussman S, Dent CW, Nezami E, Stacy AW, Burton D & Flay BR. (1998). Reasons for quitting and smoking temptation among adolescent smokers: Gender differences. Substance Use & Misuse, 33, 2703-20. Sussman S, Dent CW, Severson HH, Burton D & Flay BR. (1998). Self-initiated quitting among adolescent smokers. Prev Med, 27(5), Suppl S, A19-A28. Stoddard JL, Johnson CA, Sussman S, Dent C & Boley-Cruz T. (1998). Tailoring outdoor tobacco advertising to minorities in Los Angeles County. J Health Com, 3(2), 137-46. Dent CW, Sussman S, Hennessy M, et al. (1998). Implementation and process evaluation of a school-based drug abuse prevention program: Project Towards No Drug Abuse. Journal of Drug Education, 28, 361-75. Milam JE, Sussman S, Ritt-Olson A & Dent CW. (2000). Perceived invulnerability and cigarette smoking among adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 25, 71-80. Unger JB, Palmer PH, Dent CW, Rohrbach LA, & Johnson CA. (2000). Ethnic differences in adolescent smoking prevalence in California: are multi-ethnic youth at higher risk? Tobacco Control, 9(Suppl 2), II9-14. Skara SN, Sussman S & Dent CW. (2001). Predicting regular cigarette use among continuation high schools students. American Journal of Health Behavior, 25, 147-56. Dent CW, Sussman S, McCullar WJ & Stacy AW. (2001). Drug abuse prevention among youth at comprehensive high schools. Preventive Medicine, 32, 514-20. Wang LY, Crossett L, Dent CW & Sussman S. (2001). Cost-effectiveness of a school-based tobacco use prevention program. Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, 155, 1043-50. Sussman S, Dent CW & Lichtman KL. (2001). Project EX: Outcomes of a teen smoking cessation program. Addictive Behaviors, 26, 425-38. Dent CW, Sussman S, McCullar WJ & Stacy AW. (2001). Drug abuse prevention among youth at comprehensive high schools. Preventive Medicine, 32, 514-20. Chen X, Zheng H, Sussman S, Gong J, Stacy A, Xia J, Gallaher P, Dent C et al. (2002). Can Fagerström Tolerance Questionnaire be used for measuring tobacco/nicotine dependence among adolescent smokers in China? Psychology of Addictive Behavior,16(3), 260-263. Rohrbach LA, Howard-Pitney B, Unger J, Dent CW, et al. (2002). Independent evaluation of the California Tobacco Control Program: Relationships between program exposure and outcomes, 1996-1998. American Journal of Public Health, 92(6), 975-983. Sussman, S., McCuller, WJ, & Dent, CW. (2003). The associations of social self-control, personality disorders, and demographics with drug use among high-risk youth. Addictive Behaviors, 28(6), 1159-1166. Uunger, JB, Sussman, S, & Dent, CW. (2003). Interpersonal conflict tactics and substance use among high-risk adolescents. Addictive Behaviors, 28(5), 979-987. Unger, JB, Schuster, D, Zogg, J, Dent, CW & Stacy, AW. (2003). Alcohol advertising exposure and adolescent alcohol use: A comparison of exposure measures. Addiction Research and Theory, 11(3), 177-193. Sussman, S, Sun, P, McCuller, WJ, & Dent, CW. (2003). Project Towards No Drug Abuse: Two-year outcomes of a trial that compares health educator delivery to self-instruction. Preventive-Medicine, 37 (2), 155-162. Sussman, S, Yang, D, Baezconde-Garbanati, L, & Dent, CW. (2003). Drug Abuse Prevention Program Development: Results Among Latino and Non-Latino White Adolescents. Evaluation and Health Professions, 26(4), 355-379. Dent, CW, Grube, JW, & Biglan, A. (2005). Community level alcohol availability and enforcement of possession laws a predictors of youth drinking. Preventive Medicine, 40, 355-362. Weiner, MD, Sussman, S, Sun, P, & Dent, CW (2005). Explaining the link between violence perpetration, victimization and drug use. Addictive Behaviors, 30, 1261-1266. back to top