Publications
90
Citations
1,358
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
35
Publishing since 1990
Ellen L. Vaughan studies substance use and mental health, with a strong focus on Latino and other ethnic-minority populations, including college students and young adults. Her work examines how factors like ethnic discrimination, cultural identity, gratitude, and social norms shape substance use behaviors and treatment outcomes. Much of her research also evaluates culturally tailored interventions and disparities in how treatment and criminal-justice programs are applied.
Publication activity has remained fairly steady over the last decade, averaging a few papers per year with a modest recent output of about 1.4 per year over the past five years.
Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 11, 2026
- Ecological and Developmental Approaches to Reducing Substance Use and Related Harms among Emerging Adults
Cambridge University Press eBooks · 2024
- Ethnic discrimination and self-rated health among Hispanic emerging adults: Examining the moderating effects of self-esteem and resilience
International Journal of Intercultural Relations · 2023
- “Dando gracias”: Gratitude, social connectedness, and subjective happiness among bilingual Latinx college students.
Journal of Latinx Psychology · 2023
- Sociosexual domains as mediators of the relationship between trait depression and sexual risk: A serial mediation analysis in a sample of Iranian American adults
Journal of Affective Disorders Reports · 2022
- Race, psychosocial characteristics, and treatment outcomes among individuals undergoing treatment for cannabis use disorder: A latent profile analysis based on preferred method of using cannabis
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2021
- Infusing Multicultural and Social Justice Counseling Competencies: Reflection on Establishing Mandarin Counseling Services
Journal of Mental Health Counseling · 2021
- Racial and gender inequities in the implementation of a cannabis criminal justice diversion program in a large and diverse metropolitan county of the USA
Drug and Alcohol Dependence · 2020
- Psychosocial intervention utilization and substance abuse treatment outcomes in a multisite sample of individuals who use opioids
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment · 2020
- Substance use among Latino international and domestic college students
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse · 2020
- A pilot randomized trial examining the feasibility and acceptability of a culturally tailored and adherence-enhancing intervention for Latino smokers in the U.S.
PLoS ONE · 2019
- Help seeking attitudes and illegal drug use among methadone maintenance therapy patients in Malaysia
Addiction Research & Theory · 2019
- Dando Gracias: Gratitude and Psychological Outcomes Among Bilingual Latino College Students
PsycEXTRA Dataset · 2019
- Gender as a Moderator of Descriptive Norms and Substance Use among Latino College Students
Substance Use & Misuse · 2018
- Associations Between Substance Use Disorders and Suicidal Ideation: An Investigation of Latino Emerging Adults
Emerging Adulthood · 2018
- Elevated cholesterol among African American adults: the role of fatalistic attitudes about health
Ethnicity and Health · 2018
- Substance Use & Misuse×2
- Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment×2
- Cambridge University Press eBooks×2
- Addiction Research & Theory×2
- PsycEXTRA Dataset×2
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Last updated Jul 11, 2026.
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