Donald A. Lloyd

Contact Information:

Office:	Bellamy 616
Phone:	644-1753
Fax:	644-8818
Email:	dlloyd@fsu.edu
Website:	Center for Demography and Population Health profile

Areas of Specialization:

Research:

• Consequences of early-onset psychiatric and substance use disorders
• Risk and protective factors for mental health and substance use disorders
• Conceptualization and measurement of social stress exposure

Teaching:

• Life course epidemiology
• Quantitative research methods
• Sociology of health and illness
• Social statistics and data analysis

Education and Recent Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Florida State University (2002-present).
• Sr. Research Associate, Life Course and Health Research Center, College of Health and Urban Affairs, Florida International University (1999-2002).
• Research Associate, Department of Sociology, University of Miami (1998-1999).
• Ph.D. in Sociology, University of Toronto (2000).

Selected Papers and Publications:

• Eliassen, A. Henry, John Taylor and Donald A. Lloyd. (2005). “Subjective Religiosity and Depression in the Transition to Adulthood.” The Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 44(2):187-199.
• Lloyd, Donald A. and R. Jay Turner. (2008). “Cumulative Lifetime Adversities and Alcohol Dependence in Adolescence and Young Adulthood.” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 93, 217-226.
• Lloyd, Donald A. (2007). “Distinguishing Youths Who Develop Drug Dependence From Those Who Become Alcohol Dependent: A Multinomial Event History Approach.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, New York NY.
• Lloyd, Donald A. and John Taylor. (2006). “Lifetime Cumulative Adversity, Mental Health, and the Risk of Becoming a Smoker.” Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 10(1):95-112.
• Lloyd, Donald A. (2006). “Social Factors in the Relationship between Disability and Depression.” Presentation at the Tenth International Conference on Social Stress Research, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
• Lloyd, Donald A. and R. Jay Turner. (2003). “Cumulative Adversity and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Evidence from a Diverse Community Sample of Young Adults.” American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 73(4), 381-391.
• Taylor, John, Donald A. Lloyd and George J. Warheit. (2006). “Self-Derogation, Peer Factors, and Alcohol, Drug, and Cigarette Use among a sample of Cuban, African American, Non-Cuban Hispanic, and non-Hispanic White Young Adults: An Update.” Journal of Child and Adolescent Substance Abuse 15(2):39-51.
• Turner, R. Jay, Donald A. Lloyd and John Taylor. (2006). “Physical Disability and Mental Health: An Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Disorders.” Rehabilitation Psychology 51(3):214-223.
• Turner, R. Jay, Donald A. Lloyd and John Taylor. (2006). “Stress Burden, Drug Dependence, and the Immigration Paradox among U.S. Hispanics.” Journal of Drug & Alcohol Dependence 83:79-89.
• Turner, R. Jay and Donald A. Lloyd. (2004). “Stress Burden and the Lifetime Incidence of Psychiatric Disorder in Young Adults: Racial/Ethnic Contrasts.” Archives of General Psychiatry 61:481-488.
• Turner, R. Jay and Donald A. Lloyd. (2003). “Cumulative Adversity and Drug Dependence in Young Adults: Racial/Ethnic Contrasts.” Addiction, 98, 305-315.

Manuscripts in Progress:

• Lloyd, Donald A. “Occupational Status Attainment and the Life Course Timing of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders”
• Lloyd, Donald A. “Cumulative stress and the persistence of heavy smoking among youths”
• Lloyd, Donald A. “Immigration age and era as contingencies in the impact of mental health on occupational achievement in South Florida”
• Lloyd, Donald A. “Does a retrospective lifetime measure of major events have a half-life?”

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