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Karen Trocki, Ph.D.

Background Information and Areas of Research

ktrocki@arg.org

Karen Trocki is a scientist at ARG and a social psychologist with special interests in group processes, the development of social norms, and the interaction of temperament and the social environment (its relationship to risk-taking, learning problems, conduct disorders and substance abuse).

Trocki served as principal investigator and project director of Epidemiology of Alcohol: Risk of AIDS, a study funded by the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. On-going analysis of this study examines the influence of alcohol and other substance use--which heightens the risk of AIDS and other sexually transmitted disease--on sexual behavior.

As part of her work with Risk of AIDS project Trocki has: surveyed local and national general populations and multi-ethnic samples; conducted a national survey of adolescents and young adults; studied people being booked into jail; and most recently, conducted a study of clients at STD clinics. Her research on substance use and sexual risk behavior has increased interest in the physiology of risk-takers and the role that non-drug technologies play in early interventions to reduce substance abuse and related social problems.

 

Selected Publications

Trocki, Karen & Leigh, Barbara C. (1991). Alcohol consumption and unsafe sex: a comparison of heterosexual and homosexual men. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 4(10), 981-986. (B481)

Analysis of drinking and sexual behavior. San Francisco General Population mail survey, 1987

 

Trocki, Karen. (1992). Patterns of sexuality and risky sexuality in the general population of a California county. Journal of Sex Research, 29(1), 85-94. (B483)

Analysis of Contra Costa General Population Survey data (Wave II) collected in 1988-1989.

 

Trocki, Karen & Thompson, Andrew. (1993). Alcohol and sexual encounters in recent American cinema. Contemporary Drug Problems, 20, 65-85. (B583)

 

Trocki, Karen. (1993). Gender differences in the association of substance use to high risk sex. In: HIV and alcohol impairment: Reducing risks (pp. 92-102). San Diego: University of California at San Diego.(B598)

Analysis of Contra Costa General Population Survey (1988-1989, Wave 2) and two county mail surveys (1989-1990).

 

Trocki, Karen. (1993). Predictors of risky sex and other problem behaviors in adolescents. In: Thomas Colthurst (Eds.), HIV and alcohol impairment: Reducing risks (pp. 137-151). San Diego: University of California at San Diego. (B660)

Examines how predictors of problem behavior compare to risky sexual behavior.

 

Ericksen, Karen P. & Trocki, Karen. (1992). Behavioral risk factors for sexually transmitted diseases in American households. Social Science and Medicine, 34(8), 843-853. (B521)

Data from Contra Costa County General Population Survey.

 

Ericksen, Karen Paige & Trocki, Karen F. (1994). Sex, alcohol and sexually transmitted diseases: A national survey. Family Planning Perspectives, 26(6), 257-263. (B665)

Other ARG Publications of This Author

Grants and Subcontract Information

Epidemiology of Alcohol Problems, P30 AA05595

 

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