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David B. Flora
Researcher at York University
Publications - 89
Citations - 6908
David B. Flora is an academic researcher from York University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Fluoride. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 75 publications receiving 5848 citations. Previous affiliations of David B. Flora include University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Arizona State University.
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An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data.
David B. Flora,Patrick J. Curran +1 more
TL;DR: Estimation of polychoric correlations is robust to modest violations of underlying normality and WLS performed adequately only at the largest sample size but led to substantial estimation difficulties with smaller samples.
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Trajectories of alcohol and drug use and dependence from adolescence to adulthood: the effects of familial alcoholism and personality
TL;DR: The heavy drinking/heavy drug use group was at risk for alcohol and drug dependence and persistent dependence and showed more familial alcoholism, negative emotionality, and low constraint and the moderate drinking/experimental drug usegroup was atrisk for alcohol dependence but not comorbid or persistent dependenceand showed lessnegative emotionality and higher constraint.
EXTENDED REPORT Trajectories of Alcohol and Drug Use and Dependence From Adolescence to Adulthood: The Effects of Familial Alcoholism and Personality
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe trajectories of substance use and dependence from adolescence to adulthood, including heavy drinking/heavy drug usage, moderate drinking/experimental drug use, and light drinking/rare drug use.
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Development and validation of the multidimensional state boredom scale.
TL;DR: The development and validation of the Multidimensional State Boredom Scale (MSBS), the first and only full-scale measure of state boredom, was developed based on a theoretically and empirically grounded definition of boredom.
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Development and examination of the social appearance anxiety scale.
Trevor A. Hart,David B. Flora,Sarah A. Palyo,David M. Fresco,Christian Holle,Richard G. Heimberg +5 more
TL;DR: Examination of the psychometric properties of the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale in three large samples of undergraduate students suggests that the SAAS is a psychometrically valid measure of social anxiety regarding one's overall appearance.