College of Public Health and Human Sciences

J. - P. Allem, Ayers, J. W., Irvin, V. L., C Hofstetter, R., and Hovell, M. F., “South Korean military service promotes smoking: a quasi-experimental design.”, Yonsei medical journal, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 433-8, 2012.

J. W. Ayers, C Hofstetter, R., Usita, P., Irvin, V. L., Kang, S., and Hovell, M. F., “Sorting out the competing effects of acculturation, immigrant stress, and social support on depression: a report on Korean women in California.”, The Journal of nervous and mental disease, vol. 197, no. 10, pp. 742-7, 2009.

J. - P. Allem, Ayers, J. W., Unger, J. B., Irvin, V. L., C Hofstetter, R., and Hovell, M. F., “Smoking trajectories among Koreans in Seoul and California: exemplifying a common error in age parameterization.”, Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 1851-6, 2012.

J. W. Ayers, C Hofstetter, R., Hughes, S. C., Park, H., Paik, H. - Y., Irvin, V. L., Lee, J., Juon, H. - S., Latkin, C., and Hovell, M. F., “Smoking on both sides of the pacific: home smoking restrictions and secondhand smoke exposure among Korean adults and children in Seoul and California.”, Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, vol. 12, no. 11, pp. 1142-50, 2010.

R. C Hofstetter, Hovell, M. F., Irvin, V. L., Ayers, J. W., Hughes, S. C., and Kang, S., “It's others, not the police: smoking, reprimand, and fines among adults of Korean descent in California.”, Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association, vol. 29, no. 3, pp. 255-61, 2010.

J. W. Ayers, C Hofstetter, R., Hughes, S. C., Park, H. - R., Paik, H. - Y., Song, Y., Irvin, V. L., and Hovell, M. F., “Gender modifies the relationship between social networks and smoking among adults in Seoul, South Korea.”, International journal of public health, vol. 55, no. 6, pp. 609-17, 2010.

J. W. Ayers, C Hofstetter, R., Hughes, S. C., Irvin, V. L., D Sim, E. Kang, and Hovell, M. F., “Exploring religious mechanisms for healthy alcohol use: religious messages and drinking among Korean women in California.”, Journal of studies on alcohol and drugs, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 890-8, 2009.

R. C Hofstetter, Ayers, J. W., Irvin, V. L., D Sim, E. Kang, Hughes, S. C., Reighard, F., and Hovell, M. F., “Does church participation facilitate tobacco control? A report on Korean immigrants.”, Journal of immigrant and minority health / Center for Minority Public Health, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 187-97, 2010.

E. Kang D Sim, C Hofstetter, R., Irvin, V. L., Ayers, J. W., Macera, C. A., Ji, M., and Hovell, M. F., “Do christian denominations exhibit higher rates of alcohol consumption? A study of Korean American women in California.”, Journal of religion and health, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 285-98, 2013.

J. W. Ayers, Chambers, C. D., C Hofstetter, R., Hughes, S. C., Reyes, W. D., Kang, S. W., Irvin, V. L., and Hovell, M. F., “Cultural and social network predictors of drinking among Korean American women.”, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), vol. 45, no. 1, pp. 89-97, 2011.

J. W. Ayers, C Hofstetter, R., Irvin, V. L., Song, Y., Park, H. - R., Paik, H. - Y., and Hovell, M. F., “Can Religion Help Prevent Obesity? Religious Messages and the Prevalence of Being Overweight or Obese Among Korean Women in California”, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 536 - 549, 2010.