Professional Summary
In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. Shope is director of the Center for Injury Prevention among Youth (a joint UMTRI-SPH collaboration), and the associate director of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, where she headed the Social and Behavioral Analysis Division for ten years. She has done research in health behavior, health education, and program development/evaluation, particularly in adolescent health and school health education (including substance abuse prevention). She has conducted several research projects on the driving behavior of adolescents, young adults, and older drivers.
Education
Ph.D., Educational Sociology, Wayne State University, 1978
M.S.P.H., University of Minnesota, 1967
B.S., Nursing, Cornell University, 1963
Postdoctoral fellowship, Health Behavior & Health Education, University of Michigan, 1978-1980
Research Interest & Projects
Longitudinal study of substance use, psychosocial factors, and driving from adolescence through young adulthood.
Evaluation of graduated driver licensing and other adolescent injury prevention interventions.
Prevention of adolescent substance use.
Interventions to enhance parent involvement in teen driving.
Selected Publications
Bingham, C.R., Shope, J.T., Zhu, J. (2008). Substance-involved driving: Predicting driving after using alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs. Traffic Injury Prevention, 9(6), 515-526.
Shope, J.T., Bingham, C.R. (2008). Teen driving: Motor vehicle crashes and factors that contribute. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 35(3S), S261-S271.
Bingham, C.R., Shope, J.T., Zakrajsek, J.S., Raghunathan, T.E. (2008). Problem driving behavior and psychosocial maturation in young adulthood. Accident Analysis and Prevention, 40(5), 1758-1764.
Shope, J.T. (2007). Graduated driver licensing: Review of evaluation results since 2002. Journal of Safety Research, 38, 165-175.
Bingham, C.R., Elliott, M.R., Shope, J.T. (2007). Social and behavioral characteristics of young adult drink/drivers adjusted for level of alcohol use. Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research, 31(4), 655-664.
Zakrajsek, J.S., Shope, J.T. (2006). Longitudinal examination of underage drinking and subsequent drinking and risky driving. Journal of Safety Research, 37, 443-451.
Patil, S.M., Shope, J.T., Raghunathan, T.E., Bingham, C.R. (2006). The role of personality characteristics in young adult high-risk driving. Traffic Injury Prevention, 7(4), 328-334.
Shope, J.T., Bingham, C.R. (2002). Drinking-driving as a component of problem driving and problem behavior in young adults. Journal of Studies on Alcohol, 63(1), 24-33.
Professional Affiliations
American Public Health Association
Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine
International Council on Alcohol, Drugs, and Traffic Safety
Research Society on Alcoholism
Transportation Research Board
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