Paras Mehta
Associate Professor
Doctorate: University of Houston
Undergraduate: Gujarat University
Research Interests:
Growth Curve Modeling
Research Design and Statistics
E-mail: Paras.Mehta@times.uh.edu
Selected Publications
Norton, P. J., & Mehta, P. D. (in press). Hierarchical Model of Vulnerabilities for Emotional. Disorders. Cognitive Behaviour Therapy.
Dunn, N. J., Rehm, L. P., Schillaci, J., Souchek, J., Mehta, P. D., Menke, T., Ashton, C., Yanasak, E., Hamilton, J. D. (2007) Symptomatic and functional response to Self-Management Group Therapy and Psychoeducational Group Therapy in veterans with comorbid posttraumatic stress disorder and depressive disorder. Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 20, 221-237.
Schmitt, J. E., Mehta, P. D., Aggen, S. H., Kubarych, T. S., & Neale, M. C. (2006). Semi-nonparametric methods for detecting latent non-normality: A fusion of latent trait and latent class modeling. Multivariate Behavioral Research, 41(4), 427-443.
Branum-Martin, L., Mehta, P. D., Fletcher, J. M., Carlson, C. D., Ortiz, A., Carlo, M., & Francis, D. J. (2006). Bilingual phonological awareness: Multilevel construct validation among Spanish-speaking kindergarteners in transitional bilingual education classrooms. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98, 170-181.
Mehta, P. D., & Neale, M.C. (2005). People are variables too: Multilevel Structural Equations Modeling. Psychological Methods, 10, 259-284.
Mehta, P. D., Foorman, B. R., Branum-Martin, L., & Taylor, W. P. (2005). Literacy as a unidimensional multilevel construct: Validation, sources of influence, and implications in a longitudinal study in grades 1-4. Scientific Studies in Reading, 9, 85-116.
Mehta, P. D., Neale, M. C., & Flay, B. R. (2004). Squeezing interval change from ordinal panel data: Latent growth curves with ordinal outcomes. Psychological Methods, 9, 301-333.
Stanton, W. R., Flay, B. R., Colder, C. R., & Mehta, P. D. (2004). Identifying and predicting adolescent smokers’ developmental trajectories. Nicotine and Tobacco Research, 6, 843-852.
Colder, C. R., Mehta, P. D., Balanda, K., Campbell, R. T., Mayhew, K., Stanton, W. R., Pentz, M., & Flay, B.R. (2001). Identifying trajectories of adolescent smoking: An application of latent growth mixture modeling. Health Psychology, 20, 127-135.
Mehta, P.D., & West, S.G. (2000). Putting the individual back in individual growth curves. Psychological Methods, 5, 23-43.