Stephanie T Lanza
Biographic Data
| ID | 121950 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephanie T Lanza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephanie T |
| FAMILY NAME | Lanza |
| SIGNATURE | LANZA S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6101-8381 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 114 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Role of Interparental Conflict in Divergent Perceptions of Parenting
Objective This study aimed to identify whether interparental conflict (IPC) is associated with patterns of convergence and divergence in parent–adolescent perceptions of parental warmth. Background Adolescents and parents often have divergent perceptions of parenting (informant discrepancies). Parents engaged in IPC may be particularly prone to lapses in warmth, while simultaneously being less likely to be aware of these lapses, leading to inform…
Exploring Resilience and Its Determinants in the Forced Migration of Ukrainian Citizens
This study enhances the understanding of resilience in forced migration through a psychological lens, highlighting the importance of identifying resilience determinants and evidence-based interventions. By fostering resilience, policymakers and practitioners can support the well-being and adaptive capacities of forcibly displaced Ukrainians, promoting psychological recovery, social integration, and positive long-term outcomes for affected individ…
Affect variability in relation to alcohol use frequency, intensity, and concurrent cannabis use among college students during the Covid-19 pandemic
Although alcohol use is related to daily affect, findings regarding affect variability-the degree to which individuals exhibit day-to-day fluctuations in affect-and alcohol use have been mixed. The present study assessed whether individuals who use alcohol tend to have higher positive and negative affect variability than individuals who do not, as well as whether higher affect variability is related to more frequent and intense alcohol use among …
College Students’ Sense of Belonging and Mental Health Amidst the Covid-19 Pandemic
Time-Varying Effect Modeling for the Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences
The socio‐environmental context of simultaneous alcohol and marijuana use among young adults
Time-Varying Effect Modeling for the Behavioral, Social, and Health Sciences
Sexual Minority-related Discrimination across the Life Course
In the United States, sexual minority (SM) status is associated with a number of health disparities. Based on mounting evidence, stigma and discrimination have been cited as key barriers to health equity for this population. We estimated the prevalence of three types of discrimination as a function of age among SM adults from the National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Use and Related Conditions III (NESARC-III) (2012-2013). Among SM adults, re…
Sensitivity and specificity of information criteria
Information criteria (ICs) based on penalized likelihood, such as Akaike’s information criterion (AIC), the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and sample-size-adjusted versions of them, are widely used for model selection in health and biological research. However, different criteria sometimes support different models, leading to discussions about which is the most trustworthy. Some researchers and fields of study habitually use one or the othe…
Dynamic Associations of Parent–Adolescent Closeness and Friend Support With Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Across Ages 12–19
Supportive relationships with parents and friends reduce adolescent risk for depression; however, whether and how the strength of these associations changes across adolescence remains less clear. Age-varying associations of mother-adolescent and father-adolescent closeness and friend support with depressive symptoms were examined across ages 12.5-19.5 using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 4,819). Posit…
Age-varying associations of parental knowledge and antisocial peer behavior with adolescent substance use
Antisocial peer behavior and low parental knowledge of adolescents' activities are key interpersonal risk factors for adolescent substance use. However, how the magnitude of associations between these risk factors and substance use may vary across adolescence remains less well understood. The present study examined the age-varying associations of parental knowledge and antisocial peer behavior with adolescents' substance use (i.e., cigarette use,…
Sexual Behavior and Heavy Episodic Drinking Across the Transition to Adulthood
Despite a growing literature on college students' sexual behaviors, little is known about how sexual behaviors, and their associations with alcohol, differ for college and noncollege attenders, and whether these patterns represent changes during college or an extension of pre-college behaviors. This paper applied time-varying effect models to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine (1) prevalence of four…
Latent Class Analysis for Developmental Research
In this article, we consider the broad applicability of latent class analysis (LCA) and related approaches to advance research on child development. First, we describe the role of person-centered methods such as LCA in developmental research, and review prior applications of LCA to the study of development and related areas of research. Then we present practical considerations when applying LCA in developmental research, including model selection…
Sexual Behavior Latent Classes Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at disproportionate risk of acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We used latent class analysis (LCA) to examine patterns of sexual behavior among MSM and how those patterns are related to STIs. We examined patterns of sexual behavior using behavioral and clinical data from a cross-sectional study of 235 MSM who presented to an urban sexual health clinic for STI testing. Analyzed data were coll…
Eliminating Bias in Classify-Analyze Approaches for Latent Class Analysis
Despite recent methodological advances in latent class analysis (LCA) and a rapid increase in its application in behavioral research, complex research questions that include latent class variables often must be addressed by classifying individuals into latent classes and treating class membership as known in a subsequent analysis. Traditional approaches to classifying individuals based on posterior probabilities are known to produce attenuated es…
Structure of the University Personality Inventory for Chinese College Students
The University Personality Inventory, a mental health instrument for college students, is frequently used for screening in China. However, its unidimensionality has been questioned. This study examined its dimensions to provide more information about the specific mental problems for students at risk. Four subsamples were randomly created from a sample (N = 6,110; M age = 19.1 yr.) of students at a university in China. Principal component analysis…
Latent Classes of Adolescent Sexual and Romantic Relationship Experiences
Adolescents' sexual and romantic relationship experiences are multidimensional but often studied as single constructs. Thus, it is not clear how different patterns of sexual and relationship experience may interact to differentially predict later outcomes. In this study we used latent class analysis to model patterns (latent classes) of adolescent sexual and romantic experiences, and then examined how these classes were associated with young adul…
Patterns of Adolescent Sexual Behavior Predicting Young Adult Sexually Transmitted Infections
Effect Size, Statistical Power, and Sample Size Requirements for the Bootstrap Likelihood Ratio Test in Latent Class Analysis
Selecting the number of different classes that will be assumed to exist in the population is an important step in latent class analysis (LCA). The bootstrap likelihood ratio test (BLRT) provides a data-driven way to evaluate the relative adequacy of a (K – 1)-class model compared to a K-class model. However, very little is known about how to predict the power or the required sample size for the BLRT in LCA. Based on extensive Monte Carlo simulati…
Latent Class Analysis With Distal Outcomes
Although prediction of class membership from observed variables in latent class analysis is well understood, predicting an observed distal outcome from latent class membership is more complicated. A flexible model-based approach is proposed to empirically derive and summarize the class-dependent density functions of distal outcomes with categorical, continuous, or count distributions. A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to compare the per…
Latent Class Analysis
Preadolescent Drug Use Resistance Skill Profiles, Substance Use, and Substance Use Prevention
Drawing Causal Inferences Using Propensity Scores
Confounding present in observational data impede community psychologists’ ability to draw causal inferences. This paper describes propensity score methods as a conceptually straightforward approach to drawing causal inferences from observational data. A step‐by‐step demonstration of three propensity score methods—weighting, matching, and subclassification—is presented in the context of an empirical examination of the causal effect of preschool ex…
Health and development among Mexican, black and white preschool children
BACKGROUND: Building on an emerging scientific consensus that the concept of child health should encompass chronic conditions, functional abilities, and developmental domains, we delineate the multidimensional health statuses of Mexican, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white preschool children in the United States. This integrative approach provides the foundation for an in-depth analysis of health disparities. OBJECTIVE: The research object…
An Introduction to Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis
Often quantities of interest in psychology cannot be observed directly. These unobservable quantities, known as latent variables, tend to be complex, often multidimensional, constructs. In many cases these constructs are categorical, such that individuals belong to mutually exclusive and exhaustive unobservable subgroups. Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical approach to modeling a discrete latent variable using multiple, discrete observed…
A new SAS procedure for latent transition analysis
The set of statistical methods available to developmentalists is continually being expanded, allowing for questions about change over time to be addressed in new, informative ways. Indeed, new developments in methods to model change over time create the possibility for new research questions to be posed. Latent transition analysis, a longitudinal extension of latent class analysis, is a method that can be used to model development in discrete lat…
Paternal Work Stress and Latent Profiles of Father-Infant Parenting Quality
The current study used latent profile analysis (LPA) to examine the implications of fathers' experiences of work stress for paternal behaviors with infants across multiple dimensions of parenting in a sample of fathers living in nonmetropolitan communities (N = 492). LPA revealed five classes of fathers based on levels of social-affective behaviors and linguistic stimulation measured during two father-infant interactions. Multinomial logistic reg…
Patterns of Adolescent Sexual Behavior Predicting Young Adult Sexually Transmitted Infections
Sexual Minority-related Discrimination across the Life Course
In the United States, sexual minority (SM) status is associated with a number of health disparities. Based on mounting evidence, stigma and discrimination have been cited as key barriers to health equity for this population. We estimated the prevalence of three types of discrimination as a function of age among SM adults from the National Epidemiological Study of Alcohol Use and Related Conditions III (NESARC-III) (2012-2013). Among SM adults, re…
Paternal Work Characteristics and Father-Infant Interactions in Low-Income, Rural Families
To examine the implications of paternal occupational conditions for the quality of father-infant interactions, home visits, including interviews and videotaped observations of father-infant interactions, were conducted with 446 fathers living in six low-income, nonmetropolitan counties in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. When a variety of individual and demographic characteristics were controlled for, a less supportive work environment was associ…
Latent Classes of Adolescent Sexual and Romantic Relationship Experiences
Adolescents' sexual and romantic relationship experiences are multidimensional but often studied as single constructs. Thus, it is not clear how different patterns of sexual and relationship experience may interact to differentially predict later outcomes. In this study we used latent class analysis to model patterns (latent classes) of adolescent sexual and romantic experiences, and then examined how these classes were associated with young adul…
Dynamic Associations of Parent–Adolescent Closeness and Friend Support With Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Across Ages 12–19
Supportive relationships with parents and friends reduce adolescent risk for depression; however, whether and how the strength of these associations changes across adolescence remains less clear. Age-varying associations of mother-adolescent and father-adolescent closeness and friend support with depressive symptoms were examined across ages 12.5-19.5 using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 4,819). Posit…
Sexual Behavior and Heavy Episodic Drinking Across the Transition to Adulthood
Despite a growing literature on college students' sexual behaviors, little is known about how sexual behaviors, and their associations with alcohol, differ for college and noncollege attenders, and whether these patterns represent changes during college or an extension of pre-college behaviors. This paper applied time-varying effect models to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine (1) prevalence of four…
Sexual Behavior Latent Classes Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at disproportionate risk of acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We used latent class analysis (LCA) to examine patterns of sexual behavior among MSM and how those patterns are related to STIs. We examined patterns of sexual behavior using behavioral and clinical data from a cross-sectional study of 235 MSM who presented to an urban sexual health clinic for STI testing. Analyzed data were coll…
Drawing Causal Inferences Using Propensity Scores
Confounding present in observational data impede community psychologists’ ability to draw causal inferences. This paper describes propensity score methods as a conceptually straightforward approach to drawing causal inferences from observational data. A step‐by‐step demonstration of three propensity score methods—weighting, matching, and subclassification—is presented in the context of an empirical examination of the causal effect of preschool ex…
Health and development among Mexican, black and white preschool children
BACKGROUND: Building on an emerging scientific consensus that the concept of child health should encompass chronic conditions, functional abilities, and developmental domains, we delineate the multidimensional health statuses of Mexican, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white preschool children in the United States. This integrative approach provides the foundation for an in-depth analysis of health disparities. OBJECTIVE: The research object…
Age-varying associations of parental knowledge and antisocial peer behavior with adolescent substance use
Antisocial peer behavior and low parental knowledge of adolescents' activities are key interpersonal risk factors for adolescent substance use. However, how the magnitude of associations between these risk factors and substance use may vary across adolescence remains less well understood. The present study examined the age-varying associations of parental knowledge and antisocial peer behavior with adolescents' substance use (i.e., cigarette use,…
Changes in Children’s Self-Competence and Values
This study extended previous research on changes in children’s self-beliefs by documenting domain-specific growth trajectories for 761 children across grades 1 through 12 in a longitudinal study of perceptions of self-competence and task values. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was used to (1) describe changes in beliefs across childhood and adolescence within the domains of mathematics, language arts, and sports; (2) examine the impact of changes in…
Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis
Often quantities of interest in psychology cannot be observed directly. These unobservable quantities are known as latent variables. By using multiple items as indicators of the latent variable, we can obtain a more complete picture of the construct of interest and estimate measurement error. One approach to latent variable modeling is latent class analysis, a method appropriate for examining the relationship between discrete observed variables a…
Proc Lca
Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical method used to identify a set of discrete, mutually exclusive latent classes of individuals based on their responses to a set of observed categorical variables. In multiple-group LCA, both the measurement part and structural part of the model can vary across groups, and measurement invariance across groups can be empirically tested. LCA with covariates extends the model to include predictors of class m…
A new SAS procedure for latent transition analysis
The set of statistical methods available to developmentalists is continually being expanded, allowing for questions about change over time to be addressed in new, informative ways. Indeed, new developments in methods to model change over time create the possibility for new research questions to be posed. Latent transition analysis, a longitudinal extension of latent class analysis, is a method that can be used to model development in discrete lat…
Paternal Work Characteristics and Father-Infant Interactions in Low-Income, Rural Families
To examine the implications of paternal occupational conditions for the quality of father-infant interactions, home visits, including interviews and videotaped observations of father-infant interactions, were conducted with 446 fathers living in six low-income, nonmetropolitan counties in North Carolina and Pennsylvania. When a variety of individual and demographic characteristics were controlled for, a less supportive work environment was associ…
Demographic and familial predictors of early executive function development
Testing theoretical network classes and HIV-related correlates with latent class analysis
Scientists designing network-based interventions intending to improve the adoption or maintenance of healthy behaviors are well-advised to classify potential adopters into network roles, such as opinion leaders, brokers, members, and isolates, and to work closely with existing opinion leaders. In past studies focusing on HIV, opinion-leader interventions have had mixed results. This may be addressed, in part, by empirically validating these netwo…
Paternal Work Stress and Latent Profiles of Father-Infant Parenting Quality
The current study used latent profile analysis (LPA) to examine the implications of fathers' experiences of work stress for paternal behaviors with infants across multiple dimensions of parenting in a sample of fathers living in nonmetropolitan communities (N = 492). LPA revealed five classes of fathers based on levels of social-affective behaviors and linguistic stimulation measured during two father-infant interactions. Multinomial logistic reg…
An Introduction to Latent Class and Latent Transition Analysis
Often quantities of interest in psychology cannot be observed directly. These unobservable quantities, known as latent variables, tend to be complex, often multidimensional, constructs. In many cases these constructs are categorical, such that individuals belong to mutually exclusive and exhaustive unobservable subgroups. Latent class analysis (LCA) is a statistical approach to modeling a discrete latent variable using multiple, discrete observed…
Measuring Early Childhood Health and Health Disparities
Latent Class Analysis With Distal Outcomes
Although prediction of class membership from observed variables in latent class analysis is well understood, predicting an observed distal outcome from latent class membership is more complicated. A flexible model-based approach is proposed to empirically derive and summarize the class-dependent density functions of distal outcomes with categorical, continuous, or count distributions. A Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to compare the per…
Latent Class Analysis
Preadolescent Drug Use Resistance Skill Profiles, Substance Use, and Substance Use Prevention
Drawing Causal Inferences Using Propensity Scores
Confounding present in observational data impede community psychologists’ ability to draw causal inferences. This paper describes propensity score methods as a conceptually straightforward approach to drawing causal inferences from observational data. A step‐by‐step demonstration of three propensity score methods—weighting, matching, and subclassification—is presented in the context of an empirical examination of the causal effect of preschool ex…
Health and development among Mexican, black and white preschool children
BACKGROUND: Building on an emerging scientific consensus that the concept of child health should encompass chronic conditions, functional abilities, and developmental domains, we delineate the multidimensional health statuses of Mexican, non-Hispanic black, and non-Hispanic white preschool children in the United States. This integrative approach provides the foundation for an in-depth analysis of health disparities. OBJECTIVE: The research object…
Effect Size, Statistical Power, and Sample Size Requirements for the Bootstrap Likelihood Ratio Test in Latent Class Analysis
Selecting the number of different classes that will be assumed to exist in the population is an important step in latent class analysis (LCA). The bootstrap likelihood ratio test (BLRT) provides a data-driven way to evaluate the relative adequacy of a (K – 1)-class model compared to a K-class model. However, very little is known about how to predict the power or the required sample size for the BLRT in LCA. Based on extensive Monte Carlo simulati…
Eliminating Bias in Classify-Analyze Approaches for Latent Class Analysis
Despite recent methodological advances in latent class analysis (LCA) and a rapid increase in its application in behavioral research, complex research questions that include latent class variables often must be addressed by classifying individuals into latent classes and treating class membership as known in a subsequent analysis. Traditional approaches to classifying individuals based on posterior probabilities are known to produce attenuated es…
Structure of the University Personality Inventory for Chinese College Students
The University Personality Inventory, a mental health instrument for college students, is frequently used for screening in China. However, its unidimensionality has been questioned. This study examined its dimensions to provide more information about the specific mental problems for students at risk. Four subsamples were randomly created from a sample (N = 6,110; M age = 19.1 yr.) of students at a university in China. Principal component analysis…
Latent Classes of Adolescent Sexual and Romantic Relationship Experiences
Adolescents' sexual and romantic relationship experiences are multidimensional but often studied as single constructs. Thus, it is not clear how different patterns of sexual and relationship experience may interact to differentially predict later outcomes. In this study we used latent class analysis to model patterns (latent classes) of adolescent sexual and romantic experiences, and then examined how these classes were associated with young adul…
Patterns of Adolescent Sexual Behavior Predicting Young Adult Sexually Transmitted Infections
Latent Class Analysis for Developmental Research
In this article, we consider the broad applicability of latent class analysis (LCA) and related approaches to advance research on child development. First, we describe the role of person-centered methods such as LCA in developmental research, and review prior applications of LCA to the study of development and related areas of research. Then we present practical considerations when applying LCA in developmental research, including model selection…
Sexual Behavior Latent Classes Among Men Who Have Sex With Men
Men who have sex with men (MSM) are at disproportionate risk of acquisition of sexually transmitted infections (STIs). We used latent class analysis (LCA) to examine patterns of sexual behavior among MSM and how those patterns are related to STIs. We examined patterns of sexual behavior using behavioral and clinical data from a cross-sectional study of 235 MSM who presented to an urban sexual health clinic for STI testing. Analyzed data were coll…
Sexual Behavior and Heavy Episodic Drinking Across the Transition to Adulthood
Despite a growing literature on college students' sexual behaviors, little is known about how sexual behaviors, and their associations with alcohol, differ for college and noncollege attenders, and whether these patterns represent changes during college or an extension of pre-college behaviors. This paper applied time-varying effect models to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine (1) prevalence of four…
Sensitivity and specificity of information criteria
Information criteria (ICs) based on penalized likelihood, such as Akaike’s information criterion (AIC), the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and sample-size-adjusted versions of them, are widely used for model selection in health and biological research. However, different criteria sometimes support different models, leading to discussions about which is the most trustworthy. Some researchers and fields of study habitually use one or the othe…
Dynamic Associations of Parent–Adolescent Closeness and Friend Support With Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Across Ages 12–19
Supportive relationships with parents and friends reduce adolescent risk for depression; however, whether and how the strength of these associations changes across adolescence remains less clear. Age-varying associations of mother-adolescent and father-adolescent closeness and friend support with depressive symptoms were examined across ages 12.5-19.5 using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 4,819). Posit…
Psychology (29 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Latent class model (16 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Clinical Psychology (14 works) · Clinical Psychology (10 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Psychiatry (9 works) · Statistics (9 works)