Bethany C Bray
Biographic Data
| ID | 220127 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany C Bray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany C |
| FAMILY NAME | Bray |
| SIGNATURE | BRAY B C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8627-3939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Optimism, Lifetime Financial Stressors, and Mental Health Among Racially, Sexually, and Gender Minoritized Emerging Adults
Dispositional coping profiles moderate the links between racial discrimination and mental health in Black Americans
Person-centered methods uncovered meaningful subgroups characterized by unique coping patterns and pointed to engaged responders as being most resilient to the effects of discrimination. Future research should test these associations longitudinally and examine whether more adaptive coping profiles can be fostered through intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
How do anxiety and depression trajectories vary among Black, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx sexual minority young men? Uncovering variation in development with intersectional subgroups
The present study investigated whether the patterns of intersectional stigma experiences were associated with differences in the developmental, parallel trajectories of anxious and depressive symptoms across the transition to adulthood among Black, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx cisgender sexual minority young men. Data were from the Healthy Young Men's Cohort Study collected semiannually from 2016 to 2020 in Los Angeles and included 426 cisgender Black…
Multidimensional profiles of adolescent social−ecological risk and protective factors and young adult sexual behavior
Research has demonstrated that social-ecological risk and protective factors at multiple levels are associated with sexual behavior in adolescence. However, relatively little is known about how different patterns of these factors may work together in combination to influence sexual risk. In this study, we use nationally representative data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to (a) uncover latent classes of ado…
Preliminary effectiveness and implementation outcomes of the Imara-South Africa sexual health intervention on adolescent girls and young women
Family-based interventions may help reduce the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa but few have been tested. We examined the preliminary effectiveness and implementation outcomes of I nformed , M otivated , A ware , and R esponsible A dolescents and Adults— S outh A frica (IMARA-SA) , an evidence-based intervention for South African AGYW (15–19 years) and …
Constellations of family closeness and adolescent friendship quality
Triadic family structures and their day‐to‐day dynamics from an adolescent perspective
Relationship structure (patterns of relative closeness among multiple family members) and dynamics (changes in relationship structures overtime) are two main aspects of family system functioning, yet empirical tests of these concepts lag behind theory. Recent growth in advanced methods for complex data structures makes it possible to empirically capture structures and dynamics within multiple family relationships overtime. To answer how relations…
Health and service utilization among a sample of gender-diverse youth of color
This study adds descriptions of both mental and sexual health outcomes of a non-clinical sample of TGD youth to the literature, particularly among young transgender men and gender nonbinary youth, who have frequently been excluded from previous studies of sexual health. The findings document experiences and behaviors among TGD youth that contribute to mental and sexual health concerns, including rates of substance use, and healthcare utilization
Intersecting racism and homonegativism among sexual minority men of color
Different Types of Childhood Experience With Mothers and Caregiving Outcomes in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND: The current study examines the types of childhood experiences with mothers (i.e., maternal abuse, affection, discipline) among caregivers of aging mothers, and investigates whether membership in specific latent classes, particularly maternal maltreatment, is associated with psychological functioning among caregivers. METHOD: Using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), we used the Bolck, Croon, and Hagenaars…
Mental health outcomes of a pilot 2-arm randomized controlled trial of a HIV-prevention program for South African adolescent girls and young women and their female caregivers
ClinicalTrials.gov Number NCT04758390 , accepted 17/02/2021
Predictors of Attendance Patterns in a Universal Family-Based Preventive Intervention Program
Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping
Linking racism and homonegativity to healthcare system distrust among young men of color who have sex with men
Association Between Socioeconomic Status Mobility and Inflammation Markers Among White and Black Adults in the United States
OBJECTIVE: This article examines whether multidimensional indicators of objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course can be categorized into latent classes of SES mobility and tests the associations of these categories with inflammation markers among white and black adults. METHODS: Data are from 592 non-Hispanic white and 158 non-Hispanic black participants who completed both the baseline survey and biomarkers asses…
The Healthy Young Men’s Cohort
Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes During Emerging Adulthood Among Individuals With Different Patterns of Child Maltreatment
The aim of the current study was to identify patterns of child maltreatment experienced prior to age 18 and examine the relationship between those patterns and substance use and mental health disorders among emerging adults. Data were from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III. The analytic sample consisted of 5,194 adults between 18 to 25 years old. Latent class analysis revealed a 3-class model: Rare Maltreatme…
Online Sexual Experiences Predict Subsequent Sexual Health and Victimization Outcomes Among Female Adolescents
Change and Stability of Emotional Health of Rural Pennsylvania Youth During High School
Purpose Few prior studies have examined change in emotional health of high school students in a rural context. Considering the multifaceted nature of emotional health, this research aims to identify the patterns and explore change and stability of the emotional health of rural Pennsylvania youth. It also investigates the influence of family, peers, school, and the community environment on rural adolescents’ emotional health. Methods Using panel d…
A Latent Class Analysis of Online Sexual Experiences and Offline Sexual Behaviors Among Female Adolescents
This study used latent class analysis to identify patterns (i.e., classes) across a broad range of online sexual experiences among female adolescents (n = 312) and to explore offline sexual behavior and substance use correlates of as well as maltreatment differences in class membership. The following four classes were identified: Online Abstinent, Online Inclusive, Attractors, and Seekers. Maltreated female adolescents were more likely to be memb…
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…
Increased Pre- and Early-Adolescent Stress in Youth with a Family History of Substance Use Disorder and Early Substance Use Initiation
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…
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…
Classes of Depression, Anxiety, and Functioning in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
Unique information about holistic treatment effects can be gained when multiple outcomes are considered simultaneously
Intersecting racism and homonegativism among sexual minority men of color
Online Sexual Experiences Predict Subsequent Sexual Health and Victimization Outcomes Among Female Adolescents
The Healthy Young Men’s Cohort
A Latent Class Analysis of Online Sexual Experiences and Offline Sexual Behaviors Among Female Adolescents
This study used latent class analysis to identify patterns (i.e., classes) across a broad range of online sexual experiences among female adolescents (n = 312) and to explore offline sexual behavior and substance use correlates of as well as maltreatment differences in class membership. The following four classes were identified: Online Abstinent, Online Inclusive, Attractors, and Seekers. Maltreated female adolescents were more likely to be memb…
Dispositional coping profiles moderate the links between racial discrimination and mental health in Black Americans
Person-centered methods uncovered meaningful subgroups characterized by unique coping patterns and pointed to engaged responders as being most resilient to the effects of discrimination. Future research should test these associations longitudinally and examine whether more adaptive coping profiles can be fostered through intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
Linking racism and homonegativity to healthcare system distrust among young men of color who have sex with men
Increased Pre- and Early-Adolescent Stress in Youth with a Family History of Substance Use Disorder and Early Substance Use Initiation
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…
Classes of Depression, Anxiety, and Functioning in Acute Coronary Syndrome Patients
Unique information about holistic treatment effects can be gained when multiple outcomes are considered simultaneously
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…
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…
Increased Pre- and Early-Adolescent Stress in Youth with a Family History of Substance Use Disorder and Early Substance Use Initiation
A Latent Class Analysis of Online Sexual Experiences and Offline Sexual Behaviors Among Female Adolescents
This study used latent class analysis to identify patterns (i.e., classes) across a broad range of online sexual experiences among female adolescents (n = 312) and to explore offline sexual behavior and substance use correlates of as well as maltreatment differences in class membership. The following four classes were identified: Online Abstinent, Online Inclusive, Attractors, and Seekers. Maltreated female adolescents were more likely to be memb…
Change and Stability of Emotional Health of Rural Pennsylvania Youth During High School
Purpose Few prior studies have examined change in emotional health of high school students in a rural context. Considering the multifaceted nature of emotional health, this research aims to identify the patterns and explore change and stability of the emotional health of rural Pennsylvania youth. It also investigates the influence of family, peers, school, and the community environment on rural adolescents’ emotional health. Methods Using panel d…
Substance Use and Mental Health Outcomes During Emerging Adulthood Among Individuals With Different Patterns of Child Maltreatment
The aim of the current study was to identify patterns of child maltreatment experienced prior to age 18 and examine the relationship between those patterns and substance use and mental health disorders among emerging adults. Data were from the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions-III. The analytic sample consisted of 5,194 adults between 18 to 25 years old. Latent class analysis revealed a 3-class model: Rare Maltreatme…
Online Sexual Experiences Predict Subsequent Sexual Health and Victimization Outcomes Among Female Adolescents
Association Between Socioeconomic Status Mobility and Inflammation Markers Among White and Black Adults in the United States
OBJECTIVE: This article examines whether multidimensional indicators of objective and subjective socioeconomic status (SES) across the life course can be categorized into latent classes of SES mobility and tests the associations of these categories with inflammation markers among white and black adults. METHODS: Data are from 592 non-Hispanic white and 158 non-Hispanic black participants who completed both the baseline survey and biomarkers asses…
The Healthy Young Men’s Cohort
Different Types of Childhood Experience With Mothers and Caregiving Outcomes in Adulthood
OBJECTIVE AND BACKGROUND: The current study examines the types of childhood experiences with mothers (i.e., maternal abuse, affection, discipline) among caregivers of aging mothers, and investigates whether membership in specific latent classes, particularly maternal maltreatment, is associated with psychological functioning among caregivers. METHOD: Using data from the Midlife in the United States (MIDUS), we used the Bolck, Croon, and Hagenaars…
Mental health outcomes of a pilot 2-arm randomized controlled trial of a HIV-prevention program for South African adolescent girls and young women and their female caregivers
ClinicalTrials.gov Number NCT04758390 , accepted 17/02/2021
Predictors of Attendance Patterns in a Universal Family-Based Preventive Intervention Program
Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping
Linking racism and homonegativity to healthcare system distrust among young men of color who have sex with men
Constellations of family closeness and adolescent friendship quality
Triadic family structures and their day‐to‐day dynamics from an adolescent perspective
Relationship structure (patterns of relative closeness among multiple family members) and dynamics (changes in relationship structures overtime) are two main aspects of family system functioning, yet empirical tests of these concepts lag behind theory. Recent growth in advanced methods for complex data structures makes it possible to empirically capture structures and dynamics within multiple family relationships overtime. To answer how relations…
Health and service utilization among a sample of gender-diverse youth of color
This study adds descriptions of both mental and sexual health outcomes of a non-clinical sample of TGD youth to the literature, particularly among young transgender men and gender nonbinary youth, who have frequently been excluded from previous studies of sexual health. The findings document experiences and behaviors among TGD youth that contribute to mental and sexual health concerns, including rates of substance use, and healthcare utilization
Intersecting racism and homonegativism among sexual minority men of color
Preliminary effectiveness and implementation outcomes of the Imara-South Africa sexual health intervention on adolescent girls and young women
Family-based interventions may help reduce the risk of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STI) among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW) in sub-Saharan Africa but few have been tested. We examined the preliminary effectiveness and implementation outcomes of I nformed , M otivated , A ware , and R esponsible A dolescents and Adults— S outh A frica (IMARA-SA) , an evidence-based intervention for South African AGYW (15–19 years) and …
Dispositional coping profiles moderate the links between racial discrimination and mental health in Black Americans
Person-centered methods uncovered meaningful subgroups characterized by unique coping patterns and pointed to engaged responders as being most resilient to the effects of discrimination. Future research should test these associations longitudinally and examine whether more adaptive coping profiles can be fostered through intervention. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved)
How do anxiety and depression trajectories vary among Black, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx sexual minority young men? Uncovering variation in development with intersectional subgroups
The present study investigated whether the patterns of intersectional stigma experiences were associated with differences in the developmental, parallel trajectories of anxious and depressive symptoms across the transition to adulthood among Black, Latinx, and Afro-Latinx cisgender sexual minority young men. Data were from the Healthy Young Men's Cohort Study collected semiannually from 2016 to 2020 in Los Angeles and included 426 cisgender Black…
Multidimensional profiles of adolescent social−ecological risk and protective factors and young adult sexual behavior
Research has demonstrated that social-ecological risk and protective factors at multiple levels are associated with sexual behavior in adolescence. However, relatively little is known about how different patterns of these factors may work together in combination to influence sexual risk. In this study, we use nationally representative data from the U.S. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to (a) uncover latent classes of ado…
Optimism, Lifetime Financial Stressors, and Mental Health Among Racially, Sexually, and Gender Minoritized Emerging Adults
Psychology (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (15 works) · Psychiatry (15 works) · Clinical Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (12 works) · Latent class model (10 works) · Mental health (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Gerontology (6 works)