Adriene M Beltz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1661896 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adriene M Beltz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adriene M |
| FAMILY NAME | Beltz |
| SIGNATURE | BELTZ A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5754-8083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Research Review: On the (mis)use of puberty data in the ABCD Study® – a systematic review, problem illustration, and path forward
Associations between reproductive hormonal milieus and binge eating: The roles of sex and hormonal contraceptive use
Sex - and its associated gonadal hormones - matters for binge eating (BE). On average, females report higher BE than males. Estradiol generally suppresses appetite, whereas progesterone opposes estradiol's action such that their combined presence represents a high-risk hormonal milieu for BE. Testosterone is thought to be associated with increased BE in females but appears protective in males. Hormonal contraceptives (HCs) provide a naturalistic …
Pubertal timing and daily alcohol use in adulthood: Insights into the experiences of late maturers
Pubertal timing has implications for adolescent substance use, such that early maturers have increased use. Yet, pubertal timing is not widely studied beyond adolescence, making it unclear whether and how adolescent effects persist or if downstream effects emerge after adolescence. This paper investigates the relation between pubertal timing (perceived comparison to same-sex peers) and alcohol use for 75-100 days and examines alcohol belief media…
Average Links Between Daily Gender Expression and Depressive Symptoms Do Not Describe Individual Adolescents
Gender expression is important for mental health, with masculinity and femininity having differential significance for unique adolescents. Yet, most empirical work on gender expression assumes it is trait-like or similarly shifting across teens. This intensive longitudinal study examined state-like aspects of gender expression and heterogeneity in adolescent-specific associations with depressive symptoms over 100 days. Participants were 106 adole…
Pubertal timing in adolescence and adulthood: Relations among contemporaneous and retrospective measures
Pubertal development has short- and long-term effects on psychological adjustment. Many studies of long-term effects rely on retrospective measurement of pubertal timing, but such measures often reflect different aspects of puberty than those assessed in adolescence, raising questions about the utility and interpretation of retrospective reports. The present study leveraged longitudinal data collected in adolescence and established adulthood to d…
Daily Gender and Cognition: A Person-Specific Behavioral Network Analysis
Gender is person-specific, and it influences and is influenced by a breadth of multidimensional psychological factors, including cognition. Directionality is important for research on gender and cognition, as debate surrounds, for instance, whether masculine self-concepts precede spatial skills, or whether the reverse is true. In order to provide novel insights into the individualized nature of these relations, a person-specific network approach …
Like No Other? A Family-Specific Network Approach to Parenting Adolescents
Numerous theories suggest that parents and adolescents influence each other in diverse ways; however, whether these influences differ between subgroups or are unique to each family remains uncertain. Therefore, this study explored whether data-driven subgroups of families emerged that exhibited a similar daily interplay between parenting and adolescent affective well-being. To do so, Subgrouping Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (S-GIMME)…
Causal inference on human behaviour
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived Covid ‐19 economic adversity
BACKGROUND: Stressful events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are major contributors to anxiety and depression, but only a subset of individuals develop psychopathology. In a population-based sample (N = 174) with a high representation of marginalized individuals, this study examined adolescent functional network connectivity as a marker of susceptibility to anxiety and depression in the context of adverse experiences. METHODS: Data-driven network…
The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data
Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associatio…
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children
Personalized Neural Networks Underlie Individual Differences in Ethnic Identity Exploration and Resolution
This study examined how ethnic identity relates to large-scale brain networks implicated in social interactions, social cognition, self-definition, and cognitive control. Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (GIMME) was used to create sparse, person-specific networks among the default mode and frontoparietal resting-state networks in a diverse sample of 104 youths aged 17-21. Links between neural density (i.e., number of connections within a…
Spatial Skills and Self-Perceived Masculinity: Considering College Major STEM-ness, Directionality, and Gender
Individualized learning potential in stressful times: How to leverage intensive longitudinal data to inform online learning
Heterogeneity in affective complexity among men and women
Affective phenomena have noteworthy complexity and heterogeneity-shared experiences and emotions evoke distinct responses and risk for affective problems across individuals (e.g., higher rates in women than men). Yet by averaging across individuals, affective science research traditionally treats affect as homogenous. Directly modeling person-specific heterogeneity in affective complexity (AC)-like the granularity and covariation of affective exp…
Understanding the Role of Puberty in Structural and Functional Development of the Adolescent Brain
Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in our understanding of structural and functional brain development in adolescence. However, understanding the role of puberty in this process has received much less attention. This review examines this relationship by summarizing recent research studies where the role of puberty was investigated in relation to brain structure, connectivity, and task‐related functional magnetic reson…
Understanding Puberty and Its Measurement: Ideas for Research in a New Generation
The measurement of puberty is an intricate and precise task, requiring a match between participants’ developmental age and appropriate techniques to identify and capture variations in maturation. Much of the foundational work on puberty and its psychosocial correlates was conducted several decades ago. In this article, we review the biological foundation of puberty; the operationalization of puberty in statistical analyses; and strategies for con…
Connecting Theory and Methods in Adolescent Brain Research
Networks are often implicated in theories of adolescent brain development, but they are not regularly examined in empirical studies. The aim of this article is to address this disconnect between theory and quantitative methodology, using the dual systems model of adolescent decision making as a prototype. After reviewing the key task-related connectivity methods that have been applied in the adolescent neuroimaging literature (seed-based correlat…
Gendered Peer Involvement in Girls with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Effects of Prenatal Androgens, Gendered Activities, and Gender Cognitions
Network Mapping with Gimme
Network science is booming! While the insights and images afforded by network mapping techniques are compelling, implementing the techniques is often daunting to researchers. Thus, the aim of this tutorial is to facilitate implementation in the context of GIMME, or group iterative multiple model estimation. GIMME is an automated network analysis approach for intensive longitudinal data. It creates person-specific networks that explain how variabl…
Dealing with Multiple Solutions in Structural Vector Autoregressive Models
Structural vector autoregressive models (VARs) hold great potential for psychological science, particularly for time series data analysis. They capture the magnitude, direction of influence, and temporal (lagged and contemporaneous) nature of relations among variables. Unified structural equation modeling (uSEM) is an optimal structural VAR instantiation, according to large-scale simulation studies, and it is implemented within an SEM framework. …
Linking Prenatal Androgens to Gender-Related Attitudes, Identity, and Activities: Evidence From Girls With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Modeling pubertal timing and tempo and examining links to behavior problems
Research on the role of puberty in adolescent psychological development requires attention to the meaning and measurement of pubertal development. Particular questions concern the utility of self-report, the need for complex models to describe pubertal development, the psychological significance of pubertal timing vs. tempo, and sex differences in the nature and psychological significance of pubertal development. We used longitudinal self-report …
Mapping Temporal Dynamics in Social Interactions With Unified Structural Equation Modeling: A Description and Demonstration Revealing Time-Dependent Sex Differences in Play Behavior
Developmental science is rich with observations of social interactions, but few available methodological and statistical approaches take full advantage of the information provided by these data. The authors propose implementation of the unified structural equation model (uSEM), a network analysis technique, for observational data coded repeatedly across time; uSEM captures the temporal dynamics underlying changes in behavior at the individual lev…
A Role for Biology in Gender-Related Behavior
Modeling pubertal timing and tempo and examining links to behavior problems
Research on the role of puberty in adolescent psychological development requires attention to the meaning and measurement of pubertal development. Particular questions concern the utility of self-report, the need for complex models to describe pubertal development, the psychological significance of pubertal timing vs. tempo, and sex differences in the nature and psychological significance of pubertal development. We used longitudinal self-report …
The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data
Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associatio…
A Role for Biology in Gender-Related Behavior
Causal inference on human behaviour
Spatial Skills and Self-Perceived Masculinity: Considering College Major STEM-ness, Directionality, and Gender
Linking Prenatal Androgens to Gender-Related Attitudes, Identity, and Activities: Evidence From Girls With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Like No Other? A Family-Specific Network Approach to Parenting Adolescents
Numerous theories suggest that parents and adolescents influence each other in diverse ways; however, whether these influences differ between subgroups or are unique to each family remains uncertain. Therefore, this study explored whether data-driven subgroups of families emerged that exhibited a similar daily interplay between parenting and adolescent affective well-being. To do so, Subgrouping Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (S-GIMME)…
Personalized Neural Networks Underlie Individual Differences in Ethnic Identity Exploration and Resolution
This study examined how ethnic identity relates to large-scale brain networks implicated in social interactions, social cognition, self-definition, and cognitive control. Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (GIMME) was used to create sparse, person-specific networks among the default mode and frontoparietal resting-state networks in a diverse sample of 104 youths aged 17-21. Links between neural density (i.e., number of connections within a…
Connecting Theory and Methods in Adolescent Brain Research
Networks are often implicated in theories of adolescent brain development, but they are not regularly examined in empirical studies. The aim of this article is to address this disconnect between theory and quantitative methodology, using the dual systems model of adolescent decision making as a prototype. After reviewing the key task-related connectivity methods that have been applied in the adolescent neuroimaging literature (seed-based correlat…
A Role for Biology in Gender-Related Behavior
Mapping Temporal Dynamics in Social Interactions With Unified Structural Equation Modeling: A Description and Demonstration Revealing Time-Dependent Sex Differences in Play Behavior
Developmental science is rich with observations of social interactions, but few available methodological and statistical approaches take full advantage of the information provided by these data. The authors propose implementation of the unified structural equation model (uSEM), a network analysis technique, for observational data coded repeatedly across time; uSEM captures the temporal dynamics underlying changes in behavior at the individual lev…
Modeling pubertal timing and tempo and examining links to behavior problems
Research on the role of puberty in adolescent psychological development requires attention to the meaning and measurement of pubertal development. Particular questions concern the utility of self-report, the need for complex models to describe pubertal development, the psychological significance of pubertal timing vs. tempo, and sex differences in the nature and psychological significance of pubertal development. We used longitudinal self-report …
Dealing with Multiple Solutions in Structural Vector Autoregressive Models
Structural vector autoregressive models (VARs) hold great potential for psychological science, particularly for time series data analysis. They capture the magnitude, direction of influence, and temporal (lagged and contemporaneous) nature of relations among variables. Unified structural equation modeling (uSEM) is an optimal structural VAR instantiation, according to large-scale simulation studies, and it is implemented within an SEM framework. …
Linking Prenatal Androgens to Gender-Related Attitudes, Identity, and Activities: Evidence From Girls With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
Network Mapping with Gimme
Network science is booming! While the insights and images afforded by network mapping techniques are compelling, implementing the techniques is often daunting to researchers. Thus, the aim of this tutorial is to facilitate implementation in the context of GIMME, or group iterative multiple model estimation. GIMME is an automated network analysis approach for intensive longitudinal data. It creates person-specific networks that explain how variabl…
Connecting Theory and Methods in Adolescent Brain Research
Networks are often implicated in theories of adolescent brain development, but they are not regularly examined in empirical studies. The aim of this article is to address this disconnect between theory and quantitative methodology, using the dual systems model of adolescent decision making as a prototype. After reviewing the key task-related connectivity methods that have been applied in the adolescent neuroimaging literature (seed-based correlat…
Gendered Peer Involvement in Girls with Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia: Effects of Prenatal Androgens, Gendered Activities, and Gender Cognitions
Understanding the Role of Puberty in Structural and Functional Development of the Adolescent Brain
Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous increase in our understanding of structural and functional brain development in adolescence. However, understanding the role of puberty in this process has received much less attention. This review examines this relationship by summarizing recent research studies where the role of puberty was investigated in relation to brain structure, connectivity, and task‐related functional magnetic reson…
Understanding Puberty and Its Measurement: Ideas for Research in a New Generation
The measurement of puberty is an intricate and precise task, requiring a match between participants’ developmental age and appropriate techniques to identify and capture variations in maturation. Much of the foundational work on puberty and its psychosocial correlates was conducted several decades ago. In this article, we review the biological foundation of puberty; the operationalization of puberty in statistical analyses; and strategies for con…
Individualized learning potential in stressful times: How to leverage intensive longitudinal data to inform online learning
Heterogeneity in affective complexity among men and women
Affective phenomena have noteworthy complexity and heterogeneity-shared experiences and emotions evoke distinct responses and risk for affective problems across individuals (e.g., higher rates in women than men). Yet by averaging across individuals, affective science research traditionally treats affect as homogenous. Directly modeling person-specific heterogeneity in affective complexity (AC)-like the granularity and covariation of affective exp…
Person-specific connectivity mapping uncovers differences of bilingual language experience on brain bases of attention in children
Personalized Neural Networks Underlie Individual Differences in Ethnic Identity Exploration and Resolution
This study examined how ethnic identity relates to large-scale brain networks implicated in social interactions, social cognition, self-definition, and cognitive control. Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (GIMME) was used to create sparse, person-specific networks among the default mode and frontoparietal resting-state networks in a diverse sample of 104 youths aged 17-21. Links between neural density (i.e., number of connections within a…
Spatial Skills and Self-Perceived Masculinity: Considering College Major STEM-ness, Directionality, and Gender
Adolescent functional network connectivity prospectively predicts adult anxiety symptoms related to perceived Covid ‐19 economic adversity
BACKGROUND: Stressful events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, are major contributors to anxiety and depression, but only a subset of individuals develop psychopathology. In a population-based sample (N = 174) with a high representation of marginalized individuals, this study examined adolescent functional network connectivity as a marker of susceptibility to anxiety and depression in the context of adverse experiences. METHODS: Data-driven network…
The daily association between affect and alcohol use: A meta-analysis of individual participant data
Influential psychological theories hypothesize that people consume alcohol in response to the experience of both negative and positive emotions. Despite two decades of daily diary and ecological momentary assessment research, it remains unclear whether people consume more alcohol on days they experience higher negative and positive affect in everyday life. In this preregistered meta-analysis, we synthesized the evidence for these daily associatio…
Daily Gender and Cognition: A Person-Specific Behavioral Network Analysis
Gender is person-specific, and it influences and is influenced by a breadth of multidimensional psychological factors, including cognition. Directionality is important for research on gender and cognition, as debate surrounds, for instance, whether masculine self-concepts precede spatial skills, or whether the reverse is true. In order to provide novel insights into the individualized nature of these relations, a person-specific network approach …
Like No Other? A Family-Specific Network Approach to Parenting Adolescents
Numerous theories suggest that parents and adolescents influence each other in diverse ways; however, whether these influences differ between subgroups or are unique to each family remains uncertain. Therefore, this study explored whether data-driven subgroups of families emerged that exhibited a similar daily interplay between parenting and adolescent affective well-being. To do so, Subgrouping Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (S-GIMME)…
Causal inference on human behaviour
Pubertal timing and daily alcohol use in adulthood: Insights into the experiences of late maturers
Pubertal timing has implications for adolescent substance use, such that early maturers have increased use. Yet, pubertal timing is not widely studied beyond adolescence, making it unclear whether and how adolescent effects persist or if downstream effects emerge after adolescence. This paper investigates the relation between pubertal timing (perceived comparison to same-sex peers) and alcohol use for 75-100 days and examines alcohol belief media…
Average Links Between Daily Gender Expression and Depressive Symptoms Do Not Describe Individual Adolescents
Gender expression is important for mental health, with masculinity and femininity having differential significance for unique adolescents. Yet, most empirical work on gender expression assumes it is trait-like or similarly shifting across teens. This intensive longitudinal study examined state-like aspects of gender expression and heterogeneity in adolescent-specific associations with depressive symptoms over 100 days. Participants were 106 adole…
Pubertal timing in adolescence and adulthood: Relations among contemporaneous and retrospective measures
Pubertal development has short- and long-term effects on psychological adjustment. Many studies of long-term effects rely on retrospective measurement of pubertal timing, but such measures often reflect different aspects of puberty than those assessed in adolescence, raising questions about the utility and interpretation of retrospective reports. The present study leveraged longitudinal data collected in adolescence and established adulthood to d…
Research Review: On the (mis)use of puberty data in the ABCD Study® – a systematic review, problem illustration, and path forward
Associations between reproductive hormonal milieus and binge eating: The roles of sex and hormonal contraceptive use
Sex - and its associated gonadal hormones - matters for binge eating (BE). On average, females report higher BE than males. Estradiol generally suppresses appetite, whereas progesterone opposes estradiol's action such that their combined presence represents a high-risk hormonal milieu for BE. Testosterone is thought to be associated with increased BE in females but appears protective in males. Hormonal contraceptives (HCs) provide a naturalistic …
Psychology (21 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Mental Health Research Topics (12 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Cognition (7 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Functional Brain Connectivity Studies (6 works) · Artificial Intelligence (5 works)