Bethany A Bell
Biographic Data
| ID | 93854 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bethany A Bell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bethany A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bell |
| SIGNATURE | BELL B A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Carolina |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8225-6277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Displacement Pressure and the Health Consequences of Neighborhood Change
Neighborhood change, including residential turnover and shifts in local investment, can create significant psychological, social, and economic strain for long-term residents who remain in place. While much of the research on neighborhood change focuses on residential mobility and displacement, less attention has been given to the chronic stress experienced by those who stay. This paper introduces a conceptual model of displacement pressure, defin…
Longitudinal Trajectories of Multimorbidity and Psychosocial Resilience Resources in Midlife and Older Adults
IntroductionThis study identified 10-year multimorbidity trajectories among midlife and older adults and examined whether psychosocial resilience resources are associated with trajectory group membership.MethodsUsing Health and Retirement Study data (2010-2020; n = 10,325), repeated measures latent profile analysis characterized trajectories based on the multimorbidity-weighted index (MWI). Resilience resources included psychological resilience, …
Academic outcomes of English learners in monolingual and dual language programs
Belonging contributes to compassion
Crucial skills for early adolescents to develop include respecting people from different backgrounds, showing empathy and compassion, and making ethical decisions in challenging situations. This exploratory study aims to understand the extent to which students' perceptions of teacher caring and belonging related to changes in their self-reported prosocial competencies ( i.e. , cultural respect, empathy, compassion, integrity)? We conducted a mult…
Correlates of longitudinal patterns of racial discrimination in midlife and older Black adults
Faculty perceptions of unidentified aerial phenomena
Recently, former and current government officials, legislators, and faculty in the United States have called for research on what their government terms Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP, now called Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena). Investigative journalism, military reports, new government offices, and scholarship have piqued broad attention. Other countries have begun conversations about UAP. The United States government is undertaking new he…
Small Improvements in an Urban Food Environment Resulted in No Changes in Diet Among Residents
Identification of factors related to food insecurity and the implications for social determinants of health screenings
Along with referrals to SNAP, clinicians can further address screening-identified food insecurity through provision of transportation supports and linkages to other social services while collaborating on community initiatives to promote convenient and easy access to healthy foods. The needs and behaviors associated with screens indicating food insecurity also have implications for impacting other SDH, and thus, health outcomes
Persistence and transience of food insecurity and predictors among residents of two disadvantaged communities in South Carolina
Recruitment and Retention for the Evaluation of a Healthy Food Initiative in Economically Disadvantaged, Majority African American Communities
Effective recruitment and retention supports equitable participation in research. The aim of this article is to describe recruitment and retention methods among residents of highly disadvantaged, predominantly African American communities in the southeastern United States during the evaluation of a healthy food access initiative. We proposed that active and passive recruitment methods, intensive retention strategies, community outreach and involv…
Effects of a food hub initiative in a disadvantaged community
Perceived Discrimination Trajectories and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Black Adults
Characterizing longitudinal patterns of perceived discrimination may facilitate the stratification of mental health risk and vulnerability among black middle-aged and older adults. Trajectories of racial discrimination may inform risk of worse depressive symptoms more accurately than a single assessment of discrimination
Food insecurity, childhood hunger and caregiver life experiences among households with children in South Carolina, USA
Objective: We explored how positive and negative life experiences of caregivers are associated with household food insecurity. Design: The Midlands Family Study (MFS) was a cross-sectional study with three levels of household food security: food secure, food insecure without child hunger and food insecure with child hunger. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was used for analyses of negative and positive life experiences (number, impact, type) …
Testing the Importance of Geographic Distance for Social Capital Resources
This study tests the importance of spatial distance from social capital resources for the number of resources accessed. We examine the relationship between the distance to work, religious congregations, and organizations on the level of social capital. Theory posits that increased time spent commuting decreases social capital; we posit that increased distance traveled to sites of social capital generation limits neighborhood social capital but in…
What does a person's eating identity add to environmental influences on fruit and vegetable intake
Food Shopping and Acquisition Behaviors in Relation to BMI among Residents of Low-Income Communities in South Carolina
Low-income areas in which residents have poor access to healthy foods have been referred to as "food deserts." It is thought that improving food access may help curb the obesity epidemic. Little is known about where residents of food deserts shop and if shopping habits are associated with body mass index (BMI). We evaluated the association of food shopping and acquisition (e.g., obtaining food from church, food pantries, etc.) with BMI among 459 …
Improving the Efficacy of Administrative Data for Evaluation of Holistic Defense
A college of social work developed a partnership with a state commission on indigent defense to examine existing data-collection procedures, potential case outcomes, and practical implications of implementing holistic defense programs. The holistic defense model responds to the complex challenges of justice-system-involved defendants by providing social services in public defense offices. Using chi-square and logistic regression analyses of admin…
Ethnic Discrimination and Smoking-Related Outcomes among Former and Current Arab Male Smokers in Israel
Health & access to care among working-age lower income adults in the Great Recession
Geographic measures of retail food outlets and perceived availability of healthy foods in neighbourhoods
Objective To examine associations between geographic measures of retail food outlets and perceived availability of healthy foods. Design Cross-sectional. Setting A predominantly rural, eight-county region of South Carolina, USA. Subjects Data from 705 household shoppers were analysed using ordinary least-squares regression to examine relationships between geographic measures (presence and distance) of food outlets obtained via a geographic inform…
Perceived and geographic food access and food security status among households with children
Objective To examine the association of both perceived and geographic neighbourhood food access with food security status among households with children. Design This was a cross-sectional study in which participants’ perceptions of neighbourhood food access were assessed by a standard survey instrument, and geographic food access was evaluated by distance to the nearest supermarket. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to examine the …
The role of parental involvement in trajectories of aggression in children from 24 months to Pre-Kindergarten using growth curve models
Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital
The neighborhood context affects social capital, yet scholars do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of the social spaces people occupy in measuring social capital. Research has focused on neighborhood effects as though the neighborhood space is fixed across all inhabitants without regard for the ways individuals define their neighborhoods considering their own spatial location and social interactions. Using a neighborhood–level social …
Neighborhood fast food availability and fast food consumption
Differences in the Effects of the Great Recession on Health Outcomes among Minority Working-Age Adults
The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms
Integrated Schools, Segregated Curriculum
Our results provide evidence that within-school segregation may influence both students' aspirations and their behaviors
Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood
Perceived Discrimination Trajectories and Depressive Symptoms Among Middle-Aged and Older Black Adults
Characterizing longitudinal patterns of perceived discrimination may facilitate the stratification of mental health risk and vulnerability among black middle-aged and older adults. Trajectories of racial discrimination may inform risk of worse depressive symptoms more accurately than a single assessment of discrimination
Access to Healthful Foods among an Urban Food Insecure Population
Testing the Importance of Geographic Distance for Social Capital Resources
This study tests the importance of spatial distance from social capital resources for the number of resources accessed. We examine the relationship between the distance to work, religious congregations, and organizations on the level of social capital. Theory posits that increased time spent commuting decreases social capital; we posit that increased distance traveled to sites of social capital generation limits neighborhood social capital but in…
Ethnic Discrimination and Smoking-Related Outcomes among Former and Current Arab Male Smokers in Israel
Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital
The neighborhood context affects social capital, yet scholars do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of the social spaces people occupy in measuring social capital. Research has focused on neighborhood effects as though the neighborhood space is fixed across all inhabitants without regard for the ways individuals define their neighborhoods considering their own spatial location and social interactions. Using a neighborhood–level social …
Health & access to care among working-age lower income adults in the Great Recession
Body mass index trajectories from adolescence to midlife
Our results suggest that by simultaneously considering multiple sources of stratification, we can more fully understand how the unequal distribution of advantages or disadvantages across social groups affects BMI across the life course
Test–retest reliability of a questionnaire measuring perceptions of neighborhood food environment
What does a person's eating identity add to environmental influences on fruit and vegetable intake
Neighborhood fast food availability and fast food consumption
Effects of Timing and Level of Degree Attained on Depressive Symptoms and Self-Rated Health at Midlife
Objectives. We examined whether attaining a higher educational degree after 25 years of age was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and better self-rated health at midlife than was not attaining a higher educational degree. Methods. We analyzed data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, restricting our sample to respondents who had not attained a bachelor's degree by 25 years of age (n = 7179). We stratified all regression models by h…
Persistence and transience of food insecurity and predictors among residents of two disadvantaged communities in South Carolina
Effects of a food hub initiative in a disadvantaged community
The role of parental involvement in trajectories of aggression in children from 24 months to Pre-Kindergarten using growth curve models
Differences in the Effects of the Great Recession on Health Outcomes among Minority Working-Age Adults
Access to Healthful Foods among an Urban Food Insecure Population
Protecting Sleep, Promoting Health in Later Life
OBJECTIVES: To determine in healthy people aged > or = 75 years 1) if restricting time in bed and education in health sleep practices are superior to an attention-only control condition (i.e., education in healthy dietary practices) for maintaining or enhancing sleep continuity and depth over 2.5 years; and 2) if maintenance or enhancement of sleep continuity and depth promotes the maintenance or enhancement of health-related quality of life. MET…
Integrated Schools, Segregated Curriculum
Our results provide evidence that within-school segregation may influence both students' aspirations and their behaviors
The Veggie Project
Body mass index trajectories from adolescence to midlife
Our results suggest that by simultaneously considering multiple sources of stratification, we can more fully understand how the unequal distribution of advantages or disadvantages across social groups affects BMI across the life course
The intersection of school racial composition and student race/ethnicity on adolescent depressive and somatic symptoms
Effect of School Racial Composition on Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence Through Early Adulthood
Use of Design Effects and Sample Weights in Complex Health Survey Data
Objectives. We assessed how frequently researchers reported the use of statistical techniques that take into account the complex sampling structure of survey data and sample weights in published peer-reviewed articles using data from 3 commonly used adolescent health surveys. Methods. We performed a systematic review of 1003 published empirical research articles from 1995 to 2010 that used data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent H…
Effects of Timing and Level of Degree Attained on Depressive Symptoms and Self-Rated Health at Midlife
Objectives. We examined whether attaining a higher educational degree after 25 years of age was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and better self-rated health at midlife than was not attaining a higher educational degree. Methods. We analyzed data from National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, restricting our sample to respondents who had not attained a bachelor's degree by 25 years of age (n = 7179). We stratified all regression models by h…
Test–retest reliability of a questionnaire measuring perceptions of neighborhood food environment
Environmental influences on fruit and vegetable intake
Objective Fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake is influenced by behavioural and environmental factors, but these have rarely been assessed simultaneously. We aimed to quantify the relative influence of supermarket availability, perceptions of the food environment and shopping behaviour on F&V intake. Design A cross-sectional study. Setting Eight counties in South Carolina, USA, with verified locations of all supermarkets. Subjects A telephone survey …
Spatial Dimensions of Social Capital
The neighborhood context affects social capital, yet scholars do not adequately account for the dynamic nature of the social spaces people occupy in measuring social capital. Research has focused on neighborhood effects as though the neighborhood space is fixed across all inhabitants without regard for the ways individuals define their neighborhoods considering their own spatial location and social interactions. Using a neighborhood–level social …
Neighborhood fast food availability and fast food consumption
Differences in the Effects of the Great Recession on Health Outcomes among Minority Working-Age Adults
Geographic measures of retail food outlets and perceived availability of healthy foods in neighbourhoods
Objective To examine associations between geographic measures of retail food outlets and perceived availability of healthy foods. Design Cross-sectional. Setting A predominantly rural, eight-county region of South Carolina, USA. Subjects Data from 705 household shoppers were analysed using ordinary least-squares regression to examine relationships between geographic measures (presence and distance) of food outlets obtained via a geographic inform…
Perceived and geographic food access and food security status among households with children
Objective To examine the association of both perceived and geographic neighbourhood food access with food security status among households with children. Design This was a cross-sectional study in which participants’ perceptions of neighbourhood food access were assessed by a standard survey instrument, and geographic food access was evaluated by distance to the nearest supermarket. Multinomial logistic regression models were used to examine the …
The role of parental involvement in trajectories of aggression in children from 24 months to Pre-Kindergarten using growth curve models
Food Shopping and Acquisition Behaviors in Relation to BMI among Residents of Low-Income Communities in South Carolina
Low-income areas in which residents have poor access to healthy foods have been referred to as "food deserts." It is thought that improving food access may help curb the obesity epidemic. Little is known about where residents of food deserts shop and if shopping habits are associated with body mass index (BMI). We evaluated the association of food shopping and acquisition (e.g., obtaining food from church, food pantries, etc.) with BMI among 459 …
Improving the Efficacy of Administrative Data for Evaluation of Holistic Defense
A college of social work developed a partnership with a state commission on indigent defense to examine existing data-collection procedures, potential case outcomes, and practical implications of implementing holistic defense programs. The holistic defense model responds to the complex challenges of justice-system-involved defendants by providing social services in public defense offices. Using chi-square and logistic regression analyses of admin…
Ethnic Discrimination and Smoking-Related Outcomes among Former and Current Arab Male Smokers in Israel
Health & access to care among working-age lower income adults in the Great Recession
What does a person's eating identity add to environmental influences on fruit and vegetable intake
Food insecurity, childhood hunger and caregiver life experiences among households with children in South Carolina, USA
Objective: We explored how positive and negative life experiences of caregivers are associated with household food insecurity. Design: The Midlands Family Study (MFS) was a cross-sectional study with three levels of household food security: food secure, food insecure without child hunger and food insecure with child hunger. Ordinal logistic regression analysis was used for analyses of negative and positive life experiences (number, impact, type) …
Testing the Importance of Geographic Distance for Social Capital Resources
This study tests the importance of spatial distance from social capital resources for the number of resources accessed. We examine the relationship between the distance to work, religious congregations, and organizations on the level of social capital. Theory posits that increased time spent commuting decreases social capital; we posit that increased distance traveled to sites of social capital generation limits neighborhood social capital but in…
Recruitment and Retention for the Evaluation of a Healthy Food Initiative in Economically Disadvantaged, Majority African American Communities
Effective recruitment and retention supports equitable participation in research. The aim of this article is to describe recruitment and retention methods among residents of highly disadvantaged, predominantly African American communities in the southeastern United States during the evaluation of a healthy food access initiative. We proposed that active and passive recruitment methods, intensive retention strategies, community outreach and involv…
Medicine (27 works) · Psychology (22 works) · Environmental health (17 works) · Gerontology (16 works) · Geography (12 works) · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (12 works) · Demography (11 works) · Demography (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Economics (9 works)