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Measurement invariance of the LGBT People of Color Microaggressions Scale among LGBTQ+ youth Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Antonia E. Caba, N. Keita Christophe, Benton M. Renley, Kay A. Simon, Brian A. Feinstein, Lisa A. Eaton, Ryan J. Watson
The LGBT People of Color Microaggressions Scale (LGBT‐PCMS) is a widely used measure of intersectional microaggression experiences among sexual and gender minority people of color. Although it is widely used—and increasingly used in adolescent and young adult samples—it is unknown whether the LGBT‐PCMS demonstrates similar measurement properties across subgroups of sexual and gender minority youth
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A case study in developmental discontinuity: PROSPER Interventions and adolescent substance use trajectories shape young adult substance use and mental health problems Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Gregory M. Fosco, Shichen Fang, Lan Chen, Mark E. Feinberg, Richard Spoth
The loss of John Schulenberg reverberates across the developmental and prevention sciences. In honor of his many contributions, this paper applies his ideas of developmental continuity and discontinuity to understand the process by which PROSPER delivered universal prevention programs (delivered in Grades 6 and 7) affect young adult outcomes. Guided by these developmental models, we deconstructed adolescent
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The role of cumulative risk and armed conflict exposure in adolescent psychological symptoms in Turkey Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-06 Buket Kara, Bilge Selcuk
Exposure to risk factors and adversity may cause immediate, and sometimes prolonged, psychological symptoms in adolescents. Identifying universal and specific risk factors in a particular context and examining their cumulative effects is crucial for understanding the mechanisms underlying psychological symptoms and informing about strategies for intervention. Using concurrent measures, the current
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Why step in? Shifting justifications for bystander behaviors through interventions with youth in the Middle East Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Alaina Brenick, Malak Zureiqi, Rui Wu, Maisha Seraj, Megan Clark Kelly, Rony Berger
Research shows positive bystander intervention effectively mitigates bullying experiences. Yet, more evidence regarding bystander responses to bias‐based social exclusion (BSE) is needed in intergroup contexts, especially in the majority world and in areas of intractable conflict. This study assessed the effectiveness of skills and skills + contact‐based interventions for BSE among 148 Palestinian
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Question asking in active listening scale for early adolescents: Behavioral measure development and initial validation Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Andrew Nalani, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Niobe Way
Relational theories of human development explain how stereotypes and their underlying ideologies thwart social connections that are fundamental for individuals to thrive, especially in early adolescence. Intervention research to address this crisis of connection is still emergent and active listening is one promising strategy to this end; however, its efficacy has not been examined in part because
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Measurement of adolescent psychological wellbeing: A test of factor structure and measurement invariance Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Hena Thakur, Jae Wan Choi, Arthur R. Andrews, Jeff R. Temple, Joseph R. Cohen
Gains in holistic approaches to adult mental health have been associated with increasing interest in understanding psychological wellbeing (PWB) among adolescents. Empirical examination of measurement models for PWB in adolescence is lacking. Thus, the current study examined PWB in a longitudinal, diverse sample of 433 adolescents (non‐Latinx Black: 37.6%; non‐Latinx White: 25.9%; Latinx: 36.5%; Male
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Trajectories of offending over 9 years after youths' first arrest: What predicts who desists and who continues to offend? Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-30 Elizabeth Cauffman, Jordan Beardslee, Colleen Sbeglia, Paul J. Frick, Laurence Steinberg
Antisocial and illegal behavior generally declines as youth approach adulthood, but there is significant individual variation in the timing of the peak and decline of offending from adolescence to young adulthood. There are two primary research questions in the present study. First, are there subgroups of youth who follow similar patterns of offending over the nine years after their first arrest? Second
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Influence of perceived peer behavior on engagement in self‐damaging behaviors during the transition to university Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Marlise K. Hofer, Christina L. Robillard, Nicole K. Legg, Brianna J. Turner
As students transition to university, they experience significant social changes that can affect their behaviors, including self‐damaging behaviors like disordered eating, problematic alcohol/drug use, suicidal thoughts, and non‐suicidal self‐injury (NSSI). Building on prior work, we examined the associations between (1) perceptions of peers' engagement in self‐damaging behaviors predicting one's own
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Short‐term changes in social role statuses across young adulthood and their relation to heavy drinking in a given month Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Anne M. Fairlie, Brian H. Calhoun, Katherine Walukevich‐Dienst, Melissa Janson, Megan E. Patrick, Christine M. Lee
Young adulthood is a developmental period during which individuals experience shifts in their social roles in various domains, which coincides with a period of time that is also high risk for lifetime peaks in alcohol use. The current study examined age‐related changes in heavy episodic drinking (HED) and high‐intensity drinking (HID) and associations with short‐term (i.e., monthly) variation in young
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The COVID‐19 pandemic and adolescents' and young adults' experiences at school: A systematic narrative review Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Aprile D. Benner, Madeline K. Harrington, Carmen Kealy, Chidozie E. Nwafor
The COVID‐19 pandemic upended the lives of adolescents and young adults across the globe. In response to the pandemic onset, educational institutions were forced to pivot to online learning, a new teaching and learning format for most secondary and university students. This systematic narrative review summarizes findings from 168 publications spanning 56 countries on students' educational outcomes
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Too sensitive or not sensitive enough? Sensitivity to context and justice‐involved youths' response to violence exposure Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Colleen Sbeglia, Curtis Donovyn Smith, Paul J. Frick, Laurence Steinberg, Elizabeth Cauffman
INTRODUCTION Exposure to violence (ETV) is an unfortunately common experience among adolescents (Finkelhor et al., 2015), with lasting implications such as poorer physical and mental health (Borofsky et al., 2013; McLaughlin et al., 2016), increased substance use (Vermeiren et al., 2003; Wright & Fagan, 2013), and notably future perpetration of violence (Fox et al., 2014; Maas et al., 2008; Smith &
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Examining the causal effects of exposure to violence on crime among youth involved in the justice system: Experienced, witnessed, and experienced–witnessed violence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Siying Guo, Jianxuan Liu, Anna Pak
Previous studies on exposure to violence lack a nuanced understanding of the causal effects of different exposure types on offending behaviors. This study, drawing on Pathways to Desistance Study (PDS) data tracking 1354 adjudicated youths aged 14–18 over 7 years, explores the contemporaneous (cross‐sectional), acute (after 1 year), enduring (after 3 years), and long‐term (after 6 years) causal effects
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Peer sexual harassment, appearance esteem, and emotional problems: Testing a mediation model across early adolescence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Kristina Holmqvist Gattario, Emily G. Vira, Carolina Lunde, Therése Skoog
This study used a longitudinal sample of early adolescent boys and girls (ages 10–12; N = 1113) to test a theoretically and empirically informed model suggesting that exposure to peer sexual harassment (age 10) predicts more emotional problems (age 12), and that lower appearance esteem (age 11) mediates this relation. On the within‐person level, which is the level on which the processes theoretically
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Exploring adolescent‐adult connections, coping, and safety among minoritized youth in neighborhoods impacted by community violence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Maxine Fenner, Tyia Wilson, Alexander Riley, Alison J. Culyba
Dyadic interviews were conducted with 32 youth ages 13–21 and their self‐identified key adult supports to illuminate how adult supports help protect youth in communities impacted by high levels of violence. Interview transcripts were analyzed using thematic content analysis. Youth described choosing social interactions carefully, avoiding high‐violence areas, and keeping busy with activities. Many
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Mother–child dynamics: Examining reciprocal relations between parental knowledge, child disclosure, parental legitimacy beliefs, and adolescent alcohol use Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nilofar Fallah‐Sohy, Elisa M. Trucco
Early adolescent alcohol use is associated with adverse developmental and health outcomes. Parental knowledge can prevent or delay substance use, while youth behaviors may concurrently influence parenting. More research is needed to examine the role of youth's perceptions of legitimacy of parental authority. This multi‐informant study examined prospective bidirectional effects between parental knowledge
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Parent‐child conflict in Mexican‐origin families: Charting development from adolescence to young adulthood Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Daye Son, Kimberly A. Updegraff, Adriana J. Umaña‐Taylor
Grounded in developmental and cultural‐ecological perspectives, the current study examined trajectories of parent‐youth conflict regarding everyday issues across adolescence and into young adulthood. Data came from 246 Mexican‐origin families in the southwestern United States with younger siblings (51% female, Mage = 12.8, SD = 0.58), older siblings (Mage = 15.5, SD = 1.57), mothers (Mage = 39.0; SD
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The contribution of community service during the transition to adulthood to health in adulthood Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Laura Wray‐Lake, Danielle Dunn, Valerie Freund, Deborah D. Kloska
Prior studies have linked young people's community service to indicators of health, yet little research takes the long view by connecting youth's community service to health in the next decade of life. Using a lifespan developmental lens, this study examined community service over the transition to adulthood and uses change over time in community service to predict indicators of behavioral, physical
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Adolescents' belonging in post‐divorce families: Examining residential and digital contact with mothers and fathers Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Zoë Rejaän, Inge E. van der Valk, Susan Branje
Using data of 166 adolescents from divorced families, this study examined longitudinal associations between the quantity and quality of adolescents’ residential contact and digital contact with parents, and their sense of family belonging. Cross‐lagged panel models showed concurrent associations among adolescents’ residential and digital contact with each parent, yet positively for fathers and negatively
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Directionality explored: Black Adolescents' awareness of systemic racism and race‐based experiences Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Natasha C. Johnson, Stephanie J. Rowley, Beth Kurtz‐Costes
Increases in conversations about race and racial discrimination experiences during adolescence make this a critical developmental period to investigate adolescents' awareness of racism. We examined bidirectional associations between race‐based experiences and awareness of systemic racism—operationalized as understanding systemic causes of racial disparities in education. Adolescents who self‐identified
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Peer sexual harassment among 10-year-olds: Roles, genders, classroom occurrence, and associations with emotional problems Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Andrea Valik, Carolina Lunde, Therése Skoog, Kristina Holmqvist Gattario
This is the first study examining peer sexual harassment among 10-year-olds (N = 985), studying how being a victim, perpetrator, or witness relates to emotional problems, and how these associations are moderated by gender and class occurrence of sexual harassment. Results showed that 45% of the participants reported victimization, 17% perpetration, and 60% witnessing sexual harassment, with vast overlaps
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Taking the long view of adolescent work quality Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Jeremy Staff, Jeylan T. Mortimer
Following Schulenberg's research on teenage employment and vocational development, we ask to what extent do job dimensions reflecting the quality of work experience during mid-adolescence (e.g., work stress, autonomy, learning and advancement opportunities, hourly pay, wage satisfaction, and work hours) predict the same work experiences during the ensuing occupational career? Using longitudinal data
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Microaggression and discrimination experiences among diverse youth with LGBTQ+ parents in the United States Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Rachel H. Farr, Krystal K. Cashen, Kelsey A. Siebenthaler, Kay A. Simon
Family-based microaggressions and discrimination experienced by youth with LGBTQ+ parents are important to understand from their perspectives. Using mixed methods, we examined such experiences among 12- to 25-year-old youth (N = 51) with at least one LGBTQ+ parent in the United States. Youth were diverse in race/ethnicity, family structure, gender and sexual identities, socioeconomic status, and geographic
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Out-of-school time use in Pakistan: A qualitative study featuring youth's voices Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Salima Kerai, Marium Ibrahim, Tonje M. Molyneux, Uzma Hussain, Anne Gadermann, Rosemin Kassam, Almina Pardhan, Eva Oberle
The current study addresses the lack of out-of-school time (OST) research in low- and middle-income countries by exploring OST use in the context of Pakistan and incorporating youth's voices. Using a qualitative descriptive design with focus-group discussions, we conducted a study in three middle schools set in low- to middle-income neighborhoods in urban and rural areas of Karachi, Pakistan. We engaged
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Still worried? Parental control and academic competence as antecedents of middle school students' post-transition worries Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Ana-Maria Țepordei, Alexandra S. Zancu, Loredana R. Diaconu-Gherasim, Laura E. Brumariu
This study examined whether parental psychological control reported by children before the transition to middle school, in the second semester of the fourth grade, is associated with children's worries after the transition to middle school, in the first semester of the fifth grade. We also evaluated the mediating role of children's post-transition perceived academic competence and the moderating role
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Time-varying associations between parental closeness, self-esteem, and sexual behavior across adolescence and emerging adulthood Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Linghua Jiang, Xiafei Wang, Shuangyue Cui, Sara A. Vasilenko
This study applied the time-varying effect model (TVEM) to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to explore how self-esteem mediated age-varying associations of closeness to mother and father and their child's sexual behavior through adolescence and emerging adulthood. Paternal closeness is associated with lesser odds of sexual behaviors for both female and male adolescents
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Gender differences in Russian adolescent mental health from 1999 to 2021 Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Evgeniya Yu Privodnova, Nadezhda B. Semenova, Olga S. Kornienko, Aleksandra V. Varshal, Helena R. Slobodskaya
This study examined secular trends in Russian adolescent mental health, the specific effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and associations with country-level indicators. A cross-sectional survey of 12,882 adolescents aged 11–18 years was carried out between 1999 and 2021 using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire. The results showed an incline in girls' internalizing problems with a two-fold increase
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Stress of being outed to parents, LGBTQ family support, and depressive symptoms among sexual and gender diverse youth Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Peter S. McCauley, Alexander J. Del Farno, Antonia E. Caba, Benton M. Renley, Shaylynne Shuler, Lisa A. Eaton, Ryan J. Watson
Limited scholarship has explored how a lack of agency in identity disclosure (being “outed”) to parents is associated with mental health experiences of sexual and gender diverse youth (SGDY). With a national sample of SGDY (N = 9272; 66.8% White non-Hispanic) aged 13–17 (Mage = 15.63, SD = 1.24), this study first compared social position differences between SGDY who were outed to their parents compared
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Self-esteem and self-concept as correlates of life satisfaction and attitudes toward school among Ghanaian girls Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-11 Ozge Sensoy Bahar, William Byansi, Portia Buernarkie Nartey, Abdallah Ibrahim, Alice Boateng, Kingsley Kumbelim, Proscovia Nabunya, Mary M. McKay, Fred M. Ssewamala
During adolescence, youth experience several physical, psychosocial, and cognitive changes. Self-esteem and self-concept are identified as protective factors for adolescents in high-income countries, but studies are limited in sub-Saharan Africa. We examined the associations of self-esteem and self-concept with life satisfaction and attitudes toward school using baseline data from 97 Ghanaian adolescent
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The subjective well-being in Peruvian adolescence: Identifying domains and evaluations in a non-WEIRD context Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Henry Raúl Guillén Zambrano, Rafaella Andrea de la Puente Ronceros, María Angélica Pease Dreibelbis
The present qualitative study examined how a group of Peruvian adolescents (N = 32) from different cultural contexts conceive their well-being. The goal was to identify the domains that structure their conception of well-being and how they evaluate it based on their elaboration. For this objective, 32 in-depth interviews were carried out with adolescents from different cultural contexts in Perú. Elements
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School climate, attitude toward school violence, and violent behaviors among high school students in Vietnam Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-20 Minh Thanh Bui, Trang Thu Nguyen
This study aimed to examine the relationship between Vietnamese high school students' violent behaviors and their violence exposure (observing and being victimized by school violence), and attitude, and perceived school climate. The results from 496 Vietnamese high school students show that students' acceptance of school violence and their experience of being the victim of school violence have a significant
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Coping strategies in response to peer victimization: Comparing adolescents in the United States and Korea Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Joo Young Yang, Kristina L. McDonald, Sunmi Seo
We examined cultural specificity in how adolescents' coping strategies in response to peer victimization are associated with adjustment with a sample of 7th–8th graders from the United States (n = 292, 60% female, Mage = 13.6, SD = 0.65) and South Korea (n = 462, 50.2% female, Mage = 13.7, SD = 0.58). Participants read scenarios describing victimization and rated the likelihood of utilizing different
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Justice for me and for all: Longitudinal analysis of justice perceptions across demographic indicators Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Kendra J. Thomas, Herbert Rodrigues, André V. Komatsu
Most research on justice perceptions stems from high-income contexts, even though most youth grow up in contexts of inequality and injustice. This study examines the development of justice perceptions in 659 Brazilian adolescents (51.3% male; 45.2% White) in São Paulo across 3 years, ages 12, 13, and 14. Perceptions of justice of the world declined with age and perceived justice in one's personal life
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Among risks, protection, and lessons learned: Perspectives of Brazilian rural families about work in adolescence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-08 Ramiro Rodrigues Coni Santana, Marilena Ristum
Adolescents working in the Brazilian rural contexts were investigated through participant observation and interviews, aiming at understanding the role played by work in the nurturing of adolescent in these contexts. The qualitative and longitudinal survey involved six participants who were members of two different families, as follows: four female adolescents, one adult woman, and one adult man. It
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Everyday discrimination, emotion, and daily interactions during adolescence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-12-06 Danny Rahal, Virginia W. Huynh, Michael R. Irwin, Heather McCreath, Andrew J. Fuligni
The present study examined whether everyday discrimination relates to the frequency of adolescents' positive and negative daily social interactions and whether these associations are driven by anger and positive emotion. Adolescents (N = 334) participated in a three-wave longitudinal study, in which they completed surveys regarding everyday discrimination, anger, and positive emotion, as well as 15
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Growth patterns of ingroup and outgroup prosocial behavior in Colombian and Uruguayan adolescents: Examining gratitude and forgiveness as predictors of change Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Belen Mesurado, Santiago Resett
The first goal of the current research was to study the short-term developmental patterns of ingroup and outgroup prosocial behavior during the middle adolescence stage among Uruguayan and Colombian adolescents. The second goal was to study the probability of inclusion in each trajectory class arising from gratitude and forgiveness (understood as the absence of negative emotions and the presence of
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High and low levels of adolescent peer status are associated longitudinally with socioevaluative concern Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-27 Nathan H. Field, Elizabeth A. Nick, Maya Massing-Schaffer, Kara A. Fox, Jacqueline Nesi, Mitchell J. Prinstein
This study examined linear and curvilinear longitudinal associations between peer status (i.e., likeability and popularity) and socioevaluative concern, a socio-cognitive feature characterized by attunement to judgment from peers. A sample of 716 adolescents (Mage = 16.01, SD = 1.25; 54% female; 46.5% White; 69.5% reduced-price lunch) was assessed twice annually. Likeability and popularity were assessed
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Microaggressions, perceptions of campus climate, mental health, and alcohol use among first-year college students of color Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Diana R. Samek, Brianna Crumly, Bruno Ache Akua, Mary Dawson, Adrienne Duke-Marks
Depressive and anxiety symptoms are increasingly common, and problematic alcohol use remains prevalent in college. To expand on prior research on mostly white samples, we surveyed first-year students of color from our predominately white university (Southeastern US) to identify risk factors for mental health symptoms and potentially co-occurring problematic alcohol use. Results showed significant associations
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Companion animals and the relationship between peer victimization and emotion regulation in youth Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-17 Erin K. King, Eli D. Halbreich, Kristina Callina, Megan K. Mueller
Peer victimization can negatively impact emotion regulation in youth and is associated with harmful mental health outcomes. One protective factor against the impacts of peer victimization is a strong attachment to family and positive peer relationships. Given that pets are commonly seen as family members and that youth report turning to their pet for emotional comfort, companion animals could provide
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Cumulative contextual risk, mothers' and fathers' parenting, and adolescents' psychosocial problems in Ghana Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Braima Salaam
Limited research exists on the association between cumulative risk factors and the psychosocial well-being of adolescents in low-income, culturally distinct settings. This study aimed to fill this gap by examining the impact of cumulative risk exposure on Ghanaian adolescents' psychosocial problems and exploring the mediating role of parenting. The study involved 212 adolescents (61% girls; average
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Parenting in 2 Worlds: Testing improved parent–adolescent communication about sexuality in Urban American Indian families Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Stephen S. Kulis, Monica Tsethlikai, Stephanie L. Ayers, Kyle E. Gresenz
Urban American Indian (AI) adolescents are more likely than non-Natives to have early sexual debut, teen pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections, and inadequate sexual health information. A RCT in three Arizona cities, with 585 parents of urban AI adolescents, tested whether a culturally tailored parenting intervention for urban AI families, Parenting in 2 Worlds (P2W), increased parent–adolescent
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Proactive coping with discrimination: A mediator between ethnic-racial socialization and Latinx youth's internalizing symptoms Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Valerie V. Salcido, Gabriela L. Stein
There is a dearth of knowledge in the coping literature on how minoritized youth cope with racism-related stressors and the predictors of effective coping responses. This two-wave study examined the direct and indirect effects of ethnic-racial socialization on depressive and anxiety symptoms via proactive coping with discrimination in a community sample of 135 Latinx adolescents (Mage = 16, SD = 1
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Examining area- and individual-level differences in suicide ideation severity and suicide attempt among youth Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Christopher Cambron, Jeremiah W. Jaggers
Youth suicide is a pressing problem and suicide rates are not equally distributed across geographic areas or socioeconomic status (SES). Death by suicide is often preceded factors including hopelessness and suicide ideation, planning, and attempt. The current study examined area- and individual-level differences in suicide ideation severity and suicide attempt in a state-representative sample of youth
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Using measurement alignment in research on adolescence involving multiple groups: A brief tutorial with R Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 Hyemin Han
Measurement alignment adjusts factor loadings and intercepts across different groups to achieve measurement invariance, which assumes the equal measurement model is validated across different groups. It should be achieved for validly conducting analysis and comparison in studies involving multiple groups, such as cross-cultural or cross-national studies. In this paper, I presented how to conduct measurement
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Patterns in pro-gun beliefs and weapon carrying behaviors in rural White adolescent Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Sara Beachy, Christopher T. H. Liang
Weapon carrying among White rural populations is understudied although evidence suggests that rural White boys have high rates of carriage. This study delineated patterns of weapon use and pro-gun beliefs using a latent class analysis on a sample of 32,916 White rural adolescents. Five groups were identified (i.e., Low Gun Risk, Naïve, Social Contagion, Independent, Unsupervised) using pro-gun beliefs
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Promoting positive development among refugee adolescents Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Saida Abdi, Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith, Anna Sarkadi, Mina Fazel, B. Heidi Ellis, Sarah Gillespie, Linda P. Juang, Theresa S. Betancourt
Of the estimated 35.3 million refugees around the world (UNHCR, Figures at a Glance, 2022), approximately 50% are children under the age of 18. Refugee adolescents represent a unique group as they navigate developmental tasks in an unstable and often threatening environment or in resettlement contexts in which they often face marginalization. In addition to physiological, social, and psychological
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“We been dying, and you got me on a call helping you stay alive”: Black and Latinx youth organizers' experiences of racism in gun violence prevention organizations Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Sara Wilf, Taylor Reed, Victoria Millet, Stephanie M. Ortiz, Laura Wray-Lake
This study explored Black and Latinx youth organizers' experiences of racism within national gun violence prevention organizing spaces. Interview data were analyzed from 17 Black and/or Latinx youth (Mage = 20.17, 47% women) across the United States who organized against gun violence. The findings identified three forms of racism that Black and Latinx organizers experienced in national organizations:
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Patterns of African American parents' educational involvement: associations with adolescents' academic performance and motivational beliefs Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Nestor B. Tulagan, Jacquelynne S. Eccles
The current study used survey data from 786 African American mother–adolescent (M = 12.29 years; 48% female) dyads to examine profiles of 7th-grade parental educational involvement and their associations with adolescents' 11th-grade academic performance, academic self-concept, and educational aspirations. Using latent profile analyses, four patterns emerged: (a) Low Involvers; (b) Helpers, Low Providers;
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Adolescents' trust and reciprocity toward friends, unknown peers, and community members Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Sophie W. Sweijen, Lysanne W. te Brinke, Suzanne van de Groep, Eveline A. Crone
Using a newly developed version of the Trust Game among 196 adolescents aged 11–20 years, this study examined whether adolescents distinguish between trust and reciprocity to unknown peers, friends, and community members. We also tested for effects of age, gender, and individual differences in attending to others' emotions, emotional support to friends, societal contributions, and institutional and
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Addressing challenges to carrying out intervention programs with youth populations: Successes and strategies Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Neema Trivedi-Bateman, Alison Jane Martingano
We identify five challenges notoriously faced by researchers conducting youth intervention studies: access to the target population, successful recruitment, ensuring continued attendance, promoting engaged, enthused, and task-focused participation, and efficient data collection. To ensure research quality, we have devised strategies to address these obstacles. Successes and lessons are included from
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Sexual minority youth in romantic relationships: Associations with youth well-being Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Amy L. McCurdy, Benton M. Renley, Justin A. Lavner, Gaëlle Meslay, Ryan J. Watson, Stephen T. Russell
This study investigated differences in depressive symptoms, loneliness, and self-esteem for monosexual (lesbian, gay) and plurisexual (bisexual, pansexual, queer) sexual minority youth (SMY) by relationship status (single, partnered) and relationship configuration (same-gender partner, different-gender partner). Participants included 338 SMY (Mage = 19.10 years) who reported on their relationship status
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Positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out-of-school contexts: A longitudinal approach to spillover effects Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Savaş Karataş, Katharina Eckstein, Peter Noack, Monica Rubini, Elisabetta Crocetti
This study aims to tackle positive and negative intergroup contact in school and out-of-school contexts to test whether a spillover effect (i.e., the extent to which experiences that individuals have in one context spill over into another) applies to intergroup contact. Participants were 984 adolescents (Mage = 14.66; 62.7% female; 24.8% ethnic minority). Results indicated that positive contact in
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Trajectories of discrimination among Chinese American youth: Variation, predictors, and outcomes Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Wei Wei, Dawn P. Witherspoon, Su Yeong Kim
Using 3 waves of longitudinal data from 444 Chinese American adolescents (Mage = 13.04 at Wave 1, 54% identified as women), the current study explored if there was variation in discrimination trajectories from early to late adolescence and whether contextual and individual factors predicted trajectories as well as if trajectories were associated with academic achievement and mental health. Three distinct
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Similarities between friends on service, activism, and awareness of inequities in an adolescent social network Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Christopher M. Wegemer
This brief report characterizes the tendency of adolescent friends to be similar on civic behaviors and critical consciousness. Using two waves of network data from a high school that serves primarily low-income Latiné youth (2019, N = 519; 2020, N = 521), the present study examined homophily on service, activism, and awareness of inequities. The results of Exponential Random Graph Models indicated
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Adolescents' and parents' affect in relation to discrepant perceptions of parental warmth in daily life Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-08-09 Loes H. C. Janssen, Carlie J. Sloan, Bart Verkuil, Lisanne A. E. M. Van Houtum, Mirjam. C. M. Wever, Gregory M. Fosco, Bernet M. Elzinga
The current study aimed to evaluate how adolescents' and parents' perceptions of daily parenting—and their discrepancies—relate to daily parent and adolescent affect. Daily parental warmth and affect were assessed using electronic diaries in 150 American adolescent–parent dyads (61.3% females, Mage = 14.6, 83.3% White; 95.3% mothers, Mage = 43.4; 89.3% White) and in 80 Dutch adolescents with 79 mothers
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Mere religiosity is not enough! Spirituality strengthens the relations between religiosity and positive youth development Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Jet U. Buenconsejo, Jesus Alfonso D. Datu
Although prior research shows that either religiosity or spirituality facilitates well-being, the interaction of both constructs in predicting positive youth development (PYD) in collectivistic contexts remains unknown. This study examined the moderating role of spirituality on the link between religiosity and PYD, including each of its Cs (i.e., competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring)
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Black adolescents' racial discrimination and suicide behaviors: Testing perceived school safety as a protective moderator Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Chelsea D. Williams, Jelaina Shipman-Lacewell, Shu-Fang Shih, Alexandra Wynn, María de Jesús Elias, Cecelia R. Valrie
The current study examined associations between Black adolescents' (Mage = 15.55, SD = 1.23) racial discrimination and suicide behaviors (i.e., suicide ideation, suicide plan, and suicide attempts), and whether perceived school safety was a protective moderator. Furthermore, we tested gender differences in relations, which were not significant. Racial discrimination predicted greater suicide behaviors
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The Slut-Shaming Instrument: Preliminary validation, correlates, and links with psychological distress among adolescent girls Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-21 Alexa Martin-Storey, Melanie Dirks, Geneviève Paquette, Stéphanie Boutin, Nicole S. J. Dryburgh, Karissa Leduc, Marie-Louise Bolduc, Caroline Temcheff
Despite social awareness of the problem of slut-shaming for adolescent girls, no existing measure captures this construct. Using data from a sample of 202 girls from Québec, Canada (ages 14–17; 68% White), preliminary validation is provided for the Slut-Shaming Instrument, a seven-item measure of negative peer experiences related to being perceived as too sexually active, sexualized, or flirtatious
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Associations between hope and trajectories of critical consciousness among U.S. youth of color Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-09 Sara Suzuki, Sidney C. May, Scott Seider
We examined associations between hope as an internal asset that supports positive youth development, and growth trajectories of three critical consciousness components. Using five waves of data collected over the course of high school (N = 618), we modeled growth trajectories of awareness of inequity (critical reflection), a sense of agency about taking sociopolitical action (critical agency), and
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Adolescent experiences with online racial discrimination: Implications for prevention and coping Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Calista Liby, Jennifer L. Doty, Krista R. Mehari, Ismat Abbas, Yi-Wen Su
Online aggression represents a wide range of negative experiences, including online discrimination targeting individuals based on race, but adolescent perspectives are not well-represented. We interviewed 15 adolescents regarding their experiences with online racial discrimination. After a phenomenological analysis, four main themes emerged: types of online racial aggression, processes supporting online
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The role of student–teacher relationships in the association between negative parenting practices and emotion dynamics – Combining longitudinal and ecological momentary assessment data Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 3.563) Pub Date : 2023-07-03 Anna Talty, Lydia G. Speyer, Manuel P. Eisner, Denis Ribeaud, Aja L. Murray, Ingrid Obsuth
Emotion dysregulation is increasingly implicated as a transdiagnostic risk factor in the etiology of mental health problems. This project aimed to explore the links between emotion regulation, negative parenting and student–teacher relationships using longitudinal and ecologically valid data. A sample of n = 209 young people enrolled in the ‘Decades-to-Minutes’ (D2M) study, based in Zurich, Switzerland