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Disentangling the directionality among cultural stressors and psychosocial outcomes in recently immigrated Hispanic families: A random intercept cross‐lagged panel model approach Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Beyhan Ertanir, Alan Meca, Cory Cobb, Ingrid Zeledon, Jennifer B. Unger, Elma Lorenzo‐Blanco, Pablo Montero‐Zamora, Byron L. Zamboanga, Lourdes Baezconde‐Garbanati, Daniel W. Soto, Dilan Aksoy, Wassilis Kassis, Maria Duque, Aigerim Alpysbekova, Seth J. Schwartz
Research shows the impact of cultural stressors (e.g. perceived discrimination, bicultural stressors, negative context of reception) on adolescents' psychosocial outcomes. Given the presence of multiple cultural stressors in many Hispanic adolescents' lives, it is essential to examine the (a) developmental sequencing of cultural stressors among recent immigrant youth and (b) predictive effects of cultural
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When ethnic minorities hit the headlines: The longitudinal associations between news features and adolescents' ethnic prejudice Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Beatrice Bobba, Adele Miniati, Elisabetta Crocetti
Ethnic prejudice poses great challenges to adolescents' adjustment to multicultural societies. However, little is known about the role of the media in influencing attitudes in adolescence. Combining information environment and ecological development theories, the current study examined the longitudinal associations between the quantity, valence (i.e., neutral, positive, and negative), and target (i
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Relations between adolescent perceptions of household chaos and externalizing and internalizing behaviors in low‐ and middle‐income families Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-30 Daniesha S. Hunter‐Rue, Portia Miller, Jamie L. Hanson, Elizabeth Votruba‐Drzal
A large body of literature has established that chaos in the home environment, characterized by high levels of disorganization, lack of household routine, crowding, noise, and unpredictability, undermines social–emotional and behavioral development in early childhood. It is less clear whether household chaos is linked to elevated risk for behavior problems in adolescence. The aims of this study were
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Measuring student mindsets at scale in resource‐constrained settings: A toolkit with an application to Brazil during the pandemic Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-21 Guilherme Lichand, Elliot Ash, Benjamin Arold, Jairo Gudino, Carlos Alberto Doria, Ana Trindade, Eric Bettinger, David Yeager
Mounting evidence that growth mindset—the belief that intelligence is not fixed and can be developed—improves educational outcomes has spurred additional interest in how to measure and promote it in other contexts. Most of this research, however, focuses on high‐income countries, where the most common protocols for measuring and intervening on student mindsets rely on connected devices—often unavailable
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Problematic internet use profiles and their associated factors among adolescents. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-20 José A Piqueras,Pilar Rico-Bordera,Manuel Galán,Carlos García-Oliva,Juan C Marzo,David Pineda
The cognitive-behavioral model of generalized Problematic Internet Use (PIU) is the theoretical approach that has obtained the most evidence on the study of this problem, which includes four components: Online Social Preference, Mood Regulation, Deficient Self-Regulation, and Negative Outcomes. This study aimed to identify PIU profiles using Latent Profile Analysis, and to analyze the differences in
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Longitudinal effects of peer victimization on adolescents' future educational and work expectations: Depressive symptoms as a mechanism Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Hannah L. Schacter, Faizun N. Bakth, Je'Nae Johnson, Adam J. Hoffman
Leveraging six waves of data, this study examined the effects of ninth‐grade peer victimization on adolescents' future work and education expectations 2 years later, testing depressive symptoms as a mechanism. Participants (N = 388, Mage = 14.05; 61% female, 35% male, 3% non‐binary, trans, or other gender; 46% White, 19% Black, 17% Asian, 6% AMENA, 6% Multiracial, 6% other race) completed surveys from
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Does grit predict thriving or is it the other way around? A latent cross‐lagged panel model on the triarchic model of grit and the 5Cs of positive youth development Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-16 Jet Uy Buenconsejo, Jesus Alfonso D. Datu, Duo Liu
Grit, defined as passion and perseverance to achieve long‐term goals, has been associated with adolescents' optimal academic and psychological functioning. However, the role of grit in adolescents' positive youth development (PYD)—characterized by the 5Cs known as competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring—remains unknown. Using latent cross‐lagged panel modeling, this study examined
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Coping with ethnic‐racial discrimination: Protective‐reactive effects of shift‐and‐persist coping on internalizing symptoms among Black American adolescents Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-14 Cassidy Dal Santo, Ariane Desmarais, N. Keita Christophe
Ethnic‐racial discrimination has pervasive negative effects on Black youth's mental health; therefore, it is crucial to identify factors that provide resilience against discrimination. Two promising factors to help youth cope are ethnic‐racial identity (how one feels about their ethnicity/race) and shift‐and‐persist coping (reappraising and accepting an uncontrollable stressor while remaining optimistic
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Adolescent digital emotion regulation Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Tom Hollenstein, Katie Faulkner
The maturation of effective emotion regulation (ER) skills is a core achievement of adolescence and youth are now developing their ER habits and skills in a hybrid reality of digital and non‐digital experiences. We present a new model of adolescent digital emotion regulation as a conceptual framework to help guide burgeoning research in this area. We distinguish two primary processes: the regulation
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How peer status and ability track shape behavioral disengagement over the transition from primary to secondary school Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Sofie J. Lorijn, Lydia Laninga‐Wijnen, Allison M. Ryan
The transition from primary to secondary school is often associated with an increase in behavioral disengagement, which undermines students' academic development. Prior studies examined the average development of behavioral disengagement across school transitions. This study examined how students' peer status in primary school and ability track in secondary school relate to trajectories of behavioral
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Integrating the family stress model within a longitudinal sibling‐adoption study of adolescent externalizing behavior Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Veronica Oro, Elizabeth J. S. Bates, Misaki N. Natsuaki, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, Jody M. Ganiban, Daniel S. Shaw, Leslie D. Leve
Using a sample of linked adopted children, adoptive and birth parents (N = 561), and biological siblings residing in the birth parent home (N = 191), we examined the role of genetics within family stress processes. We tested parental hostility (7 years) as a mediator of the associations between socioeconomic strain and rearing parent psychopathology (4 years) and adolescent externalizing behaviors
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An interdisciplinary framework of youth participatory action research informed by curricula, youth, adults, and researchers Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Amy M. Leman, Jacinda K. Dariotis, Daniela M. Markazi, Zachary Kennedy, Mynda Tracy, Ye Rang Park, Aisha N. Griffith
Rarely are youth voices incorporated into program and policy development. Youth participatory action research (YPAR) is an opportunity for adolescents to develop research skills by completing projects relevant to their lives and allows participation and decision‐making at systems and organizational levels. Attention to YPAR implementation detail, especially a curricular focus, is lacking in the literature
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Mindsets, contexts, and college enrollment: Taking the long view on growth mindset beliefs at the transition to high school Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Cameron A. Hecht, Jenny Buontempo, Rebecca Boylan, Robert Crosnoe, David S. Yeager
Socioeconomic disparities in academic progress have persisted throughout the history of the United States, and growth mindset interventions—which shift beliefs about the malleability of intelligence—have shown promise in reducing these disparities. Both the study of such disparities and how to remedy them can benefit from taking the “long view” on adolescent development, following the tradition of
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How do victims of bullying develop depression? Testing interpersonal style to explain the victimization‐depression link Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Minita Franzen, Marijtje A. J. van Duijn, Peter J. de Jong, René Veenstra, Marije aan het Rot
This study tested to what extent the relation between bullying victimization and future symptoms of depression could be explained by victims being more hostile and less assertive than non‐involved individuals. Data came from waves 2–4 of the Dutch TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (TRAILS). Participants' bullying experiences were assessed at age 13, interpersonal style at age 16, and depression
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Virtues as protective factors for adolescent mental health Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-20 Shane McLoughlin, Kristján Kristjánsson
This paper explores the decline in adolescent mental health and the weakening of traditional moral frameworks, positing education in the virtues as protective of mental health due to the intrinsic link between moral/existential wellbeing and psychological health. By integrating character education into school curricula, a continuous “dosage” of moral guidance may be an optimal way to ensure a gradual
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Officer gunpoint during police stops: Repercussions for youth mental health and perceived safety Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-19 Dylan B. Jackson, Rebecca L. Fix, Daniel C. Semenza, Alexander Testa, Julie A. Ward, Cassandra K. Crifasi
Youth‐police contact is increasingly acknowledged as a stressor and a racialized adverse childhood experience that can undermine youths' mental health. The present study investigates a particularly distressing feature of youths' direct and witnessed in‐person police stops—officer gunpoint (i.e., officers drawing of firearms and pointing them at youth, their peers, or other community members). We examine
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Adolescents' perceptions of privacy violations by parents, siblings, and friends Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-15 Robert D. Laird, Skyler T. Hawk
Adolescence is a life stage beset by a growing desire for privacy. This study evaluated adolescents' experiences across four types of potentially privacy‐invasive behaviors (PPIVBs) and within four different types of relationships. 158 adolescents (Mage = 16.9 years, SD = 1.0; 53.5% female) reported on the frequency of the PPIVBs, perceived control over the behaviors, secret/private information threatened
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I need new friends! Changes in perceived peer drinking norms and developmental outcomes across the transition to college Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-12 Aprile D. Benner, Yishan Shen, Deborah D. Kloska
The current study investigated changes in proximal descriptive alcohol use norms from high school to college, social integration as a predictor of stable versus shifting peer norms, and the consequences of norm profile membership for developmental outcomes. Using data (N = 9753 12th grade students; 59% female; 80% White, 7% Black, 5% Hispanic, 5% Asian/Pacific Islander, 3% other races/ethnicities)
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It's not what you say it's what you do: School diversity ideologies and adolescent mental health and academic engagement Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Jane Leer, Sarah E. Gaither, Anna Gassman‐Pines
This study examined the relation between schools' color‐evasive versus multicultural diversity ideologies, school characteristics, and adolescent development. Across two datasets linking individual‐level survey data (N = 1692) and administrative records (N = 300,063; Mage = 12.4, 52% female, 48% male), schools' stated support for diversity (via a pro‐diversity mission statement) was related to adolescent
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Toward a decolonial developmental science in Asia: Exploring adolescent development in communities from the majority world Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Prerna Banati
The field of developmental science explores the rich interplay between individuals and their contexts, which dynamically shift across time and place. In Asia, context‐specific research and practice are essential for promoting culturally relevant program and policy approaches to improving adolescent well‐being. This involves critically examining how localized social structures and power dynamics shape
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Computational modeling of social evaluative decision‐making elucidates individual differences in adolescent anxiety Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Peter J. Castagna, Elizabeth V. Edgar, Raphaëlle Delpech, Selin Topel, Elise D. Kortink, Melle J. W. van der Molen, Michael J. Crowley
Adolescents experience significant developmental changes during a time of heightened sensitivity to social cues, particularly rejection by peers, which can be especially overwhelming for those with elevated levels of social anxiety. Social evaluative decision‐making tasks have been useful in uncovering the neural correlates of information processing biases; however, linking youths' task‐based performance
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School burnout and schoolwork engagement profiles among French high school students: Associations with perceived academic stress and social support Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-02 Aline Vansoeterstede, Emilie Cappe, Damien Ridremont, Emilie Boujut
Adolescents' well‐being at school is positively affected by social support from parents, teachers, and peers and negatively affected by academic stress. However, little is known about how specific academic stressors are related to study‐related well‐being profiles. This study used a person‐centered approach to identify the profiles of high school students based on their school burnout (i.e., exhaustion
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The contribution of chronic peer victimization in elementary school to depressive symptoms in adolescence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Wendy Troop‐Gordon, Jillian Thomas, Emily F. Brigham, Jianjie Xu, Karen D. Rudolph
Throughout his career, John Schulenberg challenged us to understand adolescent development as the confluence of distal and proximal experiences along with critical transitions. Heeding this call, we examined whether chronic childhood peer victimization predicted adolescents' depressive symptoms via early‐emerging depression growth trajectories, continued victimization into adolescence, and stress‐amplification
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Language proficiency and ethnic‐racial orientation among Latine mother–adolescent dyads Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-27 Tahjanee Givens, Frances M. Lobo, Lisa Kiang, Gabriela L. Stein
Language proficiencies have implications for how parents and children can communicate effectively and how culture and heritage can be transferred across generations. Previous research has sought to understand the relationship between parent language (mainstream, heritage) proficiencies and the ethnic‐racial orientation of their children, though prior studies have not investigated the relationship between
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Transcendent thinking counteracts longitudinal effects of mid‐adolescent exposure to community violence in the anterior cingulate cortex Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Xiao‐Fei Yang, Katrina Hilliard, Rebecca Gotlieb, Mary Helen Immordino‐Yang
Adolescence involves extensive brain maturation, characterized by social sensitivity and emotional lability, that co‐occurs with increased independence. Mid‐adolescence is also a hallmark developmental stage when youths become motivated to reflect on the broader personal, ethical, and systems‐level implications of happenings, a process we term transcendent thinking. Here, we examine the confluence
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Parenting in African American families: Profiles of general and culturally specific dimensions of parent–adolescent relationships during late adolescence Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-26 Naila A. Smith, Ashley McDonald, Carly Trakofler Ferrone, Shadane Johnson, Dawn P. Witherspoon
Developmental and parenting frameworks suggest that factors at the individual‐level and multiple levels of adolescents' contexts are important determinants of how African American parents prepare their children to live in a racially stratified society. Using a person‐centered approach, this study explored heterogeneity in profiles of African American parent–adolescent relationships (PARs) using indicators
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Mother–adolescent communication and father–adolescent communication: Analyzing a 4‐week family intervention using multi‐informant data Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Vevette J. H. Yang, Kathleen N. Bergman, E. Mark Cummings
Families manage daily conflict through communication and healthy family communication is critical to promoting better family relationships and youth adjustment. Community families without high‐risk factors, such as domestic dispute or clinical problems, are no less affected by the ramifications of poor communication and conflict management. However, there is limited translational research on community
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Fast and friendly: The role of vocal cues in adolescents' responses to and perceptions of peer provocation. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-18 Daniel R Nault,Riley J T Bonar,Emma Ilyaz,Melanie A Dirks,Michele Morningstar
Adolescents self-report using different strategies to respond to peer provocation. However, we have a limited understanding of how these responses are behaviorally enacted and perceived by peers. This study examined the extent to which adolescents' self-reported responses to peer provocation (i.e., aggressive, assertive, and withdrawn) predicted how their vocal enactments of standardized responses
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Short-term mindsets show co-development with adolescent delinquency, but not with adolescent cannabis use. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-11 Ivy N Defoe,Jean-Louis van Gelder,Denis Ribeaud,Manuel Eisner
Guided by General Theory of Crime and Psychosocial Maturity Hypothesis, we investigated co-development between short-term mindsets (impulsivity and future orientation) and risk behaviors (cannabis use and delinquency). Parallel process latent growth modeling on three-wave data from ethnically diverse Swiss adolescents (N = 1365; Mage 13.67 years, 48.6% female), showed baseline-level associations between
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Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance and emotional well-being before and amid the COVID-19 pandemic: A pilot measurement burst study. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-10 Yishan Shen,Yao Zheng,Ari Rios Garza,Samantha Reisz
This study examined Latinx adolescents' daily family assistance (assistance day, assistance time, language brokering) in relation to their daily affect and investigated whether the associations changed following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Two waves of 14-day daily diary data collected from 13 18-year-old Latinx adolescents (ndays = 284; 77% Mexican American, 77% female) before and amid
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Intermediary processes in Hispanic/Latinx/o youths' coping responses to cultural stressors. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-09 Elma I Lorenzo-Blanco,Kimberly L Henriquez,Gabriela Livas Stein
Cultural stressors related to racism, xenophobia, and navigating bicultural contexts can compromise the healthy development of Hispanic/Latinx/o (H/L) youth. Youth' coping can minimize the adverse impact of this stress. Less is known about the intermediary processes related to youths' cultural stressor experiences and coping responses. We analyzed focus group data from H/L youth (N = 45; 50% girls;
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Taking John Schulenberg's "long view" on successful transitions to adulthood: Associations with adult substance use. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-06 W Andrew Rothenberg,Jennifer W Godwin,William E Copeland,Lilly Shanahan,Lauren Gaydosh,Iliya Gutin,Asha Coltrane
Can positive transitions into young adulthood at age 25 prevent problematic substance use at age 31, even in the context of childhood adverse family environments, conduct problems, and adolescent substance use? We lean on John Schulenberg's developmental framework to examine this question, focusing on the potential young adult milestones of high school and college graduation, employment, residential
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Research in Latin America from a decolonial perspective: Challenges of producing socially situated knowledge. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Gabriela Fernández-Theoduloz
The developmental science literature predominantly originates from WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic) countries. This bias perpetuates colonial power imbalances and marginalizes non-WEIRD societies' knowledge. This special issue addresses this gap by focusing on Latin America, emphasizing the region's diverse socioeconomic, cultural, and political contexts. This commentary
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Main and interactive effects of discrimination, parent racial/ethnic socialization, and internalizing symptomology on BIPOC teens' ethnic-racial identity. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Emily J Takamasa,Ashley M Fraser,Adam A Rogers
Research suggests that BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) adolescents have the best developmental outcomes when strong, positive ethnic-racial identity (ERI) is acknowledged and embraced. This study investigated whether discrimination, internalizing symptomology, parent socialization, and/or interactions of these variables were associated with adolescent ERI, specifically in exploration, resolution
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Short-term impact of a combination intervention on family cohesion: Results from a pilot cluster-randomized clinical trial in Northern Ghana. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Ozge Sensoy Bahar,William Byansi,Abdallah Ibrahim,Alice Boateng,Portia Buernarkie Nartey,Proscovia Nabunya,Kingsley Kumbelim,Fred M Ssewamala,Mary M McKay
Child labor remains a concern in sub-Saharan Africa. Yet, evidence-based preventive efforts are limited. We analyzed longitudinal data from Ghanaian adolescent girls in a pilot randomized clinical trial testing the preliminary impact of a combination intervention on family cohesion as a protective factor against child labor and school dropout. While there was no statistical difference between the control
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"Broken fragments or a breathtaking mosaic": A mixed methods study of self-reported attributes and aspirations of siblings of individuals with and without neurodevelopmental conditions. Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-02 Brittany Wolff,Emma J Glasson,Carmela F Pestell
Siblings of individuals with neurodevelopmental conditions (NDCs) experience distinct challenges and have unique strengths compared to siblings of individuals without NDCs. The present study examined attributes and aspirations of siblings of individuals with and without neurodevelopmental conditions, and analyzed the association between qualitative responses and quantitative measures of growth mindset
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Inter‐parental conflict and empathy in early adolescence as predictors of dating violence perpetration in adolescence and adulthood Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Carlos N. Espinoza, Marlon Goering, Sylvie Mrug
Witnessing inter‐parental conflict is associated with dating violence perpetration in late adolescence and adulthood. This relationship may be moderated by adolescents' empathy, with more empathic youth viewing their parents' conflict behavior as less acceptable, and thus refraining from dating violence perpetration. This study sought to determine if empathy buffers the effects of inter‐parental conflict
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Heterogeneity of adolescent bullying perpetrators: Subtypes based on victimization and peer status Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Tiina Turunen, Sarah T. Malamut, Takuya Yanagida, Christina Salmivalli
We identified different types of adolescent bullying perpetrators and nonbullies based on peer‐reported bullying, victimization, and peer status (popularity, likeability, and rejection) and examined differences between bully subtypes in typical forms of bullying perpetrated. Moreover, we studied how bully subtypes differed from nonbullies with varying levels of victimization and peer status in academic
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Toward a globally inclusive knowledge base on adolescent development: A charge to the Majority World and a plea for epistemic and paradigmatic pluralism Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-28 Kofi Marfo
Ongoing internal dialog on the limitations of Euro‐American developmental science has opened up space to explore how best to work toward a knowledge base that is adequately representative of the values, cultures, epistemic traditions, and lived experiences of peoples, nations, and regions around the world. So far, recommendations for the advancement of a global developmental science have focused preponderantly
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Complicating critical discussions in gender sexuality alliances: Youth desire for intersectional conversations and the experience of fragmentation Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Sukhmani Singh, Linda Salgin, Daniel Kellogg, Paris DaSilva, Emma Woodman, V. Paul Poteat, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Jerel P. Calzo
Gender sexuality alliances (GSAs) represent consciousness‐raisings that hold potential for critical consciousness development in youth. In this study, we focus on critical reflection—the understanding that oppression is structured and maintained by human action. We engage intersectionality as our analytical framework and analyze both student interview data (n = 38) and advisor closed‐ended and open‐ended
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Behavioral pathways from sibling relationships in adolescence to romantic partnerships in adulthood Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 April S. Masarik, Christy R. Rogers
Sibling relationships in adolescence provide rich and relevant socializing opportunities for developing early adult romantic relationships, but much less is known regarding the effect of siblings on future romantic partnerships. Using a prospective, longitudinal design, we investigated the association between observed positive behaviors (warmth, support, positive communication), sibling pairs during
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“I will attend to college to give my family a better life”: Indebtedness with the family and the challenges of building occupational plans for Peruvian adolescents Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-23 María Angélica Pease Dreibelbis, Estefanía Urbano Flores, Rafaella Andrea De la Puente Ronceros
Identifying a future occupation is an important achievement during adolescence, a process particularly complex for Peruvian adolescents. Perú is a postcolonial country with many forms of inequality, and one of them is the opportunity gap to attend a college. However, most adolescents aspire to go to university as a way out of poverty, and, since Perú is a collectivist society, this is a family task:
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Towards a decolonial developmental science: Adolescent development in the Majority World taking center stage Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-22 Amina Abubakar, Angelo Brandeli Costa, Lixian Cui, Silvia H. Koller, Chidozie Edwin Nwafor, Vaishali V. Raval
While aspiring to be a diverse and global science, developmental science continues to be dominated by EuroAmerican epistemologies, researchers, and communities in its published scholarship. Adolescents in communities across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America comprise 85% of the world's adolescent population, and yet their experiences and perspectives are marginalized in our science. Adolescents
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Associations between middle childhood executive control aspects and adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 W. Alex Mason, Charles B. Fleming, Irina Patwardhan, Ying Guo, Tiffany D. James, Jennifer Mize Nelson, Kimberly Andrews Espy, Timothy D. Nelson
This study examines the degree to which two middle childhood executive control aspects, working memory and combined inhibitory control/flexible shifting, predict adolescent substance use and externalizing and internalizing problems. Participants were 301 children (ages 3–6 years; 48.2% male) recruited from a Midwestern city in the United States and followed into adolescence (ages 14–18 years). Working
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Positioning adolescence in the developmental timeline Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Natasha Chaku, Pamela E. Davis‐Kean
Adolescence, the second decade of life, bridges childhood and adulthood, but also represents a host of unique experiences that impact health and well‐being. Lifespan theories often emphasize the continuity of individual characteristics and their contexts from childhood to adolescence, underscoring the distal influence of childhood experiences. Yet, adolescence is marked by transitions that may provoke
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Using interviewee‐created graphs to explore the arc of closeness and trust in adolescents' supportive relationships with nonparental adults Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Aisha N. Griffith
Adolescents' supportive relationships with nonparental adults are beneficial when they are close and have trust, but few studies explore how adolescents believe closeness and trust unfold over time. I propose a method for prompting adolescents to retrospectively describe the development of abstract components of such relationships by sharing a study that used interviewee‐created graphing to prompt
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Embracing the hidden potential: The contribution of majority world research to developmental science Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Philip Baiden, Yao Zheng, Amanda J. Nguyen, Graciela Espinosa‐Hernandez, Lucía Magis‐Weinberg, Peter F. Titzmann
Research on adolescence from the Majority World possesses major hidden potential in contributing to global adolescent research and developmental science more broadly. In this commentary, the authors (1) describe the background and the process through which this special issue came into fruition, (2) introduce the emic approaches to study the influences of macro‐contextual variations on developmental
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A mixed‐methods exploration of autonomy‐supportive parenting, confidence, and natural mentoring relationships among Black adolescents Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Bianka M. Charity‐Parker, Janelle T. Billingsley, Nancy L. Deutsch, Noelle M. Hurd
The current study examined whether autonomy‐supportive parenting practices may be associated with Black adolescents' quantity of natural mentors (i.e., adults from youths' everyday lives who youth go to for support and guidance) via adolescents' confidence. This study employed survey data from 216 Black youth and qualitative interviews from a subsample of youth (n = 25), their primary caregivers (n
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Technology‐enhanced mindfulness‐based collaborative social reasoning to improve adolescents' social–emotional competencies Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-11 Manisha Nagpal, Tzu‐Jung Lin, Haeun Park, Eric Anderman, Thomas Bihari, Leon Madrid, Jodi Ford, Balachundhar Subramaniam
This study reports the preliminary efficacy of an innovative school‐based, technology‐enhanced social–emotional learning program called “mindfulness‐based collaborative social reasoning” (MBCSR) for middle school students. MBCSR was developed by an interdisciplinary team of educational psychologists, mindfulness researchers, computer scientists, and health experts. We integrated the strengths of contemplative
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The role of family relationships on adolescents' development and adjustment during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A systematic review Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Nicole Campione‐Barr, Ann Skinner, Kimberly Moeller, Lixian Cui, Carmen Kealy, Jeff Cookston
In typical times, adolescents' relationships with family members influence changing cognitive, social, and physical aspects of their development. The COVID‐19 pandemic, however, impacted the full family system in ways that were unprecedented. Scholars of adolescence worldwide were driven to understand how adolescents' relationships with family members changed due to these dramatic societal shifts and
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Religious coping and delinquent behaviors: Moderated mediation roles of religion affiliation and prosocial moral reasoning Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Chidozie Edwin Nwafor, Paschal Chukwuma Ugwu, Chukwuemeka Felix A. Okoye, Harry Obi‐Nwosu, Mirian E. Ofonedu
Religion has been shown to have a positive impact for developing adolescents; however, the processes underlying this relation are not well known. In his almighty prosocial theory, Anazonwu (Conceptualizing and testing almighty prosociality theory for a more peaceful world, SCOA Heritage Nigeria, 2017) proposed that the activation of learnt prosocial moral reasoning through religion enabled performance
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Parental warmth buffers the negative impact of weaker fronto‐striatal connectivity on early adolescents' academic achievement Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Beiming Yang, Zexi Zhou, Ya‐Yun Chen, Varun Devakonda, Tianying Cai, Tae‐Ho Lee, Yang Qu
In past decades, the positive role of self‐control in students' academic success has attracted plenty of scholarly attention. However, fewer studies have examined the link between adolescents' neural development of the inhibitory control system and their academic achievement, especially using a longitudinal approach. Moreover, less is known about the role of parents in this link. Using large‐scale
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Contextualizing school discipline: Examining the role of general peer and teacher discrimination at the individual‐ and school‐level on individual suspension Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Daniel Trovato, Gregory M. Zimmerman
Past research has linked peer and teacher discrimination to risk factors for school discipline, but few studies have examined whether peer and teacher discrimination have a direct impact on school discipline. This study examines the effects of general peer and teacher discrimination at the individual‐ and school‐level on school suspension using nationally representative, secondary data on almost 12
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Understanding the social identity of adolescents in the Indigenous Kodava Community of India Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Hema Appachu, Jitendra Kumar Singh
The social identity development of adolescents in marginalized communities across the globe holds paramount significance in determining the overall well‐being of its future population. Focusing on one such community, the Kodavas, an Indigenous community in South India, this study aims to understand the shifting configurations of social identity based on the changing sociocultural structure and its
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Household chaos and child problem behaviors: A cross‐cultural examination of the mediating and moderating role of mindful parenting Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Pinar Acet, Emily Midouhas, Bonamy R. Oliver
Household chaos has been shown to adversely associate with children's behavioral adjustment. However, the mechanism underlying the relationship between household chaos and children's behaviors is not yet fully understood. The current study proposes mindful parenting as an important mediating and moderating factor in the relationship between household chaos and child problem behaviors. This study also
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Developmental stasis, sensitivity, and disturbance: Linking concepts to analytic methods using impulsivity and alcohol use Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Ben Hinnant, Justin Jager, Amy J. Rauer, Morgan J. Thompson
The goals of this article are to (a) describe and contrast conceptual characteristics of periods of developmental sensitivity, disturbance, and stasis, and (b) translate these concepts to testable analytic models with an example dataset. Although the concept of developmental sensitivity is widely known, the concepts of developmental stasis and disturbance have received less attention. We first define
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Inhalant abuse among street‐involved children and adolescents in India: Case for epistemic recognition and reorientation Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-02 Ajazuddin Shaikh, Ankur Sarin
Contextualizing the void of research on inhalant abuse among adolescents as epistemic neglect, in this study, we use mixed‐methods action research to understand inhalant abuse in a specific context in the Global South. Focusing on a large metropolitan city in Western India, we surveyed 158 street‐involved children and adolescents (110 boys and 48 girls, age range from 5 to 17 years) in a group setting
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Derailment in adolescence: Factor analytic structure and correlates Journal of Research on Adolescence (IF 4.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Kaylin Ratner, Gaoxia Zhu, Qingyi Li, Marissa Rice, Melody Estevez, Anthony L. Burrow
Derailment is the sense of being “off‐course” in life. But what could this mean for adolescents, who are often establishing identity and self‐direction for the first time? We examined the structure and correlates of the Derailment Scale and its short form, the Derailment Scale‐6 (DS‐6), among middle‐to‐late adolescents (N = 452). Both scales exhibited unidimensionality, but the DS‐6 demonstrated superior