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{"title":"Establishing validity and measurement invariance of the Claremont Purpose Scale among adolescents from diverse racial-ethnic backgrounds.","authors":"Hou Xie, Kaylin Ratner, Melody Estevez, Anthony L Burrow","doi":"10.1111/jora.70215","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70215","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Claremont Purpose Scale (CPS) was designed to assess youth purpose, but the English version has not yet undergone rigorous psychometric evaluation among adolescents. Prior validation efforts have also mostly relied on white-majority samples, raising concerns about generalizability. With 587 adolescents (M_age = 16.38 years, range = 13-19), confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) supported correlated three-factor and second-order models equivalently. However, the beyond-the-self dimension had the weakest connections with the overarching purpose construct and other CPS dimensions, and exploratory tests suggested that the correlated three-factor model may have an empirical edge over the second-order configuration. Expected zero-order correlations provided evidence of convergent validity; up to partial scalar invariance across racial-ethnic groups was supported by multigroup CFA; and latent means testing and multigroup structural equation modeling failed to find differences between racial-ethnic groups in purpose level and adjustment associations. Findings are discussed from developmental and cultural perspectives, with implications for future adolescent purpose measurement.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70215"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13247353/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148204803","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developmental trajectories of same-sex friendship conflict from pre-adolescence to middle adolescence and associations with changes in social-emotional adjustment among Chinese adolescents.","authors":"Jie Zhang, Liang Chen, Liang Zhang, Bin Pan, Linqin Ji, Wenxin Zhang","doi":"10.1111/jora.70182","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70182","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigated adolescent same-sex friendship conflict trajectories and their associations with social-emotional adjustment in a sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 2001, 51.8% boys) from Grades 6 (Wave1, M_age = 12.31 years old, SD_age = 0.49) to 10. Using latent class growth analysis, three distinct trajectories of friendship conflict frequency were identified: low-slightly increasing, low-sharply increasing, and high-decreasing-stable. Consistent with an escalation hypothesis, the low-sharply increasing group exhibited a greater increase in depressive symptoms but not interpersonal relationships over time compared to the low-slightly increasing group; the high-decreasing-stable group demonstrated a greater decrease in peer rejection (i.e., \"recovery hypothesis\") compared to the other two groups, while simultaneously maintaining stable, higher levels of depression and loneliness (i.e., \"scar hypothesis\"). The findings highlight the developmental heterogeneity in friendship conflict frequency and the importance of understanding the effects of friendship conflict from a dynamic perspective.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70182"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147729262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The development of gender centrality and private regard and its relation to psychological and social well-being among cisgender adolescents.","authors":"Adam J Hoffman, Robert C Klein, Faizun N Bakth, Philly A Latorre, Hannah L Schacter","doi":"10.1111/jora.70191","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70191","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although adolescence is theorized to be a critical period for identity development, little is known about how gender identity, specifically gender centrality and private regard, develops among adolescents. The current study assessed trajectories of gender centrality and private regard across five waves of data from Grade 9 through Grade 10 among cisgender adolescents from the United States (M_age = 14.1 years; N = 374; SD = 0.41, 139 boys and 235 girls). Additionally, the study explored how gender centrality, private regard, and their development were related to later psychological and social well-being. Initial levels of gender centrality and private regard did not differ by gender. However, boys showed declines in their levels of gender centrality and private regard, whereas girls remained stable. For girls, higher initial levels of gender centrality and private regard were associated with greater psychological and social well-being. Additionally, increases in positive regard were associated with increased psychological well-being one year later. Boys' gender identity was unrelated to their well-being. Findings underscore the importance of assessing gender identity as a developmental construct among middle adolescents and the implications that gender identity can have on the well-being of adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70191"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147816530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dynamic interrelations among meaning in life subcomponents and their longitudinal associations with adolescent internalizing problems: A cross-lagged panel network analysis.","authors":"Chuhan Wang, Jiajing Zhang, Xiaohe Li, Jianing You","doi":"10.1111/jora.70211","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70211","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Meaning in life has been shown to play a key role in adolescent mental health. In recent years, researchers have conceptualized it as a multidimensional construct (consists of coherence, purpose, significance, and mattering) and highlight the need to further investigate the interrelations among the subcomponents in diverse populations. This study adopted both the contemporaneous network and cross-lagged panel network (CLPN) analyses to investigate the interrelations among the subcomponents of meaning in life as well as its association with internalizing problems in Chinese adolescents. A total of 1014 Chinese adolescents (55.7% males; M_age = 15.56, SD_age = 0.53) completed self-reported questionnaires at two time points, using a 6-month interval. Results from both contemporaneous network and CLPN analyses consistently revealed the interrelated associations among the subcomponents of meaning in life. Meanwhile, significance was the central subcomponent and could predict the development of other subcomponents 6 months later. It also emerged as the bridge subcomponent linking meaning in life and adolescent internalizing problems, with significance and depression forming a reciprocal negative loop in the temporal network. These findings suggest that significance may be an important entry point for enhancing adolescents' meaning in life, whereas mental health interventions may need to target both meaning-related processes and internalizing symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70211"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148157026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Exploring Colombian adolescents' awareness of ethnoracial inequities and related discussions with family, peers, and in school.","authors":"Adriana J Umaña-Taylor, Stefanie Martinez-Fuentes, Luz Magnolia Tilano Vega, Juan Fernando Sierra, Alejandra A Zeiger, Valerie Salcido, Abbie Cohen, Sara Betancur Castrillón, Andrea Zapata Giraldo, Liliana Uribe Tirado, Jennifer L Hardesty","doi":"10.1111/jora.70212","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70212","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The developmental competency of ethnic-racial identity development is salient in contexts where there is an ethnoracial hierarchy and society is characterized by an inequitable distribution of power and access to resources that functions according to this hierarchy. Colombia, given its history of colonization, represents one such context. As such, the current study explored Colombian adolescents' awareness of ethnoracial-based inequities based on individual interviews with a socioeconomically diverse sample of 24 youth (M_age = 14.92, SD = 0.93) in Medellín, Colombia. Utilizing reflexive thematic analysis to explore adolescents' perceptions of ethnoracial inequities in their immediate and more distal settings, findings indicated that adolescents perceived ethnoracial inequities in various contexts and their perceptions in more proximal settings seemed to vary by socioeconomic background. Across socioeconomic groups, adolescents were highly aware of ethnoracial inequities in Colombia. However, awareness of ethnoracial inequities was less prevalent in school settings and more limited in neighborhood contexts, particularly among those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, whereas adolescents' observations frequently touched on themes of anti-blackness and anti-indigeneity, their discussions about reasons for inequities did not explicitly name critical perspectives on race or systemic racism. Finally, most participants expressed the belief that having conversations about ethnoracial inequities was important, especially with peers and their families.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70212"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148199391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mental health trajectory groups: Family income, neighborhood disadvantage, and role of the school environment.","authors":"Woo Jung Lee, Annie Kwon, Jungeun Olivia Lee, David J M Kraemer, Kiros Berhane, Morgan S Polikoff, Megan M Herting, Elizabeth R Sowell, Daniel A Hackman","doi":"10.1111/jora.70213","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70213","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While family income and neighborhood disadvantage have been associated with adolescent mental health, less is known about their independent associations with distinct, group-based patterns of change. Moreover, little is known about how school environments are associated with such mental health trajectory patterns, and if they serve as independent promotive factors or are protective factors that mitigate risk. Data come from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study^SM(ABCD study^®; n = 9769; baseline through year 2; ages 9-13). Internalizing and externalizing behaviors were measured with the Child Behavior Checklist. Growth mixture modeling was utilized to identify subgroups with distinct mental health trajectories, and logistic regression was used to examine the association between family income, neighborhood environment and trajectory group membership, and moderation by baseline school and school district characteristics, controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and parental education. Two trajectory classes were identified for internalizing (91%; low-decreasing, 9%; high-increasing) and externalizing behaviors (92%; low-decreasing, 8%; high-stable). Lower family income was associated with a high-increasing trajectory pattern of internalizing and a high-stable pattern of externalizing behaviors. A more positive school climate predicted belonging to the low-decreasing trajectory group for internalizing and externalizing behaviors, though there was no evidence of moderation. Low family income, but not neighborhood disadvantage, was a risk factor for trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behavior elevated within a clinical range that persisted from age 9 through early adolescence. However, a positive school climate was a promotive, rather than a protective, factor for internalizing and externalizing trajectories. Supporting families with resources and enhancing the school context may improve adolescent mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70213"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13282544/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148283975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Child maltreatment and young adult depressive symptoms and metabolic risk: The moderating role of social support.","authors":"Yongyong Xu, Shanting Chen","doi":"10.1111/jora.70193","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Child maltreatment is a significant risk factor for mental and metabolic health, with negative effects that can persist into adulthood. Using data from a U.S.-nationwide study, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examined the associations between child maltreatment, specifically childhood threat (i.e., harm or threat of harm) and deprivation (i.e., absence of expected environmental inputs), and young adult mental (i.e., depressive symptoms) and metabolic health (i.e., metabolic risk). The moderating effect of social support was also examined, focusing on both quality of different types of support (i.e., from teachers, friends, and other adults) and variety of support sources. Results showed that young adults who experienced more threat during childhood exhibited higher levels of depressive symptoms in young adulthood, and those exposed to more deprivation reported elevated levels of metabolic risk. This study also highlighted the protective-stabilizing role of quality of teacher support in buffering the impact of deprivation on depressive symptoms, and the protective-stabilizing role of high-quality other adult support in the link between childhood deprivation and metabolic risk, such that the benefits of social support remained stable across increasing levels of deprivation. Additionally, the variety of social support showed a protective-reactive pattern in moderating the link between deprivation and metabolic risk, wherein the benefits of variety of social support were released under low deprivation but not high deprivation conditions for metabolic risk. These findings underscore the importance of eliminating child maltreatment experiences and highlight potential interventions, such as enhancing teacher-student relationships and broadening adolescents' access to diverse support networks, to buffer the long-term mental and metabolic health consequences associated with early experiences of threat and deprivation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70193"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147816605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Milestones, revisited: Iterative and nonlinear identity development in Gen-Z.","authors":"William Warton, Olivia Bruce, David Moseley, Michelle L Byrne, Kelly-Ann Allen, Ainsley Hughes, Beth P Johnson","doi":"10.1111/jora.70200","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70200","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined how sexual and gender identity development experiences, commonly operationalized as \"milestones,\" were navigated by Gen-Z LGBTQ+ young people. Using a life-history calendar approach, milestone-related experiences were treated as heuristic sites of meaning-making rather than fixed developmental benchmarks. Participants were a sample of 51 Australian LGBTQ+ young people (ages 16-26), purposively recruited from a larger quantitative study, who participated in semi-structured interviews conducted from May to September 2023. Participants reflected on their identity development experiences across childhood and adolescence. Interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings indicate that identity-related experiences were often iterative and context-dependent, with meanings shifting across time, relationships, and social environments. Rather than unfolding as linear sequences, experiences such as self-identification, disclosure, and relationships were frequently revisited, deferred, reinterpreted, or resisted. Relational contexts, visibility, and experiences of affirmation or invalidation shaped how and when these experiences acquired significance. The study offers qualitative insight into dimensions of identity development that complement population-level milestone research and have implications for research, policy, and practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70200"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13184584/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147973333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical reflection in the online context: How do immigrant-origin youth make meaning of their sociopolitical experiences and identities?","authors":"Juliana E Karras, Elena Maker Castro, Jasmine M Gabb","doi":"10.1111/jora.70179","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70179","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social media facilitates sociopolitical development; however, xenophobic sociopolitical climates engender acculturative stressors for immigrant-origin (IO) youth's online experiences. Through interviews with N = 90 IO youth (M_age = 16.41; 74.44% female-identifying; 33.33% Asian, 26.67% Latinx, 25.56% Black, 8.89% multi-racial, 3.33% white, 2.22% Middle Eastern), we qualitatively identified two meta-themes regarding youth's critical reflection catalyzed by online content: identity-related processes for their role in society relative to others' lived experiences; meaning-making of sociopolitical issues through online socialization experiences. Youth's reflective processes were closely linked with their emotions. Affirming sociopolitical messages fostered emotions like care and inspiration; exclusionary and anti-democratic messages sparked frustration and anger. Findings demonstrate how online experiences shape interconnected sociopolitical processes of and emotional responses to critical reflection and identity development for IO youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70179"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147690626","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Associations between youth disclosure, concealment, and autonomy in daily life: Exploring maternal privacy invasion as moderator.","authors":"Shisang Peng, Susan Branje, Yueqi Wang, Skyler T Hawk","doi":"10.1111/jora.70180","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70180","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite theoretical claims that adolescents' information management with parents and their experiences of autonomy might mutually influence one another, little is known about how these potential reciprocal processes unfold in daily family life. This preregistered daily diary study examined potential bidirectional associations between adolescents' voluntary disclosure, concealment, and autonomy at the within-family level. This study also tested whether family differences in maternal privacy invasion moderated these associations. A total of 179 adolescents (M_age = 15.35, SD = 1.06; 49.10% male) and their mothers (M_age = 43.33, SD = 4.46) completed baseline measures of maternal privacy invasion. Youth also provided 21 consecutive daily reports on information management and autonomy. Dynamic structural equation modeling revealed that on days when adolescents disclosed more than usual, they reported higher levels of autonomy the next day. Concealment showed no significant lagged associations with autonomy. Maternal privacy invasion did not moderate the associations. These findings underscore voluntary disclosure as a key antecedent of adolescents' daily autonomy experiences. This research can provide insights for interventions aimed at promoting adolescents' autonomy by encouraging their voluntary disclosure, even in families where maternal intrusion is prevalent.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 2","pages":"e70180"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147699066","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}