Xiaofang Weng, Ye An, Runfeng Yu, Qiyun Li, Rongqi Ding, Zhuo Rachel Han, Mengyu Miranda Gao
{"title":"Understanding co-occurring somatic and psychological symptoms: A network comparison between Irish and Hong Kong Chinese adolescents","authors":"Xiaofang Weng, Ye An, Runfeng Yu, Qiyun Li, Rongqi Ding, Zhuo Rachel Han, Mengyu Miranda Gao","doi":"10.1111/jora.70152","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70152","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Somatic and psychological symptoms frequently co-occur in adolescence, yet little is known about their symptom-level interconnections and potential cultural differences. This study employed a network approach to examine interconnections among somatic and psychological symptoms, identify central and bridge symptoms, and compare network patterns across 6037 adolescents in Hong Kong, China (HKC, a bicultural region with Chinese heritage and British influence; 48.94% girls; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.56 years) and 5577 in Ireland (a representative Western culture; 49.79% girls; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.56 years). Results revealed that <i>dizziness</i> and <i>difficulties in getting to sleep</i> consistently emerged as bridge symptoms in both groups, underscoring their pivotal role in the co-occurrence of somatic and psychological symptoms. <i>Dizziness</i> and <i>feeling depressed</i> were central in both groups, while <i>feeling nervous</i> emerged as an additional central symptom among HKC (vs Irish) adolescents, suggesting the cultural salience of anxiety-related experiences in Hong Kong's bicultural context. These symptoms highlight targets for intervention aimed at promoting adolescent well-being. Cross-cultural comparisons further revealed distinct patterns of network connectivity. Specifically, HKC adolescents exhibited denser within-domain associations compared with Irish adolescents. In contrast, Irish (vs HKC) adolescents displayed denser cross-domain (somatic–psychological) associations. These findings suggest that interventions should be adapted to different cultures. For HKC adolescents, attention needs to be paid to the risk that symptoms in one domain may exacerbate similar discomforts within the same domain; for Irish adolescents, efforts in lowering symptoms in one domain may more effectively translate into improvements in another domain.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146213559","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 role of affect reactivity to daily negative parent and peer events in the development of adolescents' internet addiction","authors":"Yuke Xiong, Muhua Lyu, Jiahui Chen, Xidan Feng, Ping Ren","doi":"10.1111/jora.70158","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70158","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Affect reactivity to negative events is considered a vulnerability factor for mental health problems; however, its role in internet addiction has been less explored. Based on the Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution model, this study investigated whether affect reactivity to negative events in two key interpersonal domains—parents and peers—contributes to the development of internet addiction during the transition from Grade 8 to Grade 9 among Chinese adolescents. A 12-day daily diary combined with a 6-month longitudinal design was used to collect data from 244 Chinese adolescents (<i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 13.87, SD<sub>age</sub> = 0.51, 42.6% girls). Results revealed that internet addiction remained relatively stable but demonstrated significant individual differences over the 6-month transition from Grade 8 to Grade 9. At the within-person level, daily negative parent and peer events were associated with higher levels of negative affect. Moreover, daily affect reactivity to negative peer events, but not negative parent events, predicted a faster increase in internet addiction over 6 months. The findings highlight the critical role of affect reactivity to negative peer events in the development of internet addiction and offer insights for targeted prevention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146202033","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}
Xiaomei Li, Megan S. Wylie, Jessica P. Lougheed, Tom Hollenstein
{"title":"Adolescent emotion polyregulation flexibility: An ecological momentary assessment of emotion regulation contingency and links to perceived success","authors":"Xiaomei Li, Megan S. Wylie, Jessica P. Lougheed, Tom Hollenstein","doi":"10.1111/jora.70159","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70159","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adolescents often report using a repertoire of strategies to regulate their emotions. However, global characterizations of strategy use provide limited insight into the dynamic processes of everyday emotion regulation (ER). It remains unknown whether adolescents can use multiple ER strategies simultaneously within a given emotional event and adjust strategies flexibly as their emotions shift, namely, <i>emotion polyregulation flexibility</i>. Leveraging the Bray–Curtis dissimilarity index to quantify sequential changes in both emotions and ER strategies within and across days, we examined whether adolescents (a) engaged in polyregulation flexibility, as evidenced by contingent prompt-to-prompt variability in emotion and ER, and (b) perceived greater regulatory success afterward. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 117, ages 13–15, 55% girls) completed ecological momentary assessments for 14 days (four prompts per day), rating the intensities of four negative emotions, their efforts using six ER strategies, and regulatory success, along with one-time surveys on trait-level emotional mindset and awareness (as covariates). Using multilevel modeling, greater emotion intensity and variability predicted greater ER variability, supporting adolescents' engagement in flexible polyregulation. Further, coupled, unidirectional effort changes across multiple strategies—rather than switching between strategies—uniquely predicted greater perceived regulatory success. These findings offer direct empirical evidence for adolescents' capacity to flexibly draw from their repertoire of ER strategies to adapt to shifting emotions in everyday life, underscoring the need to move beyond static measurement (e.g., overall counts, ranges) of individual strategy use toward dynamic approaches for capturing the unfolding of ER processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12908616/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146202022","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":"Exploring coping strategies among adolescents during COVID-19 and war displacement: A qualitative analysis comparing two crisis settings","authors":"Sophia Chabursky, Sabine Walper","doi":"10.1111/jora.70150","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70150","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Adolescence is a critical period for developing coping capacities, yet global crises like the COVID-19 pandemic and war displacement impose unprecedented stressors that can overwhelm existing resources. This study qualitatively explored and compared how adolescents in Germany (<i>N</i> = 20 experiencing pandemic lockdown, aged 11–16; <i>N</i> = 25 Ukrainian refugees experiencing displacement, aged 12–18) coped with these distinct adversities. Drawing on an integrated theoretical framework (combining the transactional model of stress and coping with a risk and resilience framework), we analyzed semi-structured interviews using reflexive thematic analysis to explore the connections among contextual stressors, their impact on resources, and reported coping strategies. Findings revealed that while both crises elicited common coping functions—including adapting routines, emotion regulation, maintaining/rebuilding social connections, and positive reframing—the specific form and feasibility of these strategies appeared to be linked to how each crisis uniquely impacted adolescents' personal, social, and material resources. Crisis-specific strategies were also identified, which seemed to correspond to the distinct resource challenges associated with pandemic confinement (e.g., purposeful engagement with idle time) versus war displacement (e.g., focus on educational continuity amidst profound loss and acculturative demands). These findings underscore that adolescent coping is a dynamic, context-dependent process contingent on available resources. Understanding these connections between stressors, resources, and coping is crucial for developing interventions that are both broadly applicable and tailored to the specific challenges adolescents face in diverse crisis situations, considering their developmental needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12906691/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146197556","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":"Within-person variability in daily purpose moderates the association between trait purpose and adolescent adjustment","authors":"Anthony L. Burrow, Kaylin Ratner","doi":"10.1111/jora.70153","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70153","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Purpose is a developmental asset in adolescence, yet little is known about how stability in this sense shapes its benefits. This study examined whether within-person fluctuations in daily sense of purpose moderate links between trait purpose and youth adjustment. Adolescents (<i>N</i> = 321, <i>M</i>[SD]<sub>age</sub> = 16.14[1.17]) completed baseline surveys of trait purpose and Big Five personality, followed by ~70 daily assessments of purpose, well-being, self-esteem, and self-concept clarity. Purpose variability was indexed in two ways: using intraindividual standard deviations (iSD; variability) and mean square successive differences (iMSSD; instability). A greater trait purpose was, in general, more strongly associated with positive adjustment among adolescents, exhibiting less daily variability. Effects generally persisted after controlling for demographics and personality, suggesting that sensing purpose consistently, not just intensely, corresponds with adolescent adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146157561","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":"Correction to “Does perceived parental knowledge reduce subsequent depression in adolescents? Explanations of parent–adolescent coliving time and basic psychological needs satisfaction”","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/jora.70155","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70155","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mao, J., Xiao, H., Chen, J., He, J., Chen, P., & Nie, Y. (2026). Does perceived parental knowledge reduce subsequent depression in adolescents? Explanations of parent–adolescent coliving time and basic psychological needs satisfaction. <i>Journal of Research on Adolescence</i>, <i>36</i>(1), e70138.</p><p>We apologize for the error.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jora.70155","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146125393","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}
Michelle Shipkova, Adrienne Bonar, James Capella, Mallory J. Feldman, Nathan H. Field, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Eva H. Telzer, Kristen A. Lindquist
{"title":"The roles of emotional responding and regulation in adolescent friendship stability: A multimethod functional magnetic resonance imaging study","authors":"Michelle Shipkova, Adrienne Bonar, James Capella, Mallory J. Feldman, Nathan H. Field, Mitchell J. Prinstein, Eva H. Telzer, Kristen A. Lindquist","doi":"10.1111/jora.70154","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70154","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This study examined longitudinal associations between early adolescents' emotional responding and use of cognitive reappraisal and the stability of their friendships with grade-mate peers. The sample consisted of 152 early adolescents (53.29% female) in the sixth and seventh grades from three rural southeastern middle schools who provided school-based peer nominations of their friendships. A stability index of adolescents' close friendships was computed from in-school peer nominations collected at two time points, approximately 1 year apart. Adolescents self-reported their levels of emotional responding, habitual use of cognitive reappraisal, and peer relationship quality during assessments. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, we also examined the behavioral and neural correlates of emotional responding to negatively and positively valenced stimuli in an affective pictures task. We found that greater self-reported emotional responding predicted less close school-based friendship stability across 1 year, even controlling for adolescents' characterizations of global peer relationship quality. Self-reported reappraisal use did not predict friendship stability. However, reappraisal use interacted with neural reactivity to negative stimuli in regions of visual cortex (ventral occipitotemporal cortex) to predict friendship stability; among adolescents reporting moderate to high reappraisal use, greater neural activation in ventral occipitotemporal cortex was associated with more stable friendships across 1 year, whereas among those reporting markedly low reappraisal use, greater activation was associated with fewer stable friendships. These findings provide valuable—albeit preliminary—insights about affective predictors of friendship stability during a life stage critical to social development.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146125466","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}
Julia Lesnick, Laura Wray-Lake, Gabino Rosales, Junior Vargas
{"title":"Deciding when to make noise: A study of youth voice in carceral contexts","authors":"Julia Lesnick, Laura Wray-Lake, Gabino Rosales, Junior Vargas","doi":"10.1111/jora.70151","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70151","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Many advocates seek to engage young people in justice reform efforts, arguing that youths' voices will produce a more just legal system. However, it is unclear what youth voice and civic engagement more broadly mean to young people or how experiences such as incarceration shape the ways youth speak out. The purpose of this study is to develop a theory explaining how youth involved in the legal system use their voices to address issues affecting their lives and communities. The study used community-engaged and constructivist grounded theory methodologies to interview 14 formerly incarcerated young people aged 18–25. An intensive process of simultaneous coding and analysis was conducted after each interview, and two youth consultants with lived experience in the legal system advised on methods and analysis. Results produced a model of adaptive voice showing how young people speak out selectively in carceral contexts to help create a better future while protecting themselves from the risks of doing so in this constrained setting. Specifically, young people developed various strategies to try to increase the impact and reduce the consequences of using their voices. Such strategies included intentionally staying silent, taking covert actions, taking an explicit stand, contributing to a larger movement, leveraging opportunities, and strengthening their credibility. Results offer implications for broader discourses on youth voice in carceral contexts and for promoting the civic development of young people involved in the legal system.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146119252","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}
Yu Lu, YoungJu Shin, Yujie Ji, Richard He, Sandra Freda Wood, Jonathan Pettigrew
{"title":"Community, family, peer, and personal factors associated with adolescent mental health in Nicaraguan post-crisis context","authors":"Yu Lu, YoungJu Shin, Yujie Ji, Richard He, Sandra Freda Wood, Jonathan Pettigrew","doi":"10.1111/jora.70134","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70134","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using cross-sectional and longitudinal data from a drug and violence prevention program of Nicaraguan adolescents, this study offers a unique look into personal, family, peer, and communal factors for depression and post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSD). This study draws on primary socialization theory to hypothesize that family, peer, and community factors have a significant impact on youth mental health outcomes. A total of 4631 adolescents (ages 10–17, 49% female) completed self-report surveys in schools. Path models showed that cross-sectionally, parental factors including parental monitoring, parental relationship satisfaction, family expressiveness, and peer factors such as friend support were negatively associated with PTSD and depression, whereas adolescent alcohol use and externalizing behaviors, engagement in prosocial behaviors with peers, and exposure to community violence were positively associated with PTSD and depression, controlling for age, sex, region, and intervention effects. A longitudinal model showed that alcohol use pre-crisis predicted PTSD post-crisis. Findings have practical implications for intervention by highlighting the importance of protecting adolescents from exposure to community violence as well as providing multiple layers of support during crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146086174","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}
Andrew T. Jebb, Maya Brown-Hunt, Laurence Steinberg, Angela L. Duckworth
{"title":"The Adolescent Necessities Index: A brief, self-report measure of the material and social conditions necessary for adolescent thriving","authors":"Andrew T. Jebb, Maya Brown-Hunt, Laurence Steinberg, Angela L. Duckworth","doi":"10.1111/jora.70145","DOIUrl":"10.1111/jora.70145","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Healthy development depends on adequate material and social resources, but measures of these affordances are often limited or absent from psychological research. Conventional measures of socioeconomic status, such as household income or parental education, are difficult for adolescents to accurately report and are distal proxies for the resources that directly impact functioning (e.g., nutrition, safety). As a more proximal measure of environmental affordances, we developed the Adolescent Necessities Index (ANI), a 10-item adolescent-report measure. In Study 1, a prospective longitudinal sample of <i>N</i> = 6057 U.S. adolescents, we demonstrate the ANI's convergent, discriminant, and incremental predictive validity for objectively measured report card grades and subjectively reported well-being, as well as measurement invariance across demographic subgroups (e.g., gender, race, and ethnicity). In Study 2, a cross-sectional study in a nationally representative sample of <i>N</i> = 1859 U.S. adolescents, we replicate evidence of incremental predictive validity, demonstrate consensual validity with a parent-report version of the ANI, and establish national norms. The ANI provides a new tool for efficiently capturing adolescents' access to necessities in the modern U.S.</p>","PeriodicalId":17026,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Research on Adolescence","volume":"36 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2026-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146086204","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}