{"title":"Co-occurrence Patterns and Transitions in Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms and Problematic Smartphone Use: The Roles of Social Support and Self-control.","authors":"Hanning Lei, Zhiqian Zhang, Yun Wang, Xia Wang, Zhengqian Yang, Cai Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02253-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02253-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although many studies have indicated that problematic smartphone use and depressive symptoms are closely associated and frequently co-occur in adolescence, little is known about their heterogeneous co-occurrence profiles and how these profiles evolve over time. Using person-centered approaches (LPA and RT-LTA), this study identified the co-occurrence patterns of problematic smartphone use and depressive symptoms, examined their transitions, and investigated the roles of social support and self-control on transitions. A total of 8969 Chinese adolescents (49.3% girls; T1: M<sub>age</sub> = 12.86, SD = 0.31) participated in the study over a one-year period with three follow-up assessments. Five co-occurrence profiles consistently emerged: low symptoms, moderate co-occurrence, PSU-dominant, depression-dominant, and high co-occurrence. The low symptoms group showed the highest stability, whereas the PSU-dominant group showed the most transitions. Boys, as well as adolescents with higher levels of social support and self-control, showed a greater likelihood of symptom improvement and a reduced risk of symptom worsening over time, with the protective roles of self-control and social support being stronger among adolescents with less severe symptoms. These findings reveal the heterogeneous manifestations in the co-occurrence of problematic smartphone use and depressive symptoms, their longitudinal transitions and the conditional effects of protective factors among adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145274994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaolu Shao, Ruibo Xie, Weiyuan Wang, Yanlin Chen, Wan Ding, Weijian Li
{"title":"The Bidirectional Longitudinal Relationships between Self-Compassion, Peer Attachment, and Prosocial Behavior in Chinese Children.","authors":"Xiaolu Shao, Ruibo Xie, Weiyuan Wang, Yanlin Chen, Wan Ding, Weijian Li","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02254-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02254-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Prior research has highlighted the promoting effects of self-compassion and peer attachment on prosocial behavior. However, it has overlooked the shaping influence of prosocial behavior on these two factors, as well as the underlying mechanisms among the three. Examining the reciprocal links between self-compassion, peer attachment, and prosocial behavior, along with their mediating mechanisms, constitutes the core objective of this investigation, which leverages both a traditional CLPM and a within-person RI-CLPM for analysis. A total of 1037 children with M<sub>T1age</sub> = 9.65 ± 0.73 participated in the study, including 427 girls (41.17%) and 610 boys (58.83%). The results indicated that the bidirectional relation among self-compassion, peer attachment, and prosocial behavior in the CLPM, while the RI-CLPM revealed more temporally predictive relationships: early peer attachment positively predicted later prosocial behavior, which in turn significantly predicted subsequent levels of self-compassion and peer attachment. Furthermore, in CLPM, self-compassion influenced prosocial behavior through peer attachment, while secure peer attachment affected prosocial behavior via self-compassion. Simultaneously, self-compassion and secure peer attachment mutually influenced each other through prosocial behavior. The CLPM analysis identified four self-reinforcing cycles. These findings reveal that mutual influence among self-compassion, secure peer attachment, and prosocial behavior drives a virtuous cycle.These findings construct a comprehensive \"internal resources-external support-behavioral expression\" dynamic cyclical framework, suggesting the need for differentiated intervention strategies at different developmental stages of childhood: early-stage interventions should focus on fostering secure peer attachment relationships to lay the foundation for subsequent development, while later-stage efforts should emphasize prosocial behavior training to shape both internal and external resources, thereby promoting the holistic enhancement of children's social adaptability.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145251585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Zeng,Marco Helbich,Heiko Schmengler,Margot Peeters,Gonneke W J M Stevens
{"title":"Neighborhood Social Disorganization in Early Adolescence and Substance Use Trajectories into Young Adulthood: The Moderating Role of Effortful Control and Parental Substance Use.","authors":"Yi Zeng,Marco Helbich,Heiko Schmengler,Margot Peeters,Gonneke W J M Stevens","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02270-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02270-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"106 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-10-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145246633","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shuying You, Xiaohui Wang, Zhenghao Hu, Jianping He
{"title":"Parent‒child Relationships and Gaming Addiction: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.","authors":"Shuying You, Xiaohui Wang, Zhenghao Hu, Jianping He","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02263-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02263-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145213151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Linlin Rong, Qian Nie, Zhaojun Teng, Scott D Blain, Xiaoqin Wang
{"title":"The Effects of Gender-Specific Parenting Styles in the Intergenerational Transmission of Emotional Regulation Difficulties To Adolescents.","authors":"Linlin Rong, Qian Nie, Zhaojun Teng, Scott D Blain, Xiaoqin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02261-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02261-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145213130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Longitudinal Relations Between Peer Victimization and Suicidal Ideation Among Chinese Early Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Insomnia Symptoms and Sex Differences.","authors":"Xue Gong, Jianhua Zhou","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02201-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02201-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has demonstrated the predictive effect of peer victimization on adolescent suicidal ideation. However, few studies have explored the bidirectional relations between peer victimization and suicidal ideation and how insomnia symptoms mediate these bidirectional relations. The present study examined reciprocal relations between peer victimization (i.e., physical and relational victimization) and suicidal ideation and the potential mediating role of insomnia symptoms and sex differences by disentangling between- and within-person effects. A total of 4731 students (44.9% girls; Mage = 10.91 years, SD = 0.52) participated in a four-wave longitudinal study with 6-month intervals. Results from random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling indicated significant positive associations between peer victimization, insomnia symptoms, and suicidal ideation at the between-person level. At the within-person level, significant sex differences were identified in the bidirectional associations between physical or relational victimization, insomnia symptoms, and suicidal ideation. Specifically, boys showed significant bidirectional associations between physical victimization and suicidal ideation. In contrast, for girls, suicidal ideation significantly predicted subsequent physical victimization, but the reverse pathway was not significant. Furthermore, no significant cross-lagged associations were found between relational victimization and suicidal ideation among boys. However, for girls, relational victimization and suicidal ideation demonstrated significant cross-lagged effects. Significant bidirectional associations between physical victimization and insomnia symptoms were observed in both boys and girls. For girls, insomnia symptoms significantly mediated the bidirectional relations between physical victimization and suicidal ideation, but the bidirectional relations between relational victimization and insomnia symptoms were not supported. For boys, while both physical and relational victimization significantly predicted insomnia symptoms, insomnia symptoms did not predict suicidal ideation. In the reverse pathway, insomnia symptoms mediated the pathway from suicidal ideation to physical victimization among boys. The findings underscore the importance of considering both sex differences and insomnia symptoms in understanding the pathways linking peer victimization to suicidal ideation, offering valuable insights for targeted interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2508-2523"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144326172","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mother-Adolescent Consistency and Discrepancy in Perceived Maternal Psychological Control to Adolescent Depression: Exploring the Specificity of Adolescent Gender and Age.","authors":"Meishuo Yu, Mingzhu Mao, Chuhan Tang, Shufen Xing","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02242-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02242-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Existing research has predominantly relied on the perspective of a single informant to investigate the association between maternal psychological control and adolescent depressive symptoms, providing only limited insight into these complex dynamics. To provide a more nuanced understanding, the present study employed polynomial regression with response surface analysis (RSA) to investigate how mother-adolescent consistency and discrepancy in perceived maternal psychological control was associated with adolescent depressive symptoms, as well as the moderating roles of adolescent gender and age in these relationships. A total of 929 Chinese adolescents (463 girls, M<sub>age</sub> = 12.56 years, SD<sub>age</sub> = 1.91) and their mothers participated in the study. Mothers and adolescents reported maternal psychological control, and adolescents self-reported their levels of depressive symptoms. Results indicated that high maternal psychological control reported by both informants predicted higher levels of adolescent depressive symptoms. A higher level of maternal psychological control as perceived by adolescents, compared to their mothers' reports, was positively correlated with greater adolescent depressive symptoms. Notably, these discrepancy effects were most pronounced among middle adolescent girls, indicating developmental and gender-specific vulnerability. These findings highlight that adolescents' perceptions of maternal psychological control and the extent to which these perceptions diverge from mothers' views are critical markers of depression risk, highlighting the need for gender- and age-sensitive parenting interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2441-2453"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Prospective Within-person Relations among Parental Child-oriented Perfectionism, Child maladaptive Perfectionism, and Child Depressive Symptoms: A Five-wave Study.","authors":"Mingzhong Wang, Kexin Zhang, Jing Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02246-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02246-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While existing research has well documented child perfectionism as a risk factor for depressive symptoms, relatively limited studies have delved into the specific influence of parental child-oriented perfectionism on children's depressive symptoms. This study tracked 2228 Chinese adolescents (baseline M<sub>age</sub> = 12.95 ± 0.79 years, 46.3% girls) with five measurements over three years. Using the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model (RI-CLPM), results indicated that maternal (not paternal) child-oriented perfectionism had bidirectional links with children's maladaptive perfectionism. Children's maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms exhibited stable reciprocal prediction. SES and child sex moderate effects: three-way links were more stable in low SES families; boys showed more stable reciprocal prediction between maladaptive perfectionism and depressive symptoms; maternal child-oriented perfectionism and girls' maladaptive perfectionism exhibited some reciprocal prediction. These findings provide insights into how parental child-oriented perfectionism as well as child maladaptive perfectionism was involved in the development of child depressive symptoms, thus informing strategies to cope with child depressive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2593-2615"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959067","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}