{"title":"Effortful Control Shares Genetic and Environmental Influences with Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Problems.","authors":"Xiaodi Qu,Yuxuan Han,Xinying Li,Jie Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02353-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-026-02353-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147625513","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 Relationships among Life Awe, Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Adolescents: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model.","authors":"Rongmao Lin,Wanqing Zheng,Jiayi Zhuang,Yushan Ye,Tianxiang Hu,Xiaoyan Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02356-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-026-02356-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147625906","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}
Xin Liu,Yaoyao Zhang,Jinyi Zeng,Zhengqu Lu,Yanling Liu
{"title":"Developmental Trajectories of Basic Psychological Need Frustration in Early and Middle Adolescence and Their Associations with Mental Health.","authors":"Xin Liu,Yaoyao Zhang,Jinyi Zeng,Zhengqu Lu,Yanling Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02337-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-026-02337-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147625512","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}
Jiayi Luo, Ying Wang, Luhong Feng, Tian Tian, Yanfang Li
{"title":"Closeness, Conflict, and Depression: Developmental Impacts of Parental-adolescent Perceptual (In)Congruence.","authors":"Jiayi Luo, Ying Wang, Luhong Feng, Tian Tian, Yanfang Li","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02284-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02284-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite increasing evidence that discrepancies between parents' and adolescents' perceptions of their relationship contribute to adolescent depression, little is known about how these perceptual gaps evolve across developmental stages of adolescence and how they relate to depression at varying ages. This study addressed that gap by examining how perceptual (in)congruence in parent-adolescent closeness and conflict relates to depressive symptoms across early, middle, and late adolescence. A total of 1893 parent-adolescent dyads participated in this study, including 779 in the early adolescent group (adolescents: Mage = 9.86, SDage = 0.99, 48.8% female; parents: Mage = 38.08, SDage = 5.09, 76.6% mothers), 569 in the middle adolescent group (adolescents: Mage = 12.90, SDage = 0.97, 48.3% female; parents: Mage = 40.73, SDage = 5.22, 70% mothers), and 545 in the late adolescent group (adolescents: Mage = 15.46, SDage = 1.07, 53% female; parents: Mage = 42.66, SDage = 4.48, 69% mothers). Polynomial regression and response surface analyses indicated that adolescents' perceptions, particularly of conflict, were more strongly associated with depressive symptoms than were parents' perceptions. The effects of perceptual (in)congruence also varied by age. In early and middle adolescence, congruently low closeness or high conflict was linked to more severe symptoms, with the highest severity occurring when adolescents perceived the relationship more negatively than parents. In late adolescence, large perceptual gaps, again driven by adolescents' more negative views, were associated with marked increases in depressive symptoms. These findings highlight adolescents' conflict perceptions as the strongest factor related to depressive symptoms and identify late adolescence as the period of greatest vulnerability to perceptual incongruence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"904-917"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145471277","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":"Unsociability and School and Psychological Adjustment in Chinese Adolescents: the Moderating Effects of Classroom Cultural Norms.","authors":"Siman Zhao, Mengting Liu, Dan Li, Junsheng Liu, Shihong Liu, Tong Zhou, Xinyin Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02312-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02312-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social context is an important factor in determining individual socioemotional development. Whereas unsociability is often perceived as a negative behavior in Chinese adolescents, little is known about how classroom environment plays a role in shaping the adjustment outcomes of unsociability. To address this gap, this study examined the moderating effects of classroom cultural norms on the longitudinal relations between unsociability and later school and psychological adjustment in Chinese young adolescents. Participants included 2,693 students (1,348 boys, M age = 13.24 years, SD = 0.56 years) at the 7th grade in middle schools in a region consisting mostly of towns, small cities, and surrounding rural areas in East China. Data on individualistic and collectivistic cultural orientations, unsociability, peer preference, and adjustment were obtained from multiple sources including peer nominations, teacher ratings, and self-reports. The class cultural norms were calculated by correlating the individual cultural orientations and peer preference score. The results show that unsociability was negatively associated with later school competence and positively related to later psychological problems in classrooms with a weak individualistic norm or a strong collectivistic norm. The associations were not significant in classrooms high on individualistic norm or low on collectivistic norm. The results indicate that weak individualistic norms or strong collectivistic norms in the classroom may exacerbate adjustment problems of unsociable adolescents in China.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1097-1110"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145834298","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}
Han Chen, Kaiwen Bi, Paul S F Yip, Eddie S K Chong
{"title":"Unraveling Daily Linkages between Parenting Behaviors and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms in Chinese Families: The Mediating Role of Adolescent Self-Compassion.","authors":"Han Chen, Kaiwen Bi, Paul S F Yip, Eddie S K Chong","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02300-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02300-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parenting behaviors fluctuate within families in daily life, contributing to variations in adolescent psychological adjustment outcomes. While adolescent self-compassion may help explain this link, emerging studies have primarily focused on stable differences between families and examined self-compassion as a mediator at the between-family level. How these mediating processes operate within families, however, remains unknown. To address this gap, this 25-day daily diary study examined within-family level mediation effects of self-compassion on the links between supportive and negative controlling parenting behaviors and adolescent internalizing symptoms. The sample included adolescents (Mage = 10.85, SD = 0.54; 48.59% boys) and their parents from 155 Chinese families. Positive (self-warmth) and negative (self-coldness) facets of self-compassion were examined as separate constructs. Concurrent mediation results (same-day) generally revealed that adolescents endorsed greater self-warmth on days when they perceived more supportive parenting behaviors, which in turn predicted lower internalizing symptoms. Daily negative controlling parenting behaviors were associated to heightened internalizing symptoms through higher self-coldness on a given day. Lagged indirect effects (next-day) yielded different findings: daily adolescent-perceived supportive parenting behaviors prospectively predicted higher internalizing symptoms two days later via higher next-day self-coldness. Findings highlight the dynamic parenting processes and demonstrate that daily changes in parenting behaviors contribute to adolescent internalizing symptoms via daily shifts in self-compassion.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1051-1063"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13076425/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145687598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relative Sense of Belonging and the Academic Achievement of Chinese Adolescents.","authors":"Yushan Zhao, Kevin A Gee, Caleb W Yuan","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02287-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02287-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>For Chinese adolescents, a stronger sense of school belonging has been linked to higher academic achievement. Yet, sense of belonging has typically been analyzed only as an individual-level construct, even though its effects may depend on how their sense of belonging stands relative to their peers. This study introduces the concept of relative sense of belonging—how a student’s sense of belonging compares to the average belonging level in their school—and examines its association with adolescents’ academic performance, overall and by gender subgroups. The sample consisted of Chinese adolescents who participated in the 2018 Program for International Student Assessment (N = 12,058, Mage= 15.8; SD = 0.30, 48% female). Results based on two-level hierarchical linear models show that higher relative sense of belonging significantly predicted higher achievement across a broad range of academic domains—math, reading, and science—for students, overall, and in reading and science for boys. However, these positive associations were not observed among girls, suggesting possible gender differences in how relative sense of belonging relates to academic outcomes. By focusing on relative sense of belonging, this study highlights that students’ standing compared with their peers’ sense of belonging can play an important role in academic achievement.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"918-932"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13076513/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145505392","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Longitudinal Associations Between Victimization and Depressive Mood During the Junior High School Transition: A Latent Growth Model Analysis.","authors":"Qingshu Li,Yijia Zhou,Tao Yang,Depeng Wang,Chuanzhang Zheng,Yuncheng Jia","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02342-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-026-02342-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147578401","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":"Socially Prescribed Perfectionism and Adolescent Flourishing: A Within-Person Longitudinal Mediation Model of Self-Esteem","authors":"Hui Lu, Ziwei Ren, Xuan Meng, Jian Sun, Yun Wu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02338-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-026-02338-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"63 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536409","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}
Hanan Bozhar, Susanne R. de Rooij, Anja Lok, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Reinout W. Wiers, Helle Larsen
{"title":"The Role of Discrimination in Social Safety and its Interplay with Adolescents’ Mental Health and Substance Use: A Network Perspective","authors":"Hanan Bozhar, Susanne R. de Rooij, Anja Lok, Tanja G. M. Vrijkotte, Reinout W. Wiers, Helle Larsen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02344-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-026-02344-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2026-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147536410","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}