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{"title":"The Bidirectional Relationships Between Shyness, Loneliness and Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents.","authors":"Jiaying Cheng, Wan Ding, Yue Jia, Hongqing Yao, Weijian Li, Ruibo Xie","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02248-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02248-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Many studies have emphasized the impact of negative social experiences (such as shyness and loneliness) on depressive symptoms in adolescents. However, studies examining the interplay and underlying mechanisms among these three constructs from the perspective of social motivation remain relatively scarce. Against this backdrop, this study employed the Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model (RI-CLPM) to investigate the relationships among shyness, loneliness, and depressive symptoms from the perspective of two dominant types of social motivation development. Data were collected from 1214 Chinese adolescents (M_age = 15.46, SD_age = 0.71, 60.7% male) at three different time points, with each time point separated by six months. The results indicated that there are bidirectional relationships between shyness and the perceived social competence dimension of loneliness, and between the peer relationship evaluation dimension of loneliness and depressive symptoms. However, shyness only had a unidirectional predictive effect on depressive symptoms. The study also indicated that the marginally significant mediating role of the perceived social competence dimension of loneliness between shyness and depressive symptoms. Additionally, the research found no significant gender differences in shyness, loneliness, and depressive symptoms. These findings uncover the dynamic associations between shyness and the perceived social competence dimension of loneliness, and between the peer relationship evaluation dimension of loneliness and depressive symptoms, and emphasize the mediating role of the perceived social competence dimension of loneliness between shyness and depressive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2628-2643"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145085196","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":"Relations between Peer Group Status Hierarchy and Loneliness in Chinese and Canadian Adolescents: The Role of Group Support.","authors":"Meng Yang, Yan Sun, Tong Zhou, Keqin Zhang, Biao Sang, Junsheng Liu, Xinyin Chen, Lynne Zarbatany, Wendy E Ellis","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02203-x","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02203-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Status hierarchy, defined as within-group differentiation in individual status, ranging from egalitarian to hierarchical, is a common phenomenon in adolescents' peer groups. However, the implications of peer group status hierarchy for individual adjustment remain unclear in different social and cultural contexts. This two-wave longitudinal study with an interval of 10 months aimed to explore how peer group status hierarchy was associated with loneliness and how group support mediated the associations in Chinese and Canadian adolescents. Participants were fourth- to eighth-grade students in urban China (n = 787; 343 girls; Mage = 12.55 years) and Canada (n = 1033; 589 girls; Mage = 11.81 years). Data on group status hierarchy, group support, and loneliness were obtained from self-reports. Results indicated that greater status hierarchy within groups was associated with higher loneliness in both countries. However, the mediating effect of group support differed. In Canada, greater group status hierarchy predicted lower peer support, leading to increased loneliness, whereas in China, greater status hierarchy predicted higher peer support, which subsequently reduced loneliness. These findings highlight both similarities and differences in the functional meanings of adolescents' peer group hierarchy in Chinese and North American societies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2540-2553"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144326173","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":"Bidirectional Relations between Belief in a Just World and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems among Chinese Secondary Vocational Students.","authors":"Jianhua Zhou, Tubei Li, Shifeng Li, Penghui Yang, Xue Gong","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02259-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02259-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Belief in a just world has been widely regarded as a psychological factor that supports adolescent adjustment. However, prior research has primarily relied on cross-sectional designs and has seldom explored longitudinal temporal relations, particularly how emotional and behavioral difficulties might influence, and be influenced by, belief in a just world. This four-wave longitudinal study investigated the bidirectional associations between both personal and general belief in a just world and internalizing and externalizing problems among Chinese secondary vocational school students, a group facing unique academic and social risks. Participants included 3312 secondary vocational school students (41.5 percent female; average age at baseline = 15.71 years, standard deviation = 0.86), with data collected across four waves at six-month intervals. Random intercept cross-lagged panel models revealed robust reciprocal associations between personal belief in a just world and internalizing or externalizing problems. While general belief in a just world did not significantly predict internalizing problems, internalizing problems significantly predicted a decline in general belief in a just world. Externalizing problems significantly predicted subsequent declines in general belief in a just world. General belief in a just world predicted lower externalizing problems only from Time 3 to Time 4, suggesting a possible age-related effect. These findings underscore the developmental significance of belief in a just world as both a protective factor and a belief system that can be shaped by adolescents' emotional and behavioral functioning in educational contexts marked by disadvantage.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2644-2659"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145075497","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":"Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Parental Psychological Control and Depressive Symptoms: The Roles of Individual Self-esteem and Peer Clique Support Norms.","authors":"Shengcheng Song, Ning Xu, Bin Yuan, Caina Li","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02210-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02210-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Peer cliques shape adolescents' behavior patterns and value norms, while also influencing their perceptions of parenting practices and emotional experiences. Although the relationship between parental psychological control and adolescent adjustment issues has received increasing attention, the underlying mechanisms of this relationship, particularly from the perspective of peer cliques remain unclear. Based on both the individual and peer levels, this study employed a multilevel model to investigate the roles of individual self-esteem and clique support norms in the bidirectional relationship between parental psychological control and depressive symptoms. A total of 904 middle school students from Shaanxi Province, China (43% girls; M_age = 12.73, SD = 0.43) participated in this three-wave longitudinal study (initiated in 2015, with a one-year interval). Results indicated that T1 depressive symptoms could influence T3 depressive symptoms and parental psychological control through T2 self-esteem, and high clique support norms strengthened the negative association between T1 depressive symptoms and T2 self-esteem, particularly in all-boys cliques. These findings reveal that while focusing on the important role of self-esteem in adolescent mental health interventions, more attention should be paid to the potential negative effects of high peer support norms on depressed individuals.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2616-2627"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144618709","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 between Bullying Victimization and Depressive Symptoms and the Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust in Middle Adolescents.","authors":"Yinqiu Zhao, Xiaoqing Ji, Ningning Feng, Lijuan Cui","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02231-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02231-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although previous studies have demonstrated bidirectional within-person associations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms in adolescence, the strength and pattern of these associations may differ across distinct forms of victimization. Moreover, the psychological mechanisms mediating these links and any gender-specific differences remain to be fully understood. This study employed a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model to explore the within-person bidirectional associations among physical victimization, relational victimization, interpersonal trust, and depressive symptoms. A total of 1227 Chinese middle adolescents (56.6% girls; M_age = 16.00 years, SD = 0.61) participated in this three-wave longitudinal design with six-month intervals. The results revealed that interpersonal trust significantly mediated the bidirectional within-person associations between relational victimization and depressive symptoms, but not between physical victimization and depressive symptoms. Conversely, depressive symptoms predicted both types of victimization indirectly through lower interpersonal trust. Moreover, the within-person effect of physical victimization on interpersonal trust and that of interpersonal trust on depressive symptoms were significant only for boys, while the effect of interpersonal trust on physical victimization was significant only for girls. These findings highlight the crucial role of interpersonal trust in the bidirectional relations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms and suggest that intervention efforts targeting trust development may help to break this cycle during adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2681-2694"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144784563","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":"The Impact of Neighborhood and Family Socioeconomic Status on Adolescents' Internalizing Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Pubertal Development Trajectory.","authors":"Yi Ren, Lindan Sun, Shaojie Qiu, Hua Ming, Ye Zhang, Chenyi Zuo, Yanlin Zhou, Kehan Mei, Silin Huang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02247-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02247-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Disadvantaged socioeconomic status (SES) is associated with elevated internalizing symptoms in adolescents and is potentially mediated by accelerated pubertal development. Neighborhood SES may have distinct effects beyond family influences, interacting with family SES to shape adolescents' development. The present study examines the combined effects of family and neighborhood SES on pubertal development trajectory and internalizing symptoms and explores the mediating role of pubertal trajectory. This study included 5560 early adolescents (46.51% female; aged 9-10 years at baseline; M_age = 9.48; SD = 0.51) from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study across four annual assessments. Three pubertal development trajectories were identified: \"early-onset with slow progression\", \"late-onset with rapid catch-up\", and \"late-onset with slow catch-up\". The results revealed that accelerated pubertal trajectories mediated the association between multilevel SES disparities and internalizing symptoms. For adolescents from high-SES families, high neighborhood SES reduced the likelihood of early-onset and rapid catch-up trajectories, which were linked to fewer internalizing symptoms. However, for adolescents from low-SES families, higher neighborhood SES increased the likelihood of early-onset and rapid catch-up trajectories, which were associated with more internalizing symptoms. Sex differences were observed, with neighborhood SES predicting pubertal trajectories in males but not in females, and the rapid catch-up trajectory was associated with fewer anxious/depressed symptoms in males but more internalizing symptoms in females. This study emphasizes the crucial role of family and neighborhood SES disparities in shaping adolescent pubertal development, which in turn affects internalizing symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2695-2711"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144959057","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":"The Reciprocal Relationship between School Connectedness and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: A Meta-analytic Cross-lagged Panel Analysis.","authors":"Xianxin Meng, Yijing Chen, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Lujia Xu, Delin Yu, Danielle R Harrell","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02212-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02212-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theorists have long assumed that school connectedness and depressive symptoms influence each other in adolescence. However, previous empirical studies on the strength and direction of this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. The present study used cross-lagged modeling to meta-analyze the available longitudinal data (27 studies with 27 effects involving 57,074 participants, mean age ranging from 11.23 to 17.4 years) on the relationship between school connectedness and depressive symptoms in adolescence, and the possible moderating effects of publication and study characteristics. With prior levels of the relevant outcomes controlled for, results showed that prior school connectedness negatively predicted subsequent depressive symptoms with β = -0.07, 95% CI [-0.12, -0.02], while prior depressive symptoms also negatively predicted subsequent school connectedness with β = -0.14, 95% CI [-0.19, -0.08]. Moderation analyses showed that there was a moderating effect of publication year, study quality in the protective effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms and a moderating effect of publication year, study quality, and culture in the debilitating effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness. As the publication year became more recent, the effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms decreased, and the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness decreased. As study quality increased, the effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms decreased, and the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness decreased. As the individualism index increased, the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness increased. These findings suggest that the link between school connectedness and adolescence depressive symptoms is symmetrically reciprocal and robust, adding support to that explaining the reciprocal relationship necessitates integrating Self-Determination Theory and Social Development Theory within the framework of Developmental Contextualism Theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2574-2592"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144506134","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":"The Vicious Cycle? Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Psychological Distress: The Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility across Different Adolescence Stages.","authors":"Yang Li,Rongrong Duan,Yuling Tang,Xiaochun Xie","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02262-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02262-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182699","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":"Young Europeans - The Interplay between Short- and Medium-Term Development of European Identification Across Adolescence.","authors":"Anna-Maria Mayer,Beatrice Bobba,Philipp Jugert,Elisabetta Crocetti","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02256-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02256-y","url":null,"abstract":"Identification with the European group bears important implications for adjustment, intergroup processes, and civic participation. However, little is known about its development across different time scales in adolescence. The current study examined short- and medium-term developmental trajectories of European identification across two age cohorts separately and conjointly. Participants were 1552 Italian adolescents (Mage = 15.69, SDage = 1.22; 47.04% females) attending the 1st (52.30%) and 3rd (47.70%) year of high school. Results highlight general stability in the short- and medium-term, although younger and older adolescents differed in their developmental patterns. Youth's age and short-term fluctuations in European identification were linked to unique medium-term trajectories. This research highlights the importance of combining social and developmental approaches to comprehensively study how social identification unfolds in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145103528","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":"Associations between Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Ethnic-Racial Identity Centrality among Black and Latine Youth.","authors":"Isabelle E González,Kristia A Wantchekon,Adriana J Umaña-Taylor,Deborah Rivas-Drake","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02260-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02260-2","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnic-racial identity development is a key developmental task that contributes to positive youth outcomes across a variety of domains. Families play an integral role in adolescents' ethnic-racial identity development through the ways they teach their children about their ethnic-racial backgrounds. Research supports that youth who report high levels of family ethnic-racial socialization concurrently report high levels of ethnic-racial identity centrality, a facet of youth's ethnic-racial identity that shapes their self-concept and experiences. However, there is less research examining how ethnic-racial socialization and centrality relate to one another over time, limiting the field's understanding of how youth's centrality evolves as they are socialized and are active agents of their own development. This study analyzes the interrelations between cultural socialization, a form of family ethnic-racial socialization, and centrality over one year across three waves of data collection. Participants were 2153 Black and Latine high school students from the Southwest and Midwest U.S. (Mage = 15.91; SDage = 1.17; 57% Black; 44% boys, 54% girls, 2% another gender). Results from multigroup cross-lagged panel modeling indicated that, across groups, higher cultural socialization was associated with a positive change in centrality, but not vice versa. Findings highlight how the family context supports the progressive development of youth's emerging beliefs about their ethnic-racial identities.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078141","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}