{"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}
Isabelle E González,Kristia A Wantchekon,Adriana J Umaña-Taylor,Deborah Rivas-Drake
{"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}
{"title":"How Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Prosocial Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Rui Yuan,Lei Yang,Meixi Liu,Yuying Xie,Yiting Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02257-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02257-x","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood maltreatment is closely related to prosocial behaviors, which usually emerges from early childhood to early adolescence. There has been, however, no agreement on the results regarding the individual and joint effects of maltreatment subtypes. This study aims to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the association between maltreatment subtypes and prosocial behaviors. A total of 29 studies with 30 independent samples and 81 independent effect sizes are included in this meta-analysis (n = 58,047; 55.61% female). The results indicate a significant but modest negative association between childhood maltreatment and prosocial behaviors (r = -0.127; z = 4.51, p < 0.001). Among other things, neglect shows the largest effect size (r = -0.130; z = 3.36, p < 0.01). Multiple subtypes of childhood maltreatment displays a larger effect size (r = -0.138; z = 4.29, p < 0.001) than any single subtype of childhood maltreatment. Overall, by clarifying the differential negative associations of single maltreatment subtypes and the stronger negative effects of multiple subtypes, this study moves beyond the either-or debates between the altruism inhibition assumption and the altruism born of suffering assumption. It thereby provides nuanced evidence that avoids aligning with either extreme position. These findings highlight the importance of targeted interventions, such as addressing neglect specifically or responding to multiple maltreatment subtypes comprehensively, in promoting empathy and fostering posttraumatic growth to facilitate moral development in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078342","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}
Jessica I den Elzen,Jessica J Asscher,Kyle M Lang,Hanne M Duindam
{"title":"Understanding Violent Radicalization and Conspiracy Belief in Dutch Youth Aged 16-25: A Latent Profile Analysis.","authors":"Jessica I den Elzen,Jessica J Asscher,Kyle M Lang,Hanne M Duindam","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02250-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02250-4","url":null,"abstract":"Violent radicalization linked to conspiracy belief has gained increasing attention over the last few years, yet little is known about these dynamics in youth. In this study, a latent profile analysis was conducted to better understand violent radicalization in the context of conspiracy belief among youth aged 16-25. Participants were 2297 Dutch adolescents and emerging adults (Mage = 19.55, SDage = 2.75; 63.3% female). Six profiles were identified, varying in levels of violent radicalization and conspiracy belief. While the largest profile indicated low levels of both, two smaller profiles showed heightened violent radicalization, with differing conspiracy belief. Heightened radicalization profiles were generally younger, male, and more politically extreme, whereas vocational education was more prevalent in high conspiracy profiles. Overall, the findings highlight different manifestations of violent radicalization and conspiracy belief in middle to late adolescence and emerging adulthood and the importance of considering individual and broader contextual conditions.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072441","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}
Le Dang,Jing Zhai,Chester C S Kam,Xiaoyu Su,Anise M S Wu
{"title":"Gaming for Self-Searching? A Three-Wave Longitudinal Investigation on the Correlations and Predictions Among Self-Concept Clarity, Player-Avatar Identification, and Internet Gaming Disorder.","authors":"Le Dang,Jing Zhai,Chester C S Kam,Xiaoyu Su,Anise M S Wu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02258-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02258-w","url":null,"abstract":"Existing research on the associations among self-concept clarity, player-avatar identification, and Internet gaming disorder has largely relied on cross-sectional designs, and the findings were inconsistent. This three-wave longitudinal study examined whether self-concept clarity and player-avatar identification jointly and reciprocally relate to Internet gaming disorder symptoms among emerging adults using both general and random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. Participants were 877 role-playing gamers (Mage = 19.81, SDage = 1.33; 54.80% female) with a baseline and two follow-up surveys (at six and twelve months). Results of both general and random-intercept cross-lagged panel models indicated that, contrary to the hypotheses, self-concept clarity did not predict Internet gaming disorder symptoms nor vice versa, and neither self-concept clarity nor player-avatar identification showed significant indirect effects on Internet gaming disorder symptoms. Although player-avatar identification maintained a positive association with Internet gaming disorder symptoms at the between-person level, it showed no prospective effects at the within-person level. The present study did not provide empirical support for any hypothesized prospective mechanisms among the measured variables. Still, its findings suggest that domain-specific cognitive factors, such as player-avatar identification, may be informative for monitoring Internet gaming disorder risk and highlight the need to support self-concept development during emerging adulthood.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072443","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":"Identifying Defender Subgroups and Their Classroom Distribution Patterns in Chinese Adolescents: A Social-Ecological Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis.","authors":"Ning Xu, Hong Zou, Caina Li, Ping Ren","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02255-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02255-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Defenders are critical in preventing school bullying, yet the association of their heterogeneity with social-ecological factors remains underexplored, especially over long-term development. Using a multilevel framework, this longitudinal study examined subgroups of defenders among Chinese adolescents, their distribution patterns at the classroom level, and how social-ecological factors influence these subgroups. Data were collected from 3569 junior high school students (initial M<sub>age</sub> = 12.69 ± 0.49, 47.5% girls) across 76 classrooms in three waves at half-year intervals. Multilevel latent profile analysis identified six defender subgroups (frequent aggressive, frequent nonaggressive, moderate aggressive, moderate nonaggressive, infrequent, and nondefenders) and two classroom patterns (high- and low-defending). From the first to the second semester of eighth grade, nonaggressive defenders generally decreased, while aggressive, infrequent, and nondefenders increased at both the student and classroom levels. Furthermore, social status, classroom status hierarchy, and classroom bullying norms predicted defender subgroups, with effects that varied over time. These findings emphasize the necessity of considering defender heterogeneity from a social-ecological perspective and offer insights for classroom-level interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145065136","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}
Erik Aspeqvist,Laura Korhonen,Örjan Dahlström,Hedvig Andersson,Imke Baetens,Paul Plener,Maria Zetterqvist
{"title":"Effects of a Whole-School Prevention Program Targeting Mental Health and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Swedish Adolescents: A Cluster-Randomized Experimental Study with Longitudinal Follow-Up.","authors":"Erik Aspeqvist,Laura Korhonen,Örjan Dahlström,Hedvig Andersson,Imke Baetens,Paul Plener,Maria Zetterqvist","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02251-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02251-3","url":null,"abstract":"Rising rates of mental health problems and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents highlight the need for preventive interventions and the lack of evidence regarding such measures. To date, few studies have investigated school-based prevention programs targeting NSSI. In this study, a whole-school preventive intervention was carried out at Swedish lower secondary schools and evaluated in a cluster-randomized controlled trial. The whole-school intervention included classroom-based modules focusing on mental health and NSSI directed at students, psychoeducational webinars on NSSI directed at parents and teachers, and a two-day workshop on NSSI and suicidality for school health staff. Data were collected from students (N = 183, age M = 14.17, SD = 0.55, 58% female) at baseline and three- and six-month post-intervention follow-ups. Analyses revealed a significant decrease in three-month NSSI frequency and a significant difference in mental health-related stigma awareness in the intervention group compared to controls. Regarding other outcomes (NSSI onset, attitudes toward help-seeking, perceived social support, health-related quality of life, emotion regulation and self-criticism), no significant effects were found. Effects moderated by gender and history of NSSI were found, underscoring that the outcomes of universal prevention are not always uniformly distributed. Main conclusions were that whole-school prevention can be effective in reducing NSSI frequency as well as affecting the awareness of mental health-related stigma.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032001","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}
Michael Medina,Marika Sigal,Tseng Vang,Amy Bellmore,Melissa Witkow,Adrienne Nishina
{"title":"Interethnic Climate and Psychological Adjustment in High School: The Role of School Belonging and Ethnic Identity.","authors":"Michael Medina,Marika Sigal,Tseng Vang,Amy Bellmore,Melissa Witkow,Adrienne Nishina","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02241-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02241-5","url":null,"abstract":"School interethnic climate has interpersonal and intrapersonal implications for adolescent development, but little is known of how it influences their psychological adjustment over time, let alone what drives this influence. This study examined whether two components of identity-school belonging perceptions and ethnic-racial identity beliefs-mediate the association between 10th grade perceptions of school interethnic climate and 12th grade psychological adjustment. The analytic sample includes 849 students (50% girls; 30% Latinx, 27% White, 16% Asian/Pacific Islander, 18% Multiethnic, 6% African American/Black, 3% Other). Data were collected across three grade levels (Grade 10 ageM = 15.4 [0.52], Grade 11 ageM = 16.4 [0.52], Grade 12 ageM = 17.4 [0.52]) in three public high schools in two U.S. states. Findings indicated that school belonging, but not ethnic-racial identity, in 11th grade fully mediated the relation between school interethnic climate and later psychological adjustment. These pathways did not significantly differ between Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Multiethnic, and White students. This work highlights school belonging and ethnic-racial identity as distinct and beneficial developmental mechanisms in this context, as well as provides pragmatic school-centered implications for practice.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145025632","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}
Virginie Paquette,Adam J Danyluk,William Gilbert,Simon A Houle,Philippe Lavoie,Rayana Eltanoukhi,Alexandre J S Morin
{"title":"Coping Profiles and Functioning During Emerging Adulthood: A Comparative Person-Centered Longitudinal Approach.","authors":"Virginie Paquette,Adam J Danyluk,William Gilbert,Simon A Houle,Philippe Lavoie,Rayana Eltanoukhi,Alexandre J S Morin","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02252-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02252-2","url":null,"abstract":"Young adults use a combination of coping strategies to deal with challenges. Yet, limited research has focused on these combinations, as they differ across different profiles of youth and their implications during the major life transitions of emerging adulthood. Addressing this gap, the present longitudinal person-centered study assesses the nature, stability, predictors (stressful life events, sex), and outcomes (affect, attitude toward life, physical symptoms) of coping profiles during this period. Participants were drawn from a nationally representative Swiss sample of emerging adults (n: 1845; 58.53% females; Mage = 19.44; SDage = 0.62), including subsamples of students (n = 873), and workers (n = 972). Six profiles were replicated over time and across subsamples: (1) Emotion and Avoidance (18.3-25.8% of the sample), (2) Emotion-Oriented (8.7-10.4%), (3) Non-Coping (2.5-3.0%), (4) Task and Avoidance (12.7-16.1%), (5) Average (28.1-41.7%), and (6) Task-Oriented (6.8-25.7%). Profile membership was predicted by dispositional (sex) and situational (life events) factors. Task-oriented profiles displayed the most positive outcomes, whereas non-coping and emotion-oriented profiles, the most negative ones. These findings shed light on the nature of generalizable coping profiles displayed by young adults and identify the task-oriented profiles as the most adaptive for managing the major life transitions of emerging adulthood.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145018259","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":"Parent-Adolescent Congruence and Incongruence in Parental Involvement and Academic Achievement: The More, the Better?","authors":"Yan Li,Luyang Guo","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02245-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02245-1","url":null,"abstract":"Parents and adolescents can differ in their perceptions of parental involvement, yet most research relies on a single informant, potentially overlooking important discrepancies. Using data from 89,448 fifteen-year-olds (50.3% female) and their parents (78.2% female) across 13 economies in East Asia, Latin America, and Europe, this study examined how parent-adolescent congruence and incongruence in two forms of parental involvement-academic socialization and general involvement-were associated with adolescents' academic achievement. Multilevel polynomial regression and response surface analyses revealed a significant curvilinear relation, suggesting that adolescents achieved higher scores when both parents and adolescents were congruent at moderate levels of parental involvement. However, this pattern varied by culture and gender, with East Asian girls achieving higher academic performance from congruence at high levels of parental involvement. In contrast, mismatches between parent and adolescent reports on parental involvement were consistently linked to lower academic performance across regions and genders. These findings underscore that both the degree and alignment of parental involvement matter and that cultural and gender contexts shape how parental involvement influences academic success.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144995669","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}