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{"title":"Developmental Trajectories of Parental Psychological Control and Supportive Parenting in Chinese Early Adolescents: Relations to Internalizing and Externalizing Problems.","authors":"Jianhua Zhou, Xueting Zheng, Xue Gong","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02187-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02187-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research suggests that parenting may change with children's age, yet few studies have explored the heterogeneous developmental trajectories of parental psychological control and supportive parenting during early adolescence, and their implications for adolescent adjustment. This study employed a longitudinal accelerated design, with 4731 Chinese students from two cohorts (Grades 4 and 5; 44.9% girls; M = 10.91 years, SD = 0.72) assessed at four time points. Latent class growth modeling identified four trajectories of psychological control (increasing-decreasing, decreasing-increasing, high-stable, and low-stable) and three trajectories of supportive parenting (continually low, continually moderate, and continually high). Significant differences in internalizing and externalizing problems were found across the identified parenting trajectories. These findings underscore the importance of capturing heterogeneity in parenting patterns to better understand their developmental course and implications for adolescent mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144020348","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":"Exploring the Relationship Between Non-institutionalized Political Participation and Political Efficacy Among High School Students","authors":"Pascal Alscher, Costa Jana","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02186-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02186-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Understanding the interplay between political participation and political efficacy is crucial for fostering democratic engagement. This two-wave panel study investigated the potentially reciprocal relationship between non-institutionalized political participation and internal and external political efficacy among adolescents. The study drew on a German sample of 444 students from Grade 7 and Grade 8 (wave 1: <i>M</i>_age = 12.94, <i>SD</i>_age = 0.61; 46.9% female). It examined whether and how internal and external political efficacy are related to participation and whether participation, in turn, is related to political efficacy over time. Results revealed low stability for external political efficacy and non-institutionalized participation and moderate stability for internal political efficacy between Grade 7 and Grade 8. When students’ demographics were controlled for, internal political efficacy in Grade 7 was positively related to non-institutionalized participation in Grade 8, but no significant effects of participation on efficacy were observed. This study provides initial insights into the relationship between open democratic practices, like petitioning, protesting, and boycotting, and adolescents’ perceptions of political efficacy. Results suggested that the transformative potential of participatory activities may depend on specific conditions. The findings highlight the need for further research to explore these dynamics longitudinally and across different forms of participation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143853501","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":"Effectiveness of an Upper Middle School Social and Emotional Learning Program in Portugal: A Large-Scale Dissemination","authors":"Vítor Alexandre Coelho, Marta Marchante, Patrícia Brás","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02188-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02188-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Few large Social and Emotional Learning program trials have been conducted outside the USA. This dissemination study analyzed the effectiveness of the Positive Attitude Upper Middle program in Portugal. The sample was composed of 2231 middle school students (<i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 12.63, <i>SD</i> = 1.09; 47.3% girls), 669 in control groups, and 1562 distributed between the two intervention groups (led by experienced or inexperienced implementers). Students and their teachers reported that students from both intervention groups displayed larger gains in self-control, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision-making. For self-control, boys benefited more than girls and experienced implementers led intervention group students to larger gains. Thus, the current study supported the programs’ effectiveness and highlighted the role of implementer experience.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143849450","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 Hidden Weight of Relationships: How Support and Strain Shape Well-being in Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Youth","authors":"Jiseul Sophia Ahn, Véronique Dupéré, Guillaume Descary, Elizabeth Olivier, Sophie T. Hébert","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02180-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02180-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although celebrated for supporting well-being, social relationships can also bring conflict and stress. Despite extensive focus on their bright side—social support—less attention is paid to their dark side—social strain—especially among socioeconomically disadvantaged young adults in high-stress conditions. This study examined how support and strain from parents, friends, and romantic partners contribute to youth well-being, in a Canadian sample of 384 young adults in their early 20s. Participants were on average 20.3 years old (<i>SD</i> = 0.9), evenly split by gender (50% women), 49% without a high school diploma, and 32% with an immigrant parent. Latent class analysis revealed four profiles, splitting the sample roughly in halves. A first half of youth were in two profiles characterized by supportive, strain-free relationships: (1) <i>Wrap-Around Support</i> (high support, low strain from all sources; 16%) and (2) <i>Supported Singles</i> (high support, low strain but not in couple; 30%) profiles. A second half experienced one or more straining relationships and belonged to either (3) <i>Double-Edged</i> (straining parents and partner, but also supportive partner; 24%) or (4) <i>Isolated</i> (straining parents and low support; 30%). Profile comparisons showed that young adults in the Wrap-Around Support profile enjoyed the highest level of well-being, followed by Supported Singles, with the two subgroups in straining relationships showing no differences. A moderation analysis revealed a reverse buffering effect: Stressors weakened the benefits of social support. The results suggest that the “bad” side of relationships can weigh down their “good” side, and that alleviating the burdens of social and other life stressors is as important as strengthening social support for young people to thrive.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831868","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":"Average Links Between Daily Gender Expression and Depressive Symptoms Do Not Describe Individual Adolescents","authors":"Ran Yan, Christel M. Portengen, Natasha Chaku, Adriene M. Beltz","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02184-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02184-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Gender expression is important for mental health, with masculinity and femininity having differential significance for unique adolescents. Yet, most empirical work on gender expression assumes it is trait-like or similarly shifting across teens. This intensive longitudinal study examined state-like aspects of gender expression and heterogeneity in adolescent-specific associations with depressive symptoms over 100 days. Participants were 106 adolescents, including 5 gender-expansive youth (54.7% cisgirls, 74.5% White; <i>M</i>_age = 13.31, <i>SD</i>_age = 1.94). A sample-average link between daily masculinity and reduced symptoms was found for cisboys. Adolescent-specific results qualified this effect: Only ~25% evidenced an association between daily gender-congruent expression—masculinity for cisboys and femininity for cisgirls—and daily reduced symptoms. Using 9000+ daily reports, findings highlight the dynamic nature of gender expression and the need to use a person-specific approach in understanding the heterogenous psychological correlates of masculinity and femininity for today’s youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"136 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831867","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":"Do Targeted Interventions Diminish Victimization? Testing the Short- and Longer-term Effectiveness of Condemning, Empathy-Raising, and Combined Approaches","authors":"Lydia Laninga-Wijnen, Mark Huisman, Daniel Graf, Christina Salmivalli","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02173-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02173-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given the detrimental effects of school bullying, it is essential that teachers are provided with effective guidelines on how to implement targeted interventions if a case of bullying comes to their attention. Yet to date, most research has focused on how bullying can be prevented, rather than how it should be intervened upon. To address this gap, the current study compared the short- and longer-term development of victimization of students whose bullies were enrolled in a targeted intervention, and compared three approaches taken in such interventions when talking to perpetrators: (1) promoting empathy for victims among bullies, (2) explicitly condemning bullying behaviors, and (3) a combination of these approaches. The sample consisted of <i>n</i> = 274 victims from primary and secondary schools (56.6% female, Mage = 11.95, SD = 1.89). School personnel used a mobile application <i>KiVappi to</i> document the steps they took when implementing targeted interventions on bullying perpetrators of these victims (including a follow up meeting in which victims were asked about the short-term effectiveness of the intervention). Most cases were handled with an empathy-raising approach (<i>n</i> = 117), followed by the condemning (<i>n</i> = 113) and combined (<i>n</i> = 44) approach. Targeted intervention data was matched to survey data collected to examine longer-term changes in self-reported victimization. The results indicate that the success rates of targeted interventions on the short-term were promising: 88.2% of the victims indicated that the victimization had decreased or ceased, and the combined approach seemed to be the “best bet”. In the longer term, victims whose bullies were enrolled in a targeted intervention were equally stable in self-reported victimization as the control group - irrespective of the approach taken in the targeted intervention. Thus, despite potential short-term successes, targeted interventions may not be enough to help victims of bullying escape their plight in the longer term.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143831871","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":"Non-Suicidal Self-Injury and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence: Testing Directionality","authors":"Lauree Tilton-Weaver, Rebecca Schwartz-Mette","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02183-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02183-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As risk for both non-suicidal self-injury and depression increases at adolescence, it is critically important to clarify equivocal findings regarding the temporal ordering of these health concerns. Addressing the limitations of past research, which included the use of only two data waves and analyses that do not account for within-person variance, the aim in this study was to examine the temporal ordering of non-suicidal self-injury and depressive symptoms during adolescence. Two independent samples were examined. One sample (first used by Marshall et al., 2013) consisted of 799 Swedish adolescents (11 to 15 years, <i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 13.18, <i>SD</i> = 0.74; 51% girls). The second sample was a later cohort of adolescents from the same area (<i>N</i> = 2760; aged 12 to 18 years, <i>M</i>_age = 13.75, <i>SD</i> = 0.74; 49% girls). Analyses were two-part cross-lagged panel models (CLPMs) and random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) to account for the semi-continuous distribution of NSSI and to determine if traditional lagged models were adequate for estimating within-person temporal ties. The results suggest that traditional CLPMs had inadequate fits to data. RI-CLPMs showed significant within-person, transactional associations between depressive symptoms and NSSI. Specifically, NSSI at a mean age around 13 years was associated with increases in depressive symptoms one year later, which were in turn associated with increases in NSSI when the average age was about 15 years old. Subsequently, lags suggested the potential for maintenance of comorbid distress. These results suggest that efforts to reduce depression and NSSI during adolescence need to begin in early adolescence, with a focus on adaptive responses to distressing emotional experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143827660","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":"Global Profiles of Positive Youth Development: A Person-Oriented Analysis among Emerging Adults Living in 21 Countries","authors":"Jet Uy Buenconsejo, Laura Ferrer-Wreder, Radosveta Dimitrova, Iuliia Pavlova, Ksenija Bosnar, Sunčica Bartoluci, Darko Katović, Franjo Prot, Mst Sadia Sultana, Md. Saiful Islam, Justyna Michałek-Kwiecień, Katarzyna Skrzypińska, Maria Kazmierczak, Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter, Judyta Borchet, Carmen Buzea, Delia Stefenel, Daniel Thomas Page, Michael Kyle Luden, Veljko Jovanović, Priyoth Kittieteerasack, Adrian Stanciu, Maria-Therese Friehs, Rita M. Rivera, John Jamir Benzon Aruta, Ivanna Bodnar, Petro Petrytsa, Andrii Andres, Guilherme Welter Wendt, Luciana Dutra Thome, Maria Angela Mattar Yunes, Rubia Carla Formighieri Giordani, Pasquale Musso, Rosalinda Cassibba, Fabiola Silletti, Diana Miconi, Arzu Karakulak, Ebrar Yıldırım, Marta Martín-Carbonell, Luz Marina Alonso Palacio, Jorge Gaete, Rodrigo Landabur, Bin-Bin Chen, Yiqun Gan, Danhua Lin, Nor Ba’yah Abdul Kadir, Steven Krauss, Norzihan Ayub, Mohd Saiful Husain Saiful, Sadia Malik, Yue Yu, Urandelger Gantulga, Amarjargal..","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02174-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02174-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although global research on the 5Cs model of Positive Youth Development (PYD; competence, confidence, connection, character, and caring) has expanded in recent years, there is a lack of understanding about distinct and consistent PYD profiles across youth from diverse socio-cultural contexts. To address this gap, this study utilized a person-oriented analytic approach to examine the PYD profiles of 11,481 emerging adults (<i>M</i>^<i>age</i> = 21.77; <i>SD</i>^<i>age</i> = 2.74; 68.66% females) from 21 countries in four continents. Results of the multi-group latent profile analysis revealed four consistent profiles of PYD across countries: high/balanced (41%), self-efficacious (28%), socio-emotional (20%), and low/self-centered (11%). Participants’ age, gender, educational attainment, and country-level collectivism were also found to be associated with specific profiles. Older and more-educated females from less collectivistic countries were more likely to be in a <i>high/balanced profile</i>, while younger males from more collectivistic countries tend to be in a <i>low/self-centered profile</i>. Older and more-educated males from less collectivistic countries were more likely to be in a <i>self-efficacious profile</i>, while younger and less-educated females from more collectivistic countries tend to be in a <i>socio-emotional profile</i>. Controlling these socio-contextual covariates, the four profiles exhibited distinct relations with adaptive (resilience and contribution) and maladaptive outcomes (anxiety and adverse life experiences) during the COVID-19 pandemic. The results highlight the importance of fostering a balanced set of Cs, which include both self-efficacious and socio-emotional qualities, to promote positive adaptation in challenging times across diverse developmental settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143813917","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":"Pubertal Timing, Positive Contexts, and Emotional Symptoms in Early Adolescence: Examining Sex Differences With a Dual Grade Cohort Design.","authors":"Luowei Bu, Haoxian Ye, Dongfang Wang, Wenxu Liu, Fang Fan","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02185-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02185-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Earlier puberty predicts emotional symptoms during adolescence, with potential sex disparities in how developmental contexts moderate this relationship. Under the differential susceptibility framework, negative contextual amplifiers are well-documented, but positive contextual attenuators remain under-researched. Acknowledging girls' earlier pubertal onset, this study employed a dual grade cohort design (5th- and 7th-grade cohorts) to examine sex-specific positive contextual moderators (family members, general peers, teachers) in the longitudinal association between pubertal timing and emotional symptoms. This approach enabled sex comparisons at similar chronological ages (controlling for social timing) and at comparable pubertal stages (accounting for measurement timing). Multiple grade cohorts from a three-wave survey in China were analyzed, including six-month (5th: N = 10,544, 46.6% girls; 6th: N = 5991, 47.6% girls; 7th: N = 7028, 47.4% girls; 8th: N = 4832, 48.2% girls) and one-year (5th: N = 14,580, 45.8% girls; 6th: N = 11,845, 46.6% girls; 7th: N = 10,347, 47.6% girls) nested samples. Through within-grade and cross-grade comparisons, linear mixed-effects models tested each pubertal timing × positive context × sex interaction in predicting future emotional symptoms, adjusting for school-level clustering, socio-demographics, and baseline emotional symptoms. Results identified earlier puberty as a risk for both sexes. Results revealed schoolwide teacher-student relations as a positive contextual moderator only for 5th-grade girls, with no other significant contextual moderators observed for either sex. These findings underscore the importance of improving school-level teacher-student interactions to mitigate the emotional challenges faced by early-maturing girls.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144008867","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":"Dynamic Associations between Self-Efficacy and Depressive Symptoms During the Transition to Adolescence: A 3-year Longitudinal Study.","authors":"He Cai, Yingnan Niu, Xin Gao, Ran Liu, Zhaomin Liu, Xiaolin Guo, Liang Luo","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02181-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02181-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The transition to adolescence is a critical period for the onset of depressive symptoms, making it crucial to examine the risk factors and consequences related to their development and maintenance. Although previous studies have suggested a negative relationship between self-efficacy and depressive symptoms, it is unclear how these two variables evolve together over time during the transition to adolescence and how these relationships vary dynamically within-person and between-person. This study used a latent curve model with structured residuals to examine whether a bidirectional relationship involving academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy and depressive symptoms exists during the transition to adolescence. A sample of 3748 Chinese early adolescents (48.2% girls; initial M_age = 9.77 years, SD_age = 0.31) participated in six assessments over three years. The results revealed that, at the between-person level, the initial states and changes in the three dimensions of self-efficacy were significantly and negatively associated with those of depressive symptoms. At the within-person level, when individuals' social and emotional self-efficacy fell below their expected trajectories they followed, they experienced a subsequent increase in depressive symptoms six months later, and when individuals' depressive symptoms exceeded their expected trajectories they followed, they experienced a decrease in academic, social, and emotional self-efficacy six months later. Notably, the paths from depressive symptoms to self-efficacy were stronger and more reliable than the opposite paths. These findings revealed an asymmetric vicious cycle between self-efficacy and depressive symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143772411","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}