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{"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}

{"title":"Promoting Cross-Racial and Ethnic Friendships in Schools: Roles of School Diversity and Interracial Climate and Intersections with Immigrant Status","authors":"Mei-ki Chan, Aprile D. Benner","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02182-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02182-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Cross-racial/ethnic friendships are associated with positive outcomes related to social cohesion; however, attention to the specific school contextual factors that promote these friendships during adolescence and how such factors vary by adolescents’ social positions is lacking. This study examined how school diversity and interracial climate were related to students’ friendship diversity and whether these associations differed by immigrant status. The participants were from a diverse sample of 591 U.S. 9th graders who were approximately 14- to 15-year-old across 29 schools (10% Asian American, 4% Black, 34% Latino/a/x, 40% White, and 12% other or multiple races/ethnicities; 53% female). The results indicated that higher school racial/ethnic diversity was linked to greater friendship diversity. However, this relation diminished as school diversity increased and was less pronounced among adolescents from immigrant families. Youth from immigrant families who perceived a more positive interracial climate among peers reported having more diverse friendships compared to their counterparts from immigrant families in the same schools. The findings highlight the facilitating roles of school diversity and peer interracial climate in positive interracial interactions and the varying influences of adolescents’ immigrant status.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143766682","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 Relationship Between Parental Psychological Flexibility and Peer Victimization in Children: The Mediating Role of Executive Function and Social Anxiety","authors":"Qingqing Li, Xue Shen, Yuqin Tu, Zongkui Zhou, Jing Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02170-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02170-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Prior research shows that parental psychological flexibility can benefit children’s social adjustment, but its role in mitigating peer victimization remains unclear. This study addressed this gap by examining the potential mediating roles of executive function and social anxiety in the longitudinal relationship between parental psychological flexibility and peer victimization. The sample comprised 511 primary school students (grades 4–6; 46.58% girls; <i>M</i>_age = 9.34, <i>SD</i> = 1.10) and their parents, followed three waves across one year. Results showed that parental psychological flexibility was negatively correlated with low executive function, social anxiety, and peer victimization. Structural equation modeling revealed that parental psychological flexibility predicted lower peer victimization both directly and indirectly through two distinct pathways—social anxiety alone and a chained mediation link from executive function to social anxiety. These findings underscore the importance and key explanatory mechanisms of parental psychological flexibility in mitigating the risk of peer victimization among children and early adolescence, offering valuable insights for the development of prevention and intervention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758013","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":"Defending Behavior in Bullying and Defenders’ Psychosocial Outcomes among Children and Adolescents: A Series of Three-Level Meta-Analyses","authors":"Xin Tian, E. Scott Huebner, Lili Tian","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02176-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02176-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Defending behavior in bullying plays a vital role in mitigating bullying. However, previous research has reported inconsistent findings regarding the potential psychosocial risks faced by defenders. The current study aimed to systematically examine and quantify the associations between defending behavior in bullying and defenders’ psychosocial outcomes through a series of three-level meta-analyses. Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) guidelines, a comprehensive systematic search, manual search, and citation tracking were conducted across several databases. The search yielded 290 effect sizes from 62 studies, encompassing data from 102,574 children and adolescents. The analyses revealed that defending behavior in bullying was weakly, but significantly positively correlated with concurrent internalizing problems and victimization. The analyses also showed a small, but reliable positive correlation between defending behavior in bullying and concurrent social relationships, as well as associations with both concurrent and longitudinal social status. These associations were moderated by culture, types of defending, the reporter of defending, and social status types. Positive association between defending behavior and internalizing problems increased with individualism scores. Aggressive defending showed a stronger positive association with internalizing problems than other defending behavior. Both direct defending (particularly aggressive defending) and self-reported defending demonstrated stronger positive correlations with victimization. Defending behavior was more positively linked to likability than popularity. Peer-reported defending was more strongly associated with social status than self-reported defending. However, significant correlations were not observed between defending behavior and externalizing problems or academic achievement. Given the dual nature of defending behavior in bullying, implications for future research directions and bystander intervention programs are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"38 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758016","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":"Multi-Informant Profiles of Helicopter Parenting and Parent-Child Intimacy: Longitudinal Links with Adolescents’ Self-Discipline and Problematic Internet Use","authors":"Yan Wang, Wei Wu, Xinrui Cao, Xiaoya Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02179-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02179-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Family systems theory emphasizes the combined influence of various family factors and the heterogeneity across families. Prior research has separately examined the effects of helicopter parenting and parent-child relationships on adolescent self-regulation-related behaviors, leaving their combined influence unclear. This study adopts a person-centered approach to identify latent profiles of helicopter parenting and parent-child intimacy and examine their longitudinal links with self-discipline and problematic internet use. Matched data on fathers (<i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 42.65, <i>SD</i> = 4.34), mothers (<i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 41.60, <i>SD</i> = 3.88), and children (<i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 12.78, <i>SD</i> = 0.94, 51.6% female) from 283 families were included at two time points (T1 and T2, six months apart). Three distinct profiles emerged: moderate helicopter parenting with low intimacy, low helicopter parenting with moderate intimacy, and moderate helicopter parenting with moderate intimacy. At T2, compared to adolescents in moderate helicopter parenting with moderate intimacy families, those in moderate helicopter parenting with low intimacy families exhibited lower self-discipline and higher problematic internet use, and those in low helicopter parenting with moderate intimacy families demonstrated higher self-control. Additionally, compared to adolescents in low helicopter parenting with moderate intimacy families, those in moderate helicopter parenting with low intimacy families had lower self-control and higher problematic internet use. These findings underscore the importance of considering both helicopter parenting and parent-child intimacy when examining adolescent self-regulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"25 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143758602","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":"Race and Anti-Racist Online Coping as Moderators of College Adjustment Associated with Exposure to Social Media Racism among Asian, Black, and Hispanic/Latine Students","authors":"Yea Won Park, Xiangyu Tao, Celia B. Fisher","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02177-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02177-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>With the rise of social media, racism in the digital landscape has become ubiquitous potentially impacting the academic adjustment of college students of color. The role of anti-racist online coping strategies, such as seeking resources, support, and actively managing social networks in mitigating the negative effects of online racism has been understudied. Racial group differences and anti-racist online coping were examined as moderators between online discrimination and college adjustment among Asian, Black and Hispanic/Latine college students. The sample consisted of 772 emerging adults of color (<i>M</i>_<i>age</i> = 20.37, <i>SD</i> = 1.56, 44.8% women; 32.4% Asian, 35% Black, 32.6% Hispanic/Latine). Overall, average and high coping levels moderated the association between discrimination and college adjustment, but the protective effect varied by race and domain of adjustment. Across educational, relational and psychological dimensions of adjustment, protective effects of anti-racist online coping were stronger among Asian students, partially effective for Black students, and least effective for Hispanic/Latine students, and psychological adjustment was most vulnerable. These findings underscore the importance of understanding how students of color experience and take part in the digital landscape and providing institutional supports that help students effectively utilize anti-racist online strategies to mitigate the adverse effects of social media racism on their adjustment to college.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143766681","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":"Understanding Social Influence of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury: The Interplay of Peer Networks and Adolescent Behavior.","authors":"Juan Wang, Jiaao Yu, Xiaopeng Du, Chen Yin, Zeming Zhang, Yinan Duan, Runsen Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02178-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02178-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescents' non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) could be influenced by their friends' NSSI and by their own social position within peer networks. However, prior research has examined these effects separately and has primarily focused on middle-to-late adolescence. It remains unclear how friends' NSSI relates to adolescents' NSSI under different social positions and how these effects differ across different age stages. This study examined both the independent and interactive effects of the number of friends engaging in NSSI, the number of claiming friends, and the extent of bridging different peer groups on adolescents' NSSI behaviors within classroom-based social networks. The sample included 9581 Chinese adolescents (44.6% girls, Mage = 13.72, SD = 1.87) from 221 classroom-based friendship networks, comprising 4248 early adolescents and 5333 middle-to-late adolescents. Social network analyses were used to extract network-related indicators, while general linear mixed models were employed to test the hypotheses. Results revealed that adolescents with more friends engaging in NSSI faced a higher risk of engaging in NSSI themselves; however, this risk decreased for adolescents with more claiming friends, irrespective of age. Adolescents who acted as bridges between different peer groups and had an above-average number of claiming friends were more likely to engage in NSSI, but this was only the case in early adolescence. These findings suggest NSSI can spread through friendship networks, with social connections influencing how likely adolescents are to be affected. Incorporating social network assessments into mental health screenings might facilitate early identification and prevention of NSSI among youth.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143772426","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":"When Push Comes to Shove: Unravelling the Developmental and Longitudinal Dynamic Relationship between Bullying and Empathy in Chinese School Children.","authors":"Yifan Wang, Mengmeng Zhang, Zhiwei Yang, Wenting Ye, Qian Nie, Zhaojun Teng","doi":"10.1007/s10964-024-02107-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-024-02107-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While bullying has significant long-term impacts on mental health, the developmental relationship between empathy and bullying behaviors remains unclear. Specifically, it is uncertain whether bullying perpetration and victimization predict changes in empathy over time or if empathy influences these behaviors. This study addresses this gap by examining the longitudinal dynamic relationship between empathy, bullying perpetration, and victimization. The sample comprised 3337 Chinese school children (M_age = 11.23 years, SD = 1.60; 47.7% female), followed over six waves across three years. Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) were employed to separate between-person and within-person effects. Results indicated that at the between-person level, empathy, bullying perpetration, and victimization followed decreasing trajectories, with initial empathy negatively associated with both bullying perpetration and victimization. At the within-person level, fluctuations in bullying perpetration and victimization predicted subsequent declines in empathy, while empathy did not significantly predict later changes in bullying perpetration and victimization behaviors. These findings suggest that bullying experiences, whether as a perpetrator or victim, can impair empathy development and that empathy alone may not be sufficient to reduce bullying. This challenges current intervention models focused on empathy enhancement and calls for more nuanced approaches that address the complex dynamics between empathy and bullying.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"981-996"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142710346","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":"Are Peer-rejected Adolescents More Likely to Become Bullies or Victims? A Longitudinal Social Network Analysis.","authors":"Mingling Xiong, Xiaolin Guo, Ping Ren","doi":"10.1007/s10964-024-02110-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-024-02110-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although many studies have explored the effects of peer rejection on bullying and victimization, the specific targets of bullying and victimization in adolescents after experiencing rejection have not been identified. This study adopts longitudinal social network analysis to examine whether the effects of peer rejection on bullying and victimization are only for peers in the rejecting relationship or involve other peers. This two-wave longitudinal study included 2,223 Chinese junior high school students. Students reported rejection, bullying, and victimization at the end of the first semester of eighth grade (M_age = 13.93 years, SD = 0.60, 48.6% girls) and the end of the second semester of eighth grade (M_age = 14.38 years, SD = 0.59, 49.0% girls). After fitting the data to stochastic actor-oriented models, the results revealed that rejected adolescents are more likely to be victimized by peers who reject them but not by others. Conversely, rejected adolescents tend to bully peers who do not reject them. These findings suggest that rejected adolescents simultaneously are at risk of both developing as bullies and being forced to become victims. They target different peers in each context, reflecting the complexity of bullying and victimization among adolescents after being rejected by peers.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"955-966"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142668435","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":"Cumulative Interpersonal Risk, Non-Suicidal Self-Injury, and Suicide Attempts in Early Adolescence: Between-Person Differences and within-Person Effects.","authors":"Danyun Wang, Jingfei Zhao, Yulong Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-024-02101-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-024-02101-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Poor interpersonal relationships are one of the risk factors for non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behaviors among adolescents. Previous studies have mostly focused on a single interpersonal perspective, and it remains uncertain how the cumulative interpersonal risk across time and domains interacts with NSSI and suicide. The current study employed cross-lagged panel models (CLPM) and random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) to investigate the interaction among cumulative interpersonal risk, NSSI, and suicide attempts at both the between-person and within-person levels, while examining sex differences in these relationships. A total of 1038 Chinese adolescents (47.0% girls; baseline M_age = 12.35 years, SD = 0.52) participated in a four-wave longitudinal survey with 6-months intervals. The results showed that at the between-person level, there were reciprocal predictive relationships between cumulative interpersonal risk, NSSI and suicide attempts. At the within-person level, changes in NSSI affected changes in cumulative interpersonal risk, and suicide attempts exhibited a reciprocal relationship with cumulative interpersonal risk and NSSI, with significant sex differences observed. These findings underscore the stable and trait-like associations between cumulative interpersonal risk, NSSI and suicide attempts. Given these findings, to reduce the occurrence of suicide among adolescents, it is essential to target interventions aimed tat enhancing their interpersonal adaptability.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"967-980"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142710226","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}