Journal of Youth and Adolescence最新文献

{"title":"Reward Sensitivity, Pubertal Development, and Circadian Rhythms: A Window into Adolescent Risk for Depressive Symptoms.","authors":"Mackenzie A Maddox,Rachel F L Walsh,Logan T Smith,Thomas Olino,Phyllis C Zee,Robin Nusslock,Lauren B Alloy","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02224-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02224-6","url":null,"abstract":"Pubertal maturation is linked to changes in the reward and circadian systems, which may increase vulnerability to psychopathology. Less is known about the associations between reward and circadian systems preceding onset of psychopathology. The current study examined associations between trait reward sensitivity, circadian rhythms, pubertal development, and depressive symptoms. Participants (n = 320) were recruited from the Philadelphia area and included 57.5% Females with an average age of 15.12 (SD: 1.02). Participants completed self-reports and one week of actigraphy. Adolescents with higher reward sensitivity and greater pubertal maturity showed greater circadian rhythm disruption. Circadian disruption in combination with reward sensitivity levels predicted differential changes in depressive symptoms, potentially contributing to the understanding of mental health difficulties in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"96 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144930335","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":"Intergenerational Influences of Father-Adolescent Relationship Quality: The Role of Parent-Child Relationships in the Family of Origin.","authors":"Hyanghee Lee,Megan Bears Augustyn,Kimberly L Henry","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02243-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02243-3","url":null,"abstract":"Existing evidence suggests intergenerational transmission of parenting, but findings are limited by important theoretical, conceptual, and methodological challenges. These include insufficient attention to predictors of fathering, inconsistencies in developmental periods and constructs across generations, the absence of both mothering and fathering as predictors, and the omission of levels of involvement among nonresident fathers. The current study examines intergenerational predictors of fathering among father-adolescent dyads (N = 276; 69% Black, 17% Hispanic, 14% White; 49% boys) during adolescence (ages 12-15) using both father and adolescent reports. A father's relationship with his mother was associated with his perceived relationship quality with his adolescent child, but his relationship with his father was not. There was no evidence of intergenerational continuity in adolescent perceptions of father-adolescent relationship quality. These findings underscore the long-term, although limited, influence of relationship quality in the family of origin on the next generation.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144930337","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":"Teacher-Student Relationships, Empathy, and Prosocial Behaviors: Examining Between- and Within-Person Relations.","authors":"Xingchao Wang, Qinxian Kong, Mingkun Ouyang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02236-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02236-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescents start to understand complex abstract concepts related to empathy and then engage in more costly prosocial behaviors. Positive teacher-student relationships, as the important environmental system, also promote adolescents' prosocial behaviors. Understanding whether positive teacher-student relationships can inspire adolescents to engage in more prosocial behaviors via empathy matters for improving social harmony. However, no study has systematically examined the relation between teacher-student relationships and prosocial behaviors at the within-person level, the mediating role of empathy between them, and the moderator of sex among these associations. More importantly, the examination of within-person relations would reveal the causal associations among these variables. Thus, framed in the developmental cascade perspective, the current study included 2407 Chinese adolescents (50.23% girl, M_age = 12.75, SD = 0.58 at T1) from seven schools over three time points with a one-year interval, and investigated the dynamic associations among teacher-student relationships, empathy, and prosocial behaviors by using the random intercept cross-lagged models. Results showed that the random intercepts of teacher-student relationships, empathy, and prosocial behaviors were significantly positively associated. At the within-person level, teacher-student relationships at T2 played a mediating role in the relation between the prosocial behaviors at T1 and T3. And, higher levels of teacher-student relationships at T1 lead to an increase in cognitive empathy at T2. Cognitive empathy stably predicted subsequent prosocial behaviors, and prosocial behaviors consistently predicted subsequent affective empathy. Teacher-student relationships indirectly predicted prosocial behaviors through cognitive empathy but not affective empathy. Sex differences were observed only in the model of cognitive empathy. The current findings contribute to the understanding of the relations among teacher-student relationships, empathy, and prosocial behaviors from the developmental cascade perspective, providing a novel scientific foundation for interventions aimed at promoting adolescents' prosocial behaviors.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144855699","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":"Peer Interdependence in Bullying Victimization, Self-Compassion, and Moral Disengagement: A Dyadic Analysis of Early Adolescents.","authors":"Shengping Xue, Aitao Lu, Kaixu Zhu, Wanyi Chen, Yang Xu, Lihong Ao, Jingui Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02238-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02238-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Moral disengagement plays a critical role in adolescents' social adjustment, and growing evidence suggests that peer characteristics may be linked to its development. However, limited research has explored how best friend's adverse experiences and emotion regulation strategies relate to adolescents' moral strategies. Bullying victimization and self-compassion, as salient adverse experiences and emotion regulation processes during adolescence, have been associated with moral disengagement, but the interpersonal patterns of these associations remain unclear. To address this gap, the present study applied the actor-partner interdependence model in a six-month longitudinal design to examine how adolescents' own (actor effects) and best friend's (partner effects) bullying victimization experiences and self-compassion were associated with their moral disengagement over time. The study sample included 105 same-gender friend dyads (120 boys; M_age = 13.42, SD = 0.87) recruited from middle schools in Guangdong, China. Results showed that only adolescents' own bullying victimization, not that of their best friend, was significantly associated with their moral disengagement. Both adolescents' and their best friend's self-compassion were negatively associated with moral disengagement, with a relatively stronger actor effect (β = -0.191 vs. -0.113). These findings underscore the individual-specific nature of the link between bullying victimization and moral disengagement, while also highlighting the potential interpersonal relevance of best friend's self-compassion in adolescents' moral strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144835510","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":"Callous-Unemotional Traits, Moral Disengagement, and Prosocial and Bullying Behaviors in Adolescence: Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Associations.","authors":"Xingchao Wang, Yingmei Cen, Pengcheng Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02235-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02235-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Callous-unemotional traits are a risk factor for low prosocial behaviors and high bullying behaviors in adolescence. Although the interplay between adolescents' callous-unemotional traits and their prosocial and bullying behaviors is theoretically expected, previous empirical studies have relied heavily on cross-sectional and between-person analyses, limiting the understanding of the within-person bidirectional associations between these constructs. Moreover, the underlying mediating mechanism between adolescents' callous-unemotional traits and their prosocial and bullying behaviors remains unclear. To address these gaps, the current study investigated the within-person bidirectional associations among callous-unemotional traits, moral disengagement, prosocial behaviors, and bullying behaviors, and examined the mediating role of moral disengagement, using the random intercept cross-lagged panel model. A total of 2,407 Chinese adolescents (50.23% girls, M_age = 12.75, SD = 0.58 at baseline) were surveyed across three waves with one-year intervals. At the between-person level, these four constructs were significantly correlated. At the within-person level, partial bidirectional associations were observed among callous-unemotional traits, moral disengagement, and bullying behaviors. Callous-unemotional traits and moral disengagement had a unidirectional predictive effect on prosocial behaviors. Callous-unemotional traits indirectly predicted prosocial and bullying behaviors through moral disengagement, and bullying behaviors also indirectly predicted callous-unemotional traits through moral disengagement. These findings contribute to a comprehensive perspective on the dynamic interplay among callous-unemotional traits, moral disengagement, prosocial behaviors, and bullying behaviors, and highlight the importance of addressing moral disengagement as a key intervention strategy to foster prosocial behaviors and curb bullying behaviors in adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144812201","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 Relationship between Interparental Conflict and Depressive symptoms Spanning from Childhood to Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Hao Jiang,Yajing Yan,Yali Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02230-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02230-8","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have presented diverse perspectives and inconsistent findings regarding the relationship between interparental conflict and depressive symptoms. The current study aimed to clarify the overall strength of the association between interparental conflict and depressive symptoms and its influencing factors. By analyzing 89 retrieved studies (106 effect sizes, 64462 participants) through a random-effects mode. It was found that there was a significant positive correlation between interparental conflict and depressive symptoms, with a large effect size (r = 0.32, 95% CI [0.30, 0.35]). Additionally, measurement tools and reporter of parental conflict, sampling year, and individualism index significantly moderated this association. Specifically, the correlation between interparental conflict measured by Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale and depressive symptoms is stronger than that measured by other scales. Compared with self-reported parental conflict, parental-reported parental conflict has a weaker correlation with depressive symptoms. The more recent the sampling year, the stronger the correlation, while the higher the individualism index, the weaker the correlation. This meta-analysis indicates that interparental conflict is a significant risk factor for depressive symptoms in children and adolescents. Over time, especially in countries with a lower individualism index, focusing on reducing interparental conflict could help decrease the incidence of depressive symptoms in children, adolescents and youth.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144797037","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 Cascading Development of Parental Autonomy Support, Need for Cognition and Creativity in Chinese Middle School Students.","authors":"Xiaoqing Ma, Jinghuan Zhang, Xiaolei Zhang, Si Si","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02234-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02234-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies have demonstrated the independent effects of parental autonomy support and need for cognition on creativity. However, it remains unclear how these factors jointly drive the development of creativity among adolescents, or how creativity shapes need for cognition and influences individuals' perceptions and constructions of their environments. Grounded on the framework of developmental cascades, this longitudinal study explored the dynamic relationships among parental autonomy support, need for cognition, and creativity development. Data were collected from 275 first-year middle school students from China (M_age(T1) = 12.730 ± 0.591, N_boys = 150) in three waves with 1-year intervals. The results indicated that parental autonomy support had a diffusion effect on the development of both need for cognition and creativity; bidirectional relationships between need for cognition and creativity, as well as between parental autonomy support and need for cognition. These findings suggest that creativity develops through the cascading changes in parental autonomy support and need for cognition, providing both theoretical and empirical support for the cultivation and development of creativity among Chinese adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144799513","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 Bidirectional Longitudinal Relations Between Prosocial Behavior, Social Support, and Core Self-Evaluation.","authors":"Cui Xia, Wan Ding, Teng Chen, Jingning Liu, Weijian Li, Ruibo Xie","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02226-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02226-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous studies indicates that helping behaviors (prosocial behavior, which benefits others, and social support, which benefits oneself) are closely associated with adolescents' self-development. However, it is still unclear what the mutual relations and potential mechanisms are between prosocial behavior, social support, and core self-evaluation. A total of 1214 Chinese adolescents were surveyed three times, with a six-month interval between each survey (M_age = 15.46, SD = 0.71; 39.3% girls). Using several Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Models (RI-CLPMs), this study examined the relationships among these variables. The results showed reciprocal relations between prosocial behavior and core self-evaluation, between social support and core self-evaluation, and between prosocial behavior and social support. Additionally, this study identified two mediation mechanisms and serial self-enhancement mechanisms. Specifically, prosocial behavior impacted adolescents' core self-evaluation via social support, core self-evaluation also influenced prosocial behavior through social support. Prosocial behavior and core self-evaluation could achieve self-enhancement via social support, and prosocial behavior could also be improved via core self-evaluation. These findings reveal that prosocial behavior, social support, and adolescents' core self-evaluation can influence each other over time, emphasizing the mediating mechanism of social support between prosocial behavior and adolescents' core self-evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144789497","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 Relations Among Perceived Economic Stress, Deviant Peer Affiliation, and Bullying Victimization: A Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model.","authors":"Xingchao Wang, Huibin Wei, Shiyin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02233-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02233-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Perceived economic stress and deviant peer affiliation are risk factors for adolescents' bullying victimization. However, the longitudinal relations among perceived economic stress, deviant peer affiliation, and bullying victimization remain unclear. To fill this gap, the current study used the random intercept cross-lagged model to clarify the relations among them. A total of 2407 Chinese adolescents (M _age = 12.75, SD = 0.58, age range 11-16, 50.23% girls at baseline) from 7 schools participated in the study. Perceived economic stress, deviant peer affiliation, and bullying victimization were measured annually over 3 years. Results showed that significant positive between-person correlations were found among perceived economic stress, deviant peer affiliation, and bullying victimization. At the within-person level, significant positive bidirectional associations were found between perceived economic stress and bullying victimization. Bullying victimization positively predicted later deviant peer affiliation at the within-person level. The differences of sex were observed in the relations between deviant peer affiliation and bullying victimization. Specifically, girls who experienced more bullying victimization than usual were more likely to affiliate with deviant peers than boys. And, girls affiliating with more deviant peers than usual tended to experience more bullying victimization, whereas this effect was not seen among boys. The present study contributes to our understanding of the associations among perceived economic stress, deviant peer affiliation, and bullying victimization by disaggregating within- from between-person effects. Moreover, the result, which differs between within- and between- person levels, highlights the necessity to differentiate the between- and within-person effects in complex constructs.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144784562","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":"Social Media Use Intensity and Social Media Use Problems in Relation to Interpersonal Adaptation During the Transition to College: An Intensive Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Sicheng Xiong, Yi Xu, Ge Xiong, Bin Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02232-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02232-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During the college transition, many students undergo rapid changes in the frequency and patterns of social media use, while also facing sudden challenges in adapting to the new interpersonal environment. However, it remains unclear how social media use intensity and social media use problems are temporally related to interpersonal adaptation during this important stage of development. This study conducted a 30-day intensive longitudinal design to explore the fine-grained temporal relationships between social media use intensity, social media use problems, and interpersonal adaptation, as well as the intensive mediating role of upward social comparison during the first month of the college transition. The sample comprised 317 first-year college students in China (71.8% female; M_age = 18.16 years, SD = 0.65). Participants completed daily reports over a 30-day intensive tracking period, with data collected each evening between 8:30 and 9:00 PM. Multilevel residual dynamic structural equation modeling revealed that both social media use intensity and social media use problems on the previous day significantly, negatively predicted interpersonal adaptation on the following day during the college transition. Additionally, upward social comparison played an intensive mediating role in the temporal relationship between social media use problems and interpersonal adaptation. These findings offer important insights into how social media use at a fine-grained temporal level influences interpersonal adaptation during the college transition, informing strategies to support first-year students' adjustment.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144784564","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}