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{"title":"Who Influences Whom? Examining Self-Control and Delinquent Peer Dynamics among Justice-Involved Youth.","authors":"Hyunmin Park, Jennifer H Peck, James V Ray","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02365-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02365-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The connection between one's level of self-control and association with delinquent peers has been the subject of ongoing scholarly debate, yet it is unclear if these two constructs operate independently or mutually influence each other over time. Using data from the Pathways to Desistance study, this study longitudinally examined the potential reciprocal relationship between self-control and delinquent peer association. Data from 1,354 adolescents (baseline M_age = 16.04 ± 1.14 years, 86.4% male, 41.4% Black) with previous involvement in the juvenile justice system for serious offending were examined across seven years. Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) indicated that both constructs exerted reciprocal effects, where higher self-control aligned with reduced involvement with delinquent peers, and greater delinquent peer association coincided with diminished self-control. However, the influence of self-control on delinquent peer associations became more stable in later waves, and the paths from self-control to delinquent peer association were stronger and observed more frequently than paths from delinquent peer association to self-control. Overall, the findings suggest that while peer groups are important during adolescence, as individuals transition into emerging adulthood, self-control plays an increasingly central role in associating with delinquent peers.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2014-2029"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13442316/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148226303","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"How Does Mothers' Parental Burnout Longitudinally Predict Adolescent Bullying Perpetration and Victimization? The Mediating Role of Psychological Control Rather than Autonomy Support.","authors":"Haotian Bian, Qian Pu, Ying He, Yifan Zhang, Fumei Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02371-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02371-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bullying perpetration and victimization are prevalent adolescent peer problems with lasting adverse consequences. Although previous research identifies various parental and family risks for these peer problems, the role of mothers' parental burnout and the underlying longitudinal mechanisms remain underexplored. This three-wave longitudinal study (6-month intervals across 12 months) examined whether higher levels of mothers' parental burnout at T1 predicted higher adolescent bullying perpetration and victimization at T3, and whether adolescents' perceptions of higher psychological control at T2 and lower autonomy support at T2 mediated these associations. The sample included 1,969 adolescents (49.90% boys; M_age = 14.35, SD_age = 1.30) and their mothers (M_age = 41.68, SD_age = 5.24). After controlling for autoregressive effects and covariates (gender, school, and SES), results showed that higher mothers' parental burnout at T1 predicted higher psychological control at T2 and lower autonomy support at T2, as well as greater bullying perpetration and victimization at T3. Higher psychological control at T2, rather than lower autonomy support at T2, uniquely predicted greater bullying perpetration and victimization at T3 and emerged as the specific significant longitudinal mediator. The indirect effect through psychological control exceeded that through autonomy support for both outcomes (significant at the 90% CI for bullying perpetration and 95% CI for bullying victimization). These findings revealed that psychological control is the specific parenting mechanism through which mothers' parental burnout contributes to adolescents' later bullying perpetration and victimization.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2096-2112"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148198946","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":"Developmental Cascades Linking Academic Achievement, Prosocial Behavior, Peer Relationships and Teacher-Student Relationships in Chinese Early Adolescents.","authors":"Jianhua Zhou, Yiwen Hu, Yafan Liu, Jianghan Song, Jinting Tang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02369-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02369-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Children's academic achievement plays a central role in shaping their educational trajectories and social development. While extensive research has shown that prosocial behavior and interpersonal relationships with teachers and peers are significantly associated with children's academic achievement, most studies have relied on cross-sectional designs, and the few existing longitudinal studies have examined these associations only in a piecemeal manner, limiting understanding of the developmental cascades that link academic, behavioral, and interpersonal domains as an interconnected system. To address this gap, the present longitudinal study investigates the bidirectional relations among academic achievement, prosocial behavior, peer relationships, and teacher-student relationships at the within-person level in Chinese elementary school children. The sample consisted of 3,132 children in Grades 3 and 4 (45.9% girls; Mean age = 9.88 years, SD = 0.72), who were assessed across five waves over a two-year period, with each wave spaced six months apart. Academic achievement was measured using end-of-term exam scores. Prosocial behavior, peer relationships, and teacher-student relationships were assessed through self-reports. The results of the random-intercept cross-lagged panel model indicated that higher academic achievement significantly predicted subsequent increases in prosocial behavior and teacher-student relationships. Conversely, higher prosocial behavior at one time point predicted subsequent increases in peer relationships and academic achievement. Positive peer relationships were associated with later increases in academic achievement, prosocial behavior, and teacher-student relationships. Similarly, more positive teacher-student relationships predicted subsequent increases in prosocial behavior and peer relationships. These findings support a developmental cascade perspective by showing that children's academic, behavioral, and interpersonal adjustment develop as interconnected processes rather than as isolated domains, with changes in one domain carrying implications for subsequent adjustment in other domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2077-2095"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148163770","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 Intervention Overload Hypothesis: How Service Diversity Produces a U-Shaped Effect on Recidivism in Juvenile Diversion.","authors":"Pengfei Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02370-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02370-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Juvenile diversion reduces recidivism on average. However, how many and what combination of services yield the best outcomes remains empirically unaddressed, with contemporary practice operating under an implicit \"more is better\" logic. Data were drawn from administrative records of the conditional non-prosecution system in Zhejiang Province, China, covering the period from 2014 to 2022. The retrospective cohort comprised 1,612 youth (M age = 15.87, SD = 0.92; 17.6% female; 32.1% non-local household registration) spanning low-, moderate-, and high-risk groups as classified by a standardized risk-need assessment. Using this administrative dataset, the study conducted triangulated causal analyses with risk-stratified moderation. Service diversity exhibited a U-shaped relationship with recidivism, optimal near 4.8 service types. Per-service engagement significantly mediated the relationship between service diversity and recidivism, with engagement declining as service breadth increased. The curvature of the U-shaped relationship was attenuated for higher-risk youth, with inflection point estimates ranging from approximately four service types for low-risk youth to over five for high-risk youth. These findings challenge the prevailing \"more is better\" logic in diversion programming and point toward a principle of calibrated parsimony: effective diversion requires not the most services, but the right number matched to each youth's capacity to benefit.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2030-2046"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148162974","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 is a Balancing Act: The Consequences of Defending Victims of Bullying Depend on Defender's Popularity and Social Preference.","authors":"Daniek H J Joosten, Rozemarijn van der Ploeg, Antonius H N Cillessen, Bram O de Castro","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02363-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02363-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Defending peers who are victimized by bullying is often promoted as a prosocial strategy, yet the conditions under which defending protects defenders versus exposes them to social risks are not well understood, especially in primary school. This study examined when defending predicts increased versus decreased risk for defenders by considering individual status (popularity, social preference) and classroom-level norms as moderators. Participants were 9439 Dutch primary school students (49.1% female; Mage = 10.55 years, SD = 1.47, range = 6.84-15.62) from 433 classrooms in 161 schools. Data were collected at the beginning and end of one school year (September, 2017 - July, 2018), including self-reports of victimization and bullying and peer nominations of defending, victimization, bullying, popularity, and social preference. Multilevel models showed no consistent main effect of defending on self-reported victimization. Instead, the social consequences of defending depended strongly on defenders' peer status: defending predicted higher victimization for highly popular youth and for youth low in social preference, whereas defending predicted lower victimization for youth low in popularity and for those high in social preference. Classroom bullying descriptive norms were associated with higher overall levels of victimization, but classroom norms related to bullying and defending did not moderate the association between defending and victimization. Sensitivity analyses using peer-reported victimization indicated a small positive association between defending and defenders' victimization as perceived by classmates. Together, these findings indicate that defending is embedded in peer status hierarchies and classroom climates and that the risks and benefits of defending depend on defenders' position within the peer group.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1999-2013"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13442617/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148101572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sexting Profiles, Mental Health and Quality of Life in Adolescents and Emerging Adults.","authors":"Mónica Ojeda, Daniela Villa-Henao, Esperanza Espino, Rosario Del Rey","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02360-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02360-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although sexting has become increasingly normalized among youth, less is known about how distinct patterns of sexting involvement relate to mental health and quality of life across developmental stages, and how gendered sexual norms shape these associations. This study analyzed a nationally representative sample of 3,534 Spanish adolescents and emerging adults aged 14-25 (M = 19.8, SD = 3.1; 49% girls/women) who reported engaging in at least one sexting behavior; analyses were conducted separately for adolescents (14-19 years) and emerging adults (20-25 years). Latent profile analyses identified two profiles in each age group. An Occasional Primary Sexting profile showed low involvement in all sexting behaviors (sending, receiving, non-consensual forwarding, and victimization), mainly reflecting occasional, consensual exchanges of one's own erotic content. In contrast, a Frequent Extensive Sexting profile showed high and generalized engagement across all behaviors, with especially frequent receiving of sexual content, including both directly sent and forwarded material, along with increased involvement in non-consensual forwarding. Frequent Extensive Sexting was consistently associated with poorer quality of life and higher depression, anxiety, and stress. Endorsement of sexual double standards mediated anxiety in adolescents, and depression, anxiety, and stress among emerging adults. Additional analyses revealed notable gender differences, with girls/women reporting poorer mental health and boys/men exhibiting higher endorsement of sexual double standards, with indirect effects through these standards being particularly evident among them. These findings highlight the importance of considering heterogeneous patterns of sexting involvement and the role of sexual double standards in understanding how digital sexual behaviors are linked to youth mental health and quality of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1981-1998"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13442504/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147964141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Does Peer Victimization Predict Loneliness? A Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Studies.","authors":"Xiaowei Chu, Haoyuan Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02376-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02376-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The longitudinal effect of peer victimization on subsequent loneliness, especially after controlling for baseline loneliness, remains unclear, and the potential moderators of this effect have not been systematically examined. This study synthesized longitudinal studies through meta-analysis to estimate this predictive effect and to examine demographic (e.g., gender and age) and methodological factors (e.g., types of peer victimization and time intervals) as moderators. A systematic search was conducted across six databases: Web of Science Core Collection, MEDLINE, PsycINFO, Scopus, ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, and CNKI. A total of 30 longitudinal studies met the inclusion criteria, comprising 32 independent samples and 71 effect sizes, with a total sample of 37,952 children and adolescents. A multilevel random-effects model was used for analysis. The results showed that the zero-order correlation between peer victimization and subsequent loneliness was r = 0.26 (p < .001). However, after controlling for baseline loneliness, the longitudinal predictive effect was trivial (partial r = 0.07, p < .001), suggesting minimal practical significance. Moderation analyses revealed that this weak association became weaker over longer time intervals, in European samples, and with peer-nominated measures. These findings indicate that the long-term effect of peer victimization on loneliness may be negligible, warranting caution in the development of targeted intervention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2057-2076"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148277750","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":"Loneliness and the Presence of Meaning: Co-Developmental Trends and Reciprocal Dynamics among Chinese Junior High School Students.","authors":"Youyin He, Yue Hu, Shengcheng Song, Caina Li, Jin You","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02377-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02377-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early adolescence represents a developmental period marked by increased vulnerability to loneliness and meaninglessness. Although theoretical frameworks posit reciprocal associations between loneliness and life meaning, longitudinal research examining their developmental trends and reciprocal associations has been limited. A total of 3825 Chinese junior high school students (47.5% girls; M_age = 12.36, SD = 0.50) participated in this five-wave longitudinal study, among whom 39.9% were only children and 80.7% came from middle-class families, with other demographic details presented later. The results showed that loneliness increased slowly in the first semester of seventh grade, rose sharply in the next semester, and grew steadily in eighth grade. Adolescents' presence of meaning dropped sharply in the seventh-grade second semester, with slow declines continuing afterward. Parallel process latent growth modeling indicated that a faster increase in loneliness was associated with a greater decline in the presence of meaning. And random intercept cross-lagged modeling revealed that higher loneliness predicted lower subsequent the presence of meaning, whereas stronger the presence of meaning predicted reduced later loneliness, indicating co-development and bidirectional links in early adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2177-2190"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148308771","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":"A Longitudinal Study Examining Sex Differences in the Development of Punishment Sensitivity: Considering the Role of Age and Pubertal Development.","authors":"Jessica M Biasin, Devlyn Yarenko, Teena Willoughby, Taylor Heffer","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02368-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02368-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Punishment sensitivity (a heightened responsiveness to aversive situations) is typically higher among females than males, however, research has yet to assess whether males and females have distinct developmental trajectories in punishment sensitivity over time. Participants included 1,141 children and adolescents (at year one Mage = 10.7, SD = 1.71, range = 8-15; 49.96% female). The current seven-year longitudinal study used self-report to assess punishment sensitivity, sex, and two markers of development, age and puberty. Across age, both males and females demonstrated non-linear increases in punishment sensitivity, with females displaying a rapid acceleration between the ages of 8 and 15. For females only, there was a significant interaction between pubertal development and age on punishment sensitivity. Although punishment sensitivity increased across age, this effect was exacerbated by pubertal development for females only. These findings indicate that although both males and females increase in punishment sensitivity across adolescence, this increase is more rapid among females, particularly those with more advanced pubertal development.gend.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2047-2056"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148157060","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 Emotion Malleability Beliefs, Emotion Regulation and Adolescent Social Anxiety Symptoms: An Actor-Partner Independence Model of Parent-Adolescent Dyads.","authors":"Yixuan Han, Pan Liu, Yusu Shao, Jing Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02373-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02373-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emerging evidence suggests that emotion malleability beliefs are associated with adolescents' emotion regulation and social interactions. However, it is unclear how this association is impacted by family interaction, which plays a crucial role in adolescent emotional development. The present study used Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Models (APIMeMs) to examine how parents' and adolescents' emotion malleability beliefs are linked to their own and each other's emotion regulation (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) in parent-adolescent dyads and how the interdependence is related to adolescents' social anxiety symptoms. Data were collected from 493 parent-adolescent dyads in China (Mage = 14.82 years, SD = 0.45; 50.71% girls; 80.32% mothers). Results showed that both parents' and adolescents' emotion malleability beliefs were associated with their own and each other's use of cognitive reappraisal. For expressive suppression, only actor effects were significant, such that parents' and adolescents' emotion malleability beliefs were related to their own use of expressive suppression. Moreover, adolescents' emotion malleability beliefs predicated their social anxiety symptoms both directly and indirectly through their own cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. Parents' emotion malleability beliefs were indirectly associated with reduced adolescent social anxiety symptoms via adolescents' increased cognitive reappraisal. These findings, based on the context of family interaction, suggest that cognitive reappraisal, more than expressive suppression, may reflect a dyadic family process through which emotion malleability beliefs are associated with adolescent social anxiety symptoms.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2131-2140"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148199079","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}