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{"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}

{"title":"\"Are More ACEs Always Worse? Exploring Nonlinear Associations with Youth Behavior\".","authors":"Kevin T Wolff,Jessica M Craig,Michael T Baglivio,Nina Papalia","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02225-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02225-5","url":null,"abstract":"Although it is assumed that more Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) are associated with worse health and social problems, there is a lack of research testing alternative forms of the ACEs-outcome relationship among young people, including whether these associations differ by sex. This study examines whether the assumed dose-response relationship between ACEs and internalizing problems (suicidal ideation/attempts, depression, somatic complaints) and externalizing behaviors (rearrest, readjudication, alcohol use, drug use) is consistently observed or instead demonstrates threshold effects or saturation effects (non-linear patterns) for both male and female adolescents. Administrative data were used from over 23,000 justice-involved youth who completed a community-based Florida Department of Juvenile Justice placement (mean age = 17.0, SD = 1.7, 77.2% male, 32.8% female). Logistic regression models incorporating both linear and quadratic ACE terms were estimated to assess non-linear effects and included interaction terms to test for sex differences. Results revealed curvilinear associations for several outcomes, including recidivism and internalizing symptoms, with diminishing effects at higher ACE levels. Although females reported greater ACE exposure and higher rates of internalizing symptoms, the shape of the ACE-outcome relationships did not differ significantly by sex. These findings challenge assumptions of linearity in ACE research and underscore the importance of modeling threshold or saturation effects. Implications for juvenile justice policy and practice highlight the need for assessment and intervention strategies that are sensitive not only to the amount and type of adversity experienced but also to individual and group differences in vulnerability and response.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"28 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144766013","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 Longitudinal Relationship Between Children's Internalizing Problems and Family Difficulties: The Role of Child Executive Functioning and Parenting Flexibility.","authors":"Hongyu Zou, Yanxiang Tan, Kaiwen Bi, Qing Zeng","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02165-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02165-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Research has extensively examined how a poor family climate influences internalizing problems in children. However, studies investigating the directional relationship between children's internalizing issues and family difficulties, particularly in Chinese populations, remain limited. To address this gap, the current study employed a longitudinal design involving three rounds of surveys with 282 elementary school students (45.74% girls, M_age = 9.73 ± 1.54 years at Time 1) and their parents. Cross-lagged panel model analyses revealed several key findings: children's internalizing problems consistently predicted subsequent family difficulties, while family difficulties did not significantly affect children's internalizing problems. Additionally, parenting flexibility at Time 2 (T2) mediated the relationship between children's internalizing problems at Time 1 (T1) and family difficulties at Time 3 (T3). Children's executive functioning at T2 also mediated the association between internalizing problems at T1 and family difficulties at T3. These findings underscore the importance of enhancing children's executive functioning and improving parenting flexibility to mitigate the negative effects of children's internalizing problems on family dynamics.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1934-1943"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670240","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":"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":"2077-2093"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","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":"Helicopter Parenting and Youth Affective Well-Being: Need Satisfaction as a Within-Family Mediator.","authors":"Yue Wang, Savannah Boele, Anne Bülow, Loes Keijsers, Skyler T Hawk","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02164-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02164-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parenting processes occur within families and unfold over time. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), helicopter parenting can threaten youth's psychological need satisfaction and undermine well-being. This study represents the first investigation of these theorized within-family, time-lagged processes. The research followed 350 late adolescents in Hong Kong (M_age = 18.2, SD_age = 1.09, 39.7% male, 60.3% female, 98.9% Chinese) for an academic year, collecting 16 bi-weekly reports of maternal helicopter parenting, youth affective well-being, and youth psychological need satisfaction. Preregistered Dynamic Structural Equation Models showed that, within families, helicopter parenting predicted decreased autonomy and relatedness (but not competence) satisfaction, which subsequently predicted decreased positive affect and increased negative affect. Parenting effects were time-dependent, exhibiting differences in valence and statistical significance between concurrent and time-lagged associations. This meso-longitudinal study highlights the applicability of SDT to parenting contexts and underscores the significance of considering the timeframe in understanding parenting processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1917-1933"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12331812/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143657387","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":"Growing Minds, Diverging Paths: Psychological Suzhi Trajectories and Adolescent Adjustment in China.","authors":"Qian Nie, Chunyan Yang, Chun Chen, Michael Furlong, Mei-Ki Chan, Dajun Zhang, Cheng Guo, Zhaojun Teng","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02228-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02228-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Psychological suzhi is a culturally rooted construct that emerged from China's quality-oriented educational reform, aiming to promote positive adolescent development. It integrates cognitive, individuality, and adaptability qualities, forming a dynamic internal system that supports resilience and mental health in Chinese contexts. Despite its theoretical prominence in Chinese educational discourse, research on its developmental trajectory and long-term implications for adolescent adjustment remains limited. This three-year longitudinal study (six waves) followed 1812 middle school students (M_age = 12.56 years, SD = 0.73, 51.4% boys) and 2482 high school students (M_age = 15.43 years, SD = 0.60, 49.6% boys). Latent growth models revealed a general decline in psychological suzhi among middle school students and a gradual increase among high school students. Latent class growth models identified four distinct trajectory profiles for each developmental stage-middle school: top/stable (15.2%), high/decrease (42.9%), average/decrease (35.1%), and low/decrease (6.8%); high school: top/increase (9.5%), high/increase (41.9%), average/increase (38.5%), and low/increase (10.1%). Structural equation modeling showed that adolescents with higher psychological suzhi trajectories exhibited better mental health, fewer internalizing and externalizing problems, and stronger academic achievement. These patterns suggest that developmental changes in psychological suzhi are meaningfully linked to adolescents' adjustment outcomes in China's current, exam-oriented educational system. This study lays the groundwork for designing stage-specific, trajectory-based interventions to support students' psychological development in Chinese secondary education.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144765050","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Parent-Child Separation, Communication and the Developmental Trajectory of Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents.","authors":"Mengqi Shangguan, Jingxin Zhao","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02153-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02153-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent‒child separation as a result of parental migration is often associated with an increased risk of depressive symptoms in adolescents. However, little is known about how parent‒child separation affects changes in the development of depressive symptoms, particularly the protective factors (e.g., parent‒child communication) that influence this process. This 5-wave longitudinal study explored the effects of parent‒child separation, communication and their interactions on the trajectory of depressive symptoms in adolescents. The participants were 2725 Chinese adolescents (M_age = 13.47 years; SD = 0.50; 43.3% girls), of whom 696 were separated from both parents, 684 were separated from their fathers, and 1345 were not separated from their parents. Depressive symptoms were measured approximately every 6 months in grades 7 through 9, and other variables were measured at the first time point. The results revealed that adolescents' depressive symptoms increased and the rate of increase gradually slowed throughout junior high school. Separation from both parents was associated with increased levels of depressive symptoms but did not influence changes in adolescents' depressive symptoms over time, and separation from father did not influence the trajectory of adolescents' depressive symptoms. Parent-child communication was negatively associated with the levels of depressive symptoms. Separation from both parents was associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms among girls with a lower level of father‒child communication but not among girls with a higher level of father‒child communication. Separation from father was associated with a faster increase in depressive symptoms among boys with lower levels of father‒child and mother‒child communication but not among boys with higher levels of father‒child and mother‒child communication. These findings indicate that parent‒child communication can alleviate the negative effects of parent‒child separation on the development of depressive symptoms in adolescents, and the effects vary across separation status and gender.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1959-1973"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143365194","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 Processes of Parent-Adolescent Conflict and Warmth in Chinese Families: Differences between Mothers and Fathers.","authors":"Xiaohui Luo, Hui Wang, Jianjie Xu, Hongyun Liu, Cynthia Suveg, Zhuo Rachel Han","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02160-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02160-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Parent-adolescent relationships are shaped by daily interactions that include both warmth and conflict, yet most research has focused on aggregate or long-term patterns rather than their day-to-day fluctuations. Guided by family systems theory, this study examined how mothers and fathers distinctly contribute to daily parent-adolescent warmth and conflict, as well as how these interactions vary across families. The sample consisted of 307 Chinese adolescents (M_age = 13.02 years, SD = 0.762 years; 49.51% girls). Participants reported their daily perceptions of warmth and conflict with both their mothers and fathers over a 10-day period. Dynamic structural equation modeling showed significant autoregressive effects for mother- and father-adolescent warmth and conflict. Cross-lagged analyses revealed that higher levels of mother-adolescent conflict, higher levels of father-adolescent warmth, and lower levels of father-adolescent conflict predicted increased mother-adolescent warmth the following day. Additionally, greater father-adolescent conflict predicted greater mother-adolescent conflict the next day. Within-family effects varied in both direction and magnitude across families and some lagged effects were moderated by adolescent age and family income. Overall, these findings emphasize the importance of considering parent gender and family-level variations when examining daily family dynamics. They also suggest that maternal warmth may be especially sensitive to the family's daily relational experiences, highlighting the need for parenting practices and interventions that acknowledge and address this responsiveness.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1985-1998"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143531640","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":"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":"2120-2141"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","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":"Reciprocal Relationships among the Educational Expectations of Fathers, Mothers, and Adolescents from Fourth Grade to Ninth Grade.","authors":"Yingnan Niu, Xiaolin Guo, He Cai, Baoxu Zhao, Liang Luo","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02218-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02218-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although reciprocal relationships among the educational expectations of fathers, mothers, and adolescents have been theoretically proposed, the dynamic, gender differential, and asymmetric nature of these reciprocal relationships within family systems across adolescence remains unclear. In the current study, a cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) was used to examine the reciprocal relationships among the educational expectations of fathers, mothers, and adolescents from 4th grade to 9th grade and the moderating effect of adolescents' gender was considered. A total of 3403 Chinese students (1628 girls; initial M_age = 9.85 years, SD_age = 0.37) and their fathers and mothers were followed from 4th to 9th grade across six waves at one-year intervals. The results indicated significant longitudinal reciprocal relationships among the educational expectations of fathers, mothers, and adolescents. The results of dynamic analysis indicated that father-to-adolescent and mother-to-father effects increased over time. In terms of asymmetries in parent-adolescent reciprocal effects, the results revealed that during the transition from 4th grade to 5th grade, adolescents' predictive effect on their fathers' educational expectations was significantly stronger than fathers' predictive effect on adolescents' educational expectations. The results of differences in parental-gender revealed that the predictive effect of mothers on adolescents' educational expectations was significantly stronger than the predictive effect of fathers during the transition from 4th grade to 5th grade. In addition, an adolescent-gender difference was observed in the adolescent-to-parent effects from 4th grade to 9th grade, with daughters having a stronger predictive effect on their parents' expectations than sons. This study reveals that within family systems, the educational expectations of fathers, mothers, and adolescents represent a dynamic process of mutual interaction, adaptation, and adjustment across different academic stages.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144765051","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}