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{"title":"The Time-Varying Association Between Family Climate and Adolescent School Adjustment From 4th Grade to 12th Grade.","authors":"Mengya Xia,Xin Chen,Xinli Chi","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02219-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02219-3","url":null,"abstract":"Family climate and adolescents' school adjustment are closely related. However, little is known about the developmental timing of \"when\" and \"how\" their associations change across grade levels. Using time-varying effect modeling (TVEM), this study aimed to examine the dynamic associations between family climate and school adjustment from early to middle adolescence. The sample consisted of 15,451 adolescents in 4th to 12th grades, aged 9 to 18 years (M = 13.33, SD = 2.24); 52.2% were boys and 47.8% were girls; 25.5% were only children, while 74.5% had at least one sibling; 93.9% were from married-parent families, and 6.1% were from families with other structures. Results revealed that family cohesion and conflict were significantly associated with school connectedness and academic achievement across 4th to 12th grades, with the associations being stronger in middle school grades. Family cohesion also significantly moderated how family conflict related to school adjustment, supporting the \"mattering\" hypothesis rather than the \"buffering\" hypothesis. Specifically, family conflict had stronger negative associations with school connectedness among adolescent from high-cohesion families than those from low-cohesion families, particularly during the transition grades from middle to high school (9th to 10th grades). Family conflict also had a significant negative association with academic achievement in 4th to 9th graders from high-cohesion families, but such association was not significant for adolescents in low-cohesion families. Findings demonstrated the time-varying association between family climate and school adjustment across adolescence, with middle school being a critical time window for family-school intervention. Moreover, fostering a cohesive family climate, especially during key school transitions, may be an effective way to support adolescents' academic success and overall adjustment.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144594501","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 Trajectories of Friendship Homophily, Racial/Ethnic Identity Commitment, and Intergroup Bias Across Middle School.","authors":"Kara Kogachi,Sandra Graham","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02215-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02215-7","url":null,"abstract":"Although racial/ethnic homophily is a common feature of friendship networks, little is known about how preferences for same-race/ethnic friendships develop during early adolescence or how they are linked to the development of racial/ethnic identity and intergroup bias (attitudes favoring ingroups over outgroups). To address these gaps, the present study examined the longitudinal associations between baseline levels and trajectories of friendship homophily (same-race/ethnic preference), racial/ethnic identity commitment, and intergroup bias among early adolescents across the middle school years. Using a large racially/ethnically diverse sample (N = 4,576; Mage = 11.33 years at T1; 51% female; 41% Latinx, 26% White, 17% East/Southeast Asian, 16% African American/Black), findings from multivariate latent growth curve models indicated that friendship homophily and identity commitment trajectories were closely linked. Additionally, baseline homophily predicted greater identity commitment over time for racial/ethnic minoritized youth, but not White youth. In contrast, longitudinal associations between friendship homophily and intergroup bias were weak. Baseline friendship homophily did not predict intergroup bias trajectories; however, baseline levels of intergroup bias predicted increased homophily for racial/ethnic minoritized youth. Findings indicated that for racial/ethnic minoritized early adolescents, the development of friendship homophily is more closely linked to identity commitment than intergroup bias.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144547878","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":"Does Expressive Suppression Precede Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence?","authors":"Megan S Wylie,Tyler Colasante,Kalee De France,Tom Hollenstein","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02208-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02208-6","url":null,"abstract":"The association between expressive suppression and depressive symptoms in adolescence has led to claims that expressive suppression precedes depressive symptoms. This widespread assumption has been applied to practical applications, as some therapeutic interventions target reducing expressive suppression use to improve depressive symptoms. However, longitudinal studies suggest that depressive symptoms precede expressive suppression, indicating that reducing expressive suppression is not a worthwhile target for intervention. Unfortunately, these studies used models that conflated between- and within-person processes, leaving a gap in our understanding about these processes at the within-person level. Establishing these within-person processes will determine whether the expressive suppression-depressive symptom association is the result of select individuals scoring higher or lower on these traits (between-person) or a pattern of directional effects regardless of mean score (within-person). The present study fills this gap by revealing within-person effects through Random-Intercepts Cross-Lagged Panel Modeling. Participants of the current study were typically developing adolescents (N = 187, 46.6% girls, 48.2% boys, 0.5% non-binary) 13-15 years old (Mage = 13.9, SD = 0.91). Every six months for three years, participants reported their expressive suppression and depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms predicted increases in expressive suppression more often than expressive suppression predicted depressive symptoms. Additionally, depressive symptoms predicted expressive suppression consistently for boys, and less consistently for girls. Results challenge pervasive claims that expressive suppression use is a vulnerability for the development of depressive symptoms, and instead suggest that emotional challenges of depressive symptoms (including more intense, frequent, or enduring negative emotions) may elicit greater expressive suppression use.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144547879","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":"Linking Friendship Quality Trajectories and Fluctuations to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: A Four-wave Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Jinwen Li, Dini Xue, Chengrui Xu, Xia Liu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02213-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02213-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescence is a period marked by significant changes in friendships; however, while existing research has focused on developmental trajectories of friendship quality, relatively less attention has been paid to fluctuations in friendship quality and their impact on psychological well-being. The present study sought to address this gap by examining whether and how friendship quality trajectories and fluctuations distinctly affect adolescent depressive symptoms. A sample of 1083 seventh-grade Chinese students (39.1% girls; baseline M_age = 12.91 years, SD = 0.40) from three public junior high schools participated in a four-wave longitudinal study. Results indicated that a declining friendship quality trajectory contributed to increased depressive symptoms, primarily through the mechanisms of reduced self-esteem and heightened insecurity. Beyond the influence of mean initial friendship quality and its trajectory, friendship quality fluctuations also predicted depressive symptoms through reduced self-esteem and heightened insecurity. These findings highlight the critical and distinct roles of friendship quality decline and fluctuations during adolescence, revealing how friendship quality changes shape adolescent depressive symptoms and providing valuable insights for developing targeted interventions to mitigate adolescent depression.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144553820","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 Association Among Sleep Problems and Depressive Symptoms: Within-Person Mediated Effect of Thought Suppression.","authors":"Jianping Ma,Jue Deng","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02214-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02214-8","url":null,"abstract":"While abundant evidence supports an association among sleep problems and depressive symptoms, the underlying mechanisms remain relatively limed. In particular, little is known about how thought suppression may contribute to the dynamic interplay between depressive symptoms and sleep problems during late childhood. This longitudinal study investigated the reciprocal relations among sleep problems and depressive symptoms, and the mediating effect of thought suppression, by using a random intercept cross-lagged panel modeling (RI-CLPM). A total of 554 students (Mage = 10.56 ± 0.84 years at T1; 41.7% girls) participated in a three-wave longitudinal study conducted at approximately six-month intervals. Results revealed that thought suppression mediated the relationship between depressive symptoms and subsequent sleep problems, with higher depressive symptoms impairing thought suppression, which then led to greater sleep problems. No significant gender differences were observed in these pathways. These findings highlight thought suppression as a potential mechanism linking depressive symptoms to subsequent sleep problems in children, offering new insights into the developmental co-occurrence of sleep and emotional difficulties.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144547877","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 Impact of Increasing Subjective Economic Inequality on Prosocial Behavior Development: The Longitudinal Mediating Effect of Trust and Moderating Effect of Socioeconomic Status.","authors":"Lin-Xin Wang, Yue Ding, Jing Lin, Xin Shi, Yin Huang, Yu Kou","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02166-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02166-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While the adverse effects of economic inequality on prosocial behavior have been well-documented, the dynamic processes and underlying mechanisms during emerging adulthood remain equivocal. Whether this relation is consistent across different socioeconomic status groups also awaits to be unveiled. To address these gaps, this three-year longitudinal study shed light on the developmental nature of subjective economic inequality, trust, as well as prosocial behavior, and the nuance within such associations across low- and high-socioeconomic status groups. This study collected data from 1065 Chinese emerging adults (649 females; M_age = 18.34 years, SD = 0.77) at Time 1, with 981 (attrition rate = 7.88%), 874 (attrition rate = 10.91%), and 830 (attrition rate = 5.03%) participating in Time 2, Time 3, and Time 4, respectively. Results of latent growth modeling found that subjective economic inequality increased, whereas trust and prosocial behavior declined over time. Initial levels of subjective economic inequality were indirectly through initial trust linked to the initial levels of and changes in prosocial behavior. Multi-group results revealed that in the high-socioeconomic status group, initial subjective economic inequality affected subsequent growth in prosocial behavior via changes in trust, whereas in the low-socioeconomic status group, the effect occurred through initial trust. These findings highlight that declining trust is the central mechanism by which subjective economic inequality reduces prosocial behavior, with different influencing pathways across socioeconomic status groups in the Chinese cultural context.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1845-1861"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143670237","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":"From Selection to Influence: The Moderating Role of Classroom Norms in the Evolution of Aggression and Victimization in Adolescent Friendship Networks.","authors":"Ruonan Guo, Ke Hou, Tian Li, Caina Li","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02198-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02198-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Aggression and victimization are well-documented factors influencing adolescent social relationships, yet little is known about how these behaviors interact with friendship networks, particularly in the context of aggression norms. This study explored the relationships between aggression, victimization, and friendship networks, and further examined the moderating role of two types of aggression norms among Chinese adolescents using longitudinal social network analysis. A sample of 879 students (M_age = 12.73 years, SD = 0.43; 42.09% girls) from 16 classes (M_{class size} = 54.94, SD = 2.64) was tracked across three waves of surveys with 1-year intervals. The results revealed that adolescents did not select friends based on similarities in aggression or victimization, yet interactions with friends influenced individuals' levels of aggression or victimization. Popularity norms for aggression were negative in all classes, and both friendship selection and influence effects related to aggression were non-significant in all three groups. Although certain victimization-related effects were significant in specific groups, the overall moderating role of negative popularity norms was not significant. Descriptive norms for aggression did not moderate any of these processes. These findings help understand the dynamics relationship of aggression (and victimization) and friendship networks among Chinese middle adolescents, highlighting the potential role of establishing negative aggression popularity norms as potential strategies to curb the spread of aggression.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1704-1717"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144078683","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 between Social Mindfulness and Social Behavior in Early Adolescence: Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Associations.","authors":"Liu Yang, Muhua Lyu, Jiahui Chen, Xidan Feng, Ping Ren","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02142-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02142-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite evidence indicating that social mindfulness may be a precondition for both prosocial and aggressive behavior, there remains a limited understanding of how the bidirectional dynamics between them unfold over time. Framed in the developmental cascade model, this study examined the longitudinal reciprocal relations between social mindfulness and these two distinct social behaviors among early adolescents by disentangling within-person and between-person effects. A total of 1087 Chinese early adolescents (48.7% girls; M_age = 11.35 ± 0.49 years at Time 1) participated in a three-wave longitudinal study with about four-month assessment intervals. The random-intercept cross-lagged panel model indicated that, at the within-person level, social mindfulness and prosocial behavior positively predicted each other over time. Furthermore, fluctuations in social mindfulness were found to negatively predict changes in aggressive behavior at subsequent time points, but the reverse was not true, suggesting a unidirectional influence. A similar pattern was found between social mindfulness and reactive aggressive behavior, but no significant bidirectional effects emerged between social mindfulness and proactive aggressive behavior. These findings highlight the role of social mindfulness in shaping early adolescents' social behavior over time, thus providing insights for more targeted and effective interventions to foster prosocial behavior and prevent aggressive behavior.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1800-1812"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143408759","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":"Differential Effects of Friendship and School Norms on Adolescents' Defending in Cyberbullying Situations: A Randomized School-Based Experiment.","authors":"Stefanie Richters, Maor Shani, Lea Geyer, Maarten H W van Zalk","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02202-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02202-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>During adolescence, close friendships become increasingly important, yet whether norms within friendship groups may influence responses to cyberbullying more than norms from more distal reference groups such as schools remains untested. This preregistered experiment examined the effects of friendship and school pro-defending norms on adolescents' defending intentions and behaviors in response to hypothetical cyberbullying scenarios. Participants were 321 students from grades 5 to 10 in a German secondary school (55.45% female; M_age = 12.66, SD_age = 1.73), randomly assigned to a friendship norm (N = 105), school norm (N = 110), or control (N = 106) condition. Norm information was derived from previous data collection. Victim- and bully-oriented defending intentions and behaviors were significantly higher in the friendship norm condition compared to the control condition, while the school norm condition showed no significant effects. Neither norm condition influenced cyberbullying reporting and participation in an anti-bullying campaign. These findings demonstrate that friendship norms are effective in promoting defending in cyberbullying situations, suggesting that norm-based interventions may benefit from targeting such proximal reference groups that are aligned with adolescents' developmental needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1677-1692"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12245936/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144266529","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":"Bidirectional Relationships between Adolescent Aggression and Mental Health Conditions: Longitudinal Evidence from Secondary School Students in China.","authors":"Xiang Li, Xinxin Zhu, Rebecca P Ang, Xintong Zhang, Yunpeng Bai, Daiyi Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02167-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02167-y","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A rising global concern, adolescent aggression has been linked to adolescents' mental health conditions, and vice versa. Although longitudinal relationships between the two have been studied, within-person associations between these variables, which are important for informing interventions, have not been adequately examined. To bridge that research gap, this study examined the within-person associations between aggression (i.e., reactive, proactive, and cyber aggression) and mental health problems (i.e., depressive and anxious symptoms), as informed by the frustration-aggression theory and the failure model. Three-wave longitudinal data were collected from a sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 1422; 50.9% girls; mean age = 13.56 years) at three time points, each separated by one-year intervals. The data were analyzed using a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM), revealing several within-person relationships. The presence of symptoms of depression and anxiety at T2 predicted increased cyber aggression at T3, and depressive symptoms at T2 also predicted an increase in reactive aggression at T3 (p < 0.1). In addition, proactive aggression at T2 predicted an increase in depressive symptoms at T3 (p < 0.1), and reactive aggression at T1 predicted a reduction in symptoms of anxiety at T2. All aggression- and mental health-related variables were significantly correlated at the between-person level. Moreover, the results of the multiple-group RI-CLPMs showed that gender influenced the relationships between proactive aggression and symptoms of depression and anxiety. The study's results lend partial support to the notion of bidirectional relationships between adolescent aggressive behaviors and mental health conditions, as well as to the frustration-aggression theory and the failure model. Insights into the interactions between adolescents' mental health problems and aggression can inform prevention and intervention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1862-1878"},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12246009/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143692620","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}