Yingying Zhang, Jinhui Qiao, Zhongyu Deng, Ping Zheng, Yue Dong, Yizhen Ren, Guoyi Liu, Jin You
{"title":"Parents' Beliefs about Academic Performance and Academic Stress among Chinese Adolescents: Evidence from the China Education Panel Study.","authors":"Yingying Zhang, Jinhui Qiao, Zhongyu Deng, Ping Zheng, Yue Dong, Yizhen Ren, Guoyi Liu, Jin You","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02345-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02345-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1697-1712"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147574754","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 Associations Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescent Depressive Symptom Trajectories in China: A Chain Multiple Mediation Model.","authors":"Jing Zeng, Mei Zhang, Yafeng Li, Yunting Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02355-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02355-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1804-1818"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13328128/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147628285","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":"When Negative Emotions Stick Together: Interconnectedness Explains How Emotion Regulation Strategies Shape Distress.","authors":"Xinru Ma, Jianjie Xu, Hui Wang, Peiyuan Zhao, Qiaoyao Lin, Mark Shuquan Chen","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02366-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02366-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emerging adulthood is a critical developmental period marked by heightened emotional volatility and increased vulnerability to anxiety and depression, yet the mechanisms linking emotion regulation habits to emotional distress remain unclear. Traditional approaches often examine emotions in isolation, overlooking how negative emotions unfold as dynamic networks that may sustain distress over time. Guided by a dynamic network perspective, this study examined whether negative emotion network density, further decomposed into emotional inertia and interconnectedness, mediated the associations between emotion regulation strategies and subsequent emotional distress. Chinese undergraduates (N = 421; M<sub>age</sub> = 19.16 years, SD = 1.04 years; 73.4% female) completed a 14-day diary assessing negative emotions, with depressive and anxiety symptoms measured at baseline and reassessed at 2-week and 6-month follow-ups. Mediation analyses showed that lower habitual use of cognitive reappraisal predicted higher emotional distress at the 2-week, but not the 6-month, follow-up via increased negative emotion network density. This indirect effect was primarily driven by emotional interconnectedness rather than emotional inertia. Notably, emotional interconnectedness remained prospectively associated with depressive symptoms over the longer term. In contrast, expressive suppression showed no indirect associations with emotional distress through network density or its componets. These findings highlight emotion network density, particularly interconnectedness, as a dynamic emotional mechanism through which lower habitual use of reappraisal contributes to emotional distress during emerging adulthood.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1911-1928"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148101562","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":"Within-Person Effects of Harsh Parenting on Adolescent Peer Acceptance via Interpersonal Accuracy: A Social Accuracy Model Based Longitudinal Study.","authors":"Mingzhong Wang, Zhenlong Zhang, Junhao Gu, Jing Wang, Kexin Zhang, Enyu Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02346-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02346-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While prior research has established that harsh parenting confers detrimental effects on children's peer relationships, it remains unclear how harsh parenting impaired child peer acceptance via the role of interpersonal accuracy. This three-wave longitudinal study (N = 1212; baseline M<sub>age</sub>=13.12 ± 0.79 years; 46.29% girls) employed the social accuracy model to extract interpersonal accuracy indices and Random-Intercept Longitudinal Panel Models to disentangle within-person and between-person effects. Results showed both harsh fathering and mothering negatively predicted subsequent perceptive distinctive accuracy, expressive normative and distinctive accuracy. Child sex moderated these pathways: Harsh fathering undermined girls' perceptive distinctive accuracy, harsh mothering impaired boys'; only harsh mothering weakened girls' expressive normative accuracy. Perceptive normative accuracy predicted boys' peer acceptance, perceptive distinctive accuracy predicted girls', expressive normative accuracy benefited both, whereas expressive distinctive accuracy showed no predictive effect on either. These findings clarify the role of harsh parenting in child peer acceptance by illuminating its associations with distinct interpersonal accuracy components and the moderating effect of child sex, advancing understandings of this critical developmental relationship.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1713-1732"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147964077","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":"Examining Heterogeneity in Cognitive Development Trajectories from Late Childhood to Emerging Adulthood and Their Association with Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Eight Years of Nationally Representative Data in China.","authors":"Yuxin Chen, Jeong Jin Yu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02351-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02351-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1748-1763"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147619009","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}
You-Kyung Lee, Eunjin Seo, So Yeon Lee, Yoonsun Shin, Jawon Min
{"title":"Reciprocal Associations Between Achievement Goals and Cooperative/Competitive Attitudes Over Time: Links to Stress and Achievement.","authors":"You-Kyung Lee, Eunjin Seo, So Yeon Lee, Yoonsun Shin, Jawon Min","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02361-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02361-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite their central role in youth motivation research, achievement goals and social interdependence attitudes are examined in isolation, obscuring their reciprocal dynamics. Using random-intercept cross-lagged models, this study examined their co-development and links to stress and achievement. Sample comprised two Korean longitudinal cohorts. Study 1 included 6,908 participants (M<sub>age at baseline</sub> = 12.83, SD<sub>age</sub> = 0.38, 47.6% girls; grades 8-12), and Study 2 included 7,324 participants (M<sub>age</sub> ≈ 11.00, 50.5% girls; grades 6-12). Competitive attitudes related to performance goals and higher stress. Mastery goals predicted achievement. Cooperative attitudes reduced stress but predicted lower achievement. These findings show that adolescent achievement goals are dynamically co-constructed with peer-related social orientations, challenging individual-centric accounts and advancing an integrative motivational-social framework.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1889-1910"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147982316","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}
Jingyu Zhang, Rui Luo, Huanchang Yan, Chun Hao, Jing Gu
{"title":"Temporal Associations Between Peer Networks and Depressive Symptoms Among Chinese University Students: A Cross-Lagged Panel Study.","authors":"Jingyu Zhang, Rui Luo, Huanchang Yan, Chun Hao, Jing Gu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02357-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02357-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1833-1854"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147690924","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}
Hanne M Duindam, Lucia Hernandez-Pena, Jessica J Asscher, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner
{"title":"Shattered Safety? Developmental Trajectories for Conspiracy Mentality and Violent Extremist Attitudes.","authors":"Hanne M Duindam, Lucia Hernandez-Pena, Jessica J Asscher, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02350-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02350-9","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1659-1677"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13328236/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147775311","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":"Developmental Dynamics of Negative Automatic Thoughts in Childhood and Gender Differences: A Longitudinal Investigation Based on Depressive Symptoms and Peer Attachment.","authors":"Xiaolu Shao, Wan Ding, Jingning Liu, Ruibo Xie","doi":"10.1007/s10964-026-02367-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-026-02367-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Negative automatic thoughts are a core manifestation of cognitive vulnerability and a key mechanism linking depressive symptoms and peer attachment, two major developmental processes during childhood, with effects that extend into adolescence. However, little research has examined how negative automatic thoughts interact with depressive symptoms and peer attachment over time, especially during childhood when thinking patterns are still developing. It is also unclear whether these processes differ by gender.This study employed a four-wave random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) to examine the bidirectional dynamic relationships among depressive symptoms, peer attachment, and negative automatic thinking in Chinese children, along with gender differences. The sample comprised 993 children ( M<sub>age</sub>=9.57 years, SD = 0.70), including 357 girls (35.9%) and 636 boys (64.1%). The results revealed that, in the RI-CLPM, depressive symptoms, peer attachment, and negative automatic thinking were significantly associated at the between-person level. At the within-person level, bidirectional relationships were found between depressive symptoms and negative automatic thinking, as well as between peer attachment and depressive symptoms. Additionally, peer attachment had a unidirectional predictive effect on negative automatic thinking. Furthermore, a predictive effect of negative automatic thinking on peer attachment was found only in the male model. These findings reveal the risk and protective mechanisms in children's cognitive development and their gender differences, highlighting the plasticity of negative automatic thoughts during childhood and providing a theoretical basis and practical reference for targeted mental health education and early intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"1929-1942"},"PeriodicalIF":4.5,"publicationDate":"2026-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148199504","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}