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Romantic Competence and Courtship Skills: From the First Romantic Impulse to the Management of Mutuality.

IF 3 2区心理学

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-02-06 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12477

Noemí Toledano, Carmen Viejo, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz

{"title":"Romantic Competence and Courtship Skills: From the First Romantic Impulse to the Management of Mutuality.","authors":"Noemí Toledano, Carmen Viejo, Rosario Ortega-Ruiz","doi":"10.1002/jad.12477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12477","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: When adolescents have their first romantic experiences and start to form couples for the first time, these are normative practices which provide them with company, support and intimacy. However, the protagonists can also find them stressful and, at times, complicated. Romantic competence (RC) consists of a set of individual and mutual skills which are used to facilitate our emotional and social lives. In this study, we aim to deepen our knowledge about how RC is used, and the patterns or profiles present in the use of these skills.Methods: 2,400 Spanish adolescents (47.7% girls) between the ages of 12 and 18 took part in the study. A confirmatory factor analysis divided RC into individual or mutual competences, and, using cluster analysis, established three clearly defined profiles to describe the protagonists: ineffective in procedural and mutual management skills; ineffective in procedural skills and competent in mutual management skills; and competent in procedural and mutual management skills. The main discriminating factors for defining these profiles were age and romantic experience.Results: The results show that older adolescents with more romantic experience perceive themselves as being more skilled in both individual and mutual competences, and that there is a progressive development of RC skills from initiating a relationship to its later stages.Conclusion: Our discussion of the results hopes to shed more light on the complexity of adolescents' intimate romantic lives, as well as to illustrate the importance of this knowledge for improving educational practices and helping prevent problems such as the psychogenesis of gender-based violence.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143366262","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Physical Activity and Its Relationship With National-Based Examination Results Among Adolescents. 青少年的体育活动及其与全国统考成绩的关系。

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Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-02-05 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12479

V Venugopal, M Ismail, M N A Mohamed, K Chinna, M Y Jalaludin, T T Su, H A Majid

{"title":"Physical Activity and Its Relationship With National-Based Examination Results Among Adolescents.","authors":"V Venugopal, M Ismail, M N A Mohamed, K Chinna, M Y Jalaludin, T T Su, H A Majid","doi":"10.1002/jad.12479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12479","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: This study investigated the longitudinal relationship between self-reported physical activity and national examination results among adolescents in an upper-middle-income country.Methods: This study engaged in a secondary data analysis derived from a closed prospective cohort consisting of 579 students, who were recruited at the age of 13 in 2012 and followed up at ages 15 (2014) and 17 (2016) as part of the Malaysian Health and Adolescents Longitudinal Research Team (MyHeART) study, which was conducted across three states in Peninsula Malaysia. Physical activity levels were evaluated using the Physical Activity Questionnaire, and outcomes were assessed based on the National-Based Examinations at ages 15 (Form 3, Year 9) and 17 (Form 5, Year 11) in Malaysia. A multivariate ordinal regression employing complex sample analysis was applied to ascertain the relationship between physical activity and national examination results.Results: In Form 3 (Year 9), those physically active performed better in Malay Language, English Language, Mathematics and Science. Those physically active in Form 5 (Year 11), performed better in Modern Mathematics, Chemistry, and Principles of Accounting. Longitudinally, there was an increase in the overall percentage of those who were overweight and obese and an increase in those with suboptimal dietary and iron intake.Conclusions: This study has shown that those physically active students fared better in several subjects in the national-based examinations. Suitable physical activity intervention should be tailored accordingly to support adolescents' optimum achievement in academia.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143190941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Daily Interplay of Positive and Negative Events with Adolescents' Daily Well-Being: Multilevel Person-Centered and Variable-Centered Approaches.

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Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-02-04 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12468

Yael Zamir-Sela, Ziv Gilboa, Shir Shay, Shiran Darwish, Merav Maimon-Alimi, Reout Arbel

{"title":"Daily Interplay of Positive and Negative Events with Adolescents' Daily Well-Being: Multilevel Person-Centered and Variable-Centered Approaches.","authors":"Yael Zamir-Sela, Ziv Gilboa, Shir Shay, Shiran Darwish, Merav Maimon-Alimi, Reout Arbel","doi":"10.1002/jad.12468","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12468","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: This study examined associations between adolescents' daily negative and positive events and their coping efficacy, an understudied topic but pivotal to adolescent thriving.Methods: The sample included 153 parent-adolescent triads; adolescents' mean age, 15.71 years (SD = 1.53), 51% girls. Parents were in their midlife (Mage mother = 47.82, SD = 4.90; Mage father = 50.39, SD = 5.80). The study used a daily diary methodology to test within-person links to establish a temporal order of effects. Over seven consecutive days, adolescents reported on 14 daily negative and positive events. Adolescents, mothers, and fathers reported on adolescents' daily coping efficacy.Results and conclusions: Multilevel latent profile analysis (MLPA) identified 4 day-level event profiles: \"low event day\" (34% of days), reflecting low levels of both positive and negative events and low coping efficacy and positive and negative mood; \"positive day\" (44%), reflecting dominance of intense positive events and corresponding high coping efficacy and positive mood; \"mixed day,\" reflecting a combination of intense positive and negative events with average coping efficacy and positive mood despite high negative mood and impaired coping. Multilevel path analysis showed adolescents reported increased coping efficacy a day after increased academic load, and parents reported increased adolescent coping efficacy a day after positive parent-adolescent interactions. Fathers reported decreased adolescent coping efficacy a day after peer disappointment. Findings suggest positive events predominate in adolescents' lives, and their coping efficacy is sensitive to dynamic changes in the valence of context.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143123832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Omission Bias in Adolescence: Asymmetric Perceptions of Morality, Intentionality and Causality.

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Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-02-02 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12480

Yanwei Wang, Jiaxuan Zhao, Yanjie Su

{"title":"Omission Bias in Adolescence: Asymmetric Perceptions of Morality, Intentionality and Causality.","authors":"Yanwei Wang, Jiaxuan Zhao, Yanjie Su","doi":"10.1002/jad.12480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12480","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Humans are more tolerant of omissions than commissions when both cause similar negative outcomes, which is defined as omission bias. Although adults show omission bias in various moral contexts, it remains unclear how omission bias develops from adolescence to early adulthood. The current study aims to examine how adolescents perceive morality, intentionality, and causality of commissions and omissions.Methods: We recruited 730 participants from junior and senior high schools, as well as universities, between 2022 and 2023. Participants came from three provinces (Beijing, Shanxi, Henan) in China, including 160 early adolescents (Mage = 12.55 ± 0.34 years, 74 females), 169 middle adolescents (Mage = 13.71 ± 0.71 years, 74 females), 223 late adolescents (Mage = 17.15 ± 0.60 years, 123 females), and 178 young adults (Mage = 21.75 ± 1.81 years, 123 females). We conducted a 2 (Behavior: commission, omission) × 4 (Age: early adolescents, middle adolescents, late adolescents, young adults) × 2 (Outcome: harm, no harm) analysis of variance with morality, intentionality, and causality ratings as dependent variables respectively.Results: The results indicated late adolescents and young adults regarded commissions as more immoral than omissions. This tendency was consistent with the asymmetric perceptions of causality in the same age groups, but not with the asymmetric perceptions of intentionality, which existed even in early adolescence.Conclusions: These findings suggested that omission bias becomes more pronounced in middle-to-late adolescence and causality perceptions may play an important role in omission bias on moral judgment.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143075672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Competitive Attitudes Among Chinese College Students.

IF 3 2区心理学

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-01-29 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12475

Wenjuan Gao, Wenhao Tang, Jiang Wang

{"title":"Relationship Between Career Adaptability and Competitive Attitudes Among Chinese College Students.","authors":"Wenjuan Gao, Wenhao Tang, Jiang Wang","doi":"10.1002/jad.12475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12475","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: Previous research highlights the strong correlation between certain personality traits and individual career adaptability levels, yet the role of competitive personality remains underexplored. This study aims to fill the gaps by assessing the relationship between competitive attitudes and career adaptability among Chinese college students.Methods: A multi-stage stratified random sampling approach was used to conduct a cross-sectional survey of 692 undergraduate students from a top university in China. The final sample comprised 22.11% females and 77.89% males, aged 18-24, with a mean age of 19.54 years (SD = 2.16). Pearson's correlation and multiple linear regression analyses were utilized to examine the relationship between competitive attitudes and career adaptability.Results: Results showed that the average scores among college students were 10.068 for feelings for competition, 8.876 for beliefs about competition, and 7.802 for behavioral tendencies of competition. Significant gender differences were observed across all three dimensions (p < 0.01). In terms of career adaptability, the average scores for career concern, career control, career curiosity, and career confidence were 14.802, 15.601, 15.678, and 15.828, respectively, with no significant gender differences. Feelings for the competition had significantly negative impacts on career control and career curiosity (with coefficients of -0.149 and -0.110, respectively). Conversely, beliefs about competition had significant positive effects on career concern, control, curiosity, and confidence (with coefficients of 0.223, 0.200, 0.207, and 0.162, respectively).Conclusions: The findings suggest that feelings for competition hinder the development of career adaptability, whereas beliefs about competition contribute positively to enhancing career adaptability.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143068488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Parental Drinking Patterns and Adolescent Alcohol Consumption: Considering the Role of Sex and Developmental Stage.

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Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-01-28 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12474

Valeriia A Kondratenko

{"title":"Parental Drinking Patterns and Adolescent Alcohol Consumption: Considering the Role of Sex and Developmental Stage.","authors":"Valeriia A Kondratenko","doi":"10.1002/jad.12474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12474","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Research indicates that parental behaviors shape adolescents' alcohol consumption, but it is unclear whether mothers or fathers have a more significant impact and how this relationship varies by sex and developmental stage. This study examines the effects of parental alcohol consumption patterns on adolescents in Russia using a large representative sample.Methods: The study employs pooled data from the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey-Higher School of Economics (RLMS-HSE) from 2006 to 2019. The final sample included 25 611 cases of adolescents with the available data on their parents (20% male adolescents aged 14-17, 20% female adolescents aged 14-17, 28% male adolescents aged 18-22, and 32% female adolescents aged 18-22; M = 18.22, SD = 2.63). Logistic regression models were used to account for sex and developmental stages. Adolescent drinking was measured as a binary variable indicating drinking at least sometimes, while parental drinking was categorised into five levels, including moderate and excessive consumption.Results: Maternal alcohol consumption patterns were associated with adolescent drinking. Sex differences were observed, with parental drinking patterns showing a greater association with alcohol use for female adolescents. For middle adolescents, a positive association with excessive alcohol consumption by their parents was found.Conclusion: The study emphasises the importance of considering both parents' alcohol consumption patterns when examining adolescent alcohol use, with findings indicating that maternal drinking played a more significant role than paternal drinking. It is crucial to explore this relationship separately for male and female adolescents, considering the stage of adolescence.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143060957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Shift-and-Persist Strategies and Psychological Well-Being: Where Adolescents Stand on Social Ladder Matters.

IF 3 2区心理学

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12472

Lihua Chen, Weijie Lin, Shan Zhao, Peilian Chi

{"title":"Shift-and-Persist Strategies and Psychological Well-Being: Where Adolescents Stand on Social Ladder Matters.","authors":"Lihua Chen, Weijie Lin, Shan Zhao, Peilian Chi","doi":"10.1002/jad.12472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12472","url":null,"abstract":"Objectives: Shift-and-persist coping strategies have been demonstrated to be beneficial for physical health of individuals in low socioeconomic status (SES); however, their impacts on psychological well-being remain less clear. This study aimed to examine: (1) whether the protective effects of shift-and-persist with respect to psychological well-being (i.e., depressive symptoms and subjective well-being) only exist among adolescents with lower (vs. higher) subjective SES, and (2) what drives the potential benefits, shifting strategy or persisting strategy, or both of them?Methods: This study recruited 686 middle school students (54.5% male; Mage = 12.57 years, SD = 0.65) from Guangdong Province, China, in January 2019, and they completed measures of subjective SES (i.e., perceived family social status), shift-and-persist strategies, depressive symptoms, subjective well-being, and demographic information.Results: Adolescents who engaged in more shift-and-persist strategies reported fewer depressive symptoms and higher levels of subjective well-being, with stronger effects among those lower (vs. higher) in subjective SES. When further exploring what drove these effects, results showed that persisting strategy was associated with fewer depressive symptoms and higher levels of subjective well-being, with more pronounced effects for adolescents with lower (vs. higher) subjective SES. The shifting strategy was associated with fewer depressive symptoms only among those with lower subjective SES, while associated with higher levels of subjective well-being regardless of subjective SES levels.Conclusions: Findings support the applicability of the shift-and-persist model to both positive and negative indicators of psychological well-being and enrich the theory by providing preliminary evidence for the domain-specific roles of shifting strategy in buffering the negative psychological effects of low-SES contexts.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Sleep Duration and Quality in Adolescents: Associations With Suicidal Ideation.

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Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-01-25 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12473

Theresa Lemke, Sebastian Hökby, Vladimir Carli, Gergö Hadlaczky

{"title":"Sleep Duration and Quality in Adolescents: Associations With Suicidal Ideation.","authors":"Theresa Lemke, Sebastian Hökby, Vladimir Carli, Gergö Hadlaczky","doi":"10.1002/jad.12473","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12473","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Inadequate sleep duration and sleep-related problems are highly prevalent among adolescents and pose a significant health risk during a critical development stage. This study seeks to explore associations between sleep and suicidal ideation among adolescents.Methods: Cross-sectional questionnaire data from the baseline wave (2016-2018) of a cohort of 12- to 16-year-old Swedish adolescents (n = 4433, 50.39% girls) were analyzed. A split-sample approach was used for exploratory analyses and model selection. Logistic regression was used to estimate the associations between suicidal ideation and self-reported sleep parameters (weekday sleep duration, sleep quality), both adjusted and unadjusted for depression.Results: Adolescents with suicidal ideation slept on average 60 min less on weekdays and reported worse sleep quality compared to those without suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation was significantly associated with weekday sleep duration (p = 0.0267) and self-perceived sleep quality (p = 0.0003). Associations remained after controlling for depression.Conclusions: Sleep problems in adolescents are associated with suicidal ideation, beyond the effect of depression. Findings may have implications for screening and suicide prevention among clinical populations of adolescents, as well as for public health interventions aimed at promoting sleep and mental health in adolescents.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143048384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Adolescents Constructing Their Imagined Futures Through Dialogues With and/or About Nonfamilial Adults. 青少年通过与非家庭成员的成年人对话和/或关于他们的对话来构建他们想象中的未来。

IF 3 2区心理学

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12467

Sheila K Marshall, Richard A Young, Grant Charles, Melanie Gotell, Daniel Ji, Lydia Wood

{"title":"Adolescents Constructing Their Imagined Futures Through Dialogues With and/or About Nonfamilial Adults.","authors":"Sheila K Marshall, Richard A Young, Grant Charles, Melanie Gotell, Daniel Ji, Lydia Wood","doi":"10.1002/jad.12467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12467","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Adolescents actively explore future imaginings as they prepare for major educational, work, and personal transitions. Although family members may support exploration of imagined futures, adults outside adolescents' kin network provide access to resources not supplied within the family. The purpose of this study was to understand how adolescents actively draw on social resources of nonfamilial adults relative to their imagined futures.Methods: Adolescents attending two schools in British Columbia, Canada participated in a year-long study involving at least three face to face sessions and biweekly telephone calls. Participants (N = 13; eight identified as boys, four as girls, one as nonbinary; mean age = 14.92, SD = 1.60) were asked to invite nonfamilial adults from their social network to conversations about the future.Results: Two youth invited an adult to the research while the majority of participants (n = 11) explicitly changed the protocol by engaging with the researchers rather than bringing nonfamilial adults to the research. The change in the protocol was incorporated into analysis to try to understand participants' engagement in the research. Analysis revealed participants' overall intentions were to engage with adults, using the connections to test and refine imagined futures. Imagined future projects aligned with three clusters: practicing claims, navigating the line in the sand (difficulties crossing into adult realms), and resisting incongruent views of themselves.Conclusion: Findings illustrate adolescents' intention to alter the study protocol rather than dropping out and how adolescents' engagement with nonfamilial adults supported opportunities to test and refine imagined futures in the service of constructing identities.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Academic Burden and Emotional Problems Among Adolescents: A Longitudinal Mediation Analysis. 青少年学业负担与情绪问题的纵向中介分析。

IF 3 2区心理学

Journal of Adolescence Pub Date : 2025-01-21 DOI: 10.1002/jad.12471

Jingyi Wang, Ziyao Wang, Yuting Yang, Tingting Wang, Haijiang Lin, Wei Zhang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Chaowei Fu

{"title":"Academic Burden and Emotional Problems Among Adolescents: A Longitudinal Mediation Analysis.","authors":"Jingyi Wang, Ziyao Wang, Yuting Yang, Tingting Wang, Haijiang Lin, Wei Zhang, Xiaoxiao Chen, Chaowei Fu","doi":"10.1002/jad.12471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.12471","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction: Existing research indicates high prevalence of emotional problems among adolescents with excessive academic burden, yet the underlying reasons are not well understood. This study aimed to explore loneliness, physical activity, and sleep as potential mediating pathways between academic burden and emotional problems in adolescents.Methods: A longitudinal cohort study was conducted among middle and high school students in Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, China, with data collected at three time points. The study included 2965 adolescents, with a mean age of 15.2 years (SD = 1.7), of whom 48.0% were female. Most participants came from families with middle to high economic status (94.8%). Structural equation modeling was employed to analyze the direct associations between academic burden (measured by study time and academic stress) and depressive and anxiety symptoms. Additionally, the indirect associations were explored through three mediators: loneliness, physical activity, and sleep.Results: Higher academic stress at T1 was directly associated with more severe depressive symptoms at T3. Sleep (indirect effect 0.11, 95% CI 0.09-0.13), loneliness (0.10, 0.08-0.11) and physical activity (0.01, 0.002-0.012) at T2 mediated the relationship, accounting for 31.0%, 26.8%, and 1.8% of the total association of academic stress, respectively. For anxiety symptoms, sleep (0.11, 0.09-0.14) and loneliness (0.07, 0.05-0.08) mediated the association of academic stress with longitudinal mediation effect sizes of 34.1% and 20.6%, respectively. Study time was only associated with the outcomes indirectly via academic stress.Conclusions: Our results highlight the importance of behavioral and psychosocial differences related to academic burden in understanding the severity of mental health problems in adolescents.","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143014319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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