Dagmar Strohmeier, Nicolas Eric Neef, Siegmar Otto
{"title":"Solidarity With Planet Earth: Predictors of Pro-Environmental Behavior Among Adolescents and Young Adults.","authors":"Dagmar Strohmeier, Nicolas Eric Neef, Siegmar Otto","doi":"10.1002/jad.70288","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70288","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Conceptualizing pro-environmental behavior (PEB) as solidarity with planet Earth and as a socio-ecological dilemma, it is argued that PEB results when humans prioritize positive long-term consequences for the entire planet over positive short-term individual gains. Therefore, it was tested whether four socio-cognitive competencies taken from the model of helping behavior predict PEB and whether these associations differ between adolescents and young adults.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In total, 164 adolescents (M = 16.14, SD = 0.98) and 156 young adults (M = 21.89, SD = 2.13) participated. PEB was measured with a newly developed scale, while the four socio-cognitive competencies (1) noticing climate change, (2) interpreting climate change as emergency, (3) feeling personally responsible to act, and (4) knowing what to do were operationalized with single items or short scales. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), independent t-Tests, latent mean comparisons, and multiple group structural equation models (SEM) were performed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Young adults showed higher levels of PEB compared to adolescents. The model of helping behavior explained 58% of the variance in the whole sample and 60% versus 49% of the variance among adolescents versus young adults. Among adolescents, noticing climate change and knowing what to do against climate change were significant predictors of PEB, while among young adults, all four socio-cognitive competencies were significantly associated with PEB. Comparisons of simple slope differences revealed that knowing what to do was a stronger predictor for adolescents compared to young adults.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>PEB is indeed helping behavior in the ecological domain. Educational approaches focussing on knowledge how to protect the climate could be most beneficial.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116885","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}
{"title":"Longitudinal Associations Between Cognitive Flexibility and Academic Stress in Final-Year High School Students: A Parallel Latent Growth Curve Model Approach.","authors":"Shuang Xu, Yang Gao, Siyu Huang, Mengwei Shi","doi":"10.1002/jad.70283","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70283","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Students in the final year of high school often experience substantial academic stress. This study examined how self-perceived academic stress and cognitive flexibility changed and were associated across Grade 12.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Three-wave self-report data were collected in China in 2024 from 1754 Grade 12 students (mean age = 17.81 years, SD = 0.73; 1742 were included in the covariate-adjusted growth models). A parallel-process latent growth curve modeling estimated the trajectories both constructs, associations between their growth factors, and directional paths from the initial level of each construct to subsequent change in the other. A latent-basis model with wave-specific residual covariances assessed robustness.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Cognitive flexibility increased on average, whereas academic stress decreased. Higher initial cognitive flexibility was associated with lower initial academic stress. The rates of change were negatively associated in the primary linear model, but this association was not statistically significant in the robustness model. Neither directional cross-domain regression path was statistically significant.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The baseline association was robust, whereas evidence for coordinated change was sensitive to model specification and prospective cross-domain effects were not supported. Future research using more frequent assessments and experimental designs could clarify the temporal processes linking self-perceived cognitive flexibility and academic stress.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116847","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}
{"title":"Adolescent-Mother Agreements and Discrepancies in Reports of Daily Maternal Monitoring: Associations With Adolescents' Emotional Functioning.","authors":"Yueqi Wang, Shisang Peng, Skyler T Hawk","doi":"10.1002/jad.70282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70282","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Adolescents' and parents' (in)congruent reports of parental monitoring might be associated with youths' emotional functioning. This daily diary study examined how (dis)agreements in adolescent-mother reports of both overt (i.e., solicitation and behavioral control) and covert monitoring were related to adolescents' daily emotion dysregulation and affective well-being.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants were 208 adolescents (M<sub>T1age</sub> = 15.0; 56.7% female) and their mothers (M<sub>T1age</sub> = 42.63) in Mainland China. They completed a baseline survey (December 7-10, 2023), followed by a 21-day daily survey (December 11-31, 2023).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Adolescents showed increased emotion dysregulation and positive affect on days when dyads agreed that overt monitoring was greater than usual. Additionally, youth emotion dysregulation and negative affect were heightened on days when dyads agreed that covert monitoring was greater than usual. Regarding reporter disagreements, adolescents experienced greater emotion dysregulation on days when adolescent-reported overt and covert monitoring exceeded mothers' reports. A non-robust curvilinear pattern was observed in which adolescent emotion dysregulation was greatest on days when dyads agreed that behavioral control and covert monitoring were at moderate levels, followed by high levels.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Results support the notion that overt monitoring can be a \"double-edged\" sword for adolescents' emotional functioning, while covert monitoring is a consistent emotional risk. Findings also indicate that adolescents' subjective perceptions of covert monitoring, rather than the undetected presence of such strategies, are a risk factor for their emotion dysregulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116898","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}
{"title":"Goal-Driven Dynamic Change in Parental Monitoring and Adolescent Information Management: A Novel Conceptual Model and Simulation.","authors":"Nancy Darling, Beth Hardie","doi":"10.1002/jad.70277","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jad.70277","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>To be effective, adolescents' parents must have basic knowledge about what their children do, who they spend their time with, and what they care about. There is broad consensus that parental monitoring facilitates adolescent information sharing and that information sharing is the most important factor predicting parents' knowledge of their adolescents' lives (Liu et al. 2020). Nonetheless, under some circumstances, vicious cycles can develop in which adolescents react to parents' attempts to gain information by becoming more secretive and parents, in turn, respond to adolescents' secrecy by becoming more intrusive (Hawk et al. 2013, 2016). Despite developmentalists' fundamental interest in the study of change, most current conceptual models of monitoring are static. Specifically, theories have little to say about what would initiate change in stable family systems. This paper integrates what we have learned about parental monitoring, adolescent information sharing, and parents' knowledge in the last decades (e.g., Gingo 2024; Liu et al. 2020) with older models of parenting practice, style, and adolescents' willingness to be socialized (Cumsille et al. 2010; Darling and Steinberg 1993). It then incorporates insights from a model of monitoring borrowed from criminology (Hardie 2021a, 2022, 2024). This integrated model focuses attention on parents' goals and their ability to assess the success of their efforts as a mechanism driving change. A series of deterministic dynamic systems models illustrates predictions from this model about how parental monitoring and knowledge, adolescent information sharing, and outcomes unfold over time under different circumstances.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149116880","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}
{"title":"Problematic Social Media Use and Cyberbullying Across Contexts: Multiverse Evidence From Adolescents in 42 Countries.","authors":"Han Zhang, Zhihao Ma","doi":"10.1002/jad.70228","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70228","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Cyberbullying is pervasive in adolescence, and problematic social media use (PSMU) has been implicated in both cyberbullying perpetration (CP) and victimization (CV), yet how these links vary by age, family structure, region, country, and analytic decisions remains unclear.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using 2017/2018 HBSC data (ages 10-16.5; 42 countries; N = 186,107; 48.2% boys, 51.8% girls), we applied separate multiverse analyses to examine the associations of PSMU with CP and CV, both dichotomized as never versus at least once in the past couple of months. Each analysis included 2576 specifications that varied covariate adjustment, fixed effects, missing-data treatment, and the operationalization of PSMU.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Across the full sample, PSMU was positively associated with both CP and CV across all specifications. The association between PSMU and CP declined across the three target age groups of 11, 13, and 15 years, whereas the association between PSMU and CV showed a similar but more modest age-related pattern. By family structure, median estimates tended to be higher in reconstituted families for CP and in single-parent families for CV. Regionally, the distributions of CP estimates tended to be shifted upward in Western Europe and downward in Southern/Eastern Europe; the distributions of CV estimates tended to be higher in Western/Southern Europe and lower in Eastern/Northern Europe. Estimates were sensitive to covariate adjustment, with health complaints notably attenuating effect sizes. Differences between PSMU-CP and PSMU-CV were context-dependent rather than uniform across strata.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Findings show a robust PSMU-cyberbullying association alongside marked developmental, familial, and macro-contextual heterogeneity, underscoring the need for context-sensitive prevention and transparent analytic reporting.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2459-2477"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148430947","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}
{"title":"How Adolescents' Victimization Trajectories Divergently Predict Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Aggressive Behavior Across Cliques With Different Victimization Norms: A Multilevel Latent Growth Model.","authors":"Libin Zhang, Qingling Zhao, Xiangfei Duan, Jingjing Cui, Yunyun Zhang","doi":"10.1002/jad.70239","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70239","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The Healthy Context Paradox suggests that, in relatively \"healthy\" contexts with lower victimization norms, victims may paradoxically exhibit greater psychosocial maladjustment. Extending this counterintuitive phenomenon through a developmental lens, this longitudinal multilevel study examined how clique-level victimization norms moderated associations between individual victimization trajectories and corresponding changes in depressive symptoms and aggressive behavior trajectories within adolescent peer microsystems.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Using a four-wave design with 6-month intervals, we collected multi-method data (self-reports and peer nominations) from 2214 Chinese middle school students (46.83% female; M<sub>age</sub> = 13.00, SD = 0.62 years) nested within 485 naturally occurring cliques (M<sub>size</sub> = 5.25, SD = 1.92).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>As bullying victimization increased, adolescents showed an increase in depressive symptoms and a less pronounced decline in aggressive behavior. In cliques with relatively lower victimization norms, increases in bullying victimization were associated with a more rapid increase in depressive symptoms. By contrast, for aggressive behavior, the association between increasing victimization and a slower decline in aggression was stronger in cliques with higher victimization norms.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings advance understanding of the Healthy Context Paradox from a developmental trajectory perspective, showing that the paradox is more evident for depressive symptoms than for changes in aggressive behavior. The results offer important implications for anti-bullying interventions that target informal peer cliques.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2567-2580"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148593675","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}
{"title":"Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analysis of Resilience and Depression in Disadvantaged Adolescents.","authors":"Qiu Li, Wenjing Yan, Haiyan Ren, Xueying Liu, Fang Zhou, Weiliang Wang","doi":"10.1002/jad.70244","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70244","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Disadvantaged adolescents face greater challenges and are in more vulnerable positions, posing significant risks to their psychological development and long-term health. This study focuses on multiple resilience factors across emotional, family, school, and social domains, examining their longitudinal interplay with depressive symptoms, with particular attention to differences across social contexts.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A cross-lagged network analysis was conducted using longitudinal data from 820 adolescents recruited from two middle schools in northern China. Participants completed validated questionnaires assessing depressive symptoms, emotional resilience, family resilience, teacher support, friend support, and social support at two time points.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>A total of 820 adolescents were included (mean age = 14.50 years, SD = 1.70; 48.84% male). Network analysis revealed distinct centrality patterns across groups. In the overall sample, social support showed the highest in-expected influence (in-EI), whereas friend support had the highest out-expected influence (out-EI). Among non-disadvantaged adolescents, teacher support had the highest in-EI and friend support the highest out-EI, while in the disadvantaged group, friend support showed the highest in-EI and teacher support the highest out-EI. Longitudinally, emotional resilience positively predicted social support in the overall sample and teacher support in non-disadvantaged adolescents, whereas teacher support predicted friend support in disadvantaged adolescents. Depressive symptoms negatively predicted emotional resilience in the overall and non-disadvantaged samples and were associated with reduced social support in the disadvantaged group.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>High-quality friendships appear to play a central role in adolescents' resilience networks and may be relevant for mitigating depressive vulnerability. Emotional resilience and teacher emotional support emerged as important protective resources for non-disadvantaged adolescents, whereas teacher support and peer relationships constituted key components of the resilience network among disadvantaged adolescents. These findings highlight the importance of considering social context when designing strategies to support adolescent mental health.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2615-2627"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148663861","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}
{"title":"The Parent-Adolescent Relationship Context as a Moderator of Associations Between Secrecy and Disclosure to Parents and Adolescents' Adjustment.","authors":"Megan M Zeringue, Robert D Laird","doi":"10.1002/jad.70241","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Stattin and Kerr's (2000) seminal work illustrated the importance of adolescent disclosure, rather than parents' monitoring behaviors, in predicting adolescent adjustment. Subsequent work differentiated secrecy from disclosure, yet most of the existing research has examined these constructs in early or mid-adolescence. This study examines two indices of the parent-child relationship-autonomy support and conflict frequency-as moderators of associations between secrecy/disclosure and internalizing and externalizing domains of adjustment in late adolescence.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Participants included 242 youth (50% White, 18% Black, 17% Hispanic) who participated during mid-adolescence (M<sub>age</sub> = 15.4 years) and late adolescence (M<sub>age</sub> = 18.7). At both time points, adolescents provided self-reports of their disclosure, secrecy, parents' autonomy support, frequency of conflict with parents, antisocial behavior problems, and depressive symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Lower levels of disclosure and higher levels of secrecy uniquely predicted concurrent levels of antisocial behavior and depressive symptoms, and the effect of secrecy on antisocial behavior in late adolescence was exacerbated by high levels of parent-adolescent conflict. In contrast, secrecy, but not disclosure, uniquely predicted antisocial behavior longitudinally, and the association between secrecy and antisocial behavior was strongest among adolescents with highly autonomy supportive parents.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Findings suggest that routine disclosure to parents protects against antisocial behavior and depressive symptoms concurrently, but not over time. Keeping secrets from parents is associated with increased risk of antisocial behavior problems, although the context of the parent-child relationship should be considered.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2581-2591"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148622107","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}
{"title":"Parental Responses to Youth Disclosure: How Guilt Induction Shapes Future Communication and Actions.","authors":"Wendy M Rote, Madellein Arends","doi":"10.1002/jad.70230","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70230","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Youth disclosure is the primary way parents gain knowledge about their adolescent children; it is linked with better youth adjustment and encouraged by supportive parenting. When youth disclose a transgression, parents may feel torn between stressing wrongdoing to reduce misbehavior and responding neutrally to maintain future disclosure. This study employed vignettes to investigate how social domain and parental responses influence adolescents' expected future disclosure and behavior while exploring evaluations of parental responses as explanatory variables.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>U.S. undergraduate students (N = 358, M<sub>age</sub> = 19.76, SD = 1.48; 77% female) evaluated vignettes about disclosing a behavior to a parent as a teen. Behaviors varied by domain (moral, prudential, multifaceted, personal); parental guilt-inductive statements varied by criticism focus (person or behavior) and highlighted harm (parent or direct). Participants rated how parental responses would have affected their future disclosure, (mis)behavior, feelings of rejection, guilt, and shame, and evaluated responses' acceptability.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Neutral responses reduced expected future disclosure the least, followed by behavior-critical responses (especially those highlighting direct harm), which suppressed future disclosure less than person-critical responses for all but personal issues. Behavior-critical responses were most effective at reducing expected future (mis)behavior, with the strongest reductions across responses for moral and prudential issues. Effects on acceptability, felt rejection, and felt guilt/shame help explain the primary findings.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Parents may balance reducing problem behavior while maintaining open communication by responding to adolescents' disclosure with inductive statements focusing on the direct, negative effects of the misbehavior rather than criticizing the adolescent as a person.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2491-2502"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148550978","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}
Lizzy Winstone, James Parsonage, Cassey Muir, Amie Randhawa, Lauren Cross, Georgie MacArthur, Evangelina Asiedu-Addo, Emma Garavini
{"title":"Adolescents' Experiences of Social Media Content Types and Wellbeing: A Photo-Elicitation Interview Study.","authors":"Lizzy Winstone, James Parsonage, Cassey Muir, Amie Randhawa, Lauren Cross, Georgie MacArthur, Evangelina Asiedu-Addo, Emma Garavini","doi":"10.1002/jad.70231","DOIUrl":"10.1002/jad.70231","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Adolescents' experiences of social media are increasingly shaped by algorithmic recommendation systems that structure repeated exposure to diverse content types. However, research has focused predominantly on screen time, with limited attention to the diverse types of content encountered within curated feeds or how these experiences intersect with developmental processes such as identity formation, social evaluation, and emotional regulation.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Semi-structured photo-elicitation interviews were conducted in 2025 with 27 adolescents aged 14-19 years in the United Kingdom (mean age = 17.15 years, SD = 1.49; 70% self-described female). Participants shared screenshots from their TikTok For You or Instagram Explore pages to support discussion of algorithmically recommended content. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Seven content types were identified: entertainment, consumerism, identity-related, mental health, news and activism, body image, and AI-generated content. All were experienced as double-edged, with perceived benefits and risks shaped by repeated algorithmic exposure, developmental stage, emotional state, and individual context. Participants frequently reflected retrospectively on earlier social media experiences, identifying younger adolescence as a period of particular vulnerability. Perceived impacts were closely connected to developmental processes including identity formation, social evaluation, and emotional regulation, with younger adolescents perceived as less equipped to critically evaluate content or manage algorithmic exposure.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Adolescents' wellbeing in relation to social media appears shaped by the types of content repeatedly encountered and the developmental context in which exposure occurs. Research, education, and platform design should address the quality, recurrence, and emotional consequences of algorithmically curated content exposure across adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":48397,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2503-2514"},"PeriodicalIF":3.2,"publicationDate":"2026-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13643666/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148438596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}