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{"title":"Adolescents’ posttraumatic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic: The links between differentiation of self, parents’ posttraumatic growth, and adolescents’ gender","authors":"L. Hamama ,&nbsp;M. Finklestein ,&nbsp;Y. Hamama-Raz","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108022","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108022","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The COVID-19 outbreak produced a threatening and chaotic environment for adolescents, potentially affecting adolescent developmental tasks such as differentiation of self. Yet positive psychological changes such as posttraumatic growth (PTG) may also occur when adolescents struggle with such challenging circumstances. In this study, we focused on 134 parent–child pairs comprising Israeli adolescents (ages 11–17) and one of their parents (ages 30–59), two years after the initial COVID-19 outbreak. Participants were recruited using snowball and convenience sampling methods and completed online self-report questionnaires, which included background data, the post-traumatic growth inventory, and the differentiation of self inventory. We explored a moderated mediation model where parents’ PTG served as a mediator in the association between adolescents’ differentiation of self and adolescents’ PTG, with adolescents’ gender moderating this mediation. Results revealed a positive association between adolescents’ PTG and parents’ PTG, and negative associations between adolescents’ differentiation of self and adolescents’ PTG/parents’ PTG. Further, results confirmed the moderated mediation model for the association between parents’ and adolescents’ PTG, but not for the association between adolescents’ differentiation of self and adolescents’ PTG. Adolescents’ higher differentiation of self was associated with parents’ lower PTG, which in turn was associated with adolescents’ lower PTG, among male adolescents only. Overall, the study results shed light on the importance of tailoring crisis interventions to the family system as a whole, given that at traumatic times in particular the mutual effect of parent–child distress may foster a positive outcome such as PTG. In addition, clinicians might wish to consider how to utilize adolescents’ differentiation of self in family therapy, as it was found in this study to be a resource facilitating recovery after negative life events and may thus enhance well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 108022"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Great times with board games’. Promoting the right to play for adolescents in residential care","authors":"Coral Gallardo-Masa,&nbsp;Rosa Sitjes-Figueras,&nbsp;Edgar Iglesias,&nbsp;Carme Montserrat","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108025","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108025","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Playing games is a form of expression that is both recreational and human in nature, and a much-needed tool for entertainment and learning. However, it can also be used to intentionally have an impact on behaviours. This research is part of a European project aimed at adolescents in residential care, showcasing an innovative approach to promoting the right to play through board games. The objectives focus on analysing the learning promoted by game sessions and understanding the socio-educational strategies used, the impact on social relationships, and the aspects linked to emotional management fostered by board games. Over a period of eight months, adolescents participated in weekly board game sessions in 25 children’s homes (nine in Spain, six in Poland and ten in Germany). The game facilitators were youth workers specifically trained for this purpose. Two data collection instruments were used to evaluate the sessions: a questionnaire addressed to both the adolescents (13–17 years old) (N = 112) and their youth workers, who were mainly social educators (N = 114); and weekly assessment reports by the latter. In addition, 723 play sessions were held and evaluated weekly by means of a guided report. This research analyses the qualitative data obtained from the questionnaires and weekly reports. The results provide evidence of game sessions being an excellent tool for addressing emotional, relational and learning aspects – including thinking, creativity and engagement – as well as motivation and social relations. They also highlight closeness with youth workers and time for relaxation and disconnecting from technology. Regarding emotional management, playing games promotes opportunities for quality time and space, a sense of well-being and the ability to manage quarrels and conflicts. The limitations and practical implications of the study are also discussed. Above all, this research highlights the need to introduce board games into the residential care setting due to the positive approach it brings to an environment often full of negative connotations, and also the benefits it offers for visits with biological families.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 108025"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kinship care in the welfare system: The lived experience and the case for reform","authors":"Juliette Borenstein ,&nbsp;Margarita Frederico ,&nbsp;Patricia McNamara","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108026","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108026","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Across the globe the customary practice of kinship care; family and friends caring for children unable to live with their parents, has become increasingly important as a government-sanctioned response to child protection concerns. This hybrid of public and private care (known in Australia as formal or statutory kinship care, and in the UK and USA as kinship foster care) has in many countries displaced non-related foster care as the preferred alternative care arrangement for children. With increasing use, this has proved problematic, with reports of unequal treatment, carer hardship, and worker confusion; especially concerning given the disadvantage of carers and their young kin. Research and policy development has been slow and restricted in its focus, with the views and experiences of stakeholders under-represented, leaving the practice field and service users inadequately supported. A recent study from Victoria, Australia aimed to bring forward the voices of stakeholders in scoping the operation of formal kinship care in 17 non-government kinship support programs. Taking a critical approach, the research drew on theoretical, empirical, and experiential evidence, and applied mixed methods, collaborative and participatory processes, and an ethical and ecological lens. Findings were based on a survey (n = 93), focus groups (n = 42), and interviews (n = 7), with carers, young careleavers, and workers, and data was analysed for themes and content. The research interrogated key elements of formal kinship care: its nature; the government’s engagement with carers; standards of care; the carer’s role and good care; the worker’s role and good practice. Findings highlight the complexity and distinctiveness of formal kinship care, not addressed in policy or practice, and resulting in worker confusion, unmet support needs, and compounded disadvantage for carers and their young kin. System elements identified as obstructing good care and practice include inadequate resourcing, paradigm conflict, confusion of imperatives, and misdirecting assumptions about family care. The study substantiates the pertinence of stakeholders’ views and experiences, and provides a basis and imperative for reform.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 108026"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A longitudinal study on within-person developmental relations between bullying and cyberbullying with substance use in adolescents","authors":"Izabela Zych ,&nbsp;Joaquín Rodríguez-Ruiz ,&nbsp;Aja Louise Murray ,&nbsp;Vicente J. Llorent ,&nbsp;Inmaculada Marín-López ,&nbsp;Elena Nasaescu","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Bullying, cyberbullying and substance use are prevalent problem behaviors in adolescents, with adverse consequences. Although previous research has provided important insights into their connections, it remains to be established if there are directional relations in which bullying and cyberbullying are predictors of substance use or whether their relation primarily reflects a common dependence on individual difference factors that tend to be stable within people but vary across people. The current study thus delineated between-individual and within-individual longitudinal relations between bullying, cyberbullying, and substance use in adolescents using a prospective longitudinal study with three data collection points. The sample included 1,481 students enrolled in primary and secondary schools in Spain. Data were collected through a survey with validated questionnaires. Analyses were performed using ALT-SRs to examine the within-person reciprocal longitudinal relations between bullying/cyberbullying and substance use. Regarding the within-person relations between substance use, bullying, and cyberbullying, only bullying perpetration in 10–17-years olds predicted substance use in 11–17-years olds. We also found a between-person relation between cybervictimization and substance use, and significant cross-sectional and longitudinal correlations among bullying, cyberbullying and substance use in most waves. These results should be taken into account for policy and practice against bullying, cyberbullying, and substance use. Comprehensive interventions that target all these problem behaviors should be designed, implemented and evaluated. More longitudinal research on the relation between these and other problem behaviors should be conducted.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 108012"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702792","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The relationship between adolescents' social development level and social anxiety: the multiple mediating roles of sense of self, authentic pride, and hubristic pride","authors":"Xuanxuan Lin ,&nbsp;Rong Tan ,&nbsp;Jianwen Chen ,&nbsp;Rongzhao Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108028","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108028","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Social anxiety has always been a widely concerned issue in adolescent mental health, yet the problem of social anxiety among Chinese adolescents continues to show an upward trend. The reason may lie in the development of modern society, which has caused a gap between the physical maturity and social competence development of adolescents. This is reflected in some adolescents whose social development level does not reach the normal level for their developmental stage, which may lead to them being at a disadvantage in interacting with their peers and causing social anxiety. This study investigates the relationship between adolescents’ social development level and social anxiety. It also examines the mediating roles of sense of self, authentic pride, and hubristic pride in this relationship. Using a questionnaire administered to 943 high school students, we measured their social development level, social anxiety, sense of self, authentic pride, and hubristic pride, along with various sociodemographic variables. The results indicated that a higher social development level is associated with lower social anxiety. Sense of self, authentic pride, and hubristic pride each act as mediators, with sense of self also serving as a multiple mediator through its influence on both types of pride. These findings highlight the importance of social development level in addressing adolescents’ social anxiety and underscore the significant roles of sense of self, authentic pride, and hubristic pride.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 108028"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142699424","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Women and men physically abused by closely related perpetrators over a lifespan. Revictimization and associations to situational factors in childhood","authors":"Rickard Pettersson ,&nbsp;Mattias Strandh ,&nbsp;Steven Lucas","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107994","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107994","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h3>Background</h3><div>Physical revictimization has been sparsely examined, and in particular the risk of revictimization within the context of closely related perpetrators.</div></div><div><h3>Objective</h3><div>To elucidate the relative contributions of exposure to physical violence in childhood and in youth by perpetrators close to the victim and situational factors in childhood to the risk of physical IPV in adulthood against the social-ecological background of the Trauma-Informed Theory of Individual Health Behavior (TTB). Trust was used as a proxy for resilience.</div></div><div><h3>Participants and setting</h3><div>A representative sample of 10,337 women and men aged 18–74 in Sweden.</div></div><div><h3>Methods</h3><div>A combined online and postal survey was used. Attrition bias was adjusted for by a calibration and weighting procedure based on official register information. Logistic regression was applied to calculate odds ratios (OR).</div></div><div><h3>Results</h3><div>Physical abuse by a parent before the age of 15 was associated with approximately 2–3 fold increased odds of physical adult partner violence. The strongest correlation applied to victimization by a partner at age 15–17, where the risk for men was three times that for women. Dysfunctional family conditions and social risk behaviors in adolescence were also associated with adult IPV, while sociodemographic variables had no explanatory value.</div></div><div><h3>Conclusions</h3><div>Our results indicated that exposure to physical violence by perpetrators close to the victim was the most potent risk factor for exposure to physical IPV in adulthood and that exposure at multiple ages increased this risk. Trust was clearly associated with lower odds of revictimization. Our findings support the tenets of TTB and suggest that they may be extended to the concept of revictimization.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 107994"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Peer and online victimization among Chinese adolescents: Unique direct and indirect relationships with psychological distress","authors":"Ning Ding ,&nbsp;Chunkai Li","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107989","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Research has examined the adverse effects of peer and online victimization on adolescents’ psychological distress, but little is known about the unique impact of peer and online victimization on psychological distress and the potential mechanisms underlying this association. This study investigates the distinctive direct and indirect relationship between peer victimization, online victimization, and adolescents’ psychological distress through the potential chain mediation of social anxiety and withdrawal and the moderating role of gender differences. A total of 974 students from 6 elementary and junior high schools completed the self-report questionnaire in a cross-sectional survey. This study adopts structural equation modeling to examine the hypothesized model. Results show that peer victimization directly influences adolescents’ psychological distress, with stronger effects of peer victimization than online victimization. Social anxiety and social withdrawal mediate the relationship between peer victimization, online victimization, and psychological distress. In addition, the chain mediating mechanism of social anxiety and withdrawal functions in the relationship between peer victimization, online victimization, and psychological distress. Finally, females are more vulnerable to the effect of peer victimization on adolescents’ psychological distress. The research deepens the knowledge of the unique effects of peer and online victimization, as well as the underlying mechanisms of social anxiety and withdrawal. This study also provides practical implications for policies, schools, and social workers for the prevention and intervention of victimization in adolescents and the promotion of their well-being.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 107989"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Double loss in the Chinese families of parental depression: A qualitative study","authors":"Alan Tsz Lun Tam,&nbsp;Mei Chun Cheung","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Although many studies have examined the lived experiences of children whose parents have depression in the West, few have been conducted in the Chinese context. This study aimed to identify the subjective experiences of parents living with major depressive disorder (MDD) and of adolescents with parental depression by investigating how adolescents and parents interpret and respond to parental depression.</div><div>This study adopted a qualitative approach and conducted a purposive sampling of community mental health services in Hong Kong to capture the experiences of both parents with MDD and their adolescent children. The research employed multiple methods of data collection, including focus groups with adolescents (n = 1); in-depth semi-structured interviews with adolescents (n = 8) and their parents (n = 12); and dyadic interviews (n = 8). A total of 14 families participated in the study. Thematic analysis was employed as the data analysis method.</div><div>Two themes were generated: “the loss of parenthood” and “the loss of certainty.” While suffering from MDD denuded parents of parenthood in various ways, adolescents highlighted a sense of uncertainty and loss of orientation in the challenges of living with their parents. The findings are used to suggest policy and service provision to support families with parental depression to alleviate the suffering of double loss.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 108005"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655543","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A life course perspective on parental incarceration and other forms of childhood adversity","authors":"Jennifer E. Copp ,&nbsp;Elizabeth I. Johnson","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Prior research on childhood adversity has revealed that exposure to multiple adverse childhood experiences (ACE) is relatively common, and that failure to consider these experiences in tandem may misattribute their effects to a single adversity. Yet attempts to isolate the effects of a given ACE are quite common, particularly in the burgeoning body of research on parental incarceration. Guided by recent theorizing in the parental incarceration effects tradition, and key insights from prior work on ACEs, the current investigation situated parental incarceration within broader contexts of childhood adversity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), we drew on person-centered analyses to consider associations between different constellations of risk, well-being, and other important life course considerations. Additionally, we centered the experience of parental incarceration to explore its prevalence across the different constellations identified and to examine its independent and interactive effects on problematic behavioral outcomes and successful adult transitions. Our findings revealed that 1) ACEs tend to cluster, 2) certain constellations may pose greater developmental risks, and 3) the effect of parental incarceration may depend, in part, on the unique set of ecological risks to which children are exposed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"168 ","pages":"Article 108011"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142702864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The mediated effect of youth council participation on the professional identity development of youth workers","authors":"Hyungjoo Yoon","doi":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.108010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Despite the extensive literature on the benefits of youth councils, the career-specific impact of such participation remains under-researched. Thus, the present study examined whether differences occur in the perceived professional identity of youth workers who participated in a youth council during adolescence compared to those who did not. The study was conducted on a sample of 332 students enrolled in youth work programs in South Korea. Stepwise regression modeling and mediation analysis were employed to identify both the direct and indirect effects of youth council participation on the development of professional identity in youth work. The results indicate that youth council participation has fully mediated effects on professional identity development in youth work, as evidenced by the increased awareness of youth work as a profession, average hours spent as a volunteer youth worker during college, and willingness to choose youth work as a future career. The findings suggest that young people’s professional identity in youth work can grow in youth councils despite the fact that the youth participation organization is neither intentionally designed nor formally structured for the purpose of professional identity development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48428,"journal":{"name":"Children and Youth Services Review","volume":"167 ","pages":"Article 108010"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2024-11-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142655539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}