Albert D Farrell, Sarah Pittman, Amie F Bettencourt, Krista R Mehari, Courtney Dunn, Terri N Sullivan
{"title":"Beliefs as Mediators of Relations Between Exposure to Violence and Physical Aggression During Early Adolescence.","authors":"Albert D Farrell, Sarah Pittman, Amie F Bettencourt, Krista R Mehari, Courtney Dunn, Terri N Sullivan","doi":"10.1177/02724316211036747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316211036747","url":null,"abstract":"This study examined beliefs about aggression and self-efficacy for nonviolent responses as mediators of longitudinal relations between exposure to violence and physical aggression. Participants were a predominantly African American (79%) sample of 2705 early adolescents from three middle schools within urban neighborhoods with high rates of violence. Participants completed measures across four waves (fall, winter, spring, and summer) within a school year. Beliefs supporting proactive aggression, beliefs against fighting, and self-efficacy for nonviolence partially mediated relations between witnessing violence and physical aggression. Indirect effects for beliefs supporting proactive aggression and self-efficacy were maintained after controlling for victimization and negative life events. Beliefs supporting proactive aggression mediated the effects of violent victimization on physical aggression, but these effects were not significant after controlling for witnessing violence and negative life events. The findings underscore the importance of examining the unique pathways from witnessing community violence versus violent victimization to physical aggression.","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9983758/pdf/nihms-1827994.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10849195","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Andrea M Hussong, Allegra J Midgette, Adrianna N Richards, Rachel C Petrie, Jennifer L Coffman, Taylor E Thomas
{"title":"COVID-19 Life Events Spill-Over on Family Functioning and Adolescent Adjustment.","authors":"Andrea M Hussong, Allegra J Midgette, Adrianna N Richards, Rachel C Petrie, Jennifer L Coffman, Taylor E Thomas","doi":"10.1177/02724316211036744","DOIUrl":"10.1177/02724316211036744","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We examined US parent and youth perceptions of how life events, both positive and negative, associated with COVID-19 resulted in changes in family and youth functioning. Families (<i>n</i> = 105, 80% white, 48% male, and 87% mothers) completed surveys during the pandemic (May to July 2020) and 3 years prior (for youth ages <i>M = 10.6, SD = 1.17 and M = 13.6, SD = 1.19)</i>. Declines in youth, though not parent, report of open family communication, parental support, and family satisfaction were found. Declines were associated with various domains of pandemic-related stress in parent report, though positive life events served as buffers. Pre-pandemic family functioning also predicted pandemic stress. Spillover effects in turn impacted youth functioning. The current findings shed light on how experiences of the pandemic are linked with family functioning and have implications for how to support families during this time.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8846419/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39933182","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saskia J Ferrar, Dale M Stack, Katrina S Baldassarre, Arielle Orsini, Lisa A Serbin
{"title":"Conflict Resolution and Emotional Expression in Sibling and Mother-Adolescent Dyads: Within-Family and Across-Context Similarities.","authors":"Saskia J Ferrar, Dale M Stack, Katrina S Baldassarre, Arielle Orsini, Lisa A Serbin","doi":"10.1177/02724316211020360","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316211020360","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Early adolescents (aged 12-15) were observed during dyadic conflict discussions with their siblings (<i>n</i> = 23) and mothers (<i>n</i> = 32) in their homes. The verbal conflict behaviors and affect of family members were coded continuously. Sequential analyses identified temporal associations between individuals' affect and their own and their partners' verbal conflict behaviors. In addition, within-family and across-context similarities in behavior were examined. Results revealed that while many links between emotion and behavior were consistent with previous research (e.g., attack/assert when frowning/upset, withdraw/concede when sad), several differences emerged depending on the relationship (sibling vs. mother-adolescent) and position in the family (e.g., adolescent vs. mother). Furthermore, many within-family similarities were observed in responses to emotion, while adolescents showed few similarities in their behavior across contexts. Results are discussed in relation to the developmental context of early adolescence and family systems theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/02724316211020360","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39578114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Courtney B Dunn, Sarah K Pittman, Krista R Mehari, Denicia Titchner, Albert D Farrell
{"title":"Early Adolescents' Social Goals in Peer Conflict Situations: A Mixed Methods Study.","authors":"Courtney B Dunn, Sarah K Pittman, Krista R Mehari, Denicia Titchner, Albert D Farrell","doi":"10.1177/02724316211064516","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02724316211064516","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Identification of goals is a key social-cognitive process that guides whether adolescents engage in aggressive or nonviolent behavior during social conflicts. This study investigated early adolescents' goals in response to hypothetical social conflict situations involving close friends and peers. Participants (<i>n</i> = 160; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 12.7, 53% female) were 7th graders from two urban and one rural middle school. On average, participants identified 2.5 goals for each situation. Qualitative analysis using a grounded theory approach identified nine themes representing the goals generated by participants: <i>instrumental-control, relationship maintenance, maintain image and reputation/self-defense, conflict avoidance, seek more information, revenge, tension reduction, moral,</i> and <i>stay out of trouble</i>. Quantitative analysis indicated that female participants identified more goals than male participants, but there were few differences in their types of goals. There were few differences across school sites. The findings highlight the variety of social goals specific to the developmental period of early adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10512817/pdf/nihms-1929125.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41159064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine Andrews, Liliana Lariccia, Victoria Talwar, Sandra Bosacki
{"title":"Empathetic Concern in Emerging Adolescents: The Role of Theory of Mind and Gender Roles.","authors":"Katherine Andrews, Liliana Lariccia, Victoria Talwar, Sandra Bosacki","doi":"10.1177/02724316211002258","DOIUrl":"10.1177/02724316211002258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The current study examined the roles of gender, and gender-role orientation in young adolescents' empathetic concern. In addition, this study aimed to explore the contribution of Theory of Mind in participants' empathetic concern. Finally, this study examined whether gender and gender-role orientation were implicated in emerging adolescents' Theory of Mind understanding. One-hundred-fifty 11- to 12-year-olds (79 self-identified females) completed questionnaires measuring their empathetic concern, Theory of Mind, and their perceived gender-role orientation. Results showed that gender-role orientation, specifically, femininity and masculinity predicted empathetic concern above and beyond gender. In addition, the effects of cognitive and affective Theory of Mind are explored and discussed in relation to empathetic concern. Finally, neither gender nor gender-role orientation was found to contribute to participants' Theory of Mind understanding. These findings suggest that emerging adolescents' perceived gender roles, as well as their ability to consider another's beliefs, play a role in their expression of empathetic concern.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/02724316211002258","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39824837","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stefanie F Gonçalves, Tara M Chaplin, Roberto López, Irene M Regalario, Claire E Niehaus, Patrick E McKnight, Matthew Stults-Kolehmainen, Rajita Sinha, Emily B Ansell
{"title":"High-Frequency Heart Rate Variability and Emotion-Driven Impulse Control Difficulties During Adolescence: Examining Experienced and Expressed Negative Emotion as Moderators.","authors":"Stefanie F Gonçalves, Tara M Chaplin, Roberto López, Irene M Regalario, Claire E Niehaus, Patrick E McKnight, Matthew Stults-Kolehmainen, Rajita Sinha, Emily B Ansell","doi":"10.1177/0272431620983453","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620983453","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion-driven impulse control difficulties are associated with negative psychological outcomes. Extant research suggests that high frequency heart rate variability (HF-HRV) may be indicative of emotion-driven impulse control difficulties and potentially moderated by negative emotion. In the current study, 248 eleven- to 14-year-olds and their parent engaged in a negatively emotionally arousing conflict task at Time 1. Adolescents' HF-HRV and negative emotional expression and experience were assessed before, during, and/or after the task. Adolescents reported on their levels of emotion-driven impulse control difficulties at Time 1 and one year later. Results revealed that higher levels of HF-HRV reactivity (i.e., higher HF-HRV augmentation) predicted higher levels of emotion-driven impulse control difficulties one year later among adolescents who experienced higher negative emotion. These findings suggest that negative emotional context should be considered when examining HF-HRV reactivity as a risk factor for emotion-driven impulse control difficulties and associated outcomes.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0272431620983453","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39947058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cascading Effects of Reducing Student Stress: Cooperative Learning as a Means to Reduce Emotional Problems and Promote Academic Engagement.","authors":"Mark J Van Ryzin, Cary J Roseth","doi":"10.1177/0272431620950474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620950474","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adolescents, particularly early adolescents, are vulnerable to stress created by negative peer interactions. Stress, in turn, can lead to increased mental health problems and reduced academic engagement, in addition to negative long-term consequences for cognitive development and physical health. Using four waves (2 years) of data from a cluster randomized trial (<i>N</i> = 15 middle schools, 1,890 students, 47.1% female, 75.2% White), we evaluated whether enhancements to peer relations, brought about through carefully structured small-group learning activities (i.e., <i>cooperative learning</i>), could reduce stress and emotional problems and promote academic engagement. We hypothesized that the increased social contact created by cooperative learning would promote greater peer relatedness, reducing student stress and, in turn, reducing emotional problems and promoting academic engagement. Our results confirmed these hypotheses. We conclude that cooperative learning can provide social, behavioral, academic, and mental health benefits for students.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0272431620950474","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10101391","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Melissa A Lippold, Andrea Hussong, Gregory Fosco, Nilam Ram
{"title":"Youth Internalizing Problems and Changes in Parent-Child Relationships Across Early Adolescence: Lability and Developmental Trends.","authors":"Melissa A Lippold, Andrea Hussong, Gregory Fosco, Nilam Ram","doi":"10.1177/0272431620931196","DOIUrl":"10.1177/0272431620931196","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Few longitudinal studies examine how <i>changes</i> in parent-child relationships are associated with changes in youth internalizing problems. In this longitudinal study, we investigated how developmental trends (linear change) and year-to-year lability (within-person fluctuations) in parental warmth and hostility across Grade 6-8 predict youth internalizing problems in Grade 9 (<i>N</i> = 618) and whether these linkages differ for boys and girls. Developmental trends (greater decreases in warmth, increases in hostility) were associated with more youth internalizing problems. Greater year-to-year lability (more fluctuations) in father hostility and warmth were also associated with more internalizing problems. Greater lability in mother warmth was associated with more internalizing problems for girls only. The strongest effects of lability on internalizing problems were found for youth with the highest lability scores. This study underscores the importance of differentiating developmental trends from lability in parent-child relationships, both of which may be important for youth internalizing problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9255863/pdf/nihms-1606042.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"40576337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emily L Loeb, Jessica Kansky, Rachel K Narr, Caroline Fowler, Joseph P Allen
{"title":"Romantic Relationship Churn in Early Adolescence Predicts Hostility, Abuse, and Avoidance in Relationships Into Early Adulthood.","authors":"Emily L Loeb, Jessica Kansky, Rachel K Narr, Caroline Fowler, Joseph P Allen","doi":"10.1177/0272431619899477","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431619899477","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study examined early adolescent romantic \"churning,\" defined here as having a large number of boyfriends/girlfriends by age 13, as a problematic marker likely to predict hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict in later relationships. A sample of 184 adolescents was followed through age 24 to assess predictions of hostility, abuse, and avoidance during conflict from early romantic churning. Controlling for gender and family income, romantic churning at age 13 predicted relative decreases in peer preference and relative increases in conflict and betrayal in close friendships from ages 13-16, as well as higher observable hostility and self and partner-reported abuse in romantic relationships by age 18 and greater avoidance during conflict with romantic partners by age 24. Findings remained after accounting for attachment security, social competence, and friendship quality in early adolescence, suggesting that early romantic churning may uniquely predict a problematic developmental pathway.</p>","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2020-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1177/0272431619899477","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25400902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of Internalizing Behaviors in Early Adolescence: Introduction to the Special Issue","authors":"N. Zalk","doi":"10.1177/0272431620919174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/0272431620919174","url":null,"abstract":"This special issue highlights a number of important processes that help explain the emergence and continuation of internalizing psychopathology (i.e., problem behaviors characterized by inner distress) during early adolescence. The five articles making up the special issue are introduced, each of which represents exciting new work regarding how, why, and for whom internalizing problems develop and are maintained. The introduction to the special issue further elaborates on transdiagnostic and person-oriented approaches, internalizing interpretations and functional effects of internalizing as relatively underused methodological and theoretical perspectives that might help move the field forward and further our understanding regarding the development of internalizing psychopathology early on in life.","PeriodicalId":51412,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Early Adolescence","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2020-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81286130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}