Amanda M. Richer

TL;DR: Findings showed that many parents adapted their conversations with their teens about sex and relationships as teens developed, but parents also more often reported that their teens responded negatively to the communication in high school than they had in middle school.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the role of companion animals and attachment to pets in predicting adolescent loneliness and found that pet ownership was not a significant predictor of loneliness before the pandemic, but did predict higher levels of loneliness during COVID-19 as well as higher increases in loneliness from before to during the epidemic.

TL;DR: Investigation of the associations of social technology access and content, bedtime behaviors, parental phone restrictions, and timing and duration of sleep on school nights in early adolescents found parental rules restricting mobile phone and online use before bed and obtaining a smartphone at a later age were associated with increased sleep time and earlier bedtime.

TL;DR: Extended family may play a somewhat different role than parents in teens' sexuality communication, but family members showed a largely common set of family values.

TL;DR: This article examined the relative prevalence of social media behaviors across racial/ethnic groups with Asian Americans disaggregated as a unique subgroup and as the racial group of reference, and discussed the overarching themes of maintenance of privacy and limiting loss of face, avoiding stigma related to negative emotional states, and personal conceptualizations of cyber harassment.