Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescence in 2013"

TL;DR: Examination of associations among depression, suicidal behaviors, and bullying and victimization experiences in high school students using data from the 2009 Youth Risk Behavior Survey demonstrated that depression mediated the association between bullying/victimization and suicide attempts, but differently for males and females.

TL;DR: Investigation of pathways that linked students' basicmoral sensitivity, moral disengagement, and defender self-efficacy to different bystander behaviors in bullying situations indicated that compared with boys, girls expressed higher basic moral sensitivity in bullying, lower defender self -efficacy and moral diseng engagement in bullying.

TL;DR: It is found that both the high stable and moderate increasing trajectories were associated with depressive symptoms, a higher frequency of visits to the doctor, and lower perceived general health at age 17.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors take a somewhat different approach, describing loneliness in terms of perceived social isolation, and identify unique properties of adolescence that carry special risk for perceived social isolate, such as (but are not limited to) developmental changes in companions, developmental change in autonomy and individuation, identity exploration, cognitive maturation, and physical maturity.

TL;DR: Results from multinomial logistic regression models indicate skipping school was robustly associated with an increased probability of reporting externalizing behaviors, less parental involvement, and engagement and lower grades in school.

TL;DR: The effects of a two-year intervention grounded in the ability model of emotional intelligence (EI) on aggression and empathy among adolescents are explored and the EI program was particularly effective for males' empathic abilities.

TL;DR: Easy-to-implement strategies to optimize sleep quality and maintain an adaptive circadian body clock may help to increase daytime alertness, elevate mood, and improve academic performance.

TL;DR: Findings illustrated the syndrome's relation to worse academic achievement and concluded that internet addiction among adolescents of urban and rural areas in Greece is associated with poorer academic achievement.

TL;DR: Results indicated five discrete trajectories of loneliness from middle childhood to adolescence, which predicted self-reports of social skills deficits, depression, aggression, and suicidal ideation at age 15.

TL;DR: Examination of the relationship of sleep duration with positive attitude toward life and academic achievement in a sample of 2716 adolescents in Switzerland found students who started school 20 min later received reliably more sleep and reported less tiredness.

TL;DR: Findings emphasize the importance of empathy and interpersonal competence in adolescent friendships, and of considering the interdependence of these constructs in friend dyads.

TL;DR: Preliminary support is provided for the notion that reflective function can be validly and reliably assessed in adolescent populations.

TL;DR: There may be long-term health effects of experiencing high loneliness in middle childhood, even when loneliness levels reduce to normal levels at pre-adolescence, according to growth mixture modeling.

TL;DR: A five-wave cohort-sequential longitudinal study spanning ages 15 to 20 showed that loneliness generally decreased over time, and underscore the additional value of studying subgroups regarding the development of loneliness.

TL;DR: Australian adolescents, on average, obtained inadequate sleep across the school week, and later bedtimes, longer sleep onset latencies, and shorter sleep duration were significantly associated with aspects of poor daytime functioning.

TL;DR: The transition to secondary school may represent a window of opportunity for developing interventions aimed at improving both pupil psychological functioning and attainment.

TL;DR: Testing a model in which cognitive, dispositional, and social factors were integrated into a single perspective as predictors of gambling behavior found Sensation seeking and superstitious thinking were consistent predictors across gender, while probabilistic reasoning ability, the perception of the economic profitability of gambling, and peer gambling behavior were found to be predictors only among male adolescents.

TL;DR: Results indicate that positive parental practices are related to youths' well-being and support the importance of establishing intervention strategies designed to promote best practices among parents of teenagers to help them develop into well-adjusted adults.

TL;DR: Findings implied that most adolescents experience loneliness more strongly during early rather than later adolescence, but not all adolescents traverse the same loneliness trajectories.

TL;DR: Results indicate that fostering adolescents self-concept in social and academic domains are compatible goals, however, some students need support in managing the challenge to coordinate social and academics goals.

TL;DR: The findings indicate that low levels of social skills in early adolescence predicted increases in depressive symptoms for both girls and boys, and underline the importance of including social skills training in primary programs designed to prevent development of depression.

TL;DR: Results showed privacy concern as the cognitive factor reduces adolescents' PII disclosure and it serves as a potential mediator for personality and social factors.

TL;DR: The study findings suggest that the quality of parent/child relationships in adolescence is modestly related to later psychosocial functioning in adulthood.

TL;DR: Results of a multilevel growth model showed that both baseline level and change of bullying varied significantly across individuals as well as across classrooms, and that the link between aggression and bullying was moderated by the pro-bullying behaviors within each class.

TL;DR: The questionnaire developed in this study, the Child-to-Parent Aggression Questionnaire (CPAQ), includes forms of physical and psychological aggression directed at both the mother and the father and highlights the complexity of child- to-parent aggression in adolescence.

TL;DR: The different roles played by parental rejection and parental warmth in the development of adolescents' emotion regulation accord with arguments that socialization occurs in different domains and that rejection and warmth are not aspects of the same domain.

TL;DR: Examination of positive and negative qualities in adolescents' interpersonal relationships and their relative importance in predicting emotional distress revealed high levels of satisfaction in interpersonal relationships were predictive of low levels of emotional distress whereas high levels-of criticism and exclusion were predicted of high Levels of distress.

TL;DR: Adolescents' connectedness to family and school predicted more positive perceptions of future orientation both directly and indirectly via the effect of the context variables on each other.

TL;DR: Feelings of powerlessness need to be addressed when targeting Black MSM with HIV prevention information in order to reduce HIV infection rates among men who have sex with men.

TL;DR: Overall, ethnic minority youths were not more likely to be victims; African boys and girls were significantly less likelihood to be victimised than same sex White youths.