Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescence in 2018"

TL;DR: This review aims to summarize recent progress and describe how this new work informs the understanding of sleep regulation and sleep behavior during this developmental time frame.

TL;DR: It is suggested that there is a meaningful relationship between health literacy and adolescents' health behaviors, and future research should use comprehensive definitions and measures of health literacy, and integrate health behavior and adolescent development theoretical frameworks in study design.

TL;DR: Efforts to develop and evaluate intervention strategies should consider not only social media behaviours but also underlying cognitive factors, such as fear of missing out, which are linked to poor adolescent sleep outcomes.

TL;DR: Effective anti-bullying intervention strategies need to address a range of victimization types and should consider gender and school grade, and should start before Grade 7 and continue until the end of Grade 12.

TL;DR: Using a multigroup approach across gender, it was found that courage partially mediated the relationship between career adaptability and life satisfaction in boys and girls.

TL;DR: The findings indicated that parenting seems to be a significant predictor of all forms of bullying/victimization, conventional and cyber, in early adolescents, even when accounting for bullying/Victimization levels eighteen weeks back, and showed that the effect of parental style on bullying forms was mediated by peer attachment relationships.

TL;DR: The considerable heterogeneity between studies posed a limitation to determine robust predictors of NSSI and further prospective studies using standardised measures of predictors and outcomes are needed to ascertain the most at risk individuals and develop prevention strategies.

TL;DR: Findings suggest that young people's beliefs about other people's stigma towards mental health problems was a stronger predictor of help-seeking intentions than their own stigma beliefs, highlighting the importance of looking separately at different types of stigma when investigating the role of stigma.

TL;DR: The results showed that social status and student-teacher relationships integrate and shed light on which roles are taken by young adolescents in school bullying, highlighting that it is important for the teachers to recognize these students.

TL;DR: Results from this study can be used to help educational agencies and mental health organizations create policies and design programs that will help in the prevention of IA in adolescents.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that preventive interventions may benefit from targeting math anxiety during adolescence, and membership in consistently low or decreasing trajectory predicted later STEM career choice.

TL;DR: This study holds important implications for educational and psychological research on student engagement, demonstrating that the construct, though theorized in a western context, has empirical utility and relevance in an East Asian context.

TL;DR: The results showed a U-shaped relationship between (1) active Facebook use and social/emotional loneliness and (2) emotional loneliness and activeFacebook use, which stressed to consider different types of loneliness, and reciprocal and curvilinear relationships in future social media research.

TL;DR: Adolescents who received any type of bullying were more likely to be in this category than any others when the high internalizing, high externalizing profile was the reference category.

TL;DR: The results showed that anger had a direct relationship with prosocial behaviour and aggression, measured two years later, however, the depression and anxiety states did not predict prosociality and aggressiveness.

TL;DR: Thematic analysis revealed that early marriage, sexual risk behaviors, substance use, family experience of adolescent birth, peer pressure, and lack of sex education and health service increased the hazards of adolescent pregnancy while communication with parents, school activities, community meetings, laws, and government policies protected adolescents from pregnancy.

TL;DR: Gender differences in maternal relationship quality and peer social acceptance as mediators of the association between childhood maltreatment and adolescent depressive symptoms in maltreated and nonmaltreated youth in the USA were examined.

TL;DR: Positive effects on media literacy skills and positive but smaller effects on attitudes and behavioral intentions, depending on medium and target behaviour are found and Implications for adolescent health initiatives are discussed.

TL;DR: Results showed that residents of a boys only boarding school were less likely to report bullying behavior than residents of an all girls school, or students at a co-educational institution, and there were no differences in bullying behavior or victimization by gender or grade level.

TL;DR: School connectedness may provide a role in promoting resilience for mental health for adolescents living in risk, whereas the potential negative influence that secure attachments to peers exerts, in context of poor parental attachment, needs to be explored further.

TL;DR: Staying in a positive time attitude profile was related to higher subjective life expectancy, and less frequent use of cannabis and cigarettes, and moving to a positive profile predicted healthier outcomes for most health measures used.

TL;DR: The results showed that specific personality, family, and school factors can be used as predictors of subjective well-being.

TL;DR: Results indicate that different types of online social comparison yield distinct implications for young people's identity development, and reaffirms the recently rising call for distinguishing the competition-based social comparison of ability from the information-basedsocial comparison of opinion.

TL;DR: Persuasion strategies by the adult through internet increased the probability of using deceit, bribery, and the minor's nonsexual involvement, and deceit and bribery were associated with higher rates of sexual solicitation, which in turn increased abusive sexual interactions.

TL;DR: Time spent using technology significantly predicted shorter subsequent sleep duration and vice versa, and public health advocates educating others about the negative impacts of technology on sleep must be mindful of the opposite, that many young people may turn to technological devices when experiencing difficulty sleeping.

TL;DR: The model confirmed the model in that ethnic socialization was positively related to life satisfaction through effects on ethnic identity but negatively associated with school achievement, and have implications for adaptive cultural mechanisms promoting positive developmental outcomes among historically disadvantaged groups including those intersecting immigrant and multigenerational ethnic minority group categories.

TL;DR: Using an online survey of 267 sexual minority youth from the Netherlands, the results show an indirect relationship of sexual orientation victimization and internalized homophobia with depressive symptoms occurring through perceived burdensomeness; for both males and females.

TL;DR: Building youth assets through promotion of positive youth development may serve as a driving force to reduce negative outcomes in youth who have experienced sexual abuse and suggest implications for early intervention efforts.

TL;DR: Research suggests that group CBT is a significant treatment for adolescent depression, and a comprehensive literature search of relevant randomized-controlled trials identified 23 studies containing 49 post-intervention and 56 follow-up comparisons.

TL;DR: The results suggest that school engagement and ISR are highly related, yet distinct concepts, which mutually reinforce each other during adolescence.