Showing papers in "Journal of Adolescence in 2019"

TL;DR: The results of this study indicate verbal social skills play an important role in students experience of loneliness as well as depression and anxiety and improving the social skills of students should be considered by colleges seeking to reduce the mental health burdens experienced by their students.

TL;DR: Increased time spent on social media was modestly related to increases in depression, conduct problems, as well as frequency of episodic heavy drinking among adolescents.

TL;DR: Results show thatsexting adolescents may be at risk for (cyber)bullying victimization and highlight the need to address both sexting and bullying in prevention and intervention efforts.

TL;DR: E-cigarettes use could potentially play a role in adolescent/young adults social maladjustments including poor learning and academic performance, increased aggressive and impulsive behavior, poor sleep quality, attention deficits, impaired memory, and cognition, and increased depression and suicidal ideation.

TL;DR: Results justify an expanded examination of virtual reality as a youth violence prevention tool and provide a useful framework for novel, theoretically informed, prevention programming.

TL;DR: Despite the caveats related to parental control, parents who generally use a controlling style should consistently use this style while mediating cyber, because inconsistent parenting style conveys messages concerning internet activities that contradict what teens are accustomed to receiving in other contexts.

TL;DR: The MSS-SF goes beyond preference for solitude to distinguish two distinctly different motivations for solitude, and in so doing allows researchers to better understand the affordances and risks of being alone for adolescents and emerging adults.

TL;DR: Adolescents were poor at recognising depression, likely to seek help from informal sources and tended to attach stigma to depression, the implications of the findings are discussed and suggestions made for future research.

TL;DR: The findings extend prior research by documenting the positive role of guan parenting style and ISC in early adolescents' school adjustment, and underscore the centrality of mothers in the childrearing process within Chinese families.

TL;DR: There is little evidence for behavioural change in gatekeeper programs that lead to increased suicide literacy, and there is need to increase the reach and uptake of gatekeeper training by offering digital versions, which may lead to improved behavioural outcomes.

TL;DR: It is important to consider the type of PB when examining gender differences in adolescents' PB, as males and females generally are more similar than different in their prosociality.

TL;DR: The findings revealed that initial level in both problematic social media use and sleep disturbances both significantly predicted change in depressive symptoms, irrespective of gender.

TL;DR: The results of the study highlight the importance of teacher support when SDL is carried out in school, and show that in self-directed learning, even those students who develop weaker positive emotions are supported.

TL;DR: The aim of this review is to summarize the current state of knowledge and provide a synoptic overview about the physiology of puberty in adolescent boys and girls, and describe pathological disorders affecting its onset.

TL;DR: A focus on bullying behavior may be important for intervention efforts targeting to prevent possible negative outcomes of engaging in sexting, and recommendations are provided for educational and prevention efforts.

TL;DR: The findings of this study support the claim of SDT that the satisfaction of basic psychological needs, such as relatedness, is more important than sociocultural factors in determining adolescents' psychological well-being.

TL;DR: Endeavours to bring about sustained changes in adolescent sleep practices should be predicated on the role of parents/carers as sleep enforcers and the impact of peers, as well as responding to the gendered aspects of compromised sleep behaviour.

TL;DR: Across diagnoses, parents who were available to monitor, be a resource, collaborate with their adolescent, and engage in ongoing dialogue were key in the successful transition to autonomous illness management.

TL;DR: Results support the feasibility of a school-based, self-referral intervention with older adolescents in a definitive future full-scale trial.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that in some subgroups, CSH appears to be affecting the majority of girls, which is especially concerning given its association with multiple poor health outcomes.

TL;DR: Findings indicate that high social support from parents, friends, and teachers impacts Latinx adolescents reduces the impact of racial discrimination by peers on adolescents' relational aggression.

TL;DR: Targeting RF may help to build healthy identity among adolescents with symptoms of psychiatric disorders who have experienced maltreatment, particularly emotional abuse.

TL;DR: These findings suggest that schools should pay more attention to improving teachers' emotional support to adolescents and meeting students' basic psychological needs, which would enhance the positive impact of gratitude on learning engagement.

TL;DR: The findings revealed the critical role of child cognitive appraisals in the effects of parenting practices on child outcomes and highlighted the importance of examining the meaning and function of different dimensions of psychological control within a specific cultural context.

TL;DR: Effective interventions that aim to reduce marriage among adolescents living in Somalia (where marriage can be a protective strategy) should integrate a social norms perspective to avoid increasing adolescent-led marriage.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that many adolescents are nuanced and dynamic in how they identify and experience their developing sexualities.

TL;DR: New insights are offered into ERD experiences among juvenile justice-involved youth of color, gender differences in ethnic/racial discrimination experiences, and the potential value of gender-sensitive and culturally responsive programming in strengthening youths' ability to cope with ERD are offered.

TL;DR: A complex relationship between cyber victimization and alcohol use emerged; findings support the self-medication hypothesis among drinkers only and especially older adolescents.

TL;DR: Findings provide evidence that supports the reciprocal effects model and further the understanding of the longitudinal and bidirectional relationship between parental psychological control and adolescent aggression.

TL;DR: It is found that higher levels of peer support were associated with a decreased impact of complex trauma on internalizing and externalizing symptoms, which highlights the importance of social relations and the quality of peer relations in particular as factors that may mitigate the risk of early exposure to trauma.