Coping Power Universal for middle school students: The first efficacy study
ConclusionsThe Coping Power Universal effectively adapts an existing evidence-based program, and is believed to be a useful strategy also to improve social emotional skills in middle-school students. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - January 2, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Do you need a roadmap or can someone give you directions: When school-focused possible identities change so do academic trajectories
ConclusionsChange in school-focused possible identities is normative over the course of the school year, interventions should take this into account. On average, students have fewer school-focused possible identities by spring. This decline is associated with declining academic trajectories. However, when school-focused possible identities increase, so do grades. Whether strategies matter is context dependent. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - January 1, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Dating and romantic relationships of adolescents with intellectual and developmental disabilities
ConclusionsThis study contributes to our understanding of the romantic experiences of youth with IDD. Prevention efforts focused on education may be important to help ensure these youth develop safe and healthy relationships. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - January 1, 2020 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Narrative coherence, psychopathology, and wellbeing: Concurrent and longitudinal findings in a mid-adolescent sample
ConclusionsThese findings suggest that causal coherence in life stories may play a causal role in increased life satisfaction over time for adolescents. Experimental research is required to further investigate this possibility. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 25, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association of neighborhood ethnic-racial concentrations and adolescent behaviour problems in the U.S.
ConclusionsThere is substantial unexplained systematic heterogeneity in the association between neighborhood ethnic-racial concentrations and adolescents’ behaviour problems. There is heavy reliance on a small number of parent datasets in research on this topic, alongside critical reporting omissions. We offer recommendations to guide future work, in hopes of supporting culturally and developmentally informed policies and programs capable of addressing residential segregation. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 22, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Validation of the Arabic and Hebrew versions of the Utrecht-Management of Identity Commitments Scale (U-MICS)
ConclusionsThis study indicates that the U-MICS is a reliable instrument for assessing identity processes in Arabic and Hebrew-speaking adolescents. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 20, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Differences in self-reported character strengths across adolescence
ConclusionFindings provide a nuanced understanding of developmental differences in character across adolescence in a large-scale study. We frame these findings in the context of recent work investigating how character strengths develop throughout adolescence and offer suggestions for future research and interventions. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 19, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Autonomy is equally important across East and West: Testing the cross-cultural universality of self-determination theory
ConclusionFindings support the cross-cultural relevance of SDT while at the same time highlighting important cultural variations such as greater importance of competence support in the West, suggesting the need to be cognizant of both cross-cultural universality and variability in motivational theorizing. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Popular peer norms and adolescent sexting behavior
ConclusionsThese results underscore the importance of peer status and perceptions of peer norms in adolescents’ sexting. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
“What matters to you?”: A randomized controlled effectiveness trial, Using Systematic Idiographic Assessment as an intervention to Increase Adolescents’ perceived control of their mental health
ConclusionsUsing Assert in primary healthcare may enhance adolescents’ sense of being able to influence their life circumstances and mental health by allowing them more control of their treatment. However, this approach might not be successful in reducing symptoms. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 11, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Parental phubbing accelerates depression in late childhood and adolescence:A two-path model
ConclusionsThe study revealed that parental phubbing was associated with students’ depression in late childhood and adolescence through two paths. The present study highlights the need to establish family norms regulating mobile phone use to reduce phubbing. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Anhedonia, screen time, and substance use in early adolescents: A longitudinal mediation analysis
Conclusions: Adolescents may become desensitized and exhibit a blunted response to hedonic effects from increased screen time. This may result in increased anhedonia and greater risk for substance use through the need to compensate for the reduced experience of rewards. These findings have implications for future school-based substance use prevention and intervention programs. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The contribution of school safety to weight-related health behaviors for transgender youth
ConclusionsSchool interventions are needed to improve school safety for transgender youth and to reduce gender identity-related disparities in healthy eating and physical activity. Research implications and limitations are discussed. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Schooling while incarcerated as a turning point for serious juvenile and young adult offenders
ConclusionsResults indicate that facility school climate matters for all juvenile offenders returning to their communities and that correctional education done right presents an important opportunity to reconnect returning minors with school, an important normative context of development. Conversely, results suggest that returning offenders who have ‘aged out’ of high school are a separate vulnerable group who may need additional support for successful reentry. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - December 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Brief report: Patterns of prosocial behaviors in middle childhood predicting peer relations during early adolescence
ConclusionBoth low prosocial and primarily friendly youth are at risk for displaying peer-related problems; interventions that build prosocial behaviors in youth with a low prosocial or primarily friendly profile may help prevent problematic peer relationships at early adolescence. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - November 29, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
