Gender differences across multiple types of prosocial behavior in adolescence: A meta-analysis of the prosocial tendency measure-revised (PTM-R)
ConclusionsAlthough males and females generally are more similar than different in their prosociality, it is important to consider the type of PB when examining gender differences. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - October 22, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The influence of gratitude on learning engagement among adolescents: The multiple mediating effects of teachers' emotional support and students’ basic psychological needs
ConclusionsThese 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. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - October 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Scarcity or luxury: Which leads to adolescent greed? Evidence from a large-scale Chinese adolescent sample
ConclusionThe current study provides evidence supporting the luxury hypothesis over the scarcity hypothesis. In addition, adolescent dispositional greed increases with an increase in CSES when there is only one child in the family, while this is not the case for children with siblings. The theoretical and practical implications of the current study results as well as future research directions are discussed. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - October 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Trait anxiety and bystander motivation to defend victims of school bullying
ConclusionsFindings suggest that anti-bullying-programs should focus on how defender motivation is influenced by the way in which victim ingroup status is perceived and address the bystander's level of anxiety as this interacts with such perceptions. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - October 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Treatment of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder for a teenager with typical development within the home setting
ConclusionThis brief, behaviour-analytic in-home treatment was effective in increasing food group variety consumption. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - October 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
On the potential harmful effects of E-Cigarettes (EC) on the developing brain: The relationship between vaping-induced oxidative stress and adolescent/young adults social maladjustment.
ConclusionsE-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. The government, parents, school authorities and clinicians should be advised on these potentially harmful effects. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 28, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Brief report: Problematic social media use and sleep disturbances are longitudinally associated with depressive symptoms in adolescents
ConclusionsOur findings add strength to the evidence supporting longitudinal associations between problematic social media use and depressive symptoms and sleep disturbances and depressive symptoms in middle adolescence. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 27, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The intersectionality of identity-based victimization in Adolescence:A person-centered examination of mental health and academic achievement in a U.S. high school
ConclusionsThe disproportionately of IBV, poor mental health, and lower academic achievement faced by LGBTQ youth and youth with intersecting stigmatized identities suggests that they may benefit from tailored and targeted treatments. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 18, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
The reciprocal relations between facebook relationship maintenance behaviors and adolescents’ closeness to friends
ConclusionBy revealing that receiving positive Facebook reactions mediates the reciprocal relationships between FRMB and adolescents' closeness to friends, we now better understand how FRMB can increase adolescents' closeness to friends and how increased closeness to friends can enhance adolescents’ FRMB. The discussion focuses on the understanding of these findings, directions for future research, and key limitations. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 10, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Children's cognitive appraisal moderates associations between psychologically controlling parenting and Children's depressive symptoms
ConclusionsOverall, our 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. Important developmental differences in the role of these cognitive appraisals and the effects of specific parenting practices were also identified. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 7, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
A model of identity development: Life-course narratives of North Korean youth resettling in South Korea
This study aimed to build a model of identity development in an understudied cultural group of trauma-exposed youth who fled North Korea and resettled in South Korea.MethodsSixteen participants (75% female, Mage = 26.63 years, Mdefection age = 16.29 years, Mdefection duration = 5.72 years) produced life-course narratives, as guided by the life-lines they drew to depict their high and low points and future trajectories. The cross-sectional qualitative data were analyzed using thematic content analysis. Themes of identity, trauma, and turning points were derived and coded, and then organized sequentially to class...
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 6, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
“How can we leave the traditions of our Baab Daada” socio-cultural structures and values driving menstrual hygiene management challenges in schools in Pakistan
ConclusionsTo be truly effective, current menstrual hygiene management strategies need to address the root causes of poor WASH infrastructure and ensure facility design is sensitive to the gendered and deeply embedded local socio-cultural values and beliefs around menstrual hygiene management. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 3, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
An examination of trauma narratives: Narrative rumination, self-reflection, and identity in young adulthood
Publication date: October 2019Source: Journal of Adolescence, Volume 76Author(s): Kelly A. Marin, Amanda ShkreliAbstractIntroductionTrauma has the potential to challenge the self and identity development in ways unlike other personal experiences and, undoubtedly, necessitates meaning-making. The purpose of this study is to expand understanding of how young adults make meaning of traumatic experiences and how those processes, either adaptive self-reflection, meaning-making, or narrative rumination, relate to identity development.MethodsUsing qualitative methods and self-report measures, we examined reflective and ruminative...
Source: Journal of Adolescence - September 1, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Relationships between sociocultural factors (gender, immigrant and socioeconomic background), peer relatedness and positive affect in adolescents
ConclusionsDue to sociocultural factors, some groups of adolescents proved to be more at risk of being socially excluded and of experiencing less positive affect at school. Moreover, our findings 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. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - August 31, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
Chinese Children's cognitive appraisal moderates associations between psychologically controlling parenting and Children's depressive symptoms
ConclusionsOverall, our 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. Important developmental differences in the role of these cognitive appraisals and the effects of specific parenting practices were also identified. (Source: Journal of Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Adolescence - August 31, 2019 Category: Child Development Source Type: research
