An Examination of Correlates for Adolescent Engagement in Nonsuicidal Self ‐Injury, Suicidal Self‐Injury, and Substance Use
Little research has examined potential risk factors for direct versus indirect self‐injury among adolescents. To address this limitation, 541 clinically referred adolescents were assessed using the interRAI Child and Youth Mental Health Assessment. Logistic regression analyses revealed that older females who experienced heightened depressive symptoms and neighborhood violence were at increased risk for direct self‐injury, specifically nonsuicidal and suicidal self‐injury. Additionally, adolescents who experienced higher levels of caregiver distress were at greater risk of suicidal self‐injury. In contrast, older ad...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Janell A. Klassen, Chloe A. Hamza, Shannon L. Stewart Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Direct and Indirect Pathways From Adverse Childhood Experiences to High School Dropout Among High ‐Risk Adolescents
This study examined pathways from childhood adversity to school dropout through academic, behavioral, emotional, and social pathways. Data were collected prospectively from 728 adolescents and their caregivers who participated in the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect and from child protective services records. Path analyses revealed a direct association between ACEs and dropout, as well as indirect effects through poor reading achievement and elevated externalizing problems. ACEs were associated with elevated internalizing problems, which were negatively associated with dropout. However, ACEs were not associa...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anne S. Morrow, Miguel T. Villodas Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Identifying and Distinguishing Value Profiles in American and Israeli Adolescents
Although research has examined how values are correlated with behavior, little has examined how the system of values predicts behavior. In a cross‐cultural sample of American (109 European American; 216 African American) and Israeli (318 Arab Israeli; 216 Jewish Israeli) adolescents, the present study used latent profile analysis to identify groups which reflected the theoretical structure of values across both cultures. Four profiles were found: self‐focused, anxiety‐free, other‐focused, and undifferentiated. Results indicated that Self‐Focused adolescents were the most aggressive and viewed as leaders by their ...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Stephen Ungvary, Kristina L. McDonald, Maya Benish ‐Weisman Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Disruptions in Emotion Regulation as a Mechanism Linking Community Violence Exposure to Adolescent Internalizing Problems
This study examined associations of community violence exposure with internalizing symptoms, and state and trait emotion dysregulation as mechanisms underlying these associations, in 287 adolescents aged 16–17 (45.6% male; 40.8% White). Community violence exposure was associated with internalizing symptoms, negative affect during peer evaluation, trait emotional reactivity, and infrequent problem solving. Multiple emotion dysregulation indices were also associated with internalizing symptoms. In simultaneous multiple mediator models, indirect effects of community violence on internalizing problems were significantly expl...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Charlotte Heleniak, Kevin M. King, Katie A. McLaughlin, Kathryn C. Monahan Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Attentional Bias for Academic Stressors and Classroom Climate Predict Adolescents ’ Grades and Socioemotional Functioning
Using a dot‐probe detection task, this longitudinal study investigated whether adolescents show an attentional bias for academic stressors at the beginning of the school year (T1), and if such allocation of attention interacts with classroom climate (CC) to predict grades and socioemotional functioning at the end of the term (T2). Among 133 eighth‐graders, the majority showed a perceptual bias toward academic threats. Regression analyses indicated that a greater bias at T1 predicted lower grades and more socioemotional problems at T2, and that CC moderated these relationships. Students perceiving low CC and displaying ...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sara Scrimin, Ughetta Moscardino, Gianmarco Alto è, Lucia Mason Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
A Three ‐Year Emotional Intelligence Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Aggression: The Mediating Role of Unpleasant Affectivity
This article aims to provide evidence for the effectiveness of a 3‐year longitudinal intervention among adolescents in nine Spanish schools. A total of 476 adolescents participated. Results showed a reduction in physical and verbal aggression in Time 2 through the reduction in negative affect, anger, and hostile feelings, compared with an active control group. The training seems to be crucial for dealing with the emotional and cognitive components of aggression and, thus, their behavioral manifestations. (Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Ruth Castillo ‐Gualda, Rosario Cabello, Marta Herrero, Raquel Rodríguez‐Carvajal, Pablo Fernández‐Berrocal Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Mother –Adolescent Dialogues and Adolescents' Behavior Problems in a Multicultural Sample: The Mediating Role of Representations
This study examined whether the link between higher maternal sensitive guidance of emotional dialogues and fewer adolescent behavior problems is mediated by adolescents' more coherent representations of their mothers. The study also explored the consistency of this model across families from varied cultural backgrounds. Participants were 143 Jewish‐Israeli mother–adolescent dyads from three cultural groups: immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, immigrants from Western countries, and native‐born Israelis. Maternal sensitive guidance was observed during mother–adolescent dialogues about emotional experiences. Adol...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Efrat Sher ‐Censor, Nina Koren‐Karie, Smadar Getzov, Pazit Rotman Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Role of Social Environmental Protective Factors on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Midwestern Homeless Youth
We employ a social stress framework, which examines the influence of multiple stressors (e.g., physical abuse, foster care placement) on an individual's ability to function (e.g., mental well‐being), to longitudinally examine the effects of stressful life events on mental health and the role of the social environment in this process among 150 homeless youth. Results revealed that numerous stressors, such as physical abuse and running away from home more frequently, were associated with greater depressive symptoms and elevated anxiety. Having mentors and family and friends from home that youth can rely on resulted in more...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - June 1, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kimberly A. Tyler, Rachel M. Schmitz, Colleen M. Ray Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
The Effect of Active and Passive Peer Discouragement on Adolescent Risk taking: An Experimental Study
This experiment investigated the effect of peer discouragement on adolescent risk taking. Overall, 269 Dutch adolescents aged 11–15 years completed a risk taking computer task in the presence of an e‐confederate who demonstrated very little risk taking (passive peer discouragement) and/or sent risk‐discouraging messages to participants (active peer discouragement). The results showed that, compared to a situation with no peer discouragement, adolescents took significantly less risk only when they encountered a combination of active and passive peer discouragement; hence, when peers practiced what they preached. No g...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Anouk Boer, Zeena Harakeh Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Role of Social Environmental Protective Factors on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Midwestern Homeless Youth
Journal of Research on Adolescence,Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 199-210, March 2018. (Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
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Journal of Research on Adolescence,Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 199-210, March 2018. (Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 31, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
Using an Acculturation ‐Stress‐Resilience Framework to Explore Latent Profiles of Latina/o Language Brokers
With survey data from 243 Latina/o early adolescent language brokers, latent profile analyses were conducted to identify different types (i.e., profiles) of brokers. Profiles were based on how often Latina/o early adolescents brokered for family members, as well as their levels of family‐based acculturation stress, negative brokering beliefs, parentification, and positive brokering beliefs. Three brokering profiles emerged: (1) infrequent‐ambivalents, (2) occasional‐moderates, and (3) parentified‐endorsers. Profile membership was significantly predicted by ethnic identification and brokering in a medical context. R...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jennifer A. Kam, Katerina M. Marcoulides, Andy J. Merolla Tags: Empirical Article Source Type: research
Social Support and Academic Engagement Among Reconnected Youth: Adverse Life Experiences as a Moderator
Using motivational theories of engagement and adopting a multidimensional perspective of academic engagement, the authors investigate the associations among teacher and parent support, students’ academic self‐efficacy, and academic engagement among a sample of reconnected youth who have returned to academic pursuit after dropping out (N = 938, mean age = 16.50, SD = 1.78). In addition, they examine how youth's adverse life experiences moderate the pathways in this model, an analysis notably missing from much of the academic engagement literature. They find that students’ academic self‐efficacy mediates parent...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 26, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jingtong Pan, Jonathan F. Zaff, Alice E. Donlan Tags: Article Source Type: research
Longitudinal Transmission of Conflict Management Styles Across Inter ‐Parental and Adolescent Relationships
This study longitudinally investigated transmission of conflict management styles across inter‐parental, adolescent–parent, adolescent–friend, and adolescent–partner relationships. During four waves, 799 middle‐to‐late adolescents (Mage‐t1 = 15.80; 54% boys) and their parents completed the Conflict Resolution Style Inventory. Cross‐lagged path analyses indicated transmission of adolescent conflict management styles in relationships with parents to relationships with friends and romantic partners: Positive problem solving and conflict engagement utilized by adolescents in conflicts with parents were signif...
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Soundry Staats, Inge E. Valk, Wim H. J. Meeus, Susan J. T. Branje Tags: Article Source Type: research
Longitudinal Transmission of Conflict Management Styles Across Inter ‐Parental and Adolescent Relationships
Journal of Research on Adolescence,Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 169-185, March 2018. (Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence)
Source: Journal of Research on Adolescence - May 24, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research
