Most recent papers:

• Profiles of parental response, intersectional microaggressions, and mental health problems among sexual and gender minority youth of color.
  Shixin Fang, Meg D. Bishop, Cara L. Exten, Hongjian Cao, Samantha L. Tornello, Ryan J. Watson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. 13 days ago
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nSexual and gender minority youth of color (SGM YOC) face compounded mental health disparities due to oppression experienced at the intersection of racism, cissexism, and heterosexism. Parental responses to youth's sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) are critical in shaping youth mental health outcomes, yet prior research has often simplified these responses into a unidimensional acceptance–rejection continuum. Using data from the 2022 LGBTQ National Teen Survey (n = 3187 SGM YOC), this study challenged such an oversimplified conceptualization by exploring heterogeneous patterns of parental responses to children's SOGI among SGM YOC. Further, we also examined the distinct implications of each identified profile for SGM YOC's mental health problems and how the association between intersectional microaggressions and mental health problems might vary across the identified profiles. Three distinct SOGI‐specific parental response profiles were found: High Rejection Low Acceptance Response (24.10%), Low Rejection Low Acceptance Response (50.30%), and Low Rejection High Acceptance Response (25.60%). Profile membership varied by race/ethnicity, sex assigned at birth, gender identity, sexual orientation, and caregiver education level. Youth in the High Rejection Low Acceptance Response profile reported significantly higher levels of mental health problems compared with those in the Low Rejection Low Acceptance Response and Low Rejection High Acceptance Response profiles. SOGI‐specific parental response profile membership moderated the association between intersectional microaggressions and mental health problems. Intersectional microaggressions were more strongly associated with mental health problems among youth in the Low Rejection Low Acceptance Response profile than among those in the High Rejection Low Acceptance Response profile, with higher overall mental health problems in the latter profile. By identifying diverse patterns of SOGI‐specific parental responses and the differential consequences for understanding how SGM YOC's intersectional minority stress relates to mental well‐being, our findings underscore the importance of culturally responsive interventions that engage parental figures as active agents of affirmation, support, and socialization, ultimately fostering SGM YOC's positive development amid intersecting systems of oppression.\n"]

  June 22, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70219   open full text
• Mental health trajectory groups: Family income, neighborhood disadvantage, and role of the school environment.
  Woo Jung Lee, Annie Kwon, Jungeun Olivia Lee, David J. M. Kraemer, Kiros Berhane, Morgan S. Polikoff, Megan M. Herting, Elizabeth R. Sowell, Daniel A. Hackman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 19, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nWhile family income and neighborhood disadvantage have been associated with adolescent mental health, less is known about their independent associations with distinct, group‐based patterns of change. Moreover, little is known about how school environments are associated with such mental health trajectory patterns, and if they serve as independent promotive factors or are protective factors that mitigate risk. Data come from the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development StudySM(ABCD study®; n = 9769; baseline through year 2; ages 9–13). Internalizing and externalizing behaviors were measured with the Child Behavior Checklist. Growth mixture modeling was utilized to identify subgroups with distinct mental health trajectories, and logistic regression was used to examine the association between family income, neighborhood environment and trajectory group membership, and moderation by baseline school and school district characteristics, controlling for age, sex, race/ethnicity, and parental education. Two trajectory classes were identified for internalizing (91%; low‐decreasing, 9%; high‐increasing) and externalizing behaviors (92%; low‐decreasing, 8%; high‐stable). Lower family income was associated with a high‐increasing trajectory pattern of internalizing and a high‐stable pattern of externalizing behaviors. A more positive school climate predicted belonging to the low‐decreasing trajectory group for internalizing and externalizing behaviors, though there was no evidence of moderation. Low family income, but not neighborhood disadvantage, was a risk factor for trajectories of internalizing and externalizing behavior elevated within a clinical range that persisted from age 9 through early adolescence. However, a positive school climate was a promotive, rather than a protective, factor for internalizing and externalizing trajectories. Supporting families with resources and enhancing the school context may improve adolescent mental health.\n"]

  June 19, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70213   open full text
• Types of parental social comparison and links with adolescent psychological outcomes.
  Ruyi Ding, Shiqi Yin, Zirong Li, Hui Zhou.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 10, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nParental upward social comparison of children is prevalent in China and has often been recognized as a negative parenting practice. However, social comparison theory suggests that comparison can serve adaptive functions, such as fostering motivation and supporting learning. To reconcile this, we propose that there exist critical and encouraging comparisons, with the latter potentially linked to fewer maladaptive outcomes in adolescents. To test this proposition, we conducted three studies. In Study 1, interviews were conducted with adolescents (n = 4, Mage$$ {\\mathrm{M}}_{\\mathrm{age}} $$ = 15.25 years, SD = 1.91) and their parents (n = 4, Mage$$ {\\mathrm{M}}_{\\mathrm{age}} $$ = 40.88 years, SD = 4.49) to validate the two types of comparison and develop items for a scale assessing these forms of comparison. In Study 2, we used this scale to survey 312 adolescents (Mage$$ {\\mathrm{M}}_{\\mathrm{age}} $$ = 17.17 years old, SD = 0.52) on their perceptions of maternal social comparison. Factor analysis supported a correlated two‐factor structure. With another adolescent sample (n = 348, Mage$$ {\\mathrm{M}}_{\\mathrm{age}} $$ = 16.16 years old, SD = 0.49), Study 3 showed that after controlling for parental warmth, rejection, and psychological control, adolescents' perceived maternal critical comparison was associated with higher levels of depression and anxiety and lower self‐esteem and life satisfaction 1 year later. Perceived maternal encouraging comparison was positively associated with higher levels of self‐esteem and adolescents' own tendency to make upward social comparisons. The research shows that two types of parental social comparison exist in Chinese families with adolescents and that they are differently related to adolescent outcomes.\n"]

  June 10, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70216   open full text
• Establishing validity and measurement invariance of the Claremont Purpose Scale among adolescents from diverse racial–ethnic backgrounds.
  Hou Xie, Kaylin Ratner, Melody Estevez, Anthony L. Burrow.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 08, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThe Claremont Purpose Scale (CPS) was designed to assess youth purpose, but the English version has not yet undergone rigorous psychometric evaluation among adolescents. Prior validation efforts have also mostly relied on white‐majority samples, raising concerns about generalizability. With 587 adolescents (Mage = 16.38 years, range = 13–19), confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) supported correlated three‐factor and second‐order models equivalently. However, the beyond‐the‐self dimension had the weakest connections with the overarching purpose construct and other CPS dimensions, and exploratory tests suggested that the correlated three‐factor model may have an empirical edge over the second‐order configuration. Expected zero‐order correlations provided evidence of convergent validity; up to partial scalar invariance across racial–ethnic groups was supported by multigroup CFA; and latent means testing and multigroup structural equation modeling failed to find differences between racial–ethnic groups in purpose level and adjustment associations. Findings are discussed from developmental and cultural perspectives, with implications for future adolescent purpose measurement.\n"]

  June 08, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70215   open full text
• Exploring Colombian adolescents' awareness of ethnoracial inequities and related discussions with family, peers, and in school.
  Adriana J. Umaña‐Taylor, Stefanie Martinez‐Fuentes, Luz Magnolia Tilano Vega, Juan Fernando Sierra, Alejandra A. Zeiger, Valerie Salcido, Abbie Cohen, Sara Betancur Castrillón, Andrea Zapata Giraldo, Liliana Uribe Tirado, Jennifer L. Hardesty.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 07, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThe developmental competency of ethnic‐racial identity development is salient in contexts where there is an ethnoracial hierarchy and society is characterized by an inequitable distribution of power and access to resources that functions according to this hierarchy. Colombia, given its history of colonization, represents one such context. As such, the current study explored Colombian adolescents' awareness of ethnoracial‐based inequities based on individual interviews with a socioeconomically diverse sample of 24 youth (Mage = 14.92, SD = 0.93) in Medellín, Colombia. Utilizing reflexive thematic analysis to explore adolescents' perceptions of ethnoracial inequities in their immediate and more distal settings, findings indicated that adolescents perceived ethnoracial inequities in various contexts and their perceptions in more proximal settings seemed to vary by socioeconomic background. Across socioeconomic groups, adolescents were highly aware of ethnoracial inequities in Colombia. However, awareness of ethnoracial inequities was less prevalent in school settings and more limited in neighborhood contexts, particularly among those from higher socioeconomic backgrounds. Furthermore, whereas adolescents' observations frequently touched on themes of anti‐blackness and anti‐indigeneity, their discussions about reasons for inequities did not explicitly name critical perspectives on race or systemic racism. Finally, most participants expressed the belief that having conversations about ethnoracial inequities was important, especially with peers and their families.\n"]

  June 07, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70212   open full text
• Eating for emotion regulation: Associations with threats to psychological needs from adolescents' peer, family, and academic daily stress.
  Melanie J. Zimmer‐Gembeck.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 04, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nFood consumption can be an attempt to regulate negative emotion, positioning eating as a strategy for emotion regulation (EER). Given adolescents' developmental changes, such as sensitivity to stress and still maturing emotion regulation skills, adolescents may often rely on an accessible emotion regulation strategy, such as EER, when they experience stress. However, there are few studies of stress, emotion, and emotional eating in adolescents, and no studies have directly measured EER. The primary aim of this study was to determine whether adolescents' daily reports of EER were associated with academic, peer, and family stressors. Australian adolescents (N = 319, Mage = 13.9 years, 45% boys, 65% White, 85% born in Australia) completed a 7‐day daily survey via an app to report their EER, the biggest problem of the day (stressor), and stressor intensity and domain. They also reported how much stressors threatened their psychological needs for relatedness, competence, and autonomy (stressor threat) as described in self‐determination theory. Dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) was used to account for the multilevel data, while estimating within and across‐day associations between (1) stressor intensity and EER in one model and (2) stressor threat and EER in a second model. DSEM results showed that, after controlling for within‐day associations and stress chronicity, adolescents who rated their stress as more intense and threatening reported elevated EER the next day and, conversely, a greater degree of EER related to higher ratings of stressor intensity and threat the next day. In addition, reports of EER were elevated on days when adolescents reported peer or family stress compared to days without, with no difference for academic stress. Overall, EER and stressor intensity and threat are intertwined and bidirectionally influential, and interpersonal stress may be a particular risk for EER. Future research could determine whether EER foretells later disordered eating and declining well‐being.\n"]

  June 04, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70214   open full text
• Associations between adolescent problematic short‐form video use and academic engagement: Longitudinal and network analysis.
  Shuang Li, Ningning Feng, Lijuan Cui.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 04, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThe increasing prevalence of problematic short‐form video use among adolescents has raised concerns regarding its potential impact on academic engagement. This study aimed to investigate the bidirectional relations between them over time. Study 1 involved a three‐wave survey over three semesters, including 1227 Chinese adolescents at baseline (T1), with 1096 and 1077 retained at T2 and T3, respectively (Mage at baseline = 16.00, SD = 0.61, age range = 14–19; 56.6% girls). Two random intercept cross‐lagged panel models were estimated, showing that problematic short‐form video use and academic engagement negatively predicted each other over time, both in the behavioral and emotional engagement. Moreover, goal focus was found to mediate the effect of problematic short‐form video use on academic engagement. Study 2 involved a two‐wave survey of 898 Chinese adolescents at baseline (T1), with 507 retained at T2, over a 10‐month interval (Mage at baseline = 15.89, SD = 0.74, age range = 15–18; 50.9% girls). A cross‐lagged network analysis showed that within the academic engagement, “Participation” had the strongest impact on problematic short‐form video use, while “Curiosity” was the most affected by it. Conversely, within the problematic short‐form video use, “Loss of control” was the most affected by academic engagement, whereas “Behavioral salience” most strongly affected academic engagement. These findings elucidate the mechanisms linking problematic short‐form video use and academic engagement, and suggest that focusing interventions on key nodes, including academic participation and the behavioral salience of short‐form video use, may be especially effective in enhancing adolescents' academic engagement.\n"]

  June 04, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70210   open full text
• Dynamic interrelations among meaning in life subcomponents and their longitudinal associations with adolescent internalizing problems: A cross‐lagged panel network analysis.
  Chuhan Wang, Jiajing Zhang, Xiaohe Li, Jianing You.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 04, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nMeaning in life has been shown to play a key role in adolescent mental health. In recent years, researchers have conceptualized it as a multidimensional construct (consists of coherence, purpose, significance, and mattering) and highlight the need to further investigate the interrelations among the subcomponents in diverse populations. This study adopted both the contemporaneous network and cross‐lagged panel network (CLPN) analyses to investigate the interrelations among the subcomponents of meaning in life as well as its association with internalizing problems in Chinese adolescents. A total of 1014 Chinese adolescents (55.7% males; Mage = 15.56, SDage = 0.53) completed self‐reported questionnaires at two time points, using a 6‐month interval. Results from both contemporaneous network and CLPN analyses consistently revealed the interrelated associations among the subcomponents of meaning in life. Meanwhile, significance was the central subcomponent and could predict the development of other subcomponents 6 months later. It also emerged as the bridge subcomponent linking meaning in life and adolescent internalizing problems, with significance and depression forming a reciprocal negative loop in the temporal network. These findings suggest that significance may be an important entry point for enhancing adolescents' meaning in life, whereas mental health interventions may need to target both meaning‐related processes and internalizing symptoms.\n"]

  June 04, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70211   open full text
• Bidirectional relations between early adolescents' moral judgment of aggression and defending behaviors: The moderating role of victimization experiences.
  Xueqi Zeng, Huiguang Ren, Junsheng Liu, Yujing Zhao, Jiaying Yue, Biao Sang, Zixuan Wang.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 01, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis three‐wave longitudinal study examined the relations between moral judgment of aggression and defending behaviors, with a focus on the moderating effects of self‐reported and peer‐nominated victimization. Participants included 1183 elementary‐school students (Mage = 10.88 years, SD = 0.86; 43% girls, 57% boys). Results from random intercept cross‐lagged panel models revealed reciprocal effects between moral judgment of aggression and defending behaviors at the within‐person level, moderated by self‐reported victimization. Specifically, stronger‐than‐usual moral judgment of aggression more strongly predicted higher‐than‐usual subsequent defending behaviors when adolescents self‐reported higher‐than‐usual victimization. In contrast, higher‐than‐usual defending behaviors predicted stronger‐than‐usual subsequent moral judgment of aggression only when adolescents self‐reported lower‐than‐usual victimization. Peer‐nominated victimization and gender did not show moderation effects. These findings emphasize the importance of fostering a positive cycle between moral judgment of aggression and defending behaviors, especially when supporting victimized adolescents.\n"]

  June 01, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70209   open full text
• Mental health and academic performance in adolescence—Reciprocal links or not?
  Cristian Bortes, Björn Högberg.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 31, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nResearch shows that academic performance and adolescent mental health are associated, but it remains unclear whether, and in what ways, they reciprocally influence each other over time. This study aimed to examine reciprocal longitudinal associations between academic performance and mental health in adolescence, focusing on internalizing and externalizing problems; and to test whether associations vary across school years or by gender. Self‐reported data were obtained from 3473 pupils (48.3% boys) followed annually from grade 7 to grade 9 in Swedish lower secondary school (ages 13–16), with mental health reassessed again in grade 10, the first year of upper secondary school. Academic performance was measured by end‐of‐year subject grades, and internalizing and externalizing problems were measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). We estimated conventional cross‐lagged panel models (CLPMs) and random‐intercept CLPMs (RI‐CLPMs) and used multigroup models to examine gender differences. CLPMs and RI‐CLPMs yielded similar substantive conclusions. Externalizing problems showed clear bidirectional within‐person links with grades: higher‐than‐usual externalizing predicted lower subsequent grades, and lower‐than‐usual grades predicted subsequent increases in externalizing. In contrast, internalizing symptoms showed no within‐ or between‐person associations with grades. Associations did not differ systematically across school years or by gender. We conclude that, across lower secondary school, links between academic performance and mental health are reciprocal yet domain‐specific. Behavior appears to be more tightly coupled with grades than mood, indicating that not all facets of mental health, nor all aspects of performance, are equally responsive to one another.\n"]

  May 31, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70208   open full text
• Studying positive youth development among diverse youth in global contexts: On the importance of an idiographic approach.
  Roya Abbasi‐Asl, Richard M. Lerner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 27, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nWe explain the importance of using youth‐specific (idiographic) measurements, intensive longitudinal designs, and dynamic approaches for understanding how mutually influential individual⇔$$ \\iff $$context coactions shape idiographic developmental pathways in global contexts. We review data from two international positive youth development (PYD) studies illustrating how idiographic developmental pathways reflect meaningful variability in young people's coactions with their community settings, thereby illuminating diverse potentials for personal and societal thriving and contributing importantly to their families and communities. These studies demonstrate that idiographic trajectories are not represented by average data or, especially, by norms derived from conventionally designed longitudinal studies of individuals unlike them or from cultural settings unlike theirs. We believe the empirical findings presented in diverse global contexts provide a compelling foundation for formulating empowering and noncolonialist policies and programs for PYD around the globe.\n"]

  May 27, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70190   open full text
• Co‐developmental trajectories of social behaviors in early adolescence: Environmental antecedents and mental health outcomes.
  Yuxi Li, E. Scott Huebner, Lili Tian.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 27, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study explored the co‐developmental trajectories of social behaviors (prosocial behavior, physical aggression, and relational aggression) during early adolescence as well as their relations to environmental antecedents and mental health outcomes. A total of 2587 Chinese students (Mage = 9.61, SD = 0.51; 55.2% boys) completed six measurements at 6‐month intervals. Parallel process latent class growth models identified four heterogeneous patterns: prosocial, stable maladaptive, improving, and dual‐escalating. Multivariate logistic regression analyses revealed that (1) Adolescents who perceived low paternal warmth were more likely to be classified into the dual‐escalating subgroup compared to all other subgroups. (2) Adolescents perceiving low maternal warmth were more likely to belong to the stable maladaptive subgroup rather than the prosocial subgroup. (3) High levels of family emotional abuse and psychological maltreatment by teachers were associated with an increased likelihood of adolescents being classified into the improving and dual‐escalating subgroups, compared to the prosocial and stable maladaptive subgroups. (4) Relatedness need satisfaction at school played a protective role, significantly decreasing the likelihood of adolescents being categorized into any nonprosocial subgroup. Adolescents in the prosocial group showed better mental health, those in the stable maladaptive group demonstrated more frequent depression symptoms and those in the dual‐escalating group exhibited lower self‐esteem. The findings provided insights for prevention and intervention strategies aimed at different patterns of social behaviors during early adolescence.\n"]

  May 27, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70199   open full text
• Contextualizing the mental health help‐seeking behaviors of Latina college students experiencing suicidal thoughts or behaviors: A qualitative inquiry from multiple perspectives.
  Lilian G. Bravo, Marianne Gutierrez, MarySue V. Heilemann, Kristen Choi, Ken Wells, Wendy Perez, Denise Chavira, Rosa Hernandez‐Ramos, Elizabeth Gonzalez, Rachel Russman, Emily Vargas, Kimberly Morales, Natalia Jaramillo, Jocelyn Meza.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 25, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nLatina college students are at a heightened risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs) linked to intersectional stressors such as gendered and racial discrimination. Although many express an openness to help‐seeking, they often face barriers to accessing and remaining engaged in formal mental health services and, alternatively, lean more heavily on informal supportive systems such as family members and peers. This qualitative descriptive study explored help‐seeking experiences from the perspectives of 12 Latina college students with STBs, eight informal supportive peers, and 10 campus mental health clinicians across California. Thematic analysis revealed five themes: (1) minimizing concerns and maintaining image; (2) catalysts for change: the role of community; (3) hidden pathways and resources; (4) confronting structural‐level challenges; and (5) beyond the crisis: developing a toolkit for the future. Cultural values, such as familismo, marianismo, confianza, and personalismo, influenced help‐seeking. Informal supports often served as early responders and bridges to formal support, while digital platforms emerged as alternative spaces for awareness and validation. Clinicians highlighted the need for culturally responsive, trust‐centered interventions. Our findings point to the critical role of peer networks and culturally relevant approaches in addressing STBs among Latina college students. Recommendations include peer support training programs rooted in cultural values, expanded access to flexible and immigration context‐informed counseling services, and digital strategies to reduce stigma and promote mental health literacy. This study underscores the urgency of multi‐level, culturally relevant interventions to promote health equity for Latina college students experiencing STBs.\n"]

  May 25, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70205   open full text
• Psychological pathways linking discrimination to alcohol and marijuana use among LGB young adults during the 2024 presidential election.
  Yea Won Park, Celia B. Fisher.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 25, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nDuring the 2024 US presidential election, a surge in anti‐lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) rhetoric contributed to a hostile political climate that intensified the psychological impact of discrimination among LGB young adults. Drawing from minority stress theory and the psychological mediation framework (PMF), exposure to LGBT discrimination may be linked to greater substance use through intrapersonal (sexual orientation rumination and hopelessness) and interpersonal (interpersonal political tension) processes. However, little is known about these indirect pathways and whether they vary as a function of perceived anti‐LGBT political climate. The present study tested two moderated mediation models in which exposure to LGBT discrimination was hypothesized to be related to alcohol and marijuana use through greater sexual orientation rumination, hopelessness, and interpersonal political tension and in which perceived anti‐LGBT political climate was expected to amplify the discrimination–mediator links. The sample consisted of 442 LGB young adults (40% Black, 27% Hispanic, 34% non‐Hispanic White; 41% Gay, 30.8% Lesbian, 28.3% Bisexual; Mage = 22.72, SD = 1.74; 18–25 years). Overall, LGBT discrimination showed significant indirect associations with alcohol use through greater sexual orientation rumination and interpersonal political tension, with the interpersonal political tension pathway stronger among those perceiving a more hostile political climate. For marijuana use, discrimination was indirectly associated with greater use through heightened hopelessness and interpersonal political tension, and both pathways were amplified in more hostile climates. These findings highlight identity‐focused rumination, hopelessness, and politically charged relational strain as important targets for efforts to reduce substance use among LGB young adults during contentious sociopolitical periods.\n"]

  May 25, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70204   open full text
• Ethnic–racial discrimination, peer support, and internalizing problems: A two‐wave daily diary study of Asian university students in Canada from late adolescence to young adulthood.
  Qi Huang, Yijie Wang, Yao Zheng.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 23, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nDevelopmental changes in daily ethnic–racial discrimination and its influence on mental health among ethnic–racial minority young adults remain understudied. Using two waves (30 days at each wave) of daily diary data from 165 Asian university students in Canada (67% women; Mage = 18.11 years, SD = 0.94 at Wave 1), this study investigated changes in the daily associations between ethnic–racial discrimination and internalizing problems, as well as the moderating role of daily peer support (cultural socialization, preparation for bias, and general social support), during the first and third years of university. Multilevel structural equation modeling showed that, at the within‐person level, daily ethnic–racial discrimination was significantly associated with increased internalizing problems on the same day at Wave 1 (B = 1.35, 95% CI [0.99, 1.71]) but not at Wave 2 (B = 0.57, 95% CI [−0.05, 1.19]). Daily peer cultural socialization (B = −0.84, 95% CI [−1.65, −0.03]) and preparation for bias (B = −1.21, 95% CI [−2.09, −0.27]) buffered the association between discrimination and internalizing problems at Wave 1; however, these patterns were not observed at Wave 2. These findings underscore the first year of university as a vulnerable period when daily exposure to ethnic–racial discrimination can compromise mental health among ethnic–racial minority students. Peer cultural socialization and preparation for bias can serve as effective buffers during this time. Higher education institutions should prioritize interventions that foster culturally sensitive peer support systems that help create an inclusive and affirming environment for first‐year ethnic–racial minority students.\n"]

  May 23, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70206   open full text
• A latent profile analysis of ethnic‐racial socialization strategies among Latinx families experiencing discrimination.
  Jordan L. Mullins, Cecilia S. Cheung, Cecilia Ayón, Kalina J. Michalska.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 19, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nAmong Latinx families in the United States, experiences of ethnic‐racial discrimination frequently predict elevated anxiety symptoms. In response to these experiences, Latinx caregivers employ a variety of ethnic‐racial socialization strategies to help their children understand and practice responding to discriminatory treatment. Whether specific socialization strategies are more protective for mental health than others remains unclear. The current study aimed to address this gap through a latent profile analysis of caregiver ethnic‐racial socialization, testing potential buffering effects of profile membership on the association between caregiver experiences of ethnic‐racial discrimination and both child and caregiver anxiety symptoms in a sample of Latinx families. The primary caregivers of 158 predominantly Mexican‐identifying Latina girls (Mage = 10.71, SD = 1.68) reported their ethnic‐racial discrimination experiences and ethnic‐racial socialization practices, in addition to their own and their daughters' anxiety symptoms. Latent profile analyses tested two through six‐profile solutions of caregiver ethnic‐racial socialization strategy use, from which a single dominating profile of ethnic‐racial socialization emerged. Post hoc exploratory analyses independently testing the protective effect of each strategy revealed that educating children about issues related to immigration buffered the link between ethnic‐racial discrimination and child anxiety symptoms, and normalizing discriminatory experiences buffered the link between ethnic‐racial discrimination and caregiver anxiety symptoms. Our findings suggest that the current sample of caregivers utilizes relatively homogeneous patterns of ethnic‐racial socialization strategies and that specific strategies may be particularly valuable in protecting against the deleterious effects of ethnic‐racial discrimination on the mental health of Latinx families.\n"]

  May 19, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70196   open full text
• Parent‐adolescent relationships, COVID‐19‐related concerns, and life satisfaction among adolescents from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds during school closures.
  Jessie Hillekens, Gülseli Baysu, Karen Phalet.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 19, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nAmidst the abrupt school closure due to the COVID‐19 pandemic, adolescents faced unexpected challenges. Drawing on data collected 1 week before, during, and 1 year after the first COVID‐19 school closure in Belgium, this study investigated (1) changes in life satisfaction, (2) whether parent–child relationship quality served as a protective factor during school closures over and beyond COVID‐19‐related concerns; and (3) differences among early adolescents (N = 124, Mage = 12.86, 40.3% girls, 0.8% nonbinary) from different ethnic and SES backgrounds. Results revealed a general decline in life satisfaction during school closure, independent of ethnicity and SES, with only partial recovery when schools reopened. Beyond general negative consequences of parental conflict, parental warmth had a stronger protective effect for youth from ethnic minority and lower SES backgrounds, and the harmful impact of COVID‐19‐related concerns was more pronounced among youth from ethnic majority backgrounds. The findings highlight how school closures reduced adolescents' life satisfaction, and point toward critical underlying mechanisms among adolescents from different ethnic and SES backgrounds.\n"]

  May 19, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70201   open full text
• Milestones, revisited: Iterative and nonlinear identity development in Gen‐Z.
  William Warton, Olivia Bruce, David Moseley, Michelle L. Byrne, Kelly‐Ann Allen, Ainsley Hughes, Beth P. Johnson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 18, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study examined how sexual and gender identity development experiences, commonly operationalized as “milestones,” were navigated by Gen‐Z LGBTQ+ young people. Using a life‐history calendar approach, milestone‐related experiences were treated as heuristic sites of meaning‐making rather than fixed developmental benchmarks. Participants were a sample of 51 Australian LGBTQ+ young people (ages 16–26), purposively recruited from a larger quantitative study, who participated in semi‐structured interviews conducted from May to September 2023. Participants reflected on their identity development experiences across childhood and adolescence. Interviews were analyzed using reflexive thematic analysis. Findings indicate that identity‐related experiences were often iterative and context‐dependent, with meanings shifting across time, relationships, and social environments. Rather than unfolding as linear sequences, experiences such as self‐identification, disclosure, and relationships were frequently revisited, deferred, reinterpreted, or resisted. Relational contexts, visibility, and experiences of affirmation or invalidation shaped how and when these experiences acquired significance. The study offers qualitative insight into dimensions of identity development that complement population‐level milestone research and have implications for research, policy, and practice.\n"]

  May 18, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70200   open full text
• Ethnic‐racial identity in Sweden: Dimensionality, measurement invariance, and psychosocial adjustment.
  Tommy Reinholdsson, Ann Frisén, C. Philip Hwang, Linda Juang, Pär D. Stern, Moin Syed.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 17, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study examines ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) among majority and minority adolescents in Sweden, focusing on the dimensionality and measurement invariance of ERI subscales, and how the ERI dimensions across these subscales relate to psychosocial adjustment. Using data from 665 Swedish adolescents, we assessed the structure and invariance of six ERI subscales commonly used in ERI research via confirmatory factor analysis. Most subscales showed acceptable structure (with some modifications) and metric invariance across groups, while scalar invariance was fully supported for only one subscale and partially for others. Five ERI dimensions were identified in the subscales: centrality, belonging‐affirmation, clarity, exploration, and public regard. We examined how these dimensions related to well‐being, interpersonal trust, institutional trust, and generativity. Belonging‐affirmation and public regard were positively associated with well‐being in both groups. Among majority youth, belonging‐affirmation was additionally positively associated with interpersonal trust, institutional trust, and generativity, whereas public regard was positively associated with institutional trust and generativity. Among minority youth, public regard was additionally positively associated with interpersonal and institutional trust. Centrality was negatively associated with well‐being and institutional trust among minority adolescents. Exploration was positively associated with generativity in both groups and negatively associated with institutional trust among minority youth. These findings underscore ERI as a psychosocially relevant construct in the Swedish context and highlight how the contextualized experiences of majority and minority adolescents can shape both their interpretation of the ERI construct and its associations with psychosocial adjustment.\n"]

  May 17, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70197   open full text
• The two faces of victimization: A Cross‐lagged panel network analysis of adolescent bullying victimization, self‐stigma, and moral disengagement.
  Yang Xu, Aitao Lu, Lihong Ao, Xiaoya Li, Shengping Xue, Wanyi Chen, Xiaoqing Wang, Thung Kwan.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 17, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study aims to employ cross‐lagged panel network (CLPN) analysis to longitudinally explore the intricate and dynamic relational patterns both within and between the systems of self‐stigma and moral disengagement in adolescents who have experienced various forms of bullying. Adopting a two‐wave longitudinal design with a four‐month interval, the study involved 559 adolescents (39.54% female, 60.46% male; Mage = 13.46, SD = 0.92). The network analysis revealed that, at both T1 and T2, emotional self‐stigma, blaming/dehumanizing the victim, and verbal bullying exhibited the highest expected influence (EI), indicating the establishment of a stable and central core within the adolescent psychological pathology network. The CLPN results further highlighted that verbal bullying displayed the strongest out‐EI, while cognitive self‐stigma demonstrated the strongest in‐EI. Additionally, two distinct pathological pathways emerged: relational bullying at T1 significantly predicted cognitive self‐stigma at T2 (internalizing pathway), while verbal bullying at T1 predicted cognitive restructuring at T2 (externalizing pathway). The study also illuminated the self‐sustaining nature of self‐stigma and moral disengagement, revealing a reciprocal feedback loop between these constructs. Notably, minimizing agency at T1 was found to negatively predict cognitive self‐stigma at T2, suggesting it serves as a temporary defense mechanism protecting victims from self‐depreciation. Overall, the findings underscore that bullying victimization triggers a complex, interconnected psychological system, emphasizing the importance of interventions grounded in psychological mechanisms, sequential strategies, and individualized approaches tailored to the specific types of bullying encountered by victims.\n"]

  May 17, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70198   open full text
• Peer and familial influences on the association between behavioral inhibition and trajectories of social anxiety symptoms across adolescence.
  Madison Politte‐Corn, Sarah Myruski, Kristin A. Buss.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 15, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nBehavioral inhibition (BI) is one of the most reliable predictors of social anxiety, and both peers and family members play a key role in shaping this association. In a sample of adolescents enriched for elevated BI and social anxiety symptoms, we examined (1) the moderating role of familial and close peer relationship qualities on associations between BI, concurrent social anxiety symptoms, and social anxiety symptom trajectories and (2) indirect effects of adolescent BI on social anxiety through close peer and familial relationship qualities. Furthermore, we examined sex differences in these pathways. When adolescents were 12–14 years old (N = 150; 60% female at birth; 80% White; 38% annual family income <$70,000), parents reported on BI and youth self‐reported familial and close peer relationship qualities. In addition, adolescents self‐reported social anxiety symptoms annually across 4 years. Multiple‐group growth curve models indicated that, for adolescent girls, perceived support from close peers interacted with BI to predict both concurrent social anxiety and social anxiety symptom trajectories. For adolescent boys, perceived familial negative interactions interacted with BI to predict social anxiety symptom trajectories. Finally, for adolescent girls, BI indirectly predicted social anxiety through low perceived support from family members, but not through peer relationship qualities. Results provide support for social risk and protective factors that shape anxiety trajectories across this vulnerable developmental period for BI youth.\n"]

  May 15, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70194   open full text
• Taking a critical participatory action approach to education measurement development.
  Samantha E. Holquist, Ta‐Yang Hsieh, Alyssa Scott, Mark Vincent B. Yu, Marisa Crowder, Claire Kelley, Olivia Reyes, AM‐ME Research Group.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 14, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study examines how critical participatory action research (cPAR) can advance education measurement development by positioning Black and Latino students and their teachers as co‐researchers. As part of the Adapted Measure of Math Engagement (AM‐ME) Project, a three‐year partnership with a school district in the Midwestern region of the U.S., students, teachers, and academic researchers collaboratively defined math engagement, co‐created survey items, analyzed qualitative evidence, and developed practice recommendations. Drawing on reflections, artifacts, and action‐planning products from the AM‐ME Research Group, findings show that participation fostered new researcher identities for students and teachers, strengthened cultural responsiveness and methodological rigor, and generated actionable classroom and district strategies. The project highlights how embedding cPAR into measurement development may produce more credible and culturally grounded instruments and cultivate youth and teacher agency while directly informing educational practice. These results highlight the potential of participatory methodologies to bridge research and practice and to expand how developmental and educational sciences conceptualize student engagement.\n"]

  May 14, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70195   open full text
• The association between parent–child and peer relationship quality in adolescence and intimate partner relationship quality in young adulthood: A two‐cohort longitudinal investigation.
  Khya Marabel‐Whitburn, Emma M. Marshall, Craig A. Olsson, Jacqui A. Macdonald, Elizabeth A. Spry, Stephanie R. Aarsman, Primrose Letcher, Tina Kretschmer, Christopher J. Greenwood.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 08, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nAdolescent experiences in close relationships play a seminal role in social–emotional development across the lifespan. Here, we examine the unique and combined effects of parent–child and peer relationship quality in adolescence (age 11–13 years) in shaping intimate partner relationship quality in young adulthood (age 19–28 years). Prospective data were from the Australian Temperament Project (n = 1117) and the TRacking Adolescents' Individual Lives Survey (n = 1512). Higher parent–child and peer relationship quality were associated with higher intimate partner relationship quality (βrange = 0.07–0.12), an effect that was strongest when both parent–child and peer relationships were of high quality (βrange = 0.13–0.19). No sex differences emerged. Results were consistent across both the ATP and TRAILS cohorts. Promoting healthy parent–child and peer relationships in early adolescence may help strengthen intimate partner relationships in young adulthood.\n"]

  May 08, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70184   open full text
• Understanding sleep and smartphone use in diverse adolescents through passive digital monitoring.
  Oren Shahnovsky, Daniella Ekstein, Talia Friedman, Maya Stemmer, Lior Carmi, Noa Benaroya‐Milshtein, Shai Fine, Shira Barzilay.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 06, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nAdolescents are among the most frequent smartphone users worldwide. Yet, few studies have examined how smartphone use appears among minority adolescents, including sexual and gender minority (SGM) youth and children of immigrant parents, who often experience unique stressors and heightened mental‐health risk. Passive smartphone monitoring provides a promising, low‐burden method for continuously and objectively assessing real‐world behavior, offering new opportunities to identify dynamic markers of mental health challenges, including suicide risk, in daily life. The present study evaluated the feasibility of a replicable framework for passive smartphone monitoring among adolescents at high risk for suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STB) and explored longitudinal differences in smartphone‐derived behavioral features across minority subgroups. Ninety‐nine adolescents aged 11–18 with recent STB completed baseline assessments and installed the iFeel app, which collected passive smartphone data for 6 months, including total and social‐media screen time and phone‐inactivity‐based proxy sleep indicators inferred from nighttime phone inactivity. Participants contributed 1500 participant‐weeks of data, with an average of 11.9 weeks of valid monitoring, supporting the feasibility and acceptability of this approach. Daily smartphone use time, social‐media activity time, and sleep duration were comparable to normative adolescent data. No significant longitudinal differences emerged between SGM and non‐SGM adolescents. However, immigrant‐origin adolescents displayed shorter but more stable sleep patterns compared to non‐immigrant origins, who exhibited longer baseline sleep with steeper declines over time. Findings highlight passive sensing as a feasible, inclusive, and scalable method for examining real‐world behavioral processes associated with STB and mental health outcomes among diverse adolescents. This framework offers a scalable approach that future studies can apply to deepen real‐time understanding of mental‐health challenges and behavioral patterns among diverse adolescents.\n"]

  May 06, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70192   open full text
• Positive youth development from early adolescence to young adulthood in nine countries: Intercepts, trajectories, and associations with parental warmth and behavioral control.
  Marc H. Bornstein, Laura Gorla, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Jennifer E. Lansford, Dario Bacchini, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater‐Deckard, Giovanna Fonseca, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Sevtap Gurdal, Daranee Junla, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Saengduean Yotanyamaneewong, Liane P. Alampay, Suha M. Al‐Hassan, Richard M. Lerner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 04, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis longitudinal study concerns initial levels, trajectories of growth, and associations of positive youth development (PYD) with parental warmth and behavioral control from early adolescence to young adulthood. Participants included 1338 adolescents (M = 13.25, SD = 1.04, years; 50% girls) from nine countries trichotomized by income level based on World Bank groupings of economies as well as cultural, sociological, and psychological considerations. Composite measures of PYD at ages 13, 15, 16, 18, and 21 were created from adolescent‐report EPOCH dimensions of engagement, perseverance, optimism, connectedness, and happiness. Adolescents reported a high average initial level of PYD (3.50 on a 4‐point scale) at 13 years of age; however, developmental trajectories of each income‐level group differed with little within‐group variation across age. Multigroup latent growth curve models examined associations of family‐level and parent‐specific dimensions of warmth and control with intercepts and trajectories of PYD. Parental warmth was consistently associated with higher PYD intercepts in all three country income levels, whereas control showed varied effects. PYD followed similar trajectory slopes across the three country income levels; parental warmth was consistently associated with growth, whereas parental control showed nuanced associations with parent and country. Warmth appears to act as a common protective correlate of adolescent PYD, whereas control appears to constitute a protective correlate in some cultural contexts but a risk correlate in other cultural contexts.\n"]

  May 04, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70189   open full text
• The development of gender centrality and private regard and its relation to psychological and social well‐being among cisgender adolescents.
  Adam J. Hoffman, Robert C. Klein, Faizun N. Bakth, Philly A. Latorre, Hannah L. Schacter.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 03, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nAlthough adolescence is theorized to be a critical period for identity development, little is known about how gender identity, specifically gender centrality and private regard, develops among adolescents. The current study assessed trajectories of gender centrality and private regard across five waves of data from Grade 9 through Grade 10 among cisgender adolescents from the United States (Mage = 14.1 years; N = 374; SD = 0.41, 139 boys and 235 girls). Additionally, the study explored how gender centrality, private regard, and their development were related to later psychological and social well‐being. Initial levels of gender centrality and private regard did not differ by gender. However, boys showed declines in their levels of gender centrality and private regard, whereas girls remained stable. For girls, higher initial levels of gender centrality and private regard were associated with greater psychological and social well‐being. Additionally, increases in positive regard were associated with increased psychological well‐being one year later. Boys' gender identity was unrelated to their well‐being. Findings underscore the importance of assessing gender identity as a developmental construct among middle adolescents and the implications that gender identity can have on the well‐being of adolescents.\n"]

  May 03, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70191   open full text
• Child maltreatment and young adult depressive symptoms and metabolic risk: The moderating role of social support.
  Yongyong Xu, Shanting Chen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 01, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nChild maltreatment is a significant risk factor for mental and metabolic health, with negative effects that can persist into adulthood. Using data from a U.S.‐nationwide study, the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health), this study examined the associations between child maltreatment, specifically childhood threat (i.e., harm or threat of harm) and deprivation (i.e., absence of expected environmental inputs), and young adult mental (i.e., depressive symptoms) and metabolic health (i.e., metabolic risk). The moderating effect of social support was also examined, focusing on both quality of different types of support (i.e., from teachers, friends, and other adults) and variety of support sources. Results showed that young adults who experienced more threat during childhood exhibited higher levels of depressive symptoms in young adulthood, and those exposed to more deprivation reported elevated levels of metabolic risk. This study also highlighted the protective‐stabilizing role of quality of teacher support in buffering the impact of deprivation on depressive symptoms, and the protective‐stabilizing role of high‐quality other adult support in the link between childhood deprivation and metabolic risk, such that the benefits of social support remained stable across increasing levels of deprivation. Additionally, the variety of social support showed a protective‐reactive pattern in moderating the link between deprivation and metabolic risk, wherein the benefits of variety of social support were released under low deprivation but not high deprivation conditions for metabolic risk. These findings underscore the importance of eliminating child maltreatment experiences and highlight potential interventions, such as enhancing teacher‐student relationships and broadening adolescents' access to diverse support networks, to buffer the long‐term mental and metabolic health consequences associated with early experiences of threat and deprivation.\n"]

  May 01, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70193   open full text
• Short‐ and long‐term associations between recent stressful life events and adjustment among adolescents: The role of coping orientations.
  Kimberly R. M. Osborne, Sabina Low, Yu Lu, Caitlyn Mytelka, Keshav Parameswaran, Jeff R. Temple.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 29, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study explores the influence of experiencing one, two or more stressful life events (SLE) in the past year in associations with adolescent sleep and depression symptomatology in the short and long term in the context of coping. Participants were 2323 Hispanic (44.1%), non‐Hispanic Black (30.5%), non‐Hispanic White (8.6%), and non‐Hispanic Asian (16.7%) eighth graders (51.1% female) from 24 public middle schools in southeast Texas in 2019. Multivariate linear and logistic regressions for the depression and sleep outcomes, respectively, were conducted while controlling for clustering in schools. Findings indicated that experiencing two or more SLEs (compared to one or none) was associated with worse adjustment in the short and longer term. Problem‐focused coping was concurrently associated with better adjustment but heightened the association between aggregated SLEs and depressive symptoms over time. Avoidant coping was not associated with adjustment longitudinally but, in the short term, it was associated with higher depressive symptoms and exacerbated the association between SLEs and depressive symptomatology. Avoidant coping was also associated with better odds of getting adequate sleep when no SLEs were experienced but conditioned the negative association between experiencing one SLE and worse sleep. Lastly, emotion‐focused coping was associated with poorer adjustment both in the short and longer term and exacerbated the negative association between SLEs on short‐term adjustment. These findings add incrementally to the literature on adolescent coping with SLEs during a time when researchers and practitioners are grappling with how best to address the increased stress and deteriorating mental health of adolescents.\n"]

  April 29, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70183   open full text
• Aggression and personal values in immigrant adolescents: A longitudinal examination of reciprocal associations.
  Hanit Ohana, Seth J. Schwartz, Mark Van Ryzin, Adi Arden, Einat Elizarov, Maya Benish‐Weisman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 23, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis longitudinal study investigates the bidirectional relationship between personal values and aggressive behavior among immigrant adolescents from the Former Soviet Union residing in Israel. Using a 4‐wave cross‐lagged latent difference score modeling approach over 2 years, we examined the reciprocal associations between personal values and aggressive behaviors over time. The sample included 180 adolescents (mean age = 14.36 years, SD = 1.35; 44.5% girls) and their primary caregivers, with youth reporting on personal values and both youth and parents reporting on adolescent aggression. Separate models were estimated for youth‐ and parent‐reported youth aggression. Our findings indicated that immigrant youth aggression predicted changes in personal values over time, but not vice versa. For youth‐reported models, adolescents' aggressive behavior predicted increases in self‐enhancement and openness to change values and decreases in self‐transcendence and conservation values. For parent‐reported models, youth aggressive behavior predicted increases in youth self‐enhancement values over time. These results highlight the asymmetry in the value‐behavior dynamic during adolescence, particularly as immigrant youth navigate and integrate into a new socio‐cultural environment. Our findings highlight the role of behavioral adaptation in shaping value systems during adolescence, offering insights into mechanisms underlying immigrant youth adjustment. Our findings emphasize the importance of targeting aggressive behaviors in interventions to foster adaptive values and enhance social integration.\n"]

  April 23, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70188   open full text
• From peers to partners: The peer‐context origins of adolescent heterosexual romance.
  Cassie McMillan, Derek A. Kreager, René Veenstra.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 23, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nRomantic partnerships are highly influential for adolescent development, but many questions remain as to how and with whom such relationships emerge. By adopting a dynamic social network perspective, this study furthers our understanding of the peer‐related precursors to heterosexual adolescent romance. Multivariate statistical network models are applied to unique longitudinal data on 1919 Dutch adolescents' (Mage = 14.9, SDage = 1.6; 52% girls, 12% non‐Western migration background) romantic relationships and other social ties (e.g., friendships, popularity nominations, “crushes”). Results indicate that peer‐related processes at the individual‐, couple‐, and network‐level increase the probability that a different‐gender pair will form a romantic partnership. Adolescent pairs are more likely to begin heterosexual romantic partnerships if they were previously friends, shared the same school or classroom context, had mutual friends, or were friends with the respective members of another couple. These findings emphasize the value of recognizing how adolescents' intimate romantic relationships are embedded in broader peer contexts.\n"]

  April 23, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70187   open full text
• Developmental trajectories of same‐sex friendship conflict from pre‐adolescence to middle adolescence and associations with changes in social–emotional adjustment among Chinese adolescents.
  Jie Zhang, Liang Chen, Liang Zhang, Bin Pan, Linqin Ji, Wenxin Zhang.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 21, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study investigated adolescent same‐sex friendship conflict trajectories and their associations with social–emotional adjustment in a sample of Chinese adolescents (N = 2001, 51.8% boys) from Grades 6 (Wave1, Mage = 12.31 years old, SDage = 0.49) to 10. Using latent class growth analysis, three distinct trajectories of friendship conflict frequency were identified: low‐slightly increasing, low‐sharply increasing, and high‐decreasing‐stable. Consistent with an escalation hypothesis, the low‐sharply increasing group exhibited a greater increase in depressive symptoms but not interpersonal relationships over time compared to the low‐slightly increasing group; the high‐decreasing‐stable group demonstrated a greater decrease in peer rejection (i.e., “recovery hypothesis”) compared to the other two groups, while simultaneously maintaining stable, higher levels of depression and loneliness (i.e., “scar hypothesis”). The findings highlight the developmental heterogeneity in friendship conflict frequency and the importance of understanding the effects of friendship conflict from a dynamic perspective.\n"]

  April 21, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70182   open full text
• Developmental assets and mental health among black sexual minority male adolescents: A dominance analysis of depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors.
  Donte T. Boyd, Hans Oh, Akilah Patterson, Addie Weaver, Myles Durkee, Camille R. Quinn.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 19, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nThis study examined associations between developmental assets and mental health outcomes among Black sexual minority male (BSMM) adolescents aged 14–17 in the Midwestern United States. Data were collected through an online survey of 383 participants. Dominance analysis was employed to evaluate the relative contributions of multiple developmental assets, including positive identity, social competencies, family support, positive values, and mattering and belonging, as well as depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors. Results indicated that positive identity demonstrated the strongest relative contribution to both depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors. Social competencies and family support also contributed meaningfully to variation in suicidal behaviors, whereas mattering and belonging and positive values showed minor but notable contributions to depressive symptoms. Correlation analyses indicated that higher levels of positive identity, social competencies, and family support were associated with lower depressive symptoms and suicidal behaviors. Covariate‐adjusted regression models further indicated that positive identity and mattering and belonging remained significantly associated with suicidal behaviors, whereas positive identity and food insecurity were associated with depressive symptoms. Overall, these findings highlight the importance of both relational and identity‐based developmental assets in promoting mental health among BSMM adolescents. Identifying which assets demonstrate the greatest relative importance provides insights for developing culturally responsive, strengths‐based interventions aimed at reducing suicide risk and improving mental health outcomes among BSMM youth.\n"]

  April 19, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70185   open full text
• Associations between youth disclosure, concealment, and autonomy in daily life: Exploring maternal privacy invasion as moderator.
  Shisang Peng, Susan Branje, Yueqi Wang, Skyler T. Hawk.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 17, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nDespite theoretical claims that adolescents' information management with parents and their experiences of autonomy might mutually influence one another, little is known about how these potential reciprocal processes unfold in daily family life. This preregistered daily diary study examined potential bidirectional associations between adolescents' voluntary disclosure, concealment, and autonomy at the within‐family level. This study also tested whether family differences in maternal privacy invasion moderated these associations. A total of 179 adolescents (Mage = 15.35, SD = 1.06; 49.10% male) and their mothers (Mage = 43.33, SD = 4.46) completed baseline measures of maternal privacy invasion. Youth also provided 21 consecutive daily reports on information management and autonomy. Dynamic structural equation modeling revealed that on days when adolescents disclosed more than usual, they reported higher levels of autonomy the next day. Concealment showed no significant lagged associations with autonomy. Maternal privacy invasion did not moderate the associations. These findings underscore voluntary disclosure as a key antecedent of adolescents' daily autonomy experiences. This research can provide insights for interventions aimed at promoting adolescents' autonomy by encouraging their voluntary disclosure, even in families where maternal intrusion is prevalent.\n"]

  April 17, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70180   open full text
• Heterogeneity and transition of adolescent aggression perpetrators: Individual, family, school, and community risk and protective predictors.
  Yukai Zhou, Libin Zhang, Xingyi Chen, Yunyun Zhang.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 17, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nA growing body of research has recognized the heterogeneity among aggression perpetrators, particularly regarding their social status and victimization experiences. However, little is known about how distinct perpetrator roles evolve over time or the ecological factors that shape their heterogeneity and developmental dynamics. To address these gaps, the classification and transition patterns of aggression perpetrators in a sample of 2578 Chinese adolescents (Mage = 12.99, SD = 0.60; 47.9% girls) were examined in this study over a 2‐year period. A latent class analysis revealed three perpetrator subgroups: high‐status aggressors (7.22%), low‐status aggressors (12.45%), and low‐status aggressive victims (9.15%). Furthermore, high‐status aggressors showed short‐term stability but tended to shift to low‐status roles in the long term, whereas low‐status aggressors and aggressive victims exhibited instability across both time intervals. Analyses of multisystemic predictors revealed that protective and risk factors exerted differential effects across perpetrator subgroups, shaping both the persistence and developmental transitions of certain roles. These findings emphasize the need for subgroup‐specific intervention strategies that integrate resources systematically at the individual, familial, school, and community levels.\n"]

  April 17, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70181   open full text
• Developmental Shifts in Latinx Immigrant‐Origin Adolescents' Activity Spaces, Sense of Belonging, and Ethnic‐Racial Identity.
  Guadalupe López Hernández, Juliana Karras, Danieli M. Mercado Ramos, Brian Boleaga.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 16, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nLatinx immigrant‐origin (IO) youth in the U.S. are developing their ethnic‐racial identity (ERI) and sense of belonging while also contending with the sociopolitical climate shaped by racism and xenophobia, which have been shown to influence their neighborhood context. This qualitative study examined semi‐structured interviews with 29 Latinx immigrant‐origin (IO) youth (Mage = 18.65) to understand how neighborhood context relates to their sense of belonging and ERI development as they navigate the suburban Midwest. Results highlight developmental changes and the various activity spaces they engage with, examining how the ethnic‐racial composition of these spaces, both inside and outside their neighborhood, relates to their sense of belonging and ERI. The findings provide insight into demographic changes in the suburban Midwest, how Latinx youth navigate and challenge whiteness, and the inclusive activity spaces they use, offering a lens for promoting inclusive practices in suburban schools and communities.\n"]

  April 16, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70178   open full text
• Critical reflection in the online context: How do immigrant‐origin youth make meaning of their sociopolitical experiences and identities?
  Juliana E. Karras, Elena Maker Castro, Jasmine M. Gabb.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 15, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nSocial media facilitates sociopolitical development; however, xenophobic sociopolitical climates engender acculturative stressors for immigrant‐origin (IO) youth's online experiences. Through interviews with N = 90 IO youth (Mage = 16.41; 74.44% female‐identifying; 33.33% Asian, 26.67% Latinx, 25.56% Black, 8.89% multi‐racial, 3.33% white, 2.22% Middle Eastern), we qualitatively identified two meta‐themes regarding youth's critical reflection catalyzed by online content: identity‐related processes for their role in society relative to others' lived experiences; meaning‐making of sociopolitical issues through online socialization experiences. Youth's reflective processes were closely linked with their emotions. Affirming sociopolitical messages fostered emotions like care and inspiration; exclusionary and anti‐democratic messages sparked frustration and anger. Findings demonstrate how online experiences shape interconnected sociopolitical processes of and emotional responses to critical reflection and identity development for IO youth.\n"]

  April 15, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70179   open full text
• Profiles of Asian American parent‐ and adolescent‐reported ethnic‐racial socialization: A person‐centered analysis.
  Pearl Sun, Cixin Wang, Charissa S. L. Cheah, Ashlyn Michot, Louisa Wetzel.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 07, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nEthnic–racial socialization (ERS), the communication of parent worldviews about race and ethnicity to children, is important for youth development. Most research only examines parent or youth reports of these socialization practices in isolation, and few have focused on Asian American families. The present study addresses these gaps, incorporating both parent and youth reports of ethnic–racial socialization practices in Asian American families. Participants were 466 Asian American parents (Mage = 46.52 years, SD = 5.21), including 317 Chinese Americans, 118 Korean Americans, and 31 Filipino Americans, and their adolescents (Mage = 14.72 years, SD = 1.91). Most parents (94%) were born outside of the United States while most adolescents (80%) were born in the United States. Parents comprised 377 mothers (81%) and 89 fathers (19%). Participants resided across 30 U.S. states. Dyads completed the Asian American Parental Racial–Ethnic Socialization Scale (Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology, 2016, 22, 417), measuring seven ERS dimensions. We conducted latent profile analyses to identify patterns of parent and child reports of parental ERS messages and examined associations between profile membership and Asian American youth adjustment (mental health, academic grades, social competence, ethnic identity development) using the BCH procedure in Mplus. Model fit indices supported a four‐profile solution. Adolescents in the High Positive/Low Negative ERS and the Moderate Positive/Low Negative ERS profiles displayed significantly lower levels of anxiety and depression symptoms compared to adolescents in the Parent Low Youth Moderate Negative ERS profile, as well as significantly better academic outcomes compared to adolescents in the Parent High Youth Moderate All ERS and the Parent Low Youth Moderate Negative ERS profiles. Adolescents in the High Positive/Low Negative ERS profile exhibited more positive ethnic identity outcomes compared to adolescents in the Parent High Youth Moderate All ERS and the Parent Low Youth Moderate Negative ERS profiles. Furthermore, adolescents in the High Positive/Low Negative ERS profile scored higher on social competence compared to youth in all other profiles. This study provides the first empirical evidence on how both the content (type of ERS message) and process (parent‐adolescent agreement on ERS) of ERS transmission impact Asian American youth adjustment. It is not only important for parents to promote positive ERS practices to support youth, but also to ensure that these practices are effectively perceived by their youth.\n"]

  April 07, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70176   open full text
• Mood reactivity to daily interactions with family, peers, and at school: Adolescent correlates and young adult outcomes.
  Carlie J. Sloan, Cheuk Hei Cheng, Andrew J. Fuligni, Joanna J. Kim.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 05, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nDaily mood reactivity, or the extent to which positive and negative moods change in response to experiences, is both a marker of overall psychological health and a predictor of future health and well‐being. A preponderance of studies has focused on negative mood reactivity to stressful events, leaving gaps in knowledge about positive mood reactivity and the impact of positive daily experiences. We aimed to identify within‐person patterns of adolescent positive and negative mood reactivity to daily interpersonal interactions, test correlates of mood reactivity patterns, and determine whether adolescent reactivity patterns precipitated mental and behavioral health outcomes in young adulthood. We used latent profile analysis to identify the patterns of positive and negative mood reactivity among 316 racially diverse adolescents (Mage = 16.4 at Time 1) in the United States. Most adolescents were characterized by typical reactivity (86%), showing mood responses in expected directions and average in magnitude. Some adolescents were characterized by heightened reactivity across most daily interactions (generalized heightened reactivity, 7%) or heightened reactivity to certain types of daily interactions (selective heightened reactivity, 7%). Adolescents in the latter two profiles were characterized by greater life stress. Adolescent profile membership was associated with differential cigarette and marijuana use at age 20, with most results indicating higher risk among those with heightened daily mood reactivity. Findings can be used to inform personalized prevention efforts, especially for adolescents with high life stress who may be more likely to exhibit heightened daily mood reactivity and eventually elevated substance use.\n"]

  April 05, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70175   open full text
• Mapping family affect to adolescent short‐video addiction: A cross‐lagged panel network analysis.
  Xiaoliu Jiang, Kuo Zhang.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 03, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nShort video platforms have rapidly become central to adolescents' digital lives, yet empirical work on short‐video addiction (SVA) is largely cross‐sectional and rarely embeds family dynamics within established theoretical frameworks. Most adolescent viewing occurs at home, making familial emotional environments potentially critical, yet understudied, drivers of SVA. To address this gap, the current study adopted a developmental cascade framework, using a cross‐lagged panel network approach to examine temporal associations among family ecological risks (family economic strain, parental negative mood, childhood emotional neglect), trait vulnerability (neuroticism), affective states (depressive symptoms, perceived stress), cognitive beliefs (fixed mindset, relative deprivation), and SVA. Two survey waves (6‐month interval) involving 807 Chinese middle school students (Mage = 13.57 years; SDage = 0.76; range: 11–15 years; 49.7% female) were conducted. Network analysis revealed robust predictability (R2 average = .32), with T1 variables explaining 24% of the variance in T2 SVA. Depressive symptoms and parental negative mood emerged as key risk drivers with the highest out‐expected influence, while perceived stress functioned as a vulnerability hub accumulating upstream influences with the highest in‐expected influence. Across waves, depressive symptoms and perceived stress predicted higher SVA. SVA also showed prospective associations with higher later fixed mindset and relative deprivation. Gender‐stratified networks revealed broadly similar structures, and supplementary serial mediation analyses provided convergent support for indirect cascade pathways. These findings are consistent with a developmental cascade account and suggest that effective prevention may complement time‐limit approaches with integrated strategies targeting family emotional climate, adolescents' stress regulation, and maladaptive cognitions.\n"]

  April 03, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70177   open full text
• Longitudinal association between parental phubbing and digital self‐harm in Chinese adolescents: The roles of psychological distress and gender.
  Zhaoyu Fu, Shuhan Ren, Rongrong Duan, Yuling Tang, Li Lei, Xiaochun Xie.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 30, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nParental phubbing refers to the sense of neglect experienced by children whose parents are preoccupied with their mobile devices. Digital self‐harm encompasses behaviors in which individuals post, send, or share harmful content about themselves online, often anonymously. The present study aimed to examine the relationship between parental phubbing and digital self‐harm among Chinese adolescents, with psychological distress serving as a mediating variable and gender acting as a moderating variable. We recruited 1055 adolescents (Mage = 14.86 ± 1.70 years; ngirl = 537) to complete measures assessing parental phubbing, psychological distress, and digital self‐harm. Our study employed a three‐wave longitudinal design, with assessments spaced 6 months apart. Findings indicated that parental phubbing positively predicted digital self‐harm through psychological distress (depression, anxiety, and stress) in Chinese adolescents. Notably, gender differences existed in this mechanism; the association between psychological distress and digital self‐harm was stronger among boys than girls. Our study suggests that interventions aimed at reducing parental phubbing could have a beneficial impact on alleviating adolescent psychological distress and mitigating instances of digital self‐harm. Furthermore, it is essential to consider the differing needs for intervention strategies tailored specifically for boys and girls in practice.\n"]

  March 30, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70173   open full text
• What's on your mind? The role of bystander behaviors in victims' cognitions about the cause of the bullying and its solution.
  Lydia Laninga‐Wijnen, Daniël Graf, Karyn Healy, Takuya Yanagida, Christina Salmivalli, Claire F. Garandeau.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 30, 2026
  ["Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2026. ", "\nAbstract\nIt is commonly assumed that victims' maladaptive cognitions concerning the cause of their victimization (self‐blame) or its potential solution (e.g., helplessness) contribute to psychological problems. Nevertheless, there is limited empirical research on the conditions that lead to the emergence of such cognitions. The present study investigates whether bystanders' behaviors during bullying incidents (bystanders joining the bullying or defending the victim) influence victims' attributions of the cause (self‐blame) and perceived solutions (i.e., internal or external solution, or helplessness) to bullying, both concurrently and over time. A total of n = 755 victims (Mage = 12.75, SD = 1.77; 54.8% girls) from 379 classrooms in 49 schools were drawn from a larger sample of n = 6537 students participating in the SOLID project. Concurrent regression analyses indicated that victims whose bystanders joined the bullying (n = 345) experienced higher self‐blame and helplessness at T1 compared with victims whose bystanders did not join the bullying (n = 364). Victims whose bystanders defended them (n = 458) experienced lower self‐blame and helplessness, and a stronger belief in an internal or external solution to the bullying, compared with victims whose bystanders did not defend them (n = 286). Latent change score models indicated that over time, victims whose bystanders joined the bullying experienced less favorable change (i.e., stronger increase, weaker decrease) in self‐blame over time than victims whose bystanders did not join the bullying. Defended victims slightly differed from non‐defended victims in some cognitions about the solution (e.g., lower helplessness), but only if their victimization decreased between T1 and T2. Thus, bystander behaviors may shape victims' cognitions in response to bullying incidents. Anti‐bullying intervention should emphasize that bystanders should not join in the bullying; further research is needed to clarify when and how bystanders' defending is helpful.\n"]

  March 30, 2026   doi: 10.1111/jora.70172   open full text
• Adolescent Profiles of Marginalization and Connection at School: Relations With Academics and Mental Health.
  Whitney Polk, Nancy E. Hill, Maggi Price, Belle Liang, John Perella, Mandy Savitz‐Romer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 19, 2018
  --- - |2 School context serves as a testing ground for exploring social relationships and satisfying needs for connection and affirmation, but often includes feelings of rejection. With a diverse high school sample (n = 645; 55% female; 61% White, 18% African American, 10% Latino, 10% Asian American, 1% Multiracial), patterns of experiences with marginalization and connection were identified and their associations with achievement and mental health examined. Using two‐step cluster analysis, three clusters were identified: above the fray, exposed and protected, and targeted and unsupported. Ethnic/racial background was not related to cluster membership. Except for gender and well‐being, associations between cluster membership and outcomes were similar across demographic background. The above the fray and the exposed and protected clusters were associated with better outcomes. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  October 19, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12460   open full text
• Developmental Changes and Individual Differences in Trust and Reciprocity in Adolescence.
  Suzanne Groep, Rosa Meuwese, Kiki Zanolie, Berna Güroğlu, Eveline A. Crone.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 16, 2018
  --- - |2 A Trust Game was used to examine trust and reciprocity development in 12–18‐year‐old‐adolescents (N = 496), as findings have been conflicting and transitions in adolescence remain elusive. Furthermore, this study tested the roles of gender, risk, and individual differences in empathy, impulsivity, and antisocial tendencies in trust and reciprocity. Results indicate stability in trust and a decrease in reciprocity across adolescence, but also show that trust and reciprocity choices were influenced by risk, and that empathy mediated the age‐related decrease in reciprocity. Males trusted more than females, but there were no gender differences in reciprocity. These findings highlight the importance of considering individual differences and adolescents’ sensitivities to varying contexts in explaining trust and reciprocity development in adolescence. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  October 16, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12459   open full text
• Differential Susceptibility to Parenting in Adolescent Girls: Moderation by Neural Sensitivity to Social Cues.
  Karen D. Rudolph, Megan M. Davis, Haina H. Modi, Carina Fowler, Yuji Kim, Eva H. Telzer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 01, 2018
  --- - |2 This research examined whether heightened neural activation to social cues confers adjustment advantages in supportive social contexts but adjustment disadvantages in stressful social contexts. Forty‐five adolescent girls were exposed to social exclusion during an fMRI scan and reported on parent–child relationship quality and depressive symptoms. Stressful parent–child relationships predicted subsequent depressive symptoms in girls with high and moderate but not low dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, subgenual anterior cingulate cortex, and anterior insula activation during exclusion. In the context of supportive parent–child relationships, however, neural activation to exclusion predicted particularly low levels of depressive symptoms. This support for a biological sensitivity to context model suggests the possibility of redirecting adolescent girls’ neural sensitivity to social cues toward more positive adaptation. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  October 01, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12458   open full text
• Delinquency, School Context, and Risk Factors in India, Australia, and the United States: Implications for Prevention.
  Michael J. Parks, Renati J. Solomon, Shreeletha Solomon, Bosco C. Rowland, Sheryl A. Hemphill, George C. Patton, John W. Toumbourou.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 27, 2018
  --- - |2 There is a dearth of research on delinquency, school context, and risk factors across developed and developing nations. Using representative samples and matched surveys, we examined delinquency among cohorts in Mumbai, India (N = 3,717); Victoria, Australia (N = 1,842); and Washington State (WA), United States (N = 1,828). We used multivariate Poisson hierarchical linear modeling. Risk factor and delinquency levels varied across sites. Delinquency clustered within certain schools, particularly in Mumbai. Community disorganization exhibited an association with delinquency as a school‐level context effect in Mumbai and Victoria. Peer delinquency, sensation seeking, and poor family management exhibited cross‐nationally consistent associations with delinquency. Programs that target schools, the clustering of problem behaviors, and cross‐nationally consistent risk factors should be considered internationally. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  September 27, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12455   open full text
• Person‐Environment Fit and Positive Youth Development in the Context of High School Gay–Straight Alliances.
  Jerel P. Calzo, V. Paul Poteat, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, Stephen T. Russell, Laura M. Bogart.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 27, 2018
  --- - |2 Drawing from a person‐environment fit framework, we identified profiles of youth in gay–straight alliances (GSAs) based on the extent to which they received information/resources, socializing/support, and advocacy opportunities in their GSAs and the extent to which this matched what they desired from their GSA along these three functions. Further, we examined profile differences in positive developmental competencies while accounting for community‐contextual factors. In a sample of 290 youth from 42 Massachusetts GSAs, latent profile analyses identified five subgroups. Overall, youth receiving less from their GSAs than they desired, particularly regarding opportunities for advocacy, reported lower levels of self‐reflection, bravery, civic engagement, and agency than youth who received information, socializing/support, and advocacy that matched or exceeded what they desired. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  September 27, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12456   open full text
• Sexual Orientation–Based Depression and Suicidality Health Disparities: The Protective Role of School‐Based Health Centers.
  Lei Zhang, Laura J. Finan, Melina Bersamin, Deborah A. Fisher.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 19, 2018
  --- - |2 This study's purpose was to examine whether school‐based health centers (SBHCs) support mental health indicators among sexual minority youth (SMY). Data came from the 2015 Oregon Healthy Teens Survey with 13,608 11th graders in 137 public high schools in Oregon. Regression results revealed significant SBHC by SMY status interactions indicating relative reductions in likelihood of depressive episodes (30%), suicidal ideation (34%), and suicide attempts (43%) among SMY in schools with SBHCs. SMY students in SBHC schools reported lower likelihood of a past‐year depressive episode, suicidal ideation, and suicide attempt versus those attending non‐SBHC schools. Conversely, no differences in these outcomes were observed for non‐SMY by SBHC status. SBHCs may help reduce mental health disparities among SMY, a marginalized, underserved population. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  September 19, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12454   open full text
• Development of School and Sport Burnout in Adolescent Student‐Athletes: A Longitudinal Mixed‐Methods Study.
  Matilda Sorkkila, Tatiana V. Ryba, Harri Selänne, Kaisa Aunola.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 12, 2018
  --- - |2 We investigated the development of school and sport burnout in adolescent student‐athletes (N Time 1 = 391, N Time 2 = 373) during their first year in upper secondary school using an embedded mixed‐methods design. The questionnaire‐based data were analyzed with growth mixture modeling and four burnout profiles were identified among student‐athletes. From the found burnout profiles, two were typical for the interviewed subsample of elite athletes (n = 17), that is, burnout risk and non risk profiles. We generated rich descriptions of well‐being and ill‐being, showing that elite athletes in two burnout profiles differed in their experienced demands and resources related to individual and environmental factors. The results can be used to generate practical tools for burnout detection in student‐athletes’ educational path. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  September 12, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12453   open full text
• Longitudinal Associations Between Adolescents' Bullying‐Related Indirect Defending, Outsider Behavior, and Peer‐Group Status.
  Jeroen Pronk, Tjeert Olthof, Elisabeth A. Aleva, Matty Meulen, Marjolijn M. Vermande, Frits A. Goossens.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 29, 2018
  --- - |2 During adolescence, youth become more likely to avoid involvement in witnessed bullying and less likely to support victims. It is unknown whether—and how—these bystander behaviors (i.e., outsider behavior and indirect defending) are associated with adolescents' peer‐group status (i.e., popularity and social acceptance) over time. Cross‐lagged path modeling was used to examine these longitudinal associations in a sample of 313 Dutch adolescents (Mage‐T1 = 10.3 years). The results showed that status longitudinally predicted behavior, rather than that behavior predicted status. Specifically, unpopularity predicted outsider behavior and social acceptance predicted indirect defending. These findings suggest that a positive peer‐group status can trigger adolescents' provictim stance. However, adolescents may also strategically avoid involvement in witnessed bullying to keep a low social profile. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  August 29, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12450   open full text
• The Development of Multiple Self‐Concept Dimensions During Adolescence.
  Igor Esnaola, Albert Sesé, Iratxe Antonio‐Agirre, Lorea Azpiazu.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 29, 2018
  --- - |2 The purpose of this research was to analyze the development of self‐concept during adolescence. Participants included 484 teenagers (226 boys and 258 girls) from middle‐class families in the Basque Country region of Spain (Mage = 14.99, SD = 1.81 in Time 1 and Mage = 15.64, SD = 1.80 in Time 2). Longitudinal analysis found differences in the general school dimension. Six dimensions (math, verbal, general school, physical abilities, parent relationships and same‐sex relationships) reported a linear trend with a decreasing monotonic pattern; self‐esteem fit a cubic trend and physical appearance a quadratic trend line. Males showed higher means in self‐esteem, math, physical abilities, physical appearance, emotional stability and parent relationships; and females had higher values in verbal and general school. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  August 29, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12451   open full text
• Relational Victimization and Telomere Length in Adolescent Girls.
  Erika M. Manczak, Ian H. Gotlib.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 22, 2018
  --- - |2 An emerging body of research suggests that telomere length (TL)—a measure of cellular aging—is inversely associated with experiences of childhood stress. Given the salience of peer relationships in childhood and adolescence, we tested whether relational victimization is a unique and specific predictor of salivary TL in girls. Results examining 122 girls (ages 9–15) revealed that greater relational victimization was related to shorter TL but that similar associations were not evident for other measures of social relationships nor accounted for by factors related to depression, life stress, or 5‐HTTLPR genotype. The present findings suggest that relational victimization is uniquely associated with TL in adolescence, revealing a link between key aspects of social relationships and biological processes. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  August 22, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12447   open full text
• Issue Information.
  
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 565-567, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12353   open full text
• The Significance of Parenting and Parent–Child Relationships for Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents.
  W. Roger Mills‐Koonce, Peter D. Rehder, Amy L. McCurdy.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 Adolescents in 21st century America are experiencing the emergence of their sexual and gender identities in a heteronormative society that is steadily adopting more progressive views and policies related to sexual orientation and gender. However, despite these sociocultural changes, parent–child relationships remain as one of the strongest predictors of LGBT adolescent adjustment. This article reviews the extant literature on this topic from family systems and attachment perspectives while highlighting the significance of family experiences within a minority stress framework. The presentation is oriented around the coming out process, including factors influencing this experience and how postdisclosure parenting affects the health and well‐being of LGBT adolescents. We end by discussing future directions and the challenges inherent to this research. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 637-649, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12404   open full text
• Bidirectional Relations Between Parenting and Behavior Problems From Age 8 to 13 in Nine Countries.
  Jennifer E. Lansford, W. Andrew Rothenberg, Todd M. Jensen, Melissa A. Lippold, Dario Bacchini, Marc H. Bornstein, Lei Chang, Kirby Deater‐Deckard, Laura Di Giunta, Kenneth A. Dodge, Patrick S. Malone, Paul Oburu, Concetta Pastorelli, Ann T. Skinner, Emma Sorbring, Laurence Steinberg, Sombat Tapanya, Liliana Maria Uribe Tirado, Liane Peña Alampay, Suha M. Al‐Hassan.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 This study used data from 12 cultural groups in nine countries (China, Colombia, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and the United States; N = 1,298) to understand the cross‐cultural generalizability of how parental warmth and control are bidirectionally related to externalizing and internalizing behaviors from childhood to early adolescence. Mothers, fathers, and children completed measures when children were ages 8–13. Multiple‐group autoregressive, cross‐lagged structural equation models revealed that child effects rather than parent effects may better characterize how warmth and control are related to child externalizing and internalizing behaviors over time, and that parent effects may be more characteristic of relations between parental warmth and control and child externalizing and internalizing behavior during childhood than early adolescence. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 571-590, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12381   open full text
• The Intersection of Racial–Ethnic Socialization and Adolescence: A Closer Examination at Stage‐Salient Issues.
  Gabriela L. Stein, Stephanie I. Coard, Lisa Kiang, Ruth K. Smith, Yesenia C. Mejia.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 The literature on parental racial–ethnic socialization (RES) has established the multiple protective effects of RES on developmental outcomes. Although the majority of this literature examines RES processes in adolescence, with the exception of identity processes this literature has not specifically tackled how these messages intersect with specific adolescent developmental processes. We review the literature on RES processes in non‐White adolescents with a focus on the parent–adolescent relationship, risk‐taking behaviors, romantic relationships, and different contexts (i.e., extracurricular, work, and social media settings). We propose that developmental science needs to account for how parental RES may not only change in adolescence, but in particular responds to the perceived risks associated with this developmental period and interacts with normative developmental tasks and milestones. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 609-621, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12380   open full text
• A Commentary on the Parenting of Adolescents in Diverse and Multicultural Contexts.
  Valerie Maholmes.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 This commentary on the Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in Multicultural Contexts discusses key concepts addressed by the authors in this special issue. The connecting themes of parenting styles, relationships, and the need for relevant research methods and measures are discussed. The commentary concludes with reflections on these themes for the field of developmental science and important questions for developmental scientists to ponder to advance the research in this important area of inquiry. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 674-679, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12419   open full text
• Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World: Defining, Refining, and Extending Theory and Research.
  Andrea M. Hussong, Deborah J. Jones.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 This introduction to the Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World explores how increasing population diversity may provide a context for changes in the parenting of adolescents. In this issue, authors (1) explore the context for asking questions about parenting adolescents and diversity, (2) consider parents, adolescents, and parenting in different diversity contexts, and (3) reflect on crosscutting themes. Two articles examine the parenting in an international context and within changing domestic demographics. Four articles focus on parenting adolescents in traditionally marginalized groups with the goal of identifying lessons for supporting all youth in navigating an increasingly diverse world. Finally, two articles synthesize these articles to suggest important directions for future research. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 568-570, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12398   open full text
• Parenting Practices in Diverse Family Structures: Examination of Adolescents’ Development and Adjustment.
  Velma McBride Murry, Melissa A. Lippold.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 This article explored the implications of diverse family structures on adolescents’ adjustment, with an emphasis on whether and, if so, how diverse family structures influence and predict developmental outcomes. Family relationships within the family unit are a stronger predictor of adolescents’ development than the particular family structure. Transitions in families that result in notable reductions in effective parenting practices and economic well‐being will negatively affect youth, regardless of family structure. Family processes that promote optimal growth and development among youth in traditional two‐parent, heterosexual households work similarly for those growing up in nontraditional family structures. A conceptual model to advance this field of research is offered, and implications for research and policy are discussed. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 650-664, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12390   open full text
• The Increasing Diversity and Complexity of Family Structures for Adolescents.
  Lisa D. Pearce, George M. Hayward, Laurie Chassin, Patrick J. Curran.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 The structure of adolescents’ families, and thus parental forms, in the United States, have become more heterogeneous and fluid over the past several decades. These changes are due to increases in never‐married, single parents, divorce, cohabitation, same‐sex parenting, multipartnered fertility, and co‐residence with grandparents. We document current diversity and complexity in adolescents’ families as important context for rethinking future parenting theory and research. We also discuss how understandings of adolescents’ families are somewhat limited by current methods used to measure characteristics of families. We recommend social network and profile‐based methods as alternatives to capturing key dimensions of family structure and processes. Understanding the diversity of households and families in which adolescents are raised can improve theory and research on parenting. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 591-608, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12391   open full text
• Parent–Adolescent Socialization of Social Class in Low‐Income White Families: Theory, Research, and Future Directions.
  Deborah J. Jones, Raelyn Loiselle, April Highlander.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 The formative role of social class in the United States has long been a focus of fields such as economics, history, and political science. Yet, little psychological theory or data are available to guide our understanding of what messages regarding social class are transmitted within and across generations and how those transmissions are most likely to occur. As a launching point for such work, we focus this initial contextual and largely theoretical review on parent–adolescent socialization of social class in low‐income, White families of adolescents in particular. To this end, our goal was to raise potential hypotheses about the implicit and explicit ways that White low‐income parents may shape adolescent views of class, as well as the meaning and implications of status socialization for adolescent health and well‐being. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 622-636, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12392   open full text
• Synthesizing a Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World.
  Andrea Hussong, Deborah J. Jones, , and Michaeline Jensen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 18, 2018
  --- - |2 Our goal is to identify integrative themes in this special issue on “Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World”. Specifically, we identify themes that may generalize largely from studies of marginalized families to guide American families more broadly as youth navigate an increasingly diverse world. We describe three broad diversity socialization goals that may foster greater intercultural maturity in youth. These include helping youth find their place and value in a multicultural world, increase the value that they place on others and decrease their fears of difference, and prepare to respond to biased or perceived rejection. And we offer five directions for future research to help build a path forward in this important area of study. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 665-673, September 2018.
  

  August 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12397   open full text
• Adolescent Psychological Functioning and Membership in Latent Adolescent–Parent Communication Dual Trajectory Classes.
  Christine McCauley Ohannessian, Anna Vannucci.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 17, 2018
  --- - |2 The primary goal of this study was to examine the relationship between adolescents’ psychological functioning (as indicated by depressive symptoms) and substance use (alcohol and drug use) and membership in adolescent–parent communication trajectory subgroups in a large, diverse community sample of adolescents from the United States (n = 1,057; 53% female; 51% Caucasian; Age: M = 16.15, SD = .75). Adolescents completed questionnaires at three annual assessments. Fit indices from parallel process growth mixture models suggested three dual trajectory classes: (1) Average communication with both parents (Average‐Both); (2) Good adolescent–mother and poor adolescent–father communication (Good‐Mom/Poor‐Dad); and (3) Poor adolescent–mother and good adolescent–father communication (Poor‐Mom/Good‐Dad). The trajectory classes differed by gender. In addition, psychological functioning and substance use were differentially related to the trajectory classes. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  August 17, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12442   open full text
• What's Race Got to Do With It? Racial Socialization's Contribution to Black Adolescent Coping.
  Riana Elyse Anderson, Shawn Jones, Nkemka Anyiwo, Monique McKenny, Noni Gaylord‐Harden.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 12, 2018
  --- - |2 While youth generally experience stressors from developmental milestones, Black youth also face racialized stressors. Racial socialization has been found to help Black youth cope with racialized stressors, but research has yet to show its contribution to coping beyond general socialization practices. This study examines how racial socialization contributes beyond that of general coping socialization to coping behaviors. Fifty‐eight third–eighth‐grade (Mage = 11.3, SD = 1.54) youth reported general coping socialization and racial socialization practices and coping behaviors. Results indicate that for engagement coping, racial socialization messages contributed significantly to parent‐provided engaged socialization strategies. Implications are considered for the ways in which Black youth experience stress and require culturally specific practices for successful coping with frequently encountered stressors. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  August 12, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12440   open full text
• Mother–Adolescent Conflict Interaction Sequences: The Role of Maternal Internalizing Problems.
  Debbie M. H. Van Bommel, Daniëlle Van der Giessen, Jolien Van der Graaff, Wim H. J. Meeus, Susan J. T. Branje.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 31, 2018
  --- - |2 Adaptive mother–adolescent conflict interactions are characterized by the ability to move from negative to positive emotions. The current micro‐observational study investigated how mothers and adolescents make transitions between positive, neutral and negative emotions and whether these transitions depend on maternal internalizing problems. We used three annual waves of conflict interaction observations among 102 mother–adolescent dyads. Mothers were more likely than adolescents to initiate positivity after negativity whereas adolescents were more likely than mothers to reciprocate negativity. Mothers high and low in internalizing problems were equally likely to drive transitions toward positivity. Our study indicates that an active role of mothers in regulating negativity toward positivity is desirable because adolescents are likely to maintain dysfunctional interaction patterns of rigid negativity. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 31, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12441   open full text
• Longitudinal Patterns in Parent and Friend Emotion Socialization: Associations With Adolescent Emotion Regulation.
  Rachel Miller‐Slough, Julie C. Dunsmore.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 30, 2018
  --- - |2 Adolescents learn about emotions through interacting with parents and friends, though there is limited longitudinal research on this topic. This study examined longitudinal patterns in parent and friend emotion socialization and adolescent emotion regulation. Eighty‐seven adolescents reported on parent and friend emotion socialization. Parents reported on adolescent emotion regulation. Parents’ responses were stable over time and across gender. Friends of girls reciprocated negative emotions more and were less punitive over time, whereas friends of boys increased in comforting and decreased in neglect of negative emotions. Parents and friends evidenced unique effects on adolescent emotion regulation, and the effect of friend socialization responses differed for girls and boys. Future research should examine combinatory influences of multiple socializers on adolescent adjustment. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 30, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12434   open full text
• Sources of Social Influence on Adolescents’ Alcohol Use.
  Rose Wesche, Derek A. Kreager, Eva S. Lefkowitz.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 28, 2018
  --- - |2 The present research examines social influences on self‐reported frequency of drunkenness in a longitudinal sample of 1,439 adolescents (46% female, 90% White, mean age = 14 at baseline) with social network measures from friends, romantic partners, and romantic partners’ friends. We build on past research by addressing multiple mechanisms of social influence—peers’ frequency of drunkenness, alcohol‐related attitudes, and unstructured socializing—across relationship types. Adolescents’ drunkenness frequency increased when their friends’ and partners’ friends’ drunkenness frequency increased and when their romantic partners’ positive alcohol‐related attitudes increased. Furthermore, the association between unstructured socializing and frequency of drunkenness was stronger for older than younger adolescents. Results advance understanding of the social transmission of alcohol use in adolescence and inform intervention efforts. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 28, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12439   open full text
• Is Sexual Abuse a Unique Predictor of Sexual Risk Behaviors, Pregnancy, and Motherhood in Adolescence?
  Jennie G. Noll, Kate Guastaferro, Sarah J. Beal, Hannah M. C. Schreier, Jaclyn Barnes, Jonathan M. Reader, Sarah A. Font.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 18, 2018
  --- - |2 This study tested sexual abuse as a unique predictor of subsequent adolescent sexual behaviors, pregnancy, and motherhood when in company with other types of maltreatment (physical abuse, neglect) and alternative behavioral, family, and contextual risk factors in a prospective, longitudinal study of maltreated (n = 275) and comparison (n = 239) nulliparous females aged 14–19 years old assessed annually through 19 years old. Hierarchical regression was used to disentangle risk factors that account for the associations of maltreatment type on risky sexual behaviors at 19 years old, adolescent pregnancy, and adolescent motherhood. Findings indicate that sexual and physical abuse remain significant predictors of risky sexual behaviors, and that sexual abuse remains a significant predictor of adolescent motherhood when alternative explanatory variables are controlled. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12436   open full text
• Loneliness and Adolescents’ Neural Processing of Self, Friends, and Teachers: Consequences for the School Self‐Concept.
  Sabrina Golde, Lydia Romund, Robert C. Lorenz, Patricia Pelz, Tobias Gleich, Anne Beck, Diana Raufelder.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 18, 2018
  --- - |2 The present interdisciplinary study explored whether perceived loneliness is associated with ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vMPFC) activation during self‐ and social judgments (friends and teachers) in adolescents. Moreover, we examined how vMPFC activity is related to the academic self‐concept (ASC). Results of manifest path analysis indicated that high perceived loneliness was related to lower neural response to self‐judgments. In turn, high neural response to self‐judgments was positively associated with the ASC, whereas there was a trendwise negative association between high neural response to teacher‐related judgments and ASC. This study reveals associations between perceived loneliness and neural processing of the self, underlining the idea that feeling isolated from others may hinder self‐insight and, by extension, the formation of a stable academic self‐concept. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12433   open full text
• Interplay Between Sensation Seeking and Parental Rules in the Emergence of Heavy Episodic Drinking.
  Andrew Percy, Michael T. McKay, Jon C. Cole.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 16, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examined the parallel mediational processes between sensation seeking and parental rules on alcohol, in the emergence of heavy episodic drinking (HED) in adolescents. Data were drawn from a U.K. clustered randomized control trial (control arm only, N ≈ 6,300, Mage at baseline = 12.5). Using parallel process latent growth curve analysis, stricter parental rules at baseline were found to be associated with greater declines in sensation seeking over time and a lower risk of HED at follow‐up (+33 months). Higher initial levels of sensation seeking predicted a faster relaxation of parental rules and a greater risk of HED. By maintaining strict rules about alcohol, parents may promote a positive reduction in sensation seeking and a lower risk of HED. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 16, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12435   open full text
• Differences in Internalizing Symptoms Anticipate Adolescent Friendship Dissolution.
  Fanny‐Alexandra Guimond, Brett Laursen, Amy C. Hartl, Antonius H. N. Cillessen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 09, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examined the degree to which internalizing symptoms predict adolescent friendship instability. A total of 397 adolescents identified 499 same‐sex reciprocated friendships that originated in the seventh grade (M = 13.18 years). Discrete‐time survival analyses were conducted with Grade 7 peer, teacher, and self‐reports of internalizing symptoms as predictors of friendship dissolution across Grades 8–12. Differences between friends in depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and (for boys only) submissiveness predicted subsequent friendship dissolution. Individual levels of these variables did not predict friendship dissolution, even at extreme or clinical levels. The findings suggest that friendship instability arising from internalizing problems stems from dissimilarity between friends rather than the presence of psychopathological symptoms on the part of one friend. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 09, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12432   open full text
• Efficacy of Cyberbullying Prevention on Somatic Symptoms—Randomized Controlled Trial Applying a Reasoned Action Approach.
  Pavle Zagorscak, Anja Schultze‐Krumbholz, Manuel Heinrich, Ralf Wölfer, Herbert Scheithauer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 05, 2018
  --- - |2 The theory of reasoned action (ToRA) has been proposed as a framework for cyberbullying prevention design, targeting attitudes and norms. In this study effects of a long (10 weekly sessions) and a short (one day, four sessions) cyberbullying prevention program based on the ToRA were compared with a control group over 9 months. Longitudinal data from 722 students (mean age = 13.36) on cyberbullying, somatic symptoms, attitudes, and norms were analyzed within a structural equation model. Participation in the long intervention group significantly reduced cyberbullying (d = −0.584) and somatic symptoms (d = −0.316). No between‐group differences emerged for attitudes and norms. Developmental trajectories and associations were found to be as suggested by ToRA in both cross‐sectional and change‐score analyses. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  July 05, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12429   open full text
• Instagrowth: A Longitudinal Growth Mixture Model of Social Media Time Use Across Adolescence.
  Sarah M. Coyne, Laura M. Padilla‐Walker, Hailey G. Holmgren, Laura A. Stockdale.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 28, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examined differential patterns of time spent using social media in a sample of 457 adolescents over a 6‐year period. The majority of adolescents (83%), termed moderate users, reported steady social media use over time. A second group (increasers: 12%) reported low social media use that increased gradually and ended high at the end of the study. A third group, called peak users (6%), reported low social media that increased quickly after a few years and then returned to baseline levels. Low self‐regulation predicted being an increaser or peak user. Being a moderate user tended to be related to lower levels of depression, aggression, delinquency, social media problems, and cyberbullying across time, as compared with the other groups. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 28, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12424   open full text
• Adolescents' Civic Engagement: Concordant and Longitudinal Associations Among Civic Beliefs and Civic Involvement.
  Aaron Metzger, Kaitlyn A. Ferris, Benjamin Oosterhoff.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 27, 2018
  --- - |2 Associations between adolescent civic and organized activities (volunteering, standard political, social movement, school/community, religious) and civic beliefs (comprised of should, obligation, and respect judgments) were examined. Cross‐sectional models (N = 703, Mage = 15.87) indicated domain specificity between adolescent civic beliefs and behaviors. Longitudinal models (n = 219, Mage = 15.39) indicated that adolescents' standard political beliefs predicted greater levels of standard political involvement one year later, and school/community activities predicted greater standard political beliefs a year later. Youth volunteering predicted lower standard political beliefs, and standard political involvement predicted lower community service beliefs one year later. Findings support the assessment of adolescent sociomoral civic beliefs and demonstrate how civic experiences and civic beliefs can mutually promote each other during adolescence. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 27, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12423   open full text
• The Peer Relationships of Those Who Have Experienced Adoption or Foster Care: A Meta‐Analysis.
  Haylee K. DeLuca, Shannon E. Claxton, Manfred H. M. Dulmen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 25, 2018
  --- - |2 This meta‐analytic review examines the presence and quality of close peer relationships for adoptees and individuals with foster care experience. Results indicate that adoptees show difficulty forming close peer relationships compared with biologically reared individuals, but they do not differ in the quality of these relationships. In contrast, those with foster care experience report lower quality peer relationships than biologically reared individuals. Additionally, this meta‐analysis includes prevalence rates of close peer relationships that illustrate most adoptees and foster youth report having high‐quality peer relationships. These findings have important implications for intervention and prevention efforts and offer directions for future research on peer relationships among adoptees and foster youth, but should be considered in light of the presence of some publication bias. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 25, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12421   open full text
• Deviant Peers and Adolescent Risky Behaviors: The Protective Effect of Nonverbal Display of Parental Warmth.
  Marie‐Ève Daspe, Reout Arbel, Michelle C. Ramos, Lauren A. S. Shapiro, Gayla Margolin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 22, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examines whether nonverbal displays of parents’ warmth during an in‐lab conflict discussion mitigate the links between affiliation with deviant peers and risky behaviors. A sample of 107 youth and their parents participated in a study spanning from mid‐adolescence (T1) to late adolescence (T2). At T1, family members discussed a contentious issue, which was coded for parents’ nonverbal warmth. At T1 and T2, youth reported on their friends’ and their own risky behaviors. Fathers’ warmth moderated each prospective association between deviant peers and risky behaviors. Mothers’ warmth did not emerge as a significant moderator. Girls, in particular, benefitted from fathers’ warmth as a buffer in the trajectory from T1 risky behaviors to T2 risky behaviors and deviant peers. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 22, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12418   open full text
• Daily Associations Between Kissing and Affect During the Transition From Adolescence to Young Adulthood.
  Eva S. Lefkowitz, Rose Wesche, Giorgia Picci, Anna K. Hochgraf.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 21, 2018
  --- - |2 Kissing during late adolescence and the transition to adulthood is prevalent, relatively frequent, and distinct from many sexual behaviors in that it affords positive consequences with minimal risk. In this study, we examined within‐person associations between kissing and day‐to‐day variation in affect. A racially/ethnically diverse sample of college students (N = 560; 54.1% female) completed up to 14 daily surveys for seven consecutive semesters. On days when students kissed, they reported more positive and less negative affect than on other days, after controlling for a number of known correlates. Findings differed at the semester‐ and person levels. Findings contribute to a normative developmental understanding of sexual behaviors during adolescence and the transition to adulthood. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 21, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12422   open full text
• Coming Closer in Adolescence: Convergence in Mother, Father, and Adolescent Reports of Parenting.
  Stefanos Mastrotheodoros, Jolien Graaff, Maja Deković, Wim H. J. Meeus, Susan J. T. Branje.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 19, 2018
  --- - |2 Parent–child relationships change during adolescence. Furthermore, parents and adolescents perceive parenting differently. We examined the changes in perceptions of parental practices in fathers, mothers, and adolescents during adolescence. Furthermore, we investigated if fathers', mothers', and adolescents' perceptions converge during adolescence. Following 497 families across six waves (ages 13–18), we investigated the development of parental support and behavioral control using mother and father self‐reports, and adolescent reports for mothers and fathers. We found curvilinear decrease for support and control. Parent–adolescent convergence emerged over the 6 years: those with higher intercepts had a steeper decrease, whereas correlations among parent and adolescent reports increased. This multi‐informant study sheds light on the development of parent–adolescent convergence on perceptions of parenting. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 19, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12417   open full text
• Parental Conformity Expectations' Effect on Twins' and Singletons' Parent–Adolescent Relationships: Associations With Change in Adjustment From Middle Childhood to Adolescence.
  Kayla N. Anderson, Martha A. Rueter, Jennifer J. Connor, Ascan F. Koerner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 19, 2018
  --- - |2 Growing use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) has resulted in an elevated twin birth rate, and a burgeoning population of IVF twins who are now aging into adolescence and beyond. This study tests a model examining whether parental conformity expectations have differential effects on twins' versus singletons' parent–adolescent relationship satisfaction, and if this effect is indirectly associated with relative changes in twins' and singletons' internalizing and externalizing behavior from middle childhood to adolescence. Using a sample of 278 IVF twins and singletons, path models demonstrate that twin status and conformity expectations interact to influence parent–adolescent relationships. Although there was an association between twin status and mother–adolescent relationship satisfaction among parents with high conformity expectations (r = .25, p < .01), this relationship was nonsignificant among parents with low conformity expectations (r = .05, p = .85). The differential effect of conformity expectations on parent–adolescent relationship satisfaction for twins and singletons was indirectly associated with relative changes in twins' and singletons' externalizing behavior from middle childhood to adolescence. Results demonstrate that higher levels of parental conformity expectations may not have the same effect on adolescent twins and singletons. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 19, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12416   open full text
• Dating Relationship Dynamics, Mental Health, and Dating Victimization: A Longitudinal Path Analysis.
  Elizabeth A. Mumford, Bruce G. Taylor, Weiwei Liu, Peggy C. Giordano.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 18, 2018
  --- - |2 The purpose of this study was to assess the longitudinal association between adolescent dating relationship dynamics (measures of intimacy and problem dynamics), mental health, and physical and/or sexual victimization by a dating partner. Gender‐stratified analyses were conducted in a sample of 261 adolescents, ages 10–18 at baseline, interviewed in three annual waves (2013–2015) of the nationally representative Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV). Among male daters, better mental health at baseline was negatively associated with problem dynamics at follow‐up, and aspects of problem dynamics at baseline predicted worse mental health at follow‐up. However, unexpectedly, aspects of relationship intimacy at baseline were also negatively associated with mental health at follow‐up. Male daters’ victimization did not mediate longitudinal measures of mental health or of relationship dynamics, but did predict worse mental health at follow‐up. Among female daters, we found no longitudinal associations between mental health and intimacy or problem relationship dynamics, in either direction. However, victimization mediated aspects of female daters’ reported relationship dynamics. Dating violence prevention efforts should reflect that adolescent females reporting controlling behaviors and feelings of passionate love may be at increased risk for victimization. Positive youth development efforts should attend to the bidirectional associations of mental health and dating relationship dynamics over time, particularly for male adolescents. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12415   open full text
• Chinese Adolescents' Sibling Conflicts: Links With Maternal Involvement in Sibling Relationships and Coparenting.
  Bin‐Bin Chen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 18, 2018
  --- - |2 This study explored how maternal involvement in sibling relationships and coparenting behaviors were associated with adolescents' sibling conflicts. Adolescents (Mage = 12.25 years; 47.8% boys) and their mothers from 542 families in China participated in this research. Mothers completed questionnaires that assessed their strategies of involvement in sibling relationships, as well as their perceptions of the quality of their coparenting behaviors. Furthermore, adolescents completed questionnaires that assessed sibling conflicts. Results revealed that the mother's positive guidance was negatively related and their authoritarian control was positively related to sibling conflict. A significant interaction was also found between positive maternal guidance in sibling relationships and undermining coparenting behaviors. These findings underscore the unique and interactive effects of mothers' direct involvement in sibling relationships and coparenting behaviors in adolescents' sibling conflicts. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 18, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12413   open full text
• The Role of Acceptance of Violence Beliefs and Social Information Processing on Dating Violence Perpetration.
  Liria Fernández‐González, Esther Calvete, Izaskun Orue.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 14, 2018
  --- - |2 This study's main objective was to explore whether beliefs legitimizing dating violence predict dysfunctional social information processing (SIP) when adolescents deal with ambiguous dating situations, and whether this more proximal cognitive processing acts as a mediator between acceptance of violence beliefs and dating violence perpetration. Participants were 855 high school students who completed self‐report measures at three time points, with a 1‐year interval between them. SIP did not act as a mediator, but the emergence of anger emotions in dating conflict situations, along with aggression‐justifying beliefs, were revealed as essential in explaining dating violence. Previous aggression also explained a subsequent higher anticipation of positive consequences for aggressive acts. We discuss the implications for prevention and treatment strategies with adolescents. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 14, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12414   open full text
• Self‐Competence and Depressive Symptoms in Middle–Late Adolescence: Disentangling the Direction of Effect.
  Christine McCauley Ohannessian, Anna Vannucci, Courtney R. Lincoln, Kaitlin M. Flannery, Ashley Trinh.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 14, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examined the temporal relation between self‐competence (academic, social, athletic, physical appearance, and close friend) and depressive symptoms in a large, diverse community sample of 636 adolescents. Surveys were administered to all 10th‐ and 11th‐grade students at participating high schools at baseline (mean age = 16.10, SD = .71) and 1 year later. Girls reported higher levels of self‐competence in close friendships and more depressive symptoms, whereas boys reported higher levels of self‐competence in athletics and physical appearance. However, there were no gender differences in the associations between self‐competence and depressive symptoms. Results from autoregressive, cross‐lagged path analyses indicated that depressive symptoms predicted self‐competence more consistently than self‐competence predicted depressive symptoms during middle–late adolescence. Implications for prevention are discussed. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  June 14, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12412   open full text
• Discrepancies Between Retrospective and Actual Self‐Reports of Peer Victimization Six Years Earlier.
  Adrienne Nishina, Luis Armando Parra.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 23, 2018
  --- - |2 Retrospective peer victimization reports may be inaccurate. With an ethnically and sexually diverse sample, this study compared adolescents’ self‐reported peer victimization in 6th grade to their own retrospective reports of 6th‐grade victimization when they were in the 12th grade, controlling for past and current adjustment. Overall, 12th graders’ retrospective victimization reports correlated with their own earlier 6th‐grade self‐reports and there was a general tendency to underreport retrospectively. Underreporters were distinguished by worse past 6th‐grade adjustment, whereas overreporters were distinguished by worse current (12th‐grade) adjustment. Higher current depressive symptoms and social anxiety, and lower current self‐worth may be important control variables when collecting retrospective reports of victimization because current adjustment may augment participants’ recollection of past experiences. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  May 23, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12410   open full text
• Evaluating Links Among Shyness, Peer Relations, and Internalizing Problems in Chinese Young Adolescents.
  Junsheng Liu, Julie C. Bowker, Robert J. Coplan, Panpan Yang, Dan Li, Xinyin Chen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 19, 2018
  --- - |2 This study evaluates a model linking shyness, aspects of peer relations, and internalizing problems among young adolescents in the People's Republic of China. Participants were 547 young adolescents from Shanghai, China (46% boys; Mage = 10.35 years, SD = 0.77 years) who completed peer nominations of shyness, rejection, and victimization, and self‐report measures of loneliness, depression, and friendship support. Analyses demonstrated that peer difficulties (rejection, victimization) mediated the associations between shyness and internalizing problems. However, moderated mediation analyses revealed a protective effect for highly supportive friendships, especially for boys. Findings highlight the importance of considering different types of peer experiences in studies of shy young adolescents and are discussed in terms of importance to theory and intervention in China and elsewhere. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  May 19, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12406   open full text
• Personal Network Characteristics as Predictors of Change in Obesity Risk Behaviors in Early Adolescence.
  Jennifer Marks, Kayla Haye, Lisa M. Barnett, Steven Allender.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 17, 2018
  --- - |2 The potential for peers to influence obesity risk behavior increases in adolescence, yet there are knowledge gaps of how behaviors are modified in response to peers over time. This study examined how personal friendship network characteristics were associated with obesity‐related behaviors from late childhood to early adolescence. Two waves of friendship, physical activity, screen time, and dietary recall data were collected from 11‐ to 13‐year‐old students (99% retention) in Australia (n = 308) over a five‐ to eight‐month period. Regression models identified friendship network characteristics that predicted later health behaviors which varied by gender and behavior type, such as the number of friends positively associated with physical activity intensity (males) and screen time (females). The need for considering context to influence behavior change is discussed. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  May 17, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12407   open full text
• Deviant Peer Behavior and Adolescent Delinquency: Protective Effects of Inhibitory Control, Planning, or Decision Making?
  J. Benjamin Hinnant, Alissa B. Forman‐Alberti.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 09, 2018
  --- - |2 We examined relations between adolescent perceptions of deviant peer behavior and delinquency as moderated by inhibitory control, planning, and decision making in the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development at age 15 (N = 991). Adolescents reported perceptions of deviant peer behavior. Inhibitory control, planning, and decision making were assessed behaviorally. Delinquency was evaluated with a latent variable comprised of parent‐guardian perceptions of adolescent delinquency and adolescent self‐reports. Only inhibitory control moderated the relationship between deviant peer behavior and delinquency, showing that better inhibition protected against delinquency in contexts of high levels of adolescent perceptions of deviant peer behavior. Findings are discussed in the context of theories of adolescent delinquency and risk taking. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  May 09, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12405   open full text
• Latent Profiles of Discrimination and Socialization Predicting Ethnic Identity and Well‐Being Among Asian American Adolescents.
  Lisa Kiang, Andrew J. Supple, Gabriela L. Stein.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 30, 2018
  --- - |2 Ethnic identity is rooted in sociocultural processes, but little is known about how social interactions predict its longitudinal changes. Using data from 154 Asian American adolescents, latent profile analysis derived four typologies based on unfair treatment (i.e., discrimination, model minority stereotyping) and ethnic socialization (i.e., cultural socialization, preparation for bias, promotion of mistrust): Low Cultural Salience, High Cultural Salience with Marginalization, Culturally Prepared with Low Mistrust, and High Mistrust/Discrimination. Few gender or generational differences in profile membership were found. Positive outcomes were linked to adolescents attuned to both positive and negative experiences, Culturally Prepared with Low Mistrust, who reported increases in ethnic belonging and decreases in negative emotions. The implications for identity formation and adjustment are discussed. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  April 30, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12403   open full text
• Turning a Blind Eye? Punishment of Friends and Unfamiliar Peers After Observed Exclusion in Adolescence.
  Jochem Pieter Spaans, Geert‐Jan Will, Jorien Hoorn, Berna Güroğlu.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 27, 2018
  --- - |2 In order to decrease the occurrence of social exclusion in adolescence, we need to better understand how adolescents perceive and behave toward peers involved in exclusion. We examined the role of friendships in treatment of perpetrators and victims of social exclusion. Eighty‐nine participants (aged 9–16) observed exclusion of an unfamiliar peer (victim) by their best friend and another unfamiliar peer. Subsequently, participants could give up valuable coins to altruistically punish or help peers. Results showed that participants altruistically compensated victims and punished unfamiliar excluders, but refrained from punishing their friends. Our findings show that friendship with excluders modulates altruistic punishment of peers and provide mechanistic insight into how friendships may influence treatment of peers involved in social exclusion during adolescence. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  April 27, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12401   open full text
• How Does Juvenile Offending Relate to Mothers' Aspirations and Expectations for Their Sons?
  Caitlin Cavanagh, Alissa Mahler, Elizabeth Cauffman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 25, 2018
  --- - |2 Mothers of 317 first‐time juvenile offenders (M = 15.35 years old) were interviewed over 2.5 years about their expectations and aspirations for their sons' futures. Mothers' expectations were lower than their aspirations, reflecting a discrepancy between what mothers felt was important for their child's future and what they considered likely to happen. As their children continued to engage in delinquent acts, mothers' expectations for their sons' future success diminished. Youth age moderated the association between delinquency and maternal expectations, such that when perceived delinquency was high, expectations were lower for mothers of young sons compared to mothers of older sons. These findings carry implications for practice and intervention, as parent expectations and aspirations are both directly and indirectly associated with youth achievement. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  April 25, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12400   open full text
• Age‐Specific Associations Between Violence Exposure and Past 30‐Day Marijuana and Alcohol Use.
  Jason E. Goldstick, Justin E. Heinze, Sarah A. Stoddard, Rebecca M. Cunningham, Marc A. Zimmerman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 23, 2018
  --- - |2 Using data from a cohort study of students at risk for high school dropout, we examined associations between violence exposure and past 30‐day alcohol and marijuana use. We used varying‐coefficient regression with person‐level fixed effects to estimate how those associations changed within‐person across ages approximately 14–23. Generally, violence perpetration was most strongly associated with substance use, within‐person. Substance use became increasingly associated with both observed violence and violence perpetration during early/middle adolescence; this increase continued longer into development (age 18+) for alcohol use. Across most of the age range studied here, violence victimization was minimally associated with within‐person changes in substance use. Results indicate age‐specific associations between violence exposure and alcohol and other drug use, which may be useful for informing prevention strategies. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  April 23, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12399   open full text
• Love and Dating Patterns for Same‐ and Both‐Gender Attracted Adolescents Across Europe.
  András Költő, Honor Young, Lorraine Burke, Nathalie Moreau, Alina Cosma, Josefine Magnusson, Béat Windlin, Marta Reis, Elizabeth M. Saewyc, Emmanuelle Godeau, Saoirse Nic Gabhainn.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 16, 2018
  --- - |2 Sexual orientation is a multidimensional phenomenon, which includes identity, behavior, and attraction. The attraction component, however, is less studied than the other two. In this article, we present the development of a two‐item measure to identify adolescents who prefer same‐ and both‐gender partners for love and dating. The questions were administered to nationally representative samples of 15‐year‐old adolescents in eight European countries and regions participating in the Health Behaviour in School‐aged Children (HBSC) cross‐national study. The distribution of attraction, as operationalized by preference for the gender of love and dating partners, was similar across countries. These questions offer an alternative or supplementary approach to identify same‐ and both‐gender attracted youth, without administering questions related to sexual identity. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  April 16, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12394   open full text
• Ethnic Group Differences in Bullying Perpetration: A Meta‐Analysis.
  Irene Vitoroulis, Tracy Vaillancourt.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 11, 2018
  --- - |2 We examined ethnic differences in bullying perpetration in order to assess whether ethnic group membership was associated with higher involvement among (1) nonimmigrant and immigrant youth; and (2) White and visible minority youth (i.e., Black, Hispanic, Asian, Indigenous, and Biracial). Fifty‐three studies (N = 740,176; 6‐18‐year‐olds) were included in the meta‐analysis. Results yielded very small and nonsignificant effect size differences across all group comparisons. Methodological moderator analyses indicated several differences across groups. Our findings provide initial support that the assessment of ethnicity as a descriptive variable is not sufficient to account for group differences in bullying perpetration. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  April 11, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12393   open full text
• Threats and Supports to Female Students’ Math Beliefs and Achievement.
  Sarah E. McKellar, Aixa D. Marchand, Matthew A. Diemer, Oksana Malanchuk, Jacquelynne S. Eccles.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 23, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examines how student perceptions of teacher practices contribute to female high school students’ math beliefs and achievement. Guided by the expectancy–value framework, we hypothesized that students’ motivation beliefs and achievement outcomes in mathematics are fostered by teachers’ emphasis on the relevance of mathematics and constrained by gender‐based differential treatment. To examine these questions, structural equation modeling was applied to a longitudinal panel of 518 female students from the Maryland Adolescent Development in Context Study. While controlling for prior achievement and race, gendered differential treatment was negatively associated with math beliefs and achievement, whereas relevant math instruction was positively associated with these outcomes. These findings suggest inroads that may foster positive math motivational beliefs and achievement among young women. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  March 23, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12384   open full text
• Patterns of Sensitivity to Parenting and Peer Environments: Early Temperament and Adolescent Externalizing Behavior.
  Irene Tung, Amanda N. Noroña, Julia E. Morgan, Barbara Caplan, Steve S. Lee, Bruce L. Baker.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 14, 2018
  --- - |2 Although parenting behavior and friendship quality predict adolescent externalizing behaviors (EBs), individual differences in temperament may differentially affect susceptibility to these factors over time. In a multi‐method and multi‐informant study of 141 children followed prospectively from toddlerhood to adolescence, we tested the independent and interactive associations of age 3 reactive temperament (e.g., negative emotionality) and age 13 observed parenting (i.e., positive and negative behavior) and friendship (i.e., conflict and warmth), with multi‐informant ratings of age 15 aggression and rule‐breaking behavior. Negative parenting predicted growth in parent‐rated EB, but only for adolescents with early reactive temperament. Temperament did not affect sensitivity to positive parenting or friendship. Results are discussed in the context of differential susceptibility theory and intervention implications for adolescents. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  March 14, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12382   open full text
• The Effects of Middle School Weight Climate on Youth With Higher Body Weight.
  Jaana Juvonen, Leah M. Lessard, Hannah L. Schacter, Craig Enders.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 13, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examines whether social‐emotional difficulties associated with higher body weight vary across schools as a function of the school's weight climate. Weight climate, characterized by weight‐policing, was assessed indirectly by examining how strongly self‐reported weight predicts victim reputation within 26 ethnically diverse middle schools. Social‐emotional indicators included self‐reported loneliness, school belonging, and self‐esteem. In schools with stronger weight‐policing at seventh grade, loneliness was intensified by eighth grade among both girls (n = 2,101) and boys (n = 1,985) with higher weight. Similar effects were found for low self‐esteem among girls. Additionally, boys—regardless of their weight—reported lower sense of belonging in schools with stronger weight‐policing. The study offers a new method to estimate school weight climate, and the findings provide insights for interventions. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  March 13, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12386   open full text
• The Importance of Racial Socialization: School‐Based Racial Discrimination and Racial Identity Among African American Adolescent Boys and Girls.
  Sheretta T. Butler‐Barnes, Bridget L. Richardson, Tabbye M. Chavous, Jiaxi Zhu.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 05, 2018
  --- - |2 This study examined various parental racial socialization messages as mediators between school‐based racial discrimination and racial identity formation over 4 years for African American boys (N = 639) and African American girls (N = 711). Findings indicated that school‐based racial discrimination was associated with racial identity beliefs. For African American boys, behavioral racial socialization messages mediated the relation between school‐based racial discrimination and racial centrality over time. Mediation also resulted for African American girls, but for a different set of race‐related messages (negative messages and racial barriers) and racial identity beliefs. The developmental significance of the findings and implications for future research are discussed. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  March 05, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12383   open full text
• “It's Just a Lot of Work”: Adolescents' Self‐Presentation Norms and Practices on Facebook and Instagram.
  Joanna C. Yau, Stephanie M. Reich.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 12, 2018
  --- - |2 We explored adolescents' (12‐ to 18‐year‐olds; n = 51) awareness of their audience and subsequent self‐presentation practices on Facebook and Instagram through focus group discussions. Findings suggest that teens, who are developmentally able to perceive a situation from the third‐person perspective and who value peer approval, purposefully share content to appear interesting, well liked, and attractive. Some teens invested great effort into posting by these norms, even asking their friends to help; however, this was more common among girls. Older teens especially discussed taking the perspective of their audience when deciding what to post, which is consistent with the finding that perspective taking continues to develop throughout adolescence. These findings suggest that perspective taking skills and need for peer approval influence self‐presentation online. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  February 12, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12376   open full text
• Online Social Interactions Predict Academic and Emotional Adjustment in the Transition to University.
  Amori Yee Mikami, David E. Szwedo, Adri Khalis, Mary Jia, Jennifer Jiwon Na.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 05, 2018
  --- - |2 We investigated the developmental implications of online social interactions among 590 youth transitioning to university. We observed friends' posts on participants' Facebook pages, and considered attributes of friends' posts used to indicate positive and negative relationship quality in face‐to‐face interactions. After statistical control of beginning‐of‐year functioning and participants' Facebook content, Facebook friends' deviant content posts (swearing; illegal/sexualized activities) predicted participants' lower grade point average, Facebook friends' posts indicating connection to participants predicted participants' lower psychopathology, and Facebook friends' verbal aggression posts predicted participants' lower institutional attachment, by the end of the year. Negative effects of friends' posts were strongest for participants who were disliked by peers face to face. The online context may uniquely influence youth adjustment in conjunction with face‐to‐face relationships. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  February 05, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12377   open full text
• Sociocultural Influences on the Association Between Negative Romantic Experiences and Psychological Maladjustment in Mexican Adolescents.
  Alexander Reid, Linda C. Halgunseth, Graciela Espinosa‐Hernandez, Sara A. Vasilenko.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2018
  --- - |2 The goal of this study was to examine whether cultural values (familismo, female virginity) and gender moderated the associations between negative romantic experiences and psychological maladjustment (depressive, anxiety symptoms) in a sample of Mexican adolescents. Self‐report survey data were collected from 973 adolescents (M = 15.14 years old; 56% girls) in Mexico. Findings revealed more depressive and anxiety symptoms among adolescents who reported more negative romantic experiences. These associations were stronger for female adolescents reporting greater beliefs of familismo and female virginity. Mental health practitioners may consider negative romantic experiences and cultural values when working with Mexican adolescents. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  February 01, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12375   open full text
• Self‐Continuity Moderates the Association Between Peer Victimization and Depressed Affect.
  Jonathan B. Santo, Alexa Martin‐Storey, Holly Recchia, William M. Bukowski.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 31, 2018
  --- - |2 Two longitudinal studies conducted with early adolescents (ages 10–13) examined the hypothesis that self‐continuity, or the degree to which individuals feel that they remain the same person over time regardless of how their specific characteristics may change, would moderate the association between victimization and depressed affect. Both Study 1 (N = 141) and Study 2 (N = 100) provided evidence of the moderating role of self‐continuity as a buffer on the effect of peer victimization. Study 2 confirmed that self‐continuity had a moderating effect after controlling for academic performance, number of friends, self‐esteem, self‐concept clarity, hopelessness, and self‐blame. Findings support self‐continuity as being protective with regard to negative peer environments. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  January 31, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12372   open full text
• What Leads to Loneliness? An Integrative Model of Social, Motivational, and Emotional Approaches in Adolescents.
  Laura O. Gallardo, Jose Martín‐Albo, Angel Barrasa.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 09, 2018
  --- - |2 Loneliness has been linked to many physical and mental health problems, especially during adolescence. From evolutionary, social needs, and cognitive approaches, this study examined whether emotional repair, relatedness need, and peer‐rated indicators of relations behave in predicting loneliness, considering all approaches together. The sample consisted of 373 adolescents measured longitudinally at three time points. Results of a cross‐lagged panel design found that, considering all the influences together, relatedness need showed the highest strength to predict loneliness. Furthermore, adolescents who were accepted by their peers and whose relatedness need was satisfied activated emotional regulation which additionally produced a decrease in prospective feelings of loneliness. In addition, loneliness has been shown to be a consequence of these variables. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  January 09, 2018   doi: 10.1111/jora.12369   open full text
• Developmental Change in Sibling Support and School Commitment Across Adolescence.
  Christina R. Rogers, Amanda E. Guyer, Adrienne Nishina, Katherine J. Conger.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 28, 2017
  --- - |2 School commitment typically declines across adolescence, but the family‐level factors that explain this decline have not been fully characterized. This study investigated sibling support as a family resource in predicting school commitment across 7th–10th grade using a sample of 444 adolescents (Mages = 12.61, 13.59, 14.59, 15.58 years). Results showed that sibling support linearly increased and school commitment decreased and stabilized, independently, over time. Sibling support positively predicted school commitment in seventh grade and across time, suggesting that having supportive siblings may help to offset adolescents’ declines in school commitment. Furthermore, having a brother enhanced this association versus having a sister. These findings provide insight into ways to help youth maintain school commitment across the middle‐ to high school transition. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  December 28, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12370   open full text
• Adolescents Who Self‐Harm: The Patterns in Their Interpersonal and Psychosocial Difficulties.
  Delia Latina, Håkan Stattin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 21, 2017
  --- - |2 We proposed that having mutually hostile interactions with others is a strong environmental stress factor that, together with diverse psychosocial problems, characterizes adolescents who self‐harm. Using cluster analysis, this study examined the naturally occurring patterns of hostility conditions and psychosocial difficulties in a normative sample of 2,029 adolescents (50% boys; Mage = 13.89). Results showed that self‐harming behavior was significantly higher among the subgroup of adolescents with mutually hostile interactions who exhibited both internalizing and externalizing problems than among adolescents with other interpersonal–psychosocial configurations. Also, this subgroup of adolescents reported high impulsivity, anger dysregulation, and low self‐esteem. These findings support recent research that indicates that adolescents who self‐harm also tend to expose others to hostility and display externalizing symptoms. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  December 21, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12368   open full text
• Violent Poly‐Victimization: The Longitudinal Patterns of Physical and Emotional Victimization Throughout Adolescence (11–17 Years).
  Ingrid Obsuth, Katrin Mueller Johnson, Aja Louise Murray, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel Eisner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 30, 2017
  --- - |2 In this study, we aimed to characterize developmental patterns of poly‐victimization in a normative sample of adolescents by applying longitudinal latent class analysis. Using the four most recent waves of data from the Zurich Project on the Social Development of Children and Youths (z‐proso), we identified three classes, or separate groups, of youths with distinct patterns of victimization from age 11 to 17. The largest class represented young people who were least likely to be victimized in any way and at any time. The two smaller groups represented different types of poly‐victimization—a non‐parental and a long‐term parental victimization group. Adolescents in the two groups differed both in the number as well as type of victimization that they experienced at different times. Moreover, class membership also had implications for different mental health outcomes. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  November 30, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12365   open full text
• Tween Television and Peers: Reinforcing Social Agents in Early Adolescents' Body Surveillance and Self‐Objectification.
  Ann Rousseau, Steven Eggermont.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 24, 2017
  --- - |2 Sociocultural models of body image posit that the media and peers play a role in early adolescents' body dissatisfaction. Introducing a sociocultural perspective on youth sexualization, the present three‐wave panel study (N = 968, Mage = 11.30) sought to examine the role of tween television and peer appearance conversations in early adolescents' body surveillance and self‐objectification over time. Special attention was given to the mediating role of media internalization in these relationships. The results showed evidence for a reciprocal interaction between media internalization and peer appearance conversations and identified this reciprocal interaction as the underlying mechanism linking tween television exposure to higher levels of body surveillance and self‐objectification 1 year later. Implications for body image and media literacy programs are discussed. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, EarlyView.
  

  November 24, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12367   open full text
• A Latent Class Analysis of Online Sexual Experiences and Offline Sexual Behaviors Among Female Adolescents.
  Megan K. Maas, Bethany C. Bray, Jennie G. Noll.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 20, 2017
  --- - |2 This study used latent class analysis to identify patterns (i.e., classes) across a broad range of online sexual experiences among female adolescents (n = 312) and to explore offline sexual behavior and substance use correlates of as well as maltreatment differences in class membership. The following four classes were identified: Online Abstinent, Online Inclusive, Attractors, and Seekers. Maltreated female adolescents were more likely to be members of the Online Inclusive class and less likely to be members of the Online Abstinent class than nonmaltreated female adolescents. Offline sexual behaviors and substance use differentially predicted class membership. These results suggest online sexual experiences vary greatly and should not be aggregated together as a global risk factor for all female adolescents. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 731-747, September 2018.
  

  November 20, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12364   open full text
• Positive Peer Association Among Black American Youth and the Roles of Ethnic Identity and Gender.
  Dakari Quimby, Maryse Richards, Catherine DeCarlo Santiago, Darrick Scott, Dhara Puvar.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 20, 2017
  --- - |2 The study examined whether peer association, a subtype of peer influence that involves the indirect modeling of behaviors, can promote positive development among Black American adolescents living in high‐risk neighborhoods. Data were collected during a three‐year longitudinal study from a sample of 316 Black American adolescents (M = 11.65 years). As positive peer association increased over time, youth experienced an increase in self‐esteem, school connectedness, paternal and maternal closeness, and a decrease in supportive beliefs about aggression. Additionally, lower ethnic identity appeared to account for why some youth experienced a sharper increase in maternal and paternal closeness as positive peer association increased. Future interventions should consider harnessing the ability of prosocial peers to foster healthy development. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 711-730, September 2018.
  

  November 20, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12363   open full text
• Longitudinal Change in Adolescents’ Prosocial Behavior Toward Strangers, Friends, and Family.
  Laura M. Padilla‐Walker, Gustavo Carlo, Madison K. Memmott‐Elison.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 16, 2017
  --- - |2 There is little understanding about how prosocial behavior toward different targets might change over time, and what might promote initial levels and age‐related changes in prosocial behavior. Thus, this study examined longitudinal change in prosocial behavior toward strangers, friends, and family from early adolescence through the transition to adulthood. Participants included 500 adolescents from the United States (age 12 to age 20; 52% female, 65% European American). Latent growth curve models suggested that prosocial behavior toward strangers increased across early to mid‐adolescence and then flattened out during the transition to adulthood, prosocial behavior toward friends increased steadily, and prosocial behavior toward family was relatively stable across adolescence and then increased. Predictors of initial levels and growth in prosocial behavior varied by target. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 698-710, September 2018.
  

  November 16, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12362   open full text
• Developmental Links Between Gaming and Depressive Symptoms.
  Jakub Mikuška, Alexander T. Vazsonyi.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 15, 2017
  --- - |2 The current longitudinal study tested the reciprocal relationships between video game play and depressive symptoms among 9,421 adolescents from the Add Health (Mage = 16.15 years, SD = 1.64, 55% female), over 11 years (Waves 2, 3, and 4), ages 16 to 27. Based on structural equation modeling as well as latent growth models, findings indicated that (1) excessive gaming was largely transient over time, from adolescence to early adulthood; (2) excessive gaming predicted increases in depressive symptoms; and (3) in turn, depressive symptoms predicted decreases in gaming over time. Multigroup model tests by sex provided additional evidence that longitudinal relationships from excessive gaming to depressive symptoms were supported for male, but not for female youth. - Journal of Research on Adolescence, Volume 28, Issue 3, Page 680-697, September 2018.
  

  November 15, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12359   open full text
• Shyness, Preference for Solitude, and Adolescent Internalizing: The Roles of Maternal, Paternal, and Best‐Friend Support.
  Matthew G. Barstead, Kelly A. Smith, Brett Laursen, Cathryn Booth‐LaForce, Shakeena King, Kenneth H. Rubin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 17, 2017
  The researchers examined differential outcomes related to two distinct motivations for withdrawal (preference for solitude and shyness) as well as the possibility that support from important others (mothers, fathers, and best friends) attenuate any such links. Adolescents (159 males, 171 females) reported on their motivations to withdraw, internalizing symptoms, and relationship quality in eighth grade, as well as their anxiety and depression in ninth grade. Using structural equation modeling, the authors found that maternal support weakened the association between shyness and internalizing problems; friend support weakened the association between preference for solitude and depression; and friend support strengthened the association between shyness and depression. Results suggest that shy adolescents may not derive the same benefits from supportive friendships as their typical peers.

  October 17, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12350   open full text
• Youth Program Adult Leader's Directive Assistance and Autonomy Support and Development of Adolescents’ Agency Capacity.
  David M. Hansen, E. Whitney Moore, Nadia Jessop.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 16, 2017
  Developing a capacity for exercising agency is an important developmental task of adolescence. Many organized youth programs provide adolescents opportunities to build their capacity to exercise agency. The researchers tested hypotheses that adult youth program leader's directive assistance and autonomy support would promote adolescents’ capacity for agency. They surveyed 441 high school adolescents and 11 adult advisors from 10 Future Farmers of America chapters twice over 2 years. Adolescents self‐reported on their capacity for agency and advisors reported on each adolescent's capacity. Directive assistance and autonomy support correlated with the capacity for agency within both time points. Only autonomy support predicted adolescents’ capacity for agency over time. Implications of leader's support for adolescents’ capacity for exercising agency are discussed.

  October 16, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12355   open full text
• Parent–Adolescent Discrepancies in Perceived Parental Sacrifice and Adolescent Developmental Outcomes in Poor Chinese Families.
  Janet T. Y. Leung.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 16, 2017
  Parents and adolescents perceive family processes differently. This study examined how convergence and divergence of parent‐perceived and adolescent‐perceived parental sacrifice influenced adolescent developmental outcomes in a sample of 275 poor intact Chinese families in Hong Kong. The results of polynomial regression analyses indicated that the interaction of fathers’ and adolescents’ perceptions of paternal sacrifice negatively predicted adolescent resilience and cognitive competence. Similar findings were identified in maternal sacrifice. Cluster analysis further showed that adolescents exhibited greater resilience and cognitive competence in families with parent–adolescent convergent perceptions of high levels of parental sacrifice than did those in families with parent–adolescent divergent views. Theoretical, methodological, and practical implications of the results are discussed.

  October 16, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12356   open full text
• Sexual Behavior and Heavy Episodic Drinking Across the Transition to Adulthood: Differences by College Attendance.
  Sara A. Vasilenko, Ashley Linden‐Carmichael, Stephanie T. Lanza, Megan E. Patrick.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 13, 2017
  Despite a growing literature on college students’ sexual behaviors, little is known about how sexual behaviors, and their associations with alcohol, differ for college and noncollege attenders, and whether these patterns represent changes during college or an extension of pre‐college behaviors. This paper applied time‐varying effect models to data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to examine (1) prevalence of four sexual behaviors from ages 14 to 24 and (2) how their association with frequent heavy episodic drinking varied across these ages for college and noncollege attenders. Nonattenders have higher prevalence of all sexual behaviors than college attenders across most ages; however, the association between heavy episodic drinking and sexual behaviors is stronger for college attenders during ages 18–20.

  October 13, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12348   open full text
• Does the Risk Outweigh the Benefits? Adolescent Responses to Completing Health Surveys.
  Thérèse Shaw, Kevin C. Runions, Robyn S. Johnston, Donna Cross.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 11, 2017
  The aim of this study is to describe the self‐reported experiences of adolescents in population‐based samples when completing health‐related surveys on topics with varying potential for evoking distress. Survey data were collected in three school‐based studies of bullying behaviors (N = 1,771, 12–14 years), alcohol use (N = 823, 12, 15, and 17 years), and electronic image sharing (N = 274, 13 years). Between 5% and 15% of respondents reported being upset at survey completion, but at most 1.4% were entirely negative in their evaluation. Age was not associated with being upset, but younger adolescents were more likely to see benefit in participation. Although concurrent mental health symptoms increased the risk of being upset, this was mostly mitigated by perceived benefits from participation.

  October 11, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12343   open full text
• Family Instability and Exposure to Violence in the Early Life Course.
  Shannon E. Cavanagh, Haley Stritzel, Chelsea Smith, Robert Crosnoe.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 11, 2017
  Family instability has been linked with a host of outcomes across the early life course. This study extends this literature by connecting instability with violence in the community by examining the associations among family structure, family structure change, and secondary exposure to violence during adolescence across diverse segments of the population. Using longitudinal data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods study, we found that living with a single parent and experiencing family structure changes were associated with secondary exposure to violence. Multiple group models suggest that partner change translated into more exposure for boys than girls. Findings also suggest that family instability may lead to more secondary exposure to violence for African American youth.

  October 11, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12347   open full text
• Victimization, Aggression, and Other Problem Behaviors: Trajectories of Change Within and Across Middle School Grades.
  Albert D. Farrell, Elizabeth A. Goncy, Terri N. Sullivan, Erin L. Thompson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 03, 2017
  This study examined trajectories of victimization and problem behaviors within and across three grades of middle school. Participants were 2,166 adolescents from three urban middle schools in the United States who completed measures of victimization, physical and relational aggression, substance use, and delinquent behavior. Latent curve analyses modeled changes in each construct across 12 waves collected every 3 months. In each case, the best‐fitting model required separate linear slopes to represent changes within each grade and a factor representing decreases in the summers. Positive cross‐construct correlations were found for intercepts, linear slopes, and measures within waves. The findings suggest strong associations among victimization and problem behaviors, and individual differences in their patterns of change both within and across grades.

  October 03, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12346   open full text
• Effects of Physical and Emotional Maternal Hostility on Adolescents’ Depression and Reoffending.
  April Gile Thomas, Nina Ozbardakci, Adam Fine, Laurence Steinberg, Paul J. Frick, Elizabeth Cauffman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 22, 2017
  This study examines whether (1) mothers vary in the way they express hostility toward their delinquent adolescent offspring, (2) different types of maternal hostility differentially affect adolescents’ depression and recidivism, and (3) adolescent depression serves as a mechanism through which maternal hostility predicts later reoffending. The sample consists of 1,216 male first‐time offenders, aged 13–17 years (M = 15.80, SD = 1.29). Confirmatory factor analysis supported the premise that maternal hostility could be distinguished into two subtypes: emotional and physical hostility. Adolescent offenders who experienced emotional or physical hostility by their mothers reported greater depressive symptoms and reoffending 6 months later. Further, the relation between maternal hostility (of each type) and adolescent reoffending was partially explained by depressive symptomology.

  September 22, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12345   open full text
• Age‐Varying Associations Between Cigarette Smoking, Sensation Seeking, and Impulse Control Through Adolescence and Young Adulthood.
  David M. Lydon‐Staley, Charles F. Geier.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 11, 2017
  Sensation seeking (SS) and impulse control (IC) are constructs at the core of dual systems models of adolescent risk taking. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, age‐varying associations between SS and IC (predictors) and both any smoking in the previous 30 days and daily smoking (outcomes) were examined. The association between SS and both any smoking in the previous 30 days and daily smoking was strongest during adolescence. IC was consistently associated with any smoking in the previous 30 days and daily smoking, with the strongest association emerging during the mid‐20s to early 30s. The results provide a nuanced perspective on when the components of dual systems models may be most related to smoking.

  September 11, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12335   open full text
• Longitudinal Relations of Economic Hardship and Effortful Control to Active Coping in Latino Youth.
  Zoe E. Taylor, Keith F. Widaman, Richard W. Robins.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 28, 2017
  How Latino youth cope with stressors may have implications for their adjustment. We examined how a temperamental characteristic (effortful control) and a contextual factor (economic hardship) were associated with Latino youth's coping. Individual differences in effortful control, a core facet of self‐regulation, may contribute to coping as effortful control is consistently linked to adaptive behaviors during adolescence. We examined relations of effortful control and economic hardship to active coping in a sample of Mexican‐origin youth (N = 674) across three time points (fifth to ninth grades). Although economic hardship negatively predicted coping and effortful control, effortful control positively predicted coping (controlling for prior levels). Findings support a resilience perspective by suggesting that effortful control may contribute to coping and thus counteract the negative effects of economic hardship.

  August 28, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12338   open full text
• Protective and Promotive Effects of Latino Early Adolescents' Cultural Assets Against Multiple Types of Discrimination.
  Alyson M. Cavanaugh, Gabriela L. Stein, Andrew J. Supple, Laura M. Gonzalez, Lisa Kiang.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 21, 2017
  Given adversity associated with discrimination, it is important to identify culturally relevant factors that may protect against its harmful effects. Using latent variable interactions, this study examined the moderating effects of cultural assets on the association between multiple types of discrimination and adolescents' adjustment. Participants included 174 seventh‐ and eighth‐grade Latino adolescents (51% girls); majority were of Mexican origin. Peer discrimination was associated with higher internalizing symptoms, whereas cultural assets predicted higher academic motivation above and beyond racial–ethnic discrimination, demonstrating a promotive effect. Adolescents' Latino cultural assets also protected against higher levels of externalizing symptoms in the context of high peer discrimination and foreigner objectification. The discussion focuses on the conceptual and applied implications of these findings.

  August 21, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12331   open full text
• The Effects of Ethnic Minority Adolescents' Ethnic Self‐Identification on Friendship Selection.
  Philipp Jugert, Lars Leszczensky, Sebastian Pink.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 17, 2017
  This study investigated the effects of ethnic minority adolescents' ethnic self‐identification (host country, dual, or heritage country) on friendship choices among ethnic majority and minority peers. Hypotheses were derived from similarity–attraction and social identity theory and tested using longitudinal social network data from 1,004 middle school students (five schools) in Germany. Results showed that ethnic minority adolescents' ethnic self‐identification affected friendship selection beyond ethnic homophily. While host country and dual identification was beneficial with respect to friendships with both ethnic majority and minority peers, heritage country identification was detrimental to relations with both of them.

  August 17, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12337   open full text
• Bullying Victimization Trajectories for Sexual Minority Adolescents: Stable Victims, Desisters, and Late‐Onset Victims.
  Paul R. Sterzing, Jeremy J. Gibbs, Rachel E. Gartner, Jeremy T. Goldbach.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 12, 2017
  Sexual minority adolescents are bullied more frequently than heterosexual peers. Research is lacking on their rates of general and sexual orientation bullying victimization. The present study identified (1) the rate, onset, and desistance of general and sexual orientation bullying victimization, (2) the rate of bullying victimization trajectories, and (3) risk and protective factors across trajectories. A life history calendar method and thematic analysis were employed with a sexual minority adolescent sample (N = 52, 14–20 y/o). General bullying began at age 5 and declined after age 12, with sexual orientation bullying increasing throughout adolescence. Late‐onset victim (34.6%) was the most common trajectory, followed by stable victim (28.9%), desister (23.1%), and nonvictim (13.5%). Differences in risk and protective factors were found across trajectories.

  August 12, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12336   open full text
• An Examination of Correlates for Adolescent Engagement in Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury, Suicidal Self‐Injury, and Substance Use.
  Janell A. Klassen, Chloe A. Hamza, Shannon L. Stewart.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 31, 2017
  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 adolescents who experienced heightened aggressive behavior were at increased risk for one form of indirect self‐injury, substance use. Findings suggest that nonsuicidal self‐injury, suicidal self‐injury, and substance use are associated with differential risk factors. Implications for targeted prevention strategies are discussed.

  July 31, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12333   open full text
• Direct and Indirect Pathways From Adverse Childhood Experiences to High School Dropout Among High‐Risk Adolescents.
  Anne S. Morrow, Miguel T. Villodas.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 24, 2017
  Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with an increased risk for school dropout. 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 associated with peer influences. Implications of the identified mechanisms in the ACEs and school dropout association for future preventive interventions are discussed.

  July 24, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12332   open full text
• Identifying and Distinguishing Value Profiles in American and Israeli Adolescents.
  Stephen Ungvary, Kristina L. McDonald, Maya Benish‐Weisman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 27, 2017
  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 peers compared to the other groups. Self‐Focused and anxiety‐free youth reported more delinquency than their peers. Few differences between cultural groups emerged, suggesting that this approach is a promising avenue for understanding heterogeneity in behavior.

  June 27, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12330   open full text
• Disruptions in Emotion Regulation as a Mechanism Linking Community Violence Exposure to Adolescent Internalizing Problems.
  Charlotte Heleniak, Kevin M. King, Kathryn C. Monahan, Katie A. McLaughlin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 23, 2017
  Although community violence is an established risk factor for youth aggression, less research has examined its relation with internalizing psychopathology. 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 explained by state and trait emotion dysregulation. Findings implicate emotion dysregulation as one mechanism linking community violence exposure to adolescent internalizing symptoms.

  June 23, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12328   open full text
• Attentional Bias for Academic Stressors and Classroom Climate Predict Adolescents’ Grades and Socioemotional Functioning.
  Sara Scrimin, Ughetta Moscardino, Gianmarco Altoè, Lucia Mason.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 19, 2017
  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 greater attentional bias reported lower grades and more socioemotional problems. Teachers may promote a positive CC to prevent the negative effects of a biased attention on youths’ school adjustment.

  June 19, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12329   open full text
• A Three‐Year Emotional Intelligence Intervention to Reduce Adolescent Aggression: The Mediating Role of Unpleasant Affectivity.
  Ruth Castillo‐Gualda, Rosario Cabello, Marta Herrero, Raquel Rodríguez‐Carvajal, Pablo Fernández‐Berrocal.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 09, 2017
  Adolescents’ aggressive behavior is a growing social problem with important implications for psychosocial adjustment. The teaching of emotional skills has an important impact on reducing aggression in schools. However, little scientific evidence has shown the explanatory mechanism through which this training reduces aggression during adolescence. 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.

  June 09, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12325   open full text
• Mother–Adolescent Dialogues and Adolescents' Behavior Problems in a Multicultural Sample: The Mediating Role of Representations.
  Efrat Sher‐Censor, Nina Koren‐Karie, Smadar Getzov, Pazit Rotman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 05, 2017
  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. Adolescents' representations were assessed via their narratives regarding their mother and their relationship. Examiners reported adolescents' behavior problems. Results indicated that across cultural groups adolescents' more coherent representations partially mediated the association between higher maternal sensitive guidance and fewer adolescent behavior problems.

  June 05, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12327   open full text
• Role of Social Environmental Protective Factors on Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among Midwestern Homeless Youth.
  Kimberly A. Tyler, Rachel M. Schmitz, Colleen M. Ray.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 31, 2017
  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 positive social support, which subsequently lowered the risk for depressive symptoms and anxiety at wave 2.

  May 31, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12326   open full text
• The Effect of Active and Passive Peer Discouragement on Adolescent Risk taking: An Experimental Study.
  Anouk Boer, Zeena Harakeh.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 31, 2017
  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 gender differences were found in the effect of passive and active peer discouragement on risk taking. The results showed that digital peer messages play a promising role in diminishing adolescent risk taking.

  May 31, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12320   open full text
• Using an Acculturation‐Stress‐Resilience Framework to Explore Latent Profiles of Latina/o Language Brokers.
  Jennifer A. Kam, Katerina M. Marcoulides, Andy J. Merolla.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 26, 2017
  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. Respect, brokering at school, and brokering at home did not significantly predict profile membership. In addition, parentified‐endorsers had more frequent perceived ethnic/racial discrimination and depressive symptoms than other profiles. In contrast, infrequent‐ambivalents engaged in risky behaviors less frequently than other profiles.

  May 26, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12318   open full text
• Social Support and Academic Engagement Among Reconnected Youth: Adverse Life Experiences as a Moderator.
  Jingtong Pan, Jonathan F. Zaff, Alice E. Donlan.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 26, 2017
  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 and teacher support and youth academic engagement. Moreover, participants’ adverse life experiences moderate the connections among perceived support from parents, academic self‐efficacy, and academic engagement. Implications for practice and future directions are discussed.

  May 26, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12322   open full text
• Longitudinal Transmission of Conflict Management Styles Across Inter‐Parental and Adolescent Relationships.
  Soundry Staats, Inge E. Valk, Wim H. J. Meeus, Susan J. T. Branje.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 24, 2017
  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 significantly, positively related to, respectively, adolescent positive problem solving and conflict engagement in relationships with friends 1 year later and relationships with partners 2 years later. Thus, the study showed that the way adolescents manage conflicts with parents predicts how they handle conflicts later in relationships outside the family.

  May 24, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12324   open full text
• Student‐Perceived Mothers’ and Fathers’ Beliefs, Mathematics and English Motivations, and Career Choices.
  Rebecca Lazarides, Helen M. G. Watt.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 22, 2017
  According to Eccles and Jacobs' (1986) parent socialization model, parents’ gendered ability and value beliefs influence girls’ and boys’ interpretations of those beliefs, and hence students’ domain‐specific valuing of tasks and competence beliefs and subsequent career plans. Studies have rarely analyzed how both student‐perceived mothers’ and fathers’ beliefs affect girls’ and boys’ task values, success expectancies, and career plans across domains. This study analyzed survey data of 459 students (262 boys) assessed through Grades 9, 10, and 11 from three coeducational secondary schools in Sydney, Australia. Longitudinal structural equation models revealed gendered value transmission pathways for girls in mathematics. Although mathematics test scores did not vary statistically significantly, girls reported statistically significantly lower mothers’ ability beliefs for them in mathematics than boys at Time 1, which led to their statistically significantly lower mathematics intrinsic value at Time 2 and mathematics‐related career plans at Time 3. Such gendered pathways did not occur in English. Matched same‐gender effects and gendered pathways in parent socialization processes were evident; perceived mothers’ value beliefs were more strongly related to girls’ than boys’ importance values in English. Student‐perceived fathers’ ability beliefs positively predicted boys’, not girls’, importance value in mathematics. Implications for educational practice emphasize the need to target girls’ and boys’ interest when aiming to enhance their mathematical career motivations.

  May 22, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12317   open full text
• Trends in Parental Monitoring and Knowledge Over Time Between Sexual Minority and Heterosexual Girls.
  Gerald T. Montano, Heather L. McCauley, Elizabeth Miller, Deena J. Chisolm, Michael P. Marshal.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 19, 2017
  This study assessed whether trajectories of parental monitoring components were different for sexual minority girls (SMGs) compared to heterosexual girls. We recruited 14–19‐year‐old girls from two adolescent medicine clinics. We estimated growth curve models to compare how components of parental monitoring—adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental knowledge—changed over 2 years for SMGs and heterosexual girls. SMGs and heterosexual girls had similar trajectory slopes and quadratic forms of adolescent disclosure, but SMGs had consistently lower adolescent disclosure scores. Parental knowledge trajectories indicated differential intercepts and slopes for SMGs compared to heterosexual girls, suggesting potential higher risk for maladaptive behaviors. Results of this study suggest that parental monitoring may operate differently over time for SMGs compared to heterosexual girls.

  May 19, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12316   open full text
• An Explanatory Model of Dating Violence Risk Factors in Spanish Adolescents.
  Alazne Aizpitarte, Itziar Alonso‐Arbiol, Fons J. R. Van de Vijver.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 13, 2017
  Dating violence is a serious public health issue that needs further understanding in terms of risk factors that may be involved in it. The main goal of this study was to test a mediational model of dating violence risk factors. The sample was composed of 477 secondary and college students from Spain (59% females). A dynamic developmental explanatory model considering aggressiveness, insecure attachment, interparental conflict, and peer dating violence was tested using a multigroup structural equation model. Aggressiveness partially mediated the relation between anxious attachment and dating violence and fully mediated the association between interparental conflict resolution and dating violence. Furthermore, perceived peer dating violence was a direct predictor of dating violence. Implications for prevention and intervention plans are discussed.

  May 13, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12315   open full text
• Authority, Autonomy, and Deception: Evaluating the Legitimacy of Parental Authority and Adolescent Deceit.
  Matthew Gingo, Alona D. Roded, Elliot Turiel.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 13, 2017
  This research examined adolescents’ judgments about lying to avoid parental control over different types of activities. Participants (N = 66, Mage = 16.38, 73% European American) were interviewed about hypothetical situations describing adolescents who defied parental directives and lied about their defiance. Judgments about the legitimacy of parents’ directives and protagonists’ deception differed by types of parent relationship with adolescents (mutual or unilateral). Directives were least accepted, and deception was most accepted, in the context of unilateral relationships. Judgments also differed by domain of the action (personal, prudential, or conventional). Participants were least accepting of parental directives, and most accepting of deception about personal activities. Findings indicate that adolescents value honesty and parental authority, but sometimes give priority to concerns with autonomy and mutuality.

  May 13, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12319   open full text
• Relational‐Interdependent Self‐Construal and Gender Predicting Blood Pressure Reactivity and Recovery From Stress in Early Adolescence.
  Yoshito Kawabata, Wan‐Ling Tseng, Dianna Murray‐Close.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 28, 2017
  This study investigated the association between relational‐interdependent self‐construals (relational interdependence) and blood pressure reactivity and recovery from two types of peer stressors (i.e., relational and instrumental) and gender as a moderator of this association. One hundred and ninety‐six early adolescents (M = 10.11 years) reported their relational interdependence and participated in a laboratory stress protocol in which their systolic and diastolic blood pressures before, during, and after experiencing peer stressors were assessed. Results indicated that for males only, those with high relational interdependence showed greater systolic blood pressure reactivity and, at a trend level, impaired recovery from instrumental stressors; females with high relational interdependence showed greater diastolic blood pressure reactivity to relational stressors.

  April 28, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12314   open full text
• Adolescent Offenders' Qualitative Reflections on Desistance From Crime.
  Jamie Amemiya, Jessica Kieta, Kathryn C. Monahan.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 24, 2017
  Although many young offenders desist from crime during adolescence, little is known about this process. This study used a qualitative approach to elucidate adolescent offenders' experiences in desisting from crime. Thirty‐nine male adolescent offenders (Mage = 16.59 years) participated in a semistructured interview about the desistance process. One of four themes characterized adolescents' reflections on their own desistance: having a psychological reorientation, reacting to consequences, persisting, or being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Adolescents discussed five agentic moves they make to facilitate desistance: seeking and maintaining supportive relationships, navigating peer groups, working toward long‐term goals, structuring time, and finding sanctuaries from the outside. These findings highlight adolescents' strengths, resources, and active role in desisting from crime.

  April 24, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12313   open full text
• Linking Magazine Exposure to Social Appearance Anxiety: The Role of Appearance Norms in Early Adolescence.
  Jolien Trekels, Steven Eggermont.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 20, 2017
  Early adolescents (N = 1,591; Mage = 11.698; SD = 0.892) participated in a two‐wave panel study (6‐month interval) to examine the longitudinal association between appearance‐focused magazine exposure and social appearance anxiety. We revealed that magazine exposure positively correlated with the internalization of appearance ideals and the attribution of social rewards to attractiveness which, in turn, related to social appearance anxiety. Internalization and attribution of social rewards formed a reinforcing spiral; once internalized, early adolescents associate positive things with appearance ideals (e.g., peer acceptance) and the perception of rewards increases early adolescents' inclination to internalize ideals. Given the adverse consequences of social appearance anxiety, the findings warrant research on the role of media in the occurrence of social appearance anxiety.

  April 20, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12311   open full text
• Profiles of Emotion Deficits and Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury in an Inpatient Sample.
  Kristel Thomassin, Elise Quint, Sage Sezlik, Anne Shaffer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 31, 2017
  This study examined profiles of specific emotion deficits, including poor emotion awareness, reluctance to express emotion, sadness inhibition and dysregulation, and anger inhibition and dysregulation. Self‐report questionnaires assessed adolescents’ emotion skills and nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) engagement, frequency, severity, methods, and age of onset. Latent profile analysis yielded a three‐profile solution: Low Deficit (LD; n = 49), Unaware/Anger Dysregulated (UAD; n = 24), and Anger Inhibited (AI; n = 20) profiles. Adolescents in the UAD profile were more likely to engage in NSSI, displayed a higher NSSI frequency, and reported a higher number of NSSI methods when compared to adolescents in the LD profile. No links emerged for NSSI severity or age of onset.

  March 31, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12312   open full text
• “Pretty Pressure” From Peers, Parents, and the Media: A Longitudinal Study of Appearance‐Based Rejection Sensitivity.
  Haley J. Webb, Melanie J. Zimmer‐Gembeck, Allison M. Waters, Lara J. Farrell, Drew Nesdale, Geraldine Downey.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 24, 2017
  Drawing from the tripartite sociocultural model of body image, the researchers examined whether direct messages and modeling from peers, parents, and media were concurrently and prospectively associated with appearance‐based rejection sensitivity (appearance‐RS) in young adolescents (Mage = 12.0 years). Appearance‐RS was higher among those who concurrently reported more appearance‐related teasing and pressure by peers, more parent teasing, and greater acceptance of media appearance ideals. In prospective analyses, greater increases in appearance‐RS over 1 year were found for adolescents who perceived higher levels of parental appearance‐related teasing and negative attitudes about their own appearance. Moderation analyses indicated the positive prospective association between parental negative appearance attitudes and appearance‐RS was found in younger but not older participants. Gender did not moderate associations.

  March 24, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12310   open full text
• Is Affluence a Risk for Adolescents in Norway?
  Terese J. Lund, Eric Dearing, Henrik Daae Zachrisson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 24, 2017
  Studies suggest that affluence poses a risk for adolescents, but this has rarely been studied outside the United States. We examined the unique and additive roles of family and school affluence for adolescent outcomes among 10th‐grade students (n = 7,203) in Oslo, Norway. Multilevel models were estimated separately by gender. For both boys and girls, school affluence was a risk for alcohol abuse and family affluence was a risk for conduct problems, although for conduct the risk was only at the very highest end of income distribution and adolescents in very poor families were also at risk. There was also a complex pattern of risk for early sexual debut; family affluence posed risk, but school affluence appeared protective.

  February 24, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12304   open full text
• Overt and Relational Aggression Participant Role Behavior: Measurement and Relations With Sociometric Status and Depression.
  Deborah M. Casper, Noel A. Card, Sheri Bauman, Russell B. Toomey.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 16, 2017
  This study is the first to measure participant role behavior across overt and relational forms of aggression. The Overt and Relational Aggression Participant Role Behavior Scales were designed to measure aggression, assisting, reinforcing, defending, victimization, and outsider behavior during acts of peer aggression in an ethnically diverse sample of 609 adolescents (M age = 12 years). The data fit the hypothesized 12‐factor model, and measurement invariance was established across gender. Relational victimization, but not overt victimization, was positively associated with all other relational aggression roles. Each participant role subscale was positively associated with depressive symptoms with the exception of the overt and relational outsider subscales. Future research and intervention efforts should consider overt and relational aggression participant roles, separately.

  February 16, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12306   open full text
• Early Sexual Initiation and Mental Health: A Fleeting Association or Enduring Change?
  Rose Wesche, Derek A. Kreager, Eva S. Lefkowitz, Sonja E. Siennick.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 10, 2017
  The present research examined how the within‐person association between sexual initiation and internalizing symptoms decays over time, using data with annual measurement occasions across adolescence (N = 1,789) and statistical models of within‐person change. Sexual initiation was associated with increased levels of internalizing symptoms for early‐initiating girls (ninth grade, approximately age 15), but not for on‐time‐initiating girls or for boys. The association between girls' early sexual initiation and internalizing symptoms declined precipitously over time. Indeed, 1 year after sexual debut, early‐initiating girls were similar to on‐time or noninitiating girls on internalizing symptoms, suggesting early sexual initiation does not produce lasting detriments to girls' mental health. Findings inform how researchers perceive sexual initiation, both as a developmental milestone and as a prevention target.

  February 10, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12303   open full text
• Distinguishing Attachment and Affiliation in Early Adolescents’ Narrative Descriptions of Their Best Friendship.
  Meredith J. Martin, Patrick T. Davies, E. Mark Cummings.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 06, 2017
  This study was designed to test for specificity in the relationship between individual friendship provisions and adjustment across early adolescence. Using a narrative procedure, attachment (i.e., accessing care) and affiliation (i.e., forming cooperative partnerships) were found to be distinct functional themes organizing 293 adolescents’ (Mage = 13) internal representations of their best friendship across three annual measurement occasions. Longitudinal, cross‐lag analyses revealed a unique transactional relationship between friendship affiliation and greater social competence over time, controlling for friendship stability, maternal relationship quality, socioeconomic status, and gender. By contrast, friendship attachment predicted fewer subsequent internalizing symptoms from ages 14 to 15. Together, findings point to the importance of understanding individual differences in the content of adolescents’ internal representations of friendship.

  February 06, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12305   open full text
• Parental Child‐Rearing Conflicts Through Adolescence: Trajectories and Associations With Child Characteristics and Externalizing Patterns.
  Maren S. Helland, Anne Kjeldsen, Tilmann Soest, Espen Røysamb, Kristin Gustavson, Wendy Nilsen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 18, 2017
  Research on longitudinal interparental conflict patterns and offspring development is scarce. The population‐based TOPP study (N = 459) was used to investigate (1) child‐rearing conflict trajectories through four time points during childhood and adolescence (ages 8–16), and (2) associations between conflict trajectories and child characteristics (i.e., birth order, gender, externalizing patterns from early childhood). Latent profile analysis identified six distinct trajectories. Conflict levels decreased for most respondents over the adolescent offspring period, but offspring's birth order and externalizing problems were related to less typical trajectories and higher levels of conflict. Onset of externalizing problems was of additional importance for the course of parental child‐rearing conflicts. The results highlight the perception of the whole family as an interwoven system.

  January 18, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12302   open full text
• Social Capital and Adolescent Substance Use: The Role of Family, School, and Neighborhood Contexts.
  Ming Wen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 17, 2017
  This study assesses the link between social capital factors of norm‐setting social arenas including family, school, and neighborhood and adolescent substance use measured by cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and illicit drug use among a sample of adolescents in California. The key messages of this study are that socialization processes at different life domains, in varying degrees, are associated with adolescent substance use behavior. Compared with school and neighborhood contexts, family is the most influential setting that should be primarily targeted for youth substance use prevention. Among different aspects of within‐family social resources, parental monitoring seems to be the most protective of adolescent substance use. Study implications on family‐based interventions are discussed.

  January 17, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12299   open full text
• Adolescent Athletic Participation Patterns and Self‐Perceived Competence: Associations With Later Participation, Depressive Symptoms, and Health.
  Jennifer P. Agans, Sara K. Johnson, Richard M. Lerner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 12, 2017
  Physical activity is important for well‐being across the life span. However, links between patterns of adolescent activity, competence perceptions, and young adult outcomes are underexplored. We used data from seven waves of the 4‐H Study of Positive Youth Development (N = 5,961) to assess patterns of adolescent athletic participation, whether these patterns were associated with self‐perceived athletic competence and young adult physical activity, depressive symptoms, and health, and associations between changes in participation across adolescence and young adult outcomes. Competence perceptions were associated with increased participation, and more active adolescents had higher rates of adult athletic activity, with links to better health and fewer depressive symptoms. We discuss results in light of the importance of using person‐centered analyses to understand active lifestyles.

  January 12, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12301   open full text
• Pro‐Environmental Behavior and Adolescent Moral Development.
  Tobias Krettenauer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 08, 2017
  Previous research has demonstrated that children take a strong moral stance toward protecting the natural environment. However, the question of how this moralization of pro‐environmental behavior develops in adolescence has been rarely investigated. This study investigated age‐related differences in adolescents' pro‐environmental behavior as it relates to moral judgments about environmental issues and emotions. The study was based on a cross‐sectional sample of 325 Canadian adolescents from early, middle, and late adolescence. It was found that older adolescents engaged less in pro‐environmental behaviors such as energy conservation and recycling. The effect of age was mediated by the prescriptiveness of moral judgment as well as emotional affinity for nature. The study calls for a systematic investigation of factors that suppress pro‐environmentalism in adolescence.

  January 08, 2017   doi: 10.1111/jora.12300   open full text
• Passionate Experiences in Adolescence: Situational Variability and Long‐Term Stability.
  Julia Moeller, Julia Dietrich, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Barbara Schneider.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 03, 2016
  This study investigates adolescents' situational passionate experiences, defined as states of strong commitment and intense affect. We examine the extent to which experiencing passion was specific to situations versus individual differences, and explore which activities are likely to elicit adolescents' passion. Using longitudinal experience sampling method (ESM) data from a representative sample of 996 adolescents (54.6% females) in three cohorts (6th, 8th, and 10th grade at baseline), we examine whether adolescents' frequency of passionate experiences remained stable across 2 years. Results of multilevel analyses revealed that situational determinants accounted for 80% of variance in passion, while 20% were due to characteristics of the person that remained stable across 1 week of ESM assessment. An adolescent's percentage of passionate experiences among all observed experiences remained stable across 2 years in rank order and mean level.

  December 03, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12297   open full text
• Stress, Coping, and Mood Among Latino Adolescents: A Daily Diary Study.
  Catherine DeCarlo Santiago, Stephanie K. Brewer, Anne K. Fuller, Stephanie A. Torres, Jaclyn Lennon Papadakis, Anna M. Ros.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 16, 2016
  The current study examines whether daily coping moderates the effects of daily stress on same‐day mood and next‐day mood among 58 Latino adolescents (Mage = 13.31; 53% male). The daily diary design capitalized on repeated measurements, boosting power to detect effects and allowing for a robust understanding of the day‐to‐day experiences of Latino adolescents. Hierarchical linear modeling revealed that on days when youth reported higher levels of peer and academic stress, they also reported more negative moods. However, only poverty‐related stress predicted mood the following day. Engagement coping buffered the effect of poverty‐related stress on next‐day negative and positive mood, while disengagement exacerbated the effects of academic and peer stress. The need for interventions promoting balanced coping repertoires is discussed.

  November 16, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12294   open full text
• Assessing Variations in Developmental Outcomes Among Teenage Offspring of Teen Mothers: Maternal Life Course Correlates.
  Jungeun Olivia Lee, Lewayne D. Gilchrist, Blair A. Beadnell, Mary Jane Lohr, Chaoyue Yuan, Lacey A. Hartigan, Diane M. Morrison.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 11, 2016
  This study investigated potential heterogeneity in development among offspring (age 17) of teen mothers and maternal life course as correlates of variation. Using latent class analysis, subgroups of developmental outcomes were identified. Maternal standing in two life course realms (i.e., socioeconomic and domestic) was considered as a potential explanation for heterogeneity in offspring's development. Offspring reported on measures assessing their psychological, academic, and behavioral development. Teen mothers reported on measures of life course realms. Three subgroups of developmental outcomes were identified: on track (52%), at risk (37%), and troubled (11%). Findings suggest that economic hardship and number of pregnancies among teen mothers distinguish developmental patterns among teenage offspring, whereas teen mothers' educational attainment and marital status do not.

  November 11, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12293   open full text
• Latinos’ Changing Ethnic Group Representation From Elementary to Middle School: Perceived Belonging and Academic Achievement.
  Jessica Morales‐Chicas, Sandra Graham.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 31, 2016
  This study examined the association between change in ethnic group representation from elementary to middle school and Latino students’ school belonging and achievement. The ethnic diversity of students’ middle school was examined as a moderator. Participants were 1,825 Latino sixth graders from 26 ethnically diverse urban middle schools. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that a change in ethnic representation toward fewer Latinos in middle school than elementary school was related to less perceived belonging and lower achievement in schools with low ethnic diversity. There were no mean differences as a function of declining representation in more diverse middle schools, suggesting that greater school diversity was protective. Findings highlight the importance of examining school ethnic context, especially across the middle school transition.

  October 31, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12292   open full text
• Perspectives on Filial Responsibility Among Uprooted Families From South Lebanon.
  Therese Dabbagh, Dorit Roer‐Strier, Jenny Kurman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 28, 2016
  This study focuses on filial responsibilities among uprooted families. Views of 20 mothers and 20 adolescents and young adults from southern Lebanon residing in Israel were compared to identify the roles that adolescent children assume and the perceived effects of these roles. Eight domains of filial responsibilities were agreed upon: language broker, cultural broker, financial supporter and breadwinner, surrogate parent and sibling caretaker, emotional supporter of parents, mediator of family conflicts, heritage transmitter, and role model. The roles had simultaneous positive effects and negative effects. The discussion illustrates the importance of cultural context of country of origin and the host culture. Moreover, it suggests implications of the findings for research and practice.

  October 28, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12290   open full text
• Paving Pathways Through the Pain: A Grounded Theory of Resilience Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, and Queer Youth.
  Kenta Asakura.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 28, 2016
  This grounded theory study utilized interviews with 16 service providers and 19 lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) youth to develop a substantive theory of resilience processes among LGBTQ youth. The core category, paving pathways through the pain, suggests that LGBTQ youth build on emotional pain inflicted by external adversities to carve out pathways to resilience. Youth employed the following resilience processes: (1) navigating safety across contexts, (2) asserting personal agency, (3) seeking and cultivating meaningful relationships, (4) un‐silencing marginalized identities, and (5) engaging in collective healing and action. Youth focused on particularly painful adversities and engaged intentionally in one or more of the resilience processes related to the origins of their pain.

  October 28, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12291   open full text
• Shifting STEM Stereotypes? Considering the Role of Peer and Teacher Gender.
  Catherine Riegle‐Crumb, Chelsea Moore, Jenny Buontempo.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 12, 2016
  This study builds on research on the power of counter‐stereotypical cues, as well as intergroup contact theory, to consider whether interactions with a female teacher and female peers in a high school engineering classroom decrease male students' gender/science, technology, engineering, and math stereotypical beliefs and whether this varies according to the initial strength of their stereotypical views. Analyses reveal that among male students who initially reject stereotypes of male superiority, more female peers in the classroom leads to a further decrease in their stereotypical views by the end of the year. In contrast, boys who held strong stereotypical beliefs became less stereotypical by the end of the course when they had a female teacher. Implications for future research and current educational reforms are discussed.

  October 12, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12289   open full text
• Residential Mobility and Adolescent Achievement and Behavior: Understanding Timing and Extent of Mobility.
  Sara Anderson, Tama Leventhal.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 28, 2016
  Residential mobility is generally viewed as an adverse event for adolescents' development. Less is known about whether moving during adolescence, childhood, or both periods explains this connection and whether the extent of mobility matters. Analytic shortcomings with much of the research call into question extant findings. We examined associations between childhood, adolescent, and child–adolescent mobility and adolescents' achievement (math and reading) and behavior problems (internalizing and externalizing). With a multisite, longitudinal sample (N = 1,056), we employed propensity score methods, which mitigate concerns about selection bias on observed variables, to investigate relationships. Results suggest that multiple, child–adolescent movers had more internalizing problems in adolescence than their stable peers, but did not differ on externalizing problems or achievement.

  September 28, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12288   open full text
• Cultivating Conformists or Raising Rebels? Connecting Parental Control and Autonomy Support to Adolescent Delinquency.
  Jonathan R. Brauer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 28, 2016
  This study investigates short‐term and long‐term associations between parenting in early adolescence and delinquency throughout adolescence using data from the National Longitudinal Surveys. Multilevel longitudinal Poisson regressions show that behavioral control, psychological control, and decision‐making autonomy in early adolescence (ages 10–11) are associated with delinquency trajectories throughout adolescence (ages 10–17). Path analyses reveal support for three mediation hypotheses. Parental monitoring (behavioral control) is negatively associated with delinquency in the short term and operates partly through changes in self‐control. Parental pressure (psychological control) shows immediate and long‐lasting associations with delinquency through changes in self‐control and delinquent peer pressures. Decision‐making autonomy is negatively associated with delinquency in the long term, yet may exacerbate delinquency in early adolescence by increasing exposure to delinquent peers.

  September 28, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12283   open full text
• Associations Between Victimization and Adolescents' Self‐Reported Responses to Peer Provocation Are Moderated by Peer‐Reported Aggressiveness.
  Melanie A. Dirks, Laura A. Cuttini, Addison Mott, David B. Henry.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 28, 2016
  Many early adolescents experience peer victimization, but little research has examined how they respond to aggression by peers. Thus, in a large sample of early adolescents (N = 648; M age = 12.96; SD = 0.30; 52.0% female), we examined (1) the associations between peer‐reported victimization and self‐reported responses to peer provocation, and (2) whether these associations were moderated by peer‐reported aggression. In particular, we predicted that the reported use of assertion, a strategy generally viewed as socially skillful, would be associated with less victimization, but only for youth low on peer‐reported aggression. Results were consistent with this hypothesis. Moreover, seeking adult intervention was associated with greater victimization for youth high on peer‐reported aggression. Implications for research and practice are discussed.

  September 28, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12282   open full text
• Letting Oneself Go Isn't Enough: Cognitively Oriented Expressive Writing Reduces Preadolescent Peer Problems.
  Gabriele Travagin, Davide Margola, John L. Dennis, Tracey A. Revenson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 19, 2016
  Peer problems are a stressor for many early adolescents, and simple cost‐effective tools for managing peer stress are needed. Expressive writing (EW) may be one such tool. With a sample of middle school children aged 12–14 years (n = 119; 53% males), this research evaluates whether cognitively oriented expressive writing (CEW), which focuses more on psychological self‐distancing, improves personal well‐being better than traditional EW, which focuses more on emotional disclosure. CEW—compared with EW—slightly enhanced long‐term social adjustment for the entire sample, and increased positive affect for those early adolescents that reported more peer problems at baseline. These findings suggest that structured writing instructions with early adolescents may be key to improvements.

  September 19, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12279   open full text
• Extracurricular Activities in Multiethnic Middle Schools: Ideal Context for Positive Intergroup Attitudes?
  Casey A. Knifsend, Jaana Juvonen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 19, 2016
  This study examined processes by which extracurricular participation is linked with positive ethnic intergroup attitudes in multiethnic middle schools in California. Specifically, the mediating roles of activity‐related cross‐ethnic friendships and social identities including alliances with multiple groups were examined in a sample including African American or Black, East or South‐East Asian, White, and Latino youth (N = 1,446; Mage = 11.60 in sixth grade). Results of multilevel modeling suggested that in addition to activity‐related cross‐ethnic friendships, complex social identities mediated the association between availability of cross‐ethnic peers in activities and ethnic intergroup attitudes. Results are discussed in terms of how activities can be structured to promote cross‐ethnic relationships and complex social identities, as well as positive ethnic intergroup attitudes.

  September 19, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12278   open full text
• In Search of Modifiable Risk and Protective Factors for Teen Dating Violence.
  Joanne P. Smith‐Darden, Poco D. Kernsmith, Dennis E. Reidy, Kai S. Cortina.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 16, 2016
  The present research explores the additive and interactive effects of anger or hostility (A/H), acceptance of violence (AoV), and constructive conflict resolution strategies (CRS) on the perpetration of physical and sexual teen dating violence (TDV). Adolescents completed surveys assessing physical and sexual TDV perpetration, A/H, AoV, and positive CRS. While the findings require replication with longitudinal data, the results suggest that developing interventions to modify AoV and A/H may have the potential to prevent instances of TDV perpetration among both boys and girls. The results for CRS were mixed and necessitate further exploration. These cross‐sectional data provide insight into potentially fruitful areas of exploration for the development and tailoring of prevention strategies for teens at risk for physical and sexual TDV perpetration.

  September 16, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12280   open full text
• The Links Between Youth Employment and Educational Attainment Across Racial Groups.
  NaYoung Hwang, Thurston Domina.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 27, 2016
  Research suggests that the relations between adolescent employment and youth development vary by socioeconomic status (SES) and race/ethnicity. However, it is unclear whether the links between paid work and college outcomes vary by either SES or race/ethnicity, or both. Using data from the Educational Longitudinal Study, we find that low‐intensity work during high school is associated with positive college outcomes for almost all students, whereas the associations between high‐intensity work and negative postsecondary outcomes are mostly limited to White students. Our results suggest that both differential selections into youth employment and differential consequences of youth employment contribute to these varying links between paid work and educational outcomes across different racial groups.

  July 27, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12277   open full text
• Associations Between School Connection and Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence Through Early Adulthood: Moderation by Early Adversity.
  Anna J. Markowitz.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 27, 2016
  Depressive symptomatology is one of the most common and costly threats to American mental health, making the elucidation of environmental influences on depressive symptoms particularly important. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study explores the interaction between environmental risk and protective factors in the etiology of depressive symptoms by asking whether school connection is associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms through early adulthood, and whether connection serves as a protective or promotive factor for youth who experienced early adversity. Findings highlight the importance of school connection in promoting long‐term mental health for all youth and suggest that policies and practice supporting school connection may be effective intervention strategies for youth at risk for depressive symptomatology.

  June 27, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12275   open full text
• Developmental Trajectories of Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury in Adolescence and Intrapersonal/Interpersonal Risk Factors.
  Biyao Wang, Jianing You, Min‐Pei Lin, Sian Xu, Freedom Leung.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 23, 2016
  This 3‐wave study investigated the developmental trajectories of nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) and intrapersonal/interpersonal risk factors among 3,381 Chinese adolescents (56.2% females) aged from 13 to 17 years during a 1‐year period. Using an accelerated longitudinal design and latent class growth analysis, we identified four subgroups of NSSI trajectories: negligible (74.6%), experimental (12.8%), moderate decreasing (10.8%), and high fluctuating (1.9%). Adolescents reporting both intrapersonal (i.e., impulsive behaviors and depression) and interpersonal (i.e., unstable relationships and parental criticism) risk factors were significantly more likely to follow the latter three trajectories. The findings of this study suggest there is heterogeneity in NSSI development among adolescents and highlight the contributions of both intrapersonal and interpersonal risk factors in the engagement in NSSI.

  June 23, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12273   open full text
• Externalizing Problem Behavior in Adolescence: Parenting Interacting With DAT1 and DRD4 Genes.
  Annelies Janssens, Wim Van Den Noortgate, Luc Goossens, Hilde Colpin, Karine Verschueren, Stephan Claes, Karla Van Leeuwen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 13, 2016
  This study extends previous gene‐by‐environment (G × E) research through design and methodological advances and examines alternative hypotheses of diathesis stress, vantage sensitivity, and differential susceptibility. In a sample of 984 adolescents and their parents, we examined whether effects of parental support, proactive, punitive, harsh punitive, and psychological control on externalizing problem behavior are moderated by adolescents' genotype for the dopamine transporter (DAT1) or receptor D4 (DRD4) gene. Results provided evidence for main effects of parenting behavior and DRD4, and multiple interaction effects of which one survived Bonferroni correction. Adolescents carrying a long DRD4 variant were more susceptible to the effects of parental proactive control on aggression, for better and for worse. Critical considerations were made regarding the complexity of G × E research.

  June 13, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12271   open full text
• Roles of Response Inhibition and Gene–Environment Interplay in Pathways to Adolescents' Externalizing Problems.
  Frances L. Wang, Laurie Chassin, Matthew Lee, Moira Haller, Kevin King.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 10, 2016
  This study used two waves of data to investigate pathways through which adolescents' response inhibition related to later externalizing problems. A polygenic risk score indexed genetic risk for poor response inhibition. Adolescents' performance on a response inhibition task mediated the relation between adolescents' polygenic risk scores and mother's inconsistent parenting (i.e., evocative rGE), even after controlling for mothers' genetic risk (i.e., passive rGE). Mothers' inconsistent parenting subsequently prospectively predicted adolescents' externalizing problems. Adolescents' response inhibition also prospectively predicted later externalizing behaviors. These findings were subgroup‐specific, with greater risk for non‐Hispanic Caucasian boys with substance‐disordered parents. Results suggest that poor response inhibition may increase risk for adolescents' externalizing problems both directly and by evoking certain environmental conditions.

  June 10, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12270   open full text
• Patterns of Adolescent Regulatory Responses During Family Conflict and Mental Health Trajectories.
  Kalsea J. Koss, E. Mark Cummings, Patrick T. Davies, Dante Cicchetti.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 07, 2016
  Four distinct patterns of adolescents' behavioral, emotional, and physiological responses to family conflict were identified during mother–father–adolescent (M = 13.08 years) interactions. Most youth displayed adaptively regulated patterns comprised of low overt and subjective distress. Under‐controlled adolescents exhibited elevated observable and subjective anger. Over‐controlled adolescents were withdrawn and reported heightened subjective distress. Physiologically reactive adolescents had elevated cortisol coupled with low overt and subjective distress. Regulation patterns were associated with unique mental health trajectories. Under‐controlled adolescents had elevated conduct and peer problems whereas over‐controlled adolescents had higher anxiety and depressive symptoms. Physiologically reactive adolescents had low concurrent, but increasing levels of depressive, anxiety, and peer problem symptoms. Findings underscore the importance of examining organizations of regulatory strategies in contributing to adolescent mental health.

  June 07, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12269   open full text
• Bidirectional Relationships Between Parenting Processes and Deviance in a Sample of Inner‐City African American Youth.
  Charlene Harris, Alexander T. Vazsonyi, John M. Bolland.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 07, 2016
  This study assessed bidirectional relationships among supportive parenting (knowledge), negative parenting (permissiveness), and deviance in a sample (N = 5,325) of poor, inner‐city African American youth from the Mobile Youth Survey over 4 years. Cross‐lagged path analysis provided evidence of significant bidirectional paths among parenting processes (knowledge and permissiveness) and deviance over time. Follow‐up multigroup tests provided only modest evidence of dissimilar relationships by sex and by developmental periods. The findings improve our understanding of developmental changes between parenting behaviors and deviance during adolescence and extend current research of the bidirectionality of parent and child relationships among inner‐city African American youth.

  June 07, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12267   open full text
• Mother–Adolescent Proficiency in a Common Language Facilitates Socialization Among Mexican‐Origin Families.
  Thomas J. Schofield, Rand D. Conger, Richard W. Robins, Scott Coltrane, Ross D. Parke.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 30, 2016
  The primary goal of this study was to test how mother and adolescent proficiency in a common language moderates the link from parenting to adolescent development. A sample of Mexican‐origin fifth‐grade adolescents (N = 674, 50% female) was measured longitudinally on self‐control and aggression. Mothers were rated on observed positive discipline, warmth, and harsh discipline. Positive discipline and warm parenting predicted increases in self‐control and decreases in aggression, but only among mother–adolescent dyads who were proficient in a common language. Harsh parenting predicted decreases in self‐control and increases in aggression, but only among dyads who were not proficient in a common language. Similar results were found in a conceptual replication among a second sample of 167 Mexican‐origin adolescents.

  May 30, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12268   open full text
• Hanging Out With the Right Crowd: Peer Influence on Risk‐Taking Behavior in Adolescence.
  Jorien Hoorn, Eveline A. Crone, Linda Leijenhorst.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 21, 2016
  Peer influence plays a key role in the increase of risk‐taking behavior during adolescence. However, its underlying processes are not fully understood. This study examined the effects of social norms, conveyed through peer advice, on risk‐taking behavior in 15‐ to 17‐year‐old adolescents (N = 76). Participants played a card‐guessing task alone and with online peer advice. Results showed that risk‐taking increased in the presence of peers. The results further showed that adolescents took into account the uncertainty associated with gambles, as well as the social norms conveyed by peers. Our findings suggest that peers are most influential in uncertain situations and demonstrate the value of a social norms approach in examining the processes underlying peer effects.

  May 21, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12265   open full text
• Examining Discrimination, Ethnic‐Racial Identity Status, and Youth Public Regard Among Black, Latino, and White Adolescents.
  Sara Douglass, Adriana J. Umaña‐Taylor.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 05, 2016
  How positively adolescents believe others feel about their ethnic‐racial group (i.e., public regard) is an important part of their ethnic‐racial identity (ERI), which is likely informed by contextual and individual factors. Using cluster analyses to generate ERI statuses among Black, Latino, and White adolescents (n = 1,378), we found that associations between peer versus adult discrimination and public regard varied across ERI status and ethnic‐racial group. However, among all adolescents, an achieved ERI (i.e., having explored ethnicity‐race and having a clear sense about its personal meaning) buffered the negative association between adult discrimination and public regard, but not between peer discrimination and public regard. Implications for understanding the interplay between contextual and individual factors for public regard are discussed.

  May 05, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12262   open full text
• The Roles of Racial Discrimination, Cultural Mistrust, and Gender in Latina/o Youth's School Attitudes and Academic Achievement.
  Adina C. Cooper, Bernadette Sánchez.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 05, 2016
  Gender gaps in achievement are particularly pronounced among Latina/os, who are among the population most affected by the academic achievement gap. This study examined the roles of racial discrimination, cultural mistrust, and economic value of education in the academic achievement of urban, low‐income Latina/o adolescents. Participants were 346 high school students. Structural equation modeling revealed that the model of associations was a better fit for male students than for female students. Cultural mistrust mediated the relationship between racial discrimination and values of education, and perceived limitations of education predicted lower attendance rates for male students but not for female students. Implications for future research and interventions are discussed.

  May 05, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12263   open full text
• Adolescent Conflict Appraisals Moderate the Link Between Marital Conflict and Physiological Stress Reactivity.
  Rachel G. Lucas‐Thompson, Erika S. Lunkenheimer, Douglas A. Granger.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 05, 2016
  The goal of this study was to advance understanding of how adolescent conflict appraisals contribute uniquely, and in combination with interparental conflict behavior, to individual differences in adolescent physiological reactivity. Saliva samples were collected from 153 adolescents (52% female; ages 10–17 years) before and after the Trier Social Stress Test. Saliva was assayed for cortisol and alpha‐amylase. Results revealed interactive effects between marital conflict and conflict appraisals. For youth who appraised parental conflict negatively (particularly as threatening), negative marital conflict predicted dampened reactivity; for youth who appraised parental conflict less negatively, negative marital conflict predicted heightened reactivity. These findings support the notion that the family context and youth appraisals of family relationships are linked with individual differences in biological sensitivity to context.

  May 05, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12264   open full text
• Domain Specificity in Adolescents’ Concepts of Laws: Associations Among Beliefs and Behavior.
  Benjamin Oosterhoff, Aaron Metzger.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 16, 2016
  Using detailed vignettes and scale measures, concepts of laws regulating domain‐specific issues and engagement in delinquency were assessed among 340 9th through 12th graders (Mage = 16.64, SD = 1.37). Adolescents distinguished between laws that regulate moral, drug‐related prudential, conventional, personal, and multifaceted issues in their criterion judgments and justifications. Youths’ ratings of the importance of laws, obligation to obey laws, and deserved punishment for breaking different laws also followed domain‐consistent patterns. Adolescents’ engagement in moral, drug‐related prudential, and multifaceted forms of delinquency was associated with less supportive judgments about laws within the same domain. Findings contribute to civic development research by demonstrating domain specificity in adolescents’ beliefs about laws and suggest that these beliefs are linked with engagement in similar types of delinquency.

  April 16, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12261   open full text
• The Shared Etiology of Attentional Control and Anxiety: An Adolescent Twin Study.
  Jeffrey R. Gagne, Deirdre L. O'Sullivan, Nicole L. Schmidt, Catherine A. Spann, H. Hill Goldsmith.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 09, 2016
  We investigated the etiology of attentional control (AC) and four different anxiety symptom types (generalized, obsessive‐compulsive, separation, and social) in an adolescent sample of over 400 twin pairs. Genetic factors contributed to 55% of the variance in AC and between 43 and 58% of the variance in anxiety. Negative phenotypic associations between AC and anxiety indicated that lower attentional ability is related to increased risk for all 4 anxiety categories. Genetic correlations between AC and anxiety phenotypes ranged from −.36 to −.47, with evidence of nonshared environmental covariance between AC and generalized and separation anxiety. Results suggest that AC is a phenotypic and genetic risk factor for anxiety in early adolescence, with somewhat differing levels of risk depending on symptomatology.

  April 09, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12260   open full text
• Modeling Trajectories of Adolescent‐Perceived Family Conflict: Effects of Marital Dissatisfaction and Parental Alcoholism.
  William A. Rothenberg, Andrea M. Hussong, Laurie Chassin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 31, 2016
  We evaluated the effects of marital dissatisfaction on adolescent‐perceived conflict in 435 families with and without a parental history of alcoholism. On average, family conflict decreased linearly as adolescents aged. Families with an alcoholic parent demonstrated higher adolescent‐reported family conflict and this effect was partially mediated by higher mother‐ and father‐reported marital dissatisfaction. Families with higher marital dissatisfaction had greater conflict when adolescents were young (based on fathers’ marital dissatisfaction) and as they aged (based on mother's marital dissatisfaction). Years in which mothers reported higher marital dissatisfaction than usual coincided with years in which adolescents reported greater family conflict. Results indicate that marital dissatisfaction has both within and between‐family effects on adolescent perceptions of conflict.

  March 31, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12259   open full text
• Part‐Time Employment and Problem Behaviors: Evidence From Adolescents in South Korea.
  Moosung Lee, Beatrice Oi‐yeung Lam, Eunsu Ju, Jenny Dean.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 11, 2016
  This study explores the impact of adolescent part‐time work experience on problem behaviors in the South Korean context. To achieve this, propensity score matching (PSM) analyses were employed based on data from the Korean Education Employment Panel (KEEP). Results indicate that adolescents' part‐time employment during their secondary school years had significantly undesirable effects on drinking and smoking, even after preexisting differences between the two groups (i.e., those adolescents who participated in part‐time work and those who did not) were controlled by PSM. However, an insignificant difference was detected in the likelihood of running away from home. Implications of the results are discussed in terms of changes in the meanings of adolescence and of participating in part‐time work in South Korea.

  March 11, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12258   open full text
• Family, Peer, and Pubertal Determinants of Dating Involvement Among Adolescents.
  Sabina Low, Joann Wu Shortt.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 08, 2016
  This study examines the influence of family, peer, and biological contributors to dating involvement among early adolescents (11–14 years of age; n = 244). Further, we assess how parental monitoring may be modified by pubertal maturation and older sibling risky behavior. Data on delinquent peer affiliation, pubertal maturation, parental monitoring, older sibling risky behavior, and dating involvement were gathered through observations and surveys from adolescents, mothers, older siblings, and teachers. Results indicate that lower levels of parental monitoring and higher levels of older sibling risky behavior were related to adolescents' dating involvement through delinquent peer affiliation. Pubertal maturation was directly related to dating involvement for early daters. Findings emphasize the value of examining social and biological factors, in concert, over time.

  March 08, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12257   open full text
• Long‐Term Predictions From Early Adolescent Attachment State of Mind to Romantic Relationship Behaviors.
  Joseph S. Tan, Elenda T. Hessel, Emily L. Loeb, Megan M. Schad, Joseph P. Allen, Joanna M. Chango.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 05, 2016
  Attachment state of mind was investigated as a long‐term predictor of romantic relationship competence. A secure early adolescent attachment state of mind was hypothesized to predict more constructive dyadic behaviors during conflict discussions and support‐seeking interactions in late adolescence and early adulthood. Utilizing multimethod data from a community sample of 184 individuals, followed from ages 14 to 21, adolescents with a secure attachment state of mind at age 14 were found to be in relationships that displayed more constructive dyadic conflict discussion behaviors and dyadic supportive behaviors at both ages 18 and 21. Results suggest substantial links between early adolescent attachment state of mind and the adult romantic relationship atmosphere an individual creates and experiences.

  February 05, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12256   open full text
• Context of First Same‐Sex Condom Use and Nonuse in Young Black Gay and Bisexual Males.
  Renata Arrington‐Sanders, Anthony Morgan, Jessica Oidtman, Miguel C. Gomez, Adedotun Ogunbajo, Maria Trent, J. Dennis Fortenberry.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2016
  Despite high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) rates among young Black men who have sex with men (YBMSM), there are limited data about condom use during first same‐sex (FSS). This study sought to understand socio‐contextual factors of 50 YBMSM aged 15–19 years that influenced condom use during FSS. Condom use was influenced by individual, partner, and community factors. Individual factors—recent illness or sexually transmitted infections (STI)—prompted condom use, while frequent HIV testing prompted nonuse. Partner factors—proactive encouragement from partners—prompted condom use, while trust and condom discomfort prompted nonuse. Larger community factors—such as presence of females—were key for use, while limited sexual health information combined with peers who discouraged condoms prompted nonuse. A multilevel approach may be useful in developing sexual health programming for these young men.

  February 01, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12255   open full text
• Adolescent Life Stress and the Cortisol Awakening Response: The Moderating Roles of Attachment and Sex.
  Kelly F. Miller, Gayla Margolin, Lauren Spies Shapiro, Adela C. Timmons.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2016
  This longitudinal study investigated how past versus current life stresses relate to adolescents' cortisol awakening response (CAR), an index of hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal activity. Ninety‐nine adolescents reported previous year life stress at ages 12 and 18. At the second assessment, participants also provided self‐reports of parent and peer attachment and 3 days of cortisol samples. Current stress was associated with heightened CAR for both males and females, whereas past stress was associated with attenuated CAR for males. Attachment to peers buffered the relationship between past stress and attenuated CAR for all adolescents; attachment to parents was a buffer for male adolescents only. Results demonstrate the protective roles of adolescent relationships and highlight sex differences in biopsychosocial development across adolescence.

  February 01, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12250   open full text
• The Role of Mothers' Communication in Promoting Motivation for Math and Science Course‐Taking in High School.
  Janet S. Hyde, Elizabeth A. Canning, Christopher S. Rozek, Emily Clarke, Chris S. Hulleman, Judith M. Harackiewicz.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2016
  In the context of concerns about American youths' failure to take advanced math and science (MS) courses in high school, we examined mothers' communication with their adolescent about taking MS courses. At ninth grade, U.S. mothers (n = 130) were interviewed about their responses to hypothetical questions from their adolescent about the usefulness of algebra, geometry, calculus, biology, chemistry, and physics. Responses were coded for elaboration and making personal connections to the adolescent. The number of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics courses taken in 12th grade was obtained from school records. Mothers' use of personal connections predicted adolescents' MS interest and utility value, as well as actual MS course‐taking. Parents can play an important role in motivating their adolescent to take MS courses.

  February 01, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12253   open full text
• Family Emotional Support and the Individuation Process Among Asian‐ and Latino‐Heritage College‐Going Emerging Adults.
  Kimberley A. Radmacher, Margarita Azmitia.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2016
  This study examined whether discrepancies in emerging adults' perceptions of their own and their parents' value of education were associated with their individuation from family, and whether this relationship was mediated by family emotional support. A total of 82 Asian‐ and Latino‐heritage emerging adults completed a survey assessing their and their parents' value of education, family emotional support, and family engagement (our proxy for individuation). As predicted, larger discrepancies in the value placed on education were associated with less family engagement; this association was mediated by emerging adults' perceptions of family emotional support. These findings suggest that family emotional support may play an important role in the individuation process of Asian‐ and Latino‐heritage college‐going emerging adults.

  February 01, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12251   open full text
• Contagion of Anxiety Symptoms Among Adolescent Siblings: A Twin Study.
  Catherine Serra Poirier, Mara Brendgen, Frank Vitaro, Ginette Dionne, Michel Boivin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2016
  This study examined whether social contagion of anxiety symptoms is present between siblings during early adolescence and whether this process is moderated by sex, relationship quality, and zygosity. Based on 634 monozygotic and dizygotic twins (336 females) assessed in Grades 6 and 7, anxiety symptoms and sibling relationship quality were measured with self‐report questionnaires. The predictive association of the co‐twin's level of anxiety with adolescents' own increased anxiety 1 year later was only observed in same‐sex twin dyads (monozygotic and dizygotic) and was higher for those who perceived a higher level of relationship quality with their co‐twin. Raising awareness of a possible sibling contagion of anxiety may be useful for preventing the development of anxiety symptoms in youth.

  February 01, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12254   open full text
• Adolescent Abstention From Delinquency: Examining the Mediating Role of Time Spent With (Delinquent) Peers.
  Natalie Mercer, Loes Keijsers, Elisabetta Crocetti, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2016
  Research consistently identifies a group of adolescents who refrain from minor delinquency entirely. Known as abstainers, studying these adolescents is an underexplored approach to understanding adolescent minor delinquency. In this paper, we tested hypotheses regarding adolescent delinquency abstention derived from the developmental taxonomy model and social control theory in 497 adolescents (283 boys) aged 13–18 comparing three groups of adolescents: abstainers, experimenters, and a delinquent group. We found that the relation between adolescent abstention and personal characteristics (i.e., conscientiousness and anxiety) was (partially) mediated by the amount of time spent with peers. Furthermore, the level of best friend delinquency moderated the relation between time spent with peers and delinquency abstention. Results support aspects of both theoretical frameworks.

  February 01, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12246   open full text
• Predicting Well‐Being and Internalizing Symptoms in Late Adolescence From Trajectories of Externalizing Behavior Starting in Infancy.
  Anne Kjeldsen, Wendy Nilsen, Kristin Gustavson, Anni Skipstein, Ole Melkevik, Evalill B. Karevold.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 22, 2016
  This study aimed to examine the long‐term prediction of well‐being and internalizing symptoms from trajectories of externalizing behavior problems in 921 children from a population‐based sample. We found that a high stable trajectory of externalizing behavior from infancy (age 1.5) to mid‐adolescence (age 14.5) predicted lower scores on life satisfaction and flourishing for both girls and boys (age 18.5). The high stable trajectory also predicted higher levels of depressive symptoms in boys and anxiety symptoms in girls (age 18.5). The findings are noteworthy as they document how a person‐oriented study of externalizing behavior problems starting in infancy can predict well‐being and internalizing in late adolescence. The findings underline the importance of early health promotion and problem intervention efforts.

  January 22, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12252   open full text
• Teen Dating Violence, Sexual Harassment, and Bullying Among Middle School Youth: Examining Measurement Invariance by Gender.
  Stacey Cutbush, Jason Williams.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 20, 2016
  This study investigated measurement invariance by gender among commonly used teen dating violence (TDV), sexual harassment, and bullying measures. Data were collected from one cohort of seventh‐grade middle school students (N = 754) from four schools. Using structural equation modeling, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses assessed measurement models and tested measurement invariance by gender for aggression measures. Analyses invoked baseline data only. Physical and psychological TDV perpetration measures achieved strict measurement invariance, while bullying perpetration demonstrated partial strict invariance. Electronic TDV and sexual harassment perpetration achieved metric/scalar invariance. Study findings lend validation to prior and future studies using these measures with similar populations. Future research should increase attention to measurement development, refinement, and testing among study measures.

  January 20, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12244   open full text
• Effect of Trajectories of Friends' and Parents' School Involvement on Adolescents' Engagement and Achievement.
  Myung Hee Im, Jan N. Hughes, Stephen G. West.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 20, 2016
  In a sample of 527 academically at‐risk youth, we investigated trajectories of friends' and parents' school involvement across ages 12–14 and the joint contributions of these trajectories to adolescents' age 15 school engagement and academic achievement. Girls reported higher levels of friends' and parents' school involvement than boys. Both parents' and friends' school involvement declined across ages 12–14. Combined latent growth models and structural equation models showed effects of the trajectories of friends' and parents' school involvement on adolescents' age 15 school engagement and academic achievement, over and above adolescents' prior performance. These effects were additive rather than interactive. Strategies for enhancing parent involvement in school and students' affiliation with peers who are positively engaged in school are discussed.

  January 20, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12247   open full text
• The Impact of Adolescents' Classroom and Neighborhood Ethnic Diversity on Same‐ and Cross‐Ethnic Friendships Within Classrooms.
  Anke Munniksma, Peer Scheepers, Tobias H. Stark, Jochem Tolsma.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 20, 2016
  This study examines how classroom and neighborhood ethnic diversity affect adolescents' tendency to form same‐ versus cross‐ethnic friendships when they enter middle school. Hypotheses are derived from exposure, conflict, and constrict theory. Hypotheses are tested among 911 middle school students (43 classrooms, nine schools) in the Netherlands. Multilevel (p2) social network analyses show that students were more likely to engage in same‐ethnic rather than cross‐ethnic friendships. In line with conflict theory, greater classroom and neighborhood diversity were related to stronger tendencies to choose same‐ethnic rather than cross‐ethnic friends, among both ethnic majority and minority students. Diversity did not hamper reciprocity, as students in more ethnically diverse classrooms were even more likely to reciprocate friendships.

  January 20, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12248   open full text
• Neighborhood Qualification of the Association Between Parenting and Problem Behavior Trajectories Among Mexican‐Origin Father–Adolescent Dyads.
  Rebecca M. B. White, Yu Liu, Nancy A. Gonzales, George P. Knight, Jenn‐Yun Tein.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 16, 2016
  To address the combined importance of fathers and neighborhoods for adolescent adjustment, we examined whether associations between fathers' parenting and adolescents' problem behaviors were qualified by neighborhood adversity. We captured both mainstream (e.g., authoritative) and alternative (e.g., no‐nonsense, reduced involvement) parenting styles and examined parenting and neighborhood effects on changes over time in problem behaviors among a sample of Mexican‐origin father–adolescent dyads (N = 462). Compared to their counterparts in low‐adversity neighborhoods, adolescents in high‐adversity neighborhoods experienced greater initial benefits from authoritative fathering, greater long‐term benefits from no‐nonsense fathering, and fewer costs associated with reduced involvement fathering. The combined influences of alternative paternal parenting styles and neighborhood adversity may set ethnic and racial minority adolescents on different developmental pathways to competence.

  January 16, 2016   doi: 10.1111/jora.12245   open full text
• Peer Group Patterns of Alcohol‐Using Behaviors Among Early Adolescents in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, United States.
  Rachel K. Leung, John W. Toumbourou, Sheryl A. Hemphill, Richard F. Catalano.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 28, 2015
  The goal of this study was to examine and cross‐nationally compare the peer group patterns of alcohol‐drinking behaviors among cohorts of early adolescents (ages 11–14 years) in Victoria, Australia, and Washington State, United States. Latent transition analysis revealed that after 1 year, transitions congruent with peer influence (whereby non‐drinking adolescents initiated alcohol use in the presence of drinking peers) and reverse peer influence were observed in both states; however, transitions congruent with peer selection (whereby drinking adolescents self‐selected into drinking peer groups) were only observed among Victorian early adolescents. Findings were interpreted to suggest that Australian family and cultural norms that more commonly allow early adolescent alcohol use lead to a higher rate of peer selection.

  November 28, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12241   open full text
• The Art of Restraint: How Experienced Program Leaders Use Their Authority to Support Youth Agency.
  Reed W. Larson, Dina Izenstark, Gabriel Rodriguez, S. Cole Perry.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 28, 2015
  The staff of youth development programs perform a delicate balancing act between supporting youth agency and exercising necessary authority. To understand this balancing in daily practice, we interviewed 25 experienced (M = 14 years) leaders of arts, leadership, and technology programs for high‐school‐aged youth. We obtained accounts of when, how, and why they gave advice, set limits, and “supported youth when disagreeing.” Qualitative analysis found surprising similarities across leaders. They used authority to give advice and set limits, but did so with reasoned restraint. Maximizing youth's opportunities to learn from experience was central in their decision making. They described employing authority in intentional ways aimed at helping youth's work succeed, strengthening youth's agency, and building skills for agency (e.g., critical thinking, “clarifying intent”).

  November 28, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12234   open full text
• Growth Mixture Modeling of Adolescent Body Mass Index Development: Longitudinal Patterns of Internalizing Symptoms and Physical Activity.
  Megan E. Ames, Maxine G. Wintre.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 11, 2015
  Growth mixture modeling was used to identify different trajectories of body mass index (BMI) among adolescents ages 10–15 from a national sample. Three distinct classes were found for both boys and girls: “normative” (90.9% and 89.7%), “high increasing” (6.3% and 7.4%), and “decreasing” (2.8% and 2.9%). Multinomial logistic regression identified family income as predictive of class membership for boys and pubertal status and being rural as predictive for girls. Parent‐reported health was a common predictor across gender. Growth curves of internalizing symptoms and physical activity were modeled to explore trends across classes. Findings highlight complexities in the relations between BMI, internalizing symptoms, and physical activity in this developmental period.

  November 11, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12239   open full text
• Risk and Protective Factors for Early Substance Use Initiation: A Longitudinal Study of Mexican‐Origin Youth.
  Olivia E. Atherton, Rand D. Conger, Emilio Ferrer, Richard W. Robins.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 04, 2015
  Substance use initiation in adolescence is a critical issue, given its association with substance dependency and associated problems in adulthood. However, due to the dearth of fine‐grained longitudinal studies, the factors associated with early initiation are poorly understood, especially in minority youth. The present study examined substance use initiation in a sample of Mexican‐origin youth (n = 674) assessed annually from age 10 to 16. Using discrete‐time survival analyses, we found that initiation escalated rapidly from late childhood to adolescence, and we identified a wide range of factors, from the individual to the cultural level of analysis, that significantly increased or decreased risk for early initiation. These findings have important implications for programs aimed at preventing early substance use by Mexican‐origin youth.

  November 04, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12235   open full text
• Perceived Bonding by Parents Living With HIV and Their Adolescent Children.
  Li Li, Li‐Jung Liang, Guoping Ji, Chunqing Lin, Yongkang Xiao.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 31, 2015
  This study examined the associations between parent and adolescent reports of bonding within families and the relationships among reported parental bonding, family conflict and adolescent stress. A total of 118 families from Anhui, China, were recruited for this study. Two family‐level bonding scores were constructed: the average of and difference between parent and adolescent bonding scores. Study results indicated that the difference between parent and adolescent bonding reports was associated with higher levels of adolescent daily stress. A negative association was observed between average family‐level bonding and the level of parent‐reported conflict. Our findings highlight the importance of combining data from both parents and adolescents when studying issues related to family wellbeing.

  October 31, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12236   open full text
• Sexual Risk‐Taking Among Recently Emancipated Female Foster Youth: Sexual Trauma and Failed Family Reunification Experiences.
  Ana Gonzalez‐Blanks, Tuppett M. Yates.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 27, 2015
  Foster youth evidence shows elevated rates of risk behaviors, including sexual risk‐taking (e.g., unprotected sex). Some studies have identified child maltreatment, particularly sexual abuse, as a risk for later sexual risk‐taking, but none have examined how child welfare placement experiences relate to youth's sexual risk‐taking. This study investigated relations among child maltreatment, child welfare placements, and sexual risk‐taking among 114 recently emancipated female foster youth. Sexual abuse and failed reunifications with parents were associated with greater sexual risk‐taking. Moreover, dissociative symptoms exacerbated the relation between sexual abuse and sexual risk‐taking. These findings highlight the need for greater consideration of risks associated with emancipated youth's sexual risk‐taking and for more research to understand how youth experience unsuccessful family reunifications.

  October 27, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12232   open full text
• Trajectories of Substance Use: Onset and Adverse Outcomes Among North American Indigenous Adolescents.
  Kelley J. Sittner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 27, 2015
  North American Indigenous communities experience disproportionately high rates of substance use, abuse, and dependence and their accompanying consequences. This study uses group‐based trajectory modeling of past‐year substance use (alcohol, marijuana, and cigarettes) with a longitudinal sample of Indigenous adolescents from the northern Midwest and Canada (spanning ages 10–18 years). The early‐onset trajectory (36.3%) had more adverse psychosocial difficulties at baseline than the mid‐onset group (38.3%); both trajectories were associated with several negative outcomes at the end of the study. The late‐onset trajectory (25.3%) did not initiate substance use until later adolescence and had far better outcomes at the last wave of the study. Timing of onset matters. Prevention efforts should begin in late childhood and continue through mid‐adolescence.

  October 27, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12233   open full text
• Status Perceptions Matter: Understanding Disliking Among Adolescents.
  Judit Pál, Christoph Stadtfeld, André Grow, Károly Takács.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 27, 2015
  The emergence of disliking relations depends on how adolescents perceive the relative informal status of their peers. This phenomenon is examined on a longitudinal sample using dynamic network analysis (585 students across 16 classes in five schools). As hypothesized, individuals dislike those who they look down on (disdain), and conform to others by disliking those who they perceive as being looked down on by their peers (conformity). The inconsistency between status perceptions also leads to disliking, when individuals do not look up to those who they perceive to be admired by peers (frustration). Adolescents are not more likely to dislike those who they look up to (admiration). The results demonstrate the role of status perceptions on disliking tie formation.

  October 27, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12231   open full text
• Predictions From Early Adolescent Emotional Repair Abilities to Functioning in Future Relationships.
  Elenda T. Hessel, Emily L. Loeb, David E. Szwedo, Joseph P. Allen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 12, 2015
  This study examined adolescents' ability to utilize emotional repair—to actively change negative moods to more positive moods—as a predictor of the quality of their developing peer and romantic relationships over time. Utilizing observational data and partners' reports, adolescents (N = 184), their close peers, and their romantic partners were followed from ages 15–19. Adolescents with initially stronger emotional repair abilities were rated as increasingly socially competent over time, and both displayed and experienced increasingly positive interactive behaviors with close peers over time. These adolescents' romantic partners also reported more positive relationships, with enhanced communication, and fewer critical, blaming, or hostile interactions. Implications for the role of emotional repair abilities in the development of successful relationships during adolescence are discussed.

  October 12, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12229   open full text
• Why Trust Matters: How Confidence in Leaders Transforms What Adolescents Gain From Youth Programs.
  Aisha N. Griffith, Reed W. Larson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 12, 2015
  Youth's trust in program leaders is considered a key to the positive impact of youth programs. We sought to understand how trust influences youth's program experiences from their perspective. We interviewed 108 ethnically diverse youth (ages 12–19) participating in 13 arts, leadership, and technology programs. Analysis of these accounts suggested five ways in which youth's trust in leaders amplified program benefits. Trust increased youth's (1) confidence in leaders' guidance in program activities, (2) motivation in the program, (3) use of leaders for mentoring, (4) use of leaders as a model of a well‐functioning relationship, and (5) experience of program cohesiveness. Across benefits, trust allowed youth to draw on leaders' expertise, opened them to new experiences, and helped increase youth's agency.

  October 12, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12230   open full text
• Ethnic Identity, Stereotype Threat, and Perceived Discrimination Among Native American Adolescents.
  Jamie Jaramillo, Zena R. Mello, Frank C. Worrell.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 29, 2015
  In this study, ethnic identity, stereotype threat, and perceived discrimination were examined in relationship to academic achievement and hopelessness in a sample of 129 Native American adolescents aged 14–19. Regression analyses with self‐reported data indicated two major findings. Ethnic identity interacted with stereotype threat to predict academic achievement, where participants with high ethnic identity and low stereotype threat scores reported higher grade point averages. Ethnic identity also interacted with perceived discrimination to predict hopelessness, where participants with low ethnic identity and high perceived discrimination scores were higher in hopelessness. Findings are discussed in light of the joint role that ethnic identity and perceived bias have in relationship to developmental outcomes in Native American adolescents.

  September 29, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12228   open full text
• Longitudinal Links Between Discrimination and Civic Development Among Latino and Asian Adolescents.
  Parissa J. Ballard.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 22, 2015
  The transition from adolescence to adulthood is formative for civic development. Unfortunately, many adolescents from Latino and Asian backgrounds experience discrimination, which can alienate them from civic life. This study employed cross‐lagged structural equation modeling to test the bidirectional links between perceived discrimination and civic beliefs and activism among Latino and Asian late adolescents (N = 400, Mage = 17.34, 61% female). Civic beliefs (i.e., believing that the government is unresponsive) and civic activism (i.e., protesting and expressing political opinions) in high school predicted increased perceptions of discrimination over time. Perceiving high levels of discrimination in high school predicted a decrease in the belief that society is fair over time.

  September 22, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12221   open full text
• Developmental Outcomes of School Attachment Among Students of Mexican Origin.
  Laura Castro‐Schilo, Emilio Ferrer, Maciel M. Hernández, Rand D. Conger.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 14, 2015
  We used a longitudinal community study of 674 grade school children (Grades 5, 6, 7, and 8; 337 males, 337 females) of Mexican origin to examine outcomes of school attachment. Attachment to school is important in this population given the high level of school dropout rates of Mexican‐origin students. Results indicated that, on average, school attachment from fifth to sixth grade remains stable, but declines from sixth to eighth grade. Boys had lower levels of school attachment at fifth grade but followed similar patterns of change as girls did. Attachment to teachers, peer competence, school aspirations and expectations, and substance‐use cognitions emerged as longitudinal outcomes of level or changes in school attachment. Gender moderated associations of school attachment.

  September 14, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12223   open full text
• Are They Listening? Parental Social Coaching and Parenting Emotional Climate Predict Adolescent Receptivity.
  Kim D. Gregson, Stephen A. Erath, Gregory S. Pettit, Kelly M. Tu.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 07, 2015
  Associations linking parenting emotional climate and quality of parental social coaching with young adolescents' receptivity to parental social coaching were examined (N = 80). Parenting emotional climate was assessed with adolescent‐reported parental warmth and hostility. Quality of parental social coaching (i.e., prosocial advice, benign framing) was assessed via parent‐report and behavioral observations during a parent–adolescent discussion about negative peer evaluation. An adolescent receptivity latent variable score was derived from observations of adolescents’ behavior during the discussion, change in adolescents’ peer response plan following the discussion, and adolescent‐reported tendency to seek social advice from the parent. Parenting climate moderated associations between coaching and receptivity: Higher quality coaching was associated with greater receptivity in the context of a more positive climate. Analyses suggested a stronger association between coaching and receptivity among younger compared to older adolescents.

  September 07, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12222   open full text
• Peers Increase Late Adolescents' Exploratory Behavior and Sensitivity to Positive and Negative Feedback.
  Karol Silva, Elizabeth P. Shulman, Jason Chein, Laurence Steinberg.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2015
  Adolescents take more risks with peers than when alone. It is not clear how peer presence affects adolescents' risky decision making, however. We used the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT)—a game used to assess decision making involving risk and reward—to examine how peers affect late adolescents' exploration of relevant environmental cues, ability to learn from the outcomes (positive and negative) of that exploration, and ability to integrate feedback to adjust behavior toward optimal long‐term outcomes. One hundred and one 18‐ to 22‐year old males (M = 19.8 years) were randomly assigned to play the IGT either alone or observed by peers. Late adolescents tested with observers engaged in more exploratory behavior, learned faster from both positive and negative outcomes, and evinced better task performance than those tested alone.

  August 19, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12219   open full text
• Adolescents’ Socio‐Motivational Relationships With Teachers, Amygdala Response to Teacher's Negative Facial Expressions, and Test Anxiety.
  Diana Raufelder, Frances Hoferichter, Lydia Romund, Sabrina Golde, Robert C. Lorenz, Anne Beck.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 10, 2015
  The amygdala is essential for processing emotions, including the processing of aversive faces. The aim of this multimethodological study was to relate the amygdala reactivity of students (N = 88) toward teachers’ fearful and angry faces, to students’ relationship with their teachers. Furthermore, students’ neural responses during the perception of teachers’ faces were tested as predictors of test anxiety (controlling for neuroticism as a potential trait anxiety effect). Multiple regression analysis revealed that students reporting high‐quality teacher–student relationships showed stronger amygdala activity toward fearful faces, which was related to worry. Furthermore, students with high levels of neuroticism tended to perceive their teachers as motivators and showed higher amygdala activity toward angry faces, which was related to the measures of emotionality.

  August 10, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12220   open full text
• Cross‐Cultural Measurement Invariance of Adolescent Self‐Report on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0.
  Dejan Stevanovic, Olayinka Atilola, Panos Vostanis, Yatan Pal Singh Balhara, Mohamad Avicenna, Hasan Kandemir, Rajna Knez, Tomislav Franic, Petar Petrov, João Maroco, Zorica Terzic Supic, Zahra Bagheri.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 04, 2015
  This study evaluated the cross‐cultural measurement invariance of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory version 4.0 (PedsQL™) among adolescents sampled from Bulgaria, Croatia, India, Indonesia, Nigeria, Serbia, and Turkey. The multiple‐indicator multiple‐cause (MIMIC) model was used, which allowed controlling of demographic variables (i.e., age, gender, and socioeconomic status). Significant effects of country on scores within the PedsQL™ domains were observed, with up to 17 items showing differential item functioning (DIF) across the countries. We did not find support for cross‐cultural measurement invariance hypotheses for scores on the PedsQL™ adolescent self‐report in this study. Researchers should use caution in making cross‐cultural quality of life comparisons while using the PedsQL.

  August 04, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12218   open full text
• Mexican American Adolescents' Emotional Support to the Family in Response to Parental Stress.
  Kim M. Tsai, Nancy A. Gonzales, Andrew J. Fuligni.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 31, 2015
  In this two‐wave longitudinal, daily diary study that followed up with 421 Mexican American parent–adolescent dyads (adolescents: Mage = 15 years, 50% males) after 1 year, we investigated the contingency between parental stressors and adolescents' emotional support to family members. Adolescents provided support to their parents and other family members at similar rates, but adolescents were more likely to provide support to other family members than to their parents on days when parents experienced a family stressor. This pattern was especially pronounced in families with parents who reported physical symptoms and adolescents with a strong sense of family obligation. Adolescents' provision of emotional support was associated with same‐day feelings of role fulfillment, but not to their concurrent or long‐term psychological distress.

  July 31, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12216   open full text
• Forced Sexual Experiences and Sexual Situation Self‐Efficacy Among South African Youth.
  Jacqueline A. Miller, Edward A. Smith, Donna Coffman, Catherine Mathews, Lisa Wegner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 27, 2015
  Nearly 20% of South African youth experience forced or coerced sexual intercourse. Understanding the factors associated with forced sex is important for informing prevention programs aimed at reducing sexual violence and HIV and AIDS. Multilevel regression models test the association between sexual situation self‐efficacy and forced sex among 2,893 South African adolescents. Findings suggest that youth are more likely to experience forced sex after periods of time when their levels of self‐efficacy are lower than their average levels of self‐efficacy. Furthermore, youth who are lower on their self‐efficacy compared to their peers are more likely to experience forced sex. Implications for prevention research are discussed.

  July 27, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12217   open full text
• Internalizing Symptoms, Peer Substance Use, and Substance Use Initiation.
  Sonja E. Siennick, Alex O. Widdowson, Mathew Woessner, Mark E. Feinberg.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 25, 2015
  This study used longitudinal survey and social network data covering sixth through ninth grades to test whether internalizing symptoms make early adolescents more prone to (1) exposure to and (2) influence by substance‐using peers. Random effects regressions revealed that increases in symptoms were significantly associated with increases in the proportion of friends who used cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana; some associations weakened across grades. Event history models revealed that the effect of friends' smoking on smoking initiation decreased as internalizing symptoms increased; symptoms did not moderate the effects of friends' alcohol and marijuana use on alcohol and marijuana use initiation. These findings counter the influence hypothesis of the co‐occurrence of internalizing symptoms with substance use and partly support the exposure hypothesis.

  July 25, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12215   open full text
• Testing the Parent–Adolescent Acculturation Discrepancy Hypothesis: A Five‐Wave Longitudinal Study.
  Seth J. Schwartz, Jennifer B. Unger, Lourdes Baezconde‐Garbanati, Byron L. Zamboanga, David Córdova, Elma I. Lorenzo‐Blanco, Shi Huang, Sabrina E. Des Rosiers, Daniel W. Soto, Karina M. Lizzi, Juan A. Villamar, Monica Pattarroyo, José Szapocznik.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 14, 2015
  This 2½‐year, 5‐wave longitudinal study tests the hypothesis that acculturation discrepancies between Hispanic immigrant parents and adolescents would lead to compromised family functioning, which would then lead to problematic adolescent outcomes. Recent‐immigrant Hispanic parent–adolescent dyads (N = 302) completed measures of acculturation and family functioning. Adolescents completed measures of positive youth development, depressive symptoms, problem behavior, and substance use. Results indicated that Time 1 discrepancies in Hispanic culture retention, and linear trajectories in some of these discrepancies, negatively predicted adolescent positive youth development, and positively predicted adolescent depressive symptoms and binge drinking, indirectly through adolescent‐reported family functioning. The vast majority of effects were mediated rather than direct, supporting the acculturation discrepancy hypothesis. Implications for further research and intervention are discussed.

  July 14, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12214   open full text
• Harsh Parenting, Deviant Peers, Adolescent Risky Behavior: Understanding the Meditational Effect of Attitudes and Intentions.
  Tricia K. Neppl, Jui Dhalewadikar, Brenda J. Lohman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 14, 2015
  Although research supports the influence of parents and peers on adolescent risky behavior, less is known about mechanisms proposed to explain this relation. This study examined the influence of adolescent attitudes and intentions about such behaviors. Prospective, longitudinal data came from rural youth who participated throughout adolescence (n = 451). Observed harsh parenting and relationship with deviant peers was assessed in early adolescence, attitudes and intentions were measured during middle adolescence, and risky behavior was assessed in late adolescence. Results indicated that parenting and deviant peers was related to engagement in tobacco use, alcohol use, and risky sexual behaviors. Moreover, attitudes and intentions mediated this relationship even after parent use and adolescent early involvement in these behaviors were taken into account.

  July 14, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12212   open full text
• Effect of Environmental Risk and Externalizing Comorbidity on Internalizing Problems Among Economically Disadvantaged African American Youth.
  Jingwen Liu, John M. Bolland, Danielle Dick, Brian Mustanski, Darlene A. Kertes.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 08, 2015
  This study examined the effects of racial discrimination, community violence, and stressful life events on internalizing problems among African American youth from high‐poverty neighborhoods (N = 607; 293 boys; Mage = 16.0 years, SD = 1.44 years). Mediated effects via externalizing problems on these relations were also examined, given the high comorbidity rate between internalizing and externalizing problems. Externalizing problems partially mediated the effect of stressful life events on internalizing problems and fully mediated the effect of racial discrimination for boys but not for girls. Exposure to violence had a significant indirect effect on internalizing problems via externalizing problems. The findings call for greater attention to internalizing problems among African American youth and pathways to internalizing problems via externalizing problems.

  July 08, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12213   open full text
• Triangulation and Parent–Adolescent Relationships: Implications for Adolescent Dating Competence and Abuse.
  Gregory M. Fosco, Mengya Xia, Mark G. Lynn, John H. Grych.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 04, 2015
  This study focuses on family predictors of conflict behavior in adolescent dating relationships, drawing on family systems and socialization perspectives. Mother–adolescent, father–adolescent, and triadic relationships each was examined as predictors of adolescent dating outcomes that hold importance for developmental and prevention science (positive conflict resolution, verbal abuse, and physical abuse). We conducted a longitudinal analysis using a 6‐month longitudinal design with 236 ethnically diverse high school students. Findings indicate that triangulation into parental conflicts was related to increases in positive conflict resolution and with increases in verbally abusive behavior with dating partners over time. Parent–adolescent closeness and conflict each was related to positive conflict resolution and verbal abuse, but these associations were only found for boys.

  June 04, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12210   open full text
• Measurement of Dating Aggression During Middle School: Structure, Measurement Invariance, and Distinction From General Aggression.
  Elizabeth A. Goncy, Albert D. Farrell, Terri N. Sullivan, Katherine A. Taylor.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 21, 2015
  Two studies examined the factor structure of a modified version of the Safe Dates dating aggression scale and evaluated whether dating aggression is distinct from general aggression during early adolescence. Analyses were conducted on a derivation sample of 3,894 adolescents from 37 schools (Study 1) and an independent cross‐validation sample of 938 middle school youth (Study 2). Categorical confirmatory factor analyses supported a two‐factor model (perpetration and victimization) over models differentiating psychological and physical forms of aggression. The model was invariant across time, sex, grade, and season. Study 2 also supported dating aggression as distinct from general aggression. Results supported measuring dating aggression perpetration and victimization as latent constructs represented by ordered categorical indicators that capture item severity and frequency.

  May 21, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12208   open full text
• The Socioeconomic Pathways Leading to Romantic Relationship Outcomes: A Genetically Informed Early Life Course Investigation.
  Kandauda (K.A.S.) Wickrama, Catherine W. O'Neal.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 12, 2015
  The present study tests a multilevel comprehensive model incorporating both life course processes and genetic influences leading to young adults' romantic relationship quality using data from 1,560 adolescents over 13 years in the nationally representative Add Health sample. Results provided evidence of a socioeconomic mediating pathway linking early family and community contexts to young adults' romantic relationship quality, and novel evidence for both direct and interactive genetic associations that relate to these mediating pathways. A cumulative genetic index showed (a) direct associations with young adults' socioeconomic attainment and (b) interactions with community adversity and mothers' marital stability on young adults' achieved socioeconomic context and relationship quality.

  May 12, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12207   open full text
• Configurations of Adolescents' Peer Experiences: Associations With Parent–Child Relationship Quality and Parental Problem Behavior.
  Tina Kretschmer, Miranda Sentse, Wim Meeus, Frank C. Verhulst, René Veenstra, Albertine J. Oldehinkel.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 08, 2015
  Adolescents' peer experiences embrace behavior, relationship quality, status, and victimization, but studies that account for multiple dimensions are rare. Using latent profile modeling and measures of peer behavior, relationship quality, peer status, and victimization assessed from 1,677 adolescents, four profiles were identified: High Quality, Low Quality, Low Quality Victimized, and Deviant Peers. Multinomial logistic regressions showed that negative parent–child relationships in preadolescence reduced the likelihood of High Quality peer relations in mid‐adolescence but only partly differentiated between the other three profiles. Moderation by gender was partly found with girls showing greater sensitivity to parent–child relationship quality with respect to peer experiences. Results underline the multifaceted nature of peer experiences, and practical and theoretical implications are discussed.

  May 08, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12206   open full text
• Daily Dynamics of Adolescent Mood and Identity.
  Theo A. Klimstra, Peter Kuppens, Koen Luyckx, Susan Branje, William W. Hale, Annerieke Oosterwegel, Hans M. Koot, Wim H. J. Meeus.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 26, 2015
  Important linkages between daily mood and identity formation have been theorized, but have not been empirically tested as of yet. This study provided a first examination of these linkages within individuals (N = 392; 55.1% boys; Mage at T1 = 13.24, SD = 0.44) across 15 series of 5 days distributed over 5 years. Results revealed negative within‐time associations of educational and relational commitment with negative mood. Negative mood was positively associated with educational in‐depth exploration and educational and interpersonal reconsideration. Additionally, there were some cross‐lagged effects suggesting that identity and mood mutually affect one another across days. These results contribute to the growing knowledge on how identity unfolds in everyday life by revealing important associations with daily mood.

  March 26, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12205   open full text
• “Snooping” as a Distinct Parental Monitoring Strategy: Comparisons With Overt Solicitation and Control.
  Skyler T. Hawk, Andrik Becht, Susan Branje.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 26, 2015
  Parents can use solicitation (asking questions) and control (disclosure rules) to obtain information about adolescents, but only if youths comply. Snooping might uncover additional information, but also strongly violates privacy expectations. Three studies of parents and adolescents examined distinctions between snooping, solicitation, and control. Differences existed in terms of factor structure and frequency (Studies 1–2), links to perceived invasion (Study 1), correlations with problematic communication, behavior, and relationships (Study 2), and parent–adolescent (dis)agreement about acceptability (Study 3). Snooping is a relatively infrequent monitoring behavior, compared to solicitation and control, but appears to be a stronger indicator of problems in adolescent and family functioning. We discuss implications regarding the necessity and appropriateness of particular parental monitoring behaviors.

  March 26, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12204   open full text
• Associations of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behavior With Adolescent Academic Achievement.
  Marko T. Kantomaa, Emmanuel Stamatakis, Anna Kankaanpää, Eero Kajantie, Anja Taanila, Tuija Tammelin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 23, 2015
  The Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1986 (N = 8,061) was used to investigated the joint associations of physical activity and sedentary behavior with academic achievement. Logistic regression analysis was used to evaluate how classes formed by latent class analysis (LCA) according to overall physical activity, sports club membership, viewing TV, using a computer, reading books and magazines, other sedentary activities, and sleep were associated with grade‐point average. When adjusted for gender, self‐rated health, and mother's education, physically active adolescents and generally active adolescents were about twice as likely to have high grade‐point average compared with sedentary TV viewers.

  March 23, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12203   open full text
• Beyond Collective Supervision: Informal Social Control, Prosocial Investment, and Juvenile Offending in Urban Neighborhoods.
  Tamara G. J. Leech.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 23, 2015
  This article examines prosocial investment and supervision of youth as separate indicators of informal social control. Data from 599 survey respondents in 90 Indianapolis, IN, block groups indicate that, at the neighborhood level, the relationship between these two variables and delinquency during early and middle adolescence varies by severity of offense. Specifically, negative binomial models reveal an inverse relationship between supervision and both status offenses and misdemeanors, but the relationship with misdemeanors is stronger in areas with higher levels of prosocial investment. In contrast, prosocial investment has an inverse association with felony charges. Overall, these results call for future quantitative scholarship that contextualizes neighborhood‐level supervision and that is attentive to neighborhood support and empowerment assets in models of urban adolescent delinquency.

  March 23, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12202   open full text
• Depressive Symptoms and Their Association With Adverse Environmental Factors and Substance Use in Runaway and Homeless Youths.
  Caroline Lim, Eric Rice, Harmony Rhoades.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 13, 2015
  We used diathesis‐stress and stress‐sensitization models to determine whether family maltreatment, street‐related traumatic events, stressful life events, and substance use were associated with depressive symptoms in runaway and homeless youths (RHY) in Los Angeles. Greater severity of depressive symptoms was significantly related to family maltreatment, being exposed to more traumatic stressors during homelessness, and current substance use compared to no substance use. Family maltreatment was also found to moderate the relationship between traumatic stressors and depressive symptoms. Importantly, cumulative exposure to the investigated risk factors at varying levels was associated with more severe depressive symptoms. Using a trauma‐informed approach to screen for RHY at risk of depression may pave the way for secondary prevention of major depression in RHY.

  March 13, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12200   open full text
• Adolescent Personality as Risk and Resiliency in the Testosterone–Externalizing Association.
  Kathleen W. Reardon, Kathrin Herzhoff, Jennifer L. Tackett.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 06, 2015
  Previous investigations of testosterone and externalizing behavior have provided mixed findings. We tested the hypothesis that self‐regulatory personality moderates the testosterone–externalizing behavior association in adolescence. Parents reported on their 13‐ to 18‐year‐old (N = 106, Mage = 16.01, SD = 1.29) children's personalities and psychopathology. Testosterone was measured via drool samples. As hypothesized, personality moderated the testosterone–externalizing behavior association. High testosterone predicted higher levels of externalizing behaviors, but only for adolescents low in Agreeableness and Conscientiousness. Also, personality acted as a resiliency factor: high levels of Conscientiousness, in the presence of high testosterone, predicted lower levels of rule breaking. Results highlight how endogenous factors, such as personality, may interact with testosterone, and emphasize the relevance of including personality moderators in future research.

  March 06, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12198   open full text
• When Parents and Adolescents Disagree About Disagreeing: Observed Parent–Adolescent Communication Predicts Informant Discrepancies About Conflict.
  Katherine B. Ehrlich, Jessica M. Richards, C. W. Lejuez, Jude Cassidy.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 18, 2015
  Adolescence is accompanied by increased stress in the parent–adolescent relationship, which frequently results in conflict. Researchers often rely on self‐reports to measure conflict, but these reports are frequently discrepant from one another. In two studies, we examined the extent to which communication observed during parent–adolescent discussions of conflict were associated with discrepancies in reports about conflict. We also examined links between informant depressive symptoms and discrepancies. Across studies, observed parent–adolescent conflict behaviors consistently predicted absolute discrepancies in reports of conflict. Informant depressive symptoms sometimes predicted directional discrepancies in reports. Results suggest that informant discrepancies about conflict may stem, in part, from a lack of open communication in the relationship.

  February 18, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12197   open full text
• Sources and Implications of Maternal Accuracy About Young Adolescents’ Vulnerability to Friendship Jealousy.
  Jeffrey G. Parker, Blake L. Nielsen, Kristina L. McDonald.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 18, 2015
  To assist effectively with social difficulties, parents must accurately understand the peer situations that are difficult for their child. Mothers’ insight into their young adolescent's vulnerability to friendship jealousy was assessed by posing identical vignettes to 72 young adolescents and their mothers and matching their responses. Mothers and children also completed questionnaires on their relationship and the child's adjustment. Mothers as a group were poor judges of their child's jealousy, but considerable variability existed. Accuracy was greater when mother–child pairs were closer. Polynomial regression and response surface analyses indicated that maternal accuracy could dampen the friendship and aggression risks otherwise associated with being vulnerable to jealousy.

  February 18, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12196   open full text
• Effects of Classroom Composition on the Development of Antisocial Behavior in Lower Secondary School.
  Christoph Michael Müller, Verena Hofmann, Janine Fleischli, Felix Studer.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 18, 2015
  Early adolescence is a critical period during which classroom composition may affect behavioral development. This study investigated whether classmates’ levels of aggression and delinquency influenced individual antisocial behavior during the first year of secondary school. At this point, students had just transitioned to a new classroom peer environment. A short‐term longitudinal design with four measurement points distributed across the school year was applied. Data were collected from the anonymous self‐reports of 825 seventh graders. Longitudinal negative binomial multilevel analyses revealed that classmates’ antisocial behavior influenced pupils’ behavioral development (other peer influences were controlled). Furthermore, classroom behavioral heterogeneity moderated the peer effect regarding delinquency but not aggression.

  February 18, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12195   open full text
• Beliefs About Parents' Right to Know: Domain Differences and Associations With Change in Concealment.
  Wendy M. Rote, Judith G. Smetana.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 02, 2015
  Parent and adolescent (M = 15.7 years) beliefs regarding parents' right to know (RTK) about adolescents' activities were examined in 174 middle‐class U.S. families. Mean differences and associations with latent changes in teens' concealment were assessed. RTK was greatest about risky prudential activities, least for personal activities for parents and romantic activities for teens, and higher for mothers' ratings of girls' than boys' romantic behavior. Adolescents' stronger RTK beliefs predicted lower concealment 6 months later and less increase in concealment over time, although less so for romantic issues. In contrast, mothers' stronger RTK beliefs predicted more concealment over time. For personal issues, greater teen RTK beliefs slowed increases in concealment only when parents' RTK beliefs were low.

  February 02, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12194   open full text
• Marital Conflict and Emotional Insecurity Among Chinese Adolescents: Cultural Value Moderation.
  Yan Li, Rebecca Y. M. Cheung, E. Mark Cummings.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 02, 2015
  Emotional security theory has received substantial empirical support in the literature. However, the applicability of this theory in diverse cultures is still unclear. This study examined emotional insecurity among Chinese adolescents (N = 315) and how social harmony values moderated the association between parental conflict tactics (233 mothers; 224 fathers) and adolescents' emotional insecurity. Results showed that emotional insecurity could be reliably measured among Chinese adolescents. Furthermore, a significant moderation showed that paternal conflict tactics were associated with adolescents' emotional insecurity only when they endorsed higher social harmony. In the maternal model, an overall association between maternal conflict tactics and adolescents' emotional insecurity was observed. The current findings enrich the literature on emotional security in diverse ecological contexts.

  February 02, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12193   open full text
• Friends First? The Peer Network Origins of Adolescent Dating.
  Derek A. Kreager, Lauren E. Molloy, James Moody, Mark E. Feinberg.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 09, 2015
  The proximity of dating partners in peer friendship networks has important implications for the diffusion of health‐risk behaviors and adolescent social development. We derive two competing hypotheses for the friendship–romance association. The first predicts that daters are proximally positioned in friendship networks prior to dating and that opposite‐gender friends are likely to transition to dating. The second predicts that dating typically crosses group boundaries and opposite‐gender friends are unlikely to later date. We test these hypotheses with longitudinal friendship data for 626 ninth‐grade PROSPER heterosexual dating couples. Results primarily support the second hypothesis: Romantic partners are unlikely to be friends in the previous year or share the same cohesive subgroup, and opposite‐gender friends are unlikely to transition to dating.

  January 09, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12189   open full text
• Gender, Generational Status, and Parent–Adolescent Sexual Communication: Implications for Latino/a Adolescent Sexual Behavior.
  Arielle R. Deutsch, Lisa J. Crockett.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 09, 2015
  There is little research on how specific parent–adolescent sexual communication topics influence Latino/a youth's sexual behaviors, and how gender and generational status may moderate effects. This study examined effects of three different messages on intercourse and condom use among 1,944 Latino/as from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (T1 mean age = 15.46; SD = 1.50). Results indicated discussing health consequences predicted higher odds of intercourse 1 year later across gender and generation groups. Birth control recommendation effects on subsequent intercourse and condom use differed by generational status and gender. Results indicated that message content is important for understanding effects of parent–adolescent sex communication on adolescents' behavior and underscored the need to consider gender and generational status in Latino/a parent–adolescent sexual communication studies.

  January 09, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12192   open full text
• Deflected Pathways: Becoming Aggressive, Socially Withdrawn, or Prosocial With Peers During the Transition to Adolescence.
  Kathryn C. Monahan, Cathryn Booth‐LaForce.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 08, 2015
  Although research has suggested strong continuity in children's adaptive or maladaptive behavior with peers across the transition to adolescence, less is known about deflected developmental pathways of peer social competence across this transition. This study investigates how mother–child and best friend relationship quality predict the deflection of youth from adaptive to maladaptive behavior with peers or the reverse. Using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,055), high‐quality friendships were associated with changes in peer social competence from 3rd to 6th grade. More positive and fewer negative interactions with a friend were linked with becoming more prosocial with peers, whereas less positive interactions with a friend were linked to becoming aggressive or withdrawn.

  January 08, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12190   open full text
• Changes in Parent, Sibling, and Peer Support During the Transition to Young Adulthood.
  Shu‐Sha Angie Guan, Andrew J. Fuligni.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 08, 2015
  Longitudinal trajectories of parent, sibling, and peer support during the transition to young adulthood were compared among 600 participants (51.1% female) from Asian, European, and Latin American backgrounds. Participants completed questionnaires at 12th grade, 2 and 4 years after high school. Results indicated that parent support increased across this period for participants from European backgrounds but remained stable for participants from Asian and Latin American backgrounds. Peer and sibling support remained relatively stable. Supports had specific implications for self‐esteem and depressive mood. On average, young adults with higher levels of support reported greater expectations to reciprocate support within the family. Together, these findings highlight the changing dynamics of family and friends during the transition to young adulthood.

  January 08, 2015   doi: 10.1111/jora.12191   open full text
• Experiences With Parents and Youth Physical Health Symptoms and Cortisol: A Daily Diary Investigation.
  Melissa A. Lippold, Susan M. McHale, Kelly D. Davis, David M. Almeida, Rosalind B. King.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 12, 2014
  Using daily diary data, this study examined the associations between positive and negative parent–youth experiences and youth cortisol and physical health symptoms among a sample of adolescents (N = 132, mean age = 13.39). On days when girls reported more negative experiences than usual, they exhibited more physical health symptoms and flatter evening cortisol slopes than usual. Negative experiences with mothers were associated with higher dinner and bedtime youth cortisol levels (between‐person). Daily positive experiences with fathers were linked with lower dinner cortisol levels. Youth with high levels of negative experiences, on average, were less sensitive to daily variation in negative experiences than youth who experienced lower parental negativity. We discuss the benefits of a daily diary approach.

  December 12, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12186   open full text
• School Belonging, Generational Status, and Socioeconomic Effects on Mexican‐Origin Children's Later Academic Competence and Expectations.
  Maciel M. Hernández, Richard W. Robins, Keith F. Widaman, Rand D. Conger.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 08, 2014
  This study examined factors that relate to academic competence and expectations from elementary to middle school for 674 fifth‐grade students (50% boys; Mage = 10.86 years) of Mexican origin. Models predicting academic competence and expectations were estimated using a structural equation modeling (SEM) framework, with longitudinal data from fifth to eighth grades. School belonging (i.e., social and emotional connectedness to school) predicted greater academic competence and expectations over time. Findings indicate that student feelings of belonging in school may act as a resource that promotes academic competence and expectations. Furthermore, family income, parent education, and generational status had direct effects on academic competence and expectations to some degree, suggesting the importance of contextual factors in this process.

  December 08, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12188   open full text
• The Longitudinal Influence of Self‐Efficacy, Communication, and Parenting on Spontaneous Adolescent Disclosure.
  Josephine Kearney, Kay Bussey.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 30, 2014
  This study involving 463 adolescents examined the impact of parent, teen, and parent–teen interaction processes on spontaneous disclosure to mothers. High openness in communication and stronger disclosure self‐efficacy beliefs were associated with more disclosure at follow‐up. Although a positive relationship was also found for maternal warmth/responsiveness when it was considered together with other parenting attributes, its unique contribution to the disclosure process was attenuated once openness and self‐efficacy beliefs were taken into account. Domain‐specific predictors of disclosure were also explored. Open communication was important for disclosure across all domains, while self‐efficacy beliefs were critical for revealing difficult information. These findings underscore the importance of fostering an open environment in families that nurtures adolescents' confidence to engage in disclosure with parents.

  May 30, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12148   open full text
• Longitudinal Effects of Best‐Friend Communication Against Substance Use for Latino and Non‐Latino White Early Adolescents.
  Jennifer A. Kam, Ningxin Wang.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 22, 2014
  Prior research examining peer influences on adolescent alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use has primarily focused on the positive associations that peer substance use and offers have with adolescent use. Consequently, such research has often emphasized the negative influences of peers. This study, however, operationalizes peer influence through best‐friend communication against substance use and examines whether it indirectly protects against substance use by promoting anti–substance use norms. Structural equation modeling was utilized with longitudinal survey data from 277 Latino and 350 non‐Latino white 6th–8th‐grade‐students. For Latino and non‐Latino white students, best‐friend communication was indirectly related to alcohol and cigarette use through norms. Best‐friend communication also was indirectly related to marijuana use, but only for non‐Latino white students and for male students.

  May 22, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12147   open full text
• Self‐Perceived Competence in Mainland China: A Multiwave Longitudinal Examination of Internalizing Symptoms in Chinese Adolescents.
  Joseph R. Cohen, Dana M. Sheshko, Alyssa M. Ames, Jami F. Young, Amy P. Hansford, Xiongzhao Zhu, Shuqiao Yao, John R. Z. Abela.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 22, 2014
  The present 9‐wave, 2‐year study examined whether Cole's (1991) theory of self‐perceived competence could help explain vulnerability to depressive and anxiety symptoms in a sample of adolescents from mainland China. Participants included 624 adolescents (319 females and 305 males) from an urban school in Changsha (n = 308) and from a rural school in Liuyang (n = 316). Findings showed that self‐perceived academic competence was negatively associated with prospective depressive and anxiety symptoms. Meanwhile, adolescents with low levels of self‐perceived social competence were at heightened risk for depressive symptoms during times of increased stressors (supporting a vulnerability‐stress model). These findings advance past research by highlighting new developmental pathways for depressive and anxiety symptoms in Chinese adolescents.

  May 22, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12146   open full text
• Longitudinal Relations of Parental Influences and Adolescent Career Aspirations and Actions in a Collectivist Society.
  Dian R. Sawitri, Peter A. Creed, Melanie J. Zimmer‐Gembeck.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 22, 2014
  Using social cognitive career theory as a framework, we examined the longitudinal effects of proximal parental contextual influences on career aspirations and actions in a collectivist context. We used a sample of 954 Indonesian high school students and measured parental career expectations, adolescent‐parent career congruence, self‐efficacy, outcome expectations, career aspirations, planning and exploration, twice, 6 months apart. The best‐fitting model was reciprocal, with the results showing that parental career expectations predicted subsequent career aspirations and planning, and aspirations and congruence with parents regarding career matters predicted future exploration. Self‐efficacy and outcome expectations were reciprocally related over time. Self‐efficacy served as an across‐time predictor of both parental contextual variables. Career exploration predicted future self‐efficacy and planning predicted later outcome expectations.

  May 22, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12145   open full text
• Adolescent Attachment Trajectories With Mothers and Fathers: The Importance of Parent–Child Relationship Experiences and Gender.
  Holly Ruhl, Elaine A. Dolan, Duane Buhrmester.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 28, 2014
  This longitudinal study investigated how attachment with mothers and fathers changes during adolescence, and how gender and parent–child relationship experiences are associated with attachment trajectories. The relative importance of specific positive and negative relationship experiences on attachment trajectories was also examined. An initial sample of 223 adolescents reported on relationship experiences and attachment avoidance and anxiety with mothers and fathers in Grades 6, 8, 10, and 12 (final N = 110; Mage = 11.90 years at onset, SD = .43). Mothers and fathers reported on relationship experiences with adolescents. Hierarchical linear modeling showed that security with parents increased during adolescence. Positive relationship experiences (companionship, satisfaction, approval, support) predicted increases in security, and negative experiences (pressure, criticism) predicted decreases in security. Females reported less avoidance than males.

  April 28, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12144   open full text
• Acceptability of Information Management Strategies: Adolescents' and Parents' Judgments and Links With Adjustment and Relationships.
  Wendy M. Rote, Judith G. Smetana.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 28, 2014
  Parents' and adolescents' (Mage = 15.7) acceptability ratings of four information management strategies and associations between these ratings and adjustment, relationship quality, and strategy use were examined in 174 middle‐class families over 1 year. Acceptance of information management was greater for adolescents than for parents and for personal than for prudential issues; acceptance decreased across telling only if asked, avoidance, omitting details, and lying. Strategy acceptance and use were associated for lying and avoiding the topic. Controlling for strategy use, teens' acceptance of lying, omitting details, and avoidance was associated with poorer parent–adolescent relationships and more problem behavior 1 year later; acceptance of lying was associated with increases in depressed mood. Associations in the opposite direction were rare.

  April 28, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12143   open full text
• Early Adolescents' Development of Academic Self‐Concept and Intrinsic Task Value: The Role of Contextual Feedback.
  Burkhard Gniewosz, Jacquelynne S. Eccles, Peter Noack.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 28, 2014
  In this study, we investigate the extent to which achievement‐related feedback in two academic domains (mathematics and language) originating from two contexts (school and family) predicts early adolescents' domain‐specific academic self‐concept and intrinsic task values in Germany (N = 1,190, age range 10–13) and the United States (N = 1,953, age range 10–14). We examined the mediating role of both parents' competence perceptions and the early adolescents' academic self‐concepts linking grades and intrinsic value. Within‐ and cross‐domain effects were tested at each stage of the mediation. As predicted, in both countries the associations of grades with the academic self‐concepts are mediated by the parents' competence perceptions. The association of academic feedback with intrinsic task value is mediated through the students' academic self‐concepts.

  April 28, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12140   open full text
• Latino Students' Transition to Middle School: Role of Bilingual Education and School Ethnic Context.
  Jan N. Hughes, MyungHee Im, Oi‐man Kwok, Heining Cham, Steven G. West.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 22, 2014
  Participants were 204 academically at‐risk Latino students recruited into a study when in first grade and followed for 9 years. Using piecewise latent growth curve analyses, we investigated trajectories of teacher‐rated behavioral engagement and student‐reported school belonging during elementary school and middle school and the association between trajectories and enrollment in bilingual education classes in elementary school and a change in school ethnic congruence across the transition to middle school. Overall, students experienced a drop in school belonging and behavioral engagement across the transition. A moderating effect of ethnic congruence on bilingual enrollment was found. A decline in ethnic congruence was associated with more positive trajectories for students previously enrolled in bilingual classes but more negative trajectories for nonbilingual students.

  April 22, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12142   open full text
• Development and Lability in the Parent–Child Relationship During Adolescence: Associations With Pubertal Timing and Tempo.
  Kristine Marceau, Nilam Ram, Elizabeth J. Susman.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 22, 2014
  Adolescents' and parents' reactions to pubertal development are hypothesized to contribute to changes in family dynamics. Using 7‐year longitudinal data from the NICHD‐SECCYD (488 boys, 475 girls), we examined relations between pubertal development (timing, tempo) and trajectories (developmental change and year‐to‐year lability) of parent–child conflict and closeness from age 8.5 to 15.5 years. Changes were mostly characterized by year‐to‐year fluctuations—lability. Parent–child conflict increased and closeness decreased some with age. Pubertal timing and tempo were more consistently associated with lability in parent–child relationships than with long‐term trends, although faster tempo was associated with steeper decreases in parent–child closeness. Findings provide a platform for examining how puberty contributes to both long‐term and transient changes in adolescents' relationships and adjustment.

  April 22, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12139   open full text
• School Order, Justice, and Education: Climate, Discipline Practices, and Dropping Out.
  Anthony A. Peguero, Nicole L. Bracy.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 07, 2014
  There is a growing body of research that explores how school climate, order, and procedural justice are related to violence within American public schools. What remains in the background, however, is how school climate, order, and justice are related to aspects of education such as dropping out. This study uses multilevel analysis, drawing from the Educational Longitudinal Study of 2002, to examine the effect of school climate, order, and justice on dropping out. Results indicate that, when considering the various dimensions of school climate, order, and justice, a student receiving a formal school sanction remains the strongest factor related to the likelihood of a student dropping out of school. These results underscore the importance of careful design and implementation of school discipline and safety policies.

  April 07, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12138   open full text
• Community Service and Adolescents' Social Capital.
  Constance A. Flanagan, Taehan Kim, Jessica Collura, Michael A. Kopish.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 07, 2014
  In two studies of 5th–12th graders (n = 2,371; n = 999), we compare four groups based on engagement patterns in community service (CS) and/or extracurricular activities (EC). In both studies, adolescents who engaged in BOTH CS (whether mandated or voluntary) and EC had the highest reports of bonding and bridging social capital, intergenerational harmony, and social support whereas those who did NEITHER had the lowest. For most outcomes, adolescents engaged only in CS had higher reports than peers engaged only in EC. Content analyses of what adolescents learned in CS suggest its potential for broadening their awareness of fellow members of their communities, their mutual obligations, and collective capacities.

  April 07, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12137   open full text
• The Interplay Between Gender and Structure: Dynamics of Adolescent Friendships in Single‐Gender Classes and Mixed‐Gender Classes.
  Pei‐Chun Ko, Vincent Buskens, Chyi‐In Wu.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 03, 2014
  This study reviews theories on striving for closure in adolescent networks related to trust issues of adolescents and further examines whether adolescents in mixed‐gender and single‐gender classes are different in striving for closure. Stochastic actor‐based models for network dynamics are applied to test our hypotheses based on longitudinal friendship nominations of 406 Taiwanese adolescents in mixed‐gender, all‐boy, and all‐girl classes. The results show that adolescents strive for closure through connections of friends' friends. Further, the results reveal that while the tendency toward closure is stronger for girls in mixed‐gender classes, such tendency toward closure is stronger in all‐boy classes than in all‐girl classes. Testing effects between types of classes supports the indications of variances in striving closure.

  April 03, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12136   open full text
• Daily Associations Between Drinking and Sex Among College Students: A Longitudinal Measurement Burst Design.
  Megan E. Patrick, Jennifer L. Maggs, Eva S. Lefkowitz.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 03, 2014
  Daily links between alcohol use and sexual behaviors were examined in a longitudinal study of college students. Hierarchical linear models predicted sexual behaviors by characteristics of persons (N = 731, Level 3), semesters (N = 4,345, Level 2), and days (N = 56,372, Level 1). On a given day, consuming more drinks and binge drinking were associated with greater odds of kissing, touching, oral sex, and penetrative sex. Consistent with alcohol myopia and expectancy theories, associations between binge drinking and sexual behaviors were stronger for students not in romantic relationships, for students with stronger alcohol–sex expectancies, and for oral and penetrative sex. Findings suggest that within‐day links between alcohol use and sexual behaviors are evident across college, with variations based on individual and relationship factors.

  April 03, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12135   open full text
• Birth Cohort and Age Changes in the Self‐Esteem of Chinese Adolescents: A Cross‐Temporal Meta‐Analysis, 1996–2009.
  Dong Liu, Ziqiang Xin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. April 03, 2014
  The present cross‐temporal meta‐analysis involving 68 studies (n = 35,499) found that Chinese adolescents' scores on the Rosenberg Self‐Esteem Scale decreased substantially from 1996 to 2009. The decline of self‐esteem across birth cohorts was associated with the slide of social connection level of Chinese adolescents. Correlations between self‐esteem and corresponding social indicators like the floating population and divorce rate were significant. Analysis on self‐esteem age differences showed that self‐esteem development in China was different from Western results: self‐esteem scores followed a roughly increasing trend from Grade 7 through Grade 12 with double dip points at Grades 7 and 11.

  April 03, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12134   open full text
• Pubertal Timing and Tempo: Associations With Childhood Maltreatment.
  Sonya Negriff, A. Nayena Blankson, Penelope K. Trickett.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 31, 2014
  This study examined pubertal timing and tempo in a sample of 445 adolescents (53% male), using both variable‐centered (latent growth curve) and person‐centered (latent class) approaches, to discern the pubertal development trajectories associated with the experience of maltreatment. Results from the variable‐centered analyses indicated a slower initial tempo that increased later for boys who had experienced neglect. The person‐centered results indicated three classes for boys that mainly differentiated tempo effects and two classes for girls primarily distinguishing timing differences. For girls, sexual abuse predicted membership in an earlier pubertal timing class. These findings enhance our knowledge of the variability in pubertal development as well as gender differences in maltreatment types that may alter pubertal timing and tempo.

  March 31, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12128   open full text
• The Language of Learning: The Academic Engagement of Newcomer Immigrant Youth.
  Ha Yeon Kim, Carola Suárez‐Orozco.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 31, 2014
  The current study uses an accelerated longitudinal design to examine the role of three dimensions of academic engagement (behavioral, relational, and cognitive) in explaining the influence of English language proficiency on newcomer immigrant youths' academic performance across adolescence. The sample included 354 youth from Central America, China, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Mexico. As established with other populations, the behavioral, relational, and cognitive dimensions of academic engagement were closely associated to one another and significantly contributed to academic performance. Mediation analyses revealed that immigrant youth with limited English language proficiency were more likely to experience low levels of relational and behavioral engagement, which contributed to lower levels of academic performance over time.

  March 31, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12130   open full text
• Self‐Regulation Across Adolescence: Exploring the Structure of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation.
  G. John Geldhof, Edmond P. Bowers, Steinunn Gestsdóttir, Christopher M. Napolitano, Richard M. Lerner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 31, 2014
  Intentional self‐regulation (ISR) is thought to undergo significant development during the second decade of life, but our understanding of ISR's development during this period remains incomplete. We discuss the development of ISR as operationalized by Freund & Baltes's (2002) measure of selection, optimization, and compensation (SOC). We use data from 5,471 youth that had participated in the 4‐H Study of Positive Youth Development in Grades 5 through 12. Using exploratory factor analyses, our findings suggest that the SOC questionnaire adheres to a stable three‐factor structure across adolescence, with factors representing selection, intentional self‐regulation, and a reverse‐coded method factor. We discuss the implications of our findings for future research.

  March 31, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12131   open full text
• Bidirectional Associations Between Self‐Regulation and Parenting Styles in Early Adolescence.
  Kristin L. Moilanen, Katie E. Rasmussen, Laura M. Padilla‐Walker.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 21, 2014
  The goal of this study was to explore bidirectional associations between teens' self‐regulation and maternal and paternal parenting styles (i.e., authoritative, authoritarian, and permissive‐indulgent) over one year. As part of an ongoing longitudinal study, 489 teens ages 11–16 (51% female, 70% European American, 69% in two‐parent households) and their parents completed questionnaires on two occasions. Analyses revealed high temporal stability of parenting and self‐regulation over time. No cross‐lagged effects emerged in either authoritative parenting model. Bidirectional effects were observed in the maternal authoritarian parenting model only. Child effects on parenting were revealed in both permissive‐indulgent parenting models. The interpretation of these findings and their implications for future research are delineated in the discussion.

  March 21, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12125   open full text
• Risk Detection and Self‐Protection Among Homeless Youth.
  Kimberly Bender, Sanna Thompson, Kristin Ferguson, Jamie Yoder, Anne DePrince.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 21, 2014
  Utilizing qualitative interviews with a large sample of 145 homeless youth seeking services at homeless youth service agencies from across three U.S. cities (Los Angeles, Denver, and Austin), this study sought to explore youths' perspectives on ways in which they detect risk and protect themselves on the streets. Results indicated that youth use a combination of internal cues (affective responses) and external cues (reading people) to detect danger, although many times danger was described as undetectable. Certain contexts, includes those that were unfamiliar, difficult to escape, or involved drugs were described as most dangerous. In response to these dangers, youth employed self‐protection strategies such as carrying weapons, banding together with trusted others, isolating, or seeking programing to leave the streets.

  March 21, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12123   open full text
• Early Motherhood and Long‐Term Economic Outcomes: Findings From a 30‐Year Longitudinal Study.
  Sheree J. Gibb, David M. Fergusson, L. John Horwood, Joseph M. Boden.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 20, 2014
  This study examined linkages between early motherhood (before age 20) and long‐term economic disadvantage, using data from a birth cohort of 509 New Zealand‐born women followed to age 30. Associations between early motherhood and economic outcomes were examined using linear and logistic regression models and were adjusted for a range of prepregnancy factors. The findings suggested that early motherhood was associated with several indicators of economic disadvantage at age 30, including working fewer hours, welfare dependence, lower personal incomes, and exposure to economic hardship. These associations remained statistically significant even after extensive adjustment for confounding factors. These findings suggest that having a child before age 20 leads to long‐term economic disadvantage that persists for at least a decade.

  March 20, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12122   open full text
• Child Aggression as a Source and a Consequence of Parenting Stress: A Three‐Wave Longitudinal Study.
  Barbara Krahé, Rebecca Bondü, Anna Höse, Günter Esser.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 14, 2014
  This longitudinal study examined the links between child aggression and parenting stress over 4 years. Child aggression was hypothesized to contribute to parenting stress, which should increase aggression. Parents and teachers of 239 German children aged between 6 and 15 years completed measures of child aggression at Time 1 and Time 3, complemented by children's self‐reports of aggression at Time 3. Parents rated their child‐focused and parent‐focused stress at an intermediate measurement Time 2. Child‐focused stress mediated the path from Time 1 to Time 3 aggression in boys and girls, whereas parent‐focused stress was unrelated to Time 3 aggression. The findings help to understand the continuity of aggressive behavior in childhood and adolescence and highlight the need to intervene early with families susceptible to parenting stress.

  March 14, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12115   open full text
• He Said What? Guided Cognitive Reframing About the Co‐Resident Father/Stepfather–Adolescent Relationship.
  Jeffrey T. Cookston, Andres Olide, Ross D. Parke, William V. Fabricius, Delia S. Saenz, Sanford L. Braver.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 14, 2014
  We studied young adolescents' seeking out support to understand conflict with their co‐resident fathers/stepfathers, and the cognitive and affective implications of such support‐seeking, phenomena we call guided cognitive reframing. Our sample included 392 adolescents (Mage = 12.5, 52.3% female) who were either of Mexican or European ancestry and lived with their biological mothers and either a stepfather or a biological father. More frequent reframing was associated with more adaptive cognitive explanations for father/stepfather behavior. Cognitions explained the link between seeking out and feelings about the father/stepfather and self. Feelings about the self were more strongly linked to depressive symptoms than cognitions. We discuss the implications for future research on social support, coping, guided cognitive reframing, and father–child relationships.

  March 14, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12120   open full text
• Adolescent–Parent Relations in Asian Indian and Salvadoran Immigrant Families: A Cultural–Developmental Analysis of Autonomy, Authority, Conflict, and Cohesion.
  Lene Arnett Jensen, Ayfer Dost‐Gözkan.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 14, 2014
  From a cultural perspective, this study addressed the two developmental theories that adolescents want more autonomy and fewer parental rules than parents consider appropriate, and that discrepancy between adolescents and parents on views of autonomy and authority result in decreased cohesion and increased conflict. The study included 100 adolescent–parent dyads who were immigrants to the United States from El Salvador and India. While findings pointed to cross‐cultural commonalities, such as autonomy seeking among adolescents, they also highlighted the importance of culture to different meanings of autonomy and the limits of the discrepancy thesis. The discussion calls for future scholarship to include concepts of salience to diverse groups such as family interdependence and appreciation for the parental immigrant experience.

  March 14, 2014   doi: 10.1111/jora.12116   open full text
• Selection and Influence Mechanisms Associated With Marijuana Initiation and Use in Adolescent Friendship Networks.
  Kayla la Haye, Harold D. Green, David P. Kennedy, Michael S. Pollard, Joan S. Tucker.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  Friends are thought to influence adolescent drug use. However, few studies have examined the role of drugs in friendship selection, which is necessary to draw sound conclusions about influence. This study applied statistical models for social networks to test the contribution of selection and influence to associations in marijuana use among friends in two large high schools (N = 1,612; M age = 16.4). There was evidence for friend selection based on similar lifetime and current marijuana use at both schools, but friends were found to influence the initiation and frequency of adolescent marijuana use in just one of these schools. There was minimal evidence that peer effects were moderated by personal, school, or family risk factors.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12018   open full text
• Competition, Envy, or Snobbism? How Popularity and Friendships Shape Antipathy Networks of Adolescents.
  Christian Berger, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study examined how status (popularity) and friendship relations affected the development of adolescents’ dislike relations (i.e., antipathy networks) over time. Three competing hypotheses were formulated about the role of status: antipathy relations result from either similarity in status (competition hypothesis) or dissimilarity in status when lower status peers reject higher status peers (envy hypothesis) or vice versa (snobbism hypothesis). Hypotheses were tested in a longitudinal sample of adolescents from Chile (fifth to sixth grade; 52% boys; N = 273). Antipathy and friendship networks were examined simultaneously using longitudinal social network modeling (SIENA). Higher status adolescents were more likely to reject their lower status peers, in line with the snobbism hypothesis. Furthermore, best friends tended to agree upon which peers to reject over time.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12048   open full text
• Status‐Based Influence Processes: The Role of Norm Salience in Contagion of Adolescent Risk Attitudes.
  Ashwin J. Rambaran, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra, Tobias H. Stark.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study examined whether classroom norms based on status explained between‐class variations in selection processes and particularly influence processes on adolescents’ risk attitudes in a sample of 1092 adolescents (age 12–13) across 47 classrooms. Based on the association between status (popularity) and risk attitudes (norm salience), it was hypothesized that risk attitudes would proliferate more via peer influence processes in classes with a more positive correlation between status and risk attitudes, compared with classes with a somewhat positive or neutral correlation. Results were in line with these expectations. These findings show that classroom norms based on status affect adolescents’ susceptibility to peer influence on risk attitudes in friendship networks, suggesting status‐based influence processes.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12032   open full text
• Selection, Deselection, and Socialization Processes of Happiness in Adolescent Friendship Networks.
  Nicole Workum, Ron H. J. Scholte, Antonius H. N. Cillessen, Gerine M. A. Lodder, Matteo Giletta.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study investigated selection, deselection, and influence processes of happiness in adolescent friendship networks. Longitudinal data on friendship networks and happiness of 426 adolescents (M = 15.78, SD = 0.65) were analyzed, using stochastic actor‐based models. Although happiness similarity did not predict friendship formation (selection), happiness dissimilarity predicted friendship dissolution (deselection). In addition, adolescents influenced each other's happiness over time (influence). Our findings indicated that happiness influence can involve either increases or decreases in adolescent happiness, depending on the average level of happiness of their friends. The results highlighted that, in order to understand the development of adolescents’ happiness, it is important to examine the happiness of their friends.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12035   open full text
• Social Goals and Adolescent Friendships: Social Selection, Deselection, and Influence.
  Tiina Ojanen, Jelle J. Sijtsema, Ashwin J. Rambaran.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study examined adolescent friendship selection and social influence with regard to agentic (status and power) and communal (closeness and affiliation) goals at three waves during middle school (N = 504; 12–14 years; 53% boys). Meta‐level findings across four friendship networks indicated social influence for both goal orientations: friends grew more similar to each other in agentic as well as communal goals. Moreover, in one friendship network, similarity in agentic goals predicted friendship deselection or termination of these relationships over time. Theoretical and practical implications for the study of adolescent social goals and friendships are discussed.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12043   open full text
• Adolescent Friendships, BMI, and Physical Activity: Untangling Selection and Influence Through Longitudinal Social Network Analysis.
  Sandra D. Simpkins, David R. Schaefer, Chara D. Price, Andrea E. Vest.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  Bioecological theory suggests that adolescents’ health is a result of selection and socialization processes occurring between adolescents and their microsettings. This study examines the association between adolescents’ friends and health using a social network model and data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (N = 1,896, mean age = 15.97 years). Results indicated evidence of friend influence on BMI and physical activity. Friendships were more likely among adolescents who engaged in greater physical activity and who were similar to one another in BMI and physical activity. These effects emerged after controlling for alternative friend selection factors, such as endogenous social network processes and propinquity through courses and activities. Some selection effects were moderated by gender, popularity, and reciprocity.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00836.x   open full text
• Adolescents’ Intake of Junk Food: Processes and Mechanisms Driving Consumption Similarities Among Friends.
  Kayla Haye, Garry Robins, Philip Mohr, Carlene Wilson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  Adolescents’ consumption of low‐nutrient, energy‐dense (LNED) food often occurs out of home, and friends may be an important source of influence. This study tested whether observed similarities in LNED food intake among friends result from social influence and also explored underlying psychological mechanisms. Three waves of data were collected over 1 year from Grade 8 students in Australia (N = 378, 54% male), including measures of food intake and related cognitions, and friendships to grademates. The results of longitudinal social network models show that adolescent intake was predicted by their friends’ intake, accounting for pre‐existing similarities and other potentially confounding factors. Changes to adolescents’ beliefs about LNED food do not appear to be the mechanisms underpinning influence from their friends.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12045   open full text
• Popularity as a Moderator of Peer Selection and Socialization of Adolescent Alcohol, Marijuana, and Tobacco Use.
  Cécile Mathys, William J. Burk, Antonius H. N. Cillessen.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study examined prospective associations between late adolescents’ friendships and substance use (alcohol, marijuana, tobacco) using a stochastic actor‐based modeling approach and the moderating role of popularity. Participants were 450 adolescents (53% female, M age = 15.5 years) who completed surveys in grades 10 and 11. Results of a single multivariate model indicated that peer selection based on similar tobacco use was a more robust predictor of changes in friendship than selection based on similar alcohol and marijuana use; and peer socialization of alcohol use predicted more changes in adolescent‐drinking behaviors. Popularity moderated selection based on alcohol use; popular adolescents were more likely to select friends with high levels of drinking behaviors. Popularity did not moderate peer socialization.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12031   open full text
• Peers and the Emergence of Alcohol Use: Influence and Selection Processes in Adolescent Friendship Networks.
  D. Wayne Osgood, Daniel T. Ragan, Lacey Wallace, Scott D. Gest, Mark E. Feinberg, James Moody.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study addresses not only influence and selection of friends as sources of similarity in alcohol use, but also peer processes leading drinkers to be chosen as friends more often than nondrinkers, which increases the number of adolescents subject to their influence. Analyses apply a stochastic actor‐based model to friendship networks assessed five times from 6th through 9th grades for 50 grade cohort networks in Iowa and Pennsylvania, which include 13,214 individuals. Results show definite influence and selection for similarity in alcohol use, as well as reciprocal influences between drinking and frequently being chosen as a friend. These findings suggest that adolescents view alcohol use as an attractive, high‐status activity and that friendships expose adolescents to opportunities for drinking.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12059   open full text
• Onset to First Alcohol Use in Early Adolescence: A Network Diffusion Model.
  John M. Light, Charlotte C. Greenan, Julie C. Rusby, Kimberley M. Nies, Tom A. B. Snijders.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  A novel version of Snijders's stochastic actor‐based modeling (SABM) framework is applied to model the diffusion of first alcohol use through middle school–wide longitudinal networks of early adolescents, aged approximately 11–14 years. Models couple a standard SABM for friendship network evolution with a proportional hazard model for first alcohol use. Meta‐analysis of individual models for 12 schools found significant effects for friendship selection based on the same alcohol use status and for an increased rate of onset to first use based on exposure to already‐onset peers. Onset rate was greater at higher grades and among participants who spent more unsupervised time with friends. Neither selection nor exposure effects interacted with grade, adult supervision, or gender.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12064   open full text
• Selecting and Retaining Friends on the Basis of Cigarette Smoking Similarity.
  Dawn DeLay, Brett Laursen, Noona Kiuru, Katariina Salmela‐Aro, Jari‐Erik Nurmi.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study examines whether friend selection, deselection, and socialization differ as a function of the level of cigarette smoking in the friendship group. A total of 1419 students (median age = 16) from upper secondary and vocational schools in Finland were included as targets in the peer network. Targets in the peer network were asked to nominate friends and describe their own cigarette smoking at two time points one year apart. Network analyses revealed similarity arising from selection and deselection on the basis of smoking. Selection effects (i.e., selecting new friends based on similarity) were stronger for adolescents in low‐smoking groups. Deselection effects (i.e., dropping friends based on dissimilarity) were stronger for adolescents in high‐smoking groups.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12017   open full text
• Direct and Indirect Peer Socialization of Adolescent Nonsuicidal Self‐Injury.
  Matteo Giletta, William J. Burk, Ron H. J. Scholte, Rutger C. M. E. Engels, Mitchell J. Prinstein.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study examined direct and indirect forms of peer socialization of nonsuicidal self‐injury (NSSI) in adolescent friendship networks. Data were collected among 348 adolescents (55% females; Mage = 15.02 years; SD = 0.53) at four assessment waves. Stochastic actor‐based models revealed no evidence for direct socialization of NSSI: adolescents whose friends reported higher NSSI did not increase their NSSI over time. However, indirect forms of socialization were found. After controlling for direct socialization and selection effects, friends' depressive symptoms predicted changes in male and female adolescents' NSSI, and friends' impulsivity predicted changes in male adolescents' NSSI. Findings highlight the importance of extending peer influence research beyond the classical “modeling” paradigm by providing evidence that peers may indirectly socialize adolescents' NSSI.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12036   open full text
• Dynamic Social Networks and Physical Aggression: The Moderating Role of Gender and Social Status Among Peers.
  Kelly L. Rulison, Scott D. Gest, Eric Loken.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  We examined three interrelated questions: (1) Who selects physically aggressive friends? (2) Are physically aggressive adolescents influential? and (3) Who is susceptible to influence from these friends? Using stochastic actor‐based modeling, we tested our hypotheses using a sample of 480 adolescents (ages 11–13) who were followed across four assessments (fall and spring of 6th and 7th grade). After controlling for other factors that drive network and behavioral dynamics, we found that physically aggressive adolescents were attractive as friends, physically aggressive adolescents and girls were more likely to select physically aggressive friends, and peer‐rejected adolescents were less likely to select physically aggressive friends. There was an overall peer influence effect, but gender and social status were not significant moderators of influence.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12044   open full text
• Selection and Socialization of Aggressive and Prosocial Behavior: The Moderating Role of Social‐Cognitive Processes.
  Andres Molano, Stephanie M. Jones, Joshua L. Brown, J. Lawrence Aber.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study evaluated the extent to which fourth‐grade students (M age = 8.62) select and are influenced by their peers' aggressive and prosocial behavior and the extent to which intra‐individual social cognitions moderate these processes. Two waves of data were collected in the fall and spring of one academic year from children attending 18 New York City public elementary schools. Stochastic actor‐based social network analysis was used to evaluate whether participants modify their network or behavior in response to the behavior of their peers. Findings support an average main effect of peer influence of aggression, as well as an interaction indicating that participants with high levels of hostile attributional bias have higher odds of adopting the aggressive behavior of their peers.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12034   open full text
• Popularity as an Organizing Factor of Preadolescent Friendship Networks: Beyond Prosocial and Aggressive Behavior.
  Handrea A. Logis, Philip C. Rodkin, Scott D. Gest, Hai‐Jeong Ahn.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 19, 2013
  This study investigates friendship selection and influence processes in relation to popularity, aggression, and prosociality among 613 fifth graders in 26 classrooms within one academic year. Results showed that youth tended to select their friends based on similarity in popularity more than similarity in aggression or prosociality. Aggressive youths tended to select prosocial peers as friends given similarity in popularity, but prosocial youths did not disproportionately nominate aggressive peers. Socialization within friendships was evident for aggressive and prosocial behavior and popularity. Discussion considers the importance of social status as a grouping mechanism in peer social ecologies, and as a malleable factor that can impact student adjustment.

  August 19, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12033   open full text
• Peer Networks and the Development of Illegal Political Behavior Among Adolescents.
  Viktor Dahl, Maarten Zalk.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 05, 2013
  This study examined to what extent peer influence explains the development of illegal political behavior controlling for peer selection, legal political peer influence, and gender effects. Late adolescents who filled out questionnaires at two annual measurements were used in a longitudinal social network approach (N = 1006; Mage = 16.62). Results showed that peers' involvement in illegal political behavior predicted adolescents' increases in illegal political behavior. Adolescents did not select other peers with similar illegal political behavior. Nevertheless, adolescents selected peers with similar legal political behavior. Findings were discussed in light of a stage process where adolescents initially chose peers with similar legal political behavior. Subsequently, peers influence adolescents on both legal and illegal political behavior.

  August 05, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12072   open full text
• Moderating Effects of School Climate on Outcomes for the Multisite Violence Prevention Project Universal Program.
  Allison B. Dymnicki,.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 05, 2013
  This study examines to what extent baseline school climate moderates the effects of a randomized controlled trial of a universal violence prevention intervention. School climate was assessed by teacher ratings of the quality of relationships among school members and the seriousness of school problems. Cluster analysis revealed three climate types: distressed, average, and conducive. Mixed‐effects regression models of data from 5,256 students suggested limited overall positive program outcomes for students in schools assigned to the universal intervention versus students in schools assigned to control conditions. There was, however, evidence of differential effects of the universal intervention by climate type. These findings have important implications for identifying school characteristics that researchers and practitioners should consider in planning universal school‐based interventions.

  August 05, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12073   open full text
• Changes in Youths' Perceived Parental Acceptance of Their Sexual Minority Status Over Time.
  Valeria Samarova, Guy Shilo, Gary M. Diamond.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 05, 2013
  This cross‐sectional, retrospective mixed‐method exploratory study examined 140 Israeli LGB adolescents' (14–21 year old) perceptions of their parents' level of acceptance at time of same‐sex identity disclosure and currently. Approximately 75% of respondents indicated that parents were moderately to fully accepting at time of disclosure. Approximately 15% said their parents were fully or almost fully rejecting at time of disclosure, with about half eventually becoming more accepting. Perceived parental acceptance of gay and lesbian children, but not bisexual daughters, improved over time. Increased parental acceptance was attributed to multiple factors including repeated adolescent‐initiated conversations about sexual identity, parental exposure to LGB individuals, and parental love and commitment to the relationship.

  August 05, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12071   open full text
• Targeting High‐Risk, Socially Influential Middle School Students to Reduce Aggression: Universal Versus Selective Preventive Intervention Effects.
  
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 15, 2013
  Early adolescence may be an opportune time for violence prevention, particularly if shifts in risk patterns and the importance of peer influence are considered. An important question is whether to target high‐risk students or the entire population. Thirty‐seven schools were randomized to four conditions: universal classroom intervention; selective family intervention; combined interventions; or control to test effects on a high‐risk sample (N = 1,805) of sixth graders targeted due to elevated aggression and social influence. Intent‐to‐treat and dosage‐weighted growth comparisons through two years of postintervention revealed selective intervention benefits for physical aggression, aggressive strategies, and targeted family characteristics. Universal and combined interventions affected valuing academic achievement. Implications for middle school prevention, particularly selective targeting of socially influential high‐risk youth, are discussed.

  July 15, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12067   open full text
• Processes Linking Father Absence to Educational Attainment Among African American Females.
  Meghan T. Gillette, Clinton G. Gudmunson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. July 15, 2013
  Previous researchers have assessed how father absence influences both socioeconomic and reproductive development, but have not analyzed these relationships jointly or used theoretical support for explaining why father absence affects socioeconomic and reproductive development, especially for African American girls. Guided by the family economic stress model and psychosocial acceleration theory, this study investigates how and why these relationships exist for 532 African American females. Structural equation modeling revealed that longer duration of father absence predicted lowered educational attainment in early adulthood via lower income, increased economic pressure, accelerated reproductive development, and lowered educational expectations. We include recommendations for the use of these perspectives to better understand the interplay between family socioeconomic processes and reproductive maturation in African American females.

  July 15, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12066   open full text
• Differential Parenting of African American Adolescents as an Explanation for Gender Disparities in Achievement.
  Fatima Varner, Jelani Mandara.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 21, 2013
  Differential parenting based on gender and birth order status was examined as an explanation for the achievement differences between African American males and females. In a sample of 796 African American adolescents from the MADICS study, girls were found to have much higher GPAs and test scores compared with boys. Girls reported receiving more monitoring, communication, and rule enforcement, but less autonomy in decision making than later‐born boys. Mothers also reported higher expectations for girls than boys. A significant percent of the GPA and test score gap was accounted for by the parenting differences in both married and single mother–headed households. It was concluded that reducing differential parenting could help narrow gender differences in achievement among African American adolescents.

  June 21, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12063   open full text
• Empowerment‐Based Positive Youth Development: A New Understanding of Healthy Development for African American Youth.
  Raphael Travis, Tamara G. J. Leech.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 21, 2013
  A shift occurred in research about adolescents in the general population. Research is moving away from deficits toward a resilience paradigm and understanding trajectories of positive youth development. This shift has been less consistent in research and practice with African American youth. A gap also exists in understanding whether individual youth development dimensions generate potential in other dimensions. This study presents an empowerment‐based positive youth development model. It builds upon existing research to present a new vision of healthy development for African American youth that is strengths‐based, developmental, culture‐bound, and action‐oriented. It emphasizes the relationship between person and environment, the reinforcing nature of developmental assets, and the necessity of a sense of community and community engagement for youth.

  June 21, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12062   open full text
• Loneliness, Affect, and Adolescents' Appraisals of Company: An Experience Sampling Method Study.
  Eeske Roekel, Luc Goossens, Maaike Verhagen, Sofie Wouters, Rutger C. M. E. Engels, Ron H. J. Scholte.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 21, 2013
  The aims of this study were (1) to examine relations between baseline levels of loneliness and momentary affect and perceptions of company, and (2) to test responses to perceived social threat and lowered reward response to positive stimuli in relation to loneliness in adolescents. Data were collected among 278 adolescents (Mage = 14.19, 59% girls) by using the experience sampling method. Baseline loneliness was related to affect and appraisals of company. Findings revealed greater responses to social threat, in that adolescents with higher levels of baseline loneliness were more negatively affected by negative company. For the lowered reward response, we found opposite effects: adolescents high on loneliness were more positively affected by positive company.

  June 21, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12061   open full text
• Parents Differentiate Between Their Personal Values and Their Socialization Values: The Role of Adolescents' Values.
  Maya Benish‐Weisman, Sigal Levy, Ariel Knafo.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 08, 2013
  This study focuses on the differentiation process, involving the emergence of a distinction between parents' own personal values and their socialization values (the values they want their children to adopt), and on the contribution of children's values to their parents' socialization values. Measures of personal and socialization values were administrated to 603 Israeli adolescents and their parents. As we hypothesized, parents differentiate between their personal values and their socialization values. Moreover, adolescents' values had a specific contribution to their parents' socialization values. These findings provide new support to the notion that the socialization process should be considered as the result of the interaction between parents and their adolescent children rather than as a unidirectional process affected by parents alone.

  June 08, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12058   open full text
• Family Violence, Bullying, Fighting, and Substance Use Among Adolescents: A Longitudinal Mediational Model.
  Dorothy L. Espelage, Sabina Low, Mrinalini A. Rao, Jun S. Hong, Todd D. Little.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. June 08, 2013
  Social interaction learning theory provides a framework for understanding the potential overlap among adolescent problem behaviors such as family violence, aggression, and substance use. The current study assessed the longitudinal, reciprocal relations among family violence, bullying perpetration, fighting perpetration, and adolescent substance use using a sample of 1,232 students from four Midwestern middle schools. Students completed measures on family dynamics, bullying and fighting behaviors, and alcohol and drug use three times over 18 months. Structural equation modeling results indicated that bullying and fighting perpetration mediated the link between family violence and substance use only for males, but not for females. For females, family violence at Wave 1 was related to greater substance use at Wave 3.

  June 08, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12060   open full text
• Discrepancies About Adolescent Relationships as a Function of Informant Attachment and Depressive Symptoms.
  Katherine B. Ehrlich, Jude Cassidy, Carl W. Lejuez, Stacey B. Daughters.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 10, 2013
  Developmental scientists studying interpersonal relationships often find that informants disagree in their reports, and two theoretical perspectives suggest that these discrepancies may be predictable. In two studies of adolescents' interpersonal relationships, we examined two factors that may predict the absolute magnitude and the direction of the discrepancies in reports about several types of relationships. Specifically, we examined informants' depressive symptoms and attachment as predictors of absolute and directional discrepancies in reports about (a) adolescents' relationships with peers, (b) parent–adolescent relationships, and (c) adolescents' friendships. Findings revealed that informant depressive symptoms sometimes were associated with discrepancies. In contrast, informant attachment more consistently accounted for absolute and directional discrepancies.

  May 10, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12057   open full text
• Antisocial Behavior Trajectories and Social Victimization Within and Between School Years in Early Adolescence.
  John M. Light, Julie C. Rusby, Kimberley M. Nies, Tom A. B. Snijders.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 10, 2013
  Antisocial behavior typically increases during early adolescence, but the possibility of seasonal variation has not been examined. In this study, trajectories of antisocial behavior were estimated for early adolescent boys and girls. Data were obtained from a 3‐year longitudinal study of 11 middle schools in the western United States (n = 5,742), with assessments completed four times per academic year. Antisocial behavior increased steadily throughout 6th grade, but beginning in 7th grade for boys and 8th grade for girls it declined during the school year. Significant increases between Grades 6–7 and 7–8 were found for both genders. Trajectories varied by contextual and individual‐level social victimization and gender. Implications for theoretical development and future studies are discussed.

  May 10, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12055   open full text
• Reciprocal Pathways Between Autonomous Motivation and Affect: A Longitudinal Investigation of American and Chinese Early Adolescents.
  Eva M. Pomerantz, Lili Qin.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 10, 2013
  The current research examined the reciprocal pathways between children's autonomous motivation in school and affect over early adolescence in the United States and China. Beginning in the fall of 7th grade, 825 American and Chinese children (mean age = 12.73 years) reported on their autonomous (vs. controlled) motivation as well as unpleasant and pleasant affect every 6 months until the end of eighth grade. In both the United States and China, there were negative reciprocal pathways between children's autonomous motivation and unpleasant affect. Over time, heightened autonomous motivation predicted dampened unpleasant affect, which in turn predicted heightened autonomous motivation. Positive reciprocal pathways between children's autonomous motivation and pleasant affect were evident over time only in China.

  May 10, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12054   open full text
• Adolescent Purpose Development: Exploring Empathy, Discovering Roles, Shifting Priorities, and Creating Pathways.
  Heather Malin, Timothy S. Reilly, Brandy Quinn, Seana Moran.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 09, 2013
  The development of youth purpose was explored in a qualitative, cross‐sequential study. Interviews about life goals and reasons for pursuing them were conducted with 146 adolescents from four age groups (6th grade, 9th grade, 12th grade, and college sophomores or juniors). Participants completed the interview twice in 2 years. Each cohort focused on different aspects of purpose: middle school youth desired to be empathic; high school youth focused on finding a role to engage their purpose; high school graduates focused on re‐evaluating their priorities through transitions; and college students focused on developing pathways to support their purpose. These phases were impacted by several factors, including transitions, identity formation processes, and external supports and influences.

  May 09, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12051   open full text
• The Association Between Peer and Own Aggression is Moderated by the BDNF Val‐Met Polymorphism.
  Tina Kretschmer, Frank Vitaro, Edward D. Barker.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 09, 2013
  Peer antisocial behavior robustly predicts adolescents' own behavior, but not all adolescents are equally vulnerable to their peers' influence and genetic factors may confer vulnerability. This study used data of n = 3,081 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children to examine whether brain‐derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), a polymorphism that affects psychological functioning, moderates the association between affiliation with aggressive peers at age 10 and own aggression at age 15. A significant gene–environment interaction was found, where those who affiliated with aggressive peers in childhood showed increased risk of being aggressive in adolescence if they carried the BDNF met‐met variant compared with val‐val carriers. Our findings underline the importance of both biological and social factors for adolescent development.

  May 09, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12050   open full text
• Adolescent Pathways to Co‐Occurring Problem Behavior: The Effects of Peer Delinquency and Peer Substance Use.
  Kathryn C. Monahan, Isaac C. Rhew, J. David Hawkins, Eric C. Brown.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 06, 2013
  Delinquency and substance use are more likely to co‐occur in adolescence compared to earlier and later developmental periods. The present study examined developmental pathways to co‐occurring problem behavior from 6th to 10th grade (N = 2,002), testing how peer delinquency and substance use were linked to transitioning between abstaining, delinquency, substance use, and co‐occurring problem behavior. Developmentally, most youth transition from abstinence to delinquent behavior and then escalate to co‐occurring problem behavior. Once co‐occurring problem behavior onsets, remitting to single‐problem behavior or abstinence is unlikely. The impact of peers on problem behavior is domain‐specific when individuals transition from abstaining to a single‐problem behavior, but is more general with respect to escalation of and desistance from problem behavior.

  May 06, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12053   open full text
• Positive Interactions and Avoidant and Anxious Representations in Relationships with Parents, Friends, and Romantic Partners.
  Wyndol Furman, J. Claire Stephenson, Galena K. Rhoades.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. May 06, 2013
  We examined associations between positive interactions and avoidant and anxious representations in relationships with parents, friends, and romantic partners. Two hundred adolescents completed questionnaires, observations, and attachment interviews. From a between‐person perspective, those adolescents with more positive interactions overall had less avoidant representations. Within persons, the more positive interactions were relative to one's own average level in relationships, the less avoidant representations were for that type of relationship. Adolescents were less anxious about a particular type of relationship if they had positive interactions in their other types of relationships. Finally, representations were primarily predicted by interactions in the same type of relationship; interactions in other relationships contributed little. The findings underscore the importance of examining representations of particular types of relationships.

  May 06, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12052   open full text
• Effects of Benefit‐Focused Versus Standard Expressive Writing on Adolescents' Self‐Concept During the High School Transition.
  Federica Facchin, Davide Margola, Sara Molgora, Tracey A. Revenson.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 25, 2013
  This randomized trial compared two types of expressive writing—benefit‐focused versus standard expressive writing—with a factual writing (control) condition in enhancing adolescents' self‐concept during the transition to high school. First‐year male students (N = 201) wrote on three consecutive days about either the potential benefits of the school transition, their deepest thoughts and feelings about this transition, or their school activities. The benefit‐focused group had better short‐term academic self‐concept relative to the other two conditions, especially among students who had low academic self‐concept at baseline, but these changes were not lasting. Writing about the benefits of the transition may be a cost‐effective school‐based intervention to strengthen academic self‐concept, but may need augmentation with booster sessions or interpersonal discussion.

  March 25, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12040   open full text
• Adolescent Precursors of Pathways From School to Work.
  Mike Vuolo, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Jeremy Staff.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 25, 2013
  Longitudinal data from the Youth Development Study are used to examine (1) how young people establish work with self‐identified career potential and how these patterns are linked to educational attainments; and (2) how adolescent achievement orientations, experiences in school and work, and sociodemographic background distinguish youth who establish themselves in careers and those who flounder during this transition. Multilevel latent class models reveal four school‐to‐work pathways from ages 18–31: two groups that attain careers through postsecondary education (via bachelor's or associate's–vocational degrees) and two groups that do not (distinguished by attempting college). Multinomial logistic regression models demonstrate that academic orientations, socioeconomic background, and steady paid work during high school help adolescents avoid subsequent floundering during the school‐to‐work transition.

  March 25, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12038   open full text
• Finding Your Niche: Identity and Emotional Support in Emerging Adults' Adjustment to the Transition to College.
  Margarita Azmitia, Moin Syed, Kimberley Radmacher.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 25, 2013
  This mixed‐method longitudinal study investigated the role of identity synthesis and emotional support from family, friends, and professors in emerging adults' mental health during the transition to college. A total of 167 ethnically and socioeconomically diverse emerging adults were surveyed and interviewed during the fall and the spring quarters of their first year in college. Cluster analysis revealed four mental health clusters: greatly improving mental health; maintaining positive mental health; poor mental health declining; and good mental health declining. Clusters that maintained or improved mental health over the first year of college had higher identity synthesis and emotional support from friends and family than clusters where mental health declined. Emotional support from friends was especially important for adjustment.

  March 25, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12037   open full text
• Creation of Short and Very Short Measures of the Five Cs of Positive Youth Development.
  G. J. Geldhof, Edmond P. Bowers, Michelle J. Boyd, Megan K. Mueller, Christopher M. Napolitano, Kristina L. Schmid, Jacqueline V. Lerner, Richard M. Lerner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. March 25, 2013
  As developmental scientists seek to index the strengths of adolescents and adopt the positive youth development (PYD) perspective, psychometrically sound measurement tools will be needed to assess adolescents’ positive attributes. Using a series of exploratory factor analyses and CFA models, this research creates short and very short versions of the scale used to measure the Five Cs of PYD in the 4‐H Study of Positive Youth Development. We created separate forms for earlier versus later adolescence and ensured that items displayed sufficient conceptual overlap across forms to support tests of factorial invariance. We discuss implications for further scale development and advocate for the use of these convenient tools, especially in research and applications pertinent to the Five Cs model of PYD.

  March 25, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12039   open full text
• Influences on Boys' Marijuana Use in High School: A Two‐Part Random Intercept Growth Model.
  Isaac J. Washburn, Deborah M. Capaldi.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 25, 2013
  This study examined differences in predictors of marijuana use versus quantity of marijuana use across the high school years, using annual assessments from the Oregon Youth Study (OYS) and a two‐part model for semicontinuous data. The OYS is a community sample of at‐risk boys followed from age 10 years. To capture dynamic prediction effects, change scores of predictors, as well as baseline scores, were included. Baseline predictors predominantly showed associations with the intercepts but not with the slopes of growth models. Change scores for parental monitoring, peer substance use, and antisocial behavior and deviant associations were associated with both parts of the model. Findings highlight the importance of looking at marijuana use compared with the quantity of marijuana use.

  February 25, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12030   open full text
• Dating Trajectories From Middle to High School: Association With Academic Performance and Drug Use.
  Pamela Orpinas, Arthur M. Horne, Xiao Song, Patricia M. Reeves, Hsien‐Lin Hsieh.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 25, 2013
  This study identifies trajectories of dating from sixth to twelfth grade and describes the academic performance (teacher‐rated study skills and high school dropout) and self‐reported drug use associated with these trajectories, in a diverse sample randomly selected in sixth grade. Using a group‐based, semiparametric procedure, we identified four dating trajectories: low (16%), increasing (24%), high middle school (22%), and frequent (38%). Students in these latter two groups had significantly worse study skills, were four times more likely to drop out of school, and reported twice as much alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use than students in the low and increasing dating groups. This study highlights the diversity of dating trajectories and some of the risks associated with early dating.

  February 25, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12029   open full text
• Implicit and Explicit Peer Evaluation: Associations With Early Adolescents’ Prosociality, Aggression, and Bullying.
  Tessa A.M. Lansu, Antonius H.N. Cillessen, William M. Bukowski.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 05, 2013
  Implicit and explicit peer evaluations were assessed among 120 early adolescents (56 boys, 64 girls; M age = 11.1 years). Explicit peer evaluations were round‐robin ratings of likeability; implicit peer evaluations were assessed with an approach‐avoidance task, also using a round‐robin design. Prosocial behavior, aggression, and bullying were assessed with a standard peer nominations procedure. Prosocial behavior predicted explicit positive evaluations given and received. Bullying and physical aggression predicted receiving explicit negative evaluations from peers. Implicit negative biases were found for girls but not boys. Relationally aggressive girls and bullying girls showed a negative implicit bias toward their peers. Possible implications for intervention are discussed.

  February 05, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12028   open full text
• The Role of Religion and Stress in Sexual Identity and Mental Health Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Youth.
  Matthew J. L. Page, Kristin M. Lindahl, Neena M. Malik.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 04, 2013
  This study investigated religious stress, gay‐related stress, sexual identity, and mental health outcomes in lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and emerging adults. The model examined negative LGB identity as a mediator of the relationships between (1) religious stress and mental health, and (2) gay‐related stress and mental health. The data indicated that negative LGB identity fully accounted for both relationships. Findings suggest that a negative sense of sexual identity for LGB youth helps explain the links between religious and gay‐related stressors and mental health. As LGB youth may have limited control over these stressors, the importance of helping LGB youth maintain a positive LGB identity, despite homonegative messages from others, is discussed.

  February 04, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12025   open full text
• If They Grow up: Exploring the Neighborhood Context of Adolescent and Young Adult Survival Expectations.
  Raymond R. Swisher, Tara D. Warner.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 04, 2013
  Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines individual and neighborhood predictors of adolescent and young adult survival expectations—their confidence of surviving to age 35. Analyses revealed that within‐person increases in depression and violent perpetration decreased the odds of expecting to survive. Individuals who rated themselves in good health and received routine physical care had greater survival expectations. Consistent with documented health disparities, Black and Hispanic youth had lower survival expectations than did their White peers. Neighborhood poverty was linked to diminished survival expectations both within and between persons, with the between‐person association remaining significant controlling for mental and physical health, exposure to violence, own violence, and a wide range of sociodemographic factors.

  February 04, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12027   open full text
• Sleep and Its Association With Socioeconomic Status, Health, and Risky Behaviors Among Ghanaian School Children.
  David Doku, Leena Koivusilta, Arja Rimpelä.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. February 01, 2013
  Socioeconomic differences in sleep and how sleep relates to health and risky behaviors among 12‐ to 18‐year‐old Ghanaians (N = 1,195) were investigated. Overall, 49.2% of boys and 60.8% of girls had inadequate sleep. Girls (OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.3–2.0) and older (16‐ to 18‐year‐olds) adolescents (OR = 1.6, 95% CI = 1.3–2.1) had higher probability of inadequate sleep than boys and younger (12‐ to 15‐year‐old) adolescents, respectively. High material affluence, low parental education, low parental occupational grade, drunkenness, marijuana use, drug use, and not having plans to continue schooling after graduation decreased the chances of inadequate sleep, while low school performance, low fruit and vegetable intake, and tiredness during daytime increased the probability of inadequate sleep. Promotion of adequate sleep and gender equality should be taken into consideration in adolescent health promotion programs.

  February 01, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12023   open full text
• Aversive Peer Experiences on Social Networking Sites: Development of the Social Networking‐Peer Experiences Questionnaire (SN‐PEQ).
  Ryan R. Landoll, Annette M. La Greca, Betty S. Lai.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 31, 2013
  Cyber victimization is an important research area, yet little is known about aversive peer experiences on social networking sites (SNSs), which are used extensively by youth and host complex social exchanges. Across samples of adolescents (n = 216) and young adults (n = 214), we developed the Social Networking‐Peer Experiences Questionnaire (SN‐PEQ) and examined its psychometric properties, distinctiveness from traditional peer victimization measures, and associations with internalized distress. The SN‐PEQ demonstrated strong factorial invariance and a single‐factor structure that was distinct from other forms of peer victimization. Negative SNS experiences were associated with youths' symptoms of social anxiety and depression, even when controlling for traditional peer victimization. Findings highlight the importance of examining the effects of aversive peer experiences that occur via social media.

  January 31, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12022   open full text
• Associations of Mothers' Friendship Quality with Adolescents' Friendship Quality and Emotional Adjustment.
  Gary C. Glick, Amanda J. Rose, Lance P. Swenson, Erika M. Waller.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 31, 2013
  Little research has examined the association of parents' friendships with adolescent's well‐being, perhaps because the association was considered too distal. However, developmental theories suggest that contexts in which parents, but not their children, are situated may be related to child development (Bronfenbrenner, , ). The current work examined associations between the quality of mothers' own friendships and their adolescent children's friendship quality and emotional adjustment. Fifth‐, eighth‐, and eleventh‐graders (N = 172) whose mothers' friendships were characterized by conflict and antagonism reported having friendships that were high in negative friendship qualities as well as elevated internalizing symptoms. These associations held after controlling for mother–child relationship quality, suggesting that mothers' friendships may have a unique association with adolescents' adjustment.

  January 31, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12021   open full text
• Positive and Negative Interactions Observed Between Siblings: Moderating Effects for Children Exposed to Parents' Conflict.
  Esti Iturralde, Gayla Margolin, Lauren A. Spies Shapiro.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. January 31, 2013
  This study investigated links between interparental conflict appraisals (specifically threat and self‐blame), sibling relationship quality (positive and negative dimensions), and anxiety in sibling pairs comprised of an adolescent and a younger sibling close in age. Sibling relationship quality was measured through behavioral observation. Links between self‐blame and anxiety were moderated by sibling relationship quality. In older siblings, positive behavior with a sibling was associated with an attenuated relation between self‐blame and anxiety. A paradoxical moderating effect was found for negative interactions; for both younger and older siblings, a relation between self‐blame and anxiety was weakened in the presence of sibling negativity. Results offered support for theorized benefits of sibling relationship quality in helping early adolescents adjust to conflict between parents.

  January 31, 2013   doi: 10.1111/jora.12020   open full text
• Friendship Groups, Personal Motivation, and Gender in Relation to High School Students' STEM Career Interest.
  Rachael D. Robnett, Campbell Leaper.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 21, 2012
  Friendship group characteristics, motivation, and gender were investigated in relation to adolescents' science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) career interest. The sample was comprised of 468 high school students (M = 16 years, range = 13–18) from diverse ethnic backgrounds. Participants rated their friendship group's support of STEM as well as their personal motivation in science. They separately rated the friendship group's support of English and personal motivation in English. Other predictors included friendship group characteristics (importance, gender composition) and background variables such as gender. Group support of STEM (but not English) and science motivation (but not English motivation) predicted STEM career interest. Group characteristics and participant gender moderated the effects. Findings suggest social identities and self‐concepts may shape youths' STEM career choices.

  December 21, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12013   open full text
• Promoting the Positive Development of Boys in High‐Poverty Neighborhoods: Evidence From Four Anti‐Poverty Experiments.
  Emily K. Snell, Nina Castells, Greg Duncan, Lisa Gennetian, Katherine Magnuson, Pamela Morris.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 21, 2012
  This study uses geocoded address data and information about parents' economic behavior and children's development from four random‐assignment welfare and anti‐poverty experiments conducted during the 1990s. We find that the impacts of these welfare and anti‐poverty programs on boys' and girls' developmental outcomes during the transition to early adolescence differ as a function of neighborhood poverty levels. The strongest positive impacts of these programs are among boys who lived in high‐poverty neighborhoods at the time their parents enrolled in the studies, with smaller or nonstatistically significant effects for boys in lower‐poverty neighborhoods and for girls across all neighborhoods. This research informs our understanding of how neighborhood context and child gender may interact with employment‐based policies to affect children's well‐being.

  December 21, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12014   open full text
• Testing Alternative Explanations for the Associations Between Parenting and Adolescent Suicidal Problems.
  Daria K. Boeninger, Katherine E. Masyn, Rand D. Conger.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 21, 2012
  Although studies have established associations between parenting characteristics and adolescent suicidality, the strength of the evidence for these links remains unclear, largely because of methodological limitations, including lack of accounting for possible child effects on parenting. This study addresses these issues by using autoregressive cross‐lag models with data on 802 adolescents and their parents across 5 years. Observed parenting behaviors predicted change in adolescent suicidal problems across 1‐year intervals even after controlling for adolescents' effects on parenting. Nurturant‐involved parenting continued to demonstrate salutary effects after controlling for adolescent and parent internalizing psychopathology: over time, observed nurturant‐involved parenting reduced the likelihood of adolescent suicidal problems. This study increases the empirical support implicating parenting behaviors in the developmental course of adolescent suicidality.

  December 21, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12015   open full text
• Dream Recall Frequency and Unusual Dream Experiences in Early Adolescence: Longitudinal Links to Behavior Problems.
  Nirit Soffer‐Dudek, Avi Sadeh.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 04, 2012
  Unique dream patterns are related to psychopathological distress in adults. In adolescence, this was investigated almost exclusively regarding nightmares. This longitudinal study examines developmental trajectories of various adolescent‐reported dream patterns, and their associations with parent‐reported psychopathology (internalization and externalization problems) in early adolescence. Ninety‐four 10‐ to 11‐year‐old normally developing children completed a week of sleep, dreaming, and pubertal development assessments. Parents reported behavior problems. Assessments were repeated after 1 and 2 years. Reports of unusual dreams decreased over time, and dream recall decreased among girls. Internalizing symptoms longitudinally predicted an increase in dream recall and unusual dreams. Moreover, unusual dreams longitudinally predicted increased behavior problems (internalization and externalization). Assessing dream patterns during early adolescence may help early detection of covert psychopathological distress.

  December 04, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12007   open full text
• Sexually Explicit Websites and Sexual Initiation: Reciprocal Relationships and the Moderating Role of Pubertal Status.
  Laura Vandenbosch, Steven Eggermont.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 04, 2012
  A two‐wave panel study was conducted among adolescents (Mean age = 14.78; N = 639) to examine the relationship between using sexually explicit websites and sexual initiation with particular attention to adolescents' pubertal status. Structural equation modeling and logistic regression analysis indicated that frequent users of sexually explicit websites were five times more likely to initiate sexual intercourse than nonusers. Pubertal status moderated this relationship: an increased likelihood to initiate sex was found among adolescents in an early pubertal stage who frequently viewed sexually explicit websites. However, a lower likelihood to initiate sex was found among adolescents in an advanced pubertal stage. The possibility of a reciprocal relationship was also examined but was not supported.

  December 04, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12008   open full text
• Do Moral Choices Make Us Feel Good? The Development of Adolescents’ Emotions Following Moral Decision Making.
  Tina Malti, Monika Keller, Marlis Buchmann.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. December 04, 2012
  Some people believe that making the morally right decision makes people feel good. However, until now, there has been no empirical evidence in support of this belief. In a representative two‐wave longitudinal study of 995 15‐year‐old adolescents followed for 3 years (until the age of 18) in Switzerland, adolescents were asked about their decisions and emotions following hypothetical dilemmas involving moral obligations versus self‐interest. Adolescents predominantly made moral decisions and reported feeling good following these decisions. With age, participants reported more positive emotions following moral decisions. A small number of adolescents made selfish decisions and reported feeling good following these decisions.

  December 04, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12005   open full text
• Examining Appearance‐Based Rejection Sensitivity During Early Adolescence.
  Julie C. Bowker, Katelyn K. Thomas, Sarah V. Spencer, Lora E. Park.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 17, 2012
  The present study of 150 adolescents (M age = 13.05 years) examined the associations between appearance‐based rejection sensitivity (Appearance‐RS) and psychological adjustment during early adolescence, and evaluated three types of other‐gender peer experiences (other‐gender friendship, peer acceptance, and romantic relationships) as moderators. Appearance‐RS was found to be uniquely related to two types of social anxiety, but not to self‐esteem. Other‐gender friendship emerged as a protective factor, whereas high other‐gender peer acceptance emerged as a risk factor (especially for boys), after controlling for same‐gender mutual best friendship involvement and peer acceptance. Results highlight the importance of distinguishing between different types of other‐gender peer experiences during early adolescence and suggest that Appearance‐RS during adolescence warrants further investigation.

  November 17, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12003   open full text
• Trajectories of Reinforcement Sensitivity During Adolescence and Risk for Substance Use.
  Craig R. Colder, Larry W. Hawk, Liliana J. Lengua, William Wiezcorek, Rina Das Eiden, Jennifer P. Read.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. November 16, 2012
  Developmental neuroscience models suggest that changes in responsiveness to incentives contribute to increases in adolescent risk behavior, including substance use. Trajectories of sensitivity to reward (SR) and sensitivity to punishment (SP) were examined and tested as predictors of escalation of early substance use in a community sample of adolescents (N = 765, mean baseline age 11.8 years, 54% female). SR and SP were assessed using a laboratory task. Across three annual assessments, SR increased, and rapid escalation was associated with increases in substance use. SP declined and was unrelated to substance use. Findings support contemporary views of adolescent brain development and suggest that early adolescent substance use is motivated by approach responses to reward, rather than failure to avoid potential aversive consequences.

  November 16, 2012   doi: 10.1111/jora.12001   open full text
• Gay–Straight Alliances Are Associated With Student Health: A Multischool Comparison of LGBTQ and Heterosexual Youth.
  V. Paul Poteat, Katerina O. Sinclair, Craig D. DiGiovanni, Brian W. Koenig, Stephen T. Russell.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. October 08, 2012
  Few studies have examined school‐based factors associated with variability in the victimization and health of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth. Among 15,965 students in 45 Wisconsin schools, we identified differences based on Gay–Straight Alliance (GSA) presence. Youth in schools with GSAs reported less truancy, smoking, drinking, suicide attempts, and sex with casual partners than those in schools without GSAs, with this difference being more sizable for LGBTQ than heterosexual youth. GSA‐based differences were greatest for sexual minority girls on reported sex while using drugs. GSA effects were nonsignificant for general or homophobic victimization, grades, and school belonging. Findings suggest that GSAs could contribute to attenuating a range of health risks, particularly for LGBTQ youth.

  October 08, 2012   doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00832.x   open full text
• An Initial Investigation of Sexual Minority Youth Involvement in School‐Based Extracurricular Activities.
  Russell B. Toomey, Stephen T. Russell.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. September 10, 2012
  Sexual minority youth are at risk for negative school‐based experiences and poor academic outcomes. Yet, little is known about their experiences in positive school‐based contexts. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (1,214 sexual minority and 11,427 heterosexual participants), this study compared participation rates in, predictors of, and outcomes associated with three types of school‐based extracurricular activities—sports, arts, and school clubs—by sexual orientation and gender. Findings revealed several significant sexual orientation and gender differences in participation rates in school‐based sports, clubs, and arts activities. Furthermore, findings suggested that the outcomes associated with extracurricular activity involvement do not differ by sexual orientation and gender; however, predictors of participation in these domains varied across groups.

  September 10, 2012   doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00830.x   open full text
• Peer Victimization and Internalizing Symptoms From Adolescence Into Young Adulthood: Building Strength Through Emotional Support.
  Rachel S. Yeung Thompson, Bonnie J. Leadbeater.
  Journal of Research on Adolescence. August 29, 2012
  This longitudinal study investigated how changes in peer victimization were associated with changes in internalizing symptoms among 662 adolescents across a 4‐year period. The moderating effects of initial levels of father, mother, and friend emotional support on this association were also examined. Gender and age group differences (early adolescent group aged 12–15 years; late adolescent group aged 16–18 years) were tested. Increases in physical and relational victimization were related to increases in internalizing symptoms. Friend emotional support was more protective in reducing internalizing symptoms for adolescent males than adolescent females in both the early and late adolescent groups. Gender differences also moderated the effects of mother and father emotional support.

  August 29, 2012   doi: 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00827.x   open full text