Pub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-08-04DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02231-7
Yinqiu Zhao, Xiaoqing Ji, Ningning Feng, Lijuan Cui
Although previous studies have demonstrated bidirectional within-person associations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms in adolescence, the strength and pattern of these associations may differ across distinct forms of victimization. Moreover, the psychological mechanisms mediating these links and any gender-specific differences remain to be fully understood. This study employed a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model to explore the within-person bidirectional associations among physical victimization, relational victimization, interpersonal trust, and depressive symptoms. A total of 1227 Chinese middle adolescents (56.6% girls; Mage = 16.00 years, SD = 0.61) participated in this three-wave longitudinal design with six-month intervals. The results revealed that interpersonal trust significantly mediated the bidirectional within-person associations between relational victimization and depressive symptoms, but not between physical victimization and depressive symptoms. Conversely, depressive symptoms predicted both types of victimization indirectly through lower interpersonal trust. Moreover, the within-person effect of physical victimization on interpersonal trust and that of interpersonal trust on depressive symptoms were significant only for boys, while the effect of interpersonal trust on physical victimization was significant only for girls. These findings highlight the crucial role of interpersonal trust in the bidirectional relations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms and suggest that intervention efforts targeting trust development may help to break this cycle during adolescence.
{"title":"Longitudinal Relationships between Bullying Victimization and Depressive Symptoms and the Mediating Role of Interpersonal Trust in Middle Adolescents.","authors":"Yinqiu Zhao, Xiaoqing Ji, Ningning Feng, Lijuan Cui","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02231-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02231-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although previous studies have demonstrated bidirectional within-person associations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms in adolescence, the strength and pattern of these associations may differ across distinct forms of victimization. Moreover, the psychological mechanisms mediating these links and any gender-specific differences remain to be fully understood. This study employed a Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Model to explore the within-person bidirectional associations among physical victimization, relational victimization, interpersonal trust, and depressive symptoms. A total of 1227 Chinese middle adolescents (56.6% girls; M<sub>age</sub> = 16.00 years, SD = 0.61) participated in this three-wave longitudinal design with six-month intervals. The results revealed that interpersonal trust significantly mediated the bidirectional within-person associations between relational victimization and depressive symptoms, but not between physical victimization and depressive symptoms. Conversely, depressive symptoms predicted both types of victimization indirectly through lower interpersonal trust. Moreover, the within-person effect of physical victimization on interpersonal trust and that of interpersonal trust on depressive symptoms were significant only for boys, while the effect of interpersonal trust on physical victimization was significant only for girls. These findings highlight the crucial role of interpersonal trust in the bidirectional relations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms and suggest that intervention efforts targeting trust development may help to break this cycle during adolescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2681-2694"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144784563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-10-01Epub Date: 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02212-w
Xianxin Meng, Yijing Chen, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Lujia Xu, Delin Yu, Danielle R Harrell
Theorists have long assumed that school connectedness and depressive symptoms influence each other in adolescence. However, previous empirical studies on the strength and direction of this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. The present study used cross-lagged modeling to meta-analyze the available longitudinal data (27 studies with 27 effects involving 57,074 participants, mean age ranging from 11.23 to 17.4 years) on the relationship between school connectedness and depressive symptoms in adolescence, and the possible moderating effects of publication and study characteristics. With prior levels of the relevant outcomes controlled for, results showed that prior school connectedness negatively predicted subsequent depressive symptoms with β = -0.07, 95% CI [-0.12, -0.02], while prior depressive symptoms also negatively predicted subsequent school connectedness with β = -0.14, 95% CI [-0.19, -0.08]. Moderation analyses showed that there was a moderating effect of publication year, study quality in the protective effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms and a moderating effect of publication year, study quality, and culture in the debilitating effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness. As the publication year became more recent, the effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms decreased, and the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness decreased. As study quality increased, the effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms decreased, and the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness decreased. As the individualism index increased, the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness increased. These findings suggest that the link between school connectedness and adolescence depressive symptoms is symmetrically reciprocal and robust, adding support to that explaining the reciprocal relationship necessitates integrating Self-Determination Theory and Social Development Theory within the framework of Developmental Contextualism Theory.
{"title":"The Reciprocal Relationship between School Connectedness and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: A Meta-analytic Cross-lagged Panel Analysis.","authors":"Xianxin Meng, Yijing Chen, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill, Lujia Xu, Delin Yu, Danielle R Harrell","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02212-w","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10964-025-02212-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Theorists have long assumed that school connectedness and depressive symptoms influence each other in adolescence. However, previous empirical studies on the strength and direction of this relationship have yielded inconsistent results. The present study used cross-lagged modeling to meta-analyze the available longitudinal data (27 studies with 27 effects involving 57,074 participants, mean age ranging from 11.23 to 17.4 years) on the relationship between school connectedness and depressive symptoms in adolescence, and the possible moderating effects of publication and study characteristics. With prior levels of the relevant outcomes controlled for, results showed that prior school connectedness negatively predicted subsequent depressive symptoms with β = -0.07, 95% CI [-0.12, -0.02], while prior depressive symptoms also negatively predicted subsequent school connectedness with β = -0.14, 95% CI [-0.19, -0.08]. Moderation analyses showed that there was a moderating effect of publication year, study quality in the protective effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms and a moderating effect of publication year, study quality, and culture in the debilitating effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness. As the publication year became more recent, the effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms decreased, and the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness decreased. As study quality increased, the effect of school connectedness on depressive symptoms decreased, and the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness decreased. As the individualism index increased, the effect of depressive symptoms on school connectedness increased. These findings suggest that the link between school connectedness and adolescence depressive symptoms is symmetrically reciprocal and robust, adding support to that explaining the reciprocal relationship necessitates integrating Self-Determination Theory and Social Development Theory within the framework of Developmental Contextualism Theory.</p>","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":" ","pages":"2574-2592"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144506134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-29DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02262-0
Yang Li,Rongrong Duan,Yuling Tang,Xiaochun Xie
{"title":"The Vicious Cycle? Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Psychological Distress: The Mediating Role of Psychological Inflexibility across Different Adolescence Stages.","authors":"Yang Li,Rongrong Duan,Yuling Tang,Xiaochun Xie","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02262-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02262-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"3 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145182699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Identification with the European group bears important implications for adjustment, intergroup processes, and civic participation. However, little is known about its development across different time scales in adolescence. The current study examined short- and medium-term developmental trajectories of European identification across two age cohorts separately and conjointly. Participants were 1552 Italian adolescents (Mage = 15.69, SDage = 1.22; 47.04% females) attending the 1st (52.30%) and 3rd (47.70%) year of high school. Results highlight general stability in the short- and medium-term, although younger and older adolescents differed in their developmental patterns. Youth's age and short-term fluctuations in European identification were linked to unique medium-term trajectories. This research highlights the importance of combining social and developmental approaches to comprehensively study how social identification unfolds in adolescence.
{"title":"Young Europeans - The Interplay between Short- and Medium-Term Development of European Identification Across Adolescence.","authors":"Anna-Maria Mayer,Beatrice Bobba,Philipp Jugert,Elisabetta Crocetti","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02256-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02256-y","url":null,"abstract":"Identification with the European group bears important implications for adjustment, intergroup processes, and civic participation. However, little is known about its development across different time scales in adolescence. The current study examined short- and medium-term developmental trajectories of European identification across two age cohorts separately and conjointly. Participants were 1552 Italian adolescents (Mage = 15.69, SDage = 1.22; 47.04% females) attending the 1st (52.30%) and 3rd (47.70%) year of high school. Results highlight general stability in the short- and medium-term, although younger and older adolescents differed in their developmental patterns. Youth's age and short-term fluctuations in European identification were linked to unique medium-term trajectories. This research highlights the importance of combining social and developmental approaches to comprehensively study how social identification unfolds in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"139 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145103528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-18DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02260-2
Isabelle E González,Kristia A Wantchekon,Adriana J Umaña-Taylor,Deborah Rivas-Drake
Ethnic-racial identity development is a key developmental task that contributes to positive youth outcomes across a variety of domains. Families play an integral role in adolescents' ethnic-racial identity development through the ways they teach their children about their ethnic-racial backgrounds. Research supports that youth who report high levels of family ethnic-racial socialization concurrently report high levels of ethnic-racial identity centrality, a facet of youth's ethnic-racial identity that shapes their self-concept and experiences. However, there is less research examining how ethnic-racial socialization and centrality relate to one another over time, limiting the field's understanding of how youth's centrality evolves as they are socialized and are active agents of their own development. This study analyzes the interrelations between cultural socialization, a form of family ethnic-racial socialization, and centrality over one year across three waves of data collection. Participants were 2153 Black and Latine high school students from the Southwest and Midwest U.S. (Mage = 15.91; SDage = 1.17; 57% Black; 44% boys, 54% girls, 2% another gender). Results from multigroup cross-lagged panel modeling indicated that, across groups, higher cultural socialization was associated with a positive change in centrality, but not vice versa. Findings highlight how the family context supports the progressive development of youth's emerging beliefs about their ethnic-racial identities.
{"title":"Associations between Family Ethnic-Racial Socialization and Ethnic-Racial Identity Centrality among Black and Latine Youth.","authors":"Isabelle E González,Kristia A Wantchekon,Adriana J Umaña-Taylor,Deborah Rivas-Drake","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02260-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02260-2","url":null,"abstract":"Ethnic-racial identity development is a key developmental task that contributes to positive youth outcomes across a variety of domains. Families play an integral role in adolescents' ethnic-racial identity development through the ways they teach their children about their ethnic-racial backgrounds. Research supports that youth who report high levels of family ethnic-racial socialization concurrently report high levels of ethnic-racial identity centrality, a facet of youth's ethnic-racial identity that shapes their self-concept and experiences. However, there is less research examining how ethnic-racial socialization and centrality relate to one another over time, limiting the field's understanding of how youth's centrality evolves as they are socialized and are active agents of their own development. This study analyzes the interrelations between cultural socialization, a form of family ethnic-racial socialization, and centrality over one year across three waves of data collection. Participants were 2153 Black and Latine high school students from the Southwest and Midwest U.S. (Mage = 15.91; SDage = 1.17; 57% Black; 44% boys, 54% girls, 2% another gender). Results from multigroup cross-lagged panel modeling indicated that, across groups, higher cultural socialization was associated with a positive change in centrality, but not vice versa. Findings highlight how the family context supports the progressive development of youth's emerging beliefs about their ethnic-racial identities.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Childhood maltreatment is closely related to prosocial behaviors, which usually emerges from early childhood to early adolescence. There has been, however, no agreement on the results regarding the individual and joint effects of maltreatment subtypes. This study aims to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the association between maltreatment subtypes and prosocial behaviors. A total of 29 studies with 30 independent samples and 81 independent effect sizes are included in this meta-analysis (n = 58,047; 55.61% female). The results indicate a significant but modest negative association between childhood maltreatment and prosocial behaviors (r = -0.127; z = 4.51, p < 0.001). Among other things, neglect shows the largest effect size (r = -0.130; z = 3.36, p < 0.01). Multiple subtypes of childhood maltreatment displays a larger effect size (r = -0.138; z = 4.29, p < 0.001) than any single subtype of childhood maltreatment. Overall, by clarifying the differential negative associations of single maltreatment subtypes and the stronger negative effects of multiple subtypes, this study moves beyond the either-or debates between the altruism inhibition assumption and the altruism born of suffering assumption. It thereby provides nuanced evidence that avoids aligning with either extreme position. These findings highlight the importance of targeted interventions, such as addressing neglect specifically or responding to multiple maltreatment subtypes comprehensively, in promoting empathy and fostering posttraumatic growth to facilitate moral development in adolescence.
儿童虐待与亲社会行为密切相关，通常出现在儿童早期到青少年早期。然而，关于虐待亚型的个体和联合影响的结果尚未达成一致。本研究旨在通过系统回顾和meta分析来评估虐待亚型与亲社会行为之间的关系。本meta分析共纳入29项研究，30个独立样本，81个独立效应量（n = 58,047，女性55.61%）。结果表明，儿童虐待与亲社会行为之间存在显著但适度的负相关（r = -0.127; z = 4.51, p < 0.001）。在其他因素中，忽视显示出最大的效应大小（r = -0.130; z = 3.36, p < 0.01）。儿童虐待的多个亚型比任何单一亚型的儿童虐待表现出更大的效应量（r = -0.138; z = 4.29, p < 0.001）。总的来说，通过澄清单一虐待亚型的不同负面关联和多种亚型的更强负面影响，本研究超越了利他主义抑制假设和利他主义源于痛苦假设之间的非此此彼的争论。因此，它提供了微妙的证据，避免与任何一个极端立场一致。这些发现强调了有针对性的干预措施的重要性，例如具体解决忽视问题或全面应对多种虐待亚型，以促进移情和促进创伤后成长，以促进青少年的道德发展。
{"title":"How Childhood Maltreatment Predicts Prosocial Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"Rui Yuan,Lei Yang,Meixi Liu,Yuying Xie,Yiting Jiang","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02257-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02257-x","url":null,"abstract":"Childhood maltreatment is closely related to prosocial behaviors, which usually emerges from early childhood to early adolescence. There has been, however, no agreement on the results regarding the individual and joint effects of maltreatment subtypes. This study aims to conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the association between maltreatment subtypes and prosocial behaviors. A total of 29 studies with 30 independent samples and 81 independent effect sizes are included in this meta-analysis (n = 58,047; 55.61% female). The results indicate a significant but modest negative association between childhood maltreatment and prosocial behaviors (r = -0.127; z = 4.51, p < 0.001). Among other things, neglect shows the largest effect size (r = -0.130; z = 3.36, p < 0.01). Multiple subtypes of childhood maltreatment displays a larger effect size (r = -0.138; z = 4.29, p < 0.001) than any single subtype of childhood maltreatment. Overall, by clarifying the differential negative associations of single maltreatment subtypes and the stronger negative effects of multiple subtypes, this study moves beyond the either-or debates between the altruism inhibition assumption and the altruism born of suffering assumption. It thereby provides nuanced evidence that avoids aligning with either extreme position. These findings highlight the importance of targeted interventions, such as addressing neglect specifically or responding to multiple maltreatment subtypes comprehensively, in promoting empathy and fostering posttraumatic growth to facilitate moral development in adolescence.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145078342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-17DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02250-4
Jessica I den Elzen,Jessica J Asscher,Kyle M Lang,Hanne M Duindam
Violent radicalization linked to conspiracy belief has gained increasing attention over the last few years, yet little is known about these dynamics in youth. In this study, a latent profile analysis was conducted to better understand violent radicalization in the context of conspiracy belief among youth aged 16-25. Participants were 2297 Dutch adolescents and emerging adults (Mage = 19.55, SDage = 2.75; 63.3% female). Six profiles were identified, varying in levels of violent radicalization and conspiracy belief. While the largest profile indicated low levels of both, two smaller profiles showed heightened violent radicalization, with differing conspiracy belief. Heightened radicalization profiles were generally younger, male, and more politically extreme, whereas vocational education was more prevalent in high conspiracy profiles. Overall, the findings highlight different manifestations of violent radicalization and conspiracy belief in middle to late adolescence and emerging adulthood and the importance of considering individual and broader contextual conditions.
{"title":"Understanding Violent Radicalization and Conspiracy Belief in Dutch Youth Aged 16-25: A Latent Profile Analysis.","authors":"Jessica I den Elzen,Jessica J Asscher,Kyle M Lang,Hanne M Duindam","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02250-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02250-4","url":null,"abstract":"Violent radicalization linked to conspiracy belief has gained increasing attention over the last few years, yet little is known about these dynamics in youth. In this study, a latent profile analysis was conducted to better understand violent radicalization in the context of conspiracy belief among youth aged 16-25. Participants were 2297 Dutch adolescents and emerging adults (Mage = 19.55, SDage = 2.75; 63.3% female). Six profiles were identified, varying in levels of violent radicalization and conspiracy belief. While the largest profile indicated low levels of both, two smaller profiles showed heightened violent radicalization, with differing conspiracy belief. Heightened radicalization profiles were generally younger, male, and more politically extreme, whereas vocational education was more prevalent in high conspiracy profiles. Overall, the findings highlight different manifestations of violent radicalization and conspiracy belief in middle to late adolescence and emerging adulthood and the importance of considering individual and broader contextual conditions.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"93 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072441","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-17DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02258-w
Le Dang,Jing Zhai,Chester C S Kam,Xiaoyu Su,Anise M S Wu
Existing research on the associations among self-concept clarity, player-avatar identification, and Internet gaming disorder has largely relied on cross-sectional designs, and the findings were inconsistent. This three-wave longitudinal study examined whether self-concept clarity and player-avatar identification jointly and reciprocally relate to Internet gaming disorder symptoms among emerging adults using both general and random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. Participants were 877 role-playing gamers (Mage = 19.81, SDage = 1.33; 54.80% female) with a baseline and two follow-up surveys (at six and twelve months). Results of both general and random-intercept cross-lagged panel models indicated that, contrary to the hypotheses, self-concept clarity did not predict Internet gaming disorder symptoms nor vice versa, and neither self-concept clarity nor player-avatar identification showed significant indirect effects on Internet gaming disorder symptoms. Although player-avatar identification maintained a positive association with Internet gaming disorder symptoms at the between-person level, it showed no prospective effects at the within-person level. The present study did not provide empirical support for any hypothesized prospective mechanisms among the measured variables. Still, its findings suggest that domain-specific cognitive factors, such as player-avatar identification, may be informative for monitoring Internet gaming disorder risk and highlight the need to support self-concept development during emerging adulthood.
{"title":"Gaming for Self-Searching? A Three-Wave Longitudinal Investigation on the Correlations and Predictions Among Self-Concept Clarity, Player-Avatar Identification, and Internet Gaming Disorder.","authors":"Le Dang,Jing Zhai,Chester C S Kam,Xiaoyu Su,Anise M S Wu","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02258-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02258-w","url":null,"abstract":"Existing research on the associations among self-concept clarity, player-avatar identification, and Internet gaming disorder has largely relied on cross-sectional designs, and the findings were inconsistent. This three-wave longitudinal study examined whether self-concept clarity and player-avatar identification jointly and reciprocally relate to Internet gaming disorder symptoms among emerging adults using both general and random-intercept cross-lagged panel model. Participants were 877 role-playing gamers (Mage = 19.81, SDage = 1.33; 54.80% female) with a baseline and two follow-up surveys (at six and twelve months). Results of both general and random-intercept cross-lagged panel models indicated that, contrary to the hypotheses, self-concept clarity did not predict Internet gaming disorder symptoms nor vice versa, and neither self-concept clarity nor player-avatar identification showed significant indirect effects on Internet gaming disorder symptoms. Although player-avatar identification maintained a positive association with Internet gaming disorder symptoms at the between-person level, it showed no prospective effects at the within-person level. The present study did not provide empirical support for any hypothesized prospective mechanisms among the measured variables. Still, its findings suggest that domain-specific cognitive factors, such as player-avatar identification, may be informative for monitoring Internet gaming disorder risk and highlight the need to support self-concept development during emerging adulthood.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145072443","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-11DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02251-3
Erik Aspeqvist,Laura Korhonen,Örjan Dahlström,Hedvig Andersson,Imke Baetens,Paul Plener,Maria Zetterqvist
Rising rates of mental health problems and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents highlight the need for preventive interventions and the lack of evidence regarding such measures. To date, few studies have investigated school-based prevention programs targeting NSSI. In this study, a whole-school preventive intervention was carried out at Swedish lower secondary schools and evaluated in a cluster-randomized controlled trial. The whole-school intervention included classroom-based modules focusing on mental health and NSSI directed at students, psychoeducational webinars on NSSI directed at parents and teachers, and a two-day workshop on NSSI and suicidality for school health staff. Data were collected from students (N = 183, age M = 14.17, SD = 0.55, 58% female) at baseline and three- and six-month post-intervention follow-ups. Analyses revealed a significant decrease in three-month NSSI frequency and a significant difference in mental health-related stigma awareness in the intervention group compared to controls. Regarding other outcomes (NSSI onset, attitudes toward help-seeking, perceived social support, health-related quality of life, emotion regulation and self-criticism), no significant effects were found. Effects moderated by gender and history of NSSI were found, underscoring that the outcomes of universal prevention are not always uniformly distributed. Main conclusions were that whole-school prevention can be effective in reducing NSSI frequency as well as affecting the awareness of mental health-related stigma.
{"title":"Effects of a Whole-School Prevention Program Targeting Mental Health and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury in Swedish Adolescents: A Cluster-Randomized Experimental Study with Longitudinal Follow-Up.","authors":"Erik Aspeqvist,Laura Korhonen,Örjan Dahlström,Hedvig Andersson,Imke Baetens,Paul Plener,Maria Zetterqvist","doi":"10.1007/s10964-025-02251-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-025-02251-3","url":null,"abstract":"Rising rates of mental health problems and nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) among adolescents highlight the need for preventive interventions and the lack of evidence regarding such measures. To date, few studies have investigated school-based prevention programs targeting NSSI. In this study, a whole-school preventive intervention was carried out at Swedish lower secondary schools and evaluated in a cluster-randomized controlled trial. The whole-school intervention included classroom-based modules focusing on mental health and NSSI directed at students, psychoeducational webinars on NSSI directed at parents and teachers, and a two-day workshop on NSSI and suicidality for school health staff. Data were collected from students (N = 183, age M = 14.17, SD = 0.55, 58% female) at baseline and three- and six-month post-intervention follow-ups. Analyses revealed a significant decrease in three-month NSSI frequency and a significant difference in mental health-related stigma awareness in the intervention group compared to controls. Regarding other outcomes (NSSI onset, attitudes toward help-seeking, perceived social support, health-related quality of life, emotion regulation and self-criticism), no significant effects were found. Effects moderated by gender and history of NSSI were found, underscoring that the outcomes of universal prevention are not always uniformly distributed. Main conclusions were that whole-school prevention can be effective in reducing NSSI frequency as well as affecting the awareness of mental health-related stigma.","PeriodicalId":17624,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Youth and Adolescence","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2025-09-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145032001","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-09-10DOI: 10.1007/s10964-025-02241-5
Michael Medina,Marika Sigal,Tseng Vang,Amy Bellmore,Melissa Witkow,Adrienne Nishina
School interethnic climate has interpersonal and intrapersonal implications for adolescent development, but little is known of how it influences their psychological adjustment over time, let alone what drives this influence. This study examined whether two components of identity-school belonging perceptions and ethnic-racial identity beliefs-mediate the association between 10th grade perceptions of school interethnic climate and 12th grade psychological adjustment. The analytic sample includes 849 students (50% girls; 30% Latinx, 27% White, 16% Asian/Pacific Islander, 18% Multiethnic, 6% African American/Black, 3% Other). Data were collected across three grade levels (Grade 10 ageM = 15.4 [0.52], Grade 11 ageM = 16.4 [0.52], Grade 12 ageM = 17.4 [0.52]) in three public high schools in two U.S. states. Findings indicated that school belonging, but not ethnic-racial identity, in 11th grade fully mediated the relation between school interethnic climate and later psychological adjustment. These pathways did not significantly differ between Asian American/Pacific Islander, Latinx, Multiethnic, and White students. This work highlights school belonging and ethnic-racial identity as distinct and beneficial developmental mechanisms in this context, as well as provides pragmatic school-centered implications for practice.
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