International Journal of Adolescence and Youth最新文献

Incorporating the perspectives of young people regarding their perspectives on ethical collaborative research may enrich our current understanding of ethical practices within such research, as young people are capable of providing creative, innovative and novel perspectives that otherwise remain unknown to the adult academic establishment. Youth, Ethics & Participation (YEP), a qualitative study conducted as part of the Health CASCADE project, aimed at engaging young people around the nature and meaning of ethics within collaborative research while developing moral awareness. Young people shared their perspectives on the meaning of ethical collaborative research, while showing their interest and ability of moral reasoning through the formulation of arguments explaining their position on a variety of ethically salient issues within collaborative research. The current study indicates that the engagement of young people in collaborative research is a potential source for instigating social change through their engagement in moral reasoning.

Evidence suggests that adolescent girls are struggling in everyday life, possibly contributing to rising mental health difficulties in this group. A better understanding of their situation is required, yet accessing their daily lives is challenging. This study adopted a novel approach, combining Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis with mobile-phone video diaries to explore how adolescent girls experience and make sense of their everyday lives, with a particular focus on what matters most to them. Participants aged 16-17 recorded diaries for two-weeks and were interviewed about the areas identified. Three themes: Sacrificing now under the weight of the future, The future is coming frighteningly fast and I'm not ready to be an adult and Don't relax: struggling with relentless pressure and worry, reveal anguish caused by constantly looking towards the future, bringing a new perspective to this area and highlighting the need to help adolescent girls create space and value in their lives.

Social media forms a significant part of adolescents' lives, yet its impact on depression is unclear. We aimed to develop a questionnaire assessing different ways of using social media, and use it to understand potential associations with depression in adolescence. One thousand one hundred and forty adolescents completed an item pool. Factor analyses were conducted to derive the Social Media Scale (SMS). Ant Colony Optimization was used to develop a short-form SMS containing the factors which uniquely predicted depression as determined by structural equation modelling. The 45-item, nine-factor, SMS, had an acceptable model fit. Five factors (Social comparison; Passing time; Hostility from others; Hostility towards others; and Seeking support) uniquely contributed to depression and together explained 44% of its variance. These factors formed a 15-item short-form SMS, which had an excellent model fit. Social comparison and Passing time on social media had the strongest associations with depression and may be targets for future psychological interventions.

Youth are susceptible to experiencing loneliness, which is associated with poor mental health and substance use. However there are limited data from low-middle-income settings especially in youth living with HIV. This study investigated loneliness in South African youth and association with perinatal HIV infection (PHIV), mental health and substance use. A cross-sectional descriptive exploratory study of youth with PHIV and HIV negative youth 17 to 24 years was conducted measuring loneliness and associations with depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), trauma exposure, coping, resilience and substance use. Of 122 youth, a moderate to high degree of loneliness was found in 92.6%. Loneliness was associated with female sex, depression, anxiety, PTSD, negative coping, lower levels of resilience and exposure to trauma. Loneliness was not associated with PHIV or substance use. Given the high levels of loneliness, peer-based interventions for youth aimed at improving social support, depression and anxiety should be strengthened.