Search Results - "Journal of adolescent research"

Gender and Sexual Identity in Adolescence: A Mixed-Methods Study of Labeling in Diverse Community Settings by Hammack, Phillip L., Hughes, Sam D., Atwood, Julianne M., Cohen, Elliot M., Clark, Richard C.

“…Understandings of sexual and gender identity have expanded beyond traditional binaries, yet we know little about adolescents’ appropriation of identity labels…”
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“You Never Become Fully Independent”: Family Roles and Independence in First-Generation College Students by Covarrubias, Rebecca, Valle, Ibette, Laiduc, Giselle, Azmitia, Margarita

“…First-generation (FG) college students often confront cultural mismatches between their interdependent backgrounds and university contexts that promote…”
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The Mental Health Effects of Student Activism: Persisting Despite Psychological Costs by Conner, Jerusha O., Crawford, Emily, Galioto, Megan

“…As student activism continues to roil campuses, concerns have arisen about the mental health costs associated with activist-oriented civic engagement. Drawing…”
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“I Didn’t Come to School for This”: A Qualitative Examination of Experiences With Race-Related Stressors and Coping Responses Among Black Students Attending a Predominantly White Institution by Griffith, Aisha N., Hurd, Noelle M., Hussain, Saida B.

“…Exposure to race-related stressors such as discrimination may take a toll on Black undergraduates attending predominantly White institutions (PWIs) who must…”
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“Let Me Do What I Please With It . . . Don’t Decide My Identity For Me”: LGBTQ+ Youth Experiences of Social Media in Narrative Identity Development by Bates, Adam, Hobman, Trish, Bell, Beth T.

“…Social media provides Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Queer Plus (LGBTQ+) youth with daily access to a broader sociocultural dialogue that may shape narrative…”
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Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors by Verity, Lily, Yang, Keming, Nowland, Rebecca, Shankar, Aparna, Turnbull, Michelle, Qualter, Pamela

“…There is limited qualitative research on the experience of loneliness in adolescence, meaning key facets of the loneliness experience that are important in…”
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“That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Youth’s Online Civic Engagement by Wilf, Sara, Wray-Lake, Laura

“…This paper describes forms of online youth civic engagement that center the experiences of youth with historically marginalized identities and documents ways…”
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Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling by Suzuki, Sara, Morris, Stacy L., Johnson, Sara K.

“…How researchers use statistical analyses shapes their research toward or away from an anti-racist agenda. In this article, we demonstrate how developmental…”
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“Will My Young Adult Years be Spent Socially Distancing?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Adolescents’ Experiences During the COVID-19 UK Lockdown by Demkowicz, Ola, Ashworth, Emma, O’Neill, Alisha, Hanley, Terry, Pert, Kirsty

“…For older adolescents, the COVID-19 pandemic and UK restrictions arrived during a critical period in the transition to adulthood. Early research exploring…”
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Improving Mental Health Among Transgender Adolescents: Implementing Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens by Bluth, Karen, Lathren, Christine, Clepper-Faith, Melissa, Larson, Lillia M., Ogunbamowo, Daniel O., Pflum, Samantha

“…The purpose of this study was to investigate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary outcomes of an online self-compassion intervention for transgender…”
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“It’s Better Saying I Look Fat Instead of Saying You Look Fat”: A Qualitative Study of U.K. Adolescents’ Understanding of Appearance-Related Interactions on Social Media by Paddock, Danielle L., Bell, Beth T.

“…Appearance-related interactions with peers, both positive and negative, are commonplace on social media. Using qualitative methods, this study explores U.K…”
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What Matters for Urban Adolescents’ Engagement and Disengagement in School: A Mixed-Methods Study by Fredricks, Jennifer A., Parr, Alyssa K., Amemiya, Jamie L., Wang, Ming-Te, Brauer, Scott

“…This study uses a mixed-method sequential exploratory design to examine influences on urban adolescents’ engagement and disengagement in school. First, we…”
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“A Little Bit Closer”: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Adolescent Parents by Astle, Shelby M., Duncan, Jeneé C., Toews, Michelle L., Perez-Brena, Norma J., McAllister, Paige, Maddy, Molly A., E. Feinberg, Mark

“…Using a Family Stress Model framework, we used quantitative and qualitative methods to investigate the impact of the pandemic on Latinx pregnant and parenting…”
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“It’s Almost Like Gay Sex Doesn’t Exist”: Parent-Child Sex Communication According to Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Male Adolescents by Flores, Dalmacio, Docherty, Sharron L., Relf, Michael V., McKinney, Ross E., Barroso, Julie V.

“…Sex communication interventions facilitate positive sexual health outcomes with heterosexual adolescents. The same has yet to be established for male youth…”
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Autonomy, Social Inequality, and Support in Chinese Urban and Rural Adolescents’ Reasoning About the Chinese College Entrance Examination (Gaokao) by Liu, Gloria Xiao Yu, Helwig, Charles C.

“…The Gaokao, a mandatory postsecondary entrance examination for all Chinese students, is often associated with psychological stress among Chinese students in…”
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How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the UK: A Qualitative Study by Pearcey, Samantha, Burgess, Lowrie, Shum, Adrienne, Sajid, Eshal, Sargent, Milly, Klampe, Marie-Louise, Lawrence, Peter J., Waite, Polly

“…There is emerging evidence of the detrimental impact of the pandemic and associated restrictions on young people’s mental health in the UK, but to date, these…”
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What Do Peers Think About Sexting? Adolescents’ Views of the Norms Guiding Sexting Behavior by Burén, Jonas, Holmqvist Gattario, Kristina, Lunde, Carolina

“…This study examined the content of injunctive peer norms (i.e., perceived peer approval) of sexting among Swedish adolescents. Written answers from 808…”
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Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported by West, Monique, Rice, Simon, Vella-Brodrick, Dianne

“…The pervasiveness of social media in adolescents’ lives has important implications for their relationships. Considering today’s adolescents have grown up with…”
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Concrete and Abstract Dimensions of Diverse Adolescents’ Social-Emotional Meaning-Making, and Associations With Broader Functioning by Gotlieb, Rebecca J.M., Yang, Xiao-Fei, Immordino-Yang, Mary Helen

“…Adolescence is a sensitive period of social-emotional growth, when new abilities for abstract thinking also emerge. Especially among youth from under-resourced…”
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Black Early Adolescent Critical Reflection of Inequitable Sociopolitical Conditions: A Qualitative Investigation by Hope, Elan C., Bañales, Josefina

“…In this study, we investigate how Black early adolescents describe the influence of systems and individuals on sociopolitical conditions in their schools,…”
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