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351 to 375 of 838Parenting style as a predictor of adolescent weight and weight-related behaviors.
Purpose: Current research indicates that specific parenting styles are associated with adolescent overweight, dietary intake, and physical activity; but most of the research has been cross-sectional, making it difficult to determine the temporal order of these associations. The current study adds to the previous research by examining 5-year longitudinal associations between parenting style and adolescent weight and weight-related behaviors.
Methods: Data from Project EAT, a population-based study with adolescents from diverse ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, were used. Adolescents (N = 2,516) from 31 Minnesota schools completed in-class assessments in 1999 (Time 1) and mailed surveys in 2004 (Time 2). Multiple linear regression models were used to predict mean levels of adolescent outcomes at Time 2 from parenting style at Time 1.
Results: Time 1 maternal authoritative parenting sty…
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Parenting styles, family structure and adolescent dietary behaviour.
Objective: To examine associations between parenting styles, family structure and aspects of adolescent dietary behaviour.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Setting: Secondary schools in the East Midlands, UK.
Subjects: Adolescents aged 12-16 years (n 328, 57 % boys) completed an FFQ assessing their consumption of fruit, vegetables, unhealthy snacks and breakfast. Adolescents provided information on parental and sibling status and completed a seventeen-item instrument measuring the general parenting style dimensions of involvement and strictness, from which four styles were derived: indulgent, neglectful, authoritarian, authoritative.
Results: After controlling for adolescent gender and age, analysis of covariance revealed no significant interactions between parenting style and family structure variables for any of the dietary behaviours assessed. Significant main effects for family structu…
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Parenting characteristics in the home environment and adolescent overweight: a latent class analysis.
Parenting style and parental support and modeling of physical activity and healthy dietary intake have been linked to youth weight status, although findings have been inconsistent across studies. Furthermore, little is known about how these factors co-occur, and the influence of the coexistence of these factors on adolescents' weight. This article examines the relationship between the co-occurrence of various parenting characteristics and adolescents' weight status. Data are from Project EAT (eating among teens), a population-based study of 4,746 diverse adolescents. Theoretical and latent class groupings of parenting styles and parenting practices were created. Regression analyses examined the relationship between the created variables and adolescents' BMI. Having an authoritarian mother was associated with higher BMI in sons. The co-occurrence of an authoritarian mother and neglectful …
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Parenting and antisocial behavior: a model of the relationship between adolescent self-disclosure, parental closeness, parental control, and adolescent antisocial behavior.
This study used data collected from a sample of 840 Italian adolescents (418 boys; M age = 12.58) and their parents (657 mothers; M age = 43.78) to explore the relations between parenting, adolescent self-disclosure, and antisocial behavior. In the hypothesized model, parenting practices (e.g., parental monitoring and control) have direct effects on parental knowledge and antisocial behavior. Parenting style (e.g., parent-child closeness), on the other hand, is directly related to adolescent self-disclosure, which in turn is positively related to parental knowledge and negatively related to adolescents' antisocial behavior. A structural equation model, which incorporated data from parents and adolescents, largely supported the hypothesized model. Gender-specific models also found some gender differences among adolescents and parents, as the hypothesized model adequately fit the subsample…
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Parenting practices and problem behavior across three generations: monitoring, harsh discipline, and drug use in the intergenerational transmission of externalizing behavior.
Using data from grandparents (G1), parents (G2), and children (G3), this study examined continuity in parental monitoring, harsh discipline, and child externalizing behavior across generations, and the contribution of parenting practices and parental drug use to intergenerational continuity in child externalizing behavior. Structural equation and path modeling of prospective, longitudinal data from 808 G2 participants, their G1 parents, and their school-age G3 children (n = 136) showed that parental monitoring and harsh discipline demonstrated continuity from G1 to G2. Externalizing behavior demonstrated continuity from G2 to G3. Continuity in parenting practices did not explain the intergenerational continuity in externalizing behavior. Rather, G2 adolescent externalizing behavior predicted their adult substance use, which was associated with G3 externalizing behavior. A small indirect …
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Quinn J (2008)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usNew directions for youth development Perspectives on spiritual development as part of youth development.
Speaking to the issue of spiritual development from her extensive experience as a youth work practitioner, the author notes several ideas she finds particularly compelling, among them that spiritual development interacts with, yet is distinct from, moral and religious development; that spiritual development is a core construct of identity formation, one of the central tasks of adolescence; and that the spiritual dimensions of youth development relate not only to work with young people but also to motivations for engaging in this work. Engaging young people in the fundamental questions of life and being human is a task that belongs in both secular and religious settings.
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Aggregating indices of risk and protection for adolescent behavior problems: the Communities That Care Youth Survey.
Purpose: To facilitate research on adolescent risk and protection regarding behavior problems, and to facilitate community decision-making regarding resource allocation for intervention programs, by creating a reduced set of coherent aggregate indices of adolescent risk and protection.
Methods: We examined the 31 risk and protective factor scales in the Communities That Care Youth Survey (CTC-YS). Data came from two waves of the CTC-YS administered to sixth through 12th graders in Pennsylvania (2001 n = 43,842; 2003 n =101,988). Factor analysis and calculation of internal reliability were used to create aggregate indices of risk/protective factor domains. Correlations of aggregate indices with each other and with problem behaviors (antisocial behavior, substance use) were examined.
Results: Theory and empirical results led to the creation of seven coherent indices: Community Cohesion, Fa…
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Parental attachment, parental control, and early development of alcohol use: a longitudinal study.
The authors explored the predictive influence of both parental attachment and parental control on early onset of alcohol consumption in adolescence by use of a longitudinal sample of 1,012 young adolescents. Whether the relationship between parental control and adolescents' drinking is moderated by parental attachment was also examined. Consistent with other studies, attachment and strict control were cross-sectionally related to adolescents' alcohol use at all 3 measurements. However, the longitudinal results of structural equation modeling analyses suggest that a good attachment relationship between parent and child does not prevent adolescents from drinking. In addition, strict control was related to lower engagement in alcohol use. Furthermore, with regard to the moderating effect, parental attachment did not moderate longitudinally the association between parental control and an ear…
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Low self-esteem during adolescence predicts poor health, criminal behavior, and limited economic prospects during adulthood.
Using prospective data from the Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study birth cohort, the authors found that adolescents with low self-esteem had poorer mental and physical health, worse economic prospects, and higher levels of criminal behavior during adulthood, compared with adolescents with high self-esteem. The long-term consequences of self-esteem could not be explained by adolescent depression, gender, or socioeconomic status. Moreover, the findings held when the outcome variables were assessed using objective measures and informant reports; therefore, the findings cannot be explained by shared method variance in self-report data. The findings suggest that low self-esteem during adolescence predicts negative real-world consequences during adulthood.
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ADHD and Moral Development in Childhood and Adolescence: A Systematic Review of Attachment, Temperament, and Socio-Emotional Mechanisms.
Background: Moral development (MD) arises from the interaction of attachment, temperament, emotion regulation, and decision-making. Children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) frequently show impairments across these domains, suggesting increased vulnerability to disruptions in MD. However, the mechanisms linking ADHD to MD remain poorly understood. Methods: A systematic review was conducted according to PRISMA 2020 guidelines. PubMed was searched for studies published between January 2014 and November 2024 examining MD-related constructs, including moral reasoning, fairness, aggression, bullying, callous-unemotional (CU) traits, decision-making, and reward sensitivity, in individuals aged 0-18 years with diagnosed or subclinical ADHD. Due to substantial heterogeneity in study design, measures, and outcomes, a qualitative synthesis was performed. Results…
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Fairness, prosociality, hypocrisy, and happiness: Children's and adolescents' motives for showing unselfish behaviour and positive emotions.
The present study examined what motives account for age-related decreases in selfish behaviour and whether these motives equally predict positive emotions when making a moral decision. The study was based on a sample of 190 children and adolescents (101 females) from three different age groups (childhood, early adolescence, and middle adolescence, M = 12.9 years, SD = 2.58). A decision-making task was used where participants chose between (1) maximizing their own self-interest versus (2) being prosocial, (3) being fair, or (4) appearing fair while avoiding the costs of actually being fair. Overall, prosociality and fairness were equally important motives for unselfish behaviour. At the same time, the importance of fairness motivation increased with age. Hypocrisy motivation was less frequent than expected by chance. Prosociality was most strongly and positively associated with self-rated…
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Bullying among students ecological insights from a school based adolescent health survey, Himachal Pradesh, India.
Background and objective: Bullying among adolescents is a growing public health concern with serious mental, emotional, and social well-being consequences. This study aims to assess prevalence of physical and cyberbullying among school-going adolescents (13-17 years) in Himachal Pradesh, India, and identify risky and protective factors using an ecological framework descriptively.
Methods: A cross-sectional, school-based survey was conducted across Himachal Pradesh using culturally adapted standardised questionnaire. Multivariate logistic regression analysis was performed to identify factors associated with bullying perpetration and victimization.
Results: Out of 7563 adolescents surveyed, 18.41% reported involvement in physical or cyber bullying, with 13.96% involved in physical bullying and 9.64% in cyberbullying. Additionally, 15.60% adolescents reported being victims, including 11.40%…
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Does time scarcity amplify high-calorie food preferences in adolescents? The role of analytical thinking and awe.
Although extensive research has demonstrated that time scarcity perception significantly affects behavioral decision-making, its influence on adolescents' high-calorie food choices remains underexplored. Inspired by theoretical frameworks concerning function of scarcity, analytical thinking, and awe, the present study aimed to examine the causal effect of time scarcity perception on adolescents' high-calorie food choice, to examine the mediating role of analytical thinking in this behavioral pattern, and to examine the potential moderating effect of awe emotion on both the primary relationship and the mediating pathway. Four experiments were conducted with adolescents as participants. The results showed that: (1) time scarcity perceptions significantly increased the selection of high-calorie foods; (2) time scarcity perceptions were negatively correlated with analytical thinking; (3) …
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Peer Interdependence in Bullying Victimization, Self-Compassion, and Moral Disengagement: A Dyadic Analysis of Early Adolescents.
Moral disengagement plays a critical role in adolescents' social adjustment, and growing evidence suggests that peer characteristics may be linked to its development. However, limited research has explored how best friend's adverse experiences and emotion regulation strategies relate to adolescents' moral strategies. Bullying victimization and self-compassion, as salient adverse experiences and emotion regulation processes during adolescence, have been associated with moral disengagement, but the interpersonal patterns of these associations remain unclear. To address this gap, the present study applied the actor-partner interdependence model in a six-month longitudinal design to examine how adolescents' own (actor effects) and best friend's (partner effects) bullying victimization experiences and self-compassion were associated with their moral disengagement over time. The study sample i…
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Parent-adolescent relationship quality and smartphone addiction: a hierarchical analysis of relational and demographic predictors.
Background: Adolescents' smartphone use has increased substantially, raising concerns about problematic use and its public health implications. Although parent-child relationship quality plays an important role in adolescents' behavioral regulation, the distinct contributions of parental support and alienation to smartphone addiction remain insufficiently clarified.
Objective: This study examined whether maternal and paternal support and alienation were associated with adolescent smartphone addiction after accounting for demographic characteristics and smartphone use duration.
Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 210 adolescents (aged 11-16 years) from government and government-aided schools in Chennai, India. Participants completed the Smartphone Addiction Scale-Short Version-Tamil (SAS-SV-T) and the mother and father forms of the Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment …
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Cormier M, Murray NE, Li S, Saad Hossne J, Marin-Dragu S, Muzamil M, Bagnell A, Sherry SB, Orji R, Stewart SH, Meier S (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usArchives of sexual behavior Screen Usage and Social Media Motives in Gender and Sexual Minority Adolescents.
Gender and sexual minority adolescents experience higher rates of discrimination, stigma, and mental health challenges compared to their majority peers. They also tend to spend more time online, potentially using social media and other digital platforms as a coping mechanism. However, little research has examined how gender identity and sexual orientation relate to both the motives for and duration of screen use. The present study aimed to address this gap by exploring these associations and investigating whether gender and sexual minority status moderated the relationships between screen use motives and screen time. A cross-sectional online study was conducted in Canada, recruiting 2132 adolescents aged 10-18 years. Among them, 1111 identified as cisgender girls, 921 as cisgender boys, and 100 as gender diverse; of the gender diverse participants, 84 were female, 8 were male, and 8 did …
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Association between Internet addiction and mental health problems among Chinese adolescents in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era: a propensity score matching study.
Background: Improving adolescent mental health is a priority for public health, with Internet addiction (IA) being notably linked to these problems. In the post-pandemic era, increased screen time and social isolation persist, albeit in a more normalized form, potentially continuing to affect adolescent mental health. The current study aims to examine the relationship between IA and mental health problems among Chinese adolescents in the post-COVID-19 pandemic era.
Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in two cities of Henan Province, China, between April and May 2023. A total of 8176 junior high school students were recruited from 6 schools using a stratified random cluster sampling method. The associations between IA and mental health problems were assessed using ordinary least squares model and propensity score matching, specifically employing 1:1 nearest neighbor matching, …
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Who is most at risk, and when? Gender-differentiated patterns and risk heterogeneity of adolescent depression in China: Evidence from a large-scale national study.
Adolescent depression is a major public health concern involving well-documented gender differences that may vary across cultural contexts. In China's academically intensive educational environment, questions regarding when depression risk peaks across adolescence, how behavioral and social factors relate to depression differentially by gender, and how risks cluster into distinct vulnerability profiles remain underexplored. This cross-sectional study analyzed data from a nationwide survey of 414,175 Chinese adolescents. We used generalized additive models and latent profile analysis to examine gender-differentiated age patterns and behavioral-social risk configurations. Results showed that girls reported higher depression scores than boys. Age patterns differed by gender: girls exhibited persistently elevated depression between ages 14-18, whereas boys showed na less pronounced inverted …
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Nagata JM, Shim JE, Balasubramanian P, Cheng CM, Al-Shoaibi AAA, Shao IY, Ganson KT, Testa A, Kiss O, He J, Baker FC (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usAmerican journal of preventive medicine Prospective Associations Between Early Adolescent Problematic Screen Use, Mental Health, Sleep, and Substance Use.
Introduction: There are limited large-scale, prospective analyses examining problematic (addiction-like) screen use and mental and behavioral health outcomes in early adolescents. This study aimed to determine the associations between problematic screen use and mental and behavioral health outcomes-such as depressive symptoms, suicidal behaviors, sleep disturbance, and substance use initiation-1 year later in a national cohort of children aged 11-12 years in the U.S.
Methods: Prospective cohort data from Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study participants who reported their screen use at ages 11-12 (Year 2, 2018-2020; N=8,119; 47.5% female; 43.8% racial/ethnic minority) were analyzed in 2025. Associations between problematic screen use (Social Media Addiction Questionnaire, Video Game Addiction Questionnaire, Mobile Phone Involvement Questionnaire, Year 2) and mental and behavioral…
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Adolescent cyberbullying and polysubstance use: unpacking sex differences.
The rise of social media platforms has heightened cyberbullying among adolescents, closely tied to negative mental health outcomes. Substance use, including alcohol, cannabis, and tobacco, also remains a significant concern for this population. This study examines the relationship between cyberbullying and substance use, exploring potential sex differences in these associations. We analyzed data from the 2021 Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey (ABES) (n = 6,740 students in grades 9-12). We used multinomial logistic regression models to assess the relationship between past-year cyberbullying and current patterns of substance use (exclusive, dual, and poly), adjusting for sociodemographic factors, screen time, and mental health status. Stratified analyses examined effect modification by sex. Overall, 13.6% of the sample reported experiencing cyberbullying in the past year. Of thes…
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Exploring the factors associated with health literacy among adolescents in Hong Kong.
Health literacy is crucial for promoting healthy behaviors and is linked to improved health outcomes among adolescents, yet global levels remain suboptimal. In Hong Kong, where rising rates of obesity and related health issues among adolescents are of increasing concern, understanding health literacy in this population is essential. However, current interventions of health literacy face challenges in effectively addressing the differences between the target groups. Therefore, this study aims to investigate factors associated with health literacy among adolescents in Hong Kong, to provide evidence for identifying groups for intervention implementation. This is a cross-sectional study conducted in Hong Kong. Secondary school students from grades 1 to 4 in Hong Kong were recruited to complete a 98-item survey measuring socio-demographic information, socioeconomic status (SES), health behavi…
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Che W, Ruan Z, Tao S, Wang M, Cao Y, Niu Y, Chen Y, Jiang T, Li T, Zou L, Tao F, Wu X (2026)MEDLINE-indexed journal, not yet read by usBMC psychiatry Associations of clustered unhealthy lifestyle behaviors with comorbidity of anxiety and depression among adolescents.
BACKGROUND: A variety of unhealthy lifestyle behaviors (ULBs) in adolescence often exist in the form of “clustering”, and anxiety and depression often appear as comorbidities. We aimed to explore the prospective relationship between the clustered unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and comorbidity of anxiety and depression in adolescents. METHODS: Data were collected from the Chinese Adolescent Health Surveillance and Cohort Study with a sample of 6 656 adolescents. LCA was used to identify clustering patterns of multiple unhealthy lifestyle behaviors. Anxiety and depression symptoms were evaluated by GAD-7 and PHQ-9. Multivariate logistic regression model was established to analyze the association between the clustering patterns and clustering quantity of unhealthy lifestyle behaviors and the comorbidity of anxiety and depression symptoms. RESULTS: Multivariate logistic regression results sho…
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Forgiveness, Self-Forgiveness, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Big Data Findings from an Australian Youth Cohort.
Conflicts and transgressions are inevitable features of the human experience, with well-established negative social, interpersonal, and intrapersonal consequences if they are not adequately resolved. This study tested whether the effectiveness of two adaptive traits typically observed in research with adults—forgiveness and self-forgiveness—would generalize to youth and adolescents, specifically in relation to their psychological wellbeing (hope and life satisfaction) and psychological distress. Notably, the study makes two new contributions: It tests relations with a large nationwide representative sample, and it examines the moderating effects of variables likely to be important considerations in the school context and often where conflict arises, namely school engagement, and student age and gender. There were N = 79,670 participants aged 7–18 years (Mage = 12.05 years; SD = 2.63; mod…
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Mobile Phone Addiction and Academic Procrastination in Adolescents: The Serial Mediating Roles of Self-Regulation and Psychological Resilience and the Moderating Role of the Parent-Child Relationship.
Background: Mobile phone addiction and academic procrastination are two common behavioral challenges among adolescents. While prior research has documented their association, the underlying mechanisms-particularly the mediating roles of self-regulation and psychological resilience and the moderating role of the parent-child relationship -remain insufficiently examined.
Methods: This study involved 966 adolescents who completed the Mobile Phone Addiction Scale, Self-Regulation Scale, Brief Resilience Scale, Parent-Child Relationship Scale, and Academic Procrastination Scale-Short Form. Data were analyzed using partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).
Results: The results of the research showed that (1) mobile phone addiction had a significant positive effect on academic procrastination; (2) self-regulation mediated between mobile phone addiction and academic procrasti…
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A cross-sectional examination of the associations between types of recreational screen times and flourishing among a large sample of adolescents.
Objectives: Screen time is linked to deteriorating adolescent mental health. However, most evidence comes from studies examining total screen time rather than types of screen use. This study explored functional associations between time spent on five common recreational screen types-social media, video games, television, messaging, Internet browsing-and adolescent flourishing.
Study design: Cross-sectional study.
Methods: We used data from 58,472 participants in the COMPASS study in 2024. Generalized linear models with quadratic and cubic terms assessed associations between screen use and flourishing scores.
Results: Results revealed non-linear associations between the different screen types and adolescent flourishing. Negative associations were observed immediately for video games and Internet, while social media, television, and messaging initially showed slight positive associations, …
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