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- Bjärehed, Jonas, et al.
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Nonsuicidal self-injury in a community sample of adolescents: Subgroups, stability, and associations with psychological difficulties
- 2012
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Ingår i: Journal of Research on Adolescence. - : Wiley. - 1532-7795 .- 1050-8392. ; 22:4, s. 678-693
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Patterns of nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI) and their association with other psychological difficulties were studied in a community sample of young Swedish adolescents, by a 2-wave longitudinal design with a 1-year interval. Hierarchical cluster analysis at T1 identified eight NSSI subgroups in each gender, of which five were clearly replicated at T2. Among these were a subgroup with generalized high-frequent NSSI, which was associated with both internalizing and externalizing problems, and a subgroup of girls who engaged primarily in cutting and showed mainly internalizing problems. Generally, NSSI clusters among girls were more stable over time and associated with more psychological problems. The results indicate that different patterns of NSSI have different developmental and clinical implications.
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- Tilton-Weaver, Lauree C., 1960-, et al.
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Adolescents' characteristics and parents' beliefs as predictors of parents' peer management behaviors
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - : Wiley. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 13:3, s. 269-300
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study examined parents’ reported use of peer management behaviors (i.e., communicating preferences, communicating disapproval, supporting friendships, and information seeking) and linked these behaviors to (a) adolescents’ self-reported psychosocial adjustment and friendships and (b) parents’ beliefs about adolescents’ peer relationships (i.e., perceived efficacy in managing adolescents’ friendships and concerns about adolescents’ friendships). The participants were 269 parents (161 mothers, 108 fathers) and their predominantly White adolescents in Grades 6 and 9 (N = 177). Results suggest that parents may be more apt to use some behaviors (e.g., communicating disapproval and information seeking) when there are indications that their adolescents are engaged in problem behaviors and have friends who are deviant. In addition, parents’ concerns about their adolescents’ friends mediate the relationship between adolescent problem behaviors and parents’ communications of disapproval. Parents’ peer management is promising as a route to understand further the nature of parent-peer linkages.
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- Besic, Nejra, 1980-, et al.
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Punks, Goths, and Other Eye-Catching Peer Crowds : Do They Fulfill a Function for Shy Youths?
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - Hillsdale, N.J. : Blackwell Publishing. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 19:1, s. 113-121
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Adolescent peer crowds such as Punks and Goths are mainly identified by their strikingly unusual or even shocking appearances. Although many studies find these crowds, few have tried to explain why some youths take on these startling or shocking appearances. We hypothesized that an off-putting appearance is a way to cope with behavioral inhibition by limiting social contacts. Using data from 1,200 7th - 11th graders, we compared peer crowds characterized by their startling appearance (“Radical” crowds) with three theoretically relevant comparison groups. Results showed that youths affiliating with Radical crowds were more inhibited than other youths, including those in crowds previously shown to be shy or socially anxious. Inhibited Radicals, however, had poorer emotional adjustment than inhibited youths in other crowds. If Radical styles are a way for inhibited youths to cope by limiting social contacts, the strategy does not seem to be beneficial for emotional adjustment.
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- Kerr, Margaret, et al.
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A reinterpretation of parental monitoring in longitudinal perspective
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - Malden, uSA : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 20:1, s. 39-64
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- A commonly used measure of parental monitoring is parents’ knowledge of adolescents’ daily activities. This measure has been criticized on the grounds that parents get more knowledge about teenagers’ daily activities through willing youth disclosure than through their own active monitoring efforts, but this claim was based on cross-sectional data. In the present study, we re-examine this claim with longitudinal data over two years from 938 7th and 8th graders and their parents. Youth disclosure was a significant longitudinal predictor of parental knowledge in single-rater and cross-rater models. Neither measure of parents’ monitoring efforts—control or solicitation—was a significant predictor. In analyses involving delinquency, parental monitoring efforts did not predict changes in delinquency over time, but youth disclosure did. We conclude that because knowledge measures do not seem to represent parental monitoring efforts, the conclusions from studies using these measures should be reinterpreted.
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- Määttä, Sami, et al.
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Achievement orientations, school adjustment, and well-being : A longitudinal study
- 2007
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - : Wiley. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 17:4, s. 789-812
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study set out to identify the kinds of achievement orientations that adolescents show, and to examine the kinds of antecedents and consequences the use of a particular orientation has. The participants were 734 Swedish adolescents (335 boys and 399 girls) who filled in questionnaires measuring their achievement beliefs and behaviors, depressive symptoms, engagement with school, and norm-breaking behavior. By using clustering-by-cases analysis, five achievement orientation groups were identified: optimism, defensive-pessimism, self-handicapping, and learned helplessness, and a group showing average levels of criteria variables. The results showed further that a decrease in depressive symptoms and an increase in engagement with school predicted a move to the use of optimistic and defensive-pessimistic groups, whereas a reverse pattern predicted a move to the helplessness and self-handicapping groups. Moreover, the optimistic and defensive-pessimistic achievement orientations at Time 1 predicted an increase in engagement with school and a decrease in depressive symptoms later on, whereas self-handicapping and learned helplessness predicted a decrease in engagement with school and increases in depressive symptoms and norm-breaking behavior. Individuals show different kinds of achievement-related beliefs and behaviors in academic contexts (Cantor, 1990; Midgley, Arunkumar, & Urdan, 1996). Some people typically become anxious about the possibility of failure, which then leads to task-avoidance (Midgley, Arunkumar, & Urdan, 1996; Miller, 1987). Others are optimistic and, consequently, make an active effort to deal with a situation (Aspinwall & Taylor, 1997; Hokoda & Fincham, 1995). The expectation of failure and subsequent task-avoidant behavior are likely to lead to a low level of academic achievement and poor adjustment (Nurmi, Aunola, Salmela-Aro, & Lindroos, 2003; Nurmi, Onatsu, & Haavisto, 1995), whereas optimism and task-focused behavior contributes to good outcomes and good adjustment (Cantor, 1990; Norem & Cantor, 1986a; Nurmi et al., 2003). Previous research on these kinds of achievement orientations, however, suffers from important limitations. First, only a few studies have examined the various kinds of achievement-related beliefs and behaviors among adolescents (Midgley et al., 1996; Nurmi, Salmela-Aro, & Ruotsalainen, 1994). Second, only a few studies have investigated the question of how liable various achievement orientations are to change during adolescence, and what factors might contribute to such developmental changes. This study aimed at identifying the kinds of achievement orientations that adolescents show, and what are the major antecedents and consequences of particular orientations.
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- Skoog, Therése, 1978-, et al.
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The Role of Pubertal Timing in What Adolescent Boys Do Online
- 2009
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - Hillsdale, N.J. : Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc.. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 19:1, s. 1-7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The aim of this study was to investigate associations between pubertal timing and boys' Internet use, particularly their viewing of pornography. We used a sample comprising of 97 boys in grade 8 (M age, 14.22 years) from two schools in a medium-sized Swedish town. This age should be optimal for differentiating early, on-time, and later-maturing boys. Boys responded to self-report questionnaires on their Internet use and pubertal timing. Early, on-time, and late-maturing boys did not differ in terms of most Internet activities. However, early maturers reported downloading and viewing pornography more often than the other boys did (p<.001). The findings build on previous research on the link between pubertal timing and sexual behavior in adolescence. Moreover, they help further understanding of the behavioral implications of boys' pubertal timing.
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- Abdi, Saida, et al.
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Promoting positive development among refugee adolescents
- 2023
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 33:4, s. 1064-1084
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- Of the estimated 35.3 million refugees around the world (UNHCR, Figures at a Glance, 2022), approximately 50% are children under the age of 18. Refugee adolescents represent a unique group as they navigate developmental tasks in an unstable and often threatening environment or in resettlement contexts in which they often face marginalization. In addition to physiological, social, and psychological changes that mark adolescence, refugee youth often face traumatic experiences, acculturative stress, discrimination, and a lack of basic resources. In this consensus statement, we examine research on refugee adolescents' developmental tasks, acculturative tasks, and psychological adjustment using Suarez-Orozco and colleague's integrative risk and resilience model for immigrant-origin children and youth proposed by Suarez-Orozco et al. Finally, we discuss recommendations-moving from proximal to more distal contexts.
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- Dahl, Viktor, 1979-, et al.
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Peer networks and the development of illegal political behavior among adolescents
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - Hoboken : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 24:2, s. 399-409
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Gustafson, Sigrid B., et al.
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Aspects of the development of a career versus homemaking orientation among females : the longitudinal influence of educational motivation and peers
- 1989
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 2:3, s. 241-259
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this article, we propose that, among females, high educational motivation in adolescence is related to a young adult orientation toward career whereas low educational motivation in adolescence is related to a young adult orientation toward homemaking. It is further hypothesized that, particularly for adolescents with low educational motivation, initial orientation is affected by the differential influences of nonconventional peer types: older peers, younger peers, working peers, or a steady boyfriend. Subjects (N = 450) from a Swedish longitudinal study were chosen on the basis of their peer networks at age 15. The results demonstrate (a) that educational motivation at age 15 comprised a valid indicator of career versus homemaking orientation at age 26, and (b) that, with respect to the young adult outcomes, adolescents with low educational motivation are more susceptible to the hypothesized nonconventional peer influences than are their counterparts with high educational motivation. Discussion emphasizes the value of a longitudinal perspective and of specifying conditions under which differential patterns of development might be observed.
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- Kapetanovic, Sabina, 1980-, et al.
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Does one Size Fit All? : Linking Parenting With Adolescent Substance Use and Adolescent Temperament
- 2020
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Ingår i: Journal of research on adolescence. - : Wiley. - 1050-8392 .- 1532-7795. ; 30:suppl 2, s. 443-457
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Using longitudinal Swedish data from 1,373 early‐adolescent youths, this study aims to answer the question of whether the previously established protective function of parental knowledge and its sources — adolescent disclosure, parental solicitation, and parental control—on substance use among early‐adolescents is moderated by the adolescent's temperament. Adolescent temperament moderated several links between parental knowledge and its sources and adolescent substance use. The most pronounced moderating results were found for those adolescents with fearless, socially detached and thrill‐seeking tendencies. For these "detached thrill‐seekers", bidirectional links between adolescent disclosure and substance use, and negative links between parental solicitation and substance use were found. We recommend, therefore, that adolescent temperament is considered when designing parenting programs.
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