| Annual Research Review: Adolescent mental health in the digital age: facts, fears, and future directions |
2020 |
15946 |
Adolescents are spending an increasing amount of their time online and connected to each other via digital technologies. Mobile device ownership and social media usage have reached unprecedented levels, and concerns have been raised that this constan... |
| Coping and Culture: The Protective Effects of Shift-&-Persist and Ethnic-Racial Identity on Depressive Symptoms in Latinx Youth |
2019 |
339 |
Shift-&-persist is a coping strategy that has been shown to lead to positive health outcomes in low-SES youth but has not yet been examined with respect to psychological health. This study tests whether the shift-&-persist coping strategy works in ta... |
| Ethnic Socialization in Neighborhood Contexts: Implications of Ethnic Attitude and Identity Development among Mexican-Origin Adolescents |
2017 |
561 |
Neighborhood Latino ethnic concentration, above and beyond or in combination with mothers' and fathers' ethnic socialization, may have beneficial implications for minority adolescents' ethnic attitude and identity development. These hypotheses, along... |
| Externalizing and Internalizing Pathways to Mexican American Adolescents’ Risk Taking |
2017 |
300 |
This study used four waves of data from a longitudinal study of 749 Mexican origin youths to test a developmental cascades model linking contextual adversity in the family and peer domains in late childhood to a sequence of unfolding processes hypoth... |
| Long-term Effects of a Universal Family Intervention: Mediation through Parent-Child Conflict |
2014 |
255 |
This randomized trial of a family-focused preventive intervention for Mexican American middle schoolers examined internalizing, externalizing, and substance use outcomes in late adolescence, 5 years after completing the intervention. Parent–adolescen... |
| Neighborhood Moderation of Sensation Seeking Effects on Adolescent Substance Use Initiation |
2017 |
1203 |
Adolescent substance use carries a considerable public health burden, and early initiation into use is especially problematic. Research has shown that trait sensation seeking increases risk for substance use initiation, but less is known about contex... |
| Novel Perspectives on Adversity Exposure, Stress Responding, and Academic Retention Among First- and Continuing-Generation Students |
2022 |
633 |
First-generation college students are less likely to complete their degrees than continuing-generation students, in part due to experiences of educational and socioeconomic adversity. Accounting for adversity and its downstream implications is likely... |
| Synthesizing a Special Issue on Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World |
2018 |
1154 |
Our goal is to identify integrative themes in this special issue on “Parenting Adolescents in an Increasingly Diverse World”. Specifically, we identify themes that may generalize largely from studies of marginalized families to guide American familie... |
| Text message content as a window into college student drinking: Development and initial validation of a dictionary of “alcohol-talk” |
2019 |
1200 |
The ubiquity of digital communication within the high-risk drinking environment of college students raises exciting new directions for prevention research. However, we are lacking relevant constructs and tools to analyze digital platforms that serve ... |
| Text Messaging and Social Network Site Use to Facilitate Alcohol Involvement: Comparison of US and Korean College Students |
2018 |
1035 |
Alcohol-related content on public social networking sites (SNS) has been linked to collegiate alcohol use, but we know little about whether and how private forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC), like text messaging, are related to collegiate... |
| We-Talk, Communal Coping, and Cessation Success in a Couple-Focused Intervention for Health Compromised Smokers |
2012 |
641 |
We investigated first-person plural pronoun use (we-talk) by health-compromised smokers and their spouses as a possible implicit marker of adaptive, problem-resolving communal processes. Twenty couples in which one or both partners used tobacco despi... |
| Young Adolescents’ Digital Technology Use and Mental Health Symptoms: Little Evidence of Longitudinal or Daily Linkages |
2019 |
4781 |
This study examines whether 388 adolescents’ digital technology use is associated with mental-health symptoms during early adolescence to midadolescence. Adolescents completed an initial Time 1 (T1) assessment in 2015, followed by a 14-day ecological... |