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ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Psychology | Developmental Psychology and Ageing | Health, Clinical and Counselling Psychology | Educational Psychology | Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) |
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Mental Health | Social Structure and Health | Expanding Knowledge in Education | School/Institution Community and Environment | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences | Social Class and Inequalities | Organised Sports
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Publications
Emotion regulation, coping, and decision making: Three linked skills for preventing externalizing problems in adolescence
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 13-02-2017
DOI: 10.1111/CDEV.12734
Abstract: Research on executive control during the teenage years points to shortfalls in emotion regulation, coping, and decision making as three linked capabilities associated with youth's externalizing behavior problems. Evidence gleaned from a detailed review of the literature makes clear that improvement of all three capabilities is critical to help young people better navigate challenges and prevent or reduce externalizing and related problems. Moreover, interventions can successfully improve these three capabilities and have been found to produce behavioral improvements with real-world significance. Ex les of how successful interventions remediate more than one of these capabilities are provided. Future directions in research and practice are also proposed to move the field toward the development of more comprehensive programs for adolescents to foster their integration.
Tackling Mental Health in Youth Sporting Programs: A Pilot Study of a Holistic Program
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-04-2020
Commentary response: Smartphone use and parenting: re-stratifying the multiverse for families of young children
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-05-2021
DOI: 10.1111/JCPP.13433
Abstract: Concerns have been raised that smartphones may harm children and families. Arguably, risk‐driven discourses are not always evidence‐based. This is a problem, because blanket assumptions of risk drowns out nuanced empirical questions of what constitutes “good” parenting when it comes to smartphone use, and for whom. Here we outline three logical missteps which have contributed to the deficit zeitgeist—ignoring context, misinterpreting effect, and conflation. Further, we speak to questions about parents of young children, by refocusing our multiverse analysis on 800+ parents. We ask– where are the links between parental phone use and parenting? Are these robust versus frail or positive versus negative? After re‐examining our 84 analytic choices (adopting existing measures), patterns revealed fragility in this case. The few findings that did emerge implicated technoference, not smartphone use, in relation to negative parenting. We encourage continued rigorous and scientific dialogue, to accrue good evidence for families and children.
Adolescent Alcohol Use and Development: Layered Ecological Contexts and Agents for Change
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2021
Mobile Phones in the Bedroom: Trajectories of Sleep Habits and Subsequent Adolescent Psychosocial Development
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 29-05-2017
DOI: 10.1111/CDEV.12836
Abstract: Mobile phones are an essential part of an adolescent's life, leading them to text, phone, or message into the night. Longitudinal latent growth models were used to examine relations between changes in adolescent night-time mobile phone use, changes in sleep behavior, and changes in well-being (depressed mood, externalizing behavior, self-esteem, and coping) for 1,101 students (43% male) between 13 and 16 years old. Both night-time mobile phone use and poor sleep behavior underwent positive linear growth over time. Increased night-time mobile phone use was directly associated with increased externalizing behavior and decreased self-esteem and coping. Changes in sleep behavior mediated the relation between early changes in night-time mobile phone use and later increases in depressed mood and externalizing behavior and later declines in self-esteem and coping.
Adolescent Problematic Social Networking and School Experiences: The Mediating Effects of Sleep Disruptions and Sleep Quality
Publisher: Mary Ann Liebert Inc
Date: 07-2015
Abstract: An important developmental task for adolescents is to become increasingly responsible for their own health behaviors. Establishing healthy sleep routines and controlling media use before bedtime are important for adequate, quality sleep so adolescents are alert during the day and perform well at school. Despite the prevalence of adolescent social media use and the large percentage of computers and cell phones in adolescents' bedrooms, no studies to date have investigated the link between problematic adolescent investment in social networking, their sleep practices, and associated experiences at school. A s le of 1,886 students in Australia aged between 12 and 18 years of age completed self-report data on problematic social networking use, sleep disturbances, sleep quality, and school satisfaction. Structural equation modeling (SEM) substantiated the serial mediation hypothesis: for adolescents, problematic social networking use significantly increased sleep disturbances, which adversely affected perceptions of sleep quality that, in turn, lowered adolescents' appraisals of their school satisfaction. This significant pattern was largely driven by the indirect effect of sleep disturbances. These findings suggest that adolescents are vulnerable to negative consequences from social networking use. Specifically, problematic social networking is associated with poor school experiences, which result from poor sleep habits. Promoting better sleep routines by minimizing sleep disturbances from social media use could improve school experiences for adolescents with enhanced emotional engagement and improved subjective well-being.
Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Adolescents with Elevated Externalizing Symptoms Show Heightened Emotion Reactivity to Daily Stress: An Experience Sampling Study
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-02-2018
DOI: 10.1007/S10578-018-0784-X
Abstract: Numerous theories assert that youth with externalizing symptomatology experience intensified emotion reactivity to stressful events yet scant empirical research has assessed this notion. Using in-vivo data collected via experience s ling methodology, we assessed whether externalizing symptoms conditioned adolescents' emotion reactivity to daily stressors (i.e. change in emotion pre-post stressor) among 206 socioeconomically disadvantaged adolescents. We also assessed whether higher externalizing symptomology was associated with experiencing more stressors overall, and whether adolescents' emotional upheavals resulted in experiencing a subsequent stressor. Hierarchical linear models showed that adolescents higher in externalizing symptoms experienced stronger emotion reactivity in sadness, anger, jealously, loneliness, and (dips in) excitement. Externalizing symptomatology was not associated with more stressful events, but a stress-preventative effect was found for recent upheavals in jealousy among youth low in externalizing. Findings pinpoint intense emotion reactivity to daily stress as a risk factor for youth with externalizing symptoms living in socioeconomic disadvantage.
Disentangling development of sensation seeking, risky peer affiliation, and binge drinking in adolescent sport
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2017
How can Developmental Psychopathology Influence Social and Legal Policy? Adolescence, Mental Health, and Decision Making
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 25-08-2017
Tuning into the real effect of smartphone use on parenting: a multiverse analysis
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-07-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JCPP.13282
Ambulatory Assessment of Adolescent Coping: It's a Complicated Process
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-2019
DOI: 10.1111/JORA.12468
Abstract: Scholars have long-called for researchers to treat coping as a process that is measured over an arc of time. Ambulatory assessment (AA) offers an appealing tool for capturing the dynamic process of adolescent coping. However, challenges in capturing the coping process are not altogether circumvented with AA designs. We conducted a scoping review of the AA literature on adolescent coping and draw from 60 studies to provide an overview of the field. We provide critiques of different AA approaches and highlight benefits and costs associated with various types of measurement within AA. We also speak to considerations of participant burden and compliance. We conclude with recommendations for developmental scholars seeking to deploy AA to capture this quintessential process among adolescents.
Cyber-aggression and victimization and social information processing: Integrating the medium and the message.
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1037/A0030511
Coping and emotion regulation in response to social stress tasks among young adolescents with and without social anxiety
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 20-10-2023
Examining the Process of Implementing a Three-Step Mental Health and Wellbeing System of Care for Children and Adolescents Across Multiple Community Settings
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-05-2021
DOI: 10.1007/S10578-021-01184-9
Abstract: Mental health problems affect large numbers of young people. Integrated systems are required that can be applied in erse settings to reach youth 'where they are'. We evaluated the process of implementing a three-step youth mental health and wellbeing system in erse community settings according to three implementation outcomes: feasibility, penetration and acceptability. The study describes 49 applications of the 'Life-Fit-Learning system' designed to assess the mental health and wellbeing of youth (Assess step), provide feedback on assessment results (Reflect step), and connect them to resources and services proportionate to their needs (Connect step). Within a participatory research approach, 3798 administrations were conducted with youth between 9 and 18 years and 90 administrations were conducted with adults. Implementation was based on the four phases of the Quality Implementation Framework and was staged to integrate stakeholder and consumer feedback and experience gained from focus groups and two pilot phases before full implementation. Feasibility ratings of successful implementation ranged from 86.7 to 96.4% across applications and settings. High penetration rates were achieved. The Life-Fit-Learning system successfully reached 91.9% to 96% of youth with the Assess and Reflect steps and low intensity Connect step resources. Of those, 14.7% to 23% were identified at-risk for mental health problems and 93% to 97% of those at-risk youth additionally received Connect step co-delivered group-based programs (moderate intensity care) and/or in idual treatment (high intensity care). Youth and parents reported high satisfaction across all steps and delivery modes. With strong collaboration, an integrated model of care can be delivered feasibly, effectively and satisfactorily to reach large numbers of young people across settings.
Joining the pieces in childhood irritability: Distinct typologies predict conduct, depressive, and anxiety symptoms
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2021
A longitudinal model of rejection sensitivity and internalizing symptoms: Testing emotion regulation deficits as a mechanism and outcome of symptoms
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-04-2020
DOI: 10.1111/JOPY.12549
Testing a model of reward sensitivity, implicit and explicit drinker identity and hazardous drinking
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 29-04-2019
Binge Drinking Trajectories Across Adolescence: For Early Maturing Youth, Extra-Curricular Activities Are Protective
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JADOHEALTH.2013.07.032
Abstract: To describe adolescent binge drinking trajectories across grades 8-11 and examine their associations with pubertal timing, socioeconomic status (SES), and structured activity and sport involvement. Longitudinal data were analyzed from the Youth Activity Participation Study (YAPS), an annual survey of youth in 39 schools across Western Australia (N = 1,342). Latent class growth analysis revealed four binge drinking trajectory groups: Accelerating (early onset, increased frequency), Steep Increase (delayed onset, rapid escalation), Slow Growth (delayed onset, gradual increase) and Stable Low (abstinence). Accelerating was characterized by early pubertal timing, low SES, and more sport involvement in grade 8, relative to Stable Low. The groups did not significantly differ in their grade 8 activity participation. However, for early maturers, greater grade 8 activity participation was associated with a decreased probability of belonging to Steep Increase relative to Stable Low. Early pubertal timing and sports participation increased the odds of belonging to a problematic binge drinking trajectory. For youth at-risk due to early pubertal timing, structured activities appear to be protective against a problematic developmental course of binge drinking.
Disadvantaged youth report less negative emotion to minor stressors when with peers
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 26-12-2016
Abstract: Previous Experience S ling Method (ESM) studies demonstrate that adolescents’ daily emotional states are heavily influenced by their immediate social context. However, despite adolescence being a risk period for exposure to daily stressors, research has yet to examine the influence of peers on adolescents’ emotional responses to stressors encountered in their daily life. Adolescents ( N = 108) from a low-SES school completed ESM reports of their social context, minor stressors and emotions, 5 times a day for 7 days. Based on previous findings that the peer context is experienced as positive and rewarding, we expected being with peers would be associated with lower post-stress negative emotions and higher happiness, compared to being with family or alone. As expected, being with peers after a stressor was associated with lower sadness, worry and jealousy compared to being alone, and lower sadness compared to being with family. Gender differences emerged for the influence of peers on sadness, worry, jealousy and happiness. These findings highlight the salient influence of peers on adolescents’ emotional reactivity to stressors as they occur in their natural environment. Findings are discussed in reference to peers as important emotion socialization agents during adolescence and in terms of theories of coping and emotion regulation.
Daily use of digital technologies to feel better: Adolescents' digital emotion regulation, emotions, loneliness, and recovery, considering prior emotional problems
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-10-2023
DOI: 10.1002/JAD.12259
Bullying Prevalence Across Contexts: A Meta-analysis Measuring Cyber and Traditional Bullying
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2014
DOI: 10.1016/J.JADOHEALTH.2014.06.007
Abstract: Bullying involvement in any form can have lasting physical and emotional consequences for adolescents. For programs and policies to best safeguard youth, it is important to understand prevalence of bullying across cyber and traditional contexts. We conducted a thorough review of the literature and identified 80 studies that reported corresponding prevalence rates for cyber and traditional bullying and/or aggression in adolescents. Weighted mean effect sizes were calculated, and measurement features were entered as moderators to explain variation in prevalence rates and in traditional-cyber correlations within the s le of studies. Prevalence rates for cyber bullying were lower than for traditional bullying, and cyber and traditional bullying were highly correlated. A number of measurement features moderated variability in bullying prevalence whereas a focus on traditional relational aggression increased correlations between cyber and traditional aggressions. In our meta-analytic review, traditional bullying was twice as common as cyber bullying. Cyber and traditional bullying were also highly correlated, suggesting that polyaggression involvement should be a primary target for interventions and policy. Results of moderation analyses highlight the need for greater consensus in measurement approaches for both cyber and traditional bullying.
Mapping Developmental Precursors of Cyber-Aggression: Trajectories of Risk Predict Perpetration and Victimization
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 15-12-2012
DOI: 10.1007/S10964-012-9887-Z
Abstract: Technologically mediated contexts are social arenas in which adolescents can be both perpetrators and victims of aggression. Yet, there remains little understanding of the developmental etiology of cyber aggression, itself, as experienced by either perpetrators or victims. The current study examines 3-year latent within-person trajectories of known correlates of cyber-aggression: problem behavior, (low) self-esteem, and depressed mood, in a large and erse s le of youth (N = 1,364 54.6% female 12-14 years old at T1). Findings demonstrate that developmental increases in problem behavior across grades 8-10 predict both cyber-perpetration and victimization in grade 11. Developmental decreases in self-esteem also predicted both grade 11 perpetration and victimization. Finally, early depressed mood predicted both perpetration and victimization later on, regardless of developmental change in depressed mood in the interim. Our results reveal a clear link between risky developmental trajectories across the early high school years and later cyber-aggression and imply that mitigating trajectories of risk early on may lead to decreases in cyber-aggression at a later date.
Technology can sting when reality bites: Adolescents' frequent online coping is ineffective with momentary stress
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2020
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Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP210103986
Start Date: 07-2021
End Date: 07-2024
Amount: $216,600.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 2013
End Date: 12-2017
Amount: $336,200.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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Start Date: 04-2019
End Date: 04-2023
Amount: $290,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
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