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Understanding Stability and Change in Depressive Symptom Trajectories across Young Adulthood through the Lens of Career Development: A Mixed-Methods Study
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Shulman, Shmuel; Yonatan-Leus, Refael; Silberberg, Ornella – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2023
Research has documented both stable and nonstable trajectories of depressive symptoms across young adulthood, but has not explored the mechanisms that might explain change in level of depressive affect over time. To explore this question, the current study draws on data from an Israeli longitudinal study of 205 young adults who reported their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Young Adults, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Undesirable Social Relations as Risk Factors for Loneliness among 14-Year-Olds in the UK: Findings from the Millennium Cohort Study
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Yang, Keming; Petersen, Kimberly J.; Qualter, Pamela – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2022
In the current study, data collected from Wave 6 of the Millennium Cohort Study (n = 11,872), a nationally representative sample survey of youth aged 14 years in the UK, are used to examine the prevalence of loneliness among this age-group, investigate the feelings associated with the experience of loneliness among youth, explore the risk factors…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Psychological Patterns, Early Adolescents, Incidence
Daily Cortisol Activity, Loneliness, and Coping Efficacy in Late Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study of the Transition to College
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Drake, Emily C.; Sladek, Michael R.; Doane, Leah D. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
Many late adolescents who transition to the college environment perceive changes in psychosocial stress. One such stressor, loneliness, has been associated with numerous health problems among adolescents and adults. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis is one mechanism through which loneliness may affect health. Guided by a risk and resilience…
Descriptors: Late Adolescents, Psychological Patterns, Physiology, Coping
The Relationships between Shyness and Unsociability and Peer Difficulties: The Moderating Role of Insecure Attachment
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Chen, Bin-Bin; Santo, Jonathan Bruce – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2016
The main purpose of the study was to examine the moderating role of the insecure mother-child attachment in the relations between social withdraw and peer difficulties. Participants were 487 urban children (247 boys, 240 girls) in elementary schools in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China. Data on attachment-relevant coping styles in insecure…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Attachment Behavior, Peer Relationship, Parent Child Relationship
Keeping It All inside: Shyness, Internalizing Coping Strategies and Socio-Emotional Adjustment in Middle Childhood
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Findlay, Leanne C.; Coplan, Robert J.; Bowker, Anne – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2009
Despite growing research results indicating that shyness is a risk factor for psychosocial maladjustment in childhood, less is known about the conceptual mechanisms that may underlie these associations. The purpose of the current study was to explore links between self-reported shyness, coping strategies and social functioning in middle childhood.…
Descriptors: Shyness, At Risk Persons, Children, Emotional Adjustment
Political Violence in Retrospect: Its Effect on the Mental Health of Palestinian Adolescents
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Haj-Yahia, Muhammad M. – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
The aim of this study has been to examine the effect of retrospective report of political violence during the first Intifada (1987-1993) on psychological adjustment of 1185 Palestinian adolescents (10th to 12th graders) seven years after the first Intifada had ended. Analysis of the inter-relations was conducted between self-reported measures of…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Relationship, Adolescents, Grade 12, Depression (Psychology)
Efficacy of a School-Based Primary Prevention Program for Coping with Exposure to Political Violence
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Slone, Michelle; Shoshani, Anat – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2008
A paradigm conceptualizing resilience as factors moderating between political violence exposure and psychological distress administered in a 7-year research project yielded a profile of factors promoting Israeli children's coping in conflict conditions. Three factors--social support mobilization, self-efficacy, and meaning attribution--were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Violence, Self Efficacy, Prevention