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Direct linkMelissa L. Villodas; Alexandria B. Forte; Amy Blank Wilson – Youth & Society, 2024
The prevalence of mental health challenges continues to worsen among adolescents, with Black American adolescents experiencing rates of suicide attempts that are increasing faster than any other racial and ethnic groups. Research has found that the neighborhood environment impacts mental health through the type and level of stress that people…
Descriptors: African American Children, Mental Health, Stress Variables, Anxiety
Jaffe, Julia; Loebach, Janet – Youth & Society, 2024
This paper proposes a new conceptual approach to the development and utilization of youth-led environmental assessments to inform the planning of youth-enabling environments. Interdisciplinary research has established the influential effects of the physical environment on children and adolescents' well-being and development, yet there is a gap in…
Descriptors: Youth, Physical Environment, Evaluation, Well Being
On Outness: Validity Evidence of the Outness Inventory for Sexual and Gender Minoritized Adolescents
Gabriel DeLong; Do-Hong Kim; Sarah Kiperman – Youth & Society, 2024
Sexual and gender minoritized (SGM) adolescents negotiate their outness in various social contexts as they navigate a heteronormative system. For many SGM adolescents, outness is associated with peer victimization, while for others, it is associated with increased feelings of connectedness. To support SGM adolescents in their outness journey,…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Self Disclosure (Individuals), Test Validity, Questionnaires
Berni Kelly; Adrian D. van Breda; John Pinkerton; Kwabena Frimpong-Manso; Admire Chereni; Paul Bukuluki – Youth & Society, 2024
While there is a substantial body of leaving care research, the theorization of care leaving has been more limited. Only a few studies have incorporated a life course perspective, mainly in Global North contexts where life course perspectives may differ significantly from those in the Global South, including Africa. Drawing on findings from a…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Experience, Adjustment (to Environment), Resilience (Psychology)
Eugenio Weigend Vargas; Cynthia Ewell Foster; Sasha Mintz; Heather A. Hartman; Laura Seewald; Rebeccah Sokol; Peter F. Ehrlich; Patrick M. Carter; Jason E. Goldstick – Youth & Society, 2024
Firearm suicides among adolescents have increased in the US and rates vary across racial and ethnic groups. In this study, we examined contextual information around adolescent firearm suicides and analyzed how incident characteristics vary across racial and ethnic groups. We analyzed firearm suicides among adolescents (ages 10-18 years) from 2004…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Weapons, Suicide, Racial Differences
Weiyu Zeng; Yi-jun Luo; Hong Chen – Youth & Society, 2024
Eight percent of adolescent girls were found to be engaged in problematic social media use. Problematic social media use is associated with serious physical and mental consequences. This study aimed to explore the effects of thin-ideal internalization on problematic social media use and the role of selfie-related behaviors and friendship quality.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Self Concept, Social Media, Adolescents
