The restrictions put in place to contain the COVID-19 virus have led widespread social isolation, impacting mental health worldwide. These may be particularly difficult for adolescents, who rely heavily on their peer connections emotional support. However, there has been no longitudinal research examining psychological impact of pandemic among adolescents. This study addresses this gap by investigating adolescents' health, and moderators change, as well assessing factors perceived causing...

Preadolescent social media use is normative and could influence mental health. This study investigated: (a) Differences between preadolescent users non-users of various platforms on health, (b) unique links time spent those platforms, appearance-based activities media, (c) the moderating role biological sex relationships.Preadolescent youth (N = 528; 50.9% male) completed online surveys.Users YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat reported more body image concerns eating pathology than non-users, but...

There are many examples of Indigenous success in the current Australian context. However, little is known about how to identify, measure, and emulate these successes more broadly. Partly, this can be attributed an array theoretical methodological limitations that have plagued research. The latter include a lack concerted research being founded upon voices agency children, youth, communities large-scale quantitative Hence, has often failed yield translational evidence-base resulting...

Background Parenting is a modifiable factor proposed to underpin the transmission of anxiety and depression from parents children. This study examined role parenting in intergenerational across pre- early adolescence. Method Participants were 531 youth (Mage = 11.18, SD 0.56; 50.85% boys) their parent. Child parent depression, parental rejection, warmth overprotection assessed annually over 3 years. Bidirectional relationships between child mediating behaviors, using cross-lagged panel...

Sleep problems commonly co-occur alongside generalized and social anxiety, depression, eating disorders in young people. Yet it is unclear if sleep disturbance conveys risk for these social-emotional across early to middle adolescence whether repetitive negative thinking (RNT) mediates this association. In study, we examined longitudinal relationships between (morning/eveningness, school-night duration, sleepiness), general presleep RNT, symptoms of 5 years. As part the wider Risks...

Perfectionism is linked to a variety of mental health conditions in university students. Guided by the Social Disconnection Model, purpose current mixed methods feasibility study was evaluate acceptability and potential effectiveness brief online intervention designed reduce negative consequences perfectionism Seventy students (83.9% female;

Repetitive negative thinking (RNT) is a key risk and maintenance factor for many psychological disorders considered transdiagnostic process. However, there are few disorder-neutral measures that assess RNT in adults, only 1 of moderate length suitable children, none validated both children adults. This study aimed to address this gap by developing brief measure can be used with adults quickly administered research clinical contexts. In Study 1, we the new 5-item Persistent Intrusive Negative...

This study addresses the gap in research for sound multidimensional assessment of social capital and its relationship with risk-taking behaviour among youths living disadvantaged communities. Social adolescent outcomes were studied cross-sectionally 1371 secondary students two communities within Australia. First, a measure was developed tested using confirmatory factor analysis. Then, associations between range youth behaviours examined structural equation modelling across five-year groups...

Social anxiety is a common mental disorder with an average age of onset in early adolescence. Current theories focus largely on risk factors that are present from life, but reasons for the as youth move into adolescence rarely discussed. We recently proposed model certain disorders during adolescent years based characteristics development. While this will require longitudinal testing, current article establishes concurrent associations between relevant variables cohort 528 preadolescents ( M...

Abstract Adolescence is a time of heightened vulnerability for both peer victimization (PV) and internalizing symptoms. While the positive association between them well established, there little understanding mechanisms underpinning this relationship. To address gap, current study aimed to investigate sleep hygiene school night duration as individual sequential mediators relationship PV depressive social anxiety symptoms during pre- mid-adolescence. The drew upon community sample 528...

Research in the field of gender and sexuality diversity and, more specifically, negative attitudes toward diverse individuals, has acknowledged relationship between individuals’ endorsement sex-differentiated, normative roles their diversity. Such work highlighted how expectations gender, drawn from binarized roles, sit at heart homophobic transphobic attitudes. Previous research high school settings measured (GSD) students’ experiences homo/transphobic harassment as an element ‘school...