From Burden to Enjoyment: A User‐Centered Approach to Engage Adolescents in Intensive Longitudinal Research

Journal of Adolescence, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Фев. 16, 2025

ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescent psychology is embracing intensive longitudinal methods, such as diaries and experience sampling techniques, to investigate real‐life experiences. However, participants might perceive the repetitive self‐reporting in these data collection techniques burdensome demotivating, resulting decreased compliance rates. In this tutorial paper, we present a user‐centered approach aimed at making participation daily diary studies meaningful fun for adolescents. Methods three major research projects that took place between 2019 2023, more than 4,000 Dutch adolescents participated (12–25 years old). To improve participants' user journey, were invited codesign our share their expertise interviews ( n = 459), focus groups 101), design decisions (i.e., A/B tests, 107), pilots 163), exit 167), by answering questionnaires 2,109). Results Across projects, discovered five different main intrinsic extrinsic motives participate studies: (1) rewards, (2) interest, (3) helping science or greater good, (4) scientist another person, (5) gaining self‐insight. We provide concrete examples of how tailored study designs address specific optimize youth engagement. Conclusions The engagement can be enhanced it enjoyable experience, aligned with own motives.

Язык: Английский

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Adolescents’ Well-Being and Democratic Parenting: Does Environmental Sensitivity Matter?

Healthcare, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 13(6), С. 659 - 659

Опубликована: Март 17, 2025

Background/Objectives: This study examines the relations between democratic parenting and adolescents’ subjective well-being, focusing on potential moderating role of youth environmental sensitivity. Three sensitivity models (diathesis–stress, vantage sensitivity, differential susceptibility) were tested to unveil heterogeneity effects well-being according type influences (positive, negative, both positive negative) youths are more susceptible to. Methods: A sample 321 Italian adolescents (75% females; Mage = 16.83, SD 1.35) completed online self-report measures assessing perceptions parenting, various dimensions (positivity, vitality, anxiety, general health). Results: path analysis run evaluate associations youths’ well-being. The results showed that was positively related positivity, health negatively anxiety. Adolescents with higher reported reduced effect detected such highly sensitive had lower when low. Conclusions: These findings support a diathesis–stress model, suggesting might be vulnerability factor in less supportive environments.

Язык: Английский

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Helicopter Parenting and Youth Affective Well-Being: Need Satisfaction as a Within-Family Mediator

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 18, 2025

Abstract Parenting processes occur within families and unfold over time. According to Self-Determination Theory (SDT), helicopter parenting can threaten youth’s psychological need satisfaction undermine well-being. This study represents the first investigation of these theorized within-family, time-lagged processes. The research followed 350 late adolescents in Hong Kong ( M age = 18.2, SD 1.09, 39.7% male, 60.3% female, 98.9% Chinese) for an academic year, collecting 16 bi-weekly reports maternal parenting, youth affective well-being, satisfaction. Preregistered Dynamic Structural Equation Models showed that, families, predicted decreased autonomy relatedness (but not competence) satisfaction, which subsequently positive affect increased negative affect. effects were time-dependent, exhibiting differences valence statistical significance between concurrent associations. meso-longitudinal highlights applicability SDT contexts underscores considering timeframe understanding

Язык: Английский

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Parenting and adolescent anxiety within families: a biweekly longitudinal study

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Март 19, 2025

Background Anxiety symptoms among adolescents have been increasing globally. The present study aimed to better understand the role of parenting, which is believed act as both a risk and protective factor for anxiety while also being impacted by adolescent anxiety. Specifically, this preregistered examined bidirectional associations between parental autonomy support, intrusiveness, generalized in adolescents. Methods We used meso‐longitudinal data Dutch ( N = 256, M age 14.4, range 12–17, 71.5% female, t mean 17.7) their parents 176, 46.8, 82% 22). They reported biweekly on intrusiveness support symptoms. Dynamic structural equation modeling (DSEM) was examine at between‐ within‐family levels. Results between‐family level indicated that from families with lower levels higher exhibited Within families, during weeks when were less supportive or more intrusive, experienced Regarding time‐lagged effects, adolescent‐driven, but not parent‐driven, effects emerged. than usual, intrusive 2 later. Conclusions Although further research needed, these findings underscore negative impact adolescents' mental health issues parenting. To prevent escalation family problems, it seems vital promote positive adaptive parent–child interactions face issues.

Язык: Английский

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Adolescent-Mother Agreements and Discrepancies in Reports of Helicopter Parenting: Associations with Perceived Conflict and Support

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 52(12), С. 2480 - 2493

Опубликована: Авг. 4, 2023

Язык: Английский

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The direction of effects between parenting and adolescent affective well-being in everyday life is family specific

Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 13(1)

Опубликована: Сен. 26, 2023

Abstract Numerous theories and empirical studies have suggested that parents their adolescent children reciprocally influence each other. As most focused on group-level patterns, however, it remained unclear whether this was true for every family. To investigate potential heterogeneity in directionality, we applied a novel idiographic approach to examine the effects between parenting well-being family separately. For 100 days, 159 Dutch adolescents ( M age = 13.31, 62% female) reported affective four dimensions. The family-specific of pre-registered https://osf.io/7n2jx/ ) dynamic structural equation models indeed revealed reciprocal day-to-day association present only some families, with proportion families displaying varying across dimensions (11–55%). In other either predicted adolescent’s (8–43%) or vice versa (10–27%), no associations were found (16–60%). Adolescents higher trait levels environmental sensitivity neuroticism more strongly affected by parenting. Thus, findings suggest ways which everyday life are unique, stressing need move towards an science.

Язык: Английский

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A Matter of Timing? Effects of Parent-Adolescent Conflict on Adolescent Ill-being on Six Timescales

Опубликована: Дек. 15, 2023

Development is an iterative dynamic process that unfolds over time. Few theories, however, discuss the speed of developmental processes. Therefore, decisions about measurement timing often rely on arbitrary or practical choices, disregarding timescale dependency results. As exemplary case, this preregistered study assessed reciprocal associations between parent-adolescent conflict and ill-being (i.e., negative affect depressive symptoms) with daily, weekly, biweekly, monthly, bimonthly, three-monthly intervals. A 100-day diary (N=159, M=13.31 years, 62% girls, 89% Dutch, Data collection: 2020-21) a 26-wave biweekly (N=253, M=14.37 72% 96% 2019-20) were used. By aggregating measurements multiple timescales could be within same dataset. Multilevel structural equation modelling revealed predicted symptoms one month (β=.09) three months later (β=.13). Reversely, week (β=.07) two weeks (β=.08). Thus, transactional processes may function differently at different timescales, which has implications for expanding theories relevant

Язык: Английский

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Unraveling the Bidirectional Associations between Parental Knowledge and Children’s Externalizing Behavior

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 52(4), С. 794 - 809

Опубликована: Фев. 15, 2023

Although within- and between-family bidirectional associations between parental knowledge children's externalizing behavior have been theoretically proposed, studies that unravel these simultaneously remain scarce. This study examined within German families. 3611 families participated across one-year intervals children ages 8 to 15 (50.6% boys, 34.5% fathers, 89.0% German-born, Mwaves = 3.63, SDwaves 2.00). Random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPM) with linear slopes revealed negative behavior, a association the random slopes. Generally, no within-family effects were found, but there some correlated When teasing apart paternal maternal knowledge, father-driven not mother-driven lagged of increased predicting decreased found. The findings illustrate importance fathers' new directions for parent-child interactions.

Язык: Английский

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Like No Other? A Family-Specific Network Approach to Parenting Adolescents

Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 53(4), С. 982 - 997

Опубликована: Дек. 6, 2023

Abstract Numerous theories suggest that parents and adolescents influence each other in diverse ways; however, whether these influences differ between subgroups or are unique to family remains uncertain. Therefore, this study explored data-driven of families emerged exhibited a similar daily interplay parenting adolescent affective well-being. To do so, Subgrouping Group Iterative Multiple Model Estimation (S-GIMME) was used estimate family-specific dynamic network models, containing same- next-day associations among five practices (i.e., warmth, autonomy support, psychological control, strictness, monitoring) positive negative affect. These networks were estimated for 129 ( M age = 13.3, SD 1.2, 64% female, 87% Dutch), who reported day on their affect 100 consecutive days. The findings S-GIMME did not identify sharing parenting-affect associations. Instead, displayed pattern temporal the different Thus, ways which related adolescents’ everyday life specific.

Язык: Английский

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From cross-lagged effects to feedback effects: Further insights into the estimation and interpretation of bidirectional relations

Behavior Research Methods, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 56(4), С. 3685 - 3705

Опубликована: Дек. 21, 2023

Язык: Английский

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