Child and Adolescence Psychology

Latest research

1. Adverse childhood experiences, emotion regulation and subjective happiness among young adults

   • Pragya Asawa
   • Smita Pandey
   • Asha Srivastava

   in Discover Public Health

   Article Open access 27 November 2025

   

2. The impact of targeted physical activity interventions on inhibition control in children and adolescents with ADHD: a meta-analysis

   • Yiwei Min
   • Yuxin Chen
   • Jiling Liu

   in European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

   Article 27 November 2025

   

3. The influence of adiposity status and the trajectories of obesity indicators on earlier puberty onset in girls: a longitudinal cohort study in Shanghai, China

   • Chen Liu
   • Tianfeng Wu
   • Yaping Ren

   in BMC Public Health

   Article Open access 27 November 2025

   

4. Exploring Parenting and Children’s Mental Health Pre and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

   • Abigail Withers
   • Natalia Lapshina
   • Shannon L. Stewart

   in Child Psychiatry & Human Development

   Article Open access 26 November 2025

5. Grit, positive youth development, and school engagement among Filipino adolescents

   • Jet Uy Buenconsejo
   • Jesus Alfonso Daep Datu
   • Duo Phil Liu

   in European Journal of Psychology of Education

   Article Open access 26 November 2025

   

6. Attachment Security and Preschoolers’ Social Competence: Children’s Emotion Understanding and Emotion Regulation as Chain Mediators

   • Xingbei Liu
   • Bi Ying Hu
   • Chien-Ju Chang

   in Early Childhood Education Journal

   Article 26 November 2025

   

7. The mediating role of parentification in the effect of perceived abuse by adolescents from their parents on self-esteem

   • Bedriye Çelik Kanca
   • Haktan Demircioğlu

   in BMC Psychology

   Article Open access 26 November 2025

   

8. Future Orientation in Adolescents: Development and the Roles of Parenting in Different Income Countries

   • Maria Chiara Basilici
   • Laura Gorla
   • Qian Long

   in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

   Article Open access 25 November 2025

9. Cumulative and Overload Patterns of Associations between Parenting Congruence and Youth Depressive Symptoms across Parenting Dimensions

   • Anqi Liu
   • Huiguang Ren
   • Biao Sang

   in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

   Article 25 November 2025

   

10. The association between child sexual abuse and mental health in Chinese vocational high school students

    • Yuhang Fang
    • Xiayun Zuo
    • Xiaowen Tu

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

11. Cross-lagged analyses between peer bullying, teacher-student relationships, and non-suicidal self-injury among high school students

    • Yilin Liu
    • Xinrui Li
    • Yong Zeng

    in BMC Public Health

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

    

12. The Role of Social Support and Positive Youth Development Attributes in Family Resilience Processes: an Actor-Partner Interdependence Approach

    • Qiaochu Zhang
    • Lu Yu
    • Yaoxiang Ren

    in Journal of Youth and Adolescence

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

    

13. Emotion regulation dynamics in empathy in young children

    • Liat Israeli-Ran
    • Tamar Kadosh Laor
    • Florina Uzefovsky

    in Scientific Reports

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

    

14. Parent-adolescent communication on reproductive and sexual issues and its determinants among parents in Gondar town, Northwest Ethiopia: a mixed-methods study

    • Getachew Muluye Gedef
    • Fantahun Andualem
    • Kefale Getie

    in BMC Pediatrics

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

    

15. Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of the depression anxiety stress scale for youth (DASS-Y) in psychiatric and non-psychiatric samples

    • Elif Akçay
    • Ayşegül Demir Çevirici
    • Esra Çöp

    in BMC Psychology

    Article Open access 25 November 2025

16. The association between adverse childhood experiences and co-occurrence of health risk behaviors in adolescents: the chained mediating role of self-efficacy and self-control

    • Tao Xu
    • Yongsheng Wang
    • Jiajia Chen

    in BMC Psychology

    Article Open access 24 November 2025

    

17. Co-creating support for adolescents with long-lasting pain: findings from workshops with adolescents, parents, and professionals

    • Maren Hjelle Guddal
    • Simon Kristoffer Johansen
    • Henriette Jahre

    in BMC Health Services Research

    Article Open access 24 November 2025

    

18. Parent–adolescent discrepancies in reports of health-related quality of life in adolescents with idiopathic scoliosis

    • Yafei Zhang
    • Tingting Chai
    • Yang Liu

    in European Journal of Pediatrics

    Article Open access 24 November 2025

    

19. Family functioning and eating disorders in Chinese populations: a systematic review and meta-synthesis

    • Xu Han
    • Mei-chun Cheung
    • Jacqueline Corcoran

    in Journal of Eating Disorders

    Article Open access 24 November 2025

    

20. The Effects of an 8-Week School-Based Basketball Intervention on Executive Function in Adolescents with Depression

    • Lin LI
    • Shiyu Wang
    • Lin Qiao

    in Cognitive Therapy and Research

    Article 24 November 2025

    

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