Coverage of a recent study of Asian American 9th and 10th graders' engagement in purpose and its link to daily family assistance, social role fulfillment, and extracurricular activities (Kiang, 2012)
Updated statistics on the increasing percentage of U.S. children and adolescents under 18 years of age living in poverty, especially in African American and Latino families (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012)
Discussion of a recent research study of more than 11,000 adolescents mainly living in middle-and upper-income families focused on their fears of their future with the greatest fear involving not being able to pursue the vocational training or academic studies they desired (Seiffge-Krenke, 2012)
Expanded coverage of the cognitive changes that characterize adolescence, especially more effective executive functioning in areas such as monitoring and managing cognitive resources, engaging in cognitive control, and delaying gratification
Description of a recent study that found at risk youth enter emerging adulthood slightly earlier than the general population of youth in the United States (Lisha &others, 2012)
New discussion of a recent research review and analysis on resilience in the transition to adulthood that highlighted the importance of planning ahead, delaying gratification, and making positive choices, as well as the significance of close relationships, especially with supportive romantic partners, close friends, and mentors (Burt & Paysnick, 2012)
New section on where research on adolescent development is published that describes the research journal process and leading journals on adolescent development.
Expanded coverage of cultural and ethnic bias, including the importance of increasingly studying Latino and Asian American adolescents and their families' acculturation level, generational status, and biculturalism (Gauvain, 2013; Schwartz & others, 2012)
Chapter 2
Revision of some content based on feedback from leading expert consultants Bonnie Halpern-Felsher and Elizabeth Susman
Revised definition of puberty to include brain-neuroendocrine processes (Susman & Dorn, 2013)
Description of a recent study of more than 46,000 children and adolescents in 34 countries that found obesity was linked to earlier menarche (Currie & others, 2012)
Inclusion of information about recent study of more than 15,000 girls in China that revealed menarche occurred much earlier for urban than rural girls (Sun & others, 2012)
Addition of information about recent research that indicated severity of childhood sexual abuse was associated with early onset of menarche (Boynton-Jarrett & others, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study that found U.S. boys are entering puberty a year earlier than previously thought, along with criticisms of the study (Hermann-Giddens & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that found a linear increase in having a positive body image for both boys and girls as they moved from the beginning to the end of adolescence (Holsen, Carlson Jones, & Skogbrott Birkeland, 2012)
Update on Anne Petersen's career with a description of the new foundation—Global Philanthropy Alliance—she recently created to support young African social entrepreneurs in improving families and communities
Updated data on the percentage of adolescents who reported that they had eaten vegetables on 5 or more days in the last 7 days (Eaton & others, 2012)
Expanded description of the need for specialized training of adolescent health care personnel
Coverage of a recent study that found delivery of preventive health care services to emerging adults was generally low and with males getting fewer services than females (Lau & others, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study that revealed adolescents who perceived their parents as strong monitors and rule setters were less likely to engage in risky driving (Mirman & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found decreases in frequency of family meals for these categories of adolescents from 1999 to 2010: Girls, middle school students, Asian American adolescents, and youth from low SES backgrounds (Neumark-Sztainer & others, 2013)
Updated content on exercise rates for U.S. adolescents with national data from 2011 (Eaton & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study of young adolescents that found regular exercise was associated with higher academic achievement (Hashim, Freddy, & Rosmatunisah, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study of depressed adolescents with low levels of exercise that revealed a 12-week exercise intervention lowered their depression (Dopp & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent research review that concluded screen-based activity is linked to a number of adolescent health problems (Costigan & others, 2012)
New section on the role of peers in adolescent exercise, including a recent research research study that indicated female and male adolescents' physical activity was linked in various ways with their friends' physical activity (Sirard & others, 2013)
Discussion of a recent review that indicated peer friend/support, presence of peers and friends, friendship quality and acceptance, peer crowd affiliation, and peer victimization were associated with adolescents' physical activity (Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald, and Aherne, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found a daily morning running program for three weeks improved adolescents' sleep quality, mood, and concentration (Kalak & others, 2012)
Inclusion of updated data on the percentage of adolescents who participate on a sports team, including new gender and ethnicity comparisons (Eaton & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study that among a number of activities, team sports participation was the best predictor of lowering the risk for being overweight or obese in adolescence (Drake & others, 2012)
Coverage of a longitudinal study that found regardless of how much students studied each day, when the students sacrificed sleep time to study more than usual, they had difficulty understanding what was taught in class and were more likely to struggle with class assignments the next day (Gillen-O'Neel, Huynh, & Fuligni, 2012)
Addition of information about epigenetic mechanisms involving the actual molecular modification of the DNA strand as a result of environmental inputs in ways that alter gene functioning (Feil & Fraga, 2012)
New Connecting with Adolescents and Emerging Adults insert: Am I and "I" or "We"? that highlights the difficulty in establishing a unique identity when you are a twin, especially an identical twin
Updated coverage of the concept of G x E, which involves the interaction of a specific measured variation in the DNA sequence and a specific measured aspect of the environment(Bihagi & others, 2012; Petersen & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent meta-analysis that found the short version of the 5-HTTLPR serotonin gene was linked to higher cortisol stress reactivity (Miller & others, 2013)
Expanded material on conclusions about heredity and environment interaction based on David Moore's (2013) recent comments about the complexity of biological systems and how too often their connections with behaviour have been over simplified
Chapter 3
Added material on context-induced brain plasticity and connections of brain development and information processing to changes in self-understanding in adolescence based on leading expert Robert Roeser's comments
New discussion of a recent study of adolescents from Mexican backgrounds that found those with stronger family obligation values showed decreased activation in the brain's regions involving reward sensitivity, which was linked to less real-life risk-taking behavior, and increased activation in the brain's regions involving cognitive control, which was associated with better decision-making skills (Telzer & others, 2013)
New section, The Neuroconstructivist View, that describes an increasingly popular perspective on the brain's development (Diamond, 2013; Westerman, Thomas, & Karmiloff-Smith, 2011; Peltzer-Karph, 2012)
New commentary about increased myelination in late adolescence and emerging adulthood allowing greater connectivity between brain regions, especially the important connection between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, which is linked to greater emotional control (Giedd, 2012)
Updated and revised emphasis on the broader influence of changes in the limbic system and its role in both emotion processing and experience of rewards, including revision of Figure 3.3 on changes in the adolescent brain (Steinberg, 2012)
New closing statement for the section on brain development in adolescence underscoring the correlational nature of most research studies indicating caution in interpreting the research in any causal manner
Description of a recent study of 9- to 14-year-olds that found faster processing speed was linked to better oral reading fluency (Jacobson & others, 2011)
Expanded discussion of the educational implications for knowledge about the development of the brain in adolescence to include these potential areas of change: managing one's thoughts, engaging in goal-directed behavior, and controlling emotions (Bradshaw & others, 2012)
Updated and revised introduction that emphasizes the increasing interest in the importance of executive function in adolescence
New discussion of a 30-year longitudinal study that found children who were better at inhibitory control at 3 to 11 years of age were more likely to still be in school, engage in less risk-taking behavior, and be less likely to take drugs in adolescence (Moffitt, 2012; Moffitt & others, 2011). In this study, thirty years after initially being assessed as children, as adults they also had better physical and mental health than their counterparts who were less effective at inhibitory control as children
New material on the debate about how much benefit is derived from placing various cognitive processes under the broader, umbrella-like construct of executive functioning
New discussion of recent research indicating that adolescents make riskier decisions in stressful than non-stressful situations, but that the extent to which they make risky decisions in stressful contexts in associated with the type of risk taker they are (impulsive, calculated, or conservative) (Johnson & others, 2012)
Expanded coverage of the dual process model of decision making to include material on the importance of adolescents quickly getting the gist of a dangerous situation, which can cue personal values that will reduce the likelihood adolescents engage in risky decision making (Chick & Reyna, 2012)
Inclusion of information about how adolescents who have a higher trait level of inhibition (self-control) and find themselves in risky situations are less likely to engage in risky decision making (Chick & Reyna, 2012)
Expanded introduction to critical thinking, including more detailed examples of critical thinking
New section on mindfulness and its role in adolescents' critical thinking
New coverage of the recent view that mindfulness is an important mental process that can help adolescents improve a number of cognitive and socioemotional skills (Roeser & Zelazo, 2012; Zelazo & Lyons, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found a higher level of mindfulness attention awareness was associated with cognitive inhibition in young adolescents (Oberle & others, 2012)
New discussion of contemplative science, a cross-disciplinary term that involves the study of how various types of mental and physical training (such as mindfulness, yoga, meditation, and tai chi) might enhance adolescents' development (Roeser & Zelazo, 2012)
Expanded description of what metacognition involves (Dimmitt & McCormick, 2012)
Discussion of a recent research review that concluded more than 1,000 genes may influence an individual's intelligence (Davies & others, 2011)
New information from a recent research review about the environment's role in intelligence that is reflected in the 12 to 18 point gain children make when they are adopted from lower SES to middle SES homes (Nisbett & others, 2012)
New coverage of recent information about the reduction in the IQ gap between African American and non-Latino Whites (Nisbett & others, 2012)
New Connecting with Adolescents box: Are Social Media an Amplification Tool for Adolescent Egocentrism?
New entry in Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescence: The Adolescent Brain edited by Valerie Reyna and others (2012). A number of experts contribute ideas about linking the development of the adolescent brain to various dimensions of learning and cognitive functioning.
New entry in Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescences: Child Development Perspectives (2012, Vol.6, Issue 2). A number of articles address the recent interest in executive functioning in adolescence and how cognitive and physical training can improve adolescents' development
Chapter 4
Expanded material on changes in self-understanding in emerging adulthood, including new sections on self-awareness (Hull, 2012) and multiple selves (Markus & Kitayama, 2012)
New section on understanding others in adolescence
New discussion of developmental changes in perceiving others' traits in adolescence
New section on perspective taking in adolescence, including recent research on gender differences (Smith & Rose, 2012) and relational aggression (Batanova & Loukas, 2011)
New section on social cognitive monitoring in adolescence
Description of a recent study that found pre-existing gender differences in self-esteem (higher for males) narrowed between the 9th and 12th grades (Falei, 2012). In this study, adolescents from higher SES backgrounds had higher self-esteem than their low-SES counterparts.
Coverage of a recent study that found adolescents with low self-esteem had lower life-satisfaction at 30 years of age (Birkeland & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study that found individuals in their late teens were more likely to be identity achieved than those in their early teens, and that girls were on more advanced developmental trajectories for identity achievement than were boys (Meeus & others, 2012)
New section: Identity and Peer/Romantic Relationships (Galliher &Kerpelman, 2012)
Description of recent research that found an open, active exploration of identity when comfortable with close friends was linked to the positive quality of the friendship (Doumen & others, 2012)
Inclusion of recent research indicating that friends were often a safe haven for exploring identity in adolescence, providing a potential testing ground for trying out self-disclosures with others (McLean & Jennings, 2012)
New material on how adolescents and emerging adults in a romantic relationship are both in the process of constructing their identities and each providing the other with a context for identity exploration (Pittman & others, 2011)
Extensive updating and expansion of the discussion of cultural and ethnic identity, including recent cross-cultural comparisons of identity development between North American and East Asian countries (Cheng & Berman, 2012; Schwartz & others, 2012)
New discussion of how identity development takes longer in Italy, likely because many Italian youth live at home with their family until 30 years of age and older (Crocetti & others, 2012)
New coverage of Seth Schwarz & his colleagues (2012) recent view that individuals who have grown up as a member of an ethnic minority group or immigrated from another country are more likely to include cultural dimensions in their identity than non-Latino Whites in the U.S. who have grown up in the majority culture
Discussion of recent research indicating that Latino high school and college students were more likely to say that cultural identity was an important dimension of their overall self-concept than were non-Latino White students (Urdan, 2009, 2012)
New description of reasons why adolescents growing up in impoverished conditions may preclude identity pursuits stimulated by a college education and experiences (Oyerserman & Destin, 2012; Schwartz & others, 2012)
Much expanded coverage of gender and identity (Galliher & Kerpelman, 2012)
New material on females being more likely to have a higher level of identity formation, including having more elaborate self-representations in their identity narratives and being more likely to engage in identity exploration related to dating (Pittman & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that found different links between identity statuses and the length of friendships in female and male emerging adults (Johnson, 2012)
New discussion of the role that advancing cognitive skills such as abstract thinking and self-reflection have on adolescents' increased motivation to consider the meaning of their ethnicity, as well as how their greater independence from parents places them in contexts where they are likely to experience stereotyping and discrimination (Brody, Kogan, & Chen, 2012; Potochnick, Peerreira, & Fuligni, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found Asian American adolescents' ethnic identity was associated with high self-esteem, positive relationships, academic motivation, and lower levels of depression over time (Kiang, Witkow, & Champagne, 2013)
Coverage of a recent study that found a positive ethnic identity helped to buffer the negative effects of discrimination experienced by Mexican American adolescents (Umana-Taylor & others, 2012)
New description of gender comparisons in emotion between U.S. and Asian/Asian American adolescents (Brody, 1997; Flynn, Hollenstein, & Mackey, 2010)
New section on emotion regulation
Discussion of a recent study of young adolescents that linked their use of a cognitive appraisal strategy that involves changing how one thinks about a situation to regulate its emotional impact to having a positive self-concept, which in turn was associated with fewer internalized problems (Hsieh & Stright, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that revealed depressive symptoms often preceded the use of suppression (Larsen & others, 2012)
Inclusion of a recent meta-analysis that found conscientious, but not the other Big Five Factors, were linked to college students' grade point averages (McAbee & Oswald, 2013)
Description of a recent study of emerging adults that found conscientious was linked to fewer delays in studying (Klimstra & others, 2012)
New entry in Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Susan Harter's (2012) 2nd edition of The construction of the self.
New entry by Seth Schwartz and others in Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescents and Emerging Adults: Identity Development, Personality, and Well-Being in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood. In I.B. Weiner & others (Eds.) (2013, Handbook of Psychology, Vol.6. New York: Wiley.
New entry by Rebecca Shiner and Colin DeYoung in Resources: The Structure of Temperament and Personality. In P.D. Zelazo (Ed.) (2013), Handbook of Developmental Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.
Chapter 5
Updated description of gender differences in the brain (Giedd, 2012)
New discussion of greater acceptance of masculine girls who are described as tomboys than feminine boys who are described as sissies (Pasterski, Golombok, & Hines, 2011)
Inclusion of information from a recent analysis of men's magazines that found more than 50 percent of their advertisements reflected hyper-masculine beliefs and that some of the magazines included at least one hyper-masculine belief in 90 percent of their ads (Vokey, Tefft, & Tysiaczny, 2013)
Coverage of a recent gender stereotyping study of 6- to 10-year-olds who reported that math is mainly for boys (Cvencek, Meltzoff, & Greenwald, 2011)
New commentary about girls showing better self-control (controlling impulses and focusing attention, for example) than do boys (Else-Quest & others, 2006; Hyde & Else-Quest, 2013)
Description of a recent research review focused on girls' negative attitudes about math and the negative expectations that parents and teachers have for girls' math competence (Gunderson & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent research review that found having a stronger masculine gender role was linked to better spatial ability for males and females (Reilly & Neuman, 2013)
Much expanded and updated discussion of same-sex education, including its dramatic increase in recent years (NASSPE, 2012).
Inclusion of two recent research reviews, both of which concluded there have been no benefits of same-sex education for low-income youth of color (Goodkind, 2013; Halpern & others, 2011)
New discussion of possible benefits for same-sex education exclusively for African American males and discussion of the successful Urban Prep Academy for Young Men in Chicago that opened in 2010 in which 100 percent of its first graduates enrolled in college (Mitchell & Stewart, 2013)
Updated data on the continuing gender gap in reading and writing for U.S. students (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2012)
Expanded and updated coverage of media influences on gender (Near, 2013)
Description of recent research that found male teachers perceived boys more positively and viewed them as more educationally competent than did female teachers (Mullola & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent meta-analysis of children's emotional expression that found a small overall gender difference with girls showing more positive and internalizing emotions; however, this gender difference became more pronounced with age, increasing during middle and late childhood and adolescence (Chaplin & Aldao, 2013)
New description of the gender difference in girls and boys that girls emphasize affiliation and collaboration more than do boys (Leaper, 2013)
New entry for Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescents: Hyde, J.S., & Else-Quest, N. (2013). Half the human experience (8th Ed.). Boston: Cengage.
Chapter 6
Inclusion of recent research on Korean boys that found those at high risk for internet addiction were more likely to have experienced sexual intercourse (Sung & others, 2013)
Updated data on the sexual activity of U.S. adolescents through 2011, including gender and grade level percentages of ever having had intercourse, being currently sexually active, had sexual intercourse before 13, and had sexual intercourse with 4 or more persons (Eaton & others, 2012)
Description of a recent analysis of the sexual initiation patterns of more than 12,000 adolescents in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Haydon & others, 2012)
Updated data (2011) on the percentage of African American, Latino, and non-Latino White male and female adolescents who ever have experienced sexual intercourse (Eaton & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found the following: of adolescent girls who initiated vaginal sex first, 31 percent reported having a teen pregnancy, whereas of those who initiated oral-genital sex first only 8 percent reported having a teen pregnancy (Reese & others, 2013).
Discussion of a recent study that confirmed early engagement in sexual intercourse is associated with high risk sexual factors (becoming pregnant or causing a pregnancy, for example) as well as dating violence (Kaplan & others, 2013)
Coverage of recent research in low-income neighborhoods that found caregiver hostility was linked to early sexual activity and sex with multiple partners, while caregiver warmth was related to later sexual initiation and a lower incidence of sex with multiple partners (Gardner, Martin, & Brooks-Gunn, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that revealed a high level of impulsiveness was linked to early adolescent sexual risk-taking (Khurana & others, 2012)
Description of a recent intervention study, including its components, with adolescent girls living in a high risk low-income setting that was effective in reducing their at-risk sexual behavior (Morrison-Beedy & others, 2013)
Inclusion of recent research indicating that a greater age difference between sexual partners in adolescence was associated with less consistent condom use (Volpe & others, 2013)
Discussion of recent research on U.S. 15- to 19-year-olds with unintended pregnancies resulting in live births in which 50 percent of these adolescent girls were not using any type of birth control when they got pregnant and 34 percent believed they could not get pregnant at the time (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found emerging adults who were enrolled in college or who had graduated from college reported having fewer casual sex partners than those without a high school degree (Lyons & others, 2013)
New commentary about the increase in "hooking up" during college (Lewis & others, 2013)
Coverage of a recent study that found sexual risk factors increase in emerging adulthood with males engaging in more of these risk factors than females (Mahalik & others, 2013)
Discussion of recent research that revealed parent-child closeness was linked to fewer sexual risk factors in emerging adult African American males (Harris, Sutherland, & Hutchinson, 2013)
Description of the following recent study that reflects the uncertainty in the sexual relationships of emerging adults: More than half of daters and cohabitors reported a reconciliation (Halpern-Meekin & others, 2012)
New content on the recent provocative book, Premarital Sex in America by Mark Regnerus & Jeremy Uecker (2011), that concludes emerging adults' sex life is often free, temporary, and self-rewarding, a pattern described as producing sexual regrets and diminished emotional well-being for many women.
Coverage of a recent study of 15 year olds that found sexual minority status was associated with depression mainly via peer harassment (Martin-Storey & Crosnoe, 2012)
Updated statistics on the continuing decline in overall adolescent pregnancy rates in the U.S. and the decline in all ethnic groups, including updates in Figure 6.5 and Figure 6.16 (Hamilton & Ventura, 2012)
Expanded and updated discussion of rape, including recent data indicating that 8 percent of U.S. 9th to 12th grade students reported that they had been physically forced to have sexual intercourse against their will (Eaton & others, 2012)
Inclusion of new data indicating that 10 percent of high school students reported being hurt by a boyfriend or a girlfriend in the past year (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012)
Discussion of a longitudinal study that found older adolescents' engagement in dating violence was linked to a history of earlier aggression at age 6 and age 12 (Makin-Byrd, Bierman, & The Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, 2013)
Description of a recent coach-delivered intervention study with more than 2,000 male high school athletes that revealed the information provided the athletes (recognition of abuse, gender-equity behavior, and intention to intervene if observing abuse) was effective in increasing their intention to intervene if they witnessed the abuse (Miller & others, 2012).
New content from a recent study that assessed sixth-grade students' knowledge and curiosity about sex-related topics, including some questions they asked that reflect their lack of sexual knowledge (Charmaraman, Lee, & Erkut, 2012)
Discussion of a recent survey of sex education teachers in Minnesota regarding structural barriers, concerns about parents, students, and administrators, and restrictions on what they could teach (Eisenberg & others, 2013)
Coverage of a recent study of abstinence-plus that found sex education about abstinence and birth control was associated with healthier sexual behaviors than no instruction at all (Lindberg & Maddow-Zimet, 2012)
Chapter 7
Revisions and updates of chapter based on feedback from leading expert Darcia Narvaez
Updated and expanded coverage of the personality domain and domain theory in the introduction of moral development, including expanded examples of domains
New coverage of Darcia Narvaez and Tracy Gleason's (2013) analysis of recent research on cohort effects that show a decline in moral reasoning in college students
Expanded discussion of why adolescents are more likely to engage in prosocial behavior than children (Eisenberg, Spinrad, & Morris, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study that found mothers', but not fathers', authoritative parenting was associated with adolescents' engagement in prosocial behavior one year later (Padilla-Walker & others, 2012). However, in this study, there was a stronger link between adolescents engaging in prosocial behavior initially with this behavior subsequently followed by an increase in authoritative parenting one year later.
Inclusion of a recent research study revealing that forgiveness varied when encountering a transgressing peer based on whether the peer was liked or disliked (Peets, Hodges, & Salmivalli, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found expressing gratitude was linked to a lower level of depressive symptoms in adolescents (Lambert, Fincham, & Stillman, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study of Chinese adolescents that found those who had a higher level of gratitude were less likely to engage in suicide ideation and suicide attempts (Li & others, 2012)
Discussion of a four year longitudinal study that found the most grateful adolescents had a stronger sense of meaning of life, were more satisfied with their life, were happier and more helpful, and had a lower level of negative emotions and were less depressed than the least grateful adolescents (Bono, 2012)
New commentary about how we still do not have adequate research information about how youth perceive prosocial norms and the influence of school policies and peers on adolescents' prosocial behavior (Siu, Shek, & Law, 2012)
New description of Daniel Hart and his colleagues (Hart, 2005; Hart & others, 2011) discussion of the difficulties poor urban youth have in developing a moral identity because of contexts in which they live
Expanded information about the domain theory of moral development and the distinction between moral, social conventional, and personal domains (Smetana, 2011a, b, 2013; Turiel, 2010, 2013)
New description of links between family processes and adolescent moral development including recent research indicating that Mexican American youth who valued traditional familism had stronger prosocial tendencies (Calderon-Tena, Knight, & Carlo, 2011)
Coverage of a recent study of parenting techniques and adolescent moral development in which parental induction, as well as expression of disappointed expectations, was considered more appropriate by adolescents (Patrick & Gibbs, 2012). In this study, parental induction was linked to a higher level of adolescents' moral identity.
Updated coverage of Nancy Eisenberg and her colleagues (2013) view on parenting strategies that are likely to be linked to children behaving morally
New discussion of a recent study that found adolescents' volunteering activity in the community was linked a higher level of identity status—identity achievement (Crocetti, Jahromi, & Meeus, 2012)
Description of a recent study that revealed adolescents' volunteer activities provided opportunities to explore and reason about moral issues (van Goethem, 2012)
Updated data on trends in the percentage of first year college students who attend religious services (Pryor & others, 2011)
Updated information about the goals of first year college students in regard to their values related to the importance they place on developing a meaningful philosophy of life and becoming well off financially (Pryor & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent meta-analysis of adolescents that found that their spirituality/religiosity was positively linked to their well-being, self-esteem, and three of the five big five factors of personality (conscientiousness, openness, and agreeableness; in this meta-analysis, spirituality/religion was negatively associated with risk behavior and depression (Yonker, Schnabelrauch, & DeHaan, 2012)
Description of a recent study of religious identity and religious participation of adolescents from different ethnic groups (Lopez, Huynh, & Fuligni, 2011)
Inclusion of a recent study that found parents' religiousness during youths' adolescence was positively linked to youths' own religiousness during adolescence (Spilman & others, 2012)
New coverage of the role of peer relations in adolescent religiosity, including recent research on Indonesian adolescents' religiosity, links to their friends' and peer network associates' religiosity, and antisocial behavior (French, Purwono, & Rodkin, 2012)
New entry in Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescents: Killen, M., & Smetana, J. (Eds.) (2013). Handbook of Moral Development. Leading experts discuss recent trends in theory and research on moral development.
Chapter 8
Expanded coverage of reciprocal socialization and the bidirectional effects of parents and adolescents on adolescent outcomes, including recent interest in the role of genetic and epigenetic factors in such outcomes (Beach & Whisman, 2013; Brody & others, 2013; Deater-Deckhard, 2013; Harold & others, 2013)
Discussion of recent research indicating that a positive family climate when the adolescent was in the 7th grade was linked to the adolescent's degree of positive engagement showed toward a marital partner almost 20 years later (Ackerman & others, 2013)
Description of a recent study that revealed a high level of parental monitoring within the context of parental warmth was linked to positive academic outcomes for ethnic minority adolescents (Lowe & Dotterer, 2013)
Inclusion of recent research on more than 36,000 8th and 10th graders that a higher level of parental monitoring was associated with lower alcohol and marijuana use with the effects strongest among female adolescents and adolescents with the highest risk-taking profile (Dever & others, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study that found a higher level of parental monitoring in the 12th grade was linked to lower alcohol dependence in the first year of college (Kaynak & others, 2012)
New research on U.S. and Chinese young adolescents that found adolescents' disclosure to parents was linked a higher level of academic competence (better learning strategies, autonomous motivation, and better grades) over time (Cheung, Pomerantz, & Dong, 2013)
Description of a recent study that revealed authoritative parenting was linked to increased self-disclosure and fewer problems by adolescents (Low, Snyder, & Shortt, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study of Chinese adolescents that found authoritative parenting was positively predicted parent-adolescent attachment, which in turn was associated with higher levels of adolescent self-esteem, autonomy, and peer attachment (Cai & others, 2013)
Description of a recent study that revealed that joint parental involvement predicted a lower level of adolescent risk taking, and a bidirectional prediction with a lower level of adolescent risk taking predicting higher joint parental involvement (Riina & McHale, 2013)
Coverage of a recent study that found parental conflict during children's kindergarten years was linked to higher emotional insecurity later in childhood, which in turn was associated with adjustment problems in adolescence, such as depression and anxiety (Cummings & others, 2012)
New material on parent-adolescent conflict in immigrant families, such as Latino and Asian American, that focuses on core cultural values with the conflict not always appearing in open conflict but occurring in underlying internal feelings (Fulgni, 2012; Juang & Umana-Taylor, 2012)
New discussion of a study that found a higher level of parent-adolescent conflict was related to peer-reported aggression and juvenile delinquency (Ehrlich, Dykas, & Cassidy, 2012)
New commentary about variations in outcomes for adolescent autonomy and control depending on contexts and cultural groups (McElhaney & Allen, 2012)
Coverage of a longitudinal study from 13 to 23 years of age that revealed adolescents' autonomy from peer influences predicted long-term success in avoiding problematic behavior but also more difficulty in establishing strong friendships in emerging adulthood (Allen, Chango, & Swedo, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study that found regardless of where they were born, Mexican-origin adolescent girls living in the U.S. had age expectations for autonomy at an earlier age than their parents preferred (Bamaca-Colbert & others, 2012)
Coverage of recent research on Mexican immigrant mothers' and their U.S. born 13 and 14 year old daughters' expectations for the daughters' autonomy at 15 years of age (Romo, Mireles-Rios, & Loez-Tello, 2013)
Retitling of Adolescent Runaways section to Adolescent Runaways/Homeless Youth to account for the increased use of the term "homeless youth" (Kidd, 2012)
Description of a large scale study of 16 to 34 year olds in England that found of those who had run away from home prior to 16 years of age, substantial percentages had been bullied, experienced violence at home, and experienced unwanted sexual intercourse (Meltzer & others, 2012). Also in this study, the runaways were three times more likely to have thought about or attempted suicide.
New material on the role that peers can play in adolescents running away from home, including a recent study that linked peer deviance to running away (Chen, Thrane, & Adams, 2012)
Coverage of a recent large scale study of adolescents that revealed the odds of pregnancy in the next year were 1.7 times greater for runaways, and that the likelihood of pregnancy for runaway youth was increased when there was a history of sexual assault and romantic involvement (Thrane & Chen, 2012)
Discussion of a recent meta-analysis of 127 research studies on stability and change in attachment from infancy to adulthood (Pinquart, Feubner, & Ahnert, 2013)
Description of a recent study of emerging adults that found helicopter parenting was positively linked to parental involvement and other aspects of positive parenting, such as guidance and disclosure, and negatively related to parental granting of autonomy and school engagement (Padilla-Walker & Nelson, 2012)
Expanded discussion of sibling relationships, including the importance of perceptions of equality and fairness (Campione-Barr, Greer, & Kruse, 2013; Campione-Barr & Smetana, 2010)
Discussion of a recent study that found having an older sibling who engages in externalizing problem behavior is a risk factor for a younger sibling to also engage in that behavior (Defoe & others, 2013)
Description of a recent study that revealed adding the contribution of older siblings' problem behavior at age 16 to younger siblings' problem behavior at age 13 reduced the protective influence of authoritative parenting and increased the importance of youth disclosure (Low, Snyder, & Schortt, 2012)
Inclusion of information from a recent meta-analysis that indicated less sibling conflict and greater sibling warmth were associated with fewer internalizing and externalizing problems (Buist, Dekovic, & Prinzie, 2013)
Coverage of a recent study that found adolescent girls from divorced families displayed lower levels of romantic competence, but that their mothers' coherent account of their own romantic experiences alleviated the negative link of divorce to daughters' romantic behavior (Shulman & others, 2012)
Description of recent research that found family obligation was associated with Asian American adolescents' adjustment and helped to buffer the negative influence of financial stress in lower income families in the later high school years (Kiang & others, 2013)
New material indicating that many U.S. adoptions now involve other family members (aunts/uncles/grandparents): 30 percent of U.S. adoptions are made by relatives and slightly more than 50 percent of U.S. adoptions involve the foster care system (Ledesma, 2012)
New description of research that found adopted adolescent girls were more likely to engage in earlier sexual initiation and had more conduct disorder symptoms than did non-adopted girls (Brooker & others, 2012)
Coverage of recent research indicating that parents and their emerging adult/young children have more contact with their parents than in earlier generations with the connection especially accelerating in the first decade of the 21st century (Fingerman & others, 2012)
Chapter 9
Description of the recent study that found autonomy from peers in adolescence produces mixed outcomes in emerging adulthood: 1) avoiding problem behavior but 2) more difficulty in establishing strong friendships (Allen, Chango, & Swedo, 2013)
Coverage of a recent study that found children who were associated with prosocial peers at age 9 had a higher level of self-control at age 10 and children who were associated with deviant peers at age 9 had a lower level of self-control at age 10 (Meldrum & Hay, 2010)
Expanded discussion of negative influences of peers to include sexual activity and self-injury outcomes (Coley & others, 2013; You & others, 2013)
New research that indicated low parental control was associated with higher delinquency in adolescence through its link to deviant peer affiliation (Deutsch & others, 2012)
Description of a recent meta-analysis that revealed the link between mother and peer attachment was much stronger than the association of father and peer attachment (Gorrese & Ruggieri, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that found when parents prohibited adolescents from contacting deviant peers it actually was associated with increased deviant peer contact, which is turn was linked to higher delinquency (Keijsers & others, 2012)
Inclusion of recent research with young adolescent Latinas that found a peer-resistance skill-building gave involving Avatar-based reality technology was effective in strengthening the girls' peer-resistance skills and tendencies to be pressured into risky situations (Norris & others, 2013)
Description of a recent study that revealed peer rejection was linked to depression in adolescence (Platt, Kadosh, & Lau, 2013)
New discussion of a recent study that found adults show more advanced social cognition than adolescents in two areas: 1) theory of mind, and 2) emotion recognition (Vetter & others, 2013)
New section, Other-Sex Friendships, that includes information about girls reporting that they have more other-sex friendships than do boys
Inclusion of information on parents likely monitoring their daughters' other-sex friendships more than their sons and recent research indicating that a higher level of parental monitoring led to fewer other-sex friendships, which in turn was associated with a lower level of subsequent alcohol use for girls but not boys (Poulin & Denault, 2012)
Updated and expanded coverage of the positive outcomes of positive friendship relationships in adolescence (Kendrick, Jutengren, & Stattin, 2012; Tucker & others, 2012; Way & Silverman, 2012)
New discussion of a recent study that assessed individual difference and peer relations factors that contributed to loneliness in adolescence (Vahnalst, Luyckx, & Goossens, 2013)
Description of a recent study that found some adolescents identified with certain crowds had more internalizing behavior problems while others who identified with other crowds had more externalizing problems (Doornwaard & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent meta-analysis that found a number of gender differences in adolescent girls' and boys' friendships (Gorrese & Ruggieri, 2012)
Inclusion of information about a recent study that found girls' friendships were more positive than were boys' friendships (Kenney, Dooley, & Fitzgerald, 2013)
New research that revealed in countries where family values are more important (India, for example), peer acceptance was less important for adolescents' life satisfaction than in countries that place more importance on independence from the family (United States and Germany, for example) (Schwarz & others, 2012)
Description of recent research that indicated adolescents with a stronger romantic involvement were more likely to engage in delinquency than their counterparts with a lower level of romantic involvement (Cui & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that revealed young adolescents who had negative relationships with their parents turned to romantic relationships for intimacy and support, which in turn provided the opportunity for early sexual initiation (de Graaf & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study revealed greater attachment insecurity with parents and peers in adolescence was linked to having a more anxious attachment style at age 22 (Pascuzzo, Cyr, & Moss, 2013)
New Connecting with Emerging Adults box: Is On-Line Dating a Good Idea? (Nickalls, 2012; Steinberg, 2011)
New content on a longitudinal study that found links between adolescents' personality traits, beliefs about marriage, and romantic relationships in early adulthood (Masarik & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study that found adolescent girls from divorced families had lower levels of romantic competence in dating relationships but this negative outcome was alleviated for families in which mothers effectively communicated about their own romantic experiences during adolescence (Shulman &others, 2012)
Coverage of another large-scale survey that found many singles reported that they were looking for love, but either were ambivalent about getting married or did not want to get married (Match.com, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found cohabiting relationships were characterized by more commitment, lower satisfaction, more negative communication, and more physical aggression than dating (noncohabiting) relationships (Rhoades, Stanley, & Markham, 2012)
New commentary that recent research indicates that the link between premarital cohabitation and marital instability in first marriages has weakened in recent cohorts (Copen, Daniels, & Mosher, 2013; Manning & Cohen, 2012; Reinhold, 2010)
Discussion of a recent study that found the marriage of couples who were cohabiting but not engaged was less likely to survive the 10 and 15 year mark than the marriage of their counterparts were engaged when they cohabited (Copen, Daniels, & Mosher, 2013)
Updated data on the age at which young adults get married for the first time, which continues to rise to later ages for both men and women (Pew Research Center, 2011)
Description of a recent large-scale analysis of a number of studies that concluded married individuals have a survival advantage over unmarried individuals, and that marriage gives men more of a longevity boost than it does women (Rendall & others, 2011)
Coverage of a recent study that found the effectiveness of a marital education program was enhanced when the couples had a better level of communication prior to the program beginning (Markman & others, 2013)
Expanded discussion of the negative effects of divorce on adults' rates of physical illnesses, suicide, motor vehicle accidents, and alcoholism (Braver & Lamb, 2013)
New description of gender differences in the process and outcomes of divorce for adults, including better emotional adjustment by women (Braver & Lamb, 2013)
Chapter 10
New discussion of Robert Crosnoe's (2011) recent book, Fitting in, Standing out, that how the conformity demands of complex peer cultures in high school undermine students' academic achievement
Updated and expanded discussion of high school dropout rates, including recent data for 2011 and revised Figure 10.1 (National Center for Education Statistics, 2012).
New discussion of the controversy in determining accurate school dropout rates
Updated data on the percentage of first year college students in the U.S. who feel overwhelmed with all they have to do (Pryor & others, 2011)
New discussion of the importance of parental involvement in young adolescents' learning, including the research of Eva Pomerantz and her colleagues (Cheung & Pomerantz, 2012; Pomerantz, Kim, & Cheung, 2012) that focuses on comparisons of U.S. and Chinese children and their parents
Updated statistics on the percentage of students with various disabilities who receive special education services in U.S. schools (Condition of Education, 2012)
New discussion of characteristics of bullies (Espelage & Holt, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that found having supportive friends was linked to lower levels of bullying and victimization (Kendrick Jutengren, & Stattin, 2012)
New discussion of cyberbullying (Donnerstein, 2012; Kowalsky, Limber, & Agatston, 2012)
Discussion of recent research on a higher level of depression and suicide in children who are the victims of bullying (Fisher & others, 2012; Lemstra & others, 2012)
Description of a recent longitudinal study of more than 6,000 children that found a link between bullying/victimization and suicide ideation (Winsper & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study found a link between victims of peer bullying and the development of borderline personality symptoms (Wolke & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study linking bullying and moral disengagement (Obermann, 2011)
Discussion of a recent study that asked former victims of bullying what actually made the bullying stop (Frisen, Hasseblad, & Holmqvist, 2012)
New information about the teaching practices and strategies that are linked to positive student outcomes (Roehrig & others, 2012)
Coverage of two recent studies that found intensive participation in after-school programs or extracurricular activities was associated with fewer internalized problems for adolescents living in homes characterized by domestic violence (Gardner, Browning, & Brooks-Gunn, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study that found the more adolescents participated in organized out-of-school activities the more they were characterized by positive outcomes occurred in emerging adulthood (Mahoney & Vest, 2012)
New commentary about more than 100 million adolescents in developing countries not attending secondary schools with adolescents girls in these countries less likely to be in secondary schools than are boys (Paris & others, 2012)
Updated data on the percentage of students who receive special education services and the areas in which they receive those services (Condition of Education, 2012)
Expanded discussion of the possible misdiagnosis, including details of a recent experimental study that found clinicians overdiagnosed ADHD symptoms, especially in boys (Bruchmiller, Margraf, & Schenider, 2012)
New description of some developmental outcomes of adolescents with ADHD, including increased risks for dropping out of school, adolescent pregnancy, substance abuse problems, and engaging in antisocial behavior (Chang, Lichtenstein, & Larsson, 2012; Von Polier, Vioet, & Herpertz-Dahlman, 2012)
Updated coverage of executive functioning deficits in children with ADHD and their links to brain functioning (Supekar & Menon, 2012; Tomasi & Volkow, 2012)
Discussion of recent research indicating that mindfulness training can be effective in improving the attention of adolescents who have ADHD at least in the short term (van de Weijer-Bergsma & others, 2012)
New estimate of the percentage of children who are categorized as being gifted (Ford, 2012)
New commentary about the underrepresentation of African American, Latino, and Native American children in gifted programs and the reasons for the underrepresentation (Ford, 2012)
New entry in Connecting with Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescents: APA Educational Psychology Handbook (Vols 1-3) (2012) Edited by Karen Harris & others. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Chapter 11
Coverage of a recent study of 34 high school classrooms that revealed students who perceived their classrooms as allowing and encouraging autonomy in the first several weeks of the semester were more engaged in their classrooms throughout the course (Hafen & others, 2012)
Updated information about Carol Dweck and her colleagues (Dweck, 2012; Good, Rattan, & Dweck, 2012; Job, Dweck, & Walton, 2010; Miller & others, 2012) recent research on how a growth mindset can prevent negative stereotypes from undermining achievement and how willpower is a virtually unlimited mindset that predicts how long people will work and resist temptations during stressful circumstances.
New section—Sustained Attention, Effort, and Task Persistence—in the coverage of important processes in adolescent achievement
Description of a recent study in which task persistence in early adolescence predicted career success in middle age (Andersson & Bergman, 2011)
New coverage of Barry Zimmerman & his colleagues (Zimmerman, 2002; Zimmerman & Kitsantas, 1997; Zimmerman & Labuhn, 2012) three-phase model of self-regulation in achievement
New discussion of the importance of delaying gratification in reaching goals, especially long-term goals (Cheng, Shein, & Chiou, 2012; Schlam & others, 2013)
Inclusion of information about how mentoring may be especially important for immigrant adolescents who live in neighborhoods with few college graduates and discussion of the AVID program (Urban, 2012)
Description of a recent study that revealed low self-efficacy and low self-regulation predicted whether college students would procrastinate or not (Strunk & Steele, 2011)
New section, Perfectionism, that describes the problems that can arise when adolescents and emerging adults strive to be perfect and not make any mistakes (Gotwals & others, 2013; Stairs & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found being too self-critical was more maladaptive for college students with perfectionistic tendencies than those whose high standards were self-generated as personal standards (Dunkely, Berg, & Zuroff, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study in which perfectionism was linked to suicide ideation and that perceiving oneself as a burden to others may be involved in this link (Rasmussen & others, 2011)
Coverage of young adolescent male soccer players that revealed authoritative parenting on the part of both parents was linked to a healthier orientation in achieving high standards in the sport than was authoritarian parenting (Sapiela & others, 2011)
Discussion of two recent studies of the negative influence of self-handicapping on learning strategies, self-efficacy, test anxiety, emotional exhaustion, lowered personal accomplishment, and grades (Akin, 2012; Gadbois & Sturgeon, 2011)
New material on working longer hours in adolescence being linked to an increase in heavier drinking, especially in single-parent families (Rocheleau & Swisher, 2012)
New discussion of youth in high poverty areas who have difficulty finding work and a recent study of such youth in Baltimore that found gender differences in their attempts to find work (Clampet-Lundquist, 2013)
Expanded and updated coverage of work/career based learning that describes four main models: career academies, technical preparation programs, early college high schools, and school-based enterprises (Perry & Wallace, 2012)
New commentary about how many individuals are working at a series of jobs and many work in short-term jobs (Greenhaus, 2013)
Description of a recent study that found engagement in educational goals, but not occupational goals, in the first year after high school graduation was linked to psychological well-being 2 and 4 years later, and to occupational progress 4 years later (Heckhausen & others, 2013)
New discussion of the role of culture in careers, including a recent 18 country study that found adolescents in all 18 countries strongly feared that they would not be able to pursue the profession they desired in the future and that they would be unemployed at some point in the future (Seiffge-Krenke, 2012)
New commentary about how there is a mismatch in some countries, such as Italy and Spain, for youth between the high number of university graduates and reasonably low demand for these graduates in the labor market (Tomasik &others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study of individuals from 18 to 31 years of age that found maintaining a high aspiration and certainty over career goals better insulated individuals from unemployment in the severe economic recession that began in 2007 (Vuolo & others, 2012)
Chapter 12
Updated data on the percentage of U.S. children and adolescents living in poverty (U.S. Census Bureau, 2012)
New discussion of the New Hope Project's work-based, anti-poverty intervention that had positive effects on adolescents' future orientation (Purtell & McLoyd, 2013)
Description of a recent study that found neighborhood affluence, but not family wealth, was linked to adolescent problems (Lund & Dearing, 2013)
Revised and updated information about diversity, especially ethnic identity and immigration, based on feedback from leading expert Diane Hughes
Updated and expanded introduction to immigration and adolescent development that describes the complexity of immigration (Crosnoe & Fuligni, 2012)
New coverage of two models of immigration—immigrant risk model and immigrant paradox model—and the conclusion that research supports both models to some degree (Crosnoe & Fuligni, 2012)
Expanded and updated coverage of the stressful and difficult experiences that children adolescents in many immigrant families face, including children in undocumented families (Yoshikawa, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that found following their immigration Mexican American adolescents spent less time with their family and identified less with family values (Updegraff & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study that found the longer youth who had immigrated from the Dominican Republic lived in the United States the more likely they were at risk for suicide or suicide attempts (Pena & others, 2012)
Description of how many ethnic/immigrant families focus on issues associated with promoting children's and adolescents' ethnic pride, knowledge of their ethnic group, and discrimination (Rogers & others, 2012; Simpkins & others, 2012)
Inclusion of recent research indicating that parents' education before migrating was strongly linked to their children's academic achievement (Pong & Landale, 2012)
Discussion of recent research on ethnic minority students' transition to college that found their perception of being discriminated against decreased over time but their perception that their ethnic group is not valued and respected by society decreased over time (Huynh & Fuligni, 2012)
Expanded and updated introduction to media use including the recent creation of the term screen time that encompasses the wide range of media/computer/communication/information devices that adolescents now use (De Decker & others, 2012; Schmidt & others, 2012)
Inclusion of recent research linking higher levels of screen time at 4 to 6 years of age with increased obesity and low physical activity from preschool through adolescence (te Velde & others, 2012)
Description of a new study of 8- to 12-year-old girls that found a higher level of media multitasking was linked to negative social well-being while a higher level of face-to-face communication was associated with a higher level of social well-being, such as social success, feeling normal, and having fewer friends whom parents perceived as a bad influence (Pea & others, 2012)
Much expanded coverage of videogames, including research that substantiates the negative effects of playing violent videogames (DeWall, Anderson, & Bushman, 2013) but that also indicates positive child outcomes for prosocial skills after playing prosocial video games (Gentile & others, 2009), improved visuospatial skills (Schmidt & Vandewater, 2008), and weight loss for overweight adolescents following video game playing that requires exercise (Bond, Richards, & Calvert, 2013)
New commentary that by far the most studies of videogame playing by adolescents has focused on possible negative rather than positive outcomes (Adachi & Willoughby, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study that found violent video game playing by emerging adults was linked to lower empathic concern (Fraser & others, 2012)
Description of a recent experimental research study that found overweight adolescents loss more weight following a 10 week competitive condition that involved playing the Nintendo Wii EA Sports Active video (Staiano, Abraham, & Calvert, 2012).
New coverage of a research review on children's and adolescents' TV viewing and creativity that concluded that overall there is a negative association of TV viewing and creativity but that there is an exception when children and adolescents watch educational TV content designed to teach creativity through the use of imaginative characters (Calvert & Valkenberg, 2011)
New material on sexting, including a recent study that found emerging adults who engage in sexting are more likely to report recent substance use and high-risk sexual behavior (Benotsch & others, 2013)
Discussion of a recent study of university students' use of Facebook and how patterns of use to maintain existing relationships versus seeking new relationships were linked to different outcomes for social adjustment and loneliness (Yang & Brown, 2013)
New entry in Resources for Improving the Lives of Adolescence: Realizing the Potential of Immigrant Youth edited by Ann Masten and her colleagues (2012), in which leading international scholars describe contemporary research and promising strategies for improving immigrant youths' development.
Chapter 13
Inclusion of recent research indicating that mothers' and fathers' alcohol use was linked to earlier alcohol use in their children (Kerr & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent study that revealed earlier incidence of internalizing and externalizing problems in childhood were associated with problematic behaviors in adolescence (Englund & Siebenbruner, 2012)
Coverage of a recent cross-cultural study of adolescent stress in 20 countries that found similar perceived stressfulness in different domains across the countries with the highest perceived stress involving parents and school, the lowest related to peers and romantic relationships (Perike & Seiffge-Krenke, 2012)
Description of a recent study that found acculurative stress was linked to body image disturbance in Latino college students through an emphasis on the high status of a thin body (Menon & Harter, 2012)
Discussion of a recent research review that emphasizes two main types of changes in coping in adolescence: 1) An increase in coping capacities, such as greater self-reliance and increases in planful problem solving and cognitive strategies; and 2) an improvement in the deployment of different coping strategies related to different types of stressors (Zimmer-Gembeck & Skinner, 2011)
Updated coverage of the Monitoring the Future study's assessment of drug use by secondary school students (Johnston & others, 2012)
Description of a recent research review that concluded in addition to acquiring a best friend who smokes, initiation of smoking in adolescence was linked to getting into trouble in school, household access, poorer graders, and delinquency (Tucker & others, 2012). In this review, escalation of smoking in adolescence was predicted by depressive symptoms.
Discussion of a recent study that found when the mother of an adolescent's friend engaged in authoritative parenting the adolescent was less likely to binge drink, smoke cigarettes, or use marijuana, than when the friend's mother engaged in neglectful parenting (Shakya, Christakis, & Fowler, 2012)
Updated material on college students' drinking habits including new data on extreme binge drinking and the recent decline in college drinking (Johnston & others, 2011)
Update content on pregaming and its link to substance abuse in emerging adults (Khan & others, 2012)
Description of research that found the onset of alcohol use before age 11 was linked to a higher risk of alcohol dependence in early adulthood (Guttmannova & others, 2012)
Discussion of recent research that linked authoritative parenting with lower adolescent alcohol consumption (Piko & Balazs, 2012) and parent-adolescent conflict with higher consumption (Chaplin & others, 2012)
Updated research on a confluence of peer factors that are linked to adolescence alcohol use (Cruz, Emery, & Turkheimer, 2012; Patrick & Schulenberg, 2010)
Discussion of recent research on the role of parental monitoring and support during adolescence in reducing criminal behavior in emerging adulthood (Johnson & others, 2011)
Coverage of a recent study that found for both African American and non-Latino White adolescents, low parental control predicted delinquency, indirectly through its link to deviant peer affiliation (Deutsch & others, 2012)
Description of recent research that revealed authoritative parenting increased youths' perception of the legitimacy of parental authority and that youths' perception of parental legitimacy was associated with a lower level of future delinquency (Trinkner & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent meta-analysis of five programs for reducing the recidivism of juvenile offenders, family treatment was the only one that was effective (Schwalbe others, 2012)
New description of a recent study that found poor academic performance and reduced attachment to school at age 15 predicted a higher level of criminal activity at 17 to 19 years of age (Savolainen & others, 2012)
Updated coverage of outcomes for the Fast Track delinquency intervention study through age 19 that found the program was successful in reducing juvenile arrest rates (Conduct Problems Prevention Research Group, 2011; Miller & others, 2011)
Discussion of recent research of African Americans that revealed adult depression was associated with a combination of growing up in a family characterized by conflict and low socioeconomic status (Green & others, 2012)
Description of a recent study that indicated co-rumination increased internalizing symptoms in youth's friendships (Schwartz-Mette & Rose, 2013)
Coverage of a recent research review that concluded treatment of adolescent depression needs to take into account the severity of the depression, suicidal tendencies, and social factors (Clark, Jansen, & Cloy, 2012)
Updated description of U.S. adolescents' serious consideration of suicide, whether they had made a suicidal plan, and whether they had attempted suicide in the last 12 months (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2012)
Inclusion of recent research indicating that Latina adolescents' suicide ideation was associated with having a suicidal friend, as well as lower perceived parental and teacher support (De Luca, Wyman, & Warren, 2012)
Description of recent research indicating that adolescent girls who were the victims of dating violence were at higher risk for suicidal behavior (Belshaw & others, 2012)
Discussion of recent research indicating that adolescents who engaged in suicidal ideation perceived their family functioning to be significantly worse than did their caregivers (Lipschitz & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that found adolescent girls, but not boys, who perceived themselves to be overweight were at risk for engaging in suicide ideation (Seo & Lee, 2012)
Inclusion of recent research revealing that college students with greater depression severity and a higher level of hopelessness were at risk for engaging in suicide ideation (Farabaugh & others, 2012)
Updated data on trends in adolescent obesity from 1999-2000 to 2009-2010 with an increase in boys but not in girls during this time frame (Ogden & others, 2012)
Inclusion of a recent national survey that found for 18 to 23 year olds, the percent of individuals who were obese increased .5 from 13.9 percent to 14.4 percent from 2008 to 2012 (Gallup Poll, 2012)
Description of recent research that found adolescents who were often/sometimes bullied by their peer group had a higher risk of obesity at 21 years of age (Mamum & others, 2012)
Coverage of a recent study that revealed adolescents and young adult females who were overeaters or binge eaters were twice as likely as their peers to develop depressive symptoms across the next four years (Skinner & others, 2012)
Discussion of a recent three-month experimental study that found both aerobic exercise and resistance exercise without caloric restriction were effective in reducing abdominal fat and insulin sensitivity compared to a no exercise control group (Lee & others, 2012)
New commentary about links between anorexia nervosa and obsessive thinking about weight and compulsive exercise (Hildebrandt & others, 2012)
New description of the perfectionistic tendencies of anorexics and bulimics (Lampard & others, 2012)
New discussion of the likely brain changes in adolescents who are anorexic (Lock, 2012b)
Description of a recent study of adolescents and young adults that found dieters were two to three times more likely than nondieters to develop binge eating problems over a five-year period (Goldschmidt & others, 2012)
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