Quaranteens: Prepandemic relationship quality and changes in adolescent internalizing problems during the COVID-19 pandemic

This preregistered longitudinal study examined changes in adolescents' depressive and anxiety symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using latent additive piece-wise growth models. It also assessed whether support from and conflict with mothers, fathers, siblings, and best friends explained heterogeneity in change patterns. One hundred and ninety-two Dutch adolescents (Mean age: 14.3 years; 68.8% female) completed online biweekly questionnaires for a year (November 2019–October 2020), consisting of a prepandemic, lockdown, and reopening phase. Depressive symptoms increased following the lockdown and decreased upon reopening. Anxiety symptoms showed an immediate decrease followed by a gradual increase in the reopening phase. Prepandemic family and best friend support and conflict did not explain heterogeneity in depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic.</p

Патогенез ренальных дисфункций при метаболическом синдроме

Анализируются патофизиологические механизмы возникновения и развития ренальных дисфункций в условиях метаболического синдрома (МС). Рассматриваются результаты популяционных клинических исследований деятельности почек у лиц с МС, а также механизмы, вызывающие нарушения гомеостатических функций почек в условиях течения МС. Проведен обзор литературы о роли ренин-ангиотензиновой системы и оксида азота в патогенезе ренальных дисфункций при МС.Analysis of pathophisiological mechanisms of renal dysfunctions development was carried out during metabolic syndrome. Results of clinic researches of renal activity in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS) and disturbances of homeostatic renal functions during MS were established. The literature review about research of renin-angiotensin system’s role and nitric oxide in pathogenesis of renal functions during MS was conducted

Stevig als een Rots, Flexibel als Water? Effectiviteit van een Schoolinterventie Gericht op het Intrapersoonlijk en Interpersoonlijk Domein

Samenvatting De huidige studie had als doel om te onderzoeken of 1) de schoolinterventie Rots en Water (r&w) effectief was in het verbeteren van competenties en voorkomen van problemen in het intra- en interpersoonlijk domein van leerlingen op het voorbereidend middelbaar beroepsonderwijs (vmbo), en of 2) interventie-effecten veranderden naarmate er meer mensen betrokken waren bij de interventie (kernteam van leerkrachten, het hele schoolteam, het hele schoolteam en ouders). We hebben een gerandomiseerde gecontroleerde studie uitgevoerd onder brugklassers (N = 1299; Mleeftijd = 12,38; 54 % jongens) die vier keer digitale vragenlijsten hebben ingevuld. De resultaten lieten zien dat r&w een aantal interventie-specifieke uitkomsten (zelfcontrole en emotionele zelfregulatie), uitkomsten in het intrapersoonlijk domein (psychologisch welzijn, seksuele autonomie en internaliserend gedrag) en in het interpersoonlijk domein (agressie) verbeterde, maar uitsluitend wanneer een kernteam van leerkrachten betrokken was bij de implementatie van de interventie. De (gematigde) interventie-effecten waren het grootste in het eerste jaar van de tweejarige interventie. Deze resultaten laten zien dat r&w positieve effecten kan bewerkstelligen bij vmbo-leerlingen wanneer deze geïmplementeerd wordt door een kernteam. Het lijkt dus waardevol voor scholen om te investeren in interventies met een leerstijl die aansluit bij die van de doelgroep, met een hoge kwaliteit van implementatie en een beperkt aantal betrokken personen

Quaranteens: Prepandemic relationship quality and changes in adolescent internalizing problems during the COVID-19 pandemic

This preregistered longitudinal study examined changes in adolescents' depressive and anxiety symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic using latent additive piece-wise growth models. It also assessed whether support from and conflict with mothers, fathers, siblings, and best friends explained heterogeneity in change patterns. One hundred and ninety-two Dutch adolescents (Mean age: 14.3 years; 68.8% female) completed online biweekly questionnaires for a year (November 2019–October 2020), consisting of a prepandemic, lockdown, and reopening phase. Depressive symptoms increased following the lockdown and decreased upon reopening. Anxiety symptoms showed an immediate decrease followed by a gradual increase in the reopening phase. Prepandemic family and best friend support and conflict did not explain heterogeneity in depressive and anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic

Nonlinear expectations in speculative markets – Evidence from the ECB survey of professional forecasters

Chartist and fundamentalist models have proven to be capable of replicating stylized facts on speculative markets. In general, this is achieved by specifying nonlinear interactions of otherwise linear asset price expectations of the respective trader groups. This paper investigates whether or not regressive and extrapolative expectations themselves exhibit significant nonlinear dynamics. The empirical results are based on a new data set from the European Central Bank Survey of Professional Forecasters on oil price expectations. In particular, we find that forecasters form destabilizing expectations in the neighborhood of the fundamental value, whereas expectations tend to be stabilizing in the presence of substantial oil price misalignment

Pornography Use Profiles and the Emergence of Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence

This research longitudinally explored adolescent pornography (porn) consumption and its association with sexual development in early and middle adolescence. A four-wave design with half-year intervals investigated pornography consumption and different (sexual) activities, such as masturbation, French kissing, petting, giving/receiving manual and oral sex, and intercourse, among 630 respondents (47.9% female, mean age 13.7 years; SD = 0.48) years at T1). A latent growth mixture analysis of pornography consumption revealed two groups with relatively low pornography (LP; 51.8% of the boys, 91.4% of the girls) versus high pornography (HP; 48.2% of the boys; 8.6% of the girls) consumption across time. At T1, HP boys on average watched pornography less than once a month, but more than once a year at T1. At T4, their average pornography use had increased to almost one to two times a week. LP boys never watched pornography at T1. At T4, their average pornography use was still less than once a year. At T1, HP girls never watched pornography, but consumption increased to almost one to three times a month at T4. Across waves of the study, LP girls (almost) never watched pornography. A discrete-time survival mixture analysis of sexual developmental patterning indicated that, compared to their LP peers, both girls and boys in the HP groups showed accelerated development of masturbation, petting, and receiving manual sex. Girls in the HP group were also more inclined to receive oral sex, whereas boys in the HP group also showed earlier and more frequent manual sex and intercourse. Thus, whereas the HP group of boys was substantially larger compared to that of girls, pornography consumption was related to accelerated development of sexual activities for both genders across early and middle adolescence. The discussion deliberates on pornography as a driving force in adolescent sexual development versus pornography as a medium of choice for sexually advanced adolescents

Титульные страницы и содержание

This study gives an overview of Project STARS (Studies on Trajectories of Adolescent Relationships and Sexuality), a four-wave longitudinal study of 1297 Dutch adolescents. First, the sample, measures and four sub-projects are described. Second, hierarchical regression analyses were conducted to examine how key variables from the individual domain (impulsivity), parent domain (parent-adolescent relationship quality), peer domain (involvement with peers) and media domain (time spent on social networking sites), and their interactions predict changes in the experience with sexual behaviour of adolescents across time. Results showed that higher levels of impulsivity, lower quality of relation with parents, more frequent involvement with peers and more time spent on social networking sites at baseline predicted increases in sexual experience of adolescents over a subsequent 1.5-year time period. No interaction effects among the domains were found. The findings highlight the significance of a multi-domain approach to the study of adolescent sexual development

Longitudinal Associations Between Sexual Communication With Friends and Sexual Behaviors Through Perceived Sexual Peer Norms

The role of peers in adolescents’ sexual behaviors is not yet fully understood. We investigated the association between sexual communication with friends (at T1) and subsequent changes in adolescents’ experience with sexual behaviors (between T1–T3), and examined whether this association was explained by adolescents’ perceptions of three sexual peer norms (at T2): (1) peers’ se

The Relationship Between Early Sexual Debut and Psychosocial Outcomes: A Longitudinal Study of Dutch Adolescents

In a longitudinal dataset of 470 Dutch adolescents, the current study examined the ways in which early sexual initiation was related to subsequent attachment, self-perception, internalizing problems, and externalizing problems. For male adolescents, analyses revealed general attachment to mother and externalizing problems at Wave 1 to predict to early transition at Wave 2. However, there was no differential change in these psychosocial factors over time for early initiators of sexual intercourse and their non-initiating peers. For female adolescents, the model including psychosocial factors at Wave 1 did not predict to sexual initiation at Wave 2. However, univariate repeated measures analyses revealed early initiators to have significantly larger increases in self-concept and externalizing problems than their non-initiating female peers. While the difference between female early initiators and non-initiators were statistically significant, the mean levels of problem behaviors were very low. The findings suggest that, contrary to previous research, early sexual initiation does not seem to be clustered with problem behaviors for this sample of Dutch adolescents