A Researcher’s Guide to the Measurement and Modeling of Puberty in the ABCD Study® at Baseline

9 pagesThe Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development℠ (ABCD) Study is an ongoing, diverse, longitudinal, and multi-site study of 11,880 adolescents in the United States. The ABCD Study provides open access to data about pubertal development at a large scale, and this article is a researcher’s guide that both describes its pubertal variables and outlines recommendations for use. These considerations are contextualized with reference to cross-sectional empirical analyses of pubertal measures within the baseline ABCD dataset by Herting, Uban, and colleagues (2021). We discuss strategies to capitalize on strengths, mitigate weaknesses, and appropriately interpret study limitations for researchers using pubertal variables within the ABCD dataset, with the aim of building toward a robust science of adolescent development.This project was conceptualized at the ABCD Workshop 2019, which was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number R25MH120869. Author TC was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number TL1TR002371. Author CL was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number MH099007. Author MLB was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health of the National Institutes of Health under Award Number K01MH111951. Author MH was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health under Award Number: K01 MH10876. Author SW was supported by the National Health and Medical Research Council under award number 1125504. Author KU was supported by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism under Award Number: K01 AA026889. Author JP was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health under award number MH174108. To prepare this article, we examine and present details about measures administered in the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study (https://abcdstudy.org), held in the NIMH Data Archive (NDA). This is a multi-site, longitudinal study designed to recruit more than 10,000 children ages 9–10 and follow them over 10 years into early adulthood. The ABCD Study is supported by the National Institutes of Health and additional federal partners under award numbers U01DA041048, U01DA050989, U01DA051016, U01DA041022, U01DA051018, U01DA051037, U01DA050987, U01DA041174, U01DA041106, U01DA041117, U01DA041028, U01DA041134, U01DA050988, U01DA051039, U01DA041156, U01DA041025, U01DA041120, U01DA051038, U01DA041148, U01DA041093, U01DA041089. A full list of supporters is available at https://abcdstudy.org/federal-partners.html. A listing of participating sites and a complete listing of the study investigators can be found at https://abcdstudy.org/scientists/workgroups/. ABCD consortium investigators designed and implemented the study and/or provided data but did not necessarily participate in analysis or writing of this report. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH or ABCD consortium investigators. Author TC was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under award number TL1TR002371 and by the National Institute of Mental Health under award number 1F31MH124353

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Amendment to Online Prosocial Behavior Preregistration: Longitudinal Analyses

In this amendment to the preregistration, we summarize our cross-sectional findings originally preregistered in 2021, and outline novel analyses to be done with recently collected, longitudinal data

Adolescent Social Cognitive Development

During adolescence, our bodies, brains, and behaviors undergo marked developmental changes. Adolescents often become increasingly aware of their social worlds and use this stage of development to develop skills to help them navigate this changing landscape. Up until recently, an overwhelming majority of research on social cognition–specifically on understanding the mental states of others–has focused on childhood. In this chapter, I demonstrate that adolescence is an important developmental period for the refinement and sophistication of social cognitive processes that began developing during childhood. I also discuss the development of more advanced and distinct social cognitive processes. Additionally, I review the available literature on the developmental trajectories of advanced social cognition across adolescence–including individual differences, cultural considerations, and implications for adolescent health and wellbeing. Finally, I describe how future research may begin to address current knowledge gaps on this topic

Mentalizing Strategies for Navigating the Social World in Adolescence

Mentalizing—inferring the mental states of others—continues to develop into and throughout adolescence. This observed increase in mentalizing sophistication is thought to aid adolescents in navigating increasingly complex social relationships and contexts. However, developmental science has not measured how mentalizing as a multifaceted construct is applied adaptively in social contexts, or how mentalizing strategies relate to functional outcomes, such as internalizing mental health concerns, in adolescence. This paper includes a review of the literature describing approaches to measure mentalizing strategies during adolescence. We also describe a theoretical perspective that may be harnessed to guide future studies designed to measure the influence of social environmental factors on the development of these mentalizing strategies during adolescence

The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Snacking and Weight among Adolescents: A Scoping Review

Eating behaviors, including unhealthy snacking or excessive snacking leading to excess calorie consumption, may contribute to obesity among adolescents. Socioeconomic status (SES) also significantly influences eating behaviors, and low SES is associated with increased risk for obesity. However, little is known regarding the relationship between snacking behavior and SES among adolescents and how this may contribute to obesity-related outcomes. The primary objective of this scoping review was to review the literature to assess and characterize the relationship between SES and snacking in adolescents. The secondary objective was to assess weight-related outcomes and their relation to snacking habits. Included articles were published between January 2000 and May 2019; written in English, Portuguese, or Spanish; and focused on adolescents (13–17 years). In total, 14 bibliographic databases were searched, and seven studies met the inclusion criteria. Preliminary evidence from the seven included studies suggests a weak but potential link between SES and snacking. Additionally, these dietary patterns seemed to differ by sex and income type of country. Finally, only three of the included studies addressed weight-related outcomes, but the overall available evidence suggests that snacking does not significantly affect weight-related outcomes. Due to the small number of included studies, results should be interpreted with caution

Socio-ecological Resilience Relates to Lower Internalizing Symptoms among Adolescents during the Strictest Period of COVID-19 Lockdown in Perú.

The COVID-19 pandemic has touched the lives of adolescents around the world. This short-term longitudinal, observational study followed 1,334 adolescents (11-17 yo) to investigate whether social-ecological resilience relates to intra- and inter-personal resources and/or the caregiver relationship relates to changes in internalizing symptoms during five stressful weeks of COVID-19 lockdown in Perú. In this work, we contextualize social-ecological resilience in relation to culturally-relevant personal and caregiver resources that youth can use to adapt to stressful situations. We found that adolescents who reported higher levels of personal, caregiver, and overall resilience had lower levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms at week six. We also find that personal, caregiver, and overall resilience moderated the change in anxiety symptoms from week 6 to week 11 of lockdown in 2020. Our findings underscore the importance of social-ecological resilience related to both intra/interpersonal resources and the caregiver relationship for minimizing the harmful impacts of COVID-19 on adolescent internalizing symptoms