Edited By: Amanda Sheffield Morris
The Journal of Research on Adolescence publishes innovative and rigorous research that advances understanding of adolescent development. We welcome manuscripts from the wide range of topics relevant to adolescent development, using rigorous quantitative or qualitative methodologies. We will consider samples of early adolescence (10-12), middle adolescence (13-15), late adolescence (16-18), and young adulthood (19-25). Manuscripts should clearly articulate the advances in understanding adolescent development and the applications for improving the lives of adolescents.
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New open science initiatives
JRA announces new open science initiatives to keep pace with an evolving science in ways consistent with the wonderfully diverse research and perspectives of authors, reviewers, and editors! JRA remains a hybrid journal (with subscription and open access options), while introducing changes to increase the transparency, rigor, and reproducibility of published articles. JRA now requires Open Researcher and Contributor IDs (ORCIDs) for submitting authors, Contribution Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) statements for all authors, and data, materials & code availability statements. JRA also encourages positionality statements. Details are available on the Author Guidelines page.
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Special Issue: Towards a Decolonial Developmental Science: Exploring Adolescent Development in Communities from the Majority World
Edited by Amina Abubakar, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Lixian Cui, Silvia H. Koller, Chidozie Edwin Nwafor, and Vaishali Raval
This special issue serves as a call to transform developmental science to be decolonial by empowering adolescent development in Majority World communities to take center stage. The 18 articles included in this special issue are all reports of research studies, and 14 are led by researchers affiliated with an institution in the Majority World. JRA is proud to present this special issue to highlight how the collaborative efforts from Majority and Minority World scholars can result in high-quality research that can expand our understanding of adolescent development around the world with a specific emphasis on the Majority World. This special issue also emphasizes the importance of studying adolescent development in diverse macro-contextual characteristics. Articles are free to read until 15th October 2024.
Special Issue: Decade in Review
The Journal of Research on Adolescence has published a special section, A Decade Review of Adolescence Research, highlighting research conducted over the last decade. The special section features fifteen articles from experts on adolescent development on topics ranging from parenting and peers to immigrant resilience and positive youth development. The special section was edited by Noel Card, Amanda Sheffield Morris, Christina Salmivalli, and Gustavo Carlo.
Special Issue: The Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Adolescent Emotional, Social, and Academic Adjustment
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a strong impact on adolescents worldwide. This special issue aimed to increase our understanding of the factors that explain interindividual differences in how adolescents are affected by the pandemic. The special issue includes 21 empirical articles from four continents on the role of the pandemic in changes in emotional, social, and academic adjustment during adolescence. The studies demonstrate that many adolescents experienced increased depressive symptoms, negative affect, and loneliness, and lower academic adjustment during the pandemic, particularly those that were already at risk before the pandemic. At the same time, many adolescents had individual, family, and community resources that made them resilient and helped them to continue to function well despite the adverse circumstances.
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Articles
Ethnic–racial discrimination and socialization: Short-term longitudinal effects on Black and Latinx young adults' ethnic–racial identity
- 10 October 2024
Adolescents' evaluations of peer and teacher unfair treatment in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics classes: Expected interventions
- 9 October 2024
Celebrating the legacy and work of John Schulenberg: Answering the question “Does adolescence matter?”
- 7 October 2024
The COVID generation: A commentary on how the pandemic altered adolescents' life course
- 7 October 2024
Discrimination, critical consciousness, and mental health in American youth of color
- 7 October 2024
The following is a list of the most cited articles based on citations published in the last three years, according to CrossRef.
Beyond Homophily: A Decade of Advances in Understanding Peer Influence Processes
- 166-179
- 15 February 2011
We Know Some Things: Parent–Adolescent Relationships in Retrospect and Prospect
- 1-19
- 24 February 2003
Recent issues
Volume 34, Issue 2Special Issue: Towards a decolonial developmental science: Exploring adolescent development in communities from the Majority World
243-613June 2024Amina Abubakar, Angelo Brandelli Costa, Lixian Cui, Silvia H. Koller, Chidozie Edwin Nwafor, Vaishali V. Raval
