ArticleHealth psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association2016
The 1-year impact of an emotion regulation intervention on early adolescent health risk behaviors.
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- Neuroscience-informed classification of prevention interventions in substance use disorders: An RDoC-based approach.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2024Pooled it
- A Meta-Analytic Review of Emotion Regulation Focused Psychosocial Interventions for Adolescents.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Pooled it
- Outcomes of Randomized Clinical Trials of Interventions to Enhance Social, Emotional, and Spiritual Components of Wisdom: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.JAMA psychiatry · 2020Pooled it
- Project STRONG: an Online, Parent-Son Intervention for the Prevention of Dating Violence among Early Adolescent Boys.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Sexual Risk Outcomes of an Emotion Regulation Intervention for At-Risk Early Adolescents.Pediatrics · 2018Trial
- A Pilot Study of a Tablet-Based Emotion Regulation Intervention for Early Adolescents.Journal of developmental and behavioral pediatrics : JDBPTrial
- Evaluation of an emotion regulation and healthy lifestyle program (HealthTRAC) for adolescents with obesity: a randomized controlled trial protocol.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 2026Article
- Negative Emotional Reactivity and Somatic Symptoms during Adolescence Predict Adult Health and Wellbeing in Early and Middle Adulthood.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2024Article
- Neural activations to loss anticipation mediates the association between difficulties in emotion regulation and screen media activities among early adolescent youth: A moderating role for depression.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2022Article
- Social environment risk factors for violence, family context, and trajectories of social-emotional functioning among Latinx adolescents.Journal of adolescence · 2022Article
- Emotion regulation difficulties, perceived parenting and personality as predictors of health-risk behaviours among adolescents.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
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- Intervening for HIV prevention and mental health: a review of global literature.Journal of the International AIDS Society · 2021Review
- Adolescent Emotion Regulation and Parent-Child Discussions about Sexual Behaviors.International journal of sexual health : official journal of the World Association for Sexual Health · 2021Article
- Modelling resilience in adolescence and adversity: a novel framework to inform research and practice.Translational psychiatry · 2019Review
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objectiveSexual activity often begins in early adolescence, and adolescents with mental health symptoms are at greater risk for sexual activity and other health risks. This study aimed to evaluate a developmentally targeted intervention designed to enhance early adolescents' emotion regulation competencies as a strategy for reducing health risk behaviors, including sexual initiation.
methodAdolescents 12 to 14 years old (N = 420; 53% male) with mental health symptoms participated in either an emotion regulation (ER) or health promotion (HP) intervention consisting of 12 after-school sessions. Participants completed questionnaires on laptop computers at baseline, 2-, 6-, and 12-month follow-ups.
resultsTime to event analyses were used to compare intervention conditions on rate of initiation to vaginal sex. Results showed that participants in the ER condition were less likely to transition into vaginal sexual activity by 1-year follow-up than were those in the HP condition (adjusted hazard ratio = 0.58, 95% confidence interval [0.36, 0.94], p = .01). However, those who were sexually active did not report differences in sexual risk behaviors (e.g., condomless sex). Participants in the ER condition were significantly less likely to report violence behaviors and showed improvement on a behavioral measure of emotion identification; however, they did not differ from HP participants on self-reports of emotional competence.
conclusionsEmotion regulation strategies can be used to delay sexual initiation among early adolescents with mental health symptoms and may have an important role in health education. (PsycINFO Database Record
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