ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2019
Patterns of Social Connectedness and Psychosocial Wellbeing among African American and Caribbean Black Adolescents.
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- Social Support Coping for African American Adolescents: Effect of a Culturally Grounded Randomized Controlled Trial Intervention.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2023Trial
- Examining the Impact of Social Connectedness on Depression and Suicide Ideation Among Black Youth Experiencing Discrimination: A Path Analysis.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Associations between park visitation and physical, mental and social health among older adults.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Perceived teacher-student power distance in relation to campus connectedness profiles among Chinese college students: profile differences in difficulties in emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Engaging families to create a better post-pandemic future: semi-structured interviews with youth and parents in Canada.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Childhood maltreatment, social connectedness, and depression: A prospective analysis of trajectories over time.Developmental psychology · 2025Article
- Social connectedness and well-being among Black women who experienced adolescent sexual trauma.Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy · 2025Article
- The mediating effect of social connectedness between internet gaming disorder and somatic symptoms in adolescents: a large sample cross-sectional study.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Influence of park visitation on physical activity, well-being and social connectedness among Australians during COVID-19.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Risk and protective factors for suicidal thoughts and behaviors among Black female and male youth with depression symptoms - United States, 2004-2019.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Chronic health conditions and adolescents' social connectedness.The American journal of orthopsychiatry · 2024Article
- Adolescent Mothers' Psychological Wellbeing during Pregnancy and Infant Emotional Health.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2023Article
- Social Connectedness and Associations with Gambling Risk in New Zealand.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Childhood neighborhoods and health: Census-based neighborhood measures versus residential lived experiences.Health & place · 2022Article
- Adolescent Connectedness: Testing Confirmatory Factor Analysis of the Hemingway: Measure of Adolescent Connectedness-Bahasa Melayu Version (HMAC-BM).International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- An Exploratory Case Study of the Types of Resources Black Boys Use to Support Their Mental Health.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- "We Are Young, We Run Free": Predicting Factors of Life Satisfaction among Young Backpackers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Outdoor public recreation spaces and social connectedness among adolescents.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Adolescent Connectedness: A Scoping Review of Available Measures and Their Psychometric Properties.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- What Racism Has to Do with It: Understanding and Reducing Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Youth of Color.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
Adolescents are connected to multiple and interrelated settings (e.g., family, school), which interact to influence their development. Using the National Survey of American Life-Adolescent (NSAL-A), a nationally representative cross-sectional survey, this study examined patterns of social connection and Black adolescents' wellbeing and whether social connection-wellbeing links differed by ethnicity and gender. The sample included 1170 Black adolescents ages 13-17 (69% African American, 31% Caribbean Black, 52% female, mean age 15). Latent profile analysis was used to identify profiles of adolescent connections across family, peer, school, religion, and neighborhood settings. Four profiles of social connection emerged: unconnected, minimal connection, high family connection, and well-connected. The profiles differed in life satisfaction, self-esteem, mastery, coping, perceived stress, and depressive symptoms. The well-connected profile, characterized by connection to all five settings, had significantly higher life satisfaction, self-esteem, mastery, and coping, and lower perceived stress compared to the unconnected and minimal connection profiles and lower depressive symptoms than the unconnected profile. The well-connected profile also had better self-esteem and coping compared to the high family connection profile. The youth in the unconnected profile had significantly lower self-esteem and mastery and significantly higher depressive symptoms than the minimally connected youth. Moderation analyses showed no differences by ethnicity. However, differences by gender were observed for the association between connectedness and life satisfaction. The results support the critical need to examine connectedness across multiple settings and within group heterogeneity among Black youth to develop strategies to promote their psychosocial wellbeing.
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