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When a parent has a mental health disorder, it may affect the environment in which children live, which may have certain effects on the children.

The goal of this study was to examine whether moral affect, moral cognition, negative emotionality, and attribution biases independently predicted adolescents’ prosocial and aggressive behavior in adolescence.

This study examined the relationship between adolescents’ prosocial and aggressive behaviors and moral affect and cognition (feelings of guilt, shame and empathy, and perspective taking), negative emotionality, and biases in thinking.

The goal of this study was to examine the relationships between participation in youth programs, positive youth development, and risk behaviors. Results indicated a link between positive youth outcomes and participation in out-of-school activities.

The goal of this study was to examine the relationships between participation in youth programs, positive youth development, and risk behaviors. Results indicated a link between positive youth outcomes and participation in out-of-school activities.

The authors investigated the impact of a manualized high school transition program, the Peer Group Connection (PGC) program, on the graduation rate at a low-income, Mid-Atlantic high school.

In this study, 268 adolescents (9th grade youth) who participated in a peer-led high school transition program were compared to youth in a control group to examine the program’s impact on high school graduation rates.

Social difficulties are commonly associated with anxiety disorders in youth, yet are not well specified in the literature. The aim of this study was to identify patterns of social experiences in clinically anxious children and examine the associations with indices of emotional functioning.

Sixty-four children with a primary diagnosis of separation anxiety disorder, social phobia, and/or generalized anxiety disorder and their parents and teachers participated in a study to examine patterns of social experiences in clinically anxious children.

Growth modeling was used to examine the developmental trajectory of infant temperamental fear with maternal fear and depressive symptoms as predictors of infant fearfulness and change in infant fear predicting toddler anxiety symptoms.