BACKGROUND: Food allergy-related bullying (FARB) is an underrecognized phenomenon that combines the psychosocial harm of peer victimization with the potential for serious physical consequences from al…

BACKGROUND: Despite increasing interest in school belonging, few studies have applied person-centered approaches to explore how emotional and psychological factors interact within adolescent populatio…

In India, transgender persons - especially Hijras and Kinnars - inhabit a paradoxical position: culturally mythologized as sacred yet socially marginalized. Drawing on primary survey data from 335 tra…

Distraction is a common emotion regulation strategy, disrupting emotion generation by prioritizing distracter stimulus processing at the expense of the emotion elicitor. Across two experiments (experi…

BACKGROUND: Much of the burden of non-communicable disease in high-income countries is attributable to harmful engagement with health behaviours. Evidence suggests that these behaviours may be better …

BACKGROUND: Nearly half a million transgender Bangladeshi are unable to access basic education, healthcare, and employment due to their gender identification. Social exclusion and marginalization make…

Adolescent suicide is a major public health concern. Prior research has often examined risk factors within single systems, limiting understanding of how influences intersect across contexts. This stud…

BACKGROUND: Caring for children with leukemia presents significant challenges and stress for mothers, which can negatively affect their psychological well-being. However, emotion regulation plays a vi…

As depressive symptoms among adolescents continue to rise, increasing attention has been directed toward educational contexts that may support psychological well-being. Augmented reality, characterize…

BACKGROUND: Cannabis use among university students has been increasingly linked to psychological distress; however, most evidence comes from Western contexts, and little is known about how cannabis us…

INTRODUCTION: Comorbid bipolar disorder (BD) and substance use disorder (SUD) in adolescence is associated with poor clinical outcomes, yet the independent and interactive contributions of impulsivity…

Brain development during adolescence and early adulthood coincides with shifts in emotion regulation and sleep. Despite this, few existing datasets simultaneously characterize affective dynamics, slee…