During the past 20 years, students in Chile have taken center stage in several political demonstrations. In this study, we explore the effects of school-related variables on youth political participation using administrative data on school attendance...
Parent participation is mandated in special education and transition planning for students. However, immigrant Filipino parents face numerous challenges related to immigration, navigating special education, and transitions. To understand their partic...
In urban slums, adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (ASRHR) are shaped by societal structures which contribute to vulnerabilities, health inequities, and adverse ASRHR outcomes. There have been increasing calls for meaningful youth e...
This paper draws on interviews with a large and diverse cross-section of youth (N = 81) in the Twin Cities of Minnesota to explore how American young people understand, experience, and act upon ideals of meritocracy and fairness in youth sports. Qual...
Gun violence is a leading cause of death among youth in the United States, and effective prevention requires community engagement and cultural alignment. This exploratory mixed-methods pilot study examined whether On Sight, a performance-based violen...
The maritime industry is experiencing a critical shortage of qualified officers, partly associated with the demanding psychosocial conditions of seafaring. While Maritime Education and Training (MET) has traditionally emphasized technical competencie...
Adolescent girls face a worsening mental health crisis, exacerbated by shifting trends in youth lifestyle and increased societal uncertainty. Youth empowerment approaches, such as Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR), can increase the relevance...
South Africa is host to a significant number of young migrants who are in institutional care. This study aimed to understand how migrant youth access care, who provides it and their views about the quality of care they receive, given the precarity of...
This article explores how Indigenous youth understand and define leadership, challenging dominant conceptions that positions leadership as an individual trait or outcome of capacity-building. Grounded in a decolonial approach, the study draws on a ye...
Depressive symptoms, alcohol use, and body mass index (BMI) frequently co-occur, yet their longitudinal associations from adolescence into adulthood remain unclear. This study examined their prospective associations by distinguishing between-person d...
Racial disparities in out-of-school suspension (OSS) persist as a social justice concern. This study examines the associations between out-of-school suspension (OSS) and subsequent academic achievement and juvenile justice system involvement among Bl...
Self-determination is widely recognized as a key determinant of Indigenous peoples’ well-being. The New Pathways Foundation (NPF), a First Nations youth organization in Québec, supports the development of youth self-determination through...
Indigenous youth in Canada experience disproportionate mental health challenges, highlighting the need to better understand behavioural and contextual factors that influence wellbeing. This study examined associations between lifetime alcohol use and...
Sex Education Queer Youth Need (SEQuYN) is a collaborative, arts-based action research project addressing gaps in sexuality education for 2SLGBTQ+ youth in New Brunswick, Canada. The project responds to the exclusion of diverse sexual identities and...
The current study examined natural mentoring experiences across the college years among underrepresented students attending a predominantly White institution (N = 340) and how various dimensions of these experiences (i.e., quantity of natural mentors...
TikTok is the fifth-most-popular social media platform worldwide and is particularly popular among young adults. In recent years, research on the association between TikTok use and mental health among young adults has increased substantially. Followi...
As previous research in the context of primary and secondary schools in Italy demonstrates, intersectional needs of multilingual disabled migrant students are siloed. Similarly, when transitioning into adulthood and independent living, this group of...
Newcomer youths (i.e., young immigrants, refugees, international students) represent a growing community across Canada, and their transition into school systems is critical to their wellbeing. School integration represents a novel vantage point by wh...
Psychological resilience is a key protective factor for mental health. Reducing inequalities in access to childhood experiential activities may foster resilience across socioeconomic backgrounds. However, Japan limits policies ensuring equitable acce...
Social leisure in preadolescence is a key space for socialization, identity, and wellbeing. In this context, intergenerational leisure stands out for its contribution to socio-emotional development and social cohesion. However, gaps persist in the an...
Problematic pornography consumption (PPC) during adolescence has been associated with negative perceptions of one’s own body image, pressure to conform to beauty standards, self-objectification, and dissatisfaction with one’s own image, w...
Self-managed leisure is a key determinant of volitional development and the transition to adulthood in young people. This article examines the relationship between perceived family and social support environments and levels of self-management and mot...
This conceptual paper examines how dominant frameworks of college access and equity in U.S. higher education marginalize undocumented and international students by anchoring inclusion to citizenship, legal eligibility, and institutional risk manageme...
As anti-DEI legislation reshapes belonging in American higher education, today’s Black doctoral students may one day become the educators and administrators who shape the experiences of young adults, which creates an indirect but significant co...
This study examines the extent to which participation in extracurricular sport activities (ESA) satisfies basic psychological needs (BPN) and the type of motivation generated in pre-adolescents (aged 9–12). A quantitative, cross-sectional and c...
Digital ecosystems, misinformation exposure, mental-health vulnerability and unequal access to care create distinctive challenges for young people. Although youth participation in health governance is increasingly advocated internationally, structure...
The digital age marks the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR), which has changed every aspect of our lives, including youth ministry globally and Southern Africa in particular. However, it is worth noting that the digital revolution has significantly tra...
The transition into higher education is one of the most consequential junctures in a young person’s trajectory. Institutional retention is an institutional responsibility. When students leave before completing their degree, the default response...
The objective of this systematic review was to analyze the scientific evidence published between 2015 and 2025 on the impact of active tourism in reducing sedentary behavior among children and adolescents, and its implications for health promotion an...
This study explores the educational transitions of university students with special educational needs in Türkiye, focusing on their experiences of moving from secondary to higher education and their expectations for the transition from universit...
This study explored the lived experiences of youth workers within formal education settings in South Africa. Utilising a qualitative approach, the study sampled 22 youth workers participating in presidential youth employment initiatives in partnershi...
Child marriage remains a persistent barrier to girls and young women’s education, health, and socioeconomic advancement in many parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper examines the perceived economic empowerment initiatives contributed to expan...
Political consumerism is frequently celebrated as an expansion of youth political participation or critiqued for its structural ineffectiveness to advance young people’s political contestations. Moving beyond this evaluative binary, this articl...
Background/Objectives: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with child socio-emotional difficulties, but when using parents’ reports, it remains unclear which scoring approaches are most informative about younger children. This s...
This study employs a qualitative narrative inquiry to explore how support systems and industry engagement influence youth employability and entrepreneurial aspirations within South Africa’s TVET sector. The central research question examines ho...
Background/Objectives: Youth are increasingly engaged in mental health research, but many models remain consultative rather than participatory. We examined the Technology and Adolescent Mental Health Internship (TAMI) as an implementation-focused ins...
Cannabis use is prevalent among LGBTQ+ youth and is often framed within deficit-oriented models emphasizing risk and mental health vulnerability. This study moves beyond these perspectives by examining how LGBTQ+ youth understand and mobilize cannabi...
Food insecurity is a major public health concern among university students. This cross-sectional study examined factors associated with food insecurity during and after the COVID-19 pandemic among 1864 students (mean age: 20.6 ± 2.9 years) fro...
Contemporary education policy requires state and local schools to align their curricula and establish school expectations based on college-readiness standards. However, these practices have generated more concerns than solutions. Test scores and grad...
Background: The widespread use of digital technologies is beneficial to society but has also contributed to the growing prevalence of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence (TFSV) among youth. This study aimed to co-design youth-informed recommendati...
This qualitative study, grounded in a phenomenological-interpretive design, aimed to explore university students’ experiences regarding digital hyperconnectivity, emotional well-being, and the balance between academic and personal life at a pri...
Youth violence, particularly gun-related, is a pressing public health concern influenced by key risk factors and broader structural inequities that shape community conditions. The ThrYve (“Together Helping Reduce Youth Violence”) initiati...
As student mental health concerns intensify, campuses are exploring wellness initiatives including equine-assisted intervention (EAI). Because maintaining equines on campus is not always feasible, virtual reality (VR) has emerged as an alternative me...
Diversion is defined as the practice of providing an alternative outcome for children who have engaged in offending behaviour, which keeps them away from the formal criminal justice system. Diversion is a significant element of the Child First approa...
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems increasingly shape youth’s educational, social, and informational environments. Although numerous ethical frameworks and guidelines have been developed to guide AI governance, including the OECD AI Principle...
Defining professional youth work and its activities presents a challenge for developing international consensus in the university level training and education of professional youth workers. This research is concerned with the question of ‘how y...
During adolescence, exposure to community violence (ECV) can negatively impact multiple facets of health and future achievement. Existing research mainly focuses on the risk factors that increase ECV, although multiple promotive factors are associate...
Weapon carrying and violent behaviors during adolescence are associated with increased risk of injuries and have been linked to suicidal ideation. However, little is known about these associations among Puerto Rican high school students. This cross-s...
A phenomenological approach was used to understand the experience of resettlement, integration and university education of refugee youth sponsored under the Government Assisted Refugee (GAR) and the Privately Sponsored Refugee (PSR) programs in Canad...
Mentoring programs enjoy considerable empirical support as a strategy for supporting the positive development of youth, particularly those with marginalized identities (e.g., minoritized racial identities) and/or from economically disadvantaged backg...
