Children and youth face unprecedented environmental health challenges. Despite their heightened vulnerability, they are essential to shaping sustainable futures. Yet youth engagement in environmental health is uneven globally, reflecting broader envi...
Background: Daytime napping is common among university students, yet its relationship with lifestyle, eating behaviors, and academic-related outcomes remains unclear. Objective: To examine the associations between nap duration and eating habits, life...
Digital learning environments can place substantial demands on students’ ability to identify relevant information, regulate attention, and manage competing cognitive demands. This study examined how these processes are associated with engagemen...
This work presents a systematic review on self-management, leisure, youth and wellbeing, following the PRISMA 2020 guidelines. Considering the long research tradition in leisure studies addressing youth wellbeing but the scarce evidence available on...
Young Saudis follow Vision 2030 mainly through social media, yet research has examined the characteristics of this content separately and has rarely asked how audiences’ overall evaluation links what they prefer to how they engage. Grounded in...
The relationship of youth with the natural environment is of utmost importance. This qualitative study investigated how 21 young people in Western Australia perceive and navigate their connection with the natural world. Data were gathered through fou...
Loneliness is increasingly recognized as a public health concern, with research pointing to adolescence as a time of increased susceptibility to feelings of loneliness. Mentoring programs are theoretically well positioned to help combat loneliness am...
This mixed-methods study explores how natural and formal mentors contribute to racialized (Black, Indigenous and people of colour or BIPOC) young adults’ sociopolitical development. The study was conducted in Canada and included a nationally re...
Alternative (Educational) Provision (AP) is increasingly positioned as a core component of inclusive education in England and parts of the global north and south, particularly in response to rising school exclusions, persistent absences, and pupils e...
Background: Adolescent leisure has undergone significant technological, social, and cultural transformations. However, limited research has explored how these changes are retrospectively interpreted across generations within a shared sociocultural co...
Sport-for-Development (SfD) programmes are often described through logics that distinguish between sport-centred and development-centred interventions. While the Sport Plus and Plus Sport typologies remain useful for identifying programme priorities,...
Background: Young mothers in rural South Africa often experience multiple psychological and social challenges that may affect both maternal well-being and child development. Poverty, stigma, limited educational opportunities, and inadequate social su...
This manuscript advances fragmented civil rights enforcement as a conceptual framework for examining how overlapping disability- and language-related civil rights obligations are operationalized across K–12 and higher education systems. Drawing...
Youth and community work in the United Kingdom has an important role in responding to social challenges in young people’s lives such as gender-related violence (GRV). Youth and community work’s rich inheritance from critical pedagogy has...
(1) Background: The integration of generative artificial intelligence (AI) into academic reading raises the question of whether such tools improve genuine comprehension or merely alter readers’ perception of it. (2) Objective: This study examin...
In transformative times, when education and how students learn are being reshaped, listening to students’ voices is not only a diagnostic tool but also a compass. Given the importance of creating learning environments in which every student can...
The legacy of chattel slavery continues to govern the sociopolitical conditions of the United States, and this means unequal access is a precondition for higher education. Many institutions deemed elite facilitated the proliferation of racist ideolog...
Although leisure activities are considered important for adolescent well-being, leisure opportunities are not evenly distributed. Using cross-sectional survey data from 2610 Swedish adolescents aged 14–15, this study examined whether weekly par...
Online sexual victimization, closely linked to pornography consumption, is a significant problem among young people. This study aimed to analyze the prevalence of online sexual victimization and patterns of pornography consumption among college stude...
Adolescence and young adulthood are critical periods for sexual initiation with implications for lifelong sexual and reproductive health. This study assessed the prevalence of sexual activity and risky sexual behavior among individuals aged 15–...
It is important to understand young people’s attitudes towards artificial intelligence (AI) in order to ensure responsible use. Positive Youth Development (PYD) has been identified as a protective factor against risks related to digital technol...
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...
