Adolescence is a period of dramatic developmental transitions—from puberty-related
changes in hormones, bodies, and brains to an increasingly complex social world. The …

Adolescence and emerging adulthood are both stages in which romantic relationships play
a key role in development and can be a source of both well-being and negative outcomes …

Background Adolescence represents a crucial developmental period in shaping mental
health trajectories. In this study, we investigated the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on …

Today's lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth come out at younger ages,
and public support for LGBT issues has dramatically increased, so why do LGBT youth …

Most people have experienced loneliness and have been able to overcome it to reconnect
with other people. In the current review, we provide a life-span perspective on one …

Despite the growing research on emotion regulation, the empirical evidence for normative
age-related emotion regulation patterns is rather divergent. From a life-span perspective …

The features, processes, and effects of children's experiences with their peers exist on
multiple levels of social complexity and intersect with many other developmental domains …

Social development has been the focus of a great deal of neuroscience based research over
the past decade. In this review, we focus on providing a framework for understanding how …

This review details a key innovation across the field of adolescent sexuality research over
the last decade—conceptualizing sexuality as a normative aspect of adolescent …

This comprehensive handbook provides a landmark review and synthesis of the current
state of knowledge about attachment and loss in children and adults. Broad in scope, the …