Jami F Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 223325 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jami F Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jami F |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG J F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7488-5097 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The design of a scalable intervention for adolescents with internalizing problems
EMPOWER is a program aimed at building the capacity of frontline workers to deliver brief, evidence-based psychosocial interventions for mental health conditions. We describe the design of such an intervention for adolescents with internalizing problems, a leading cause of morbidity for this age group in the United States. The intervention design was founded on the findings of a meta-analysis by Fitzpatrick et al. (2023) of 263 randomized control…
Examining Hope in Adolescents with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Background/Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to quantify hope levels in adolescents with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) and examine patient-reported outcomes associated with hope. Methods: This was an exploratory, cross-sectional, secondary analysis of baseline data from a prospective, single-center longitudinal study of 60 youth presenting for an initial evaluation at a pediatric subspecialty pain clinic. Subjects were English-spe…
Developmental changes in youth affect
The transition from childhood to adolescence is a period of social-emotional reorganization involving changes in affect. Most research has examined developmental changes in between-person affect. Few studies have investigated developmental changes in associations between individual emotions and the structure of affective experience in youth across developmental age. This study used exploratory graph analysis to assess developmental changes in emo…
Growth following adversity is rare
The idea that adversity is necessary for psychological growth pervades cultural narratives and lay theories. We empirically tested this notion with a multi-informant, longitudinal study of children and adolescents ( n = 682). Initial adversity was not associated with change in effortful control and emotional stability, while increasing adversity was negatively correlated with growth. However, a small sub-group of individuals still managed to grow…
A Qualitative Examination of Clinician Anxiety about Suicide Prevention and Its Impact on Clinical Practice
The Feasibility and Acceptability of Resilience Coaching for Adolescent Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) is a well-established resilience coaching program for youth with chronic illness. It is a one-on-one intervention targeting skills in stress management, goal-setting, cognitive reframing, and meaning-making. We aimed to (i) assess the feasibility and acceptability of PRISM and (ii) explore PRISM's impact on clinical outcomes among youth with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). This was a single-ar…
Risk and Resilience Measures Related to Psychopathology in Youth
Implicit Beliefs About Emotions in Youth
Introduction: Individual differences in beliefs about the controllability of emotions are associated with a range of psychosocial outcomes, including depressive symptoms. Less is known, however, about factors contributing to individual differences in these beliefs. The current study examined prospective associations between negative emotionality (NE) and implicit beliefs about emotions, as well as the indirect effect of NE on depressive symptoms …
Depression Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care
Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping
Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence
Early pubertal timing predicts onset and recurrence of depressive episodes in boys and girls
BACKGROUND: Recurrent depressive episodes during adolescence result in significant impairment and increased risk for subsequent adverse outcomes throughout the life span. Evidence suggests that early pubertal timing predicts the onset of depressive episodes (particularly for girls); however, it is not known if pubertal timing prospectively predicts recurrent depressive episodes in youth. METHODS: = 12.09, SD = 2.35) reported on their pubertal dev…
Parenting, Effortful Control, and Adolescents’ Externalizing Problem Behavior
Development and change in attachment
This research examines the contextual factors that facilitate development and change in attachment during later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood using a longitudinal cohort design involving 690 children (7-19 years old) and their parents. At each wave, a variety of interpersonal variables (e.g., parent-child stress) were measured. We examined alternative developmental processes (i.e., long-term, catalytic, and short-term processes) tha…
Longitudinal associations between positive affect and relationship quality among children and adolescents
The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions suggests that the experience of positive affect (PA) and positive interpersonal experiences should mutually reinforce each other over time, potentiating upward spirals of PA and social well-being. Informed by this upward spirals hypothesis, the present study used parallel process latent growth curve modeling to evaluate co-occurring trajectories of PA and parent- and peer-relationship quality in a…
Youth Depression Screening with Parent and Self-Reports
Separating within-person from between-person effects in the longitudinal co-occurrence of depression and different anxiety syndromes in youth
The Longitudinal Association between Self–Esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents
Many longitudinal studies have investigated whether self–esteem predicts depressive symptoms (vulnerability model) or the other way around (scar model) in adolescents. The most common method of analysis has been the cross–lagged panel model (CLPM). The CLPM does not separate between–person effects from within–person effects, making it unclear whether the results from previous studies actually reflect the within–person effects or whether they refl…
How do attachment styles change from childhood through adolescence? Findings from an accelerated longitudinal Cohort study
NR3C1 methylation as a moderator of the effects of maternal support and stress on insecure attachment development
We examined the prediction that the interaction between Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) methylation, stress, and experienced maternal support predicts anxious and avoidant attachment development. This was tested in a general population sample of 487 children and adolescents (44% boys, Mage = 11.84, SDage = 2.4). These children were followed over a period of 18 months. In line with the prediction, we found that NR3C1 methylation moderates the…
Engaging African American Adolescents and Stakeholders to Adapt Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Weight Gain Prevention
Developing culturally appropriate obesity prevention programs for African American (AA) adolescent girls that account for psychological risk factors is paramount to addressing health disparities. The current study was part of an investigation utilizing a community-based participatory research framework to gather qualitative data from urban AA girls, their caregivers, and community health liaisons to develop a novel obesity prevention program base…
Depression from childhood into late adolescence
Depression is a debilitating mental illness with clear developmental patterns from childhood through late adolescence. Here, we present data from the Gene Environment Mood (GEM) study, which used an accelerated longitudinal cohort design with youth (N = 665) starting in 3rd, 6th, and 9th grades, and a caretaker, who were recruited from the general community, and were then assessed repeatedly through semistructured diagnostic interviews every 6 mo…
Adolescent emotionality and effortful control
Temperament is associated with important outcomes in adolescence, including academic and interpersonal functioning and psychopathology. Rothbart's temperament model is among the most well-studied and supported approaches to adolescent temperament, and contains 3 main components: positive emotionality (PE), negative emotionality (NE), and effortful control (EC). However, the latent factor structure of Rothbart's temperament measure for adolescents…
Self‐Perceived Competence in Mainland China
The present 9‐wave, 2‐year study examined whether Cole's (1991) theory of self‐perceived competence could help explain vulnerability to depressive and anxiety symptoms in a sample of adolescents from mainland China. Participants included 624 adolescents (319 females and 305 males) from an urban school in Changsha ( n = 308) and from a rural school in Liuyang ( n = 316). Findings showed that self‐perceived academic competence was negatively associ…
Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence
During the transition to adolescence, several developmental trends converge to increase the importance of peer relationships, the likelihood of peer-related stressors, and the experience of depressive symptoms. Simultaneously, there are significant changes in parent-child relationships. The current study sought to evaluate whether positive relationship quality with parents continued to serve a protective effect by buffering the relationship betwe…
The Role of Parent and Peer Support in Predicting Adolescent Depression
This study examines whether perceived parent support, peer support, and the interaction between them predict depression symptoms and depression diagnosis 2 years later in a community sample of 389 adolescents. Controlling for Time 1 depression, parent support and anticipated peer support were not independently related to Time 2 depression in either linear or logistic regression analyses. However, there was a significant interaction between the tw…
Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence
During the transition to adolescence, several developmental trends converge to increase the importance of peer relationships, the likelihood of peer-related stressors, and the experience of depressive symptoms. Simultaneously, there are significant changes in parent-child relationships. The current study sought to evaluate whether positive relationship quality with parents continued to serve a protective effect by buffering the relationship betwe…
Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence
How do attachment styles change from childhood through adolescence? Findings from an accelerated longitudinal Cohort study
Development and change in attachment
This research examines the contextual factors that facilitate development and change in attachment during later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood using a longitudinal cohort design involving 690 children (7-19 years old) and their parents. At each wave, a variety of interpersonal variables (e.g., parent-child stress) were measured. We examined alternative developmental processes (i.e., long-term, catalytic, and short-term processes) tha…
Adolescent emotionality and effortful control
Temperament is associated with important outcomes in adolescence, including academic and interpersonal functioning and psychopathology. Rothbart's temperament model is among the most well-studied and supported approaches to adolescent temperament, and contains 3 main components: positive emotionality (PE), negative emotionality (NE), and effortful control (EC). However, the latent factor structure of Rothbart's temperament measure for adolescents…
Parenting, Effortful Control, and Adolescents’ Externalizing Problem Behavior
Engaging African American Adolescents and Stakeholders to Adapt Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Weight Gain Prevention
Developing culturally appropriate obesity prevention programs for African American (AA) adolescent girls that account for psychological risk factors is paramount to addressing health disparities. The current study was part of an investigation utilizing a community-based participatory research framework to gather qualitative data from urban AA girls, their caregivers, and community health liaisons to develop a novel obesity prevention program base…
Self-Structures, Negative Events, and Adolescent Depression
The purpose of this multiwave longitudinal study was to examine the structure of self-complexity, and its relation to depressive symptoms, in 276 adolescents ( M = 12.55; SD = 1.04). Self-complexity, depressive symptoms, and negative events were assessed during a laboratory assessment at baseline, and then depressive symptoms and negative events were tracked every 3 months over the next 2 years. Findings from the present research showed that girl…
Growth following adversity is rare
The idea that adversity is necessary for psychological growth pervades cultural narratives and lay theories. We empirically tested this notion with a multi-informant, longitudinal study of children and adolescents ( n = 682). Initial adversity was not associated with change in effortful control and emotional stability, while increasing adversity was negatively correlated with growth. However, a small sub-group of individuals still managed to grow…
The Role of Parent and Peer Support in Predicting Adolescent Depression
This study examines whether perceived parent support, peer support, and the interaction between them predict depression symptoms and depression diagnosis 2 years later in a community sample of 389 adolescents. Controlling for Time 1 depression, parent support and anticipated peer support were not independently related to Time 2 depression in either linear or logistic regression analyses. However, there was a significant interaction between the tw…
Association between 5-HTTLPR and Borderline Personality Disorder Traits among Youth
This study provides the first genetic association examination of borderline personality disorder (BPD) traits in children and adolescents (ages 9-15) using two independent samples of youth recruited from the general community. We tested the a priori hypothesis that the serotonin transporter promoter gene (5-HTTLPR) would relate specifically to BPD traits in youth. This association was hypothesized based on prior genetic association research with …
Self-Structures, Negative Events, and Adolescent Depression
The purpose of this multiwave longitudinal study was to examine the structure of self-complexity, and its relation to depressive symptoms, in 276 adolescents ( M = 12.55; SD = 1.04). Self-complexity, depressive symptoms, and negative events were assessed during a laboratory assessment at baseline, and then depressive symptoms and negative events were tracked every 3 months over the next 2 years. Findings from the present research showed that girl…
Self‐Perceived Competence in Mainland China
The present 9‐wave, 2‐year study examined whether Cole's (1991) theory of self‐perceived competence could help explain vulnerability to depressive and anxiety symptoms in a sample of adolescents from mainland China. Participants included 624 adolescents (319 females and 305 males) from an urban school in Changsha ( n = 308) and from a rural school in Liuyang ( n = 316). Findings showed that self‐perceived academic competence was negatively associ…
Parent relationship quality buffers against the effect of peer stressors on depressive symptoms from middle childhood to adolescence
During the transition to adolescence, several developmental trends converge to increase the importance of peer relationships, the likelihood of peer-related stressors, and the experience of depressive symptoms. Simultaneously, there are significant changes in parent-child relationships. The current study sought to evaluate whether positive relationship quality with parents continued to serve a protective effect by buffering the relationship betwe…
Depression from childhood into late adolescence
Depression is a debilitating mental illness with clear developmental patterns from childhood through late adolescence. Here, we present data from the Gene Environment Mood (GEM) study, which used an accelerated longitudinal cohort design with youth (N = 665) starting in 3rd, 6th, and 9th grades, and a caretaker, who were recruited from the general community, and were then assessed repeatedly through semistructured diagnostic interviews every 6 mo…
Adolescent emotionality and effortful control
Temperament is associated with important outcomes in adolescence, including academic and interpersonal functioning and psychopathology. Rothbart's temperament model is among the most well-studied and supported approaches to adolescent temperament, and contains 3 main components: positive emotionality (PE), negative emotionality (NE), and effortful control (EC). However, the latent factor structure of Rothbart's temperament measure for adolescents…
The Longitudinal Association between Self–Esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents
Many longitudinal studies have investigated whether self–esteem predicts depressive symptoms (vulnerability model) or the other way around (scar model) in adolescents. The most common method of analysis has been the cross–lagged panel model (CLPM). The CLPM does not separate between–person effects from within–person effects, making it unclear whether the results from previous studies actually reflect the within–person effects or whether they refl…
How do attachment styles change from childhood through adolescence? Findings from an accelerated longitudinal Cohort study
NR3C1 methylation as a moderator of the effects of maternal support and stress on insecure attachment development
We examined the prediction that the interaction between Glucocorticoid Receptor Gene (NR3C1) methylation, stress, and experienced maternal support predicts anxious and avoidant attachment development. This was tested in a general population sample of 487 children and adolescents (44% boys, Mage = 11.84, SDage = 2.4). These children were followed over a period of 18 months. In line with the prediction, we found that NR3C1 methylation moderates the…
Engaging African American Adolescents and Stakeholders to Adapt Interpersonal Psychotherapy for Weight Gain Prevention
Developing culturally appropriate obesity prevention programs for African American (AA) adolescent girls that account for psychological risk factors is paramount to addressing health disparities. The current study was part of an investigation utilizing a community-based participatory research framework to gather qualitative data from urban AA girls, their caregivers, and community health liaisons to develop a novel obesity prevention program base…
Longitudinal associations between positive affect and relationship quality among children and adolescents
The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions suggests that the experience of positive affect (PA) and positive interpersonal experiences should mutually reinforce each other over time, potentiating upward spirals of PA and social well-being. Informed by this upward spirals hypothesis, the present study used parallel process latent growth curve modeling to evaluate co-occurring trajectories of PA and parent- and peer-relationship quality in a…
Youth Depression Screening with Parent and Self-Reports
Separating within-person from between-person effects in the longitudinal co-occurrence of depression and different anxiety syndromes in youth
Early pubertal timing predicts onset and recurrence of depressive episodes in boys and girls
BACKGROUND: Recurrent depressive episodes during adolescence result in significant impairment and increased risk for subsequent adverse outcomes throughout the life span. Evidence suggests that early pubertal timing predicts the onset of depressive episodes (particularly for girls); however, it is not known if pubertal timing prospectively predicts recurrent depressive episodes in youth. METHODS: = 12.09, SD = 2.35) reported on their pubertal dev…
Parenting, Effortful Control, and Adolescents’ Externalizing Problem Behavior
Development and change in attachment
This research examines the contextual factors that facilitate development and change in attachment during later childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood using a longitudinal cohort design involving 690 children (7-19 years old) and their parents. At each wave, a variety of interpersonal variables (e.g., parent-child stress) were measured. We examined alternative developmental processes (i.e., long-term, catalytic, and short-term processes) tha…
Implicit Beliefs About Emotions in Youth
Introduction: Individual differences in beliefs about the controllability of emotions are associated with a range of psychosocial outcomes, including depressive symptoms. Less is known, however, about factors contributing to individual differences in these beliefs. The current study examined prospective associations between negative emotionality (NE) and implicit beliefs about emotions, as well as the indirect effect of NE on depressive symptoms …
Depression Prevention in Pediatric Primary Care
Individual Differences in Adolescent Coping
Affective Development from Middle Childhood to Late Adolescence
The Feasibility and Acceptability of Resilience Coaching for Adolescent Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Promoting Resilience in Stress Management (PRISM) is a well-established resilience coaching program for youth with chronic illness. It is a one-on-one intervention targeting skills in stress management, goal-setting, cognitive reframing, and meaning-making. We aimed to (i) assess the feasibility and acceptability of PRISM and (ii) explore PRISM's impact on clinical outcomes among youth with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP). This was a single-ar…
Risk and Resilience Measures Related to Psychopathology in Youth
A Qualitative Examination of Clinician Anxiety about Suicide Prevention and Its Impact on Clinical Practice
Developmental changes in youth affect
The transition from childhood to adolescence is a period of social-emotional reorganization involving changes in affect. Most research has examined developmental changes in between-person affect. Few studies have investigated developmental changes in associations between individual emotions and the structure of affective experience in youth across developmental age. This study used exploratory graph analysis to assess developmental changes in emo…
Psychology (25 works) · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (22 works) · Clinical Psychology (22 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Psychiatry (17 works) · Clinical Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (16 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Longitudinal study (9 works) · Anxiety (8 works)