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Adolescent connectedness: cornerstone for health and wellbeing

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Blum, Robert W, Lai, Joanna, Martinez, Michelle, Jessee, Cassandra·2022·BMJ

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Approaches to youth development that enhance connectedness and opportunities for young people are key to adolescent health and wellbeing argue Robert Blum and colleagues

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  • Connectedness (emotional closeness with adults) has a positive effect on adolescent resilience.

    “Connectedness (emotional closeness with adults) has a positive effect on adolescent resilience (Blum et al., 2022).”

    From Surfing Online Safety: Assertiveness and Parental Involvement in Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Cyber Grooming (2025) · cites this paper as Blum et al., 2022

    The Family connectedness section describes feeling close to and cared for by a parent as part of connectedness, and says fostering parent-adolescent connectedness fosters healthy development. It reports better mental health and other outcomes among connected adolescents, but does not directly establish an effect on resilience; that term appears in the title of a cited reference, not in the paper’s account of its findings. No page numbers are available in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.83)

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  1. [11]Jose P Nicholas R Pryor J. Does social connectedness promote a greater sense of well‐being in adolescence over time? J Res Adolesc 2012; 22: 235- 51 10.1111/j.1532-7795.2012.00783.x. · DOI · Paper page
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Authors
Blum, R. W., Lai, J., Martinez, M., & Jessee, C.
Affiliations
  • Johns Hopkins University (US)
  • United Nations Children's Fund India (IN)
  • Washington DC, USA
Corresponding author
Blum, Robert W
Venue
BMJ
Publisher
BMJ
Published
2022-10-27
Volume
379
Pages
e069213
ISSN
1756-1833 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4307639558
Cited by
113
References
38
Citations by year
2026: 48 · 2025: 35 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 2
FWCI
18.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • BMJ (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Health and Behaviors
  • Social Sciences › Safety Research › Youth Development and Social Support
  • Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
Keywords
adolescent health, youth well-being, youth development, social connectedness, youth
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Humans, Mental Health, Schools, Social Identification

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