Resilience is the dynamic process of adapting to or recovering from stressors, maintaining positive mental health. While most studies have investigated resilience after major life events, less is known about resilience in everyday life. To understand how individuals recover from everyday stressors, and associations with other psychosocial variables, well-being and mental health, we conducted a systematic review of studies to daily resilience, i.e., recovery from daily stressors, using the experience sampling method (ESM). Out of 36 included studies, 11 studies investigated daily resilience in youth (10.9–24.7 years) and 25 in adult samples. Daily resilience was operationalized either with self-report items adapted from trait measures (17 studies) or in terms of affective recovery from daily stressors (20 studies). The self-reported ability to recover from daily stressors reflects subjective experiences of coping with stressors, whereas daily resilience as recovery from daily stressors captures the dynamic process, but is understudied in youth. Daily resilience was associated with psychosocial variables, including better sleep quality and greater optimism. Furthermore, individuals with mental health problems consistently showed longer recovery times after daily stressors. Overall, ESM studies highlight that daily resilience could help to identify individuals at-risk for mental health problems. The findings may facilitate timely interventions.

Adolescent girls are vulnerable and deserve utmost attention to complement their nutrition. This scoping review endeavors to identify the determinants of malnutrition among adolescent girls in Pakistan, and to comprehend the interventions to improve their health and nutritional status. This review of the literature was conducted using Google scholar, PubMed/Medline, Scopus and Web of Science for the published articles between the years 2015-2024. MeSH terms used for search were: adolescent, youth, health, malnutrition, nutrition interventions, systems approach. In addition, the reports from WHO, UN, World Bank, Government of Pakistan and other organizations were also critically reviewed. Moreover, this paper has used Pathways framework which advocates multi-sectoral approaches for poverty reduction. In most developing countries, the compromised nutritional status of adolescent girls, compounded by poverty, has life-long health and economic consequences and their infants have nutritional deficits as well. They are expected to grow as stunted children. Evidence is well elucidated that nutrition sensitive and nutrition specific interventions can improve their nutritional status and subsequent generations. There is a dire need to involve key stakeholders from health, education, nutrition, population, women development, social welfare and other relevant sectors. It is imperative to design interventions for adolescent girls in the country’s context to break the intergenerational cycle of malnutrition and to improve the economic productivity. Political commitment and effective governance along with policy coherence is required for their healthy transitions into adulthood.

Racially and ethnically minoritized individuals, first-generation college students, and women are significantly underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. This lack of equal representation limits creativity and progress in these fields and perpetuates systemic barriers that discourage students from pursuing STEM pathways. This special communication introduces the three-tiered mentorship model employed in the Teen Science Ambassador Program (TSAP), which incorporates senior mentors, near-peer mentors, and high school ambassadors (i.e., mentees) to promote education, hands-on research, and career development in STEM for underrepresented students. We discuss the benefits and challenges of the three-tiered model and offer recommendations for optimizing its effectiveness to enhance mentorship experiences for all participants. Findings from the TSAP program suggest that the three-tiered approach benefited all participants: high school ambassadors gained STEM skills and confidence, near-peer mentors developed leadership and communication abilities, and senior mentors improved mentorship skills. However, the effectiveness of near-peer mentorship is highly dependent on clearly defined roles and structured involvement. Thus, feedback collected from each mentorship tier was used to inform subsequent iterations of the program. The layered mentorship structure fostered a sense of community and belonging, which is crucial for retaining individuals from underrepresented groups in STEM.

Variation exists in our attitude and behaviour towards food and exercise, resulting in different degrees of health and ill health. Cultural and economic factors contribute to this, alongside personal choices, leading to a spectrum from normative eating, through disordered eating to the extremes of eating disorders (EDs). Understanding the intricate interplay between biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors to eating, exercise and body image is paramount to understand the current state regarding EDs and to deliver/develop multifaceted and individualised treatments. Significant service developments have occurred following the launch of the Irish Health Service Executive Model of Care for EDs in 2018. However, incomplete roll out and surge in EDs referrals post Covid-19 require generic child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to be competent in assessment of EDs, and to keep abreast of clinical updates in order to offer effective treatment.

This review provides an evidenced based update on eating related difficulties, outlines a useful assessment framework, offers information on appropriate clinical management, and highlights exciting clinically relevant research developments.

Virtual reality (VR) for mental health promotion remains understudied in low-income humanitarian settings. We examined the effectiveness of VR in reducing depression with urban refugee youth in Kampala, Uganda. This randomized controlled trial assessed VR alone (Arm 1), VR followed by Group Problem Management Plus (GPM+) (Arm 2) and a control group (Arm 3), with a peer-driven and convenience sample of refugee youth aged 16–25 in Kampala. The primary outcome, depression, was measured with the Patient Health Questionnaire-9. Secondary outcomes included: mental health literacy, mental health stigma, self-compassion, mental well-being and adaptive coping. Analyses were conducted at three time points (baseline, 8 weeks, 16 weeks) using generalized estimating equations. Among participants (n = 335, mean age: 20.77, standard deviation: 3.01; cisgender women: n = 158, cisgender men: n = 173, transgender women: n = 4), we found no depression reductions for Arms 1 or 2 at 16 weeks compared with Arm 3. At 16 weeks, mental health literacy was significantly higher for Arm 2 compared with Arm 3, and self-compassion was significantly higher in Arm 1 and Arm 2 compared with Arm 3. VR alongside GPM+ may benefit self-compassion and MHL among urban refugee youth in Kampala, but these interventions were not effective in reducing depression.

Pentecostal charismatic churches that preach prosperity gospel in Zimbabwe have attracted a youthful membership. In the context of a deeply uncertain economic future, young Pentecostal Christians devise performativity strategies for optimizing their chances of converting prosperity gospel into material prosperity. These strategies include sartorial elegance in adorning counterfeit suits, the performance of obedience, and the use of social media technologies. The picture that emerges is a complex and at times contradictory one in which the potential realization of upward spiritual and social mobility rests, ultimately, on the transformative and volatile nature of value. Data for this project was collected in Harare through ethnographic research and interviews over a year-long period.

Statistical discrimination offers a compelling narrative on gender wage gaps among younger workers. Employers could reduce women's wages to adjust for expected costs linked to child-bearing. If this is the case, then trends toward delayed fertility should reduce the gender wage gap among young workers. We provide a novel collection of adjusted gender wage gap (AGWG) estimates among young workers from 56 countries spanning four decades and use it to test the conjecture that delayed fertility reduces gender wage inequality. We employ instrumental variables, and find that one year postponement of the first birth reduces AGWG by two percentage points (15% of the AGWG). We benchmark this estimate with the help of time-use data.