The results for pubertal status and age are strikingly similar, indicating that after controlling for the effect of all the other variables in the regression model, the impact of life events on depression is significantly greater in
the pubertal girls (sex × pubertal status [age] × life events interaction).
Pubertal girls were affected by higher glucose levels during fasting, which was associated with various phthalate metabolites.
Not exact matches
Obesity and the
pubertal transition in boys and
girls.
She is also leading the Jersey
Girl Study, which aims to evaluate predictors of
pubertal markers in
girls and the Women's Circle of Health Study, a study evaluating risk factors for breast cancer risk and survival in African American women.
Modulation of gonadotropin - releasing hormone pulse generator sensitivity to progesterone inhibition in hyperandrogenic adolescent
girls — implications for regulation of
pubertal maturation.
In this revamped edition of the 1996 original, Karen Gravelle and her niece, Jennifer Gravelle, enlighten
girls about
pubertal changes, reproductive anatomy, and menstruation, and answer common questions.
Circadian cortisol rhythms in healthy boys and
girls: Relationship with age, growth, body composition, and
pubertal development
Rates of eating and depressive disorders increase dramatically around the time that
girls pass through puberty or in the years just after
pubertal development.
The current study examined the joint contributions of
pubertal maturation, parental monitoring, involvement in older peer groups, peer dating, and peer delinquency on dating in a sample of early adolescent boys and
girls.
The physical changes of
pubertal growth typically initiate a redefinition of self among boys and
girls, with an emphasis on body image.
As hypothesized,
pubertal development and its associated weight gains (identified by BMI) are linked significantly to perceptions of being overweight, particularly among
girls.
Despite the widely reported link between early
pubertal timing and internalizing symptoms among
girls, less is known about the peer reputation of earlier maturing
girls.
In spite of the large literature supporting the link between early
pubertal timing and depression in adolescent
girls, there are some exceptions.
Thus, the current study capitalizes on multiple informants as well as a 3 - wave longitudinal design to test associations between early
pubertal timing, peer reputation, and psychological distress among an ethnically diverse sample of
girls transitioning through the emotionally «risky» period of early adolescence.
The purpose of the current study is to examine the reputational costs and benefits of advanced
pubertal development among young teen
girls.
Her research interests include
girls» psychological adaptation to
pubertal change, biosocial aspects of female reproductive events, and development of biologically and socially at risk children and adolescents.
The association between early
pubertal timing and internalizing symptoms among
girls has gained substantial support in the adolescent development literature.
Depression was associated with more mature
pubertal status and early timing (both actual and perceived) in
girls, but with less mature
pubertal status and late timing (actual and perceived) in boys.
Because early adolescence is not only a period of major physical change for
girls, but also a time in which peer relationships become increasingly significant, a key question linking these two aspects of development is whether signs of
pubertal maturation are related to one's social reputation among peers and, furthermore, whether such reputational factors might help us understand why early maturing
girls display emotional adjustment problems.
While off - time
pubertal development has emerged as a potential risk factor for both symptoms of depression and anxiety in youth, the literature is mixed and inconsistent as to (1) how early versus late
pubertal timing confers risk for both boys and
girls, (2) if the conferred risk is distinct between symptoms of anxiety and depression, and (3) under what social contexts (e.g., family environment, peer relationships) off - time
pubertal development may emerge as a potent risk factor for these symptoms.
Results suggest that the contextual amplification process of early
pubertal timing may occur in both high stress family and peer environments and impact both
girls and boys.
The current study builds on this research by examining the psychosocial correlates of
pubertal timing longitudinally among a diverse, primarily ethnic minority sample of adolescent
girls living in an urban environment.
This suggests that there may be factors that interact with
pubertal timing, increasing risk for depression in some
girls, but not others.
Despite indications that adolescents recognize each other's physical maturation, little is known about how a
girl's reputation among peers might be influenced by signs of
pubertal development.
Pubertal timing in
girls and depression: A systematic review.
Whether early
pubertal timing is related to other forms of relational aggression such as social exclusion and friendship withdrawal, and whether these types of experiences contribute to the emotional adjustment of early maturing
girls represents an interesting avenue for future research.
We examined whether sexual harassment, which has previously been linked to both
pubertal timing and depressive symptoms, mediates this link, using a two - wave longitudinal study including 454
girls in 7th (M age = 13.42, SD =.53) and 8th grade (M age = 14.42, SD =.55).
We examined whether — with progressing
pubertal development — a stronger increase in body dissatisfaction could still be found for
girls than for boys.
In this longitudinal study (three family visits; time interval: 1 year),
pubertal development, body satisfaction, and desired body changes of 106 boys and 108
girls were assessed.
For
girls alone,
pubertal status predicts body satisfaction and the wish for bodily changes.
Future research should therefore focus on a more homogenous sample with regard to age and
pubertal development, or it should perform subsequent sampling in
girls during their adolescence.
Additional analyses indicated that
pubertal timing moderated the association between synchrony and depressive symptoms at age 20, such that
girls who exhibited asynchronous development had the highest levels of depressive symptoms when they matured later than peers.
In this way, the behaviors of peers in response to the
girl's early maturity could be said to mediate associations between
pubertal timing and sexual outcomes (Baron & Kenny, 1986; Holmbeck, 1997, 2002).
The two - way interaction age (or
pubertal status) by gender (included in all models under test) was not significant; whereas it would be expected that
girls report more depressive symptoms as level of maturation (age /
pubertal status) increases compared to boys.
Pubertal status has been linked to the increase in depressive symptoms in
girls (Angold and Costello 2006).
Pubertal effects on adjustment in
girls: Moving from demonstrating effects to identifying pathways
Previous research has investigated the relationship between
pubertal timing and depression in
girls, with most results suggesting that earlier menarche predicts more depression in adolescence.
To further explore the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors on adolescent depression, particularly among adolescent
girls, data on depression in prepubertal and
pubertal male and female same - sex twins from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development were analyzed.
Our goals were (1) to compare the trajectory of depressive symptoms among boys and
girls from childhood into adolescence; (2) to analyze the role of genetic, shared, and unique environmental factors in depression among prepubertal and
pubertal male and female twins; and (3) to investigate a possible common etiology between liability to depression and one salient index of the child's environment: past - year life events.
The possible causes of greater depression among adolescent
girls were investigated by examining variation in the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors among 182 prepubertal female, 237 prepubertal male, 314
pubertal female, and 171
pubertal male twin pairs from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development.
The current study uses a prospective, longitudinal sample of 1,185
girls (47.8 % Caucasian) to examine the relationships between
pubertal timing, childhood depressive symptoms, and adolescent depressive symptomatology.
Quality of early family relationships and individual differences in the timing of
pubertal maturation in
girls: A longitudinal test of an evolutionary model
Background The possible causes of greater depression among adolescent
girls were investigated by examining variation in the influence of genetic and environmental risk factors among 182 prepubertal female, 237 prepubertal male, 314
pubertal female, and 171
pubertal male twin pairs from the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development.