Quality of early family relationships and individual differences in the timing
of pubertal maturation in girls: A longitudinal test of an evolutionary model
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.
In addition to measures
of pubertal maturation and parental monitoring, adolescents and their peer group members completed indices of dating and delinquency.
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.
Modulation of gonadotropin - releasing hormone pulse generator sensitivity to progesterone inhibition in hyperandrogenic adolescent girls — implications for regulation
of pubertal maturation.
Not exact matches
Our faculty study a wide range
of topics, including health outcomes and quality
of life for children with diabetes, and the link between childhood obesity and its long - term endocrine consequences such as
pubertal maturation.
As highlighted throughout, a potentially informative way
of stratifying a sample would be to group individuals by
pubertal stage to examine brain
maturation as a function
of sexual maturity in ASD.
Findings were not explained by time
of the day at sample collection, history
of food insecurity,
pubertal maturation, or depressive symptoms.
Breast Cancer & The Environment Research Centers: Sixth Annual Early Environmental Exposures Meeting The Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Centers (BCERC) network is conducting epidemiologic and biologic studies investigating the influence
of early environmental exposures on
pubertal maturation and mammary gland development and the potential
of these developmental changes to alter the risk
of breast cancer in later life.
Additional information will be collected from health and
pubertal maturation examinations at ages 13.5, 14.5, 15.5, and 16.5; monitored physical activity at age 15; analyses
of middle school and high school transcripts; and surveys
of middle school and high school personnel.
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.
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.