Sentences with phrase «of pubertal status»

Rather than a direct assessment, maternal ratings of pubertal status were used to assess the twins» pubertal development.

At each wave of assessment, parents completed the parent version of Carskadon and Acebo's (1993) self - report of pubertal status.

Age - independent effects of pubertal status on behavioral constraint in healthy adolescents.

A whole - brain regression using AFNI's 3dRegana was conducted to identify areas showing a main effect of pubertal status on response to rejection and / or acceptance controlling for the effects of chronological age.

However, the lack of a moderating effect of pubertal status on age - and sex - adjusted BMI z scores and any metabolic parameter indicates that the same caution is required when treating younger children and adolescents.

Self - report measure of pubertal status: reliability, validity, and initial norms.

Not exact matches

Pearson correlations and t tests were conducted to explore variation in brain volumes related to children's sex, age, pubertal status, history of psychiatric disorders (yes / no), and children's history of psychotropic medication use (yes / no).

For analyses of white matter volume, children's age and pubertal status were also included as covariates.

Results showed that the participants who had used ICT on an average three hours the preceding day showed a significantly reduced cortisol increase one hour after awakening (awakening response) com - pared to those who had used ICT not at all or less than one hour after controlling for pubertal status and the level of depression.

The use of classical methods for assessing pubertal status may not be feasible in some studies, especially in male adolescents.

Measures utilized included assessment of tobacco and marijuana use and health - risking sexual behaviors, placement change, and pubertal status.

The objective of this study was to test a comprehensive model of biologic (pubertal status), family (communication and conflict), and psychological influences (behavioral autonomy) on diabetes management and glycemic control in a sample of youth (N = 226) with type 1 diabetes recruited during late childhood / early adolescence (ages 9 — 11 years).

When examining models of depression from a developmental perspective, age may be preferred over pubertal status, as age is a less complex variable.

This pattern of results, confirmed by additional calculations described by Cohen and Cohen (1983), indicated that pubertal status was a suppressor variable.

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.

The analyses with pubertal status instead of age yielded different results with regard to the main models.

Results showed that although the four - way interaction between NCS, stressors, gender, and age was significant while the four - way interaction with pubertal status was marginally significant, the interpretation of these interactions was largely similar, i.e., NCS and depressive symptoms were significantly related only in the presence of many stressors in middle to late adolescent boys (or in boys reporting a high pubertal status).

Moderation by pubertal status instead of age yielded slightly different results, that is, in the model with stress - reactive rumination, the relationship between negative cognitive style and depressive symptoms was stronger in adolescents who perceived their pubertal status as high, whereas age did not moderate this relationship.

Perceived pubertal status, reflecting the subjective experience of morphological changes related to puberty (Angold and Costello 2006), may be a more sensitive moderator of NCS than age.

The role of autonomy and pubertal status in understanding age differences in diabetes responsibility across adolescence

Child - reported depression was assessed using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Interview and ratings of past - year life events and pubertal status obtained by maternal questionnaire and interview, respectively.

Some support has been found for an association between hormonal concentrations and negative affect20 - 24; however, social factors, including negative life events and their interaction with pubertal status (but not hormonal status), account for more of the variance in negative affect than biological factors alone.25 Early pubertal timing and its social implications have also been postulated as an important risk factor in girls.26 - 31 Two recent studies, however, report that pubertal status has a greater influence in predicting female depression than age32, 33 or the timing of puberty.32

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).

Because of the marked collinearity between age and pubertal status, we were unable to estimate the effects of these 2 variables simultaneously.

Under 2 separate regression models (1 for pubertal status and 1 for age), each variable's partial sums of squares and associated probability were used to examine these effects in the 2 sexes together (Table 1).

Future studies of the sources and consequences of EV may also want to include pubertal status, as pubertal status has been related to both depressive and aggressive affect (Brooks - Gunn et al. 1994), and recent evidence shows that pubertal status and emotional reactivity to experimentally induced stress interact in the prediction of internalizing symptoms (Leen - Feldner et al. 2007).