Pubertal status refers to the stage of growth and development during puberty, which is the time when children's bodies mature into adult bodies. It includes physical changes like the growth of hair, changes in body shape, and the start of menstruation for girls.
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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.
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 analyses
with pubertal status instead of age yielded different results with regard to the main models.
Sex differences in key metabolism - related hormones, referring to BPA and phthalate exposures in utero and childhood, were corroborated by another study showing additional results regarding exposure time and differentiating
by pubertal status next to sex in adolescent offspring (183).
These effects were qualified by group
× pubertal status interaction effects (P < 0.001, 30 voxels contiguity) indicating that, contrary to hypotheses, the relationship between pubertal maturation and response to rejection in the left amygdala and caudate / sgACC was stronger among healthy controls than MDD youth.
The role of autonomy and
pubertal status in understanding age differences in maternal involvement in diabetes responsibility across adolescence
The moderating role of
pubertal status instead of age in the testing of cognitive vulnerability - stress models has not yet been examined to our knowledge.
In boys who reported
low pubertal status, both NCS (β =.48, p =.001) and stressors (β =.27, p =.002) were significantly associated with depressive symptoms.
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.
The use of classical methods for
assessing pubertal status may not be feasible in some studies, especially in male adolescents.
Boys and girls with advanced
pubertal status during early adolescence will manifest higher levels of depressive symptoms.
Further, it was examined
whether pubertal status would be a more sensitive moderator in these models compared to age.
When examining models of depression from a developmental perspective, age may be preferred
over pubertal status, as age is a less complex variable.
In other words,
because pubertal status was related positively to adolescent decision - making autonomy but negatively to diabetes - related conflict, the relationship between adolescent decision - making autonomy and diabetes - related conflict was obscured in zero - order correlations.
When pubertal status was controlled for in the regression analyses, a significant positive relationship between adolescent decision - making autonomy and diabetes - related conflict emerged.
However, contrary to age,
how pubertal status is perceived and reported may also be influenced by depressive symptoms.
The role of autonomy and
pubertal status in understanding age differences in diabetes responsibility across adolescence
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.
Age - independent effects of
pubertal status on behavioral constraint in healthy adolescents.
Whole - brain regression analyses revealed that more
advanced pubertal status, specifically signs associated with adrenarche (i.e. pubic hair and body odor), were associated with increased activity (i.e. less deactivation) to rejection above and beyond the effects of age in the right amygdala / parahippocampal gyrus (Figure 4a) and the left amygdala / parahippocampal gyrus, as well as the caudate extending into the sgACC (P < 0.001, 22 voxels contiguity).
Hall says that the team is also stratifying the study group based on
pubertal status, hypothesizing that sex hormones may alter the dose - response, and by children who have severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), noting that neurohormonal influences affect immune function after severe TBI.
Individual - level exposures to traffic - related air pollutants at their birth address were estimated by analysing emission from road traffic in the neighbourhood, population density and land use in the area, and the association between air pollution and insulin resistance was calculated using a model adjusted for several possible confounders including socioeconomic status of the family, birthweight,
pubertal status and BMI.
Pubertal status was unrelated to metabolic changes in any antipsychotic medication group.
Sex differences in depression were evident at particular levels of
pubertal status and timing, both actual and perceived.
This research investigated the developmental stages (
pubertal status) and contexts (early or late timing relative to peers, and a context of stressful versus supportive peer relationships) in which the sex difference in depression unfolds.
Pubertal status and timing (actual and perceived) interacted with sex to predict depression.
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.
Thus, this research highlights important distinctions among the contributions of age,
pubertal status, pubertal timing, and perceived timing to the sex difference in adolescent depression.
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).
Interestingly,
pubertal status was not significantly directly associated with academic achievement.
This pattern of results, confirmed by additional calculations described by Cohen and Cohen (1983), indicated that
pubertal status was a suppressor variable.
Pubertal status, rather than age, was used because pubertal processes are believed to initiate the changes in the parent — child relationship during adolescence (Holmbeck, 1996; Paikoff & Brooks - Gunn, 1991; Steinberg, 1987).