Forehand R, Neighbors B, Wierson M
Psychology Department, University of Georgia, Athens 30602.
J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 1991 Sep;32(6):929-37. doi: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb01920.x.
The differential change of boys and girls across pre-adolescence, early adolescence, and middle adolescence was examined. The participants were 259 children, their mothers, and their social studies teachers. The children completed a measure of internalizing problems and adults completed measures of the child's externalizing and internalizing problems and competence. Relative to girls, boys had more problems and less competence at pre-adolescence and/or less problems and more competence by mid-adolescence. A stressor, parental divorce, did not exacerbate the gender by developmental age period interaction. The differential vulnerability of boys and girls at different developmental periods is considered.
