College of Health and Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University, 104 Henderson Building, 16802, University Park, PA.
J Youth Adolesc. 1988 Apr;17(2):117-33. doi: 10.1007/BF01537962.
Puberty is a central process in the complex set of changes that constitutes the transition from childhood to adolescence. Research on the role of pubertal change in this transition has been impeded by the difficulty of assessing puberty in ways acceptable to young adolescents and others involved. Addressing this problem, this paper describes and presents norms for a selfreport measure of pubertal status. The measure was used twice annually over a period of three years in a longitudinal study of 335 young adolescent boys and girls. Data on a longitudinal subsample of 253 subjects are reported. The scale shows good reliability, as indicated by coefficient alpha. In addition, several sources of data suggest that these reports are valid. The availability of such a measure is important for studies, such as those based in schools, in which more direct measures of puberty may not be possible.
青春期是构成从儿童到青少年过渡的一系列复杂变化中的一个核心过程。研究青春期变化在这一转变中的作用受到了阻碍,因为难以找到年轻人和其他相关人士都能接受的评估青春期的方法。为了解决这个问题,本文描述并提供了一种青春期状态自我报告衡量标准的规范。该衡量标准在一项针对 335 名年轻青少年男孩和女孩的纵向研究中,每两年使用一次,历时三年。报告了对 253 名受试者的纵向子样本的数据。该量表显示出良好的可靠性,表明系数 alpha 良好。此外,有几个数据源表明这些报告是有效的。这种衡量标准的可用性对于那些基于学校的研究非常重要,在这些研究中,可能无法使用更直接的青春期衡量标准。