Center for Research on Women, Wellesley College, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 1980 Aug;9(4):339-46. doi: 10.1007/BF02087985.
A group of 153 sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-grade girls and a group of 95 college women produced human figure drawings. Comparisons were made between early and late adolescents and, within the group of early adolescents, between pre- and postmenarcheal girls, of the frequency with which secondary sexual characteristics, namely, breasts, were explicitly depicted on the female figures. Early adolescents were found to represent breasts more explicitly than late adolescents. Parallel results were found for pre- and postmenarcheal girls in the seventh grade. The results suggest that early adolescents emphasize and are preoccupied with body parts whose changes signal the beginning of puberty, while later adolescents, being past the period of most rapid growth and change in body contour, have a more integrated body image.
一组 153 名六年级、七年级和八年级的女生和一组 95 名女大学生画了人物画。比较了早、晚期青少年，以及在早期青少年组中，初潮前和初潮后的女孩，在女性人物上明确描绘第二性征（即乳房）的频率。研究发现，早期青少年比晚期青少年更明确地描绘乳房。在七年级，初潮前和初潮后的女孩也得到了类似的结果。研究结果表明，早期青少年强调并关注身体部位，这些部位的变化标志着青春期的开始，而晚期青少年的身体轮廓已经过了生长和变化最快的时期，他们的身体形象更加完整。
