Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building 316 Physics Rd., Rm 252B, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
Department of Psychology, Michigan State University, Psychology Building 316 Physics Rd., Rm 252C, East Lansing, MI 48824, USA.
J Adolesc. 2018 Jun;65:85-94. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2018.03.003. Epub 2018 Mar 17.
Early pubertal timing is associated with internalizing and externalizing problems during adolescence. However, few studies explicitly test whether early puberty is especially problematic for those with pre-existing problems (i.e., accentuation) and little is known about whether the negative correlates of early pubertal timing persist past young adulthood. We address these questions using longitudinal data from up to 451 participants in the Iowa Youth and Families project (e.g., Ge, Conger, & Elder, 1996, 2001). We replicated and extended previous results reported for this sample during adolescence (e.g., early maturing boys and girls reported more substance use) and found some evidence for accentuation in adolescence for psychological distress and substance use. However, correlations between early puberty and adult outcomes assessed up to two decades later were largely indistinguishable from zero including attenuation effects. These results suggest that any negative correlates of early pubertal timing are attenuated by the fourth decade of life.
青春期提前与青少年时期的内化和外化问题有关。然而，很少有研究明确测试青春期提前是否对那些已经存在问题的人（即凸显）特别成问题，而且对于青春期提前的负面相关因素是否会持续到成年后，我们知之甚少。我们使用爱荷华青少年和家庭项目中多达 451 名参与者的纵向数据来解决这些问题（例如，Ge、Conger 和 Elder，1996 年，2001 年）。我们复制并扩展了之前针对该样本在青少年时期报告的结果（例如，早熟的男孩和女孩报告的物质使用更多），并发现了一些青春期心理困扰和物质使用凸显的证据。然而，青春期提前与 20 年后评估的成人结果之间的相关性几乎为零，包括衰减效应。这些结果表明，青春期提前的任何负面相关因素都会在生命的第四个十年减弱。
