Developmental Social Neuroscience Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, United States.
Adolescent Research Collaborative, Institute of Human Development, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States.
Front Endocrinol (Lausanne). 2021 May 5;12:608575. doi: 10.3389/fendo.2021.608575. eCollection 2021.
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development℠ (ABCD) Study is an ongoing, diverse, longitudinal, and multi-site study of 11,880 adolescents in the United States. The ABCD Study provides open access to data about pubertal development at a large scale, and this article is a researcher's guide that both describes its pubertal variables and outlines recommendations for use. These considerations are contextualized with reference to cross-sectional empirical analyses of pubertal measures within the baseline ABCD dataset by Herting, Uban, and colleagues (2021). We discuss strategies to capitalize on strengths, mitigate weaknesses, and appropriately interpret study limitations for researchers using pubertal variables within the ABCD dataset, with the aim of building toward a robust science of adolescent development.
青少年大脑认知发展研究（ABCD 研究）是一项正在进行的、多样化的、纵向的、多地点的美国 11880 名青少年研究。ABCD 研究大规模提供了关于青春期发育的公开数据，本文是一份研究人员指南，描述了其青春期变量，并概述了使用这些变量的建议。这些考虑因素参考了 Herting、Uban 和同事（2021 年）在 ABCD 数据集的基线中对青春期测量进行的横断面实证分析。我们讨论了在 ABCD 数据集中使用青春期变量的研究人员利用优势、减轻弱点和适当解释研究局限性的策略，旨在为青少年发展的稳健科学奠定基础。
