Brooks-Gunn J, Warren M P, Rosso J, Gargiulo J
Child Dev. 1987 Jun;58(3):829-41.
To understand the meaning of somatic changes to the adolescent and their possible effects on behavior, developmentalists have begun to examine maturational timing and status in detail. Efforts have been hampered by the necessity of obtaining somatic growth data by physician examination. In the present study, 3 self-report methods for rating secondary sexual characteristic growth were compared to physician ratings; the accuracy of self-reported height and weight also was assessed. Specifically, 151 11-, 12-, and 13-year-old girls rated their breast and pubic hair development using schematics of the 5 Tanner stages and filled out the Pubertal Development Scale (PDS); their mothers also rated their daughters' development using the Tanner stage schematics. The correlation with physician Tanner ratings was .82 for self-ratings, .85 for ratings by the mother, and between .61 and .67 for self-reports on the PDS. The correlations for self- and actual reports of weight and height were .98 and .75, respectively. The usefulness of the PDS, Tanner ratings, and self-reported height and weight as adequate estimates of pubertal development is discussed.
为了理解身体变化对青少年的意义及其对行为可能产生的影响，发展心理学家已开始详细研究成熟的时间和状态。由于需要通过医生检查来获取身体生长数据，相关工作受到了阻碍。在本研究中，将三种用于评定第二性征发育的自我报告方法与医生的评定进行了比较；同时还评估了自我报告的身高和体重的准确性。具体而言，151名11岁、12岁和13岁的女孩使用坦纳五期的示意图对自己的乳房和阴毛发育进行了评定，并填写了青春期发育量表（PDS）；她们的母亲也使用坦纳分期示意图对女儿的发育情况进行了评定。自我评定与医生的坦纳评定之间的相关性为0.82，母亲评定与医生评定之间的相关性为0.85，PDS自我报告与医生评定之间的相关性在0.61至0.67之间。体重和身高的自我报告与实际报告之间的相关性分别为0.98和0.75。本文讨论了PDS、坦纳评定以及自我报告的身高和体重作为青春期发育适当评估指标的有用性。
