Department of Pediatrics, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City704, Taiwan.
Department of Medical Humanities and Social Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan City701, Taiwan.
Dev Psychopathol. 2023 Oct;35(4):1891-1900. doi: 10.1017/S0954579422000554. Epub 2022 Oct 7.
Variations in pubertal timing and tempo have relevance to psychosocial development. Accounting for pubertal timing, tempo, and psychosocial development simultaneously in a model remains challenging. This study aimed to document the typology of pubertal development in a cohort of Taiwanese adolescent boys and then to examine how the associations between psychosocial variables across time vary by the patterns of pubertal development. A group of adolescent boys ( = 1,368) reported pubertal signs and psychosocial variables for 3 years since seventh grade. The growth mixture model revealed three major classes of pubertal transition: , , and . In a cross-lagged panel model, the multigroup analysis found the regression coefficients mostly invariant across all three classes, except those between deviant behavior and subsequent changes in depressive symptoms that were significantly positive only in the group. Adolescent boys in this group were estimated to have the highest marginal level of depressive symptoms and deviant behavior in ninth grade among the three classes. Our study highlights the heterogeneity in boys' pubertal development and the role of the pubertal development pattern in their psychosocial development.
青春期启动和进程的变化与心理社会发展有关。在模型中同时考虑青春期启动、进程和心理社会发展仍然具有挑战性。本研究旨在记录台湾青少年男孩队列中的青春期发育类型，然后研究不同青春期发育模式下心理社会变量之间的关联如何随时间变化。一组青少年男孩（n=1368）自七年级以来报告了 3 年的青春期特征和心理社会变量。增长混合模型显示青春期过渡有三个主要类型：早期、晚期和正常。在交叉滞后面板模型中，多组分析发现回归系数在所有三个类别中基本不变，除了偏差行为与随后抑郁症状变化之间的回归系数，在 组中呈显著正相关。在这一组中，男孩在九年级的抑郁症状和偏差行为的边缘水平估计在三个类别中最高。本研究强调了男孩青春期发育的异质性以及青春期发育模式在其心理社会发展中的作用。
