Dornbusch S M, Carlsmith J M, Gross R T, Martin J A, Jennings D, Rosenberg A, Duke P
Child Dev. 1981 Mar;52(1):179-85.
Data from the U.S. National Health Examination Survey of 12-17-year-old youths were used to determine whether the development of the social behavior of dating is more closely linked to the level of sexual maturation or to the progression through age grades without reference to sexual maturation. Regression analyses and partial correlations show that individuals levels of sexual maturation add very little to the explained variance in dating after age had been taken into account. It appears that social pressures, based on behavior considered typical and appropriate at various ages, determines the onset of dating in adolescents. Individual rates of sexual maturation that deviate from the norm for that age have little impact on dating. These findings show how social standards can reduce dramatically the impact of individual biological processes on institutionalized forms of behavior.
美国针对12至17岁青少年的全国健康检查调查数据，被用于确定约会社交行为的发展，是与性成熟水平联系更为紧密，还是与不考虑性成熟的年龄阶段进展联系更为紧密。回归分析和偏相关分析表明，在考虑年龄因素之后，性成熟水平对约会行为中可解释的方差增加甚微。似乎基于不同年龄阶段被视为典型和适当行为的社会压力，决定了青少年约会行为的开始。偏离该年龄阶段正常标准的个体性成熟速率，对约会行为影响不大。这些发现表明社会标准能够极大地降低个体生物过程对制度化行为形式的影响。
