Graber J A, Lewinsohn P M, Seeley J R, Brooks-Gunn J
Department of Human Development, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 1997 Dec;36(12):1768-76. doi: 10.1097/00004583-199712000-00026.
This investigation tested whether the timing of pubertal development was associated with concurrent and prior experiences of psychopathology (symptoms and disorders) in adolescent boys and girls.
A large (N = 1,709) community sample of high school students were interviewed using the Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children as adapted for use in epidemiological studies. Adolescents also completed a questionnaire battery covering a range of psychosocial variables.
Analyses tested whether pubertal timing was associated with present and lifetime history of mental disorders, psychological symptoms, and psychosocial functioning. As hypothesized, early-maturing girls and late-maturing boys showed more evidence of psychopathology than other same-gender adolescents.
Early-maturing girls had the poorest current and lifetime history of adjustment problems, indicating that this pattern of pubertal development merits attention by mental health providers and researchers.
本研究旨在检验青春期发育时间是否与青少年男孩和女孩同时期及既往的精神病理学经历（症状和障碍）相关。
使用适用于流行病学研究的学龄儿童情感障碍和精神分裂症访谈表，对一个大型（N = 1709）的高中生社区样本进行访谈。青少年还完成了一系列涵盖多种心理社会变量的问卷。
分析检验了青春期发育时间是否与精神障碍的当前和终生病史、心理症状以及心理社会功能相关。正如所假设的那样，早熟女孩和晚熟男孩比其他同性别的青少年表现出更多的精神病理学证据。
早熟女孩在当前和终生的适应问题方面表现最差，这表明这种青春期发育模式值得心理健康服务提供者和研究人员关注。
