Pubertal Timing, Smoking, and Sexual Activity

Pubertal timing and adolescent sexual behavior in girls.

Girls who experience earlier pubertal timing relative to peers also exhibit earlier timing of sexual intercourse and more unstable sexual relationships. Although pubertal development initiates feelings of physical desire, the transition into romantic and sexual relationships involves complex biological and social processes contributing both to physical maturation and to individual interpretatio...

DOHAD and early pubertal timing

Age at menarche varies widely between girls, is estimated to be highly heritable and is associated with long-term health outcomes, such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. Earlier pubertal maturation in boys and girls links rapid postnatal growth weight gain to later life metabolic and cardiovascular disease [1,2]. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS), which genotype hundreds of thousands of comm...

Pubertal timing and psychopathology 1 Pubertal Timing and Psychopathology Xiaojia Ge and Misaki N. Natsuaki In Search of Explanations for Early Pubertal Timing Effects on Developmental Psychopathology

Pubertal timing, sexual behaviour and self-reported depression in middle adolescence.

The associations between pubertal timing, sexual activity and self-reported depression were analysed in a population sample of 17,082 girls and 15,922 boys aged 14-16 as a par of a classroom survey. Pubertal timing was assessed by age at onset of menstruation (menarche) or ejaculations (oigarche). Sexual experiences elicited included kissing, light petting, heavy petting and intercourse. Self-r...

Pubertal timing and grade effects on adjustment.

Effects on adjustment of biological maturation and social timing were compared using data from a longitudinal sample of 335 young adolescents, who were followed from the sixth through eighth grades. Biological maturation was estimated from the relative timing of the adolescent growth spurt. Social timing was assessed by grade in school. Five adjustment constructs were examined: school achieveme...