ArticleJournal of youth and adolescence2016
Understanding the Link Between Pubertal Timing in Girls and the Development of Depressive Symptoms: The Role of Sexual Harassment.
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- Age at menarche and depression: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis.Archives of women's mental health · 2025Pooled it
- Childhood conduct problems and adolescent sexual harassment victimization: Understanding the role of cumulative processes.International journal of behavioral development · 2026Article
- Pubertal hormones and mental health problems in children and adolescents: a systematic review of population-based studies.EClinicalMedicine · 2024Review
- Temporal relation between pubertal development and peer victimization in a prospective sample of US adolescents.Aggressive behavior · 2024Article
- The Effect of Relative Pubertal Maturation and Perceived Popularity on Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety in Adolescent Boys and Girls.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2023Article
- The relationship between timing of onset of menarche and depressive symptoms from adolescence to adulthood.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2023Article
- Explaining the Female Preponderance in Adolescent Depression-A Four-Wave Cohort Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- The Distinct Roles of Biological and Perceived Pubertal Timing in Delinquency and Depressive Symptoms from Adolescence to Adulthood.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Father absence, age at menarche, and genetic confounding: A replication and extension using a polygenic score.Development and psychopathology · 2022Article
- Multimethod assessment of pubertal timing and associations with internalizing psychopathology in early adolescent girls.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2022Article
- The role of relational support in the longitudinal links between adolescent sexual harassment victimization and psychological health.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- Sex-Specific Associations Between Trauma Exposure, Pubertal Timing, and Anxiety in Black Children.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Pubertal timing and self-harm: a prospective cohort analysis of males and females.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2020Article
- The interaction between pubertal timing and childhood maltreatment on the risk of human papillomavirus infection among adolescent girls and young women.Preventive medicine · 2020Article
- Neighborhood Disorder, Family Functioning, and Risky Sexual Behaviors in Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2020Article
- Reciprocal associations between depression and screen-based sedentary behaviors in adolescents differ by depressive symptom dimension and screen-type.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- Study protocol for PRISE: a longitudinal study of sexual harassment during the transition from childhood to adolescence.BMC psychology · 2019Article
- Prospective Bidirectional Associations between Attachment and Depressive Symptoms from Middle Childhood to Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2019Article
- The effects of non-physical peer sexual harassment on high school students' psychological well-being in Norway: consistent and stable findings across studies.International journal of public health · 2018Article
- Pubertal Development, Emotion Regulatory Styles, and the Emergence of Sex Differences in Internalizing Disorders and Symptoms in Adolescence.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2016Article
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Abstract
The link between sexual maturation, or pubertal timing, in girls and adolescent depressive symptoms is well-documented, but the underlying processes remain unclear. We examined whether sexual harassment, which has previously been linked to both pubertal timing and depressive symptoms, mediates this link, using a two-wave longitudinal study including 454 girls in 7th (M age = 13.42, SD = .53) and 8th grade (M age = 14.42, SD = .55). Pubertal timing was linked to depressive symptoms in both age groups, and predicted an increase in depressive symptoms among the 7th graders. Sexual harassment significantly mediated the link between pubertal timing and depressive symptoms among the 7th, but not the 8th grade girls. Together, our findings suggest that one way to prevent depressive symptoms among early-maturing girls could be to address sexual harassment in preventive intervention in early adolescence.
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