ArticleSSM - population health2020
Timing of puberty in boys and girls: Implications for population health.
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81 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 135 citations in OpenAlex.
- Body, Emotions, and Hormones: A Systematic Review of Body Dissatisfaction, Emotion Regulation, and Puberty in Adolescence.Journal of adolescence · 2026Pooled it
- Shared Determinants of Poor Sleep, Obesity and Adiposity in Adolescents Aged 8-18-Years: A Systematic Review.Journal of sleep research · 2025Pooled it
- Impacts of a puberty and period education intervention among 9- to 12-year-old girls in the New York metropolitan area: a randomized trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- Examining Pubertal and Cognitive Differences in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Using Drift Diffusion Modeling.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Does cortisol mediate the association between school bullying and weight status in preadolescents?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- A century of suicide: Insights from long-term data in the United States.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Working memory and daily internalizing problems: Pubertal timing moderates adult relations.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Aggression: The Moderating Roles of Peer Group Popularity and Social Preference.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Mixed evidence for stress effects on cortisol-testosterone coupling in Syrian refugee and Jordanian non-refugee adolescents.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Timing matters: a prospective investigation of father absence and pubertal timing in girls and boys.Biology of sex differences · 2026Article
- Do Anthropometric Health Risk Indicators of South African Primary School Children Require National Growth Charts? Insights from the NW-CHILD Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Early Pubertal Development Is a Risk Factor for Psychotic-Like Experiences in Boys and Girls.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Article
- How do Italian adolescents see themselves? Body weight congruence and its determinants in the 2021/2022 HBSC study.Italian journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Associations Between Age-for-Grade, Sex, and Interpersonal Violence Among U.S. High School Students.Journal of interpersonal violence · 2026Article
- Puberty in Context: Accounting for Psychosocial Experiences in the Association Between Pubertal Timing, Sex/Gender, and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms in Canadian Youth.Depression and anxiety · 2026Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage and adolescent sleep health: a longitudinal population-based study.Lancet regional health. Americas · 2026Article
- The use of atypical antipsychotic medications in the treatment of children and adolescents with avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Early Pubertal Timing, Suicidality, and Self-Injurious Behaviors in Preadolescents: Evidence for Concurrent and Emergent Risk Prediction.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Pubertal timing and tempo and body mass index trajectories: investigating the confounding role of childhood body mass index.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Pubertal Timing, Positive Contexts, and Emotional Symptoms in Early Adolescence: Examining Sex Differences With a Dual Grade Cohort Design.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
21 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
Puberty is marked by substantial increases and emerging sex differences in psychological disorders and risky behaviors. However, few studies have examined these effects beyond adolescence, and the previous literature has been dominated by samples of White girls. The current study examines the broadest known set of health sequelae related to traditional pubertal markers and peer-relative pubertal timing in a representative sample of 14,545 U.S. youth from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. Maturational timing was assessed by age at menarche for girls and physical development for boys (e.g., facial hair, voice change), and then categorized as early (1 SD below mean), on-time, or late (1 SD above mean) within-sex. Early and late peer-relative timing was assessed by a self-report of looking "much older" or "much younger" than one's peers. We examined psychological (depressive symptoms, antisocial behavior), behavioral (number of sex partners, drug use, physical activity, screen time, sleep hours), and physical health (self-reported health, BMI) outcomes during adolescence and young adulthood in a series of sex-stratified regression analyses using survey weights and a comprehensive set of sociodemographic covariates. Results indicated that, overall, earlier pubertal timing (i.e., maturational timing and peer-relative timing) put both girls and boys at risk during adolescence, while later timing was protective. However, longitudinal models revealed mixed results. For instance, early maturational timing was associated with higher young adult BMI (girls: β = 0.139,
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