SynthesisChild psychiatry and human development2023
Associations Between Pubertal Stage and Depression: A Systematic Review of the Literature.
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26 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Suicidal behavior and Ethiopian students: a systematic review and meta-analysis study.BMC psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- Parents' experiences of their adolescent child's depression: a qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis.BMC psychology · 2026Pooled it
- Rates of Depression in Children and Adolescents With ADHD: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of attention disorders · 2025Pooled it
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- Heat, menstruation, and mental health in adolescence and young adulthood: Understudied in climate-health research.Dialogues in health · 2026Review
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- Adolescent Hormonal Contraceptive Use in the Context of Brain Development and Depression Risk: A Review and Considerations for Future Research.Biological psychiatry global open science · 2026Review
- Examining Pubertal and Cognitive Differences in Adolescent Depressive Symptoms Using Drift Diffusion Modeling.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- How changes in pubertal status and chronological age shape individual depressive symptoms by sex: testing a pathoplasty model.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Affective Sensitivity to Ovarian Steroid Hormone Flux Across the Menstrual Cycle: Manifestations and Biopsychosocial Risk Factors.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2026Review
- Family Factors Associated with Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms: Longitudinal Findings from the ABCD Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Article
- Psychobiological mechanisms underlying the association between early life stress and depression in adolescence.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Social Reward Responsiveness Moderates the Association between Perceived Social Competence and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 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
- Purpose in life in late adolescence and incident depression over 10 years.Journal of psychiatric research · 2026Article
- When emotions persist: Emotional inertia predicts adolescent depression amid COVID-19 stress.Behaviour research and therapy · 2025Article
- Examining androgen and estrogen profiles during pubertal development in autistic and neurotypical girls.Hormones and behavior · 2025Article
- A case-control study on the relationship between sleep bruxism and mental health conditions, depression and anxiety, in children.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psychoneuroendocrine stress response in female and male youth with major depressive disorder.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- The Temporal Dynamics of Sleep Disturbances, Depression, and Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors in Preadolescents: A Year-Long Intensive Longitudinal Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The current article systematically reviews the literature and provides results from 36 studies testing the relation between pubertal stage and depression, as well as moderators and mediators of this relation. Results indicate that there is a significant relation between advancing pubertal stage and depression among girls, and this effect is strongest among White girls. Among boys, risk for depression does not increase with pubertal stage. Importantly, gonadal development appears to be driving the pubertal stage effect. Increasing hormone concentrations, shared environmental stressors, and body esteem appear to be mechanisms of this relation; increases in nonshared environmental stressors (negative life events, peer victimization) moderate the relation between pubertal stage and depression. Inconsistencies in findings across studies can be explained by methodological differences. Future work on this topic should control for age, examine differences by sex, and utilize within-person analyses to evaluate the effect of pubertal stage on depression over time.
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