ReviewHormones and behavior2022
Family environmental antecedents of pubertal timing in girls and boys: A review and open questions.
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- Does Parental Presence Influence Child Performance on an Emotional Go/No-Go Task at Age 9.5? Exploring the Role of Puberty and Early Environmental Quality.Developmental science · 2026Article
- Recalled Adverse Childhood Experiences Predict Behavioral Traits Associated With an Accelerated Life History in Cebu, Philippines.American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council · 2026Article
- Timing matters: a prospective investigation of father absence and pubertal timing in girls and boys.Biology of sex differences · 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
- Sexual Orientation, Pubertal Timing, Inhibitory Control, and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: A Birth Cohort Study.Archives of sexual behavior · 2025Article
- The Impact of Neighborhood and Family Socioeconomic Status on Adolescents' Internalizing Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Pubertal Development Trajectory.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- Adverse Childhood Experiences are Associated With the Timing of Puberty in Girls but Not in Boys.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2025Article
- Family Functioning and Pubertal Maturation in Hispanic/Latino Children from the HCHS/SOL Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- The causal role of male pubertal timing for the development of externalizing and internalizing traits: results from Mendelian randomization studies.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Links between socioeconomic position and cognitive and behavioral regulation in adolescence: The role of pubertal development.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2024Article
- Applying Life History Theory to Understand Earlier Onset of Puberty: An Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Cohort Analysis.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2024Article
- Temporal relation between pubertal development and peer victimization in a prospective sample of US adolescents.Aggressive behavior · 2024Article
- Mothers' prenatal distress accelerates adrenal pubertal development in daughters.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
- Breast and Formula Milk and Early Puberty Onset.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Stressful life events and accelerated biological aging over time in youths.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2023Article
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- Precocious puberty under stressful conditions: new understanding and insights from the lessons learnt from international adoptions and the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Review
- Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls.Evolution, medicine, and public health · 2023Article
- Earlier pubertal timing, not tempo, links time-limited early adversity with psychopathology.Neurotoxicology and teratologyArticle
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Abstract
Across nonhuman species, pubertal timing is affected by the social environment, with consequences for reproductive success and behavior. In human beings, variations in pubertal timing have not been systematically examined in relation to social environmental antecedents, although their psychological consequences are well documented. This paper focuses on links in human beings between pubertal timing and the childhood social environment, with several sections: A review of studies relating pubertal timing to the family context, a key aspect of the social environment; challenges in studying the issue; and opportunities for future work that takes advantage of and creates links with evidence in other species. The review shows that pubertal timing in girls is accelerated by adversity in aspects of the early family social context, with effects small in size; data in boys are not sufficient to enable conclusions. Inferences from existing studies are limited by variations in conceptualizations and measurement of relevant aspects of puberty and of the family social environment, and by methodological issues (e.g., reliance on existing data, use of retrospective reports, nonrandom missing data). Open questions remain about the nature, mechanisms, and specificity of the links between early family social environment and pubertal timing (e.g., form of associations, consideration of absence of positive experiences, role of timing of exposure). Animal studies provide a useful guide for addressing these questions, by delineating potential hormonal mechanisms that underlie links among social context, pubertal timing, and behavior, and encouraging attention to aspects of the social environment outside the family, especially peers.
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