Since the early 1980s, the focus on the importance of puberty to adolescent development
has continued with variability in the methodology selected to measure puberty. To capture …

Puberty is advanced by sex hormones, yet it is not clear how it is best measured. The
interrelation of multiple indices of puberty was examined, including the Pubertal …

Reports the characteristics of a large, representative sample of treatment-seeking anxious
youth (N= 488). Participants, aged 7–17 years (mean 10.7 years), had a principal DSM-IV …

Background Sexually explicit media exposure during early adolescence has been found to
be associated with risky sexual behavior. However, previous study suffered from …

In lifecourse studies that encompass the adolescent period, the assessment of pubertal
status is important, but can be challenging. We aimed to identify current methods for pubertal …

ABSTRACT BACKGROUND To date, research has focused primarily on psychological
correlates of weight‐based teasing. In this study, we extended previous work by also …

OBJECTIVE: To prospectively examine the relation between pubertal stage and the onset
and course of depressive symptoms. METHOD: The design was a three-wave longitudinal …

During adolescence, considerable social and biological changes occur that interact with
functional brain maturation, some of which are sex-specific. The amygdala is one brain area …

When adult men are made to feel gender‐atypical, they often lash out with aggression,
particularly when they are pressured (vs. autonomously motivated) to be gender‐typical …

Most research linking early pubertal development to substance use has focused on the
effects of pubertal timing (age at which a certain stage of pubertal development is reached or …