Biological maturation as a confounding factor in the relation between chronological age and health-related quality of life in adolescent females

Cumming, Sean P.; Gillison, Fiona; Sherar, Lauren B.

doi:10.1007/s11136-010-9743-0

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“…29 Furthermore, individual differences in biological maturation have been shown to account for the age related declines in HRQoL in UK adolescent females. 30 The hormonal fluctuations that occur in teenage girls may further contribute to changes in psychological well-being. 2 A person with symptoms of LBP is often partially and temporarily diminished in the performance of everyday activities, which negatively impacts QoL, and legitimizes per se the importance of quantifying the subsequent functional disability.…”

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Quality of life, school backpack weight, and nonspecific low back pain in children and adolescents

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Coelho‐e‐Silva

Sousa

et al. 2015

Jornal de Pediatria

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Girls had higher disability and lower QoL than boys in the domains of physical and emotional functioning, psychosocial health, and physical health summary scores, and on the total PedsQL score; however, similar school backpack weight was reported. Participants with LBP revealed lower physical functioning and physical health summary score, yet had similar school backpack weight to those without LBP.

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Quality of life, school backpack weight, and nonspecific low back pain in children and adolescents

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Coelho‐e‐Silva

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Jornal de Pediatria

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“…Consistent with this finding, girls who are advanced in maturation for their age (i.e. early maturers) have also been shown to be less active (Cumming, Gillison, et al 2011) and more sedentary (Machado Rodrigues et al 2010) than later maturing girls of the same age (i.e. late maturers).…”

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Maturational timing, physical self-perceptions and physical activity in UK adolescent females: investigation of a mediated effects model

Cumming

Harrington

Davis

et al. 2020

Annals of Human Biology

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Background: Advanced (early) biological maturation may be a risk factor for inactivity among adolescent girls. The aim of the present paper was to test the mediational effects of body attractiveness and physical self-worth on the relationship between biological maturity and accelerometer assessed moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in a large multi-ethnic sample of girls from the Midlands area in the UK (11-14 years).Methods: Biological maturity (predicting age at peak height velocity (APHV)); selfperceptions of body attractiveness, physical self-worth, and minutes spent in MVPA were assessed in 1062 females aged 11 to 14 years.Results: Structural equation modeling using maximum likelihood estimation and bootstrapping procedures supported the hypothesized model. Later maturation predicted higher perceptions of body attractiveness (β=.25, p<.001) which, in turn, predicted higher perceptions of physical self-worth (β=.91, p<.001) and, significantly higher MVPA (β=.22, p<.001). Examination of the bootstrap-generated bias-corrected confidence intervals suggested that perceptions of body attractiveness and physical self-worth partially mediated a positive association between predicted APHV and MVPA (β=.05, p<.001).Conclusions: Greater biological maturity (i.e. early maturity) in adolescent girls is associated with less involvement in MVPA and appears to be partly explained by lower perceptions of body attractiveness and physical self-worth. Physical activity interventions should consider girls perceptions of their pubertal related physiological changes during adolescence, particularly among early maturing girls.

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“…Pubescent children or adolescents are living in a status of developmental transition from children to adults, involving physical, psychological, and social upheavals [50]. Previous studies have indicated that the risk of anxi- ety, depression and susceptibility to poor QoL would increase with pubertal status in adolescents [51].…”

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Longitudinal relationship between quality of life and negative life events among adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-lagged panel analysis

Liu,

Deng,

Zhang

et al. 2023

Environ. Health Prev. Med.

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Background: The negative association of quality of life (QoL) and negative life evens (NLEs) among adolescents has been proved by cross-sectional studies, without exploring sex differences. This study aimed to explore the longitudinal associations between QoL and NLEs among adolescents during novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and whether there are sex or age differences. Methods: A stratified cluster sampling was used to select 1421 students in primary school and middle school in Chongqing, China. From November 2020 (T0) to December 2021 (T2), the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist and the Adolescent Quality of Life Scale were used to collect 3 waves of data. The correlations between study variables were conducted by the Pearson correlation analyses. The direction and strength of the longitudinal associations were analyzed using cross-lagged panel analyses. Results: Results showed significant changes in both variables during COVID-19 pandemic (P < 0.001). Cross-sectional analyses showed stable negative correlations between NLEs and QoL stratified by sex or by age (P < 0.001). Sex and age differences in longitudinal relationships were shown by cross-lagged panel analyses. For males, NLEs had a short-term bi-directional association with QoL [¢ A-D = ¹(0.091-0.340), P < 0.05]; for females, QoL had a short-term correlation with NLEs [¢ A = ¹0.119), ¢ C = ¹0.109), P < 0.001]. In the youngest age group, NLEs had a short-term bi-directional correlation with QoL [¢ A-D = ¹(0.098-0.428), P < 0.05]. There was a short-term association between total QoL and NLEs among students except the 14³15 year group [¢ A = ¹(0.071-0.149), ¢ C = ¹(0.086-0.119), P < 0.05], the long-term association between total QoL and NLEs was only significant in adolescents aged 14³15 years (¢ E = ¹0.132, P < 0.05). The strength of NLEs was slightly higher than that of total QoL, but lower than that of QoL in each dimension. Conclusion: There were negative longitudinal relationships between NLEs and QoL during COVID-19 pandemic, and the strength of the associations varied across sex or age. Strengthening QoL in different dimensions may be a promising way to reduce NLEs during the pandemic among adolescents, and interventions should be tailored according different sex and ages.

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Biological maturation as a confounding factor in the relation between chronological age and health-related quality of life in adolescent females

Cited by 14 publications

References 31 publications

Quality of life, school backpack weight, and nonspecific low back pain in children and adolescents

Quality of life, school backpack weight, and nonspecific low back pain in children and adolescents

Maturational timing, physical self-perceptions and physical activity in UK adolescent females: investigation of a mediated effects model

Longitudinal relationship between quality of life and negative life events among adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic: a cross-lagged panel analysis

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