Perceptions of puberty: Adolescent, parent, and health care personnel.

Dorn, Lorah D.; Susman, Elizabeth J.; Nottelmann, Editha D.; Inoff‐Germain, Gale; Chrousos, George P.

doi:10.1037/0012-1649.26.2.322

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“…25,26 The PDS has similarly received support in validation studies, although the evidence was clearer among girls than boys. 27 The level of agreement between measures was strong for both male and female subjects in this study, but the higher levels of agreement for female subjects are perhaps consistent with previous evidence that female subjects more accurately rate pubertal stages. Because students in Washington did not report Tanner levels, whereas both Tanner charts and the PDS were used in Victoria, it is possible that puberty might have been less precisely measured in the US sample.…”

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Puberty and the Onset of Substance Use and Abuse

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ABSTRACT. Objective. Substance abuse remains one of the major threats to adolescent health in Western cultures. The study aim was to ascertain the extent of association between pubertal development and early adolescent substance use.Methods. The design was a cross-sectional survey of 10-to 15-year-old subjects in the states of Washington, United States, and Victoria, Australia. Participants were 5769 students in grades 5, 7, and 9, drawn as a 2-stage cluster sample in each state, and the questionnaire was completed in the school classrooms. The main outcomes of the study were lifetime substance use (tobacco use, having been drunk, or cannabis use), recent substance use (tobacco, alcohol, or cannabis use in the previous month), and substance abuse (daily smoking, any binge drinking, drinking at least weekly, or cannabis use at least weekly).Results. The odds of lifetime substance use were almost twofold higher (odds ratio [OR]: 1.7; 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.4 -2.1) in midpuberty (Tanner stage III) and were threefold higher (OR: 3.1; 95% CI: 2.4 -4.2) in late puberty (Tanner stage IV/V), after adjustment for age and school grade level. Recent substance use was moderately higher (OR: 1.4; 95% CI: 1.0 -1.9) in midpuberty and more than twofold higher (OR: 2.3; 95% CI: 1.7-3.3) in late puberty. The odds of substance abuse were twofold higher (OR: 2.0; 95% CI: 1.2-3.2) in midpuberty and more than threefold higher (OR: 3.5; 95% CI: 2.2-5.4) in late puberty. Reporting most friends as substance users was more likely in the later stages of pubertal development, a relationship that accounted in part for the association found between later pubertal stage and substance abuse.Conclusions. Pubertal stage was associated with higher rates of substance use and abuse independent of age and school grade level. Early maturers had higher levels of substance use because they entered the risk period at an earlier point than did late maturers. The study findings support prevention strategies and policies that decrease recreational substance use within the peer social group in the early teens. Pediatrics 2004; 114:e300 -e306. URL: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/ content/full/114/3/e300; puberty, substance abuse, smoking, alcohol consumption, cannabis, adolescence.ABBREVIATIONS. PDS, Pubertal Development Scale; OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval. P rofound changes in patterns of health risk occur during adolescence. The major determinants of later adult health arise in patterns of mental health, behavior, and lifestyles that develop in the early teens. 1 Early adolescent increases in depression and anxiety, 2,3 eating disorders, 4 risky sexual activity, 5 and aggressive and antisocial behavior 6 have been well documented, as have their consequences in later life.The early teens also commonly herald the onset of substance use and abuse. 7-9 Early adolescent substance abuse is relevant to health not only because it is associated with risky sexual behavior and intentional and unintentional injuries during the teens but also because...

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Puberty and the Onset of Substance Use and Abuse

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“…Participants answer questions about their growth in stature and pubic hair, as well as menarche in females and voice changes in males. Dorn et al (1990) compared self-ratings and physician ratings of pubertal development and found significant correlations between adolescent self-rating and physician's rating. In our sample, levels of bioavailable testosterone correlated with selfrated pubertal stage in boys (r ϭ 0.604; p Ͻ 0.0001).…”

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Growth of White Matter in the Adolescent Brain: Role of Testosterone and Androgen Receptor

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The growth of white matter during human adolescence shows a striking sexual dimorphism; the volume of white matter increases with age slightly in girls and steeply in boys. Here, we provide evidence supporting the role of androgen receptor (AR) in mediating the effect of testosterone on white matter. In a large sample of typically developing adolescents (n= 408, 204 males), we used magnetic resonance imaging and acquired T1-weighted and magnetization transfer ratio (MTR) images. We also measured plasma levels of testosterone and genotyped a functional polymorphism in the AR gene, namely the number of CAG repeats in exon 1 believed to be inversely proportional to the AR transcriptional activity. We found that the testosterone-related increase of white-matter volume was stronger in male adolescents with the lower versus higher number of CAG repeats in the AR gene, with testosterone explaining, respectively, 26 and 8% of variance in the volume. The MTR results suggest that this growth is not related to myelination; the MTR decreased with age in male adolescents. We speculate that testosterone affects axonal caliber rather than the thickness of the myelin sheath.

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“…Stage of pubertal development was assessed in the parent interviews at T1 and T2 using schematic drawings of secondary gender characteristics associated with the five standard Tanner stages of pubertal development (Marshall & Tanner, 1969, 1970. Tanner stages are a widely accepted standard for assessment of physical development, and have demonstrated good reliability, validity, and parent-child agreement (Dorn, Susman, Nottelmann, Inoff-Germain, & Chrousos, 1990). The parent was provided with the (gender-appropriate) drawings, and asked to select which of them ''looked most like the child.''…”

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The delicate balance between parental protection, unsupervised wandering, and adolescents’ autonomy and its relation with antisocial behavior: The TRAILS study

Sentse¹,

Dijkstra²,

Lindenberg

et al. 2010

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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The delicate balance between parental protection, unsupervised wandering, and adolescents' autonomy and its relation with antisocial behavior Sentse, M.; Dijkstra, Jan Kornelis; Lindenberg, S.; Ormel, Johan; Veenstra, David Take-down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim.Downloaded from the University of Groningen/UMCG research database (Pure): http://www.rug.nl/research/portal. For technical reasons the number of authors shown on this cover page is limited to 10 maximum. In a large sample of early adolescents (T2: N ¼ 1023; M age ¼ 13.51; 55.5% girls), the impact of parental protection and unsupervised wandering on adolescents' antisocial behavior 2.5 years later was tested in this TRAILS study; gender and parental knowledge were controlled for. In addition, the level of biological maturation and having antisocial friends were included as possible moderators for the associations of parental protection and unsupervised wandering with adolescent antisocial behavior. The negative effect of protection on engagement in antisocial behavior held only for boys and for early-maturing adolescents, whereas the effect of unsupervised wandering was found only for boys and for adolescents who had antisocial friends. The results point to a delicate balance between parental protection and unsupervised wandering with respect to adolescents' autonomy.

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Perceptions of puberty: Adolescent, parent, and health care personnel.

Cited by 126 publications

References 13 publications

Puberty and the Onset of Substance Use and Abuse

Puberty and the Onset of Substance Use and Abuse

Growth of White Matter in the Adolescent Brain: Role of Testosterone and Androgen Receptor

The delicate balance between parental protection, unsupervised wandering, and adolescents’ autonomy and its relation with antisocial behavior: The TRAILS study

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