Pubertal Development, Personality, and Substance Use: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study From Childhood to Adolescence
Pubertal Development, Personality, and Substance Use: A 10-Year Longitudinal Study From Childhood to Adolescence
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DOI：
10.1037/a0033133
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发表时间：
2013-08-01
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Seguin, Jean R.
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作者：
Castellanos-Ryan, Natalie;Parent, Sophie;Seguin, Jean R.
大多数将青春期早期发育与物质使用联系起来的研究都集中在青春期时间的影响上（达到青春期发育的某个阶段的年龄或与成熟差异假说相关的特定年龄的青春期状态），但很少有研究关注青春期克里思（与成熟压缩假说相关的青春期阶段的生长速度）。然而，时间和克里思不仅被确定为青春期发育的重要组成部分，具有不同的预测因子，而且还被证明与其他青少年精神病理学独立相关。本研究采用潜在生长曲线模型，研究了12岁时的青春期状态和青春期克里思（11至13岁）与低社会经济背景男孩（N = 871）15至16岁的物质使用之间的关系。结果表明，12岁时的青春期状态和克里思都是青春期中后期物质使用水平增加和问题的重要预测因素。在试图确定可能解释青春期发育和物质使用之间的关联的机制，发现感觉寻求部分介导的青春期状态在12岁和物质使用行为之间的关联。冲动控制被发现缓和的关联感觉寻求与大麻的使用频率，高感觉寻求分数预测较高的大麻使用频率只有在低水平的冲动控制。这些研究结果强调了考虑男孩青春期发育中个体变异的多种来源的重要性，并为成熟差异和压缩假说提供了支持。
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 pubertal status at a particular age related to the maturation disparity hypothesis), but little research has focused on pubertal tempo (rate of growth through pubertal stages-related to the maturation compression hypothesis). However, both timing and tempo have not only been identified as important components of pubertal development, with different predictors, but have also been shown to be independently associated with other adolescent psychopathologies. Using latent growth-curve modeling, this study examined how pubertal status at age 12 and pubertal tempo (between 11 and 13 years) related to substance use from 15 to 16 years in boys from low socioeconomic backgrounds (N = 871). Results showed that both pubertal status at age 12 and tempo were significant predictors of increased levels of substance use and problems in mid to late adolescence. In an attempt to identify mechanisms that may explain the association between pubertal development and substance use it was found that sensation seeking partially mediated the association between pubertal status at age 12 and substance use behaviors. Impulse control was found to moderate the association sensation seeking had with marijuana use frequency, with high sensation-seeking scores predicting higher marijuana use frequency only at low levels of impulse control. These findings highlight the importance of considering multiple sources of individual variability in the pubertal development of boys and provide support for both the maturational disparity and compression hypotheses.