Psychosocial antecedents of variation in girls' pubertal timing: Maternal depression, stepfather presence, and marital and family stress
Psychosocial antecedents of variation in girls' pubertal timing: Maternal depression, stepfather presence, and marital and family stress
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10.1111/1467-8624.00159
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发表时间：
2000-03-01
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4.6
通讯作者：
Garber, J
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作者：
Ellis, BJ;Garber, J
借鉴贝尔斯基、斯坦伯格和德雷珀关于生殖策略发展的进化理论，我们测试了女孩青春期时间个体差异的模型。该模型假设，母亲的精神病理学史导致女儿的青春期成熟较早，并且这种影响是由不和谐的家庭关系和父亲缺席/继父在场介导的。该模型得到了一项针对 87 名青春期女孩的短期纵向研究的支持。在模型的初步测试中，发现母亲的情绪障碍史可以预测女儿的青春期提前，并且这种关系完全由二元压力和亲生父亲缺席介导。在母亲的浪漫伴侣不是亲生父亲的家庭中，二元压力几乎占女儿青春期时间变化的一半。继父的存在，而不是亲生父亲的缺席，最能解释与亲生父亲分开生活的女孩青春期成熟较早的原因。我们认为，继父的存在和紧张的家庭关系构成了女孩青春期提前成熟的不同途径。
Drawing on Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper's evolutionary theory of the development of reproductive strategies, we tested a model of individual differences in girls' pubertal timing. This model posits that a history of psychopathology in mothers results in earlier pubertal maturation in daughters, and that this effect is mediated by discordant family relationships and father absence/ stepfather presence. The model was supported in a short-term longitudinal study of 87 adolescent girls. In the primary test of the model, it was found that a his tory of mood disorders in mothers predicted earlier pubertal timing in daughters, and this relation was fully mediated by dyadic stress and biological father absence. In families in which the mother's romantic partner was not the biological father, dyadic stress accounted for almost half of the variation in daughters' pubertal timing. Stepfather presence, rather than biological father absence, best accounted for earlier pubertal maturation in girls living apart from their biological fathers. We propose that stepfather presence and stressful family relationships constitute separate paths to early pubertal maturation in girls.