Temporal relation between pubertal development and peer victimization in a prospective sample of US adolescents.

Autor: Marino JA; Department of Psychology, University of California, Merced, California, USA., Davis EP; Department of Psychology, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA.; Department of Pediatrics, University of California, Irvine, California, USA., Glynn LM; Department of Psychology, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA., Sandman CA; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, University of California, Irvine, California, USA., Hahn-Holbrook J; Department of Psychology, University of California, Merced, California, USA.; Health Sciences Research Institute, University of California, Merced, California, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Aggressive behavior [Aggress Behav] 2024 Mar; Vol. 50 (2), pp. e22139.
DOI: 10.1002/ab.22139
Abstrakt: Peer victimization typically peaks in early adolescence, leading researchers to hypothesize that pubertal timing is a meaningful predictor of peer victimization. However, previous methodological approaches have limited our ability to parse out which puberty cues are associated with peer victimization because gonadal and adrenal puberty, two independent processes, have either been conflated or adrenal puberty timing has been ignored. In addition, previous research has overlooked the possibility of reverse causality-that peer victimization might drive pubertal timing, as it has been shown to do in non-human primates. To fill these gaps, we followed 265 adolescents (47% female) prospectively across three-time points (M age : T1 = 9.6, T2 = 12.0, T3 = 14.4) and measured self-report peer victimization and self- and maternal-report of gonadal and adrenal pubertal development on the Pubertal Development Scale. Multilevel modeling revealed that females who were further along in adrenal puberty at age 9 were more likely to report peer victimization at age 12 (Cohen's d = 0.25, p = .005). The relation between gonadal puberty status and peer victimization was not significant for either sex. In terms of the reverse direction, the relation between early peer victimization and later pubertal development was not significant in either sex. Overall, our findings suggest that adrenal puberty status, but not gonadal puberty status, predicted peer victimization in females, highlighting the need to separate gonadal and adrenal pubertal processes in future studies.
(© 2024 The Authors. Aggressive Behavior published by Wiley Periodicals LLC.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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