Childhood experience and the onset of menarche: a test of a sociobiological model

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Childhood experience and the onset of menarche: a test of a sociobiological model

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We tested predictions about psychosocial factors in the onset of menarche using data from a longitudinal study of 16-year-old girls. Belsky, Steinberg, and Draper have proposed a model that seeks to explain individual differences in maturational timing in terms of stressful childhood experiences. Their model hypothesizes that (1) individuals who grow up under conditions of family stress (2) experience behavioral and psychological problems which (3) provoke earlier reproductive readiness. In t...

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Date created

1992

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Moffitt, T.E. / Caspi, A. / Belsky, J. / Silva, P.A.

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https://hdl.handle.net/10523/14451

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adolescents / body weight / child / control / family / life event / longitudinal study / menarche / New Zealand / psychological aspect / sexual maturation / social behavior / social environment / internal-external control / life change events / sex maturation

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