Which comes first, puberty or identity? The longitudinal interrelations between pubertal timing and sexual minority self-identification among early adolescents.

J Del Toro, V Papke, A Wiglesworth… - American …, 2025 - psycnet.apa.org
Sexual minority adolescents experience puberty earlier than their heterosexual peers. Early
puberty is an indicator of premature aging and can be partly driven by chronic stress linked …

The psychosocial functioning in adolescents with severe obesity evaluated throughout the strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ): A preliminary report

A Guerrini Usubini, M Bottacchi, G Morelli… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Childhood obesity is associated with poor psychological adjustment. Severely
impacts the psychological adjustment of young patients. To assess the psychological …

Assessing causal links between age at menarche and adolescent mental health: a Mendelian randomisation study

AD Askelund, RE Wootton, FA Torvik, RB Lawn, H Ask… - BMC medicine, 2024 - Springer
Background The timing of puberty may have an important impact on adolescent mental
health. In particular, earlier age at menarche has been associated with elevated rates of …

Earlier pubertal timing, not tempo, links time-limited early adversity with psychopathology

MA Howland, BM Reid, B Donzella… - Neurotoxicology and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Evolutionary-developmental theories propose that early adverse experiences adaptively
shift the timing (ie, onset) and tempo (ie, rate) of pubertal maturation. Empirical evidence of …

Concurrent and long-term effects of early pubertal timing on alcohol, cigarette, and cannabis use from adolescence to adulthood.

M Goering, K McMahan, S Mrug - Psychology of Addictive …, 2024 - psycnet.apa.org
Objective: Early pubertal timing is a risk factor for substance use during adolescence. Fewer
studies investigated whether early pubertal timing continues to predict substance use in late …

The Heritability of Psychopathology Symptoms in Early Adolescence: Moderation by Family Cultural Values in the ABCD Study

G Rea-Sandin, J Del Toro, S Wilson - Behavior genetics, 2024 - Springer
Family cultural values that emphasize support, loyalty, and obligation to the family are
associated with lower psychopathology in Hispanic/Latino/a youth, but there is a need to …

[PDF][PDF] A Turning Point for the Life History Approach to Individual Differences

M Del Giudice - 2024 - marcodg.net
The life history approach to individual differences has become a major influence in
evolutionary psychology, not least thanks to the contributions made by Jay Belsky and his …

Genome-wide association studies of binge-eating behaviour and anorexia nervosa yield insights into the unique and shared biology of eating disorder phenotypes

JD Termorshuizen, HL Davies, SH Lee, LM Huckins… - medRxiv, 2025 - medrxiv.org
Eating disorders (EDs)-including anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating
disorder-are clinically distinct, but exhibit high symptom overlap and comorbidity. Genomic …

Parent-Child Relational Aspects and Biological Markers of Pubertal Development

חנית אוחנה - 2024‎ - search.proquest.com
Accumulating evidence shows that early pubertal development heightens the risk for
multiple psychosocial (eg, Graber et al., 1997; Mendle et al., 2007; Rapee et al., 2019) and …