Precocious puberty in adolescent girls: A biomarker of later psychosocial adjustment problems

Child Psychiatry and Human Development

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-94

  Tremblay, Line ^a   Frigon, Jean Yves ^b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Development; Psychosocial adjustment; Puberty; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADJUSTMENT DISORDER; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CANADA; CONFLICT; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MATURATION; MENSTRUATION; PARENT; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PUBERTY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP DISORDER; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STRESS;

ADJUSTMENT DISORDERS; ADOLESCENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBERTY, PRECOCIOUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 23444444526     PISSN: 0009398X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10578-004-3489-2     Document Type: Article

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