Associations Between Menarcheal Timing and Behavioral Developmental Trajectories for Girls from Age 6 to Age 15

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1329-1342

  DeRose, Laura M ^a   Shiyko, Mariya P ^b   Foster, Holly ^c   Brooks Gunn, Jeanne ^d  

^a ADELPHI UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Developmental trajectories; Early pubertal timing; Externalizing problems; Internalizing problems; Menarche; Social skills

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENARCHE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOPATHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MENARCHE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR DISORDERS;

EID: 80052528397     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-010-9625-3     Document Type: Article

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