Puberty

Puberty - pyooˈbərtē, period during which the onset of sexual maturity occurs. It usually takes place between the ages of 10 and 15 in both sexes but sometimes occurs as early as 7 or 8 years of age in females. The pituitary gland secretes hormones that stimulate enlargement and development of the sex organs, which thus become capable of reproduction. The appearance of Read More...

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Gender Differences at Puberty
by Chris Hayward. 337 pgs.

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Focusing on the emergence of gender difference as a major life transition, this study provides a summary of interdisciplinary research that includes contributions from an international team of leading experts. Puberty is one of the most important life transitions. At no other time are there such significant and rapid transformations in biology and social and psychological development. Topics covered in this volume include biological aspects of puberty, body image, aggression, sexual abuse, opposite-sex relationships and the psychopathology of puberty.

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Cambridge Studies on Child and Adolescent Health

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Figures

Tables

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

1: Methodological Concerns in Puberty-Related Research

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Part 1: Sex Differences in Hormones and Their Effect at Puberty

2: Sex Differences in Hormones and Their Effect at Puberty

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3: Hormonal Changes at Puberty and the Emergence of Gender Differences in Internalizing Disorders

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Part 2: Girls at Puberty

4: Puberty and Body Image

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5: Gender Differences in Opposite Sex Relationships: Interactions with Puberty

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6: Aggression, Psychopathology, and Delinquency: Influences of Gender and Maturation – Where Did All the Good Girls Go?

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Part 3: Boys at Puberty

7: Boys at Puberty: Psychosocial Implications

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Part 4: Puberty and Psychopathology

8: Puberty and Body Image

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9: Puberty and Schizophrenia

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Part 5: Pubertal Timing: Antecedents

10: Childhood Sexual Abuse and Pubertal Timing:Implications Forlong-Term Psychosocial Adjustment

Notes

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11: Psychosocial Factors Predicting Pubertal Onset

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Part 6: Pubertal Timing: Consequences

12: Short-Term and Long-Term Consequences of Early Versus Late Physical Maturation in Adolescents

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13: When Coming of Age Means Coming Undone: Links Between Puberty and Psychosocial Adjustment Among European American and African American Girls

Appendix

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Part 7: Puberty and Context

14: Puberty in Context

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Index
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Development during the Transition to Adolescence (Chap. 2 "Hormones and Behavior at Puberty: Activation or Concatenation" and Chap. 3 "Adapting to Menarche: Familiar Control and Conflict")
by Megan R. Gunnar, W. Andrew Collins. 224 pgs.

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Preface

1: Research on the Transition to Adolescence: Continuity in the Study of Developmental Processes

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2: Hormones and Behavior at Puberty:: Activation or Concatenation

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

3: Adapting to Menarche: Familial Control and Conflict

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4: Concepts of Self and Social Convention: Adolescents' and Parents' Reasoning about Hypothetical and Actual Family Conflicts

Introduction

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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5: Cumulative Change at Entry to Adolescence

Summary and Conclusion

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6: Adolescent Transitions in Developmental Perspective: Sociological and Historical Insights

Conclusion

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7: Commentary: The Role of Conflict in Adolescent-Parent Relationships

Conclusions

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8: Commentary: Developmental Issues in the Transition to Early Adolescence

Conclusion

Index

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Biological-Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence (Chap. 6 "Pubertal Processes and Girls' Psychological Adaptation" and Chap. 8 "Pubertal Status and Psychosocial Development: Findings from the Early Adolescence Study")
by Richard M. Lerner, Terryl T. Foch. 394 pgs.

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Preface

1: Biological -- Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence: an Overview of the Issues

Acknowledgment

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I: Conceptual and Methodological Issues

2: Life-Span Perspective for Early Adolescence

Acknowledgments

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3: The Nature of Biological Psychosocial Interactions: the Sample Case of Early Adolescence

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4: Behavioral Genetics and Development in Early Adolescence

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5: Biological and Psychosocial Interactions in Early Adolescence: A Sociobiological Perspective

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II: Reports from the Major Laboratories

6: Pubertal Processes and Girls' Psychological Adaptation

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7: Premature Adolescence: Neuroendocrine and Psychosocial Studies

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8: Pubertal Status and Psychosocial Development: Findings from the Early Adolescence Study

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9: Stanford Studies of Adolescence Using the National Health Examination Survey

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10: Familial Adaptation to Biological Change During Adolescence

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11: Early Adolescents' Physical Organismic Characteristics and Psychosocial Functioning: Findings from the Pennsylvania Early Adolescent Transitions Study (peats)

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12: Individual Differences in Cognitive Ability: Are They Related to Timing of Puberty?

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Appendix A. Meta-Analysis

13: Gonadal and Adrenal Hormone Correlates of Adjustment in Early Adolescence

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14: Predicting How A Child Will Cope with the Transition to Junior High School

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Appendix II

Author Index

Subject Index
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Evolutionary Principles of Human Adolescence (Chap. 7 "Puberty Rites," Chap. 9 "Pubertal Changes in Boys," and Chap. 10 "Pubertal Changes in Girls")
by Glenn E. Weisfeld. 401 pgs.

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Presenting a research-based treatment of adolescent development from a functional, evolutionary point of view, this work also offers a comparative perspective, describing adolescence in other species, human cultures and historical periods.

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Evolutionary Principles of Human Adolescence

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Tables and Illustrations

Acknowledgments

1: The Biological Approach

2: Motives

3: Social Motivation

4: Pride and Shame

5: Sex Differences in Reproductive Behavior

6: The Social Context of Human Adolescence

Acknowledgments

7: Puberty Rites

8: Pubertal Changes in Primates

9: Pubertal Changes in Boys

10: Pubertal Changes in Girls

11: Boys' Peer Relations

12: Girls' Peer Relations

13: Sexual Relations

14: Parent-Adolescent Relations

15: A Model of Human Adolescence

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Author Index

Subject Index
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Adolescent Development, in Annual Review of Psychology
by Laurence Steinberg, Amanda Sheffield Morris. 29 pgs.

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Measuring Puberty and Understanding Its Impact: A Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Twins, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
by Danielle M. Dick, Richard J. Rose, Lea Pulkkinen, Jaakko Kaprio. 15 pgs.

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Pubertal Timing and Adolescent Adjustment and Behavior: Conclusions Vary by Rater, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
by Lorah D. Dorn, Elizabeth J. Susman, Angelo Ponirakis. 11 pgs.

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Developmental Markers in Adolescence: Implications for Studies of Pubertal Processes, in Journal of Youth and Adolescence
by Lorah D. Dorn, Ronald E. Dahl, Douglas E. Williamson, Boris Birmaher, David Axelson, James Perel, Stacy D. Stull, Neal D. Ryan. 10 pgs.

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Girls: Feminine Adolescence in Popular Culture and Cultural Theory (Chap. Three "Puberty")
by Catherine Driscoll. 377 pgs.

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The Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things really constitute a unique "girl culture?" Catherine Driscoll begins by identifying a genealogy of "girlhood" or "feminine adolescence," and then argues that both "girls" and "culture" as ideas are too problematic to fulfill any useful role in theorizing about the emergence of feminine adolescence in popular culture. She relates the increasing public visibility of girls in western and westernized cultures to the evolution and expansion of theories about feminine adolescence in fields such as psychoanalysis, sociology, anthropology, history, and politics. Presenting her argument as a Foucauldian genealogy, Driscoll discusses the ways in which young women have been involved in the production and consumption of theories and representations of girls, feminine adolescence, and the "girl market."

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Girls

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Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Girls

Introduction: Toward a Genealogy of Girlhood

Part 1: Becoming a Girl

One: The Girl of the Period

Two: Feminie Adolescence

Three: Puberty

Part 2: Becoming a Woman

Four: Daughters: Theories of Girlhood

Five: Sex and the Single Girl: Studies in Girlhood

Six: Becoming Bride: Girls and Cultural Studies

Part 3: Girls and Cultural Production

Seven: Distraction: Girls and Mass Culture

Eight: In Visible Bodies

Nine: The Girl Market and Girl Culture

Conclusion: The Girl of the Century

Notes

Biblography

Index
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The Disease of Virgins: Green Sickness, Chlorosis, and the Problems of Puberty
by Helen King. 196 pgs.

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From an acclaimed author in the field, this is a compelling study of the origins and history of the disease commonly seen as afflicting young unmarried girls.Understanding of the condition turned puberty and virginity into medical conditions, and Helen King stresses the continuity of this disease through history,depsite enormous shifts in medical understanding and technonologies, and drawing parallels with the modern illness of anorexia.Examining its roots in the classical tradition all the way through to its extraordinary survival into the 1920s, this study asks a number of questions about the nature of the disease itself and the relationship between illness, body images and what we should callâ¬~normalâ¬" behaviour.This is a fascinating and clear account which will prove invaluable not just to students of classical studies, but will be of interest to medical professionals also.

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Preface

Abbreviations

Introduction

1: The Nature of Green Sickness

2: A New Disease?

3: The Menstruating Virgin

4: Dietary Factors

5: ‘The Laboratory Came to the Rescue’

Conclusion

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Timing of Puberty and Sexuality in Men and Women, in Archives of Sexual Behavior
by Jennifer M. Ostovich, John Sabini. 10 pgs.

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Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Biological, Social, and Psychological Influences (Chap. 3 "Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence")
by Mary A. Carskadon. 297 pgs.

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Adolescents are among the most sleep deprived populations in our society. This book explores the genesis and development of sleep patterns at this phase of the life span. It examines biological and cultural factors that influence sleep patterns, presents risks associated with lack of sleep, and reveals the effects of environmental factors such as work and school schedules on sleep. This study will appeal to psychologists and sociologists of adolescence who have not yet considered the important role of sleep in the lives of our youth.

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Contributors

Foreword

Preface

Adolescent Sleep Patterns

1: Sleep and Adolescence: a Social Psychologist's Perspective

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2: Factors Influencing Sleep Patterns of Adolescents

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3: Endocrine Changes Associated with Puberty and Adolescence

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4: Maturational Changes in Sleep-Wake Timing: Longitudinal Studies of the Circadian Activity Rhythm of a Diurnal Rodent

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5: Nutrition and Circadian Activity Offset in Adolescent Rhesus Monkeys

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6: Toward a Comparative Developmental Ecology of Human Sleep

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7: Sleep Patterns of High School Students Living in São Paulo, Brazil

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8: Sleep Patterns and Daytime Function in Adolescence: an Epidemiological Survey of an Italian High School Student Sample

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9: Risks of Driving While Sleepy in Adolescents and Young Adults

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10: What Can the Study of Work Scheduling Tell Us About Adolescent Sleep?

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11: Accommodating the Sleep Patterns of Adolescents Within Current Educational Structures: an Uncharted Path

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12: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: What Will Adolescents' Sleep-Wake Patterns Look like in the 21st Century?

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13: Influence of Irregular Sleep Patterns on Waking Behavior

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14: Stress and Sleep in Adolescence: a Clinical-Developmental Perspective

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15: The Search for Vulnerability Signatures for Depression in High-Risk Adolescents: Mechanisms and Significance

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16: The Regulation of Sleep-Arousal, Affect, and Attention in Adolescence: Some Questions and Speculations

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