Biopsychological and Cognitive Differences in Children With Premature vs On-Time Adrenarche

Dorn, Lorah D.; Rotenstein, Deborah; Maloney, Michael J.

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“…The social function of the juvenile, as he or she gains new assignments, requires the androgenic effect of DHEA. In fact, DHEAS levels positively correlate with ratings of aggression and delinquency among juvenile boys,52 and girls with premature adrenarche show higher levels of anxiety associated with increased DHEAS levels 53. Among women with adrenal insufficiency, DHEA supplementation improved self-esteem, sexuality and overall well-being, and decreased depression and anxiety,26 54 traits that are consistent with the newly assigned social role of the juvenile.…”

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Juvenility in the context of life history theory

Hochberg

2008

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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Homo sapiens is unique in having four prolonged and pronounced postnatal pre-adult life history stages: infancy, which lasts for 30-36 months and ends with weaning from breast feeding in traditional societies; childhood, which lasts for an additional 2-4 years and concludes in a degree of independence as regards protection and food provision; a juvenile stage of 3-4 years that terminates with readiness for sexual maturation; and adolescence, which lasts for 3-5 years and culminates in fertility. Juvenility implies two transitional periods which are only experienced by humans: a transition from childhood to juvenility and from juvenility to adolescence. Juvenility, "the age of reason and responsibility" and concrete operation, coincides with elementary school age and offers opportunities to prepare for the social complexity of adolescence. Here I define the transition to juvenility by three variables: adrenarche (the onset of adrenal androgen generation), growth pattern (decelerating from a linear childhood growth velocity) and adiposity rebound acceleration of body mass index. The data presented suggest that this period is endowed with programming/predictive adaptive responses of body composition to the environment.

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Section: Transition From Childhood To Juvenilitymentioning

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Juvenility in the context of life history theory

Hochberg

2008

Archives of Disease in Childhood

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“…There are a number of methods for assessing pubertal timing, including 1) comparing participants’ status on a conceptually-relevant indicator (e.g., menarche; spermarche) with sample- or epidemiologically-defined norms (Dubas et al, 1991), 2) classifying participants on the basis of established standards of physical development (e.g., Todd standards of skeletal maturity), 3) using self-reported Tanner stage across multiple assessments to calculate pubertal timing within a given sample (Wilson et al, 1994), 4) studying youth who experience precocious puberty (e.g., Sonis et al, 1985), a relatively rare condition where signs of puberty are observable abnormally early (i.e. prior to age 10 years in boys and 9 years in girls; Rosenfield, 1982) as well as the more acute condition of premature adrenarche (i.e., girls with evidence of pubic hair before age 8 years [9.5 years in boys]; Dorn, Hitt, & Rotenstein, 1999) or 5) examining self-reported perceptions of pubertal timing relative to peers (Dubas et al, 1991). …”

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“…Finally, Dorn and colleagues (1999) studied a small sample of children experiencing either on-time or premature adrenarche. Children and parents reported anxiety and depressive symptoms and a number of hormonal indices were collected.…”

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A critical review of the empirical literature on the relation between anxiety and puberty

Reardon

Leen‐Feldner

Hayward

2009

Clinical Psychology Review

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The current paper critically reviews the empirical literature focused on the association between puberty and anxiety. A detailed review of more than 45 empirical articles is provided. There is some evidence that among girls, but not boys, a more advanced pubertal status (controlling for age) is associated with higher reported anxiety symptoms. Also among girls, earlier pubertal timing is linked to higher anxiety scores. It is unclear whether early puberty may lead to increased anxiety or if high anxiety influences pubertal timing. With respect to hormones, there were relatively few significant associations for girls, although this literature is very small. Among boys, several studies reported positive associations between both gonadal and adrenal hormones and anxiety. The direction of effect for these finding is also unstudied. The primary limitation of the hormone-anxiety literature pertains to the absence of pubertal measures in samples of youth in which hormones are measured. The paper concludes with a comprehensive examination of the methodological strengths and weaknesses of the literature and recommendations for future work.Keywords pubertal status; timing; hormones; anxiety; psychopathology; adolescence Anxiety disorders are among the most common forms of psychopathology in adolescence (Costello, Mustillo, Erkanli, Keeler, & Angold, 2003) and across the lifespan, with lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders estimated to be 29% (Kessler, Berglund, Demler, Jin, & Walters, 2005). These rates are alarming, in light of the fact that anxiety psychopathology negatively impacts functioning across multiple domains (e.g., McGee & Stanton, 1990), maintains a chronic course for a significant proportion of youth affected (Orvaschel, Lewinsohn, & Seeley, 1995), and increases the risk for other types of disorders (Cole, Peeke, Martin, Truglio, & Serocynski, 1998).The period of adolescence appears to be a particularly high-risk phase in terms of the onset and intensification of anxiety problems; for instance, panic attacks (Macaulay & Kleinknecht, 1989;Warren & Zgourides, 1988), social phobia (Inderbitzen & Hope, 1995), and obsessivecompulsive disorder (Rasmussen & Eisen, 1990) commonly emerge during this stage. Accordingly, researchers have called for developmentally sensitive etiologic models of anxiety *Corresponding author University of Arkansas, Department of Psychology, 216 Memorial Hall, Fayetteville, AR 72701, Phone: 479-575-5329, Fax: 479-575-3219, E-mail: eleenfe@uark.edu. Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. NIH Public Access Author ManuscriptClin...

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“…Further, there is compelling evidence that the timing of development (i.e., an adolescent’s pubertal status relative to that of same-age peers), and early maturation specifically, is associated with enhanced vulnerability for psychological problems, particularly among girls (Reardon, Leen-Feldner, & Hayward, 2009). For example, early-maturing girls report elevations in anxious symptoms (Dorn, Hitt, & Rotenstein, 1999), panic attacks (Hayward et al, 1997), and, when prospectively assessed across a 10-year interval, eating, depressive, and anxiety disorders (Graber, Seeley, Brooks-Gunn, & Lewinsohn, 2004). Among males, the pattern is somewhat less consistent, although some studies have found early maturation is associated with increased “internalized distress” (e.g., anxiety, poor appetite; Ge, Conger, & Elder, 2001).…”

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Elevated social anxiety among early maturing girls.

Blumenthal

Leen‐Feldner

Babson

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Developmental Psychology

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Adolescence is a key period in terms of the development of anxiety psychopathology. An emerging literature suggests that early pubertal maturation is associated with enhanced vulnerability for anxiety symptomatology, although few studies have examined this association with regard to social anxiety. Accordingly, the current study was designed to further elucidate the relation between pubertal timing and social anxiety, with a focus on clarifying the role of gender. Participants were 138 adolescents (ages 12-17 years) recruited from the general community. Level of social anxiety was examined as a function of gender and within-sample pubertal timing. As expected, early-maturing girls evidenced significantly higher social anxiety as compared to on-time girls and early-maturing boys, and no other differences were found as a function of gender or developmental timing. Findings and future directions are discussed in terms of forwarding developmentally-sensitive models of social anxiety etiology and prevention.

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Biopsychological and Cognitive Differences in Children With Premature vs On-Time Adrenarche

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Juvenility in the context of life history theory

Juvenility in the context of life history theory

A critical review of the empirical literature on the relation between anxiety and puberty

Elevated social anxiety among early maturing girls.

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