Early Childhood Maltreatment and Pubertal Development: Replication in a Population‐Based Sample

Mendle, Jane; Ryan, Rebecca M.; McKone, Kirsten M. P.

doi:10.1111/jora.12201

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“…This signal, in turn, elicits a biological response in the form of increased allocation of current resources toward achieving reproductive maturity as soon as possible (Belsky et al 1991; Chisholm et al 1993; Ellis 2004). Consistent with this hypothesis, father absence and other measures of early adversity are associated with accelerated pubertal development (Foster et al 2008; Mendle et al 2009, 2015). We focus here on father absence because it is central to hypotheses of environmental causation and because it is among the best-replicated environmental correlates of accelerated pubertal development in nongenetically sensitive [AU: Addressing your query here….No hyphen is needed for compounds involving an “-ly” adverb.]…”

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Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States

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Girls who experience father absence in childhood also experience accelerated reproductive development in comparison with peers with present fathers. One hypothesis advanced to explain this empirical pattern is genetic confounding, wherein gene-environment correlation (rGE) causes a spurious relationship between father absence and reproductive timing. We test this hypothesis by constructing polygenic scores for age at menarche and first birth using recently available genome-wide association study results and molecular genetic data on a sample of non-Hispanic white females from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. We find that young women's accelerated menarche polygenic scores are unrelated to their exposure to father absence. In contrast, polygenic scores for earlier age at first birth tend to be higher in young women raised in homes with absent fathers. Nevertheless, father absence and the polygenic scores independently and additively predict reproductive timing. We find no evidence in support of the rGE hypothesis for accelerated menarche and only limited evidence in support of the rGE hypothesis for earlier age at first birth.

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Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States

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“…Early adversity. Nine items reflecting early adversity were drawn from Waves 3 and 4, as in previous research using Add Health Data (e.g., Mendle, Ryan, & McKone, 2015;Ryan, Mendle, & Markowitz, 2015). Participants were asked to recall specific parenting and family stressors and report the ages at which these stressors occurred.…”

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Associations Between School Connection and Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence Through Early Adulthood: Moderation by Early Adversity

Markowitz

2016

J of Research on Adolesc

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Depressive symptomatology is one of the most common and costly threats to American mental health, making the elucidation of environmental influences on depressive symptoms particularly important. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study explores the interaction between environmental risk and protective factors in the etiology of depressive symptoms by asking whether school connection is associated with lower levels of depressive symptoms through early adulthood, and whether connection serves as a protective or promotive factor for youth who experienced early adversity. Findings highlight the importance of school connection in promoting long-term mental health for all youth and suggest that policies and practice supporting school connection may be effective intervention strategies for youth at risk for depressive symptomatology.

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“…Vigil, Geary, and Byrd-Craven (2005) have argued that sexual abuse in childhood may provide victims of abuse with cues that they are living in an environment where “reduced parental or kinship investment” resulted in “failure to protect the girl from sexual exploitation” (p. 554). They found that adverse experiences of childhood sexual abuse were associated with an accelerated reproductive strategy in women (earlier age of menarche, sexual debut, first birth, and earlier desire and readiness for children; see also Mendle, Ryan, & McKone, 2015). …”

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Adversity, Adaptive Calibration, and Health: The Case of Disadvantaged Families

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Adaptive Human Behavior and Physiology

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Epidemiologists and medical researchers often employ an allostatic load model that focuses on environmental and lifestyle factors, together with biological vulnerabilities, to explain the deterioration of human physiological systems and chronic degenerative disease. Although this perspective has informed medicine and public health, it is agnostic toward the functional significance of pathophysiology and health deterioration. Drawing on Life History (LH) theory, the current paper reviews the literature on disadvantaged families to serve as a conceptual model of stress-health relationships in which the allocation of reproductive effort is instantiated in the LH strategies of individuals and reflects the bioenergetic and material resource tradeoffs. We propose that researchers interested in health disparities reframe chronic degenerative diseases as outcomes resulting from strategic calibration of physiological systems to best adapt, survive, and reproduce in response to demands of specific developmental contexts. These effects of adversity on later-age degenerative disease are mediated, in part, by socioemotional and cognitive mechanisms expressed in different life history strategies.

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Early Childhood Maltreatment and Pubertal Development: Replication in a Population‐Based Sample

Cited by 47 publications

References 46 publications

Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States

Father Absence and Accelerated Reproductive Development in Non-Hispanic White Women in the United States

Associations Between School Connection and Depressive Symptoms From Adolescence Through Early Adulthood: Moderation by Early Adversity

Adversity, Adaptive Calibration, and Health: The Case of Disadvantaged Families

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