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Puberty and Transdiagnostic Risks for Mental Health

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ID12388917
AuthorsJane Mendle (0000-0002-0038-2593, Cornell University, corresponding author), Christopher R Beam (0000-0001-6827-409X, University of Southern California), Kirsten M P McKone (0000-0002-3767-4821, University of Pittsburgh), Mary Kate Koch (0000-0003-3003-8715, Cornell University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume30
Issue3
Pages687-705
Publication date2020-02-28
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Research on Adolescence (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1050-8392 • E-ISSN: 1532-7795
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/jora.12552
PMID32109337
OpenAlexW3007638918
LanguageEN
Citations received12
References cited81

Puberty in girls represents a notable period of vulnerability for different psychological disorders. The research literature has primarily considered external and contextual factors that might explain these rises in symptomatology. In the present study, we investigate relations of pubertal status and timing with individual cognitive, emotional, and behavioral tendencies, commonly identified as transdiagnostic processes, in a sample of N = 228 girls (M age = 11.75 years). We also test whether these transdiagnostic processes mediate associations of pubertal status and pubertal timing with depressive symptoms. Results support greater endorsement of rumination, co-rumination, negative urgency, and both anxious and angry rejection sensitivity in girls with more advanced pubertal status, as well as in girls with early pubertal timing. Higher levels of transdiagnostic processes fully mediated associations of pubertal status and timing with depressive symptoms at significant and marginally significant levels, respectively. Although the data are cross-sectional, these findings offer promising preliminary evidence that transdiagnostic processes represent an important mental health risk in early adolescent girls

Cognition · Cognitive vulnerability · Depressive symptoms · Developmental psychology · Mental health · Psychiatry · Rumination · Vulnerability (computing · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones · Psychology · Stress Responses and Cortisol

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