title: Pubertal development, personality, and substance use: a 10-year longitudinal study from childhood to adolescence.
abstract: Most research linking early pubertal development to substance use has focused on the effects of pubertal timing (age at which a certain stage of pubertal development is reached or pubertal status at a particular age--related to the maturation disparity hypothesis), but little research has focused on pubertal tempo (rate of growth through pubertal stages--related to the maturation compression hypothesis). However, both timing and tempo have not only been identified as important components of pubertal development, with different predictors, but have also been shown to be independently associated with other adolescent psychopathologies. Using latent growth-curve modeling, this study examined how pubertal status at age 12 and pubertal tempo (between 11 and 13 years) related to substance use from 15 to 16 years in boys from low socioeconomic backgrounds (N = 871). Results showed that both pubertal status at age 12 and tempo were significant predictors of increased levels of substance use and problems in mid to late adolescence. In an attempt to identify mechanisms that may explain the association between pubertal development and substance use it was found that sensation seeking partially mediated the association between pubertal status at age 12 and substance use behaviors. Impulse control was found to moderate the association sensation seeking had with marijuana use frequency, with high sensation-seeking scores predicting higher marijuana use frequency only at low levels of impulse control. These findings highlight the importance of considering multiple sources of individual variability in the pubertal development of boys and provide support for both the maturational disparity and compression hypotheses.
authors.affiliation: of Psychiatry, Universite de Montreal.
authors.forename: Natalie
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Castellanos-Ryan
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Parent
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vitaro
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.forename: Jean R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Séguin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D000367:Age Factors; D002170:Canada; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D007175:Impulsive Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011203:Poverty; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000523:psychology*
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