Pubertal timing mediates the association between threat adversity and psychopathology.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Exposure to adversity in childhood is a risk factor for lifetime mental health problems. Altered pace of biological aging, as measured through pubertal timing, is one potential explanatory pathway for this risk. This study examined whether pubertal timing mediated the association between adversity (threat and deprivation) and adolescent mental health problems (internalizing and externalizing), and whether this was moderated by sex.

Methods

Aims were examined using the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development study, a large community sample from the United States. Data were used from three timepoints across the ages of 9-14 years. Latent scores from confirmatory factor analysis operationalized exposure to threat and deprivation. Bayesian mixed-effects regression

SUBMITTER: Shaul M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11496226 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature