Effects of pubertal timing on deviant behaviors in Taiwan: A longitudinal analysis of 7th- to 12th-grade adolescents

We investigated the relationship between pubertal timing and deviant behaviors in Taiwan using Taiwan Youth Project (TYP) data. The TYP used multistage-stratified and class-clustered methods in 40 randomly selected schools. We analyzed 1541 adolescents (770 boys; 50.0%) who self-reported their devia...

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Published in:Journal of adolescence (London, England.) England.), 2015-07, Vol.42, p.87-97
Main Authors: Tsai, Meng-Che, Strong, Carol, Lin, Chung-Ying
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent boys
Adolescents
Age differences
Age Factors
Antisocial Personality Disorder - diagnosis
Antisocial Personality Disorder - epidemiology
Antisocial Personality Disorder - psychology
Behavior
Boys
Correlation analysis
Cross-Sectional Studies
Delinquency
Deviance
Educational activities
Female
Girls
Grade 7
Grade 8
Human growth
Humans
Juvenile Delinquency - psychology
Juvenile Delinquency - statistics & numerical data
Longitudinal
Longitudinal Studies
Male
Pediatrics
Pubertal development
Puberty
Puberty - psychology
Secondary education
Statistical Analysis
Statistics as Topic
Student behavior
Student participation
Substance-Related Disorders - diagnosis
Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology
Substance-Related Disorders - psychology
Taiwan
Teenagers
Variance analysis
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