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Quality of early family relationships and individual differences in the timing of pubertal maturation in girls: a longitudinal test of an evolutionary model

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Ellis, Bruce J., McFadyen-Ketchum, Steven, Dodge, Kenneth A., Pettit, Gregory S., Bates, John E.·1999·Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
DOI 10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.387PMC PMC2791962
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In an 8-year prospective study of 173 girls and their families, the authors tested predictions from J. Belsky, L. Steinberg, and P. Draper's (1991) evolutionary model of individual differences in pubertal timing. This model suggests that more negative-coercive (or less positive-harmonious) family relationships in early childhood provoke earlier reproductive development in adolescence. Consistent with the model, fathers' presence in the home, more time spent by fathers in child care, greater supportiveness in the parental dyad, more father-daughter affection, and more mother-daughter affection, as assessed prior to kindergarten, each predicted later pubertal timing by daughters in 7th grade. The positive dimension of family relationships, rather than the negative dimension, accounted for these relations. In total, the quality of fathers' investment in the family emerged as the most important feature of the proximal family environment relative to daughters' pubertal timing.

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Authors
Ellis, B. J., McFadyen-Ketchum, S., Dodge, K. A., Pettit, G. S., & Bates, J. E.
Affiliations
University of Canterbury (NZ)
ORCID
Venue
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
Publisher
American Psychological Association (APA)
Published
1999
Volume
77
Issue
2
Pages
387-401
ISSN
  • 0022-3514 (ISSN-L)
  • 1939-1315
DOI
10.1037/0022-3514.77.2.387
PMC
PMC2791962
OpenAlex
W1967332265
Cited by
347
References
72
Citations by year
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FWCI
15.42
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH 42498, T32MH018921, R01MH056961, T32-MH18921-08, R01MH042498)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD 30572, R01HD030572)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Reproductive Medicine › Hypothalamic control of reproductive hormones
  • Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
Keywords
pubertal timing, individual differences, evolutionary models, family relationships, father involvement, father-child time, early childhood, girls, reproductive development, family environment
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Age Factors, Child, Family, Family Relations, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Parent-Child Relations, Prospective Studies, Puberty, Time Factors

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