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.

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心理健康的青春期和转诊风险。

女孩的青春期代表着不同心理障碍的显着脆弱时期。研究文献主要考虑了可能解释症状上升的外部因素和背景因素。在本研究中，我们在N  = 228个女孩（M_年龄 = _年龄）的样本中调查了青春期状态和时机与个体认知，情感和行为倾向的关系，这些倾向通常被确定为转诊过程。11.75年）。我们还测试了这些转诊过程是否介导了青春期状态和青春期时机与抑郁症状的关联。结果支持青春期状态较高的女孩以及青春期早期的女孩对沉思，共沉思，消极紧迫感以及焦虑和愤怒排斥敏感性的更大认可。更高水平的经诊断过程完全介导了青春期状态和时机分别与显着水平和边际显着水平的抑郁症状相关。尽管数据是横断面的，但这些发现提供了有希望的初步证据，表明经诊断的过程代表了青春期早期女孩的重要心理健康风险。