ABSTRACT

Pubertal timing carries social as well as psychological implications. It is observed that adolescents rely upon their families, friends and other social circles for learning important skills that help them to cope with the pressures they face during the pubertal transition towards adulthood successfully. Since behavioural response to puberty also depends on the different social context in which it occurs, an effort is made to understand role of parent–adolescent attachment in comprehending pubertal timing effects on problem behaviours of adolescents under the premise of contextual amplification model. For this purpose, cross-sectional data consisting of 772 adolescents (age 11–15 years) were taken. Each participant completed the Pubertal Developmental Scale, Youth Self Report and Inventory of Parent and Peer Attachment. Results highlight early maturing adolescents with insecure perceived parental attachments to have higher scores on externalizing problems in comparison to their on-time and late maturing peers. On the basis of these results, it can be concluded that stressful biological and social changes inherent in pubertal development elicits certain behavioural responses in adolescents that become more pronounced in those who lack supportive parental structures that help them to negotiate the demands of their new status with better adjustment.

摘要

青春期时机对社会和心理都有影响。据观察，青少年依靠家庭，朋友和其他社交圈学习重要技能，可帮助他们成功应对青春期向成年期过渡期间面临的压力。由于对青春期的行为反应还取决于其发生的不同社会情境，因此在情境放大模型的前提下，努力理解父母-青少年依恋在理解青春期时机对青少年问题行为的影响中的作用。为此，采用了772名青少年（11至15岁）组成的横断面数据。每个参与者都完成了青春期发育量表，青少年自我报告以及父母和同伴依恋的清单。结果显示，与父母准时和晚熟的同龄人相比，对父母依恋缺乏安全感的早熟青少年在外在问题上得分更高。根据这些结果，可以得出结论，青春期发育中固有的压力性生物学和社会变化会引起青少年某些行为反应，而在缺乏支持性父母结构的人中，这种行为反应更加明显，这些结构有助于他们与父母协商新的身分要求。更好的调整。