Socioeconomic Status, Race, and Girls' Pubertal Maturation: Results From the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods

摘要: The goal of this study was to determine whether aspects pubertal maturation vary across race/ethnicity. To end, we investigated two components (i.e., onset menarche and perceptions timing) in a multiethnic, multisocioeconomic sample urban adolescent girls (N = 866). There were 314 African American, 404 Latina, 148 White adolescents low, middle, high socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds who completed self-report measures these indicators maturation. Adolescents' age at interview ranged from 8.1 16.44 years old (M 12.08, SD 2.38 old). Primary caregivers reported information about each family's factors (e.g., primary caretaker's educational attainment, annual household income, occupational prestige). At the time first assessment, 41% menarcheal. range ages for consistent racial/ethnic groups. Results indicated that Latina reached me...