CAS PS 241 Study Guide - Final Guide: Personal Fable, Inductive Reasoning, Ethnic Group
18 Jan 2014
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Le puberty for women: body image conception and attitude toward physical appearance, affects self-esteem, compared to hispanic girls, caucasian girls are more likely to internalize the cultural idea of female attractiveness. Individual differences in timing of puberty: heredity, nutrition, exercise. You need a certain amount of fat to get puberty, so athletes and dancers tend to get puberty later: geographical location. If you grow up in more poverty stricken areas it is more likely to be delayed: ses. African american girls start earlier: early family experiences, secular trends. The onset is getting earlier and earlier: social factors affecting the timing of puberty, small as compared to genetics, nutrition and health, early menarche. Mother absence does not see not have an accelerating effect on girls" pubertal maturation. Biological father absence/step father presence: exposure to unrelated male has a stronger correlation to timing of pubertal maturation, step father with high dyadic stress, onset of puberty is much earlier than most.
