level of adjustment in early puberty
Results. Both boys and girls who entered puberty early (i.e., by age 8â9 years) also experienced poorer psychosocial adjustment at this age. These psychosocial differences were already evident at ages 4â5 and 6â7 years, and persisted to at least age 10â11 years.owever, in girls for whom early onset puberty was evident, only differences in psychosocial adjustment, but not behavioral difficulties, were experienced over the period of early childhood to early adolescence.