MATURATIONAL CORRELATES OF EARLY ADOLESCENT MALE PSYCHOLOGY.
Description:... This study attempted to correlate pubertal stage and frontal lobe maturation to four personality dimensions of psychoanalytic interest: Anxiety, Self Concept, Object Representations and Psychosexual stage status. 104 6th to 10th grade boys from schools with minimal social pathology were stratified via Tanner scales and the Booklet Categories test and then assigned to one of four groups: Immature, only Pubertally Mature, only Neuropsychologically Mature, or Mature. They were then administered:
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