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Biological maturation as a confounding factor in the relation between chronological age and health-related quality of life in adolescent females

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posted on 2016-09-26, 09:03 authored by Sean P. Cumming, Fiona B. Gillison, Lauren SherarLauren Sherar
PURPOSE. To examine the potential confounding effect of biological maturation on the relations between chronological age and health-related quality of life in adolescent British females. METHODS. Biological maturation, chronological age, and health-related quality of life were assessed in 366 British female students in years 7-10 (M = 13.0 years, SD = 0.8). The Kid-Screen 10 was used to assess health-related quality of life. Percentage of predicted adult height attained at measurement was used as an estimate of biological maturation. RESULTS. Pearson product moment correlation demonstrated a statistically significant inverse relation between chronological age and health-related quality of life. This relation was, however, attenuated and non-significant once biological maturation was controlled for. CONCLUSIONS. Researchers studying health-related quality of life in youth should consider and/or control for the potential confounding effect of biological maturation.

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This research was supported by Grant #SG- 46063 from The British Academy, entitled ‘Relations Between Biological Maturation, Exercise Behavior, and Psychological Health in British Adolescents’.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

Published in

Quality of Life Research

Volume

20

Issue

2

Pages

237 - 242

Citation

CUMMING, S., GILLISON, F. and SHERAR, L., 2011. Biological maturation as a confounding factor in the relation between chronological age and health-related quality of life in adolescent females. Quality of Life Research, 20 (2), pp.237-242.

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© Springer

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2011

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The final publication is available at Springer via: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9743-0.

ISSN

0962-9343

eISSN

1573-2649

Language

  • en

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