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Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2015, 5(12), 779-787 Published Online December 2015 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2015.512101 The Influence of Pubertal Timing on Boys’ and Girls’ Depression and Peer Relationships Yaping Ou School of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan Shandong th st th Received: Dec. 8 , 2015; accepted: Dec. 21 , 2015; published: Dec. 28 , 2015 Copyright © 2015 by author and Hans Publishers Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). /licenses/by/4.0/ Abstract Adolescence is a period which is accompanied of physiological maturation including the change of hormonal level and the growth of physical. Pubertal timing has a critical effect on adolescent psy- chology. This research is aimed to explore the influence of pubertal timing on boys’ and girls’ de- pression and peer relationships respectively. According to cluster sampling principle, 483 (grade six and seven, 53.3% boys) participants were selected from the Zhaoyuan and Liaocheng of Shan- dong province. Pubertal Development Scale (PDS), Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) and peer relationship were used to measure the related variables. Using descriptive statistics, correlation analysis and regression analysis, this research concludes the following results: 1) For girls, pu- bertal timing significantly predicts depressive symptoms positively, which means that the girls who are early timing are more likely to have higher level of depression; for boys, however, puber- tal timing can not predict depression. 2) Both girls’ and boys’ peer relationships can not be pre- dicted by pubertal timing. Keywords Pubertal Timing, Depression,