EFFECT OF
DEVIANT
MATURING
Deviant Maturer
• -Is one whose sexual maturation deviates by a year or
more from the norm for the individual's sex group, at
the same time at which sexual maturation occurs, or
by a year or more from the norm for the individual's
sex group in the time needed to complete the
maturation Process.
• Are children who are most affected by the physical
changes that normally occur at puberty.
Early Maturer
• -Children who mature sexually easier than their sex group.
Late Maturer
• Children who mature sexually later than their sex group.
Rapid Maturer
• Children who requires less than normal time for their sex
group to complete their maturation process.
Slow Maturer
• Children who need more that the normal time to sexually
mature.
Early Vs. Late Maturer
Early Maturer (Boys)
• Early maturing is advantageous for boys
especially in the area of sports, from which they
desire much of their prestige and status in the
peer group.
• It is from rank of the early maturers that most of
the leaders in boys' groups come and this give
them added prestige in the eyes of girls also.
Late Maturer (Boys)
• Boys who are late maturer tend to be restless,
tense, rebellious and attention seeking.
• Because of this unsocial behavior pattern, they
are less popular with both peers and adults and
are far less often selected for leadership roles
by their peers than early maturers are.
Weatherley has pointed out;
• Later maturer must cope with developmental demands
of junior high and high school period with liability of
relatively small, immature appearing physical stature.
• His appearance is likely to call out in others at least
mild reactions of derogation and expectation that he is
capable of ineffectual, immature behavior.
• Such reactions constitute a kind of social environment
which is conductive to feeling of inadequacy,
insecurity and defensive "small-boy" behavior.
Early Maturer (Girls)
• Early maturing girls is less advantageous to
girls than it is to boys.
• Early maturing girls are more grown-up and
sophisticated in their behaviour, but their
appearance and action may lead to a reputation
of being "sexually promiscuous".
• Early maturing girls are more out of step with
their peers than early maturing boys, and this
adds to their social problems.
Jones and Mussen have pointed
out:
• The early maturing girl quite naturally has interest
in boys and in social usages and activities more
mature than those of her chronological age group.
• Males of her own age group are unreceptive, for
while she is physiologically a year or two out of
steps with the girls of her class, she is three or four
years out of step with the boys.
Late Maturer (Girls)
• Girls who are late maturer are less damaged
psychologically than late maturing boys
• They are less likely engaged in status-seeking
behavior than boys, though they are concerned about
their normalcy, which they reflect in shy, retiring,
diffident behavior which is considered sex appropriate
for girls, it is not as damaging to their reputation as
similar behavior in boys would be.
Common Concerns About
Normalcy During Puberty
Boy's Concern
• Nocturnal Emissions
• Secondary Sex Characteristics
• Lack of Interest in Girls
Girl's Concerns
• The Menarche
• Menstruation
• Secondary Sex characteristics
• Lack of Sex Appeal
Concerns of Boys and Girls
• Sex organs
• Body Disproportion
• Awkwardness
• Age of Maturing
• Masturbation
Rapid Vs. Slow maturer
• Rapid maturer face certain problem that slow
maturer are spared. All of the common effect
of puberty changes on attitudes and behavior
tends to be exaggerated in rapid behavior.
• Awkwardness and clumsiness are exaggerated
in rapid behavior.
• Rapid maturer change in body size
rapidly that they do not have time to
control it. By contrast change in body
size in slow maturer come slowly that
they have time to learn to control their
bodies. Rapid maturing child become
lethargic and beform below their
potentials in whatever they do.
• The speed of sexual maturity affect attitudes
unfavourably mainly when children are slow
maturer.
• Rapid maturer may be temporarily
emotionally distracted by their awkwardness
and clumsiness
• Perods heightened emotionality may occur
more frequently and more intensely in rapid
than in slow maturer
• Rapid maturer have no cause for concerns
about whether they will even turn into adults,
• By contrast slow maturer are plagued by the
fear that they will never turn into adult a d by
constant reminder of how much more like
adults their peers seems to be
• Slow maturer experience the same problem
late maturer experience because they lag
behind their age.
