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Male and female precocious puberty were studied through clinical and laboratory data. Intelligence and personality were analyzed and family orientation was given whenever necessary.
The psychological study (WISC) shows that these children have superior IQ when compared with other children of same social and cultural conditions. Concerning to the verbal subtests, it became clear that those scores are higher than the ones of the performance subtests, and the similarity subtests' score is above average - meaning a higher intelligence potential as well. The projective tests (Rorschach - Cat) indicated that those children have sexual relationship and body image problems.
Mother's interviews showed also problems with the mother-child relationship, where parents treated the child either as a little adult or by overprotecting them, in spite of their high intellectual potential.
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Rotenberg, L., Setian, N. 26 PSYCHOLOGICAL STUDY IN PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY. Pediatr Res 15, 187 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1203/00006450-198102000-00083
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