Latent profiles of home behaviour problems in Trinidad and Tobago.

ABSTRACT: Caregivers who interact with children at home can provide a critical, complementary perspective on a child's behaviour functioning. This research used a parent-administered measure of problem behaviours to study perceptions of child behaviours across home situations. We applied latent profile analysis to identify subgroups of children with common behavioural tendencies in a nationally representative sample (N = 709) of 4- to 13-year-old children in Trinidad and Tobago. This study (a) identified latent profiles of children's over- and underactive behaviour problems in varied home settings and (b) examined how profile membership predicted academic skills and teacher-observed problem behaviours. The best-fitting four-profile model included one profile of adjusted behaviours (56%), one of the

SUBMITTER: Gerstner CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11626222 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature