Testing gender differences in psychological adjustment among early adolescents though a multigroup analysis of latent profiles.

ABSTRACT: Early adolescence is a crucial period for identifying psychological maladjustment and emerging gender differences. This longitudinal study explores gender differences in psychological maladjustment profiles among early adolescents, incorporating developmental predictors from earlier stages. The sample included 826 early adolescents (50% girls; Mage = 10.72, SD = 0.71) who completed the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire-Self Report. A multigroup similarity in latent profile solutions was conducted to identify between-gender differences/similarities in latent psychological profiles, and multinomial logistic regressions were used to examine stable early predictors (i.e., parent-reported sociodemographic and temperamental factors) as well as more malleable parent-reported individual var

SUBMITTER: Alvarez-Voces M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12644576 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature