Observed Family and Friendship Dynamics in Adolescence: a Latent Profile Approach to Identifying "Mesosystem" Adaptation for Intervention Tailoring.

ABSTRACT: Nuanced understanding of adolescents' interpersonal relationships with family and peers is important for developing more personalized interventions that prevent problem behaviors and adjustment issues. We used latent profile analysis (LPA) to classify a community sample of 784 adolescents with respect to their observed relationship dynamics with friends and family using videotaped observations and five-minute audiotaped speech samples collected at ages 16-17. The resulting latent classes served to predict behavioral and emotional health in early adulthood. The LPA of the video- and audio-coded observational variables revealed a three-class model: (1) the healthy relationship group (n = 587), representing low levels of deviant and drug use talk with friends and positive, noncoercive relatio

SUBMITTER: Dishion TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6951801 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature