The Identification of Family Social Environment Typologies Using Latent Class Analysis: Implications for Future Family-Focused Research.

ABSTRACT: The family social environment is the first environment that a child experiences and has implications for children's health. However, the majority of family social environment measures do not account for its complexity. There is a need for novel approaches for assessing the family social environment that transcends the traditional way of measuring family composition and interaction. The purpose of this secondary data analysis research was to identify distinct family social environment typologies that consider both family composition and interaction and to describe the characteristics of the identified family social environment typologies. A series of latent class analysis results indicated three distinct typologies of family social environment with significant differences in family composit

SUBMITTER: Lee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7054181 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature