Abstract
Qualitative differences in health and well-being were examined using multidimensional and configurational analyses with data from two health questionnaires. The first assessed children’s perceived psychosocial adjustment, while the second provided parental reports of health histories. Following validation of descriptive scales from each questionnaire, multivariate analyses revealed four health profiles characterized by differential weighting of empirically derived health indices. Measures of social and academic competence derived from teacher reports on children’s school adjustment significantly discriminated among the health profiles. Finally, comparisons of age differences in health profiles suggested a three stage developmental model of health risk. Personal trajectories appear to move from normal or adapted functioning, towards attenuation of coping skills and a generalized worried state, next to a more distressed condition where both personal and relational coping is severely compromised, and finally to a fragile condition associated with loss of health, lower social engagement and lack of robustness.
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