Abstract
Protective factors have been established as moderators in the association among adverse experiences and future outcomes as suicidality in adulthood, performing child-to-parent violence or exhibiting trauma-related responses, therefore establishing the need to explore protective factors and their characteristics. The aim of this study is to identify profiles among protective factors in children and adolescents at risk, and to relate these profiles to several sociodemographic variables such as age, gender, country of origin (native as opposed to immigrant) and the type of family structure (being a single parent family or a bi-parent family). Data was collected from professionals involved in the Children Protective Services (CPS). Sample was composed by 635 children and adolescents involved in the CPS. Protective factors were assessed by the Adolescents and Children Risk of Abuse and Maltreatment Protective Factors Scale (ACRAM-PFS). A Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was estimated. Six profiles were retained. Membership to these profiles was associated to gender, age, family structure and country of origin. Country of origin showed significant association to several profiles. Information provided in this study is novel and can help to improve quality of interventions from an ecological perspective.
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