Profiles of Chinese teenagers' problematic mobile phone use and the multilevel relations with alexithymia and social interaction anxiety.

Latent profiles of mood: Toward an empirical definition of mixed mood in youth.

Numerical precision or inhibitory control? Exploring latent profiles in preschoolers' numerosity judgments.

Prior research has utilised person-centred approaches to identify parent feeding profiles distinguished by controlling and structure-based practices, but less research has examined autonomy support-based practices, or how social and family contextual factors differ between feeding profiles. This study aimed to identify profiles of parents with similar patterns of feeding practices and to examine whether profiles differ on family contextual factors. In 2022, 989 UK parents of children aged 3-6 years (M=4.1 years) completed an online survey, which included the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ), measuring parental feeding practices, and validated questionnaires capturing family contextual variables. Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was conducted to identify parent feeding profiles using the CFPQ. A MANCOVA assessed differences in family contextual variables between profiles. LPA identified three profiles based on common model fit indices and theoretical considerations. Profile 1 'moderate control' (25.2%) showed moderate use of controlling practices and low use of structure-based and autonomy support-based practices. Profile 2 'structured and supportive' (29.6%) showed low use of controlling practices and high use of structure-based and autonomy support-based practices. Profile 3 'using everything' (45.2%) showed high use of all three types of feeding practices. Parents in the 'moderate control' profile had significantly lower parental wellbeing and reported more barriers of time and energy for meal planning compared to other profiles. In contrast, parents in the 'structured and supportive' profile had significantly lower household chaos and lower parental stress. Mothers had a higher proportion of membership to the 'structured and supportive' profile (33.9%) compared to other profiles, whereas fathers had a higher membership proportion to the 'using everything' profile (60.9%). Future interventions should be tailored to parent feeding practice profiles and associated family contextual factors.

AI literacy, information cocoons, and creativity in healthcare postgraduate education: A latent profile and mediation analysis.

To examine factors, including symptom burden profiles and self-care, associated with quality of life among individuals with heart failure and multimorbidity. A cross-sectional design. 353 adults aged 50 years or older with heart failure and at least one additional chronic condition were recruited from a university-affiliated hospital. Three symptom burden groups were identified (low, moderate, and high) through latent profile analysis of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale scores. The Heart Failure Self-care Index and EuroQoL-5D-5L measured self-care behaviours and quality of life. This study examined group differences and associations overall and stratified by symptom burden groups via multivariable linear regression. A higher disease burden and the high symptom burden group compared to the low symptom burden group were associated with lower quality of life. Self-care maintenance was positively associated with a higher quality of life, but not in the high-burden group. Among individual symptoms, pain and depression were associated with lower quality of life. In the high-burden group, older age was positively associated with quality of life. Higher symptom burden groups included a greater proportion of women and middle-aged adults. Symptom burden and self-care maintenance show significant associations with quality of life in multimorbidity. Symptom burden profiles identified through latent profile analysis may complement conventional approaches by targeting high-risk individuals, such as middle-aged individuals and women with high symptom burden, for follow-up and integrated multimorbidity management. For healthcare providers, including nurses, these findings underscore the importance of holistic, symptom-based care approaches combined with routine support for self-care maintenance. Adopting a life-course approach, through early identification and management of high-risk individuals, may help promote aging in place with a better quality of life for those with heart failure and multimorbidity. STROBE checklist. No patient or public contribution.

Typologies of co-occurring experiences of interpersonal violence among adults in Norwegian sport.

Older adults often experience complex, co-occurring physical, psychological, and social health conditions that together characterize their multidimensional health and may have implications for cognitive function. However, the patterns of these multidimensional health conditions and their association with cognitive function in older adults remain poorly understood. This study aims to identify latent profiles of multidimensional health among community-dwelling older adults and examine factors associated with profile membership and corresponding cognitive function. In this study, cross-sectional survey data from 1,077 community-dwelling older adults were analyzed. Latent profile analysis was used to classify participants based on pain, fatigue, physical frailty, depressive symptoms, insomnia symptoms, and loneliness. Multinomial logistic regression with the three-step approach (R3STEP) was performed to identify factors associated with latent profile membership. Hierarchical regression analysis was used to examine the associations between latent profiles and cognitive function. Four distinct latent health profiles were identified: relatively healthy (56.7%), physical symptom (21.5%), physically frail (12.1%), and psychosocial symptom (9.7%) groups. Compared with the relatively healthy group, participants aged ≥ 75 years, with a bachelor's degree or higher, unmarried status, low economic status, chronic diseases, and low engagement in physical activity were more likely to belong to the physical symptom, physically frail, or psychosocial symptom profiles. Participants in all other latent profiles exhibited lower cognitive function than those in the relatively healthy group. This study highlights the importance of multidimensional health profiles in understanding cognitive vulnerability among older adults. The identified patterns of co-occurring physical and psychosocial symptoms highlight the importance of adopting holistic, tailored strategies to support cognitive health. Developing profile-specific interventions addressing physical function, symptom management, and psychosocial well-being is essential for preventing cognitive decline in this population.

Psychological phenotypes of sense of coherence: How illness perception mediates distress differently across patient subgroups with hematologic malignancies.

Digital self-harm among adolescents in China: Latent profiles, correlates, and its relationship with suicidal behaviors.

The alignment between actual motor competence (AMC) and perceived motor competence (PMC) is theorized to influence children's physical activity (PA) and body mass index (BMI), yet empirical evidence using person-centered approaches remains limited. This study identified distinct motor competence profiles in Chinese children and examined their differential associations with PA and BMI. In a sample of 540 children aged 6-10years from Jinhua City, AMC, PMC, and moderate-to-vigorous PA (MVPA) were assessed using the Test of Gross Motor Development-3rd Edition, Pictorial Scale of Perceived Movement Skill Competence, and 7-day accelerometer monitoring. Latent profile analysis revealed three distinct profiles: High Competence (aligned high AMC and PMC, 37.6%), Overestimation (low AMC but high PMC, 43.0%), and Devaluation (high AMC but low PMC, 19.4%). Profile membership showed significant associations with age and sex, with older children and males more frequently classified in the Devaluation profile. Both discrepant profiles demonstrated substantially lower PA levels, engaging in over 10 fewer minutes of daily MVPA than the High Competence group(Devaluation: - 10.65min/day, p < 0.001; Overestimation: - 10.28min/day, p = 0.002). Notably, BMI z-scores diverged between discrepant profiles: the Devaluation profile showed higher BMI z-scores while the Overestimation profile showed lower BMI z-scores compared to the High Competence reference. These findings highlight that the congruence between AMC and PMC, rather than either factor in isolation, is significantly associated with children's PA and BMI and may represent an important target for health intervention.

Classification of somatization symptoms based on latent profile analysis: The differential mediating role of psychological capital in organizational commitment.

Impulsive acts of violence are perpetrated by a small proportion of society, which anecdotal evidence suggests often occurs in a rage state. Rage has generally been conceptualized as extreme anger, but it may be qualitatively different from extreme anger. Is rage best considered as part of the anger continuum or is it a different phenomenon altogether? The present research addressed this question in a large sample of university students (N = 545) who completed qualitative and quantitative measures of rage attacks, anger, emotional dysregulation, trait aggression and displaced aggression, angry rumination, adverse childhood events, head injuries, drug and alcohol use, and borderline personality disorder traits. Qualitative results showed that rage experiences are similar to anger experiences, but with some unique components. Path analysis found a similar pattern of correlates for rage and anger. Emotion dysregulation, trait physical aggression, trait displaced aggression, and borderline personality disorder traits predicted both rage and anger. Finally, in a latent profile analysis, we identified two subgroups of participants who are at risk for rage and anger. These findings largely support rage as a type of extreme anger with some additional features (e.g., loss of control, tunnel vision, aggression). Targeting the dysregulated aspects of people's personalities as early as possible may assist in reducing anger and rage.

The quality of school-related relationships plays an important role in children's well-being. Prior research has frequently evaluated domains of children's school-related relationships separately, making it more difficult to understand the interplay between relationships in different domains. To address this gap, we analyzed data from 11,945 third grade children enrolled in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study and used Latent Profile Analysis to construct empirically derived profiles of students' school-related relationship functioning across domains of peer victimization, peer aggression, prosocial behavior, and closeness and conflict with their classroom teacher. We then tested the extent to which student and school demographic factors were associated with profile membership, as well as how profile membership predicted subsequent academic, behavioral, emotional, and health outcomes. We found evidence of five distinct profiles of school-related relationships in third grade. Overall, students who were male, Black, lower income, or who attended Title I (or low income) schools were significantly more likely to have profiles with poorer school-related relationship functioning. Assignment to profiles with better school-related relationship functioning in grade three was significantly associated with better academic, behavioral, emotional, and physical health outcomes in grade five. Results support the valuable role of school-related relationships for well-being in elementary school students. Students with profiles of lower school-related relationship functioning may benefit from multi-level interventions to support their well-being.

Emotional labour has long been associated with personal and organizational outcomes such as burnout. However, theoretically dichotomising regulation into surface and deep acting may constrain the ecological validity of research as iterative and person-centered approaches to emotion regulation are not considered. Furthermore, recent research suggests self-compassion and experience may predict emotional labour regulation in psychologists, but specific mechanisms accounting for this relationship are unknown. We addressed these concerns by examining how self-compassion and career experience predict latent profiles of emotional labour regulation strategies in psychologists and subsequent burnout. We performed latent profile analysis, multinomial logistic regression, and a one-way between-groups ANOVA on data from 232 international psychologists across two time points. We found a similar but not identical pattern of latent profiles when compared to previous studies in different occupations. Self-compassion and career experience significantly predicted subsequent profile membership and profiles characterized by less surface acting and more authentic and genuine emotional displays had statistically significantly lower levels of emotional exhaustion. Our findings suggest that self-compassion promotes adaptive emotional labour regulation strategies in psychologists, that experienced clinicians express emotion more authentically, and that regulation that involves authentic and genuine expression is linked with lower emotional exhaustion.

Dieting is common among young adult women, yet it may be associated with problematic psychological outcomes. The current study aimed to profile styles of eating among undergraduate women (n = 478, average age = 19.3, 50.8% Hispanic/Latina/x), and to explore the extent to which dieting attitudes were associated with psychological well-being. A latent profile analysis of self-reported intuitive eating, binge eating, and dietary restraint measures indicated a four-profile model provided a reasonable fit to the data. These profiles differed significantly in BMI, and psychological measures of well-being, body appreciation, impulsivity, and self-efficacy. Profiles characterized by greater endorsement of restraint were associated with depressed mood and binge eating. These results suggest an intuitive approach to eating is related to greater well-being amongst an ethnically diverse sample of college women, and that individuals who restrict their eating differ from those who do not across various psychological constructs, regardless of whether they explicitly identify as "dieters."

Although prior research has identified population-level trends in facial emotion recognition (FER) in middle childhood, it is unclear whether all children follow a similar developmental trajectory. To address this gap, we used a person-oriented approach to identify qualitatively distinct FER profiles based on accuracy and bias. The sample (N = 3,717, 51% girls, baseline Mage = 8.20, SD = 0.86) came from a Finnish social-emotional learning intervention study, with data collected across three waves (2013-2015). We applied latent profile analysis and random-intercept latent transition analysis to examine FER profiles and their stability across early school years. Moreover, we assessed whether parenting and children's social-emotional adjustment were associated with FER profile membership and transitions. We found five FER profiles: balanced accuracy (14%-26%), sadness bias (34%-38%), positively biased (34%-38%), anger bias (3%-4%), and low accuracy (2%-7%). While the three largest profiles showed moderate stability, children in the anger bias and low accuracy profiles were more likely to transition to other profiles. Compared with the positively biased profile, children in the anger bias profile experienced lower parental warmth and fewer peer problems and showed less prosocial behavior. These findings suggest substantial heterogeneity in children's FER development and link emotion-specific patterns to children's social functioning. Understanding that children may follow distinct developmental trajectories could help design targeted interventions to support children's social skills. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2026 APA, all rights reserved).

Humor styles and emotional manipulation: A person-centered perspective

Innovation capability is a core competency for nursing college students to adapt to the development of modern nursing and meet clinical demands. This study applied innovation ecosystem theory and aimed to identify the latent profile types of nursing college students' innovation capability and their associated factors, to provide a basis for formulating targeted training strategies. A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 1,086 nursing college students using a self-designed "Questionnaire on Innovation Capability of Nursing College Students" with good reliability and validity. Latent profile analysis (LPA) was used to classify the innovation capability types. The innovation capability of nursing college students was divided into four latent profile types: Low Innovation Capability Type (22.65%), Low-Medium Innovation Capability Type (32.97%), Medium-High Innovation Capability Type (29.93%) and High Innovation Capability Type (14.46%), showing a distribution characteristic of "larger in the middle and smaller at both ends". Multiple linear regression analysis showed that weekly self-directed learning time for innovation knowledge (β'=0.298), number of innovation competition participations (β'=0.234), clinical internship experience (β'=0.189) and age (analyzed as a continuous variable, β'=0.123) were significant positive predictors of innovation capability (all P < 0.001). The total score of innovation capability of nursing college students was 67.64 ± 8.36, with the lowest average score in the Innovation Environment dimension (2.58 ± 0.52) and the highest in the Innovation Motivation dimension (2.92 ± 0.50). Nursing college students' innovation capability presents obvious heterogeneous characteristics with four distinct profile types. Weekly self-directed learning time for innovation knowledge, participation in innovation competitions, clinical internship experience and age were identified as key factors associated with higher innovation capability. These findings suggest that targeted training strategies such as differentiated cultivation, strengthening clinical innovation training, improving self-directed learning ability and optimizing innovation incentive mechanisms may help enhance nursing college students' innovation capability. Longitudinal and interventional studies are warranted to confirm these effects.

This study aimed to identify latent profiles of adolescents based on their traditional sports attitudes, digital game addiction levels, and physical activity attitudes using a person-centered approach. A total of 634 adolescents (female = 50.5%, n = 320; male = 49.5%, n = 314; mean age = 15.8 years; Grades 9-12) from state high schools in Antalya and Osmaniye provinces were assessed using the Traditional Sports Attitude Scale, the Digital Game Addiction Scale, and the Physical Activity Attitude Scale. Data were analysed via Latent Profile Analysis (LPA); between-profile differences were examined through ANOVA and post-hoc tests. LPA yielded three meaningful profiles (Entropy = 0.816). The Active-Healthy profile (n = 467, 73.7%) is characterised by high traditional sports attitude, low digital game addiction, and positive physical activity attitude. The Conflicted-Addicted profile (n = 101, 15.9%) exhibits an unexpected internal conflict pattern, carrying the highest digital game addiction in the sample (M = 3.31) despite high traditional sports attitude. The At-Risk profile (n = 66, 10.4%) displays the lowest values across all positive variables. Post-hoc analyses showed that traditional sports attitude failed to differentiate two profiles (|d| = 0.01 to 0.16; p = .314-0.994); whereas negative physical activity attitude was the strongest discriminating variable (η² = 0.621). A high traditional sports attitude cannot be considered universally protective against digital addiction risk. Intervention programs should directly target negative physical activity attitudes, beyond the dimension of cultural participation.