Citation

Lorber MF, Xu S, Heyman RE, Slep AMS, Beauchaine TP. J. Clin. Psychol. (Hoboken) 2018; 74(7): 1258-1271.

Affiliation

The Ohio State University.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1002/jclp.22594

PMID

29528487

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: We sought to identify subgroups of individuals based on patterns of psychological health problems (PH; e.g., depressive symptoms, hazardous drinking) and family maltreatment (FM; e.g., child and partner abuse).

METHOD: We analyzed data from very large surveys of United States Air Force active duty members with romantic partners and children.

RESULTS: Latent class analyses indicated six replicable patterns of PH problems and FM. Five of these classes, representing ∼98% of survey participants, were arrayed ordinally, with increasing risk of multiple PH problems and FM. A sixth group defied this ordinal pattern, with pronounced rates of FM and externalizing PH problems, but without correspondingly high rates/levels of internalizing PH problems.

CONCLUSIONS: Ramifications of these results for intervention are discussed.

© 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Language: en

Keywords

United States Air Force; child abuse; latent class analysis; partner abuse; psychological health