Language, Immigration, and Socioeconomic Status: A Latent Class Analytic Approach to Parental Predictors of Child Behavior Outcomes.

Parent characteristics at childbirth influence children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, which are critical determinants of broader socioemotional outcomes. The current study employed a longitudinal, person-centered, latent class analytic (LCA) approach to examine subgroup differences am...

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Published in:Journal of Child & Family Studies Vol. 32; no. 11; pp. 3625 - 3635
Main Authors: Corral Rodríguez, Andrea, Barr, Nicholas, Marçal, Katherine E.
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Published: Springer Nature Nov2023
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          Corral Rodríguez, Andrea
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          School of Social Work, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, USA
          https://ror.org/05vt9qd57 School of Social Work, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
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        United States
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        Language & languages
        Child behavior
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        Behavior disorders in children
        Socioeconomic factors
        Social classes
        Parent-child relationships
        Marital status
        Educational attainment
        United States emigration & immigration
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          Language & languages
          Child behavior
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        Externalizing
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      ab: Parent characteristics at childbirth influence children's internalizing and externalizing behaviors, which are critical determinants of broader socioemotional outcomes. The current study employed a longitudinal, person-centered, latent class analytic (LCA) approach to examine subgroup differences among key parent characteristics and associations with children's distal internalizing and externalizing behavior outcomes. The study sample (n = 2460) was drawn from baseline and Year 9 waves of the nationally representative Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Project. LCA results supported a 3-class solution to the data, comprising a married, well-educated, wealthy, English-speaking, U.S.-born subgroup; an unmarried, English-speaking, U.S.-born subgroup with low SES and educational attainment levels; and an immigrant, Spanish-preferred, low-SES, low educational attainment subgroup with moderate marriage probability. Children of the wealthy subgroup demonstrated the lowest internalizing and externalizing behavior scores, followed by the low-SES, Spanish-preferred subgroup. Children of the low-SES, English-speaking subgroup had the highest internalizing and externalizing scores. Results suggest a protective effect for children of the immigrant, Spanish-preferred subgroup despite low parental SES and educational attainment levels. Highlights: Latent class analysis uncovered subgroup heterogeneity and facilitated nuanced exploration of parent predictors of child behavior outcomes. Predictors for maladaptive child behavior outcomes (e.g., parent's social and financial stressors) may differ across sociocultural groups. Results suggest a protective effect for children of Spanish-preferred immigrants despite low parental SES and educational attainment levels.
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