TY - JOUR
T1 - Psychosocial factors and multiple health risk behaviors among early adolescents
T2 - a latent profile analysis
AU - Warren, Christopher M.
AU - Kechter, Afton
AU - Christodoulou, Georgia
AU - Cappelli, Christopher
AU - Pentz, Mary Ann
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding was provided by National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (Grant No. F31 ES026482) and National Cancer Institute (Grant No. T32 CA009492 34-35).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - Early adolescence is a pivotal developmental period when multiple health risk behaviors, such as obesity and substance use, are often established. Several psychosocial factors, often considered traits, have been independently associated with these increases, including executive function (EF), mindfulness disposition (MD), perceived stress, distress tolerance (DT), and anhedonia. However, these factors have not been evaluated for their conjoint relationships to determine whether different patterns may signal greater or lesser risk for obesity and substance use, and whether the same patterns relate to obesity and substance use in the same ways (same magnitude of risk). To evaluate these patterns, a latent profile analysis was conducted, resulting in a three-profile model. Profile 1 (8% of sample) was characterized by the lowest levels of EF, MD, DT and highest levels of stress and anhedonia, profile 2 (44%) intermediate levels, and profile 3 (48%) the highest levels of EF, MD, DT and lowest levels of stress and anhedonia. Youth classified to profile 1 reported significantly greater levels of both obesogenic and substance use behaviors relative to other profiles. Findings suggest that adolescents engaging in obesogenic and substance use behaviors may share common profiles of psychosocial risk.
AB - Early adolescence is a pivotal developmental period when multiple health risk behaviors, such as obesity and substance use, are often established. Several psychosocial factors, often considered traits, have been independently associated with these increases, including executive function (EF), mindfulness disposition (MD), perceived stress, distress tolerance (DT), and anhedonia. However, these factors have not been evaluated for their conjoint relationships to determine whether different patterns may signal greater or lesser risk for obesity and substance use, and whether the same patterns relate to obesity and substance use in the same ways (same magnitude of risk). To evaluate these patterns, a latent profile analysis was conducted, resulting in a three-profile model. Profile 1 (8% of sample) was characterized by the lowest levels of EF, MD, DT and highest levels of stress and anhedonia, profile 2 (44%) intermediate levels, and profile 3 (48%) the highest levels of EF, MD, DT and lowest levels of stress and anhedonia. Youth classified to profile 1 reported significantly greater levels of both obesogenic and substance use behaviors relative to other profiles. Findings suggest that adolescents engaging in obesogenic and substance use behaviors may share common profiles of psychosocial risk.
KW - Anhedonia
KW - Distress tolerance
KW - Executive function
KW - Mindfulness
KW - Multiple health risk behavior
KW - Obesity prevention
KW - Psychosocial stress
KW - Substance use prevention
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U2 - 10.1007/s10865-020-00154-1
DO - 10.1007/s10865-020-00154-1
M3 - Article
C2 - 32323118
AN - SCOPUS:85084069128
SN - 0160-7715
VL - 43
SP - 1002
EP - 1013
JO - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
JF - Journal of Behavioral Medicine
IS - 6
ER -