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The More, the Better? Social Capital Profiles and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms: A Latent Profile Analysis

Auteurs: Ye Pan, Yifan Zhang, Zijuan Ma, Dongfang Wang, Brendan Ross, Shuiqing Huang, Fang Fan

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 2/2025

Abstract

Past research suggests that offline and online social capital are empirically linked to adolescent psychological adjustment. However, little is known regarding the implications of distinctive combinations of social capital for adolescent internalizing symptoms. The present study aimed to examine adolescent social capital patterns and their associations with internalizing symptoms by using latent profile analysis. A cross-sectional web-based survey was conducted among 1595 Chinese adolescents (mean age = 14.30 years, 50.7% male). All adolescents completed self-report questionnaires on their perceived offline and online social capital, depressive symptoms and anxiety symptoms. Latent profile analysis revealed four profiles of social capital: (1) Low Social Capital, (2) Moderate Social Capital, (3) High Social Capital, and (4) Only High Offline Social Capital. Further, analysis of covariance demonstrated that the Only High Offline Social Capital profile had significantly fewer internalizing symptoms than other three profiles. No statistical differences of internalizing symptoms were found between the other three profiles, except that the Moderate Social Capital profile showed fewer anxiety symptoms than the Low Social Capital profile. These findings suggest that more social capital does not equal to better mental health status. The social capital profiles and their associations with adolescent internalizing symptoms may provide practitioners with meaningful implications regarding the role of offline and online social capital in adolescent psychological adjustment.

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Titel: The More, the Better? Social Capital Profiles and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms: A Latent Profile Analysis
Auteurs: Ye Pan
Yifan Zhang
Zijuan Ma
Dongfang Wang
Brendan Ross
Shuiqing Huang
Fang Fan
Publicatiedatum: 29-07-2023
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 2/2025
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-023-01578-x

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