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ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2026

Identifying Adolescents at Risk for Emotional Disorders with Latent Profile Analysis: A Personalized, Transdiagnostic Preventive Intervention.

José A Piqueras, Raquel Falcó, Pilar Rico-Bordera, Josefa Canals, Lourdes Espinosa-Fernández, Manuel Vivas-Fernández, Luis-Joaquin Garcia-Lopez, PROCARE team

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Article in Child psychiatry and human development, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

José A PiquerasDivision of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University (UMH), 03202, Elche, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3604-5441
Raquel FalcóDivision of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University (UMH), 03202, Elche, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1426-5934
Pilar Rico-BorderaDivision of Personality, Assessment and Psychological Treatment, Department of Health Psychology, Miguel Hernández University (UMH), 03202, Elche, Spain. prico@umh.es.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2157-2468
Josefa CanalsDepartment of Psychology, Research Centre for Behavioral Assessment (CRAMC), Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV), Tarragona, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6209-9558
Lourdes Espinosa-FernándezDivision of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Jaen, Jaen, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3240-0220
Manuel Vivas-FernándezDivision of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Jaen, Jaen, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3539-4260
Luis-Joaquin Garcia-LopezDivision of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Jaen, Jaen, Spain.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0446-6740
PROCARE team
Universidad de Jaén · ESUniversitat de Miguel Hernández d'Elx · ESUniversitat Rovira i Virgili · ES

Funding

Spanish Ministry of Universities (funding for University Teacher Training) FPU19/02233State Research Agency and partly supported by the RED2022-134247-T Network for the PROmotion of EMOtional Health and Wellbeing of Adolescents (PROEMO) and the Research Network on Chronicity, Primary Care and Prevention and Health Promotion (RICAPPS) Project PID2019-111138RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It can be challenging to assign patients to the appropriate intervention programs, as risk and protective factors for developing emotional disorders are multiple and shared across disorders. This study aimed to provide a theoretical and empirical approach to identify and categorise adolescents into different levels of severity. The risk of developing emotional symptoms was assessed in 1425 Spanish adolescents (M = 14.34, SD = 1.76; 59.9% women). Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) was conducted to identify subgroups based on their emotional symptom severity, risk, and resilience factors. Results revealed four profiles: at low risk (emotionally healthy), moderate risk (for selective interventions), high risk (for indicated interventions), and severe risk (for clinical referral). Older age and especially female gender were predictors of higher risk clusters, and there were differences in the levels of psychopathology and health-related quality of life across clusters. Identification of at-risk adolescents for emotional disorders by means of LPA may contribute to designing personalised and tailored prevention programs that match adolescents' specific needs.

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Affective SymptomsResilience, PsychologicalAdolescentFemaleHumansLatent Class AnalysisMaleRisk FactorsSeverity of Illness IndexSpainEmotional problemsPreventionResilienceRisk factorsTrasnsdiagnostic intervention

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