Gender differences in mental health profiles among Chinese adolescents: a multiple-group latent profile analysis
Jichang Guo, Yanpei Pan, Yan Zhao, Xiang Zhang · 2026
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In 2026, Jichang Guo and colleagues published a study sorting Chinese adolescents into mental health profiles that combine distress with life satisfaction, rather than judging either alone. The dual-factor idea holds that a teenager can be symptom-free yet dissatisfied, or struggling yet content. A total of 1,682 adolescents, average age about fourteen, completed a depression scale and a life satisfaction scale, and latent profile analysis looked for natural groupings, separately by gender.
Three profiles emerged overall: a healthy group holding about sixty-two percent, a troubled-arousal group near thirty percent with moderate subclinical distress, and a severe distress group of seven percent. Boys reproduced the same threefold pattern, while girls were best described by two profiles, and girls clustered more heavily in distressed groups with worse symptoms at the severe end. Screening that counts only symptoms, the authors imply, will miss dissatisfied but quiet teenagers.
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| CREATOR | Jichang Guo, Yanpei Pan, Yan Zhao, Xiang Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 44785 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |