Health Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Europe: A Latent Profile Analysis of Health Behavior in School-Aged Children Survey Data From 43 Countries.

Purpose: Current literature on prevention and intervention programs for European adolescents who engage in health risk behaviors is limited. Few studies have utilized latent profile analysis methods and internationally comparative data on adolescents and their health risk behaviors, highlighting the need for more comprehensive research using internationally comparative data. The current study aimed to examine the health risk behavior profiles and identify subgroups of adolescents with similar patterns of health risk behaviors using a representative sample of European countries.

Fathering styles in a traditional culture and its association with marital relationship: A latent profile analysis with a nationally representative sample.

This study had two main objectives. The first goal was to examine fathers' parenting styles in a society with traditional patriarchal values. The second goal was to understand the extent to which marital relationship variables (i.

Emotional, cognitive, and social functioning in children and early adolescents living in post-armed conflict: Testing mediating mechanisms.

This study examined whether, and to which extent, the associations between conflict intensity and children's and early adolescents' functioning problems were mediated through parental harsh discipline in a post-armed conflict setting. Data from 9623 Iraqi mothers and their children who participated in UNICEF MICS showed that the associations between conflict intensity, parental discipline and child functioning were similar for children and early adolescents. Higher conflict intensity was indirectly associated with increased anxiety and depression, greater learning and cognitive difficulties, and greater social and behavioural problems through parental harsh discipline.