ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Psychopathology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1650930
This article is part of the Research TopicGlobal Youth Mental Health Crisis: Understanding Challenges and Advancing Solutions in PsychopathologyView all 6 articles
Family and Peer Influences on Adolescent Psychological Inflexibility: A 1 Regression Mixture Analysis
Provisionally accepted
- 1Public Administration School, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
- 2School of Marxism, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, China
- 3School of Public Administration, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- 4School of Marxism, Changsha Institute of Technology, Changsha, China
- 5College of Music, Hunan Normal University, Changsha, China
- 6Shenyang Jing'an Mental Health Hospital, Shengyang, China
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Introduction: Adolescent mental health problems are closely linked to psychological 21 inflexibility. Prior research has identified separate effects of family functioning and peer relationships 22 on psychological inflexibility, but their combined effects (particularly from a person-centered 23 perspective) remain underexplored. We use a person-centered regression mixture approach to jointly 24 model family functioning and peer relationships and examine their joint associations with adolescent 25 psychological inflexibility. 26 Methods: The study surveyed 940 adolescents using the Family APGAR Index, the Peer 27 Relationship Scale, and the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth to measure family 28 functioning, peer relationships, and psychological inflexibility, respectively. 29 Results: Through latent class analysis (LCA), six latent classes representing combined patterns 30 of family functioning and peer relationships were identified. Adolescents exposed to both low family 31 functioning and low peer relationships showed the highest psychological inflexibility, whereas those 32 with high family functioning and high peer relationships showed the lowest. Regression mixture 33 results indicated significant differences in psychological inflexibility across classes 34 Conclusion: These findings highlight the joint influence of family functioning and peer 35 relationships on adolescent psychological inflexibility and suggest that interventions should 36 concurrently target both environments to reduce inflexibility and improve mental health outcomes.
Keywords: Adolescent, family functioning, peer relationships, Psychologicalinflexibility, Regression mixture analysis
Received: 20 Jun 2025; Accepted: 22 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Biao Peng, 154406206@qq.com
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