Objectives: We sought to identify subgroups of individuals based on patterns of psychological health problems (PH; e.g., depressive symptoms, hazardous drinking) and family maltreatment (FM; e.g., child and partner abuse).
Method: We analyzed data from very large surveys of United States Air Force active duty members with romantic partners and children.
Results: Latent class analyses indicated six replicable patterns of PH problems and FM. Five of these classes, representing ∼98% of survey participants, were arrayed ordinally, with increasing risk of multiple PH problems and FM. A sixth group defied this ordinal pattern, with pronounced rates of FM and externalizing PH problems, but without correspondingly high rates/levels of internalizing PH problems.
Conclusions: Ramifications of these results for intervention are discussed.
Keywords: United States Air Force; child abuse; latent class analysis; partner abuse; psychological health.
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