Peer Relationship Profiles among Early Adolescents from Low-Income Families: The Unique and Combined Effects of Attachment to Mothers and Conscientiousness

Xiaoyu Lan, Chen Wang and Guanyu Cui ()
Additional contact information
Xiaoyu Lan: Promenta Research Center, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo, 0373 Oslo, Norway
Chen Wang: Center for Brain, Mind and Education, Shaoxing University, Shaoxing 312000, China
Guanyu Cui: Department of Psychology, School of Education, Wenzhou University, Wenzhou 325035, China

IJERPH, 2023, vol. 20, issue 5, 1-15

Abstract: Using research data gathered from multiple sources, the current study explored positive aspects of peer relationship profiles (indexed by peer-nominated acceptance and self-reported friendships) in a person-centered approach among early adolescents from low-income families. Moreover, this study investigated the unique and combined associations of adolescents’ attachment to mothers and parent-rated conscientiousness with emerging peer relationship profiles. A total of 295 early adolescents (42.7% girls; M age = 10.94, SD = 0.80) were involved in this study. Latent profile analysis identified three empirically derived peer relationship profiles: “isolated” (14.6%), “socially competent” (16.3%), and “average” (69.1%). Moderation analyses further showed that adolescents with secure attachment to mothers tend to have group memberships in socially competent and average profiles than the isolated profile. Such an association pattern was more heightened for those with higher conscientiousness (versus lower conscientiousness).

Keywords: peer relationships; attachment to mothers; conscientiousness; low-income families; early adolescents; person-centered approach (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/4349/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/20/5/4349/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:5:p:4349-:d:1083670

Access Statistics for this article

IJERPH is currently edited by Ms. Jenna Liu

More articles in IJERPH from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().