Association Between Parent-Child Perceived Family Resilience and Mental health: A Dyadic Latent Profile Analysis

This study explored the potential profile of family resilience and its relationship with family members’ mental health (i.e., anxiety and well-being) by integrating parents’ and children’s perceived family resilience. Using a sample of 1163 dyads of children (48.58% boys, M_age = 14.32 ± 0.97) and their parents (30.70% fathers, M_age = 40.49 ± 4.12), a dyadic latent profile analysis was conducted. Four subgroups of the overall family resilience were identified: “parent-child consistent moderate group” (n = 427, 36.72%), “parent-child consistent high group” (n = 352, 30.27%), “child high-parent moderate group” (n = 285, 24.51%), and “child moderate-parent high group” (n = 99, 8.51%). There were significant differences in anxiety and well-being of children and their parents among the four subgroups, with small to moderate effect sizes (η_p² ranged from 0.036 to 0.123). Specifically, children and parents in the “parent‑child consistent moderate group” exhibited the highest anxiety and lowest well‑being, whereas those in the “parent‑child consistent high group” showed the lowest anxiety and highest well‑being. The study posits that it is imperative to prioritize the heterogeneity of overall family resilience in conjunction with parent-child multi-informants discrepancies, particularly in families where children perceive lower levels of family resilience than their parents.