Family and Friend Support as a Resource for Adopted and Non-adopted Adolescents. A Cross-country Latent Profile Analysis
Abstract
Unlike most variable-oriented studies, this cross-sectional study used for the first time a person-oriented approach to examine how family and friend support relate to life satisfaction in adopted and non-adopted adolescents. Three hundred fifty-eight internationally adopted adolescents living in Italy, France, and Spain, matched one-to-one on age, gender, and country of residence with 358 non-adopted peers from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), filled in a self-report questionnaire. Three latent profiles emerged from a cross-country Latent Profile Analysis: fully integrated (77.2%; above-average to high levels of family and friend support), weakly supported (17.4%; low levels of support especially from family), and isolated (5.4%; extremely low level of family support and low level of friend support). After examining the cross-country invariance of the profiles, a multinomial logistic regression indicated that adoptees were more likely to belong to the high support profile, the one which also exhibited the highest levels of life satisfaction. The current person-oriented study showed that being supported by family and peers in adolescence represents a significant protective factor that goes beyond adoption status. These findings have practical implications for preventive family and social interventions aimed at favoring adolescents’ well-being.
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BibTeX
@article{ranieri2026family,
title = {{Family and Friend Support as a Resource for Adopted and Non-adopted Adolescents. A Cross-country Latent Profile Analysis}},
author = {Sonia Ranieri and Michela Zambelli and Rosa Rosnati and Maite Román and Isabel Cáceres and Pablo Carrera and Jesús Palacios and Laurie Miller and Marie-Odile Pérouse de Montclos and Carmen Moreno and Francisco Rivera and Lorena Charrier and Emmanuelle Godeau and Laura Ferrari},
journal = {Child Indicators Research},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.1007/s12187-026-10434-y},
url = {https://ehesp.hal.science/hal-05753458v1},
note = {CC BY 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
TI - Family and Friend Support as a Resource for Adopted and Non-adopted Adolescents. A Cross-country Latent Profile Analysis
AU - Sonia Ranieri
AU - Michela Zambelli
AU - Rosa Rosnati
AU - Maite Román
AU - Isabel Cáceres
AU - Pablo Carrera
AU - Jesús Palacios
AU - Laurie Miller
AU - Marie-Odile Pérouse de Montclos
AU - Carmen Moreno
AU - Francisco Rivera
AU - Lorena Charrier
AU - Emmanuelle Godeau
AU - Laura Ferrari
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/09
JO - Child Indicators Research
DO - 10.1007/s12187-026-10434-y
UR - https://ehesp.hal.science/hal-05753458v1
AB - Unlike most variable-oriented studies, this cross-sectional study used for the first time a person-oriented approach to examine how family and friend support relate to life satisfaction in adopted and non-adopted adolescents. Three hundred fifty-eight internationally adopted adolescents living in Italy, France, and Spain, matched one-to-one on age, gender, and country of residence with 358 non-adopted peers from the Health Behaviour in School-aged Children (HBSC), filled in a self-report questionnaire. Three latent profiles emerged from a cross-country Latent Profile Analysis: fully integrated (77.2%; above-average to high levels of family and friend support), weakly supported (17.4%; low levels of support especially from family), and isolated (5.4%; extremely low level of family support and low level of friend support). After examining the cross-country invariance of the profiles, a multinomial logistic regression indicated that adoptees were more likely to belong to the high support profile, the one which also exhibited the highest levels of life satisfaction. The current person-oriented study showed that being supported by family and peers in adolescence represents a significant protective factor that goes beyond adoption status. These findings have practical implications for preventive family and social interventions aimed at favoring adolescents’ well-being.
SN - 1874-8988
SN - 1874-897X
ER -