Psychological Development and Education ›› 2015, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (3): 350-359.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2015.03.13

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Identifying Psychological or Behavioral Problems of College Students: Based on Latent Profile Analysis

SU Binyuan1, ZHANG Jieting2, YU Chengfu2, ZHANG Wei2   

  1. 1. Psychological Counseling & Research Center, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631;
    2. School of Psychology/Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou, 510631;
    3. Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060
  • Online:2015-05-15 Published:2015-05-15

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Abstract: To explore the applicability of latent profile analysis (LPA) in detecting psychological or behavioral problems, a total of 12718 college students were tested for psychological health. The psychological status of the 644 students was evaluated by psychologists, counselors and class supervisors. Using evaluation results and the 90 Symptom checklist (SCL90) positive detection rate as the "golden standard" for diagnostic accuracy, sensitivity and specificity were compared between LPA and the traditional demarcation method. The results showed that: (1) Student's psychological and behavioral problems can be divided into three sub-groups: high risk group (9.86%), mental confusion group (19.15%) and healthy group (70.99%). (2) High risk groups were characterized by prominent mental symptoms (Z≥2.6SD). The positive symptom of mental health risk in high risk group is 61.21%, which is far above that of mental confusion group (38.28%) and mental health group (8.36%). (3) LPA improved sensitivity by 8.93%-35.26% and showed better diagnostic accuracy comparing with the traditional demarcation method.

Key words: latent profile analysis (LPA), university personality inventory (UPI), psychological or behavioral problems, college students

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  • B844
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