Early childhood social-emotional profiles associated with middle childhood internalizing and wellbeing

This study linked data from two large population monitoring surveys in British Columbia, Canada, (N = 17,181) to examine associations between teacher-rated social-emotional functioning at school entry (age 5) and child self-reported internalizing and wellbeing in Grade 4 (age 9). Latent profile analysis identified seven profiles of early childhood social-emotional functioning based on eight subscales from the Early Development Instrument. The...