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  • Child Development
  • Cognitive Science

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  • Children's problem-solving skills are crucial for development.
  • Understanding variability in problem-solving is essential.
  • Contextual factors influence cognitive development.

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  • To explore children's problem-solving profiles using a person-centered approach.
  • To investigate the link between problem-solving profiles and contextual risks.
  • To examine the longitudinal impact of problem-solving profiles on socioemotional functioning.

Main Methods:

  • Longitudinal study with 235 young children and parents.
  • Multi-method approach: behavioral observation and questionnaires.
  • Latent profile analysis to identify problem-solving profiles.

Main Results:

  • Identified four distinct problem-solving profiles (high/low abstract, high/low reward-oriented).
  • Contextual risks (e.g., poverty, neighborhood crime) were associated with low-abstract problem-solving profiles.
  • Problem-solving profiles predicted later socioemotional functioning.

Conclusions:

  • Child problem-solving is heterogeneous and context-dependent.
  • Contextual risks disproportionately affect certain problem-solving profiles.
  • Problem-solving capacity has significant developmental implications for socioemotional well-being.