The mixture model identified four heterogeneous groups that differed based on the two latent variables, parental acceptance and control, which typically range within two standard deviations of a normal distribution with a mean of zero. Based on the levels of the two latent dimensions, four parenting style groups were identified and labeled as balanced, authoritarian, permissive, and uninvolved/neglectful. The group membership was coded into three dummy variables, with balanced parenting used as the reference group. The dummy variables were the main independent variables.
