Although individual and family strengths have been found to impact family maltreatment risk, optimal approaches to their assessment are lacking. To substantiate the utility of holistically assessing multiple strengths among active-duty Air Force members (i.e., Airmen) who might be at risk of perpetrating family maltreatment, the current study aimed to identify latent patterns of personal and family strengths among Airmen and assess associations with family maltreatment perpetration. A representative a sample of 30,187 Airmen from the 2011 Air Force Community Assessment Survey was used to identify patterns across latent-factor scores representing unit leader support, informal support, family functioning, individual fitness, and personal resilience. Latent profile analysis was conducted to extract an optimal number of response patterns and estimate associations with family maltreatment perpetration. A five-profile solution was optimal, representing patterns marked by low (10%), below average (26%), mixed (16%), above average (36%), and high (12%) levels of personal and family strengths. Predicted probabilities of family maltreatment among families not identifying as stepfamilies were 39%, 21%, 14%, 10%, and 8% across low, below average, mixed, above average, and high patterns, respectively. Among stepfamilies (20% of sample), predicted probabilities were 49%, 29%, 21%, 15%, and 12%, respectively. Findings encourage a holistic assessment of personal and family strengths among Airmen. The Personal and Family Strengths Inventory, which was developed to gauge these strengths, can position practitioners well to engage Airmen in conversations around strengths and growth opportunities for the purposes of service planning aimed at preventing family maltreatment.

尽管已发现个人和家庭的优势会影响家庭虐待的风险，但缺乏评估其的最佳方法。为了证实全面评估可能存在遭受家庭虐待风险的现役空军成员（即空军人员）的多种优势的实用性，本研究旨在确定空军个人和家庭优势的潜在模式并评估与家庭虐待行为。一个具有代表性的样本来自2011年空军社区评估调查中的30187名空军人员，被用来识别各种潜在因素得分的模式，这些得分代表单位领导者的支持，非正式支持，家庭功能，个人适应能力和个人应变能力。进行了潜在特征分析，以提取最佳数量的响应模式，并估计与家庭虐待行为的关联。五种配置文件的解决方案是最佳的，它表示由个人和家庭实力低（10％），低于平均水平（26％），混合（16％），高于平均水平（36％）和较高（12％）。在低，低于平均水平，混合，高于平均水平和高水平的家庭中，未被鉴定为继亲家庭的家庭虐待的预测概率为39％，21％，14％，10％和8％模式。在继家人中（样本的20％），预测的概率分别为49％，29％，21％，15％和12％。调查结果鼓励对空军人员的个人和家庭实力进行全面评估。个人和家庭优势清单是为了衡量这些优势而开发的，它可以使从业人员很好地定位，以使空军参谋人员就实力和成长机会进行对话，以进行旨在防止家庭虐待的服务计划。