Ridge, LASSO, and elastic net regression: Fathers’ psychological well-being in familial contexts

Kwangman Ko, Ahmad Al Doulat, Seulki Ku, Department of Counseling and Human Services, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Department of Computing, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Department of Child Development, Erikson Institute

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

Published online on December 30, 2025

Abstract

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Volume 43, Issue 6, Page 1643-1668, June 2026.
This study examined the applicability of regularized regression in family science by focusing on fathers’ psychological well-being as an applied example. Using cross-sectional survey data from 277 U.S. fathers, we compared Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) ...