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NVI-rapporteringsår: 2021
Resultat
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021

Psychological distress in late adolescence: The role of inequalities in family affluence and municipal socioeconomic characteristics in Norway

Bidragsytere:
  • Tommy Haugan
  • Sally Muggleton og
  • Arnhild Myhr

Tidsskrift

PLOS ONE
ISSN 1932-6203
e-ISSN 1932-6203
NVI-nivå 1

Om resultatet

Vitenskapelig artikkel
Publiseringsår: 2021
Publisert online: 2021
Volum: 16
Hefte: 7
Artikkelnummer: 0254033
Open Access

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Scopus-ID: 2-s2.0-85109131742

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Tittel

Psychological distress in late adolescence: The role of inequalities in family affluence and municipal socioeconomic characteristics in Norway

Sammendrag

The present study aims to explore, in the national context of Norway, how municipal socioeconomic indicators affect anxiety and depressive symptom scores among senior high school students and whether this potential municipal effect is dependent on the adolescents’ family affluence levels. This cross-sectional study is based on questionnaire data collected in five waves (2014–2018) of the Ungdata survey. The study sample consisted of 97,460 adolescents aged 16–18 years attending high school in 156 municipalities in Norway. Measures of psychological distress, depression, and anxiety symptoms were based on the screening instrument, Hopkins Symptom Checklist-10. Two-level random intercept models were fitted to distinguish the individual and municipality sources of variation in adolescents’ mental health. In general, the results indicate substantial psychological symptom load among the study sample. Inequalities in adolescents’ psychological distress between family affluence groups were evident, with the lowest symptom loads in the most affluent families. The predicted depressive and anxiety symptoms among the students increased slightly along with the percentage of municipal residents with tertiary educations and with increasing income inequalities in their residential municipality. However, the interaction models suggest that the adverse effects of higher municipal education level and greater income inequality are, to a certain extent, steepest for adolescents with medium family affluence. This study highlights two key findings. Both municipality effects and family affluence account for a relatively small proportion of the total variance in the students’ psychological symptoms loads; however, the mental health inequalities we explored between socioeconomic strata on both the individual and municipal levels are not insignificant in a public health perspective. Results are discussed in the context of psychosocial mechanisms related to social comparison and perceptions of social status that may be applicable in egalitarian welfare states such as Norway.

Bidragsytere

Tommy Haugan

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Fakultet for sykepleie og helsevitenskap ved Nord universitet

Sally Muggleton

  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved University of Canberra
Aktiv cristin-person

Arnhild Ramberg Myhr

Bidragsyterens navn vises på dette resultatet som Arnhild Myhr
  • Tilknyttet:
    Forfatter
    ved Teknologiledelse ved SINTEF AS
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