Table 1 Descriptives. n = 2,668
Wave 1 (age 15–16) | n | % | ||
Gender | ||||
Boys | 1113 | 41.7 | ||
Girls | 1555 | 58.3 | ||
Parental education | ||||
≤ 2 years secondary or less | 376 | 14.1 | ||
≥ 3 years secondary | 499 | 18.7 | ||
Tertiary | 1793 | 67.2 | ||
Parental country of birth | ||||
At least one in Sweden | 2275 | 85.3 | ||
Two parents outside Sweden | 393 | 14.7 | ||
Medication for depression | 49 | 1.8 | ||
Medication for anxiety | 58 | 2.2 | ||
Mean | s.d. | Min | Max | |
Psychosomatic complaints | 7.03 | 2.77 | 3 | 15 |
Generalised trust | 2.42 | 0.50 | 1 | 4 |
Institutional trust | 2.84 | 0.53 | 1 | 4 |
Wave 2 (age 17–18) | n | % | ||
Upper secondary programme | ||||
Vocational | 491 | 18.4 | ||
Academic | 2103 | 78.8 | ||
Other programme/other activity/missing | 74 | 2.8 | ||
Medication for depression | 124 | 4.7 | ||
Medication for anxiety | 132 | 5.0 | ||
Mean | s.d. | Min | Max | |
Psychosomatic complaints | 7.24 | 2.72 | 3 | 15 |
Generalised trust | 2.44 | 0.51 | 1 | 4 |
Institutional trust | 2.83 | 0.52 | 1 | 4 |
Wave 3 (age 20–21) | n | % | ||
Depression symptoms (PHQ-2, cutoff ≥ 3) | 674 | 25.3 | ||
Anxiety symptoms (GAD-2, cutoff ≥ 3) | 730 | 27.4 | ||
Mean | s.d. | Min | Max | |
Depression and anxiety symptoms (PHQ-4, scale 0–12) | 3.62 | 3.00 | 0 | 12 |