The relationship between perceived income inequality, adverse mental health and interpersonal difficulties in UK adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Adolescence is a period of life when young people increasingly define themselves through peer comparison and are vulnerable to developing mental health problems. In the current study, we investigated whether the subjective experience of economic disadvantage among friends is associated with social difficulties and poorer mental health in early adolescence.

Methods

We used latent change score modelling (LCSM) on data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study, collected at ages 11 and 14 (N = 12,995). Each LCSM modelled the mean of an outcome related to mental health and interpersonal difficulties at age 11 (including self-esteem, well-being, emotional difficulties, peer problems, bullying, victimisation and externalising difficulties), the change of the outcome from ages

SUBMITTER: Piera Pi-Sunyer B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10100326 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature