Associations between psychological symptoms in adolescence and debts or experienced financial scarcity in emerging adulthood.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Patients with psychiatric disorders are more likely to experience financial difficulties. Yet, there is limited knowledge about the longitudinal relationship between psychopathology in adolescence and debts or experienced financial scarcity in emerging adulthood.

Aims

We aimed to examine whether distinct types of psychological symptoms in mid-adolescence precede the occurrence of unsecured debts and experienced financial scarcity in emerging adulthood.

Method

Data from a Dutch adolescent cohort (N = 659, 53.9% female) oversampled on the risk of psychopathology was used. Psychological symptoms were self-reported at baseline (mean age 14.80 years, s.d. = 0.79), using the Youth Self-Report and the Prodromal Questionnaire-16. At follow-up (mean age 17.95

SUBMITTER: Ravensbergen SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12451541 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature