Trajectories of depressive symptoms and adult educational and employment outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depressive symptoms show different trajectories throughout childhood and adolescence that may have different consequences for adult outcomes.

Aims

To examine trajectories of childhood depressive symptoms and their association with education and employment outcomes in early adulthood.

Method

We estimated latent trajectory classes from participants with repeated measures of self-reported depressive symptoms between 11 and 24 years of age and examined their association with two distal outcomes: university degree and those not in employment, education or training at age 24.

Results

Our main analyses (n = 9399) yielded five heterogenous trajectories of depressive symptoms. The largest group found (70.5% of participants) had a stable trajectory of low depr

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Lopez JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7001468 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature