Understanding adolescent males' poor mental health and health-compromising behaviours: A factor analysis model on Swedish school-based data.

ABSTRACT:

Aim

The aim was to develop a factor model of the clustering of poor mental-health symptoms and health-compromising behaviours (HCBs) in adolescent males.

Methods

The study was based on two cross-sectional school-based Swedish surveys in 2011 (response rate 80%, N=2823) and 2014 (response rate 85%, N=2358), both of which comprised questionnaires from males aged 15-16 and 17-18 years. A factor model was developed by exploratory factor analysis on the 2011 survey and validated by confirmatory factor analysis on the 2014 survey.

Results

Four aspects of poor mental health and HCBs emerged in the exploratory factor analysis: (a) deviancy as a tendency to substance use and delinquency, (b) unsafety as an inclination towards feelings of unsafety in different env

SUBMITTER: Haraldsson J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8873304 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature