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. 2024 Mar 23;18:39. doi: 10.1186/s13034-024-00730-2

Table 2.

Distributions of depressive symptoms, loneliness, and anxiety symptoms among adolescents with different sociodemographic characteristics, n (%)

Depressive symptoms Loneliness Anxiety symptoms
yes χ2 P yes χ2 P no mild moderate to severe χ2 P
Sex Male 817 (16.1) 27.793  < 0.001 2450 (48.2) 140.457  < 0.001 3279 (64.5) 1259 (24.8) 543 (10.7) 58.933  < 0.001
Female 836 (20.3) 2493 (60.6) 2343 (57.0) 1181 (28.7) 589 (14.3)
School type Junior middle school 795 (18.2) 66.990  < 0.001 2179 (49.9) 188.094  < 0.001 2958 (67.7) 913 (20.9) 496 (11.4) 337.682  < 0.001
Senior middle school 585 (21.8) 1738 (64.8) 1259 (46.9) 994 (37.1) 429 (16.0)
Vocational middle school 273 (12.7) 1026 (47.8) 1405 (65.5) 533 (24.8) 207 (9.7)
Live at school Yes 241 (16.1) 4.235 0.040 851 (56.9) 7.004 0.008 875 (58.5) 445 (29.7) 176 (11.8) 9.426 0.009
No 1412 (18.3) 4092 (53.2) 4747 (61.7) 1995 (25.9) 956 (12.4)
Academic performance Top quarter 475 (14.5) 103.938  < 0.001 1669 (51.1) 38.365  < 0.001 2096 (64.2) 826 (25.3) 345 (10.6) 60.335  < 0.001
Middle 744 (17.4) 2277 (53.3) 2639 (61.7) 1119 (26.2) 516 (12.1)
Bottom quarter 434 (26.3) 997 (60.3) 887 (53.7) 495 (29.9) 271 (16.4)
Pocket money  < 200 CNY 879 (18.3) 17.119  < 0.001 2542 (52.9) 3.787 0.151 3033 (63.1) 1198 (24.9) 573 (11.9) 25.652  < 0.001
200–599 CNY 468 (16.0) 1617 (55.2) 1754 (59.9) 832 (28.4) 344 (11.7)
 ≥ 600 CNY 306 (21.0) 784 (53.7) 835 (57.2) 410 (28.1) 215 (14.7)
BMI Underweight 145 (17.2) 6.826 0.033 433 (51.5) 1.984 0.371 525 (62.4) 213 (25.3) 103 (12.2) 5.570 0.234
Normal 1005 (17.3) 3124 (53.9) 3550 (61.3) 1561 (26.9) 684 (11.8)
Overweight/obese 503 (19.7) 1386 (54.2) 1547 (60.5) 666 (26.0) 345 (13.5)
Weight perception Underweight 337 (18.8) 95.121  < 0.001 975 (54.4) 155.626  < 0.001 1092 (60.9) 469 (26.2) 231 (12.9) 175.373  < 0.001
About the right weight 446 (13.1) 1560 (45.8) 2354 (69.1) 761 (22.3) 292 (8.6)
Overweight 870 (21.8) 2408 (60.3) 2176 (54.5) 1210 (30.3) 609 (15.2)
Weight teasing Never 904 (14.1) 291.654  < 0.001 2967 (46.4) 464.337  < 0.001 4333 (67.8) 1481 (23.2) 579 (9.1) 521.124  < 0.001
Less than once a year 248 (19.5) 859 (67.6) 666 (52.4) 438 (34.5) 166 (13.1)
More than once a year 501 (32.7) 1117 (73.0) 623 (40.7) 521 (34.0) 387 (25.3)
Total 1653 (18.0) 4943 (53.8) 5622 (61.1) 2440 (26.5) 1132 (12.3)