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. 2024 Jul 18;18:89. doi: 10.1186/s13034-024-00776-2

Table 2.

Associations between sociodemographics, risk and resource factors with the latent classes for internalising problems, externalising problems and psychosomatic symptoms

Internalising mental health problems Externalising mental health problems Psychosomatic symptoms
Chi2 df p CC Chi2 df p CC Chi2 df p CC
Gender 1.53 3 0.675 0.045 11.10 4 0.025 0.121 3.58 4 0.466 0.069
Migration background 2.11 3 0.551 0.053 0.76 4 0.944 0.032 8.06 4 0.089 0.104
Parental education 3.60 6 0.731 0.070 3.08 8 0.930 0.065 8.15 8 0.419 0.105
Single parenting 7.19 3 0.066 0.098 4.07 4 0.396 0.074 7.38 4 0.117 0.099
COVID in family 0.55 3 0.907 0.027 3.71 4 0.447 0.070 6.55 4 0.161 0.093
COVID infected child 1.31 3 0.728 0.042 4.64 4 0.326 0.079 6.19 4 0.191 0.090
Internalising mental health problems Externalising mental health problems Psychosomatic symptoms
F; df = 3,740 p η H
df = 3
p F; df = 3,740 p η H
df = 4
p F; df = 3,740 p η H
df = 4
p
Age 1.47 0.222 0.077 4.09 0.252 12.97 < 0.001 0.256 48.93 < 0.001 1.41 0.231 0.057 5.53 0.237
Living space 2.51 0.057 0.100 8.37 0.039 2.28 0.059 0.110 9.46 0.051 2.00 0.093 0.104 8.03 0.091
HRQoL 63.19 < 0.001 0.204 162.26 < 0.001 42.70 < 0.001 0.188 155.52 < 0.001 37.63 < 0.001 0.169 132.66 < 0.001
Parental burden 9.59 < 0.001 0.193 24.16 < 0.001 13.21 < 0.001 0.290 59.31 < 0.001 10.18 < 0.001 0.228 36.19 < 0.001
Burden of the child 14.84 < 0.001 0.289 37.53 < 0.001 5.98 < 0.001 0.224 24.27 < 0.001 11.09 < 0.001 0.298 41.20 < 0.001
Personal resources 36.24 < 0.001 0.439 74.39 < 0.001 10.40 < 0.001 0.290 30.83 < 0.001 21.03 < 0.001 0.395 56.53 < 0.001
Family climate 14.12 < 0.001 0.292 35.13 < 0.001 8.68 < 0.001 0.267 32.72 < 0.001 8.68 < 0.001 0.266 32.84 < 0.001
Social support 5.95 < 0.001 0.194 15.51 < 0.001 5.32 < 0.001 0.211 17.69 < 0.001 5.39 < 0.001 0.213 17.44 0.002

η (eta): 0.1– small, 0.24– middle and 0.37– large effect size; H = Kruskal–Wallis H

CC  Concordance coefficient