Table 2.
Mean Mental Health Score (SD) at Years 0, 2, 4, and 6, Overall and by Teenage Parenthood Stratified by Sex, National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997
| Overall (N = 1,426a) | Teen Mother (n = 314a) | Nonparenting Teen Female (n = 604a) | P Value | Teen Father (n = 178a) | Nonparenting Teen Male (n = 330a) | P Value | |
| Year 0 (n = 1,426) | 10.00 (2.56) | 9.40 (2.58) | 9.67 (2.45) | 0.128 | 10.31 (2.59) | 10.99 (2.43) | 0.004 |
| Year 2 (n = 1,367) | 10.06 (2.52) | 9.54 (2.62) | 10.03 (2.40) | 0.005 | 9.89 (2.87) | 10.71 (2.31) | <0.001 |
| Year 4 (n = 1,300) | 10.32 (2.54) | 9.61 (2.74) | 10.32 (2.35) | <0.001 | 10.62 (2.86) | 10.88 (2.34) | 0.309 |
| Year 6 (n = 911) | 10.44 (2.52) | 9.86 (2.58) | 10.44 (2.40) | 0.007 | 10.80 (2.61) | 10.86 (2.54) | 0.837 |
Abbreviation: SD, standard deviation.
a
Numbers vary according to the number of missing mental health measures at each timepoint.