Table 3.
Bivariate associations between each potential explanatory variable and GHQ Likert score (unstandardised B and significance) for males and females at each date and significance of each variable by date interaction.
| Males |
Females |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 |
2006 |
(Signif of int. with date) | 1987 |
2006 |
(Signif of int. with date) | |||||
| B | (Sig) | B | (Sig) | B | (Sig) | B | (Sig) | |||
| Economic factors | ||||||||||
| No working parent | −0.51 | (.275) | −0.02 | (.957) | (.547) | −0.53 | (.376) | 0.92 | (.093) | (.126) |
| Shared bedroom | 0.06 | (.859) | −0.43 | (.206) | (.416) | −1.15 | (.009) | −1.52 | (<.001) | (.597) |
| Lot of worry about unemployment | −0.06 | (.863) | 1.10 | (<.001) | (.048) | −0.32 | (.484) | 2.41 | (<.001) | (<.001) |
| Family factors | ||||||||||
| Not with both birth parents | −0.56 | (.196) | 0.35 | (.227) | (.179) | 0.45 | (.414) | 1.19 | (<.001) | (.356) |
| Arguments with parents (scale) | 0.53 | (.029) | 1.12 | (<.001) | (.099) | 0.29 | (.390) | 1.52 | (<.001) | (.007) |
| Family outings (scale) | 0.12 | (.744) | −0.53 | (.001) | (.232) | 0.36 | (.474) | −0.87 | (<.001) | (.074) |
| Lot of worry about family relationships | 2.46 | (<.001) | 1.22 | (.001) | (.185) | −0.39 | (.538) | 4.35 | (<.001) | (<.001) |
| School factors | ||||||||||
| School disengagement (scale) | 0.18 | (.068) | 0.28 | (<.001) | (.510) | 0.08 | (.509) | 0.76 | (<.001) | (<.001) |
| Lot of worry about school | 0.98 | (.006) | 2.25 | (<.001) | (.024) | 1.15 | (.008) | 2.45 | (<.001) | (.042) |
| Values and lifestyle factors | ||||||||||
| Religious attendance weekly or more | 0.01 | (.983) | 0.26 | (.426) | (.673) | −0.21 | (.626) | −0.10 | (.793) | (.876) |
| Mainstream youth culture | 0.72 | (.198) | −0.25 | (.569) | (.283) | −0.48 | (.416) | 0.61 | (.250) | (.240) |
| Alternative youth culture | 0.12 | (.837) | 0.01 | (.955) | (.906) | −1.97 | (.275) | 0.89 | (.006) | (.233) |
| Discos/clubs weekly or more | −0.42 | (.553) | 0.18 | (.548) | (.569) | −0.32 | (.646) | 0.57 | (.079) | (.356) |
| Compute games weekly or more | −0.42 | (.234) | −0.72 | (.018) | (.607) | −0.57 | (.427) | −0.48 | (.151) | (.927) |
| Spending power (scale) | 0.18 | (.217) | −0.05 | (.286) | (.278) | −0.23 | (.168) | −0.12 | (.129) | (.614) |
| Obese | 0.55 | (.404) | −0.05 | (.891) | (.551) | 0.46 | (.615) | 0.16 | (.713) | (.814) |
| Lot of worry about weight | 0.54 | (.492) | 0.96 | (.002) | (.713) | 0.98 | (.035) | 2.72 | (<.001) | (.009) |
| Lot of worry about looks | 1.51 | (.003) | 2.27 | (<.001) | (.333) | 0.60 | (.256) | 2.89 | (<.001) | (.002) |
| N | 310 | 1315 | 1625 | 339 | 1312 | 1651 | ||||