Table 2.

Change in educational ambition, from year 2000/2001 to 2004, among adolescents who experienced late parental divorce (n = 109) versus the change among their peers whose parents were continuously married (n = 1,752), in a prospective study of 18/19 year-old adolescents in Oslo (N = 1,861), after adjustment in multinomial logistic regressions for educational ambition and other potential confounders measured in 2000/2001

Independent variables	Ambition for secondary education	Undecided educational ambition
Crude results
Late parental divorce (ref = continuously married)	2.0 (0.9–4.0)	1.7 (1.1–2.7)*
Adjusted results
Late parental divorce (ref = continuously married)	1.2 (0.4–3.2)	1.8 (1.1–3.0)*
Gender (ref = boys)	0.4 (0.2–0.7)**	0.9 (0.7–1.3)
Ethnicity (ref = western)	1.1 (0.5–2.2)	0.5 (0.3–0.8)
Family economy (ref = average and below)	0.5 (0.3–0.9)	0.7 (0.5–0.9)*
Social support (ref = low)	1.7 (0.6–4.7)	0.8 (0.5–1.2)
Mother’s education (ref = higher sec. sch. or above)	1.7 (0.9–2.9)	0.9 (0.7–1.3)
Father education (ref = higher sec. sch. or above)	1.3 (0.7–2.2)	1.1 (0.8–1.5)
Internalized problems (ref = no)	1.3 (0.7–2.8)	1.0 (0.7–1.5)
Educ. performance at primary sch. (ref = outstanding)
Poor educ. performance	3.7 (1.6–8.4)**	1.5 (0.9–2.6)
Average educ. performance	1.6 (0.8–3.2)	1.3 (0.9–1.7)
Educ. ambition at primary sch. (ref = uni./college educ.)
Secondary education	11.0 (6.0–20.6)**	3.6 (2.5–5.1)**
Undecided	2.3 (0.9–5.8)	2.9 (2.0–4.1)**

Ambition for university/college education was the reference category. Odds ratio (95 % confidence interval)

Significant association ** p < 0.01 or * p < 0.05