Table 2.

Associations of family income and young adolescents’ perceived social position with life satisfaction (N=11 745)

	Greater life satisfaction (ordinal scores)		Poor life satisfaction (bottom 10% scores)*
	Model C1	Model C2†	Model D1	Model D2†
	Proportional OR (POR) (95% CI)	POR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)	OR (95% CI)
Family income
Lowest income quintile	0.74 (0.64 to 0.87)	0.71 (0.60 to 0.85)	1.81 (1.44 to 2.23)	2.11 (1.58 to 2.83)
Second quintile	0.75 (0.66 to 0.84)	0.75 (0.66 0 0.86)	1.50 (1.20 to 1.87)	1.65 (1.26 to 2.15)
Third quintile	0.88 (0.79 to 0.98)	0.88 (0.78 to 0.98)	1.33 (1.09 to 1.63)	1.43 (1.14 to 1.79)
Fourth quintile	0.92 (0.83 to 1.02)	0.92 (0.83 to 1.02)	0.98 (0.78 to 1.22)	1.01 (0.81 to 1.27)
Highest income quintile	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Compared with your friends, is your family?‡
Poorer	0.31 (0.26 to 0.37)	0.33 (0.27 to 0.39)	3.76 (2.87 to 4.92)	3.58 (2.72 to 4.70)
About the same	Ref.		Ref.	Ref.
Richer	0.78 (0.67 to 0.92)	0.76 (0.65 to 0.89)	1.68 (1.34 to 2.12)	1.77 (1.41 to 2.23)

*Score range: 6–28 (out of a possible range of 6–42).

†Models C2 and D2 are adjusted for maternal age at first live birth, sex and ethnicity of the child. The analysis of perceived social position also adjusted for family income.

‡N=9869; 1895 young adolescents who answered don't know were excluded from these analyses.