Table 4. Results from the linear regression models on emotional and behavioural problems (SDQ total score).

Adolescents aged 11 to 17 years.

Emotional and behavioural problems	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4		Standardized Coefficients
	Coeff.	P- value	Coeff.	P-Value	Coeff.	P-Value	Coeff.	P-Value
Family status (baseline → follow-up)
Nuclear → Nuclear	Ref		Ref		Ref		Ref
Nuclear → Single parent	1.07	0.004	1.05	0.004	0.34	0.282	0.38	0.232	0.019
Nuclear → Step	1.35	0.057	1.33	0.060	1.08	0.099	1.15	0.078	0.034
Single parent → Single parent	1.47	0.001	1.17	0.006	0.98	0.015	0.66	0.069	0.039
Single parent → Step	1.01	0.050	0.82	0.115	0.43	0.363	0.10	0.829	0.004
Step → Step	1.49	0.010	1.43	0.012	1.19	0.019	0.73	0.156	0.035
Step → Single parent	1.92	0.018	1.45	0.069	1.11	0.049	1.08	0.029	0.032
Sex: female	0.91	0.000	0.90	0.000	0.76	0.000	1.02	0.000	0.113
Age (t1)	-0.15	0.001	-0.17	0.000	-0.24	0.000	-0.24	0.000	-0.105
Socio-economic status (t0)			-0.16	0.000	-0.15	0.000	-0.08	0.000	-0.070
Socio-economic status (t1-t0)			-0.06	0.171	-0.05	0.196	-0.02	0.594	-0.011
Family cohesion (t0)					-0.11	0.000	-0.09	0.000	-0.291
Family cohesion (t1-t0)					-0.10	0.000	-0.10	0.000	-0.417
Parent-rated health (t0)							0.07	0.630	0.010
Emotional & behavioural problems (t0)							0.19	0.000	0.227

Range of values: 0 (low problems)– 40 (strong problems).