Prospective associations between adolescent mental health problems and positive mental wellbeing in early old age

Table 4 Associations between life satisfaction at age 60–64 years and scores for self-organisation, conduct, and emotional problems in adolescence

	Model 1		Model 2		Model 3		Model 4
Independent variables	Coeff.	p-value	Coeff.	p-value	Coeff.	p-value	Coeff.	p-value
Adolescent mental health
Self-organisation	0.003	0.9	−0.025	0.5	−0.020	0.6	−0.015	0.6
Conduct problems	−0.037	0.2	−0.026	0.4	−0.025	0.5	−0.002	0.9
Emotional problems	−0.074	0.007	−0.068	0.016	−0.061	0.034	−0.038	0.13
Childhood cognitive ability at age 8			−0.065	0.017	−0.088	0.003	−0.098	<0.001
Father’s occupational social class			0.010	0.7	0.022	0.4	0.033	0.2
Educational attainment by age 26					0.058	0.074	0.044	0.12
GHQ-28 at age 60–64							−0.493	<0.001

Variable coefficients (Coeff.) are standardized. Italics indicates p < 0.05. Model 1 adjusted for each score derived from teacher ratings at ages 13 and 15 as well as for gender. Model 2 further adjusted for childhood cognitive ability at age 8 and father’s occupational social class. Model 3 further adjusted for educational attainment by age 26. Model 4 further adjusted for GHQ-28 total score at age 60–64

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