Mental health profiles of Finnish adolescents before and after the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic

Table 4 Mental health profiles in sample 1 (2018)

	All	Profile 1	Profile2	Profile 3	Profile 4	Profile comparison
	n = 3149	“Good mental health” (43.7%, n = 1375)	“Mixed psychosocial health” (19.9%, n = 628)	“Somatically challenged” (15.0%, n = 471)	“Poor mental health” (21.4%, n = 675)	Overall	p-value	Pairwise comparison
	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	χ²/F	p-value	Pairwise comparison
Sample 1 (2018)
Mental health indicators
Psychological complaints^a						2747.51	< 0.001
0	57.5	100.0	8.1	49.0	22.8			All profiles differ^b
1–2	27.7		74.4	51.0	24.4			2, 3, 4 differ^b
3–4	14.8		17.5		52.7			2, 4 differ^b
Somatic complaints^a						2919.90	< 0.001
0	69.5	100.0	100.0		27.3			1 = 2, 4 differs^b
1–2	26.5			100.0	53.8			3, 4 differ^b
3–4	4.1				19.0
Life satisfaction	7.74 (1.77)	8.44 (1.15)	7.48 (1.59)	7.92 (1.28)	6.42 (2.37)	251.64	< 0.001	All profiles differ^b
High loneliness (vs. low)	14.5	0.0	26.4	0.0	43.0	827.20	< 0.001	1 = 3, 2^b, 4 differ^b
Problematic social media use						1363.10	< 0.001
Normative user	56.1	72.4	55.6	58.2	21.8			2 = 3, others differ^b
Risky user	34.3	27.6	44.4	41.8	33.3			2 = 3, others differ^c
Problematic user	9.6				44.9

Chi-square test for percentage comparison and Post-hoc ANOVA for mean comparison (two-tailed)
^aNumber of complaints experienced more than once a week
^bProfiles differed significantly (p < 0.001) using Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons
^cProfiles differed significantly (p = 0.042) using Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons

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