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

Table 5 Mental health profiles in Sample 2 (2022)

	All	Profile 1	Profile 2	Profile 3	Profile 4	Profile comparison
	n = 2981	“Good mental health” (37.0%, n = 1103)	“Mixed psychosomatic health” (16.7%, n = 499)	“Poor mental health and low loneliness” (33.9%, n = 1011)	“Poor mental health and high loneliness” (12.3%, n = 368)	Overall	p-value	Pairwise comparison
	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	%/M (SD)	χ²/F	p-value	Pairwise comparison
Sample 2 (2022)
Mental health indicators
Psychological complaints^a						2453.62	< 0.001
0	48.1	100.0	27.7	13.9	14.1			3 = 4, others differ^b
1–2	30.9		72.3	45.5	27.2			2, 3, 4 differ^b
3–4	21.0			40.6	58.7			3, 4 differ^b
Somatic complaints^a						1264.00	< 0.001
0	62.1	100.0	44.3	40.4	32.1			2 = 3, others differ^c
1–2	30.6		55.7	46.9	43.5			3 = 4, 2 differs^d
3–4	7.3			12.8	24.5			3, 4 differ^b
Life satisfaction	7.44 (1.66)	8.19 (1.00)	7.77 (1.32)	7.07 (1.58)	5.74 (2.24)	293.31	< 0.001	All profiles differ^b
High loneliness (vs. low)	12.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	98.9	2944.09	< 0.001	1 = 2 = 3, 4 differs^b
Problematic social media use						1437.46	< 0.001
Normative user	50.2	70.5	100.0	11.8	27.4			All profiles differ^b
Risky user	39.9	29.5		66.4	52.4			All profiles differ^b
Problematic user	9.9			21.9	20.1			3 = 4

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 = 0.015) using Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons
^dProfiles differed significantly (p = 0.004) using Bonferroni-corrected pairwise comparisons

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