Socioeconomic status and the development of depressive symptoms from childhood to adulthood: A longitudinal analysis across 27 years of follow-up in the Young Finns study

摘要: Abstract We examined two alternative hypotheses on the association between low socioeconomic status (SES) and depressive symptoms: social causation health selection. The latent growth curve (LGC) approach was used to examine trajectories of change in symptoms over a period 15 years dataset (the Young Finns study) consisting nationally representative sample adolescents young adults ( n  = 1613). Depressive were at four examination phases 1992 2007. SES measured as parental childhood (baseline study 1980) participants own 2007 when had reached adulthood 30 45 age. level associated r  = −.14) with slower decrease during follow-up. Lower age, male gender, higher occupational grade but not income lower negative emotionality symptoms. Higher age also A depression faster position adulthood. similar pattern found relationship concluded that effect diminishes time, of, especially decline predicts gradient.