Reliability and validity of the Adolescent Stress Questionnaire in a sample of European adolescents - the HELENA study

Table 4 Contributions of socio-demographic characteristics to the variance in the ASQ scores in European adolescents

	HLM^a parameters
	Intercept		Sex^b		Pubertal stage^c		Age		SES
ASQ scale	Estimate	P	B	P	B	P	B	P	B	P
Home life	35.53	< 0.001	-3.46	< 0.001	-2.45	0.004	-0.23	0.442	-0.19	0.343
School performance	22.09	< 0.001	-1.95	< 0.001	-0.20	0.700	-0.06	0.763	-0.14	0.280
School attendance	8.25	< 0.001	-0.16	0.414	-0.21	0.401	-0.04	0.633	-0.10	0.115
Romantic relationships	12.00	< 0.001	-0.97	0.002	-0.89	0.029	0.00	0.997	0.03	0.786
Peer pressure	26.00	< 0.001	-2.34	< 0.001	-1.05	0.037	-0.56	0.002	-0.23	0.072
Teacher interaction	26.78	< 0.001	-0.17	0.657	-1.16	0.019	-0.64	< 0.001	-0.28	0.022
Future uncertainty	6.28	< 0.001	-0.98	< 0.001	-0.17	0.486	0.16	0.073	-0.06	0.366
School/leisure conflict	16.50	< 0.001	-1.17	< 0.001	0.16	0.708	-0.11	0.469	-0.06	0.569
Financial pressure	6.76	< 0.001	-0.35	0.149	-0.44	0.136	0.21	0.054	-0.25	0.001
Emerging adult responsibility	8.38	< 0.001	-0.06	0.744	-0.45	0.042	-0.13	0.097	-0.09	0.112
Summary score	182.63	< 0.001	-11.92	< 0.001	-8.30	0.021	-2.89	0.026	0.17	0.851

ASQ: Adolescent Stress Questionnaire; HLM: Hierarchical Linear Models; B: regression coefficient
^a Hierarchical Linear Models with 'city' as subject group variable
^b Reference category is girls
^c Reference category: pubertal stage V

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