Can negative life events and coping style help explain socioeconomic differences in perceived stress among adolescents? A cross-sectional study based on the West Jutland cohort study

Table 4 Perceived stress and its association with SES adjusted for negative life events and coping among Girls

	Model 1			Model 2			Model 3			Model 4
	β	Std. β	SE	β	Std. β	SE	β	Std. β	SE	β	Std. β	SE
Household income (in 1000 Dkr)	-0.001**	-0.095	0.000	-0.001**	-0.081	0.000	-0.001*	-0.059	0.000	0.000	-0.050	0.000
% of total income effect mediated	-			14.7%			37.7%			49.2%
% of total income effect mediated	-			(Sobels test = 2.99, p < 0.01)			(Sobels test = 15.46, p < 0.01)			(Sobels test = 11.97, p < 0.01)
Parental education
Primary school (< 10 years)	reference			reference			reference			reference
High School/vocational training (10–12 years)	-0.734**	-0.142	0.213	-0.646**	-0.125	0.212	-0.688***	-0.134	0.189	-0.618**	-0.120	0.189
Higher education (kvu/mvu) (13–15 years)	-0.856***	-0.150	0.230	-0.743**	-0.130	0.229	-0.612**	-0.107	0.205	-0.524*	-0.092	0.204
University (> 15 years)	-1.265***	-0.117	0.334	-1.115**	-0.103	0.333	-0.815**	-0.075	0.298	-0.697*	-0.064	0.297
% of total educational effect mediated	-			13.3%			45.9%			56.3%
% of total educational effect mediated	-			(Sobels test = 3.08, p < 0.01)			(Sobels test = 24.18, p < 0.01)			(Sobels test = 17.98, p < 0.01)

* .05 > p > .01; ** .01 > p > .001; *** p ≤ .001.
Ordinary Least Squares regression. (n = 1456).
For each SES measure (i.e. household income and parental education) the following four models where carried out adjusted for confounders (no. siblings, parents cohabitation status & ethnicity):
Model 1: Individual SES measure and perceived stress.
Model 2: Individual SES measure + life events.
Model 3: Individual SES measure + active and avoidance coping.
Model 4: Individual SES measure + life events, active and avoidance coping.

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