Table 2 Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in the 10th grade by gender, type of track and completion of upper secondary school after 5 years
Boys | Girls | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mental health | Completers (3348) | Non-completers (2082) | Completers (4000) | Non-completers (1380) | ||||||||||||
Mean | SD | (95% CI) | Mean | SD | (95% CI) | Mean | SD | (95% CI) | Mean | SD | (95% CI) | |||||
General tracks | ||||||||||||||||
SDQ externalising | 4.91 | 2.96 | 4.79 | 5.04 | 6.45 | 3.07 | 6.17 | 6.72* | 5.04 | 2.64 | 4.94 | 5.14 | 6.81 | 3.15 | 6.49 | 7.14* |
SDQ internalising | 3.08 | 2.56 | 2.97 | 3.19 | 3.72 | 2.90 | 3.46 | 3.98* | 4.34 | 2.94 | 4.22 | 4.45 | 5.39 | 3.27 | 5.05 | 5.73* |
Vocational tracks | ||||||||||||||||
SDQ externalising | 5.99 | 3.04 | 5.82 | 6.15 | 7.29 | 3.26 | 7.13 | 7.46* | 6.03 | 2.82 | 5.88 | 6.18 | 7.58 | 3.11 | 7.38 | 7.78* |
SDQ internalising | 3.40 | 2.57 | 3.26 | 3.54 | 3.87 | 2.93 | 3.73 | 4.02* | 5.15 | 3.12 | 4.99 | 5.31 | 6.06 | 3.35 | 5.84 | 6.28* |