The role of social position and depressive symptoms in adolescence for life-course trajectories of education and work: a cohort study

Table 3 Parental occupational class and employment status (age 16), depressive symptoms (age 16), and typical trajectories of education and labour market attachment (ages 18–42) among men (n = 492)

	Trajectory 1 (ref.)	Trajectory 2	Trajectory 3	Trajectory 4
	RRR (95% CI)	RRR (95% CI)	RRR (95% CI)	RRR (95% CI)
Unadjusted
Low parental occupational class	1.00	1.32 (0.75, 2.34)	3.84 (2.33, 6.34)	3.93 (2.21, 7.00)
Parental unemployment	1.00	2.07 (1.06, 4.02)	2.10 (1.13, 3.90)	2.43 (1.21, 4.85)
Depressive symptoms	1.00	0.45 (0.18, 1.10)	0.95 (0.43, 2.07)	2.48 (1.02, 6.02)
Mutually adjusted, Part I
Low parental occupational class	1.00	1.36 (0.76, 2.40)	3.86 (2.34, 6.38)	3.82 (2.14, 6.82)
Depressive symptoms	1.00	0.44 (0.18, 1.08)	0.85 (0.38, 1.90)	2.20 (0.89, 5.46)
Mutually adjusted, Part II
Parental unemployment	1.00	2.40 (1.21, 4.76)	2.18 (1.16, 4.10)	2.17 (1.07, 4.41)
Depressive symptoms	1.00	0.36 (0.14, 0.90)	0.78 (0.35, 1.73)	2.03 (0.82, 5.05)
Mutually adjusted, Part III
Low parental occupational class	1.00	1.30 (0.73, 2.32)	3.74 (2.26, 6.19)	3.69 (2.06, 6.61)
Parental unemployment	1.00	2.33 (1.18, 4.61)	1.97 (1.03, 3.76)	1.94 (0.94, 4.01)
Depressive symptoms	1.00	0.36 (0.14, 0.90)	0.72 (0.32, 1.66)	1.89 (0.74, 4.79)

Relative risk ratios (RRRs) from multinomial regression analysis, with 95% confidence intervals (CI) within brackets. Statistically significant estimates (p < 0.05) in bold
Trajectory 1: Long education into stable employment (29.1%, n = 143); Trajectory 2: Medium education into stable employment (22.2%, n = 109); Trajectory 3: Short education into stable employment (31.5%, n = 155); Trajectory 4: Continuously unstable situation (17.3%, n = 85)