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Table 4 Percentage distribution of low parental occupational class, parental unemployment, and mean values of depressive symptoms across typical trajectories. Results for women (n = 463)

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

 

Trajectory 1

Trajectory 2

Trajectory 3

Trajectory 4

Trajectory 5

Low parental occupational class (%)

15.5

34.7

41.7

45.0

51.9

Parental unemployment (%)

15.5

13.9

19.4

22.5

27.8

Depressive symptoms (mean)

0.51

0.56

0.54

0.57

0.59

  1. Trajectory 1: Long education into stable employment (18.1%, n = 84); Trajectory 2: Short education into stable employment (37.4%, n = 173); Trajectory 3: Part-time/precarious into stable employment (15.6%, n = 72); Trajectory 4: Continuously unstable situation (17.3%, n = 80); Trajectory 5: Unstable employment into labour market exclusion (11.7%, n = 54)