Mental health trajectories from childhood to young adulthood affect the educational and employment status of young adults: results from the TRAILS study

Veldman, Karin; Reijneveld, Sijmen A.; Almansa, Josué; Verhulst, Frank C.; Bültmann, Ute

doi:10.1136/jech-2014-204421

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“…The transition to young adulthood also coincides with the age of peak prevalence of psychiatric disorder, and young people on the margins of society are known to be at risk for mental ill-health (Baggio et al, 2015;Benjet et al, 2012;Bynner & Parsons, 2002;Patel, Flisher, Hetrick, & McGorry, 2007;Veldman, Reijneveld, Almansa Ortiz, Verhulst, & Bultmann, 2015;Waghorn, Chant, Lloyd, & Harris, 2011). It is thus crucial to understand whether NEET youths experience more than their share of mental health problems and substance abuse, and whether knowledge of their mental health histories can inform the services provided to them during this vulnerable period.…”

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Committed to work but vulnerable: self‐perceptions and mental health in NEET 18‐year olds from a contemporary British cohort

Goldman‐Mellor

Caspi

Arseneault

et al. 2015

Child Psychology Psychiatry

102

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Background Labour market disengagement among youths has lasting negative economic and social consequences, yet is poorly understood. We compared four types of work-related self-perceptions, as well as vulnerability to mental health and substance abuse problems, among youths not in education, employment, or training (NEET) and among their peers. Methods Participants were from the Environmental Risk (E-Risk) longitudinal study, a nationally representative U.K. cohort of 2,232 twins born in 1994–95. We measured commitment to work, job-search effort, professional/technical skills, “soft” skills (e.g., teamwork, decision-making, communication), optimism about getting ahead, and mental health and substance-use disorders at age 18. We also examined childhood mental health. Results At age 18, 11.6% of participants were NEET. NEET participants reported themselves as committed to work and searching for jobs with greater diligence than their non-NEET peers. However, they reported fewer “soft” skills (B = −0.98, p < .001) and felt less optimistic about their likelihood of getting ahead in life (B = −2.41, p < .001). NEET youths also had higher rates of concurrent mental health and substance-abuse problems, but these did not explain the relationship with work-related self-perceptions. Nearly 60% of NEET (vs. 35% of non-NEET) youths had already experienced ≥1 mental health problem in childhood/adolescence. Associations of NEET status with concurrent mental health problems were independent of pre-existing mental health vulnerability. Conclusions Our findings indicate that while NEET is clearly an economic and mental health issue, it does not appear to be a motivation issue. Alongside skills, work-related self-perceptions and mental-health problems may be targets for intervention and service provision among this high-risk population.

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Committed to work but vulnerable: self‐perceptions and mental health in NEET 18‐year olds from a contemporary British cohort

Goldman‐Mellor

Caspi

Arseneault

et al. 2015

Child Psychology Psychiatry

102

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“…There are however some limitations with these studies. First, some studies have investigated employment measured very early in adult life 16 17. To what extent these effects extend to permanent labour market outcomes, enduring over the life course is less established.…”

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Adolescent mental health and earnings inequalities in adulthood: evidence from the Young-HUNT Study

Evensen

Lyngstad

Melkevik

et al. 2016

J Epidemiol Community Health

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“…Of note, persistently high levels of CP predict greater mental and physical health difficulties in adulthood, along with worse education and employment outcomes (Fergusson et al 2005;Moffitt et al 2002;Odgers et al 2007). In particular, young adults 'not in education, employment, or training' (NEET), a classification associated with chronic unemployment and poor physical and mental health (Franzén and Kassman 2005), are more likely to report histories of delinquency, substance abuse, and mental health problems (Rodwell et al 2017;Veldman et al 2015). Given that IC and LPB both designate early-onset and persistent CP, their shared variance (i.e., IC/LPB) may, in turn, be associated with adverse adult health and adjustment, whether directly or by initiating indirect developmental pathways via delinquency or related 'health-compromising' behaviors (e.g., substance use), which themselves increase the risk for a variety of negative health and behavioral outcomes (van Nieuwenhuijzen et al 2009;Weinberg et al 1998).…”

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Health and Functional Outcomes for Shared and Unique Variances of Interpersonal Callousness and Low Prosocial Behavior

Meehan

Maughan

Barker

2019

J Psychopathol Behav Assess

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Previous factor-analytic studies identify significant comorbidity between interpersonal-callous (IC) traits and low prosocial behavior (LPB), which, in turn, is associated with high levels of childhood risk exposure and psychopathology. Longitudinal associations between IC, LPB, or their combination, and early-adult health and social functioning have not been investigated, however. Extending a previously-identified bifactor model within a prospective birth cohort, this study applied latent path analysis to test direct and indirect pathways (via adolescent delinquency, substance use, and physical activity) between these general and specific factors (age 13) and (i) emotional problems (age 18), (ii) physical health problems (age 18), and (iii) classification as 'not in education, employment, or training' (NEET; age 20). All models controlled for childhood adversity and IQ. Bifactor-specific estimates indicated that the residual IC factor did not reliably denote unique variance over and above a general factor (IC/LPB). IC/LPB itself was directly associated with NEET classification, while the residual LPB factor was associated with better emotional and physical health. IC/LPB also indirectly associated with emotional problems via greater adolescent delinquency, and with physical health problems via lower physical activity. In contrast, residual LPB variance was either non-significantly or negatively related to these adolescent domains. Findings indicate that the shared variance underlying IC and LPB confers an increased risk for poor health and functional outcomes in emerging adulthood, and highlight delinquency and physical inactivity as potential adolescent treatment targets that may mitigate the risk for health difficulties at high levels of this IC/LPB construct.

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Mental health trajectories from childhood to young adulthood affect the educational and employment status of young adults: results from the TRAILS study

Cited by 113 publications

References 23 publications

Committed to work but vulnerable: self‐perceptions and mental health in NEET 18‐year olds from a contemporary British cohort

Committed to work but vulnerable: self‐perceptions and mental health in NEET 18‐year olds from a contemporary British cohort

Adolescent mental health and earnings inequalities in adulthood: evidence from the Young-HUNT Study

Health and Functional Outcomes for Shared and Unique Variances of Interpersonal Callousness and Low Prosocial Behavior

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