Mental health groups in high school students and later school dropout: a latent class and register-based follow-up analysis of the Danish National Youth Study

Table 3 The expected proportions of the high school population in each class and item-response probabilities, by sex

	Class 1: Flourishing	Class 2: Moderate mentally healthy	Class 3: Emotionally challenged	Class 4: Languishing
	%	%	%	%
Males
Latent class prevalence	55	20	15	10
Positive indicators
High life satisfaction	78	25	46	4
High self-esteem	97	66	87	30
Relatedness to parents	91	61	80	46
Relatedness to friends	92	62	84	45
High self-efficacy	96	75	90	57
Autonomy	95	78	93	74
Negative indicators
Stress	2	07	11	30
Nervous	6	15	62	75
Sadness	0.03	3	38	81
Irritable	10	24	93	95
Loneliness	0.01	7	3	41
Females
Latent class prevalence	38	15	28	19
Positive indicators
High life satisfaction	74	21	35	2
High self-esteem	92	47	69	16
Relatedness to parents	94	71	85	53
Relatedness to friends	96	75	87	49
High self-efficacy	95	71	85	48
Autonomy	94	74	89	62
Negative indicators
Stress	3	10	18	39
Nervous	06	15	59	80
Sadness	1	10	69	96
Irritable	14	19	95	97
Loneliness	0.01	08	5	46

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