Associations of family income and young adolescents’ perceived social position with self-esteem (N=11 618)
| Greater self-esteem (ordinal scores) | Poor self-esteem (bottom 10% scores)* | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model A1 | Model A2† | Model B1 | Model B2† | |
| Proportional OR (POR) (95% CI) | POR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | OR (95% CI) | |
| Family income | ||||
| Lowest income quintile | 0.81 (0.70 to 0.94) | 0.76 (0.64 to 0.89) | 1.86 (1.48 to 2.33) | 1.70 (1.27 to 2.29) |
| Second quintile | 0.79 (0.70 to 0.89) | 0.80 (0.71 to 0.90) | 1.64 (1.32 to 2.03) | 1.45 (1.12 to 1.87) |
| Third quintile | 0.87 (0.77 to 0.98) | 0.89 (0.89 to 1.00) | 1.36 (1.07 to 1.73) | 1.27 (0.99 to 1.63) |
| Fourth quintile | 0.86 (0.77 to 0.96) | 0.88 (0.79 to 0.99) | 1.15 (0.93 to 1.43) | 1.11 (0.88 to 1.40) |
| Highest income quintile | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. |
| Compared with your friends, is your family?‡ | ||||
| Poorer | 0.45 (0.36 to 0.56) | 0.45 (0.37 to 0.56) | 2.76 (2.05 to 3.70) | 2.62 (1.95 to 3.53) |
| About the same | Ref. | Ref. | Ref. | |
| Richer | 1.15 (0.99 to 1.33) | 1.09 (0.94 to 1.26) | 1.25 (0.98 to 1.59) | 1.37 (1.07 to 1.75) |
*Score range: 5–14 (out of a possible range of 5–20).
†Models A2 and B2 are adjusted for maternal age at first live birth, sex and ethnicity of the child. The analysis of perceived social position also adjusted for family income.
‡N=9785; 1895 young adolescents who answered don't know were excluded from these analyses.