Longitudinal patterns of adolescent well-being and associations with health-related outcomes in young adulthood: a cohort study using latent growth mixture modelling
Max Herke, Tobias Rähse, Anja Knöchelmann · 2026
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Max Herke and co-authors chart the paths of teenage well-being and their echoes in adult health, in a 2026 study. Adolescence is a sensitive stretch whose effects can last decades. The team followed more than eight thousand German adolescents from age eleven into their twenties. Statistical modeling sorted their well-being courses into distinct trajectory groups.
About four in five teens held steady at high well-being. Two groups dipped, one around age fifteen and another nearer seventeen. A small group started low and caught up. Family income and household shape predicted which path a teen followed. Path membership then linked to health outcomes in young adulthood. The map helps target support before temporary dips harden into lasting harm.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Max Herke, Tobias Rähse, Anja Knöchelmann |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 85 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |