Table 1 Demographic characteristics of adolescent participants by informant, and presence of irritable mood and temper outbursts
From: The hidden burden: self-reported irritability in adolescent girls signals higher psychiatric risk
| Â | Parent-report (ages 12 to 17) | Self-report (ages 12 to 17) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Irritable mood | Temper outbursts | Irritable mood | Temper outbursts | |||||
Absent n = 2105 77% | Present n = 635 23% | Absent n = 2336 85% | Present n = 402 15% | Absent n = 1830 74% | Present n = 644 26% | Absent n = 2095 85% | Present n = 376 15% | |
Age, M (SD) | 14.2 (1.6) | 14.06 (1.6) | 14.2 (1.6) | 13.99 (1.5) | 14.3 (1.7) | 14.3 (1.6) | 14.3 (1.7) | 14.2 (1.7) |
Female, n (%) | 1064 (50.5) | 314 (49.4) | 1177 (50.4) | 201 (50.0) | 885 (48.4) | 367 (57.0) | 1045 (49.9) | 204 (54.3) |
Ethnicity, n (%) | ||||||||
 White British | 1577 (75.0) | 548 (86.3) | 1775 (76.0) | 348 (86.5) | 1404 (76.7) | 510 (79.2) | 1612 (77.0) | 299 (79.5) |
 Asian/Asian British | 225 (10.7) | 30 (4.7) | 238 (10.2) | 17 (4.2) | 187 (10.2) | 47 (7.3) | 207 (9.9) | 27 (7.2) |
 Black/African/Caribbean/Black British | 96 (4.6) | 11 (1.7) | 102 (4.4) | 5 (1.2) | 75 (4.1) | 21 (3.3) | 82 (3.9) | 14 (3.7) |
 Multi-ethnic | 126 (6.0) | 33 (5.2) | 137 (5.9) | 22 (5.5) | 105 (5.7) | 45 (7.0) | 125 (6.0) | 25 (6.6) |
 White other | 80 (3.8) | 13 (2.0) | 83 (3.6) | 10 (2.5) | 105 (3.2) | 21 (3.3) | 68 (3.2) | 11 (2.9) |
Housing tenure, n (%) | ||||||||
 Owned | 1379 (65.6) | 421 (66.5) | 1562 (67.0) | 238 (59.4) | 1251 (68.9) | 395 (61.9) | 1430 (68.7) | 213 (57.6) |
 Privately rented | 331 (15.7) | 84 (13.3) | 357 (15.3) | 57 (14.2) | 259 (14.3) | 104 (16.3) | 294 (14.1) | 69 (18.6) |
 Social housing | 393 (18.7) | 128 (20.2) | 414 (17.7) | 106 (26.4) | 306 (16.9) | 139 (21.7) | 357 (17.2) | 88 (23.8) |
Benefits, n (%) | ||||||||
 Parent/s income support | 526 (28.1) | 187 (32.7) | 572 (27.5) | 141 (39.4) | 394 (25.5) | 182 (32.3) | 448 (25.3) | 126 (38.4) |
 Any welfare benefits | 609 (32.6) | 337 (41.0) | 676 (32.4) | 168 (46.9) | 467 (30.2) | 209 (37.2) | 532 (30.0) | 1442 (43.3) |