It has been argued that the relationship between mental health and teenage parenthood might be explained by the connection of social disadvantage and mental health. This paper embraces a life course approach and investigates the link between social and health disadvantages and teenage parenthood in Sweden, in attempt to disentangle experiences of early mental health problems from other social disadvantage factors. The research questions were explored through random intercept logistic models for panel data. The data for this study consists of all individuals born in Sweden between 1989 and 1994, drawn from Swedish population registers. The final models comprised 680,848 individuals who were followed throughout their teenage years. The results show that mental health problems in youth function as an independent predictor of teenage parenthood, even after adjusting for other social disadvantage factors. This observation applies for both boys and girls. Activities aimed at increasing the perceived life opportunities of youth and giving significance to life may be considered as means of preventing teenage parenthood through policy. This study suggests that such activities could be extended to include teenagers with mental health problems.

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心理健康问题和社会不利因素可预测青少年的父母身份：一项基于登记册的瑞典男孩和女孩的人口研究

有人认为，心理健康与青少年父母之间的关系可能是由社会弱势与心理健康之间的联系来解释的。本文采用了一种生命历程方法，研究了瑞典的社会和健康不利因素与青少年父母之间的联系，以期将早期精神健康问题的经验与其他社会不利因素区分开来。通过针对面板数据的随机拦截逻辑模型探索研究问题。这项研究的数据包括从1989年至1994年在瑞典出生的所有个人，这些个人均来自瑞典的人口登记册。最终模型包括680,848个人，整个青少年时期都受到关注。结果表明，青少年的心理健康问题是青少年父母行为的独立预测因素，即使在调整了其他社会不利因素之后。这一观察结果适用于男孩和女孩。旨在增加青年人感知的生活机会并赋予生活意义的活动可被视为通过政策防止青少年生育的手段。这项研究表明，此类活动可以扩展到包括患有精神健康问题的青少年。