“…Leaving home at an early age entails different kinds of transitions, and moving away from home at this age, while simultaneously attending a new school, seems to affect adolescents’ well-being, creating the risk of dropping out of school and/or potential mental health problems (Markussen, 2005, 2011). An increase in mental health problems in adolescents, especially among girls, during the last 20 years has been identified (Bor, Dean, Najman, & Hayatbakhsh, 2014; Collishaw, 2015; Von Soest & Wichstrøm, 2014).…”