...
首页> 外文期刊>Health & place >Income inequality and depressive symptoms in South Africa: A longitudinal analysis of the National Income Dynamics Study
【24h】

Income inequality and depressive symptoms in South Africa: A longitudinal analysis of the National Income Dynamics Study

机译:南非的收入不平等和抑郁症状:《国家收入动态研究》的纵向分析

获取原文
获取原文并翻译 | 示例
           

摘要

Research suggests that income inequality may detrimentally affect mental health. We examined the relationship between district-level income inequality and depressive symptoms among individuals in South Africa-one of the most unequal countries in the world-using longitudinal data from Wave 1 (2008) and Wave 3 (2012) of the National Income Dynamics Study. Depressive symptoms were measured using the Center for Epidemiological Studies of Depression Short Form while district Gini coefficients were estimated from census and survey sources. Age, African population group, being single, being female, and having lower household income were independently associated with higher depressive symptoms. However, in longitudinal, fixed-effects regression models controlling for several factors, district-level Gini coefficients were not significantly associated with depressive symptoms scores. Our results do not support the hypothesis of a causal link between income inequality and depressive symptoms in the short-run. Possible explanations include the high underlying levels of inequality in all districts, or potential lags in the effect of inequality on depression. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
机译:研究表明,收入不平等可能会对心理健康产生不利影响。我们使用《国家收入动态研究》第1浪(2008)和第3浪(2012)的纵向数据,研究了南非-世界上最不平等的国家之一-的个人之间的地区级收入不平等与抑郁症状之间的关系。 。抑郁症状是使用抑郁症流行病学研究中心的简短形式进行测量的,而地区基尼系数则是根据普查和调查来源估算的。年龄,非洲人口群体,单身,女性和家庭收入较低分别与较高的抑郁症状相关。但是,在控制多个因素的纵向固定效应回归模型中,地区级的基尼系数与抑郁症状评分没有显着相关。我们的结果不支持在短期内收入不平等与抑郁症状之间存在因果关系的假设。可能的解释包括,所有地区的潜在不平等程度都很高,或者不平等对抑郁症的影响存在潜在的滞后性。 (C)2016 Elsevier Ltd.保留所有权利。

著录项

相似文献

  • 外文文献
  • 中文文献
  • 专利
获取原文

客服邮箱:kefu@zhangqiaokeyan.com

京公网安备:11010802029741号 ICP备案号:京ICP备15016152号-6 六维联合信息科技 (北京) 有限公司©版权所有
  • 客服微信

  • 服务号