scholarly journals Mental health and the jilted generation: Using age-period-cohort analysis to assess differential trends in young people's mental health following the Great Recession and austerity in England

2018 ◽  
Vol 214 ◽  
pp. 133-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel M. Thomson ◽  
Srinivasa Vittal Katikireddi
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Cohort Analysis ◽  
The Great Recession

What's Seen and Unseen

2019 ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Claudia Marie Bertolone-Smith ◽  
Ana Maria Spagna
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Mental Health Issues ◽  
Increased Pressure

Using the authors' varied experiences in the classroom with Gen Z and the next generation on its way, this chapter investigates an urgent and often unseen issue for students in higher education. With increased pressure to perform, a tension between time and technology, and lasting impacts from the Great Recession, Gen Z students suffer from a growing number of mental health issues. College coursework should challenge students; however, Gen Z often becomes impaired by what is a real and prevalent anxiety. The authors explore the ways Gen Z operates in the classroom, potential causes for this crisis, and solutions to improve Gen Z experiences in our institutions.

Social class and mental health

2018 ◽  
pp. 159-172
Author(s):  
M. Harvey Brenner
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Social Class ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Psychological Disorder ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression

The Great Depression saw increasingly higher rates of mental disorder at successively lower social class levels. These findings have been repeated over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Dynamic interpretations of these relations have concentrated on vulnerability to economic crises, resulting in major increases in mental hospitalization and suicide. These studies have shown psychological morbidity and suicide to be strongly influenced by employment and income loss. Did the Great Recession re-enact the Great Depression’s mental health crisis for world societies? Recent literature shows substantially elevated psychological disorder in the Great Recession across industrialized societies. New multivariate analyses, using gross domestic product declines and unemployment increases as the main recessional indicators, find that world suicide and industrialized country overall mortality rates increased owing to the Great Recession and government austerity. A paradigm is presented of the circular relations linking economic crises, social class, and the interactive relations of mental and physical health.

scholarly journals The Great Recession and Mental Health in the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 900-913 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam K. Forbes ◽  
Robert F. Krueger
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Population Level ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The United States ◽  
Panic Attacks ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Additional Support ◽  
The Impact

The full scope of the impact of the Great Recession on individuals’ mental health has not been quantified to date. In this study we aimed to determine whether financial, job-related, and housing impacts experienced by individuals during the recession predicted changes in the occurrence of symptoms of depression, generalized anxiety, panic attacks, and problematic alcohol use or other substance use. Longitudinal survey data ( n = 2,530 to n = 3,293) from the national Midlife in the United States study that were collected before (2003–2004) and after (2012–2013) the Great Recession were analyzed. The population-level trend was toward improvements in mental health over time. However, for individuals, each recession impact experienced was associated with long-lasting and transdiagnostic declines in mental health. These relationships were stronger for some sociodemographic groups, which suggests the need for additional support for people who suffer marked losses during recessions and for those without a strong safety net.

scholarly journals Evaluation of the Biases in the Studies that Assess the Effects of the Great Recession on Health. A Systematic Review

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (14) ◽  
pp. 2479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc Saez ◽  
Maria Antònia Barceló ◽  
Carme Saurina ◽  
Andrés Cabrera ◽  
Antonio Daponte
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Systematic Review ◽  
High Risk ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Risk Of Bias ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Evaluation Time ◽  
Lack Of Control

Background: Our main objective was to evaluate the fundamental biases detected in studies assessing the effects the Great Recession had on health for the case of Spain. As secondary objectives we presented methods to control these biases and to discuss the results of the studies in question if they had controlled for them. Methods: We carried out a systematic review of the literature published up to June 2018. We evaluated the biases that could have happened in all the eligible studies. Results: From the review, we finally selected 53 studies. Of the studies we reviewed, 60.38% or 32 out of 53, were evaluated as having a high risk of bias. The main biases our review revealed were problems with evaluation, time bias, lack of control of unobserved confounding, and non-exogeneity when defining the onset of the Great Recession. Conclusions: The results from the studies that controlled the biases were quite consistent. Summing up, the studies reviewed found that the Great Recession increased the risk of declaring poor self-rated health and the deterioration of mental health. Both the mortality rate and the suicide rate may well have increased after the Great Recession, probably after a three- to four-year delay.

scholarly journals How did the use of psychotropic drugs change during the Great Recession in Portugal? A follow-up to the National Mental Health Survey

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Silva ◽  
Ana Antunes ◽  
Sofia Azeredo-Lopes ◽  
Graça Cardoso ◽  
Miguel Xavier ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Psychotropic Drugs ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Mental Health Survey ◽  
National Mental Health

Integrating models of marital functioning to understand the mental health consequences of the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 2118-2135
Author(s):  
Esra Ascigil ◽  
Emre Selcuk ◽  
Gul Gunaydin ◽  
Anthony D. Ong
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marital Functioning ◽  
Family Stress Model ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Financial Events ◽  
Using Data

It is well established that negative financial events during macroeconomic crises have a significant impact on individuals’ mental health. Much less is known about how and for whom economic crises impact mental health. Using data from the Midlife in the United States study, we examine the mental health impact of the Great Recession in the U.S. Drawing on predictions from the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model of Marriage and the Family Stress Model, we examined whether increases in marital disagreements mediated the link between recession adversities (e.g., unemployment, increased debt, loss of a home) and mental health following the recession (2013–2014), controlling for prerecession marital disagreements and mental health (2004–2006). We found that those who experienced a greater number of recession adversities showed increased marital disagreements following the Great Recession, which were in turn associated with poorer mental health (negative affect and affective disorder). These associations held after controlling for prerecession levels of gender, age, race, and education. Furthermore, those who had lower income before the recession experienced greater increases in negative affect following the recession. These findings highlight the importance of marital processes in how the Great Recession is linked to mental health.

Couples’ Communication About Financial Uncertainty Following the Great Recession and its Association with Stress, Mental Health and Divorce Proneness

2017 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara D. Afifi ◽  
Sharde Davis ◽  
Anne F. Merrill ◽  
Samantha Coveleski ◽  
Amanda Denes ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Financial Uncertainty ◽  
Divorce Proneness
Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document