Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Mental Health: Results From the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Mental Health: Results From the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe
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DOI：
10.1093/geronb/gby028
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发表时间：
2019-01-01
影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Mierau, Jochen O.
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作者：
Angelini, Viola;Howdon, Daniel D. H.;Mierau, Jochen O.
越来越多的文献承认儿童社会经济地位（SES）与成年后期健康之间的联系（即，50+）。然而，人们对抑郁症等心理健康结果的相关性知之甚少。我们使用欧洲健康、老龄化和退休调查（SHARE）分析儿童SES与成年后期抑郁症之间的整体和性别相关性。使用来自21，989名SHARE受访者的生活史和同期数据，结合主成分分析，我们构建了儿童SES指数。我们使用EURO-D量表测量成年后期抑郁症。同时期的社会经济地位可操作为家庭等值收入的对数。我们使用线性回归模型估计相关性。我们记录了儿童SES和成年后期EURO-D评分之间的正相关。即使考虑到同时期的社会经济地位，这种关联仍然存在。我们的研究结果揭示了儿童时期的社会经济条件与日后生活中的抑郁症之间的长期关联，即使考虑到当前的社会经济条件，这种关联仍然存在，并且女性比男性更强。这些结果意味着，改善儿童的社会经济条件可能会产生长期影响，远远超过儿童阶段。
A growing literature acknowledges the association between childhood socioeconomic status (SES) and health in late adulthood (i.e., 50+). Less, however, is known about the association with mental health outcomes, such as depression. We use the Survey on Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyze overall and gender-specific associations between childhood SES and late-adulthood depression.Using life history and contemporaneous data from 21,989 SHARE respondents in combination with principal component analysis we construct indices of childhood SES. We measure late-adulthood depression using the EURO-D scale. Contemporaneous SES is operationalized as the logarithm of household equivalized income. We estimate associations using linear regression models.We document a positive association between childhood SES and the late-adulthood EURO-D score. The association persists even when allowing for contemporaneous SES. Zooming in on gender-specific associations reveals that the association for mental health is particularly pronounced for women.Our findings reveal the long-term association between childhood socioeconomic conditions and depression later in life, which persists even after taking into account current socioeconomic conditions and are stronger for women than for men. These results imply that boosting childhood socioeconomic conditions can potentially have effects lasting well beyond the childhood phase.