The quarter-life crisis? Precarious labour market status and mental health among 25-year-olds in England
The quarter-life crisis? Precarious labour market status and mental health among 25-year-olds in England
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DOI：
10.1332/175795919x15514456677295
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发表时间：
2019-04-01
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0.9
通讯作者：
Henderson, Morag
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作者：
Henderson, Morag
尽管工业化社会的生活水平和物质舒适度有所提高，但当今的“新兴成年人”（从十几岁到二十多岁）面临着比以往更大的挑战。本文的目的是探讨英国“千禧一代”劳动力市场状况与心理健康之间的关系，以及这种关系是否因性别和种族而异。这项研究将首次利用 2015 年“下一步”数据扫描的结果（样本成员年龄为 25 岁），并与之前的七次扫描一起，通过对当代新兴成年人的生活状况进行初步估计，使辩论保持最新状态。我们发现黑人和少数族裔在 25 岁时报告精神健康状况不佳的几率低于白人。关于劳动力市场状况，我们发现，扣除社会经济特征、教育程度、行为变量和 25 岁时的收入后，失业者报告心理健康状况不佳症状的可能性是就业者的两倍多。轮班工人和零时工合同工人患精神疾病的风险也比非轮班工人或零时工工人分别高出 47% 和 44%。我们发现，25 岁时有第二份工作或签订永久心理健康合同的人与没有第二份工作或签订临时合同的人相比，没有显着差异。
Despite an increase in living standards and material comforts in industrialised societies, today's 'emerging adults' (aged from late teens to mid-to-late 20s) face greater challenges than ever before. The aim of this paper is to explore the relationship between labour market status and mental health for the 'millennial generation' in England, and whether it varies by gender and ethnicity. This study will be the first to draw on the results from the 2015 sweep of Next Steps data when the sample members are aged 25 and, together with the previous seven sweeps, bring the debate up to date by providing first estimates of the life condition of contemporary emerging adults. We find black and minority ethnic groups have lower odds of reporting mental ill-health at age 25 than the white group. With respect to labour market status, we find that net of socio-economic characteristics, educational attainment, behavioural variables and income at age 25, those who are unemployed are more than twice as likely to report symptoms of poor mental health as those who are employed. Shift workers and those on zero-hours contracts are also at a greater risk of mental ill-health by 47% and 44% respectively than those who are not shift workers or zero-hours workers. We find no significant difference for those who have a second job or are on a permanent contract for mental health at age 25 compared to those who do not have a second job or are on a temporary contract.