Investigating the Relationship Between Social Policy, Financial Difficulty and Mental Health of Young Adults in the UK During the COVID-19 Pandemic: E

在冠状病毒（COVID-19）大流行期间，经济和就业的不确定性对英国年轻人的生活产生了重大影响。经济困难、社会孤立和不断恶化的就业机会加剧了年轻人本来就不佳的心理健康状况。该项目将调查2019冠状病毒病大流行期间年轻人的社会政策、经济困难和心理健康之间的关系。它将主要使用“理解社会”数据集，该数据集涉及在COVID-19大流行期间获得的调查数据。该项目的目的是研究经济困难对年轻人心理健康的影响程度，以及在COVID-19大流行期间为人们提供支持的金融或就业政策（通用信贷计划、冠状病毒工作保留计划、自营职业收入支持计划）的影响。其结果将是创建一个财务指标，用于衡量财务困难及其对生活水平的不利影响。通过这一措施，我们将能够研究经济困难对整个英国心理健康的不利影响，以及它因个人特征或地理位置而有多大差异。还将探讨英国分权母国之间的政策差异。统计方法将用于确定经济困难和心理健康之间的关系，以预测社会政策对心理健康的影响。根据这些数据做出的预测将用于为未来的社会政策提供信息，并评估大流行期间现有政策的有效性。社会政策必须向人口中受不利影响最严重的个人提供有效支助；因此，决策者必须了解经济困难、社会政策和最终心理健康之间的关系。有效的社会政策有助于改善公众健康和整体心理健康。基于这项研究的建议将在研讨会和演讲期间向决策者和利益相关者提出，以使人们了解英国（及其下放的）政府如何改进现有的社会政策，以改善经历经济困难的个人的心理健康。

Economic and employment uncertainty has made a substantial impact on the lives of young adults in the United Kingdom over the course of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic. Financial difficulty, social isolation and worsening employment opportunities have exacerbated already poor mental health among young adults. This project will investigate the relationship between social policy, financial difficulty, and the mental wellbeing of young adults during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Primarily it will use the Understanding Society dataset, which involves survey data obtained throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic. The aim of this project will be to examine the extent to which financial difficulty has had an impact on young adult's mental wellbeing, and the impact of financial or employment policies that supported people during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Universal Credit Scheme, Coronavirus Job retention scheme, Self-employment income support scheme). The result will be a creating a financial index, used to measure financial difficulty and the adverse impact it has on standard of living conditions. Through this measure, we will be able to examine the adverse impacts of financial difficulty on mental wellbeing across the UK, and how much it varies by personal characteristics or geographical location. Differences in policy within UK devolved home nations will also be explored. Statistical methods will be used to identify the relationship between financial difficulty and mental health to predict the impact of social policy on mental health. The predictions made from this data will be used to inform future social policy and evaluate the effectiveness of policies in place during the pandemic. Social policies must provide effective support to the most adversely affected individuals within a population; therefore, policymakers must understand the relationship between financial difficulty, social policy, and ultimately mental health. Effective social policy can serve to improve public health and overall mental wellbeing. Recommendations based on this research will be made to policymakers and stakeholders during workshops and presentations to enable an understanding of how British (and its devolved) governments may improve existing social policies to improve the mental health of individuals undergoing financial difficulty.