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COVID-19 Lockdown, Home Environment, Lifestyles, and Mental Health among Preschoolers in China
Zhang, Yunting; Zhao, Jin; Yu, Zhangsheng; Wang, Guanghai; … - 2024
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, Shanghai implemented lockdown measures to stop transmission of the virus. Over 26 million residents, including 0.8 million children aged 3-6, were confined at home. This study leveraged a city-wide cohort of preschool children - the Shanghai...
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Parental Gender Stereotypes and Student Wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
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Sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health in Greece. A repeated cross-sectional study in 2009, 2013 and 2019
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
In Greece, given the precarious nature of the sex work industry, sex workers health and wellbeing is of concern. However, relevant research remains limited. This study examined whether sex workers' self-reported physical and mental health deteriorated across time points during the economic...
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Does extreme temperature exposure take a toll on mental health? Evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study
Chen, Yanran; Sun, Ruochen; Chen, Xi; Qin, Xuezheng - 2023
Long-term exposure to extreme temperatures could threaten individuals' mental health and psychological wellbeing. This study aims to investigate the long-term impact of cumulative exposure to extreme temperature. Differently from existing literature, we define extreme temperature exposure in...
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The perceived social rejection of sexual minorities: Substance use and unprotected sexual intercourse
Drydakis, Nick - 2022
cannabis consumption and unprotected sexual intercourse in the capital of Greece, Athens. This is the first Greek study to … associated with the increased consumption of tobacco (by 9.1%, P ﹤0.01), alcohol (by 7.1%, P ﹤0.01), and cannabis (by 12.5%, P ﹤0 … is stronger for men than women and there is increased cannabis consumption during periods of deteriorated economic …
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Happiness in the Air: How Does a Dirty Sky Affect Mental Health and Subjective Well-being?
Zhang, Xin; Zhang, Xiaobo; Chen, Xi - 2017
Previous studies evaluating the welfare cost of air pollution have not paid much attention to its potential effect on mental health and subjective well-being (SWB). This paper attempts to fill the gap by investigating the impact of air pollution on several key dimensions, including mental health...
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Unemployment and subjective well-being
Suppa, Nicolai - 2021
This chapter summarizes the latest state of the art in economic research on unemployment and subjective well-being. Outcomes covered are general life satisfaction, affective well-being, and mental health. Special attention is paid to empirical evidence as obtained from popular panel data sets....
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Social Identity and Depression Among the Elderly: Evidence from India
Roychowdhury, Punarjit - 2024
The paper examines the prevalence of depression and clinical depression among the elderly in India across groups with distinct social identities, where social identities are defined by caste and religious affiliations. Using nationally representative data, the study reveals no- table...
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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...
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The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers
Amin, Vikesh; Flores, Carlos A.; Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso - 2019
We examine the relationship between BMI and mental health for young adults and elderly individuals using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health and the Health & Retirement Study. While OLS estimates show that BMI is significantly associated with worse mental health in...
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