There has been a tendency by some social scientists and the media to claim that in advanced western societies like Britain and the US mental illness has been increasing and mental well-being declining over the period since the Second World War. In this paper I consider the evidence that is...

Standard regression techniques are only able to give an incomplete picture of the relationship between subjective well-being and its determinants since the very idea of conventional estimators such as OLS is the averaging out over the whole distribution: studies based on such regression...

This article examines how ties with parents, siblings, a partner and children affect people’s mental well-being across the life course. For testing our hypotheses we made use of the Generations and Gender Survey Data. Our research findings show that family ties can both diminish and...

The relation between “neo-Marxian” social class (NMSC) and health in the working population has received considerable attention in public health research. However, less is known about the distribution of mental well-being according to NMSC in a European context. The objectives of this study...

Purpose This research aims to explore the nature of Chinese students' mental health information needs and to identify the online resources they use to meet those needs. Design/methodology/approach Data was collected from three Chinese research-oriented universities using semi-structured...