Economic stress in childhood and adulthood, and poor psychological health: Three life course hypotheses

Abstract

Link to publication Citation for published version (APA): Lindström, M., Fridh, M., & Rosvall, M. (2014). Economic stress in childhood and adulthood, and poor psychological health: Three life course hypotheses. Psychiatry Research, 215(2), 386-393. DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013 General rights Copyright and moral rights for the publications made accessible in the public portal are retained by the authors and/or other copyright owners and it is a condition of accessing publications that users recognise and abide by the legal requirements associated with these rights.• Users may download and print one copy of any publication from the public portal for the purpose of private study or research.• You may not further distribute the material or use it for any profit-making activity or commercial gain • You may freely distribute the URL identifying the publication in the public portal Take down policy If you believe that this document breaches copyright please contact us providing details, and we will remove access to the work immediately and investigate your claim. Logistic regression models were used to investigate the associations adjusting for age, country of birth, socioeconomic status, emotional support, instrumental support and trust, and stratifying by sex. The accumulation hypothesis was confirmed because combined childhood and adulthood exposures to economic stress were associated with poor psychological health in a graded manner. The social mobility hypothesis was also confirmed. The critical period hypothesis was not confirmed because both childhood and adulthood economic stress remained significantly associated with poor psychological health in adulthood. Economic stress in childhood is associated with mental health in adulthood.

Life-course and cohort trajectories of mental health in the UK, 1991–2008 – A multilevel age–period–cohort analysis

“…Benzeval and Judge (2001) find that long-term poverty has a bigger effect on mental health than short term poverty. Lindstrom et al (2014) find that risk factors accumulate through the life-course, with factors in childhood adding to contemporary factors to affect mental health later in life. Regarding changes over the life-course, Musick and Bumpass (2012) find that the positive association of marriage and mental wellbeing dissipates through the life-course, whilst Jorm (1999) finds the association between mental disorders and smoking is smaller in old age.…”

Parental separation in childhood and self-reported psychological health: A population-based study

“…between non-manual employees in higher positions as opposed to skilled and unskilled manual workers. In contrast, poor psychological health is much more prevalent in substantial SES groups outside the working population such as the unemployed, early retired, sick leave pensioners and students Lindström et al, 2014).…”

“…a defined crucial time period early in life when risk exposure will lead to disease later in life, for the development of the metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases in adult life (Barker, 1995(Barker, , 1998. The critical period hypothesis has also been investigated regarding other disease mechanisms than the Barker hypothesis (Sahade et al, 2011) including hypotheses derived from life course epidemiology in psychiatry (Lindström et al, 2014).…”

“…Previous results indicate that age, country of birth, socioeconomic status (SES), civil (marital) status, aspects of social support such as emotional and instrumental support, and generalized trust in other people (an aspect of social capital) are associated with psychological health Lindström et al, 2014;Lindström and Rosvall, 2015), which is why these variables are included in the analyses. Self-reported economic stress in childhood has been shown to be associated with poor mental health in adulthood (Lindström et al, 2014), and is thus also included in the analyses.…”

“…Self-reported economic stress in childhood has been shown to be associated with poor mental health in adulthood (Lindström et al, 2014), and is thus also included in the analyses.…”