Health and Voting in Young Adulthood

Ojeda, Christopher; Pacheco, Julianna

doi:10.1017/s0007123417000151

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“…Likewise, health has been linked to various forms of political activity. It has been shown that health problems are linked with a decreased propensity to vote (Couture and Breux [2017]; Goerres [2007]; Mattila et al [2013]; Ojeda and Pacheco [2017]), lower levels of political trust and party choice . The effects of health on forms of political participation other than voting seem to be more varied (Ojeda [2015]; Söderlund and Rapeli [2015]).…”

Section: Party Identification Political Participation and Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our study contributes to the literature in two ways. First, although there is a growing body of research on the effect of health on political participation (e.g., Couture and Breux [2017]; Mattila et al [2013]; Ojeda and Pacheco [2017]; Rapeli et al [2018]), this is the first study to analyse the effect 3 of health on party identification. This is important since studies of the effect of health on behavioural indicators capture its effect as a consequence of party identification and not on the concept itself (Burden and Klofstad 2005), that is, psychological and not behavioural.…”

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Does Health Affect Party Identification? Evidence from German Panel Data

2019

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Recent research has shown the effect of health on voter turnout, arguing that attenuated health depresses voting. However, we know little about how health is connected to the psychological factors, such as party identification, that precede actual political participation. Employing data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), we show that when a person's health deteriorates, the degree of partisan attachment declines, whereas health improvement does not automatically restore the level of party identification to previous levels.

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Section: Party Identification Political Participation and Healthmentioning

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Does Health Affect Party Identification? Evidence from German Panel Data

2019

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“…So far, much of this has focused on behaviour. We know, for example, that turnout is lower among voters with poor physical health (Schur et al 2002;Mattila et al 2013;Pacheco & Fletcher 2015) or poor mental health -including depression (Ojeda 2015;Sund et al 2017;Burden et al 2017;Couture & Breux 2017;Ojeda & Pacheco 2019;Ojeda & Slaughter 2019). Yet to date we know very little about the impact of psychological health on political attitudes.…”

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Depression and attitudes to change in referendums: The case of Brexit

Bernardi

Johns

2020

European J Political Res

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Depression is the most common mental illness and its profound impact on cognition and decisionmaking has implications for political judgement. However, those implications are unclear in the case of referendums offering a choice between status quo and change. On one hand, one component of depression is the kind of life dissatisfaction associated with voting for change. Yet cognitive models also portray depression sufferers as biased towards the status quo: they are less inclined to research change, more pessimistic about its benefits and more likely to exaggerate its potential costs. In this paper, we use data from Understanding Society to examine the impact of those cross-pressures on support for Brexit. Prior to the referendum, while life dissatisfaction and generally poor health predicted support for Leaving the European Union (EU), those diagnosed with depression were disproportionately likely to support Remain. Supporting our claim that the latter was a sign of status quo bias, this difference disappeared once the result was in and leaving the EU had become the widespread expectation. The study highlights the unexplored importance of mental health for political judgements, emphasises the multidimensionality of conditions like depression and illustrates the psychological role of status quo bias in referendum voting.

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“…In democratic systems, civic engagement -through formal voting, advocacy, and involvement in civic organizations -is one way in which people ensure that governmental and nongovernmental actors work to change laws and policies or take other actions that promote healthy communities. In addition to providing a potential avenue for system change, civic engagement has been shown to be positively associated with physical health (6)(7)(8)(9)(10), health behaviors (11,12), mental health (8,12,13), and well-being (14,15). The specific impact may vary across specific health conditions (16,17).…”

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Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

Dubowitz

Nelson

Weilant

et al. 2020

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Background: Civic engagement, including voting, volunteering, and participating in civic organizations, is associated with better psychological, physical and behavioral health and well-being.In addition, civic engagement is increasingly viewed (e.g., in Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Culture of Health action framework) as a potentially important driver for raising awareness of and addressing unhealthy conditions in communities. As such, it is important to understand the factors that may promote civic engagement, with a particular focus on the less-understood, health civic engagement, or civic engagement in health-related and health-specific activities. Using data from a nationally representative sample of adults in the United States (U.S.), we examined whether the extent to which individuals feel they belong in their community (i.e., perceived sense of community) and the value they placed on investing in community health were associated with individuals' health civic engagement.Methods: Using data collected on 7187 nationally representative respondents from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes, we examined associations between sense of community, valued investment in community health, and perceived barriers to taking action to invest in community health, with health civic engagement. We constructed continuous scales for each of these constructs and employed multiple linear regressions adjusting for multiple covariates including U.S. region and city size of residence, educational attainment, family income, race/ethnicity, household size, employment status, and years living in the community.Results: Participants who endorsed (i.e., responded with mostly or completely) all 16 sense of community scale items endorsed an average of 22.8% (95%CI: 19.8 -25.7%) more of the health civic engagement scale items compared with respondents who did not endorse any of the sense of community items. Those who endorsed (responded that it was an important or top priority) all items capturing valued investment in community health endorsed 14.0% (95%CI: 11.2 -16.8%) more of the health civic engagement items than those who did not endorse any valued investment in community health items. Conclusions:Health civic engagement, including voting and volunteering to ultimately guide

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Health and Voting in Young Adulthood

Cited by 57 publications

References 48 publications

Does Health Affect Party Identification? Evidence from German Panel Data

Does Health Affect Party Identification? Evidence from German Panel Data

Depression and attitudes to change in referendums: The case of Brexit

Factors Related to Health Civic Engagement: Results from the 2018 National Survey of Health Attitudes to Understand Progress towards a Culture of Health

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