Mental health and parenthood – A longitudinal study of the relationship between self-reported mental health and parenthood

Kalucza, Sara; Hammarström, Anne; Nilsson, Karina

doi:10.1080/14461242.2015.1051079

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“…Mothers also suffer less from depression than women living without children, while men show no association between parental status and depression. This gender-differentiated pattern is also found for depression in Nomaguchi and Milkie [1] and Kalucza et al [19], but not in Helbig et al [18].…”

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confidence: 51%

“…Firstly, this variation is related to the large number of different health outcomes investigated. Inconsistent results have been found in particular in self-rated general health [5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13] and mental health [1,[13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. For overweight or obesity, however, the majority of studies have reported higher prevalence or a higher BMI for mothers [13,[26][27][28][29][30][31], while the findings for men are heterogeneous [13,32].…”

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Association between Living with Children and the Health and Health Behavior of Women and Men. Are There Differences by Age? Results of the “German Health Update” (GEDA) Study

Rattay¹,

Lippe²

2020

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Does the health of women and men living with and without minor children differ, and are age differences evident in the association? For self-rated general health, depression, back pain, overweight, smoking and sporting inactivity, the GEDA data 2009–2012 (18–54 years, n = 39,096) were used to calculate prevalence for women and men stratified by parental status (living with children: yes/no) and age. Moreover, we calculated odds ratios and predictive margins, performing logistic regressions with interaction terms of parental status and age. Women and men aged 45–54 living with children are healthier than those not living with children. Parents aged 18–24 smoke more frequently and do less sport; young mothers are also more likely to be overweight and suffer from back pain than women not living with children. In multivariable analysis, the interaction of living with children and age is significant for all outcomes (except depression and back pain in men). Living with children is an important social determinant of health, highly dependent on age. It is to be discussed whether the bio-psycho-social situation has an influence on becoming a parent, or whether parenthood in different phases of life strains or enhances health.

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confidence: 51%

Section: State Of Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Association between Living with Children and the Health and Health Behavior of Women and Men. Are There Differences by Age? Results of the “German Health Update” (GEDA) Study

Rattay¹,

Lippe²

2020

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“…Perhaps the level of depressive symptoms in youth has more immediate consequences or is related to other outcomes in their future lives than education and LMA. For example, according to a study based on the same cohort, men with mental health problems in youth were less likely to become fathers [74]. It is also possible that the health selection effects are more prominent later in life, as identified in previous research [34, 40, 47, 49].…”

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The role of social position and depressive symptoms in adolescence for life-course trajectories of education and work: a cohort study

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BackgroundWhile a vast amount of studies confirm the social reproduction of class and status from one generation to the next, less is known about the role of health in the child generation for these processes. Research has shown that particularly mental distress in adolescence is important for future life chances. This study aimed to examine the importance of parental socioeconomic position and depressive symptoms in youth for life-course trajectories of education and labour market attachment among men and women.MethodsBased on four waves of questionnaire data from the Northern Swedish Cohort (n = 1,001), consisting of individuals born in 1965, three steps of gender-separate analyses were undertaken. First, the individual trajectories of education and labour market attachment from age 18 to 42 were mapped through sequence analysis. Second, cluster analysis was used to identify typical trajectories. Third, two indicators of parental socioeconomic position – occupational class and employment status – and depressive symptoms at age 16 were used in multinomial regression analyses to predict adult life-course trajectories.ResultsFour typical trajectories were identified for men, of which three were characterised by stable employment and various lengths of education, and the fourth reflected a more unstable situation. Among women, five trajectories emerged, characterised by more instability compared to men. Low parental occupational class and unemployment were significantly associated with a higher risk of ending up in less advantaged trajectories for men while, for women, this was only the case for occupational class. Youth levels of depressive symptoms did not significantly differ across the trajectories.ConclusionsThis study found support for the intergenerational reproduction of social position, particularly when measured in terms of parental occupational class. Youth depressive symptoms did not show clear differences across types of trajectories, subsequently impeding such symptoms to trigger any selection processes. While this could be a consequence of the specific framework of the current study, it may also suggest that depressive symptoms in youth are not a root cause for the more complex processes through which how social position develops across life. The possible impact of welfare and labour market policies is discussed.

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“…Connections between teenage parenthood and health-related disadvantages occurring due to mental health problems are less studied, compared to other types of disadvantages, and the existing results lead to varying conclusions. Kalucza, Hammarström and Nilsson (2015) did identify a selection, with men who had self-reported mental health problems in adolescence being less likely to become fathers, with no such relationship identified for women. Meanwhile, Jonsson et al (2011) did not identify any selection into later adult parenthood by mental health for either men or women.…”

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confidence: 97%

Mental health problems and social disadvantages as predictors of teenage parenthood: A register-based population study of Swedish boys and girls

Kalucza

2018

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It has been argued that the relationship between mental health and teenage parenthood might be explained by the connection of social disadvantage and mental health. This paper embraces a life course approach and investigates the link between social and health disadvantages and teenage parenthood in Sweden, in attempt to disentangle experiences of early mental health problems from other social disadvantage factors. The research questions were explored through random intercept logistic models for panel data. The data for this study consists of all individuals born in Sweden between 1989 and 1994, drawn from Swedish population registers. The final models comprised 680,848 individuals who were followed throughout their teenage years. The results show that mental health problems in youth function as an independent predictor of teenage parenthood, even after adjusting for other social disadvantage factors. This observation applies for both boys and girls. Activities aimed at increasing the perceived life opportunities of youth and giving significance to life may be considered as means of preventing teenage parenthood through policy. This study suggests that such activities could be extended to include teenagers with mental health problems.

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Mental health and parenthood – A longitudinal study of the relationship between self-reported mental health and parenthood

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

Association between Living with Children and the Health and Health Behavior of Women and Men. Are There Differences by Age? Results of the “German Health Update” (GEDA) Study

Association between Living with Children and the Health and Health Behavior of Women and Men. Are There Differences by Age? Results of the “German Health Update” (GEDA) Study

The role of social position and depressive symptoms in adolescence for life-course trajectories of education and work: a cohort study

Mental health problems and social disadvantages as predictors of teenage parenthood: A register-based population study of Swedish boys and girls

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