Adolescent mental health and behavioural problems, and intergenerational social mobility: A decomposition of health selection effects

Anderson, Lewis Robert

doi:10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.11.026

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“…While individual behavior and mental health are interesting outcomes in themselves, the growing literature on the importance of these characteristics for educational achievement and labor market outcomes [1–4] has sparked the demand for validated instruments. One widely used potential candidate for measuring children’s emotional and behavioral problems is the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), which is increasingly used by economists, sociologists [5–14], and by other professionals.…”

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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and standardized academic tests: Reliability across respondent type and age

Keilow¹,

Sievertsen²,

Niclasen

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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Exploiting nation-wide data from the Danish National Birth Cohort, we show that children’s emotional and behavioral problems measured by the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) are closely related to their performance in standardized academic tests for reading and mathematics in sixth grade. The relationship is remarkably linear across the entire distribution for both the total difficulties score and subscale scores of the SDQ; higher scores on the SDQ (more problems) are related to worse performance in academic tests. We assess the similarity across respondent type; parent (child age 7 and 11), teacher (child age 11) and self-reported scores (child age 11), and find that teacher and parent reported scores have very similar slopes in the SDQ–test score relationship, while the child reported SDQ in relation to the academic test performance has a flatter slope.

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confidence: 99%

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and standardized academic tests: Reliability across respondent type and age

Keilow¹,

Sievertsen²,

Niclasen

et al. 2019

PLoS ONE

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“…Mulatu and Schooler [25] studied the association between self-reported health scales and SEP measures. More recently, several empirical studies investigated reciprocal pathway and focused on unstable working conditions as a consequence of ill health [27–29]. TB researchers have also focused on the impact of TB history on social inequality but found little empirical evidence [15, 30].…”

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Social selection in historical time: The case of tuberculosis in South Korea after the East Asian financial crisis

2019

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The perspectives of social selection and causation have long been debated. Social selection theory is as “social” as social causation theory, since all diseases are social and no biological process occurs outside society. To identify the social selection pathway and historical juncture affected by socioeconomic and political changes, we investigated the reciprocal impact of suffering from tuberculosis (TB) on the current socioeconomic position (SEP), stratified by childhood SEP. We also examined the extent to which the social consequences of ill health changed since the East Asian economic downturn. Data were collected for 2007–2012 from the Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey. To identify associations between TB history and current household income (HHI), we constructed an ordinal logistic regression model adjusted for covariates, including age, gender, educational attainment, and job status. We adopted a recursive regression model to examine trend changes in this association from 1980–2012 to 2003–2012. Of 28,136 participants, 936 had experienced TB. In the first ordinal logistic regression, the TB group was more likely to have lower HHI than the non-TB group. The odds ratios (ORs) increased from 1.30 (1980–2012) to 1.86 (2003–2012) for the TB group, increasing their probability of having low HHI. Among the low childhood SEP group, the TB group’s probability of having low HHI was 1.35 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.16–1.57) during 1980–2012, which increased to 2.01 (95% CI: 1.37–2.95) during 2003–2012. For the high childhood SEP group, the TB group’s OR range fluctuated, similar to that for the non-TB group. The results support the social selection pathway from TB history to adverse impact on current SEP. Our study identified downward social mobility due to TB history among the low childhood SEP group. Moreover, negative social consequences deteriorated since the East Asian economic crisis.

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“…This approach is supported by previous research concluding that the intergenerational transmission of poor mental health cannot solely be explained by genetic factors and that environmental influences are salient [14, 15, 20]. Typically, environmental circumstances include family factors such as conflicts and parenting [17] or, in studies looking at mental health outcomes in adulthood, the social reproduction of educational pathways and occupational choices [2, 21]. The approach of health selection implies that people with poor mental health are assumed to be found in the lower end of the social ladder [22].…”

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Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

Landstedt

Almquist

2019

BMC Psychiatry

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Background Past research has established the intergenerational patterning of mental health: children whose parents have mental health problems are more likely to present with similar problems themselves. However, there is limited knowledge about the extent to which factors related to the child’s own social context, such as peer relationships, matter for this patterning. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of childhood peer status positions for the association in mental health across two generations. Methods The data were drawn from a prospective cohort study of 14,608 children born in 1953, followed up until 2016, and their parents. Gender-specific logistic regression analysis was applied. Firstly, we examined the associations between parental mental health problems and childhood peer status, respectively, and the children’s mental health problems in adulthood. Secondly, the variation in the intergenerational patterning of mental health according to peer status position was investigated. Results The results showed that children whose parents had mental health problems were around twice as likely to present with mental health problems in adulthood. Moreover, lower peer status position in childhood was associated with increased odds of mental health problems. Higher peer status appeared to mitigate the intergenerational association in mental health problems among men. For women, a u-shaped was found, indicating that the association was stronger in both the lower and upper ends of the peer status hierarchy. Conclusions This study has shown that there is a clear patterning in mental health problems across generations, and that the child generation’s peer status positions matter for this patterning. The findings also point to the importance of addressing gender differences in these associations.

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Adolescent mental health and behavioural problems, and intergenerational social mobility: A decomposition of health selection effects

Cited by 31 publications

References 40 publications

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and standardized academic tests: Reliability across respondent type and age

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and standardized academic tests: Reliability across respondent type and age

Social selection in historical time: The case of tuberculosis in South Korea after the East Asian financial crisis

Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

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