Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Mental Health: Results From the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Angelini, Viola; Howdon, Daniel; Mierau, Jochen O.

doi:10.1093/geronb/gby028

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“…Current study data suggest etic/universal and emic/culturespecific factors exist with reference to the aging experience. These findings are consistent with previous studies examining aging using a cultural lens [20,21,22]. This study adds to the body of work about how cultural similarity in various aspects of aging and the associations between factors are consistent between eastern and western countries [37] and as reported by [27], the present data also suggests older adults have similar concerns about aging, but not all have the exact same concern.…”

Section: Cultural Uniformity Of the Aging Experiencesupporting

confidence: 92%

“…In terms of cultural similarity, or the approach to look for only communities across geographic settings, studies using multiple countries have produced findings that tend to focus on one issue and/or one region of the world. Examples include topics such as childhood socioeconomic status and late-adulthood mental health [20] mental health in European countries [21]; age differences in level of trust [22] psychological concerns and fear of losses [23].…”

Section: Cultural Similarity and Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Exploring Cultural Similarity and Cultural Diversity: A Cross-National Study of Nine Countries

Karlin¹,

Weil²

2019

J Aging Sci

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Section: Cultural Uniformity Of the Aging Experiencesupporting

confidence: 92%

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Exploring Cultural Similarity and Cultural Diversity: A Cross-National Study of Nine Countries

Karlin¹,

Weil²

2019

J Aging Sci

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“…To control for such an effect in our model, we introduced self-reported childhood health status, a score between 1 (poor) and 5 (excellent). We also sought to control for childhood socioeconomic circumstances and, to this end, followed a validated method37 employed in other papers47 48 employing SHARE, a principal component score, created from a combination of measures of childhood (age 10) socioeconomic status included in SHARELIFE. Online supplementary table A2 in the online supplementary appendix provides the results of our principal component analysis.…”

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The relationship between early life urbanicity and depression in late adulthood: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

2019

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ObjectivesWe aimed to study the association of childhood urbanicity with depressive symptoms in late adulthood.Design, setting and participantsWe used linear and logistic regressions to analyse data drawn from 20 400 respondents from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a panel dataset incorporating a representative sample of the 50+ population in 13 European countries.Outcomes and analysisChildhood urbanicity was determined using self-reports of the respondents’ circumstances at age 10, and late-adulthood depression using the EURO-D scale. We conditioned on circumstances early in life as well as later in life, most importantly late-adulthood urbanicity. We estimated the associations using linear regression models and limited dependent variable models.ResultsA pooled regression of both men and women suggested that childhood urbanicity is associated non-monotonically with depression in late adulthood and is particularly apparent for those spending their childhoods in suburban settings. We found that individuals who spend the longest time in their childhood in a suburban home exhibit an average increase in probability of 3.4 (CI 1.1 to 5.7) percentage points in reporting four or more depressive symptoms. The association was robust to the inclusion of a host of household characteristics associated with childhood urbanicity and was independent of current urbanicity and current income. When broken down by gender, we found some evidence of associations between depressive outcomes and urban living for men, and stronger evidence of such associations with urban and suburban living for women who exhibit an increase of 5.6 (CI 2.2 to 9.0) percentage points in reporting four or more depressive symptoms.ConclusionsOur analysis reveals a relationship between childhood urbanicity and depression in late adulthood. The evidence presented on the nature of this relationship is not straightforward but is broadly suggestive of a link, differing by gender, between greater urbanicity and higher levels of depressive symptoms. The life-long nature of this association may potentially inform policy agendas aimed at improving urban and suburban living conditions.

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“…A good illustration is offered by the early-life determinants of chronic disease burden later in life [17]. Many studies have, and are still, associating adverse early life conditions with (chronic) health outcomes in later years [18]. Generally, such studies highlight that children who, for instance, grew up in low-income households go on to develop a host of health conditions.…”

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confidence: 99%

A renewed call for transdisciplinary action on NCDs

Toebes

Hesselman

Mierau

et al. 2020

BMC Int Health Hum Rights

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Notwithstanding COVID-19, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) will be the leading cause of death in every region in the world by 2030. This contribution, which forms an introduction to our collection of articles in this journal, identifies elements for a transdisciplinary research agenda between law, public health, health economics and international relations aimed at designing concrete interventions to curb the NCD pandemic, both globally and domestically.

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Childhood Socioeconomic Status and Late-Adulthood Mental Health: Results From the Survey on Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

Cited by 69 publications

References 54 publications

Exploring Cultural Similarity and Cultural Diversity: A Cross-National Study of Nine Countries

Exploring Cultural Similarity and Cultural Diversity: A Cross-National Study of Nine Countries

The relationship between early life urbanicity and depression in late adulthood: evidence from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe

A renewed call for transdisciplinary action on NCDs

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