How voter turnout varies between different chronic conditions? A population-based register study

Sund, Reijo; Lahtinen, Hannu; Wass, Hanna; Mattila, Mikko; Martikainen, Pekka

doi:10.1136/jech-2016-208314

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“…Conditions such as alcoholism (Sund et al 2016), amnesia (Coronoel et al 2012), psychosis (Sund et al 2016), and schizophrenic symptoms (Plutzer and Wiefek 2006) are correlated with lower rates of political engagement. Depression, a mood disorder defined by the loss of interest in activity and social isolation and that handicaps the ability to engage in healthy relationships, has also been found to decrease participation (Ojeda 2015;Ojeda and Pacheco 2017;Sund et al 2016). Although depression can affect anyone, the risk of onset and persistence is exacerbated by poverty, unemployment, traumatic life events, physical illnesses, and problems caused by drug and alcohol use (WHO 2017).…”

Section: Health Depression and Political Participationmentioning

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Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout

Ojeda

Slaughter

2019

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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Context: This article untangles the effects of depression on voter turnout among blacks and whitesand among women and men and considers several factors-income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment-that may mitigate the negative effects of depression on turnout. Methods: The authors estimated regression models of voter turnout on depression across race and gender groups using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health. They used interaction terms to assess whether the effect of depression is conditional on the potential mitigating factors. Findings: Reporting increased depressive symptoms was associated with a lower probability of voting across electoral contexts for all respondents, and few factors mitigated this negative effect. Only in the case of black men did the authors find that a coethnic candidate mitigated the negative effect of depression, while a higher level of group consciousness did the opposite. Conclusions: The effect of depression was strong, cut across racial and gender groups, and was generally robust to the effects of income, health insurance, church attendance, group consciousness, and empowerment. More research is required to understand how to reduce depression and improve turnout among those who experience it.

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Section: Health Depression and Political Participationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout

Ojeda

Slaughter

2019

Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law

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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 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). Nonetheless, these associations hold across various forms of civic engagement, including voting, membership in community organizations, and direct community service (18).…”

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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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How voter turnout varies between different chronic conditions? A population-based register study

Cited by 54 publications

References 24 publications

Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout

Intersectionality, Depression, and Voter Turnout

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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