Why does youth unemployment lead to scarring of depressive symptoms in adulthood? The importance of early adulthood drinking.

IF 2.6 3区医学 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH

Scandinavian Journal of Public Health Pub Date : 2024-12-01 Epub Date: 2023-12-28 DOI:10.1177/14034948231208472

Anne HammarströM, Christopher Bean, Ronnie Pingel, Urban Janlert, Hugo Westerlund, Per Olof Östergren, Pekka Virtanen

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Abstract

Aim: The aim of the paper is to analyse if alcohol consumption could explain the scarring effect of youth unemployment on later depressive symptoms.

Methods: The analyses are based on the 24-year follow-up of school leavers in a municipality in Northern Sweden (the Northern Swedish Cohort). Four-way decomposition analyses were performed to analyse if alcohol use at age 30 years could mediate and/or moderate the effect of youth unemployment (ages 18/21 years) on depressive symptoms in later adulthood (age 43 years).

Results: Excessive alcohol use at early adulthood (age 30 years) mediates 18% of the scarring effect of youth unemployment on depressive symptoms in later adulthood. The scarring effect was seen among both those with and without excessive alcohol use.

Conclusions: Youth unemployment leads to poor mental health later in life and part of these relations are explained by excessive alcohol consumption in early adulthood. Policy interventions should target the prevention of youth unemployment for reaching a lower alcohol consumption and better mental health.

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为什么青年失业会导致成年后抑郁症状的形成？成年早期饮酒的重要性。

目的：本文旨在分析饮酒是否可以解释青年失业对日后抑郁症状的影响：分析基于对瑞典北部某市离校生长达 24 年的跟踪调查（北瑞典队列）。我们进行了四向分解分析，以分析30岁时酗酒是否能调解和/或缓和青年失业（18/21岁）对成年后（43岁）抑郁症状的影响：结果：青年失业（18/21 岁）对成年后（43 岁）抑郁症状的影响中，18% 是在成年早期（30 岁）过度饮酒造成的。结论：青年失业会导致日后心理健康状况不佳：结论：青年失业会导致其日后心理健康状况不佳，而成年早期过度饮酒可解释其中的部分关系。政策干预应以预防青年失业为目标，从而降低酒精消耗量，改善心理健康。

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Scandinavian Journal of Public Health 医学-公共卫生、环境卫生与职业卫生

CiteScore

6.50

自引率

2.90%

发文量

135

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health is an international peer-reviewed journal which has a vision to: publish public health research of good quality; contribute to the conceptual and methodological development of public health; contribute to global health issues; contribute to news and overviews of public health developments and health policy developments in the Nordic countries; reflect the multidisciplinarity of public health.