Trajectories of Unsecured Debt across the Life Course and Mental Health at Midlife.

IF 3 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIOLOGY
Society and Mental Health Pub Date : 2020-03-01 Epub Date: 2018-12-17 DOI:10.1177/2156869318816742
Amy Ruining Sun, Jason N Houle
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Abstract

In this paper, we contribute to a growing literature on debt and mental health and ask whether patterns of unsecured debt accumulation and repayment over two decades are associated with depressive symptoms at age 50. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth 1979 Cohort and group trajectory models, we have three key findings. First, we find substantial heterogeneity in debt trajectories across the life course. Second, respondents who report consistently high debt levels across the life course or who cycle in and out of high debt report significantly more depressive symptoms than respondents who hold consistently low levels of debt. These findings hold for both absolute and relative (debt-to-income) debt. Third, we find that the association between debt and depressive symptoms is strongest among respondents with less than a college degree, but we find less evidence for heterogeneity by race in this cohort.

无担保债务的人生轨迹与中年心理健康。
在本文中,我们对有关债务和心理健康的文献作出了贡献,并探讨了二十年来无担保债务的积累和偿还模式是否与 50 岁时的抑郁症状有关。通过使用 1979 年全国青年纵向研究队列的数据和群体轨迹模型,我们得出了三个重要发现。首先,我们发现在整个生命过程中,债务轨迹具有很大的异质性。其次,在整个人生过程中持续高负债或在高负债中循环往复的受访者,其抑郁症状明显多于持续低负债的受访者。这些发现对绝对债务和相对债务(债务与收入之比)均适用。第三,我们发现债务与抑郁症状之间的关联在大学学历以下的受访者中最为强烈,但我们在这一群体中发现的种族异质性证据较少。
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9.50
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期刊介绍: Official journal of the ASA Section on the Sociology of Mental Health. Society and Mental Health (SMH) publishes original and innovative peer-reviewed research and theory articles that link social structure and sociocultural processes with mental health and illness in society. It will also provide an outlet for sociologically relevant research and theory articles that are produced in other disciplines and subfields concerned with issues related to mental health and illness. The aim of the journal is to advance knowledge in the sociology of mental health and illness by publishing the leading work that highlights the unique perspectives and contributions that sociological research and theory can make to our understanding of mental health and illness in society.
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