Economic precarity and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: findings from the census household pulse survey (2020–2021)

IF 1.9 3区社会学 Q2 SOCIOLOGY

Sociological Spectrum Pub Date : 2022-05-04 DOI:10.1080/02732173.2022.2081891

C. Kim, H. Kim

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Abstract

Abstract The coronavirus pandemic has had devastating mental health consequences across the world. Among others, economic uncertainty created by job loss due to the pandemic has been a main culprit. This study examines the deleterious effect of losing a job personally or living with a family member who did on mental health among American adults. We also examine whether this link varies across two measures of vulnerability at the individual level (low household income and ethnic minority status). We further run cross-level interaction models between job loss and two contextual moderators (COVID-19 cases and community social capital). Based on multilevel analysis of Census House Pulse Survey consisting of U.S. probability samples collected over a 10-month period between April 2020 and February 2021, we find strong support for the positive relationship between job loss and mental distress, which is more pronounced among Americans with lower household income. This relationship also increases in regions with higher average coronavirus infections but decreases in places with higher stock of social capital.

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新冠肺炎大流行期间的经济不稳定和心理健康：人口普查家庭脉搏调查结果（2020-2021年）

摘要冠状病毒大流行在世界各地造成了毁灭性的心理健康后果。除其他外，疫情造成的失业造成的经济不确定性是罪魁祸首。这项研究考察了失去个人工作或与失去工作的家庭成员一起生活对美国成年人心理健康的有害影响。我们还研究了这种联系是否因个人层面的两种脆弱性衡量标准（低家庭收入和少数民族地位）而异。我们进一步运行了失业与两个情境调节因子（新冠肺炎病例和社区社会资本）之间的跨层次互动模型。基于人口普查院脉搏调查的多层次分析，该调查由2020年4月至2021年2月期间10个月内收集的美国概率样本组成，我们发现失业与精神痛苦之间的正相关关系得到了有力支持，这在家庭收入较低的美国人中更为明显。这种关系在平均冠状病毒感染率较高的地区也会增加，但在社会资本存量较高的地区会减少。

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期刊介绍： Sociological Spectrum publishes papers on theoretical, methodological, quantitative and qualitative research, and applied research in areas of sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and political science.