ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2015
Economic inequality is related to cross-national prevalence of psychotic symptoms.
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- Inequality within a community at the neighborhood level and the incidence of mood disorders in Japan: a multilevel analysis.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2019Article
- A Cross-National Investigation of Hallucination-Like Experiences in 10 Countries: The E-CLECTIC Study.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2019Article
- Income inequality, gene expression, and brain maturation during adolescence.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- The interactive role of income (material position) and income rank (psychosocial position) in psychological distress: a 9-year longitudinal study of 30,000 UK parents.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2016Article
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Abstract
purposeA burgeoning literature documents robust links of income inequality with the prevalence of psychological disorders. The aim of this paper is to extend this literature by examining the effects of cross-national income inequality on prevalence of psychotic symptoms.
methodAnalyses used archival data of representative samples from 50 countries (N = 249,217). Four types of psychotic symptoms were assessed using the well-validated CIDI interview. We examined the effects of Standardized World Income Inequality Database (SWIID) measures of the concentration of income in the top percentile of people and the Gini coefficient of income inequality.
resultsIncome inequality was significantly correlated with the national prevalence of hallucinations, delusions of thought control, and delusional mood, and effects withstood control over national indices of per capita income and regime type. Findings were also robust to nonparametric bootstrapping.
conclusionsAlthough the cross-sectional design limits ability to claim causality, income inequality appears important for understanding psychotic symptoms.
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