ArticleEuropean journal of public health2019
Debt and mental health: new insights about the relationship and the importance of the measure of mental health.
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- Relationship Between Debt and Depression, Anxiety, Stress, or Suicide Ideation in Asia: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- Unpacking the role of financial literacy in the debt-mental health nexus: evidence from China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Overindebtedness, unemployment, and poor mental health - and the role of sense of control: a population-based Swiss study.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- The Impact Mechanism of Household Financial Debt on Physical Health in China.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Debt Problem of One Partner and Depressive Morbidity in the Other: A 2-Year Follow-up Register Study of Different-Sex Couples in Sweden.Journal of family and economic issues · 2023Article
- Over-indebtedness and health in Switzerland: A cross-sectional study comparing over-indebted individuals and the general population.PloS one · 2022Article
- Perceived manageability of debt and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic: A UK population analysis.PloS one · 2022Article
- Long-Term Impact of Economic Downturn and Loneliness on Psychological Distress: Triple Crises of COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Article
- The Bidirectional Relationship Between Debts and Common Mental Disorders: Results of a longitudinal Population-Based Study.Administration and policy in mental health · 2021Article
- Financial Fraud, Mental Health, and Quality of Life: A Study on the Population of the City of Madrid, Spain.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Stressful Life Events and Chronic Stressors as Predictors of Psychopathological Conditions in the WMH-ICS Initiative.Salud mental (Mexico City, Mexico)Article
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Abstract
backgroundEmpirical research suggests that household debt and payment difficulties are detrimental to mental health. Despite well-known measurement problems that may contaminate analyses using subjective self-reported health measures, our knowledge is very limited concerning the effect of payment difficulties on 'objective' measures of mental health. Moreover, few studies use longitudinal data to examine the relationship. This study combines rich survey data and longitudinal data from administrative registers on a representative sample of the Swedish population to examine the relationship between payment difficulties and subjective and objective measures of mental health.
methodsWe use data from a large survey of Swedish inhabitants (The Swedish Living Conditions Surveys) combined with data from administrative registers. We investigate both directions of the relationship between mental ill health and payment difficulties, controlling for previous mental health status and previous experiences of payment difficulties. We compare the association between payment difficulties and a self-reported measure of anxiety with the associations between payment difficulties and objective measures of mental ill health from a register of psychopharmaceutical drug consumption.
resultsPayment difficulties associate with subjectively reported mental ill health, but less to psychopharmaca use. For objective measures, we find stronger evidence of a link running from mental ill health to later payment difficulties.
conclusionsSelf-reported and objective measures of mental problems may convey different messages regarding the impact of payment difficulties on mental health. Policy measures depend on whether the primary target group is individuals with severe mental problems or individuals with mild anxiety.
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