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ArticleScientific reports2024

Financial assets and mental health over time.

Catherine K Ettman, Ben Thornburg, Salma M Abdalla, Mark K Meiselbach, Sandro Galea

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Catherine K EttmanDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. Cettman1@jhu.edu.
Ben ThornburgDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Salma M AbdallaDepartment of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.
Mark K MeiselbachDepartment of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Sandro GaleaDepartment of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA.

Funding

Mental Health Services and Systems Training ProgramT32MH109436 · NIMH · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI Matthew Eisenberg, Elizabeth A. Stuart · 2017 to 2026
$1.7M
NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH109436
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Financial, material, and social assets are core drivers of access to salutary resources. However, there is a paucity of research about how non-income financial assets shape mental health. We explore the relation of financial assets with symptoms of depression and of anxiety using a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of U.S. adults fielded annually from 2020 to 2023 (n = 1,296 unique participants). We used multivariable logistic regression models to estimate the association of financial assets and financial stress separately and together with symptoms of depression (PHQ-9 > 9), anxiety (GAD-7 > 9), and their co-occurrence, controlling for demographic indicators and year fixed effects. We found, first, that adults with <$5,000 in accrued financial assets reported over two times the odds of positive screen for depression, anxiety, and co-occurring depression and anxiety, respectively, as adults with ≥$100,000 in financial assets. Second, when controlling for accrued financial assets, annual household income was not associated with symptoms of anxiety. Third, the gap in positive screen for depression between household financial assets groups stayed consistent and did not differ significantly over the study period. Annual income alone does not capture the influence of all financial assets on mental health.

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AnxietyDepressionIncomeMental HealthAdolescentAdultAgedFemaleFinancial StressHumansLongitudinal StudiesMaleMiddle AgedSocioeconomic FactorsUnited StatesYoung Adult

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PMID39521820
PMCPMC11550426

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