ArticlePNAS nexus2024
Art for health's sake or health for art's sake: Disentangling the bidirectional relationships between arts engagement and mental health.
Article in PNAS nexus, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Understanding Inequalities Shaping Engagement With Cultural and Green Assets to Improve Mental Health for Underserved Communities: A Qualitative Study.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2026Article
- Receptive Arts Engagement Activities and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Adults: Serial Indirect Associations Through Leisure-Related Relaxation and Subjective Well-Being.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Cultural Engagement Is Related to Decelerated Physiological Age: Doubly Robust Estimations in a National Cohort Study.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Global Arts Engagement Inequalities in and Outside School: Analyses of 441,183 15-Year-Olds Across 73 Countries.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Changes in mental health during participation in Art Pharmacy: a longitudinal study of a U.S. arts-based social prescribing program.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Arts engagement and mental health: a social psychological framework.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Beyond the more-is-better assumption: latent profiles of visual arts engagement, emotion regulation, and mental health among Chinese non-art-major university students.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Literary literacy and mental health in contemporary China: evidence from the China family panel studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Longitudinal Associations Between Cultural Engagement and Mental and Social Well-Being: A Fixed-Effects Analysis of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Increasing evidence links arts engagement with mental health, but the directionality of the link remains unclear. Applying a novel approach to causal inference, we used nonrecursive instrumental variable models to analyze two waves of data from the United Kingdom Household Longitudinal Study (
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