Why does youth unemployment lead to scarring of depressive symptoms in adulthood? The importance of early adulthood drinking.
| Autor: | HammarströM A; IMM, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.; Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Sweden., Bean C; School of Psychology, University of Adelaide, Australia., Pingel R; Department of Statistics, Uppsala University, Sweden., Janlert U; Department of Epidemiology and Global Health, Umeå University, Sweden., Westerlund H; Stress Research Institute, Stockholm University, Sweden., Östergren PO; Social Medicine and Global Health, Department of Clinical Sciences in Malmö, Lund University, Sweden., Virtanen P; IMM, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden.; Faculty of Social Sciences, Tampere University, Finland. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Scandinavian journal of public health [Scand J Public Health] 2024 Dec; Vol. 52 (8), pp. 960-967. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Dec 28. |
| DOI: | 10.1177/14034948231208472 |
| Abstrakt: | Aim: The aim of the paper is to analyse if alcohol consumption could explain the scarring effect of youth unemployment on later depressive symptoms. Methods: The analyses are based on the 24-year follow-up of school leavers in a municipality in Northern Sweden (the Northern Swedish Cohort). Four-way decomposition analyses were performed to analyse if alcohol use at age 30 years could mediate and/or moderate the effect of youth unemployment (ages 18/21 years) on depressive symptoms in later adulthood (age 43 years). Results: Excessive alcohol use at early adulthood (age 30 years) mediates 18% of the scarring effect of youth unemployment on depressive symptoms in later adulthood. The scarring effect was seen among both those with and without excessive alcohol use. Conclusions: Youth unemployment leads to poor mental health later in life and part of these relations are explained by excessive alcohol consumption in early adulthood. Policy interventions should target the prevention of youth unemployment for reaching a lower alcohol consumption and better mental health. Competing Interests: Declaration of conflicting interestsThe author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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