Path Analysis of Welfare Use: Depression as a Mediating Factor

Autor:	Vanessa Hunn, Claudia J. Heath
Rok vydání:	2011
Předmět:	Economics and Econometrics Labour economics Social Psychology Earnings media_common.quotation_subject Causal effect Direct effects Metropolitan area Life circumstances Economics Demographic economics Path analysis (statistics) Welfare Social policy media_common
Zdroj:	Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 32:341-355
ISSN:	1573-3475 1058-0476
DOI:	10.1007/s10834-011-9251-6
Popis:	Path analysis was conducted to determine causal effects of life circumstances on depression and effects of these measures on employment and welfare use. Data were from the Welfare and Self-Sufficiency Survey conducted in a metropolitan county of Kentucky. Direct effects indicate that economic hardships and adverse life events increase depression scores and depression reduces earnings and increases welfare use. Indirect effects of economic hardships and adverse life events, through the mediating effects of depression, reinforce depression’s effects on employment and welfare use. The data include measures of life circumstances and depression scores of low-income women; thereby, permitting a path model that uniquely contributes to knowledge regarding the effects of life circumstances and depression on TANF-eligible women’s employment and welfare use.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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