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An analysis of mental stress in Ireland, 1994 - 2000

The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) is frequently used as a measure of mental well-being with those people with values below a certain threshold regarded as suffering from mental stress. Comparison of mental stress levels across population may then be sensitive to the chosen threshold. This paper uses stochastic dominance techniques to show that mental stress fell in Ireland over the 1994 to 2000 period regardless of the threshold chosen. Decomposition techniques suggest that changes in the proportion unemployed and in the protective effect of income, education and marital status upon mental health were the principal factors underlying this fall.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series ; No. WP07/10

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Health Behavior
General Welfare; Well-Being
Measurement and Analysis of Poverty
Thema
GHQ
mental stress
dominance
decomposition
Krankheit
Psychische Störung
Stress
Irland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Madden, David
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics
(wo)
Dublin
(wann)
2007

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Madden, David
  • University College Dublin, UCD School of Economics

Entstanden

  • 2007

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