Untersuchungen haben ergeben, dass das Aufwachsen in einer Gesellschaft mit einer großen Kluft zwischen Arm und Reich mit einer höheren Rate depressiver Symptome im späteren Erwachsenenalter verbunden ist. Die Forscher berücksichtigten Faktoren wie Alter, Geschlecht und Bildung.
Major new study links childhood income inequality to a magnified genetic risk for depression
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Growing up in a society with a wide gap between the rich and the poor is linked to higher rates of depressive symptoms later in adulthood. This effect tends to be stronger for individuals with a genetic predisposition to depression, suggesting that an unequal economic environment can amplify biological risks. These findings were recently published in the journal Psychological Medicine.
The data revealed that childhood exposure to higher income inequality was consistently associated with higher depressive symptom scores in adulthood. The researchers adjusted for factors like age, sex, and education. After these adjustments, they found that every one percent increase in the income share held by the top one percent of earners was linked to a moderate increase in depressive symptoms.
The authors found that this negative effect varied based on demographics. The link between inequality and depression was generally stronger for men than for women. The country’s overall wealth also changed the dynamic. The negative impact of inequality on depression was strongest in countries with either very low or very high economic output.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/psychological-medicine/article/long-reach-of-childhood-income-inequality-a-multinational-twin-study-of-geneenvironment-interplay-on-adult-depressive-symptoms/FA774C4A52FFD71D122AA190EB0B8E48
For evidence, the researchers gestured broadly around.
Is it cla- oh my god, wait, they’re actually studying class!?
Given the other research we’ve seen especially surrounding adverse childhood experiences and resiliency factors- do people feel supported and cared for and are they materially those things- it doesn’t shock me one bit.
I’d be interested if there was a development gap between the rich as in „1.5m yearly salary as a family“ rich and the überrich „works for fun and clout“ rich. It really feels like they both live in a different world, though.
One of my many experiences growing up; receiving the disdain of some of my friends parents because any child who came around the home too often must be „using“ them for the things they have. Not because they simply wanted to play with a friend.
Always treated like an outsider because my parents did not „have“ enough to be viewed in kind.
So they were thinking that North Korea and Cuba were less stressful places to grow up in than say Britain or Denmark?
Is it the wide gap or the existence of visceral poverty that leads to it? What I’m wondering is would a society with a massive wealth gap but a relatively good standard of living for the poorest in society (like Sweden or somewhere like that) be better or worse than a society where nearly everyone is worse off, but wealth inequality is lower due to poverty being much more universal. Or would the fact that the latter society still has a far better off elite mean that you still have the issues of a divided society, even if that elite is smaller and has a smaller share of the wealth compared to in a more affluent country?
What creates people that defend their oppressors with their life?
Or defend rich people while they can’t afford to eat?
Yeah, it’s pretty well understood that large wealth differences have more cons than pros on the level of the whole society.
For humans – suppose for majority of social animals really – it’d overall be the best outcome to live in a relatively egalitarian and an equal society, where wealth, power and the opportunities with them, would be highly evenly distributed.
Part of why that is hard to bring fruition is not just the privileged classes protecting their own privileges, but also that humans have tendencies for all sorts of behaviour, good and bad, and conscious effort is needed for limiting the effect of things like too much tribe think.
Gee I wonder why. Some genius should do a study to see if poverty is linked to depression.
Anecdotal, but I grew up lower middle class and never got to go on big family trips, only road trips a couple states over every so often. Moved to a wealthier area, and yesterday, my colleagues were talking about all the amazing trips they went on with their families growing up. Suddenly I felt like an uncultured loser, I was never going to experience the things that I wanted to, etc. I’m predisposed to depression (and currently depressed) and deal with the guilt and shame of not being as “cultured” or experienced as my wealthier peers even though I am every bit as capable and intelligent.
Imagine that. Struggling day to day, moment to moment, week to week, month to month for year after year and never feeling like your gaining ground and feeling like you have no real control over your future is linked to depression. Fascinating!
From the article:
To explore these questions, the research team analyzed data from 69,924 participants. These individuals were part of the Interplay of Genes and Environment in Multiple Studies consortium. The sample included twins born between 1893 and 1979 from four countries: Australia, Denmark, Sweden, and the United States. Participants were between 22 and 103 years old when their depressive symptoms were assessed.
So they only looked at 4 countries?
People who think will grief, mourn, imagine, wish, feel the injustice around. People who don’t… Well, they will just accept reality.
There’s no way! I’m so serene when thinking about how much net worth is being accumulated right now, and how many zeroes will be added next to some pedophile’s name! It gives me hope and lets me want to work super hard!
I wonder if they adjusted for having a 2 parent household.