Poverty, Material Hardship, and Depression
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Poverty, Material Hardship and Depression.
OBJECTIVE Mental health disorders are of great social, economic, and policy concern. A higher incidence of major depressive disorder has been reported among those living in or near poverty. Our study examines the extent to which the relationship between income and depression is mediated by measures of material hardship. METHODS We use measures of depression at two points in time from the long...
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عنوان ژورنال: Social Science Quarterly
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0038-4941,1540-6237
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6237.2009.00645.x