Rationale: Understanding the impact of COVID-19 on different population cohorts and which personality traits affected individual’s coping responses can help identify strategies to promote self-directed behaviours, thereby enhancing and maintaining individual’s mental well-being. Objective: Using longitudinal data for the UK, we examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on individuals’ mental well-being, focusing on […]

[…] Society (UKHLS), we use a propensity score matching method and apply a latent growth modeling on the original dataset and on the matched dataset to estimate the impact of change in union presence and union membership between wave 2 and wave 4 for the employed population on the change in mental health (Mental Component […]

[…] that unemployment has a large negative effect on psychological well-being. However, unique social norms develop in geographical areas with high unemployment rates, which significantly reduce the negative impact of unemployment on well-being. Though the post-2007 Great Recession period was characterized by widespread unemployment, few studies have examined the impact of this crisis on well-being […]

[…] sample profile. In the experiment, the treatment group received £20 incentives instead of the usual £10 received by the control group. The results show that the positive impact of the higher incentive is restricted to the previous wave nonrespondents from households where at least one other adult had completed the interview in the last […]

[…] participation in the UK using nationally representative longitudinal data from Understanding Society (UKHLS). Beginning in 2012, the UK government introduced automatic enrolment enabling us to assess the impact of one of the largest pension policy reforms in the world on this mental health gap. We measure mental health using the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) […]

[…] collected around the time of the protest, we exploit its exogeneity to the timing of survey response, to compare attitudes towards sustainable lifestyles, perceptions of own environmental impact, support for pro-environmental policy and behavior, and views about the severity and imminence of environmental crises, before and after the protest. There is evidence that the […]

Current and past trends in tobacco and e-cigarette use and the impact of legislative and regulatory controls on smoking and e-cigarette use behaviours are outlined in this multi-method research. In the programme of work reported here, commissioned and funded by NIHR (National Institute for Health Research), we explored the impact and consequences of policy […]