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The association between financial strain and mental health: the mediating and moderating roles of sleep problems in the UK household longitudinal study (UKHLS)

[…] frequent use of sleep medication, sleep disturbance, daytime dysfunction, and longer sleep latency—were also associated with poorer mental health. Importantly, these sleep problems not only mediated the impact of financial strain on mental health but also exacerbated its negative effects. Limitations: The study could not eliminate the possibility of reverse causality, where deteriorating mental […]

A longitudinal dyadic analysis of gender ideology during the transition into parenthood

[…] shift toward more traditional gender-role views among wives. This change is particularly pronounced if their husbands possess more traditional ideologies and earn more than the wives. The impact of parenthood on the husband’s gender ideology is more varied. Husbands tend to adopt more traditional ideologies when their wives hold more traditional views and when […]

Examining the relationship between income and both mental and physical health among adults in the UK: analysis of 12 waves (2009–2022) of Understanding Society

[…] with smaller changes in these probabilities from increases in income at higher points in the income distribution. These findings facilitate microsimulation modelling including an estimation of the impact of changes in QALYs, from changes in income, enabling a more detailed and complete understanding of which socioeconomic interventions might begin to address some of the […]

What has happened to job quality in Britain? The effect of different weighting methods on labour market inequalities and changes using a UK Quality of Work (QoW) Index, 2012–2021

There has been a growth in the use of multidimensional job quality indices, yet the job quality agenda has had a limited impact on public policymaking. This has partly been attributed to disagreements over how to measure job quality and, in particular, weight different indicators of indices. A further reason is a tendency to […]

Youth employment 2024 outlook

[…] into meaningful work. It reveals that the 1 in 8 young people across the UK are not in education, employment or training (‘NEET’), with poor mental health having the biggest impact on employment prospects. Responding to these findings, the report offers recommendations for action to move us towards better solutions, including improving access to apprenticeships.

Written evidence submitted by the Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Survey (ASC0029) [House of Commons. Health and Social Care Committee. Adult social care reform: the cost of inaction inquiry]

We have identified research which uses Understanding Society data which is relevant to the Committee’s questions on: * the impact of inaction on patients and the public / how people’s lives might change with social care reform * where is the cost of inaction felt the most * the contribution of adult social care […]