Journal Article
Long-term depression following stressful life events: feeling ‘worthless’ shows the slowest recovery
Authors
Publication date
Jul 2019
Summary
This paper uses a UK panel study dataset, to investigate effects of stressful ‘life events’ on mental health. Various events – including poverty, unemployment, and illness – increase the risk of depression. There may be delayed effects of a stressful event: many people experience a slow recovery from depression. This paper reports evidence that in ‘General Health Questionnaire’ GHQ-12, feeling ‘worthless’ shows the slowest recovery after a harmful event: up to about nine years. Evidence in this paper is reported as charts, showing gradual recovery from traumatic events; and regression analysis. These charts are broadly consistent with regression results.
Published in
Archives of Psychology
Volume
3
ISSN
16
Subjects
Psychology, Unemployment, Poverty, Well Being, Health, and Life Course Analysis
Links
https://archivesofpsychology.org/index.php/aop/article/view/118
Notes
Open Access
#547149