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Current search: 'Well Being'

  1. Time trend analysis of social inequalities in psychological distress among young adults before and during the pandemic: evidence from the UK Household Longitudinal Study COVID-19 waves

    Thierry Gagné, Alita Nandi, and Ingrid Schoon

    1. Social Groups
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Young People
    7. Labour Market
    8. Poverty
    9. Ethnic Groups
    10. Well Being
    11. Health
    12. Life Course Analysis
    13. Covid 19

  2. Multimorbidity is associated with the income, education, employment and health domains of area‑level deprivation in adult residents in the UK

    Gundi Knies and Meena Kumari

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  3. Evaluation of the mental health impacts of Universal Credit: protocol for a mixed methods study

    Peter Craig, Benjamin Barr, Andrew J. Baxter, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Welfare Benefits
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Microsimulation
    8. Covid 19

  4. Wellbeing in local areas: how trust, happiness, social distance and experience of discrimination differ in the perceived ethnic enclave

    Neli Demireva and Wouter Zwysen

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Migration
    5. Ethnic Groups
    6. Well Being
    7. Societies
    8. Social Capital
    9. Sociology
    10. Race Relations

  5. Neighbourhood deprivation, life satisfaction and earnings: comparative analyses of neighbourhood effects at bespoke scales

    Gundi Knies, Patricia C. Melo, and Min Zhang

    1. Area Effects
    2. Geography
    3. Poverty
    4. Wages And Earnings
    5. Well Being

  6. Home carers' mental health worsened during lockdown

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  7. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  8. The EU referendum and experiences and fear of ethnic and racial harassment: variation across individuals and communities in England

    Alita Nandi and Renee Reichl Luthra

    1. Politics
    2. Area Effects
    3. Crime And Justice
    4. Psychology
    5. Geography
    6. Elections. Electoral Behaviour
    7. Demography
    8. Migration
    9. Poverty
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Life Course Analysis
    13. Social Attitudes
    14. Sociology
    15. Social Stratification
    16. Social Behaviour
    17. Social Psychology
    18. Race Relations

  9. Psychological distress among people with probable COVID-19 infection: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michaela Benzeval, Kirsten Hainey, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Covid 19

  10. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael James Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  11. School closures and children’s emotional and behavioural difficulties

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  12. Longitudinal effects of perinatal social support on maternal depression: a marginal structural modelling approach

    Ashley Hagaman, Katherine LeMasters, Paul N. Zivich, et al.

    1. Social Networks
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  13. New evidence shows how school closures hit children’s mental health hard

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  14. Children will need further help with mental health despite return of schools, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  15. Stressed pupils 'are more likely to bully and fight': Teachers could face an increase in bad behaviour in class after effect of pandemic on children's mental health, study warns

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  16. Back to school: 'It's nice to see my friends'

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  17. Schools return in England: Boris Johnson hails first steps to freedom

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  18. School closures negatively affected children's mental health, research suggests

    Jo Blanden, Claire Crawford, Laura Fumagalli, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Young People
    3. Education
    4. Child Development
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Life Course Analysis
    9. Covid 19

  19. Peer groups, social support, and well-being: evidence from a large online maternity community

    Lingqing Jiang and Zhen Zhu

    1. Social Groups
    2. Psychology
    3. Childbearing: Fertility
    4. Well Being
    5. Health

  20. Tracking the mental health of home-carers during the first COVID-19 national lockdown: evidence from a nationally representative UK survey

    Elise Whitley, Kelly Reeve, and Michaela Benzeval

    1. Disability
    2. Older People
    3. Psychology
    4. Unpaid Work
    5. Young People
    6. Households
    7. Public Policy
    8. Well Being
    9. Health
    10. Life Course Analysis
    11. Caregiving
    12. Covid 19

  21. Area deprivation, perceived neighbourhood cohesion and mental health at older ages: a cross lagged analysis of UK longitudinal data

    Michele Antonio Salvatore and Emily Grundy

    1. Older People
    2. Area Effects
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Social Psychology

  22. The mental health impact of COVID-19 and lockdown-related stressors among adults in the UK

    Tarani Chandola, Meena Kumari, Cara L. Booker, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Households
    3. Public Policy
    4. Well Being
    5. Health
    6. Covid 19

  23. Psychological distress among people with probable COVID-19 infection: analysis of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michaela Benzeval, Kirsten Hainey, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Well Being
    4. Health
    5. Life Course Analysis
    6. Covid 19

  24. An intergenerational audit for the UK 2020

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Social Change
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Debt: Indebtedness
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Housing Market
    15. Social Behaviour
    16. Covid 19

  25. Weather affects mobility but not mental well-being during lockdown

    Ashley Burdett, Ben Etheridge, and Lisa Spantig

    1. Area Effects
    2. Psychology
    3. Geography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  26. Covid generation: UK youth unemployment 'set to triple to 80s levels'

    Laura Gardiner, Maja Gustafsson, Mike Brewer, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Demography
    3. Social Change
    4. Labour Market
    5. Unemployment
    6. Economics
    7. Living Standards
    8. Public Policy
    9. Debt: Indebtedness
    10. Ethnic Groups
    11. Well Being
    12. Health
    13. Life Course Analysis
    14. Housing Market
    15. Social Behaviour
    16. Covid 19

  27. Worker productivity during lockdown and working from home: evidence from self-reports

    Ben Etheridge, Yikai Wang, and Li Tang

    1. Psychology
    2. Labour Market
    3. Labour Economics
    4. Economics
    5. Public Policy
    6. Well Being
    7. Health
    8. Social Stratification
    9. Covid 19

  28. Mental health and health behaviours before and during the initial phase of the COVID-19 lockdown: longitudinal analyses of the UK Household Longitudinal Study

    Claire L. Niedzwiedz, Michael J. Green, Michaela Benzeval, et al.

    1. Drug/Alcohol Abuse
    2. Psychology
    3. Demography
    4. Public Policy
    5. Well Being
    6. Health
    7. Covid 19

  29. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: ethnic differences in effects of COVID-19: household and local context

    Alita Nandi and Lucinda Platt

    1. Area Effects
    2. Social Networks
    3. Psychology
    4. Geography
    5. Demography
    6. Migration
    7. Households
    8. Living Standards
    9. Ethnic Groups
    10. Well Being
    11. Health
    12. Covid 19

  30. Briefing note COVID-19 survey: family relationships

    Michaela Benzeval, Jonathan Burton, Thomas F. Crossley, et al.

    1. Psychology
    2. Time Use
    3. Young People
    4. Education
    5. Labour Market
    6. Public Policy
    7. Well Being
    8. Health
    9. Social Behaviour
    10. Sociology Of Households
    11. Caregiving
    12. Social Psychology
    13. Covid 19

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