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Robinson Crusoe: less or more depressed? With whom and where to live in a pandemic if you are above 50

Did the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic and the various lockdown measures taken by European governments in the spring of 2020 impact individuals aged 50 and over differently according to their living arrangements and housing conditions? Focusing on three indicators of mental well-being, depressi...

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Autores principales: Berniell, Inés, Laferrère, Anne, Mira, Pedro, Pronkina, Elizaveta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36091928
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-022-09624-8
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Laferrère, Anne
Mira, Pedro
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description Did the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic and the various lockdown measures taken by European governments in the spring of 2020 impact individuals aged 50 and over differently according to their living arrangements and housing conditions? Focusing on three indicators of mental well-being, depression, loneliness and trouble sleeping, this paper answers the question using data on Europeans interviewed in the SHARE Corona Survey, fielded right after the first wave of the pandemic in summer 2020, linked longitudinally with two previous waves of SHARE (2013 and 2015). We find that the first wave of the pandemic changed the association between mental health and living arrangements and housing conditions. New to this pandemic period, the mental well-being of those who lived only with a spouse declined relative to the general population aged 50+. Relatedly, there was a protective impact for parents of having (adult) children in the same building as opposed to children, however close, who were not co-residing. Finally, living in cities and in multi-unit housing also led to a decrease in mental well-being relative to the general population aged 50+.
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spelling pubmed-94404622022-09-06 Robinson Crusoe: less or more depressed? With whom and where to live in a pandemic if you are above 50 Berniell, Inés Laferrère, Anne Mira, Pedro Pronkina, Elizaveta Rev Econ Househ Article Did the first wave of the COVID-19 epidemic and the various lockdown measures taken by European governments in the spring of 2020 impact individuals aged 50 and over differently according to their living arrangements and housing conditions? Focusing on three indicators of mental well-being, depression, loneliness and trouble sleeping, this paper answers the question using data on Europeans interviewed in the SHARE Corona Survey, fielded right after the first wave of the pandemic in summer 2020, linked longitudinally with two previous waves of SHARE (2013 and 2015). We find that the first wave of the pandemic changed the association between mental health and living arrangements and housing conditions. New to this pandemic period, the mental well-being of those who lived only with a spouse declined relative to the general population aged 50+. Relatedly, there was a protective impact for parents of having (adult) children in the same building as opposed to children, however close, who were not co-residing. Finally, living in cities and in multi-unit housing also led to a decrease in mental well-being relative to the general population aged 50+. Springer US 2022-09-03 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9440462/ /pubmed/36091928 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11150-022-09624-8 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022, Springer Nature or its licensor holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9440462/
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