Department of Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2010 Jul 22;5(7):e11711. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011711.
Studies on political ideology and health have found associations between individual ideology and health as well as between ecological measures of political ideology and health. Individual ideology and aggregate measures such as political regimes, however, were never examined simultaneously.
METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: Using adjusted logistic multilevel models to analyze data on individuals from 29 European countries and Israel, we found that individual ideology and political regime are independently associated with self-rated health. Individuals with rightwing ideologies report better health than leftwing individuals. Respondents from Eastern Europe and former Soviet republics report poorer health than individuals from social democratic, liberal, Christian conservative, and former Mediterranean dictatorship countries. In contrast to individual ideology and political regimes, country level aggregations of individual ideology are not related to reporting poor health.
CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: This study shows that although both individual political ideology and contextual political regime are independently associated with individuals' self-rated health, individual political ideology appears to be more strongly associated with self-rated health than political regime.
关于政治意识形态和健康的研究发现,个体意识形态与健康之间以及政治意识形态的生态测量与健康之间存在关联。然而,个体意识形态和政治体制等综合措施从未同时进行过检验。
方法/主要发现:本研究使用调整后的逻辑多层模型分析了来自 29 个欧洲国家和以色列的个体数据,发现个体意识形态和政治体制与自我评估健康状况独立相关。右翼意识形态的个体报告的健康状况好于左翼个体。来自东欧和前苏联共和国的受访者报告的健康状况不如社会民主、自由、基督教保守和前地中海独裁国家的个体。与个体意识形态和政治体制相反,个体意识形态的国家层面聚合与报告健康状况不佳无关。
结论/意义:本研究表明,尽管个体政治意识形态和情境政治体制都与个体的自我评估健康状况独立相关,但个体政治意识形态与自我评估健康状况的关联似乎比政治体制更为密切。