Evensen Miriam, Lyngstad Torkild Hovde
Centre for Disease Burden & Department of Health and Inequality Norwegian Institute of Public Health, PO BOX 222, Skøyen, N-0213, Oslo, Norway.
Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo, PO Box 1096, Blindern, N-0317 Oslo, Norway.
Adv Life Course Res. 2020 Mar;43:100324. doi: 10.1016/j.alcr.2020.100324. Epub 2020 Jan 30.
While a large literature documents how mental health problems in adolescence have long-term consequences for adult socioeconomic outcomes, less is known about the relation with family-formation behavior. In this paper, we use data from a population based Norwegian health survey (the Young-HUNT study) linked to administrative registry data (N = 8,113) to examine the long-term consequences of symptoms of internalizing and externalizing problems, the two most common forms of mental health problems, on family-formation outcomes: the likelihood of a first birth, the union status of a first birth, and entering first marriage. For men, externalizing problems are associated with earlier parenthood, especially becoming a father without having a coresidential relationship with the child's mother. Internalizing problems, on the other hand, are associated with lower first-birth rates and the association grows progressively stronger with age. We also find that the associations are more pronounced among men with low childhood socioeconomic status. In contrast, women's family-formation appears for the most part unrelated to their mental health.
虽然大量文献记载了青少年心理健康问题如何对成年人的社会经济成果产生长期影响，但对于其与家庭组建行为之间的关系却知之甚少。在本文中，我们使用来自挪威一项基于人群的健康调查（青年-健康城市与健康研究）的数据，并将其与行政登记数据（N = 8113）相链接，以研究内化问题和外化问题（心理健康问题最常见的两种形式）的症状对家庭组建结果的长期影响：首次生育的可能性、首次生育时的婚姻状况以及初婚情况。对于男性而言，外化问题与更早为人父母有关，尤其是在与孩子的母亲没有同居关系的情况下成为父亲。另一方面，内化问题与较低的首次生育率相关，并且这种关联随着年龄的增长而逐渐增强。我们还发现，这些关联在童年社会经济地位较低的男性中更为明显。相比之下，女性的家庭组建在很大程度上似乎与她们的心理健康无关。
