School of Public Health and Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Can J Public Health. 2024 Feb;115(1):148-156. doi: 10.17269/s41997-023-00818-w. Epub 2023 Oct 6.
To investigate whether intergenerational mobility in education and income are associated with levels of psychological distress in Canada, a context in which rates of intergenerational mobility are higher than those of the United States but lower than those of Nordic countries.
The data came from the Longitudinal and International Study of Adults (LISA) linked to tax records from the Canada Revenue Agency (N = 4100). Diagonal reference models were used to investigate whether educational mobility and income mobility were associated with levels of psychological distress in adulthood as assessed by the Kessler (K-10) scale. The models controlled for sociodemographic characteristics and were stratified by gender.
Although we did not find that mobility in general was associated with greater levels of psychological distress, we found that downward educational mobility in particular corresponded to higher levels of psychological distress (b = 0.15 with 95% CI = 0.00, 0.31) among men.
Overall, we found no strong evidence that social mobility in general is impactful for levels of psychological distress, but downward educational mobility in particular may have negative consequences for the mental health of men. In addition, a notable gradient between income and psychological distress in adulthood was observed for both women and men.
研究在加拿大这样一个代际教育和收入流动性高于美国但低于北欧国家的背景下，代际教育和收入流动性与心理困扰水平之间是否存在关联。
数据来自与加拿大税务局（加拿大税务局）的税收记录相链接的成人纵向和国际研究（LISA）（N=4100）。使用对角线参考模型来研究教育流动性和收入流动性是否与 Kessler（K-10）量表评估的成年期心理困扰水平相关。这些模型控制了社会人口特征，并按性别分层。
尽管我们没有发现一般流动性与更高水平的心理困扰有关，但我们发现，特别是男性的教育向下流动性与更高水平的心理困扰相关（b=0.15，95%CI=0.00，0.31）。
总体而言，我们没有发现强有力的证据表明一般社会流动性对心理困扰水平有重大影响，但特别是教育向下流动可能对男性的心理健康产生负面影响。此外，在女性和男性中都观察到了收入和成年期心理困扰之间的显著梯度。
