Yale School of Management, New Haven, USA.
National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, USA.
Sci Rep. 2024 May 10;14(1):10703. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-61320-y.
Research in psychology and medicine has linked mental health disorders, and particularly bipolar disorder (BD), to employment in creative professions. Little is known, however, about the mechanisms for this link, which could be due to biology (primarily through a person's genes) or environmental (through socioeconomic status). Using administrative data on mental health diagnoses and occupations for the population of Denmark, we find that people with BD are more likely to be musicians than the population, but less likely to hold other creative jobs. Yet, we also show that healthy siblings of people with BD are significantly more likely to work in creative professions. Notably, people from wealthy families are consistently more likely to work in creative professions, and access to family wealth amplifies the likelihood that siblings of people with BD pursue creative occupations. Nevertheless, family wealth explains only a small share of the correlation between BD and creative employment.
心理学和医学研究将心理健康障碍（尤其是双相情感障碍 (BD)）与创意职业联系起来。然而，对于这种联系的机制知之甚少，这可能是由于生物学（主要是通过一个人的基因）或环境（通过社会经济地位）造成的。我们使用丹麦人口的心理健康诊断和职业的行政数据发现，患有 BD 的人比一般人群更有可能成为音乐家，但不太可能从事其他创意工作。然而，我们也表明，BD 患者的健康兄弟姐妹从事创意职业的可能性显著更高。值得注意的是，来自富裕家庭的人更有可能从事创意职业，而获得家庭财富会增加 BD 患者兄弟姐妹从事创意职业的可能性。尽管如此，家庭财富仅能解释 BD 与创意就业之间相关性的一小部分。
