Differential Employment Quality and Educational Inequities in Mental Health: A Causal Mediation Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the United States, inequities in mental distress between those more and less educated have widened over recent years. Employment quality, a multidimensional construct reflecting the relational and contractual features of employer-employee relationships, may mediate this inequity throughout adulthood, yet no study has examined the extent of this mediation in the United States, or how it varies across racialized and gendered populations.

Methods

Using the information on working-age adults from the 2001 to 2019 Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we construct a composite measure of employment quality via principal component analysis. Using this measure and the parametric mediational g-formula, we then estimate randomized interventional analogs for natural direct and i

SUBMITTER: Blaikie K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10524205 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature