Educational Attainment and Psychological Distress Among Working-Age Adults in the United States.

ABSTRACT: This study builds on a growing body of literature analyzing the education-health gradient across detailed educational categories, which documents that US working-age adults who attended college but did not earn a bachelor's degree report equal or worse health than adults with a high school diploma. This is known as the "anomaly" in the education-health gradient. The purpose of this study is to test whether this pattern extends to measures of serious psychological distress (SPD) and individual symptoms by using data from the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS, 1997-2018) and a series of logistic regression models. We find that the anomaly in the education-health gradient is present for a summary measure of SPD as well as for five of the six symptoms that make up this measure. The except

SUBMITTER: Munoz IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10989279 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature