Political party affiliation, political ideology and mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ecological and cross-sectional studies have indicated that conservative political ideology is associated with better health. Longitudinal analyses of mortality are needed because subjective assessments of ideology may confound subjective assessments of health, particularly in cross-sectional analyses.

Methods

Data were derived from the 2008 General Social Survey-National Death Index data set. Cox proportional analysis models were used to determine whether political party affiliation or political ideology was associated with time to death. Also, we attempted to identify whether self-reported happiness and self-rated health acted as mediators between political beliefs and time to death.

Results

In this analysis of 32,830 participants and a total follow-up tim

SUBMITTER: Pabayo R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5893220 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature