Do cognitive and non-cognitive abilities mediate the relationship between air pollution exposure and mental health?

ABSTRACT: Considered as a key component of human capital, mental health has drawn substantial scholarly attention for its effect on people's health status and economic outcome. When facing the challenge of stress, people's heterogeneity in cognitive ability and non-cognitive ability causes difference in patterns of coping, resulting in different manifestations in mental health. Previous researches have shown that cognitive and non-cognitive abilities have positively direct or indirect effects on mental health, but few studies research their role of coping with air pollution. We used the China Family Panel Survey (CFPS) and matched individual data with county or district level PM2.5 information from NASA. The study found that air pollution has negative effect on mental health with every increase of 1

SUBMITTER: Ren T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6808496 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature