The gender gap in adolescent mental health: A cross-national investigation of 566,829 adolescents across 73 countries.

ABSTRACT: Mental ill-health is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. While women suffer from greater levels of mental health disorders, it remains unclear whether this gender gap differs systematically across regions and/or countries, or across the different dimensions of mental health. We analysed 2018 data from 566,829 adolescents across 73 countries for 4 mental health outcomes: psychological distress, life satisfaction, eudaemonia, and hedonia. We examine average gender differences and distributions for each of these outcomes as well as country-level associations between each outcome and purported determinants at the country level: wealth (GDP per capita), inequality (Gini index), and societal indicators of gender inequality (GII, GGGI, and GSNI). We report four main results: 1) The gende

SUBMITTER: Campbell OLK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7960541 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature