Educational attainment and emotional well-being in adolescence and adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Education has been conceptualized as a causal factor leading to emotional well-being. However, it is also possible that some of the effect of education may be due to selection factors. Analyzing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (n = 10,908), we asked: to what extent does educational attainment increase emotional well-being once stable observed and unobserved individual characteristics are accounted for? Findings from fixed effects models showed that attaining a college degree was associated with greater emotional well-being. However, interactions with gender indicate that the positive association with emotional well-being is primarily for women, although a small negative association between completing college and depressive affect was found for men. T

SUBMITTER: Lee KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9875584 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature