Early-life income inequality and adolescent mental health and bullying - Frank J Elgar, McGill University Genevieve Gariepy, Université

sahm_poster_2020 Early-life income inequality and adolescent mental health and bullying Frank J Elgar, McGill University Genevieve Gariepy, Université de Montréal Background We tested the associations between income inequality As shown in Table 2, lifetime income inequality (ie, average gini indices and adolescent mental health and bullying using 4-level from birth to early adolescence) related to. [...] These ‘hybrid models’ cumulative effects controlled, income inequality from birth to age 4 inequality hypothesis,’ large income differences between rich contained within-country effects of individual specifically related to mental health symptoms and lower life and poor are socially corrosive and contributes to violence and characteristics and fixed, between-country effects of satisfaction in girl. [...] As aggregated data, cross-sectional designs and small samples and shown in Figure 2, inequality in the first 4 years of life was uniquely lacked the power needed to control individual- and area-level Results associated with being bullied and the combined outcome of bullying and wealth. [...] Mean (SD) [Range] Two studies tested this assumption of temporality in the Variable Males (n=430,735) Females (n=456,397) income inequality hypothesis by retrospectively examining links Mental health symptoms 7.0 (6.0) 9.2 (6.6) between income inequality in early-life and mental health and [0, 32] [0, 32] Life satisfaction 7.7 (1.9) 7.5 (2.0) bullying in adolescence. [...] Data on national wealth (per capita income) and post-tax Males Females Early-life exposure to income inequality relates to mental health income inequality (Gini index) were gathered for each Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 Model 1 Model 2 Model 3 symptoms in female adolescents and to bullying victimization in both country/year group for every year of life of the sample, b (95% CI) b (95% CI) b (95% CI) b.