@article{03165a4d19574a669022e9f1cb20c3d9,
title = "Early-Onset Psychiatric Disorders and Male Socioeconomic Status",
abstract = "We seek to integrate economic, sociological and psychological models by examining whether early-onset psychiatric disorders predict adult male socioeconomic status. Unlike most status attainment studies, we include information on major psychiatric disorders. We use data from the National Comorbidity Survey, the first survey to administer a structured psychiatric interview to a national probability sample in the U.S. Our sample includes men between the ages of 25 and 54. We find that disorders that occur before age 16 reduce educational attainment and the probability of being currently married and increase the probability of having a recent disorder, each of which is a predictor of adult male unemployment. We also find that these early-onset disorders have a direct negative effect on male employment. The estimated magnitudes of these effects are often as large as those of family background variables, suggesting that research on adult male SES should pay greater attention to mental health issues.",
author = "Rukmalie Jayakody and Sheldon Danziger and Kessler, \{Ronald C.\}",
note = "Funding Information: We seek to integrate economic, sociological and psychological models by examining whether early-onset psychiatric disorders predict adult male socioeconomic status. Unlike most status attainment studies, we include information on major psychiatric disorders. We use data from the National Comorbidity Survey, the first survey to administer a structured psychiatric interview to a national probability sample in the U.S. Our sample includes men between the ages of 25 and 54. We find that disorders that occur before age 16 reduce educational attainment and the probability of being currently married and increase the probability of having a recent disorder, each of which is a predictor of adult male unemployment. We also find that these early-onset disorders have a direct negative effect on male employment. The estimated magnitudes of these effects are often as large as those of family background variables, suggesting that research on adult male SES should pay greater attention to mental health issues. r 1998 Academic Press Rukmalie Jayakody is Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies and Research Associate at the Population Research Institute at Pennsylvania State University. Sheldon Danziger is Professor of Social Work and Public Policy and Director of the Social Work Research and Development Center on Poverty, Risk, and Mental Health at the University of Michigan. Ronald C. Kessler is Professor of Health Care Policy at the Harvard Medical School. This research was supported by grants from the National Institute of Mental Health (R24 MH51363, R01 MH46376, and R01 MH49098), with supplemental support from the National Institute of Drug Abuse (through a supplement to R01 MH46376) and the W.T. Grant Foundation (Grant 90135190). The authors thank Markus Jantti, Samuel Lind, Kenneth Lutterman, and Michael Spencer for comments on prior drafts and Jilenne Gunther for table preparation.",
year = "1998",
month = dec,
doi = "10.1006/ssre.1997.0616",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "27",
pages = "371--387",
journal = "Social Science Research",
issn = "0049-089X",
publisher = "Academic Press Inc.",
number = "4",
}
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