Bryson, Alex;
Bell, David NF;
Blanchflower, DG;
(2026)
The declining mental health of the young in the UK.
Scottish Journal of Political Economy
(In press).
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Abstract
Using several data sets for the UK we track rising perceptions of mental ill-health among the working-age population in the UK. The trend is apparent among all age groups and for men and women, but it is most pronounced among the young, and especially young women aged under 25. Young men's mental well-being began to fall markedly from 2008 whereas young women's mental ill-health began to deteriorate a few years later. The age profile of mental well-being shifts to the right over time such that the nadir of mental well-being shifts from mid-life, when people are in their late 40s and early 50s, around the time of the Great Recession, to one's early to mid-20s in 2023.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | The declining mental health of the young in the UK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/14679485 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | For the purpose of open access, the author(s) has applied a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission. |
| Keywords: | mental wellbeing, ill-being, subjective wellbeing |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220205 |
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