Urbanicity and Depression among Chinese Youth: a Cross-Sectional Study Based on the China Labor-Force Dynamic Survey

IF 2 4区 社会学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy Pub Date : 2023-12-23 DOI:10.1007/s12061-023-09548-5
Zhixin Feng, Yajing Tang, Hongbin Huang, Ye Liu
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Many of China’s youth are struggling with mental health problems, and 24.6% of them were threatened by depression in 2022. Although various factors, like housing prices and the social trust crisis arising from fast urbanization, have been found to be primary social determinants of depression among Chinese young adults, the socio-psychological pathways linking urbanicity and their risk of depression are still unclear. This study aims to investigate associations between urbanicity and the severity of depressive symptoms among Chinese youth and explore the mediating roles of regular physical exercise, social capital, housing prices, and housing congestion in these associations using data from the 2016 wave of China’s Labor-force Dynamics Survey (CLDS). Structural Equation Modelling was used. Results show that a high level of urbanicity was negatively associated with young adults’ depressive symptoms. Housing prices significantly mediated the associations between the level of urbanicity and depressive symptoms; while, social capital, physical exercise and housing congestion were not associated between the level of urbanicity and depressive symptoms. Our findings may have policy implications regarding how to protect young people against depression in rapidly urbanizing China.

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城市化与中国青少年抑郁症:基于中国劳动力动态调查的横断面研究
中国的许多年轻人正在与心理健康问题作斗争,2022 年有 24.6% 的年轻人受到抑郁症的威胁。尽管房价和快速城市化带来的社会信任危机等各种因素被认为是中国年轻人抑郁的主要社会决定因素,但城市化与抑郁风险之间的社会心理路径仍不明确。本研究旨在利用中国劳动力动态调查(CLDS)2016 年的数据,调查城市化与中国青年抑郁症状严重程度之间的关联,并探讨经常性体育锻炼、社会资本、房价和住房拥挤程度在这些关联中的中介作用。研究采用了结构方程模型。结果显示,高城市化水平与青壮年抑郁症状呈负相关。房价对城市化水平和抑郁症状之间的关联有明显的中介作用;而社会资本、体育锻炼和住房拥挤程度与城市化水平和抑郁症状之间没有关联。我们的研究结果可能会对如何在快速城市化的中国保护青少年免受抑郁症的困扰产生政策影响。
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期刊介绍: Description The journal has an applied focus: it actively promotes the importance of geographical research in real world settings It is policy-relevant: it seeks both a readership and contributions from practitioners as well as academics The substantive foundation is spatial analysis: the use of quantitative techniques to identify patterns and processes within geographic environments The combination of these points, which are fully reflected in the naming of the journal, establishes a unique position in the marketplace. RationaleA geographical perspective has always been crucial to the understanding of the social and physical organisation of the world around us. The techniques of spatial analysis provide a powerful means for the assembly and interpretation of evidence, and thus to address critical questions about issues such as crime and deprivation, immigration and demographic restructuring, retailing activity and employment change, resource management and environmental improvement. Many of these issues are equally important to academic research as they are to policy makers and Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy aims to close the gap between these two perspectives by providing a forum for discussion of applied research in a range of different contexts  Topical and interdisciplinaryIncreasingly government organisations, administrative agencies and private businesses are requiring research to support their ‘evidence-based’ strategies or policies. Geographical location is critical in much of this work which extends across a wide range of disciplines including demography, actuarial sciences, statistics, public sector planning, business planning, economics, epidemiology, sociology, social policy, health research, environmental management.   FocusApplied Spatial Analysis and Policy will draw on applied research from diverse problem domains, such as transport, policing, education, health, environment and leisure, in different international contexts. The journal will therefore provide insights into the variations in phenomena that exist across space, it will provide evidence for comparative policy analysis between domains and between locations, and stimulate ideas about the translation of spatial analysis methods and techniques across varied policy contexts. It is essential to know how to measure, monitor and understand spatial distributions, many of which have implications for those with responsibility to plan and enhance the society and the environment in which we all exist.   Readership and Editorial BoardAs a journal focused on applications of methods of spatial analysis, Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy will be of interest to scholars and students in a wide range of academic fields, to practitioners in government and administrative agencies and to consultants in private sector organisations. The Editorial Board reflects the international and multidisciplinary nature of the journal.
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