The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs - PMC
5 empirical findings extracted from peer-reviewed research.
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The politics of depression: Diverging trends in internalizing symptoms among US adolescents by political beliefs - PMC
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Key Findings
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Female liberal adolescents with low parental education had the highest overall depressive affect scores in both 2010 and 2018.
- Mean DA 2010: 2.02 (SD 0.81) / 2018: 2.75 (SD 0.92) (N=86.1K) [2018]
- 🟡 Strong Signal | survey
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Increases in depressive affect scores were most pronounced for female liberal adolescents.
- b for interaction = 0.17 (95% CI: 0.01, 0.32) (N=86.1K) [2018]
- 🟡 Strong Signal | survey
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Trends in adolescent internalizing symptoms diverged by political beliefs, sex, and parental education over time, with female liberal adolescents experiencing the largest increases in depressive symptoms.
- diverging trends (N=86.1K) [2018]
- 🟡 Strong Signal | survey
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From 2005 to 2018, 19.8% of US 12th-grade students identified as liberal, and 18.1% identified as conservative, with little change in these proportions over time.
- 19.8% liberal; 18.1% conservative (N=86.1K) [2018]
- 🟡 Strong Signal | survey
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Depressive affect scores increased for all adolescents after 2010.
- increase after 2010 (N=86.1K) [2018]
- 🟡 Strong Signal | survey
Confidence Summary
| Tier | Count | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 🟢 Irrefutable | 0 | Meta-analyses, large RCTs, Cochrane reviews |
| 🟡 Strong Signal | 5 | Multiple studies, large surveys |
| 🟠Hypothesis | 0 | Single study, small N, preliminary |