The Cumulative Relationship between Housing Instability and Mental Health

Findings from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20408366
AutoresSeungbeom Kang (0000-0002-8924-6415, Yonsei University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen31
Número2
Páginas191-203
Fecha de publicación2022-07-03
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social Distress and the Homeless (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1053-0789 • E-ISSN: 1573-658X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10530789.2021.1925038
OpenAlexW3160547225
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas19
Referencias citadas30

Housing instability has been known to be a key determinant of mental health. However, previous studies have focused heavily on examining the relationship between housing instability and mental health cross-sectionally with single-point-in-time measures and the cumulative nature of housing instability that could occur repeatedly over time has been largely overlooked. By analyzing a panel dataset uniquely constructed based on the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and other datasets, this paper examines whether the cumulative association exists between housing instability incidents and mental health. By estimating negative binomial regression models, I found that the more housing instability incidents an individual has been exposed to, the poorer the individual’s mental health is likely to be. In particular, when individuals experience housing instability incidents successively without a period of being stably housed, mental health conditions dramatically deteriorate until the duration of housing instability reaches six years. Also, cumulative exposure to housing instability incidents can lead individuals to critical mental problems, but such associations are not entirely linear. These findings suggest that future policy interventions should ensure that individuals placed at heightened risk of housing instability be proactively housing

Demographic economics · Developmental psychology · Econometrics · Economics · Environmental health · Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study · Instability · Mental health · Panel data · Panel Study of Income Dynamics · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Housing Market and Economics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Medicine · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies