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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
Volume 56, Issue 1, Pages 107-110Publisher
BIRKHAUSER VERLAG AG
DOI: 10.1007/s00038-010-0202-z
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Educational inequalities; Depressive symptoms; Europe; International differences
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Variations in the association between education and depressive symptoms in 22 European countries are investigated. Analyses are based on the European Social Survey Round 3 (N = 34,443). Education was coded according to the International Standard Classification of Education. Depressive symptoms are measured by the shortened Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D 8). The results of multiple logistic regressions show that people with low education have elevated risks of experiencing a high score of depressive symptoms. Relatively large inequalities were observed among both sexes for Hungary and Slovenia, small and non-significant inequalities for Austria, Denmark, and Estonia. The results indicate that educational inequalities in depressive symptoms are a generalized although not invariant phenomenon.
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