Conservatives are Happier, Mentally Healthier than Liberals - Study

[WTH_Progs?]

I have…you haven’t.

Pew Study: White Liberals Disproportionately Suffer From Mental Illness.

Survey data from a 2020 Pew poll indicates that white liberals disproportionately suffer from mental illness versus their conservative counterparts. The study, which examined white liberals, moderates, and conservatives, both male and female, found that conservatives were far less likely to be...

wibc.com

Why Depression Rates Are Higher Among Liberals

Columbia researchers look at the politics of despair.

magazine.columbia.edu

 

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[otto105]

American Affairs Journal

How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives

by Musa al-Gharbi March 21, 2023

In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. This gap was present in all years observed in the study (2005–18). It grew significantly starting in 2012, however, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals. Three years later, conservatives also began reporting increases in depression—although that rise tapered off relatively quickly while the increases among liberals continued.

Liberal girls tended to be significantly more depressed than boys, particularly after 2011. However, ideological differences swamped gender differences. Indeed, liberal boys were significantly more likely to report depression than conservatives of either gender. The authors also found that the more educated a teen’s family was, the more likely the young people were to be depressed, and the more dramatic their rise in depression was after 2012.

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And stupider as ignorance is bliss.

 

[Libby von H]

American Affairs Journal

How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives

by Musa al-Gharbi March 21, 2023

In a recent essay for Social Science & Medicine–Mental Health, epidemiologist Catherine Gimbrone and coauthors identified a significant gap in depressive attitudes between liberal and conservative teens. This gap was present in all years observed in the study (2005–18). It grew significantly starting in 2012, however, as depressive affect unilaterally spiked among liberals. Three years later, conservatives also began reporting increases in depression—although that rise tapered off relatively quickly while the increases among liberals continued.

Liberal girls tended to be significantly more depressed than boys, particularly after 2011. However, ideological differences swamped gender differences. Indeed, liberal boys were significantly more likely to report depression than conservatives of either gender. The authors also found that the more educated a teen’s family was, the more likely the young people were to be depressed, and the more dramatic their rise in depression was after 2012.

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In a world of great immoral or a-moral changes happiness depends on not tying your soul and life to fickle changing winds.
My liberal friends now live off the venom of the occasional 'punishment' of the conservatives they hate.

 

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[Libby von H]

Critically, these facts don’t tell us anything about which worldview is morally correct. Outside of Randian objectivism, it is widely acknowledged that what is maximally advantageous for oneself is not necessarily the most moral thing to do. Doing the right thing instead regularly imposes risks and costs on those who step up. Consequently, the fact that conservatism has practical advantages for adherents while liberalism may undermine well-being doesn’t necessarily tell us which ideology is more ethical to hold. Those are questions better suited for theology and philosophy than social science.

social science/SOCIOLOGY used not to have such a hard time making a determination.

Critically, you missed the point entirely, that is not a statistical anomaly, or withing the margin of error. It measures something real. Very real
It must tell us something about what is morally correct if X leads to happiness and not-X not to happiness.

and how odious your abuse of logic : If doing good is an advantage than the moral thing is the most advantageous, so said Socrates, Jesus, up to Abraham Lincoln.

IT DOES TELL US WHAT IDEOLOGY to not hold, and that would be whatever distinguishes non-conservatives from conservatives, unless you want to go whole-hog mindless and say what they have in common is no good either

A question is best suited to what answers it. the Theology/philosophy/ social science distinction is utterly bogus. YOU START with how people are and THEN explain it.

 

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