经济社会地位、年龄与心理健康：一项基于上海的实证研究

本文从社会结构的角度出发，以“2008年中国家庭动态调查（上海卷）”的数据为基础，考察了心理健康在社会各阶层间的分布以及这些分布在年龄组间的变化。结果显示，教育、收入、职业地位、社会地位与心理健康正面相关，而经济困难和不公正待遇则与心理健康负面相关。年龄和心理健康的关系呈现出“∩”型发展趋势；职业类型及教育程度对心理健康的作用在不同年龄组中出现了不同程度的变化。失业者较好的心理状态及青年技术人员较差的心理健康状况则需要做进一步的研究。

Socioeconomic Status,Age and Mental Health:An Empirical Study in Shanghai

From the perspective of social structure and based on the data from the"Chinese Family Panel Studies in 2008-Shanghai,"this study analyzes the distributions of mental health among different social classes and the distributional changes across different age groups.Mental health is found to be positively correlated with education,income,occupation,and social position but negatively with financial difficulties and anfair treatments.The relationship between age and mental health displays an inverted U-shaped("n")developmental Wend.In addition,varied changes are observed in the relationships of occupation type and education with mental health across different age groups.Further studies are needed to explain the better mental state of those who have been laid off but the poorer menml state of young technical workers.