Mental disorders and Mobile cell phone usage - An international comparison
(2019) NEKN01 20191Department of Economics
- Abstract
- Mental health disorders and the cost associated with them for have long been a global burden. Recently a rise in mental disorders especially among the younger generations have been seen in a number of studies while the same group have seen a rapid change in mobile cell phone habits. This paper therefore aims to investigate potential connections between the mobile phone internet usage and mental disorders adding other social variables commonly used while measuring mental health. Three different regressions are made on international panel data to investigate change in mental health in the general population. Significant results cannot be found for mobile internet usage and many of the other variables are only significant in the last form of... (More)
- Mental health disorders and the cost associated with them for have long been a global burden. Recently a rise in mental disorders especially among the younger generations have been seen in a number of studies while the same group have seen a rapid change in mobile cell phone habits. This paper therefore aims to investigate potential connections between the mobile phone internet usage and mental disorders adding other social variables commonly used while measuring mental health. Three different regressions are made on international panel data to investigate change in mental health in the general population. Significant results cannot be found for mobile internet usage and many of the other variables are only significant in the last form of regression known for variance bias. For further and more significant research to be conducted the importance of a more common and systematically reported metric of the prevalence of mental disorders is stressed. (Less)
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- author
- Böhlin, Andreas LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- NEKN01 20191
- year
- 2019
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Health Economics, Mental health, Mental Disorders, Mobile phone usage, SES
- language
- English
- id
- 8996837
- date added to LUP
- 2019-10-25 09:10:22
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- 2019-10-25 09:10:22
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