A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
A network approach to the analysis of psychosocial risk factors and their association with health
Authors: Elovainio Marko, Hakulinen Christian, Pulkki-Råback Laura, Juonala Markus, Raitakari Olli
Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
Publication year: 2020
Journal: Journal of Health Psychology
Journal name in source: Journal of Health Psychology
Volume: 25
Issue: 10-11
First page : 1587
Last page: 1600
eISSN: 1461-7277
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1359105318765624
We modeled early psychosocial risks as a network of interconnected variables to study their associations with later depressive symptoms and cardiometabolic outcomes. The participants were a nationally representative sample of 2580 men and women aged 3–18 years in 1980. Their parents reported the psychosocial risks in 1980, including the following: (1) child-specific life events, (2) parental health behavior, (3) parental socioeconomic status, and (4) parental psychological problems. Adulthood depressive symptoms and cardiometabolic outcomes were measured in 2007–2012. The most central risks (most number of connections to other risks) were socioeconomic risks that also predicted health outcomes more consistently than others.