Kids with conservative parents are happier
Submitted 11 months ago by ByteWizard@lemm.ee to conservative@lemm.ee
https://thespectator.com/newsletter/kids-with-conservative-parents-are-happier-01-4-2024/
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PizzaMane@lemm.ee 11 months ago
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 11 months ago
Here’s the actual study
…we measured mental health using an index, which combines youth-reported measures of well-being and mental health with parent-reports, as well as parental concerns about self-harm. The index has strong reliability and also predicts objective measures of mental health problems, such a psychiatric visits and prescriptions. For the purposes of this analysis, I define good mental health as scoring above average on this index, which is true for 62% of respondents; similarly, 67% of adolescents report their own mental health as good or excellent, and the two measures are highly correlated.
Naturally, public media reporting greatly overextends the research. At best, conservatives have kids have a higher than above average mental health index, or are less likely to self-harm, have fewer psychiatric visits and prescriptions. They are not necessarily happier.
Also, this is extremely interesting:
Very conservative parents, on average, enjoy the strongest relationships with their adolescent children, and liberals experience the worst. The difference is large and statistically significant at 95% confidence levels. Conservative parents are 8 percentage points more likely to be in a good relationship with their adolescent child than liberal parents, and the gap is 14 percentage points between very conservative and liberal parents.** Interestingly, however, “very liberal” parents score much higher than liberal parents, only slightly behind conservatives, with no significant difference**.
If a kid’s mental health is related to their parent’s conviction of their political ideology, then liberals need to get their shit together and move to the left. They’re not doing anyone any favors by with whatever their preferred parenting style is…or their weak politics.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
To be clear this study is a meta-analysis. It means it is not one study but a combination of data from many studies. Study after study has shown conservative people and children tend to be happier and have fewer issues with mental health. It isn’t shocking since the core of conservatism is stability and that is what children need to be successful. We provide them with the tools in life to control their destiny versus being a victim all the time. Their success is their own making vs some outside even being their destiny.
PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com 11 months ago
To be clear this study is a meta-analysis.
No it’s not…
From my link under the section “The Present Study”
We have access to our Gallup Panel, which consists of approximately 90,000 U.S. adults who were randomly selected to take a Gallup survey in the recent past and agreed to be recontacted for future surveys.
This is an empirical question:
Study after study has shown conservative people and children tend to be happier and have fewer issues with mental health.
Usually, I’d look for the evidence, but not today. If you can assert by simply typing it out, then I’ll reject it out of hand just as easily.
CM400@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Something springs to mind about correlation… some kind of saying…
Regardless, I don’t think polling people is a good way to determine mental health outcomes.
Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I know this is anecdotal but I have met/ known a few preachers daughters and other kids from church that don’t fit that profile at all.
PizzaMane@lemm.ee 11 months ago
That, and there needs to be a control for family wealth, which is tied to political affiliation.
If you’re from a poor family, you’re gonna have a lot more stress in your life, which will impact parententing style and children’s happiness.
Ekybio@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Im so glad this is paywalled.
JustZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yeah ignorance is bliss.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Funny, you didn’t read the study and came to that conclusion. Yes, ignorance is bliss when you don’t read the material.
JustZ@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I read it. Yeah no kidding, conservatives don’t take their kids for treatment for mental health problems. I’m sure their kids are a lot less stressed, they live in a world full of hope where the impending climate catastrophe is just a liberal hoax and where mass political violence is seen as a good thing. They are morons. They are ignorant, of course they are happy, they don’t have to face their problems because they are so gullible they don’t realize there is one.
Just another thing to make liberals sad, is how dumb conservatives and their idiot kids are.