{"id":8718,"date":"2020-05-27T04:17:33","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/?p=8718"},"modified":"2020-05-27T04:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T03:25:44","slug":"new-study-out-mental-illness-and-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/2020\/05\/new-study-out-mental-illness-and-the-left\/","title":{"rendered":"New study out: Mental Illness and the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-27-05-25-13.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-8735 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-27-05-25-13-300x216.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-27-05-25-13-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-27-05-25-13.png 537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, this one has been public as as preprint for a while (<a href=\"https:\/\/psyarxiv.com\/vbqw9\/\"><del>PsyArxiv<\/del><\/a> [this is tagged as private?!], <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/jgqd3\/\">OSF<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/339541044_Mental_illness_and_the_left\">ResearchGate<\/a> ~9k views), but it is now officially published in <a href=\"https:\/\/mankindquarterly.org\/\"><em>Mankind Quarterly<\/em><\/a>, the best place to publish human biodiversity content (also <a href=\"https:\/\/openpsych.net\/\">OpenPsych<\/a> but currently inactive pending completion of ongoing development work).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n<div class=\"csl-entry\">Kirkegaard, E. O. W. (2020). Mental Illness and the Left. <i>Mankind Quarterly<\/i>, <i>60<\/i>(4). <a href=\"http:\/\/mankindquarterly.org\/upcoming\/issue\/60-4\/3\">http:\/\/mankindquarterly.org\/upcoming\/issue\/60-4\/3<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>It has been claimed that left-wingers or liberals (US sense) tend to more often suffer from mental illness than right-wingers or conservatives. This potential link was investigated using the General Social Survey cumulative cross-sectional dataset (1972-2018). A search of the available variables resulted in 5 items measuring one&#8217;s own mental illness (e.g., \u201dDo you have any emotional or mental disability?\u201d). All of these items were weakly associated with left-wing political ideology as measured by self-report, with especially high rates seen for the \u201cextremely liberal\u201d group. These results mostly held up in regressions that adjusted for age, sex, and race. For the variable with the most data (n = 11,338), the difference in the mental illness measure between \u201cextremely liberal\u201d and \u201cextremely conservative\u201d was 0.39 d. Temporal analysis showed that the relationship between mental illness, happiness, and political ideology has existed in the GSS data since the 1970s and still existed in the 2010s. Within-study meta-analysis of all the results found that extreme liberals had a 150% increased rate of mental illness compared to moderates. The finding of increased mental illness among left-wingers is congruent with numerous findings based on related constructs, such as positive relationships between conservatism, religiousness and health in general.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Video presentation<\/h3>\n<p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Mental illness and the left\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XXOLaFFfj4Y?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3>Main results<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-29-50.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8729\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-29-50.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"673\" height=\"539\" 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src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-34-06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"944\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-34-06.png 944w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-34-06-300x213.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-34-06-768x545.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 944px) 100vw, 944px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-35-54.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8724\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-35-54.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"953\" height=\"676\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-35-54.png 953w, 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src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-39-59.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"930\" height=\"761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-39-59.png 930w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-39-59-300x245.png 300w, https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-39-59-768x628.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 930px) 100vw, 930px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-40-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8720\" src=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-40-11.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"952\" height=\"746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emilkirkegaard.dk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screenshot-from-2020-05-24-20-40-11.png 952w, 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Kirkegaard, E. O. W. 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