Local partisan context and mental health

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Baxter-King, Ryan; Brown, Jacob R.; Enos, Ryan D.; Naeim, Arash; Vavreck, Lynn
• 署名单位: Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE); University of Nevada Reno; Boston University; Harvard University; Harvard University; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles; University of California System; University of California Los Angeles
• 刊物名称: PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0027-8424; 1091-6490
• DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2522718123
• 发表日期: 2026-07-07
• 页码: e2522718123
• 关键词: Partisanship; Mental health; geography; DEPRESSION; Loneliness; community; validity; ANXIETY; support

摘要

We find that, relative to Republicans residing in more Republican neighborhoods, Republicans in neighborhoods with a higher concentration of Democratic residents report higher levels of anxiety, depression, and loneliness. While Democrats in general report worse mental health than Republicans, Democrats show no sensitivity to partisan context. Using a large-scale national survey and fine-grained data on residential political context, we establish that these patterns persist even when examining partisans who live in the same Zip Codes, and while controlling for other individual and geographic features. The correlation is strongest for the most strongly partisan individuals, suggesting that politics is a significant factor in the relationship. For Republicans, the size of the relationship between partisan context and mental health is comparable to or larger than the correlation between mental health reports and other contextual features of residential areas, such as neighborhood poverty or the way racial minorities respond to changes in the racial or ethnic composition of local geography.