abstract: 'Background: Decreasing gender differences in mental health are found

  largely in countries in which the roles of men and women have improved

  in terms of opportunities for employment, education, child care and

  other indicators of increasing gender equality. In this study, we

  examine how European welfare regimes influence this association between

  mental health and the social roles that men and women occupy.

  Methods: The EU-World Mental Health data are used, which covers the

  general population in 10 European countries (n = 37 289); Countries were

  grouped into four welfare regions: Liberal regime (Northern Ireland),

  Bismarckian regime (Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands and France),

  Southern regime (Spain, Italy, Portugal) and Central-Eastern regime

  (Romania and Bulgaria). The lifetime prevalence of mood, anxiety and

  alcohol disorders was determined by using the Composite International

  Diagnostic Interview 3.0. Overall prevalence rates along with odds

  ratios by means of bivariate logistic regression models are calculated

  to compare the presence of common mental disorders in women versus men

  per welfare regime.

  Results: Overall prevalence of common mental disorders is highest in the

  Liberal regime and lowest in the Central/Eastern regime. The gender gap

  in mental disorders is largest in the Southern regime and smallest in

  the Liberal regime. Marital status and certain employment positions help

  to explain variation in mental disorders across and within welfare

  regimes.

  Conclusion: Most prominent pathways linking gender to mental ill-health

  being are related to marital status and certain employment positions.

  However, these pathways also show substantial variation across welfare

  regimes.'
affiliation: 'Van de Velde, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Antwerp, Ctr Longitudinal
  \& Life Course Studies, Dept Sociol, Stadscampus SM 383,Sint Jacobstr 2-4, B-2000
  Antwerp, Belgium.

  Van de Velde, Sarah; Boyd, Anders; Kovess-Masfety, Viviane, Paris Descartes Univ,
  EHESP, EA4057, Paris, France.

  Van de Velde, Sarah, Univ Antwerp, Ctr Longitudinal \& Life Course Studies, Dept
  Sociol, Stadscampus SM 383,Sint Jacobstr 2-4, B-2000 Antwerp, Belgium.

  Boyd, Anders, Inst Pierre Louis Epidemiol \& Sante Publ, INSERM, UMR S1136, Paris,
  France.

  Villagut, Gemma; Alonso, Jordi, IMIM Hosp Mar, Med Res Inst, Hlth Serv Res Unit,
  Barcelona \& CIBER Epidemiol \& Salud Publ CIBERESP, Barcelona, Spain.

  Bruffaerts, Ronny, KU Leuven Univ, Univ Psychiat Ctr KU Leuven, Dept Neurosci, Res
  Grp Psychiat, Leuven, Belgium.

  De Graaf, Ron, Netherlands Inst Mental Hlth \& Addict, Utrecht, Netherlands.

  Florescu, Silvia, Natl Sch Publ Hlth Management \& Profess Dev, Bucharest, Romania.

  Haro, Josep, Parc Sanitari Sant Joan de Deu, Dr Antoni Pujadas 42, Barcelona 08830,
  Spain.'
author: Van de Velde, Sarah and Boyd, Anders and Villagut, Gemma and Alonso, Jordi
  and Bruffaerts, Ronny and De Graaf, Ron and Florescu, Silvia and Haro, Josep and
  Kovess-Masfety, Viviane and Investigators, EU-WMH
author-email: sarah.vandevelde@uantwerpen.be
author_list:
- family: Van de Velde
  given: Sarah
- family: Boyd
  given: Anders
- family: Villagut
  given: Gemma
- family: Alonso
  given: Jordi
- family: Bruffaerts
  given: Ronny
- family: De Graaf
  given: Ron
- family: Florescu
  given: Silvia
- family: Haro
  given: Josep
- family: Kovess-Masfety
  given: Viviane
- family: Investigators
  given: EU-WMH
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1093/eurpub/cky240
eissn: 1464-360X
files: []
issn: 1101-1262
journal: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH
keywords-plus: 'SELF-PERCEIVED HEALTH; STATE REGIMES; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; POPULATION

  HEALTH; CHILD-CARE; DEPRESSION; INEQUALITIES; POLICIES; FAMILY; WORK'
language: English
month: JUN
number: '3'
number-of-cited-references: '39'
orcid-numbers: 'Alonso, Jordi/0000-0001-8627-9636

  Boyd, Anders/0000-0001-9512-8928

  BRUFFAERTS, RONNY/0000-0002-0330-3694

  Van de Velde, Sarah/0000-0001-7682-0484

  kovess-masfety, viviane/0000-0001-7045-6175'
pages: 481-487
papis_id: 05cbf80e74d42113bd72743777a7317c
ref: Vandevelde2019genderdifferences
researcherid-numbers: 'Alonso, Jordi/A-5514-2010

  Florescu, Silvia/AAX-7951-2020

  Boyd, Anders/GLQ-8906-2022

  BRUFFAERTS, RONNY/AAA-2364-2021

  Van de Velde, Sarah/S-4874-2016

  '
times-cited: '14'
title: 'Gender differences in common mental disorders: a comparison of social risk
  factors across four European welfare regimes'
type: Article
unique-id: WOS:000486962600021
usage-count-last-180-days: '3'
usage-count-since-2013: '20'
volume: '29'
web-of-science-categories: Public, Environmental \& Occupational Health
year: '2019'