Poverty and mental health present a classic “chicken and the egg” conundrum. Does mental illness hamper economic success? Or do financial failures threaten one’s mental well-being?
Those are the questions a multinational group of researchers sought to answer with a groundbreaking study in the journal Nature Human Behaviour. And the short answer is, yes. The two aren’t just linked; they’re part of a causal relationship.
“This study indicates that certain mental health problems can make a person’s financial situation uncertain,” Amsterdam UMC psychiatrist Marco Boks said. “But conversely, we also see that poverty can lead to mental health problems.”
Can totally see this. The worse someones financial situation the more they resort to magical thinking type things.
People believe in magical thinking at all income levels.
yes. all of human behavior exists at all levels within all people to some degree or another but some situations will exacerbate a particular thing.
Damn, looking down on people trying to cling to whatever out they can find isn’t a good look
You’re really reaching for the worst interpretation of this guy, I don’t see where he was passing judgement. Who buys lottery tickets or donates to televangelists? It’s an observation about how those without hope are vulnerable to exploitation, and vaguely shitting on it with unparseable grammar isn’t a great look for you
Whelp didn’t notice the typo, so I guess thanks for pointing that out. I feel like they are blaming the victim a bit still though.
whatever. I have experienced it. Once you have no practical way of effecting something you have no choice but to rely on hope, luck, faith, whatever. None of it is going to change anything. Heck had these poor folks handing out prosperity doctrine pamphlets because they get hooked to think if they are just sincere enough in this faith they will get prosperity. Its some scary trump.
So you still look down on them for “magical thinking” even though you’ve experienced it? Isn’t that kinda blaming the victim?
well look. first off you are the one with the looking down on them thing. Im talking about a somewhat inescapable psychological issue with no win scenarios.