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  • Sociology
  • Public Health
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • U.S. working-age mortality (ages 25-64) is increasing, but causes remain incompletely understood.
  • Existing analyses often lack individual-level behavioral and characteristic data.
  • Despair is hypothesized as a catalyst for self-destructive behaviors leading to mortality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically investigate the role of individual despair in predicting mortality.
  • To examine the relationship between young adult despair and subsequent all-cause, suicide, and drug poisoning mortality.

Main Methods:

  • Cox proportional hazards models were used.
  • Data included behavioral risk factors and latent variable measures of despair in young adulthood (ages 24-32 in 2008-2009).
  • Mortality risk was estimated through 2022 for 12,277 individuals.

Main Results:

  • Suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, illegal drug use, and prescription drug abuse in young adulthood predicted all-cause, suicide, and drug poisoning mortality.
  • All four domains of despair (cognitive, emotional, biosomatic, behavioral) and overall despair predicted all-cause, suicide, and drug poisoning mortality.

Conclusions:

  • Individual despair in young adulthood is a significant predictor of subsequent all-cause mortality.
  • Findings provide empirical evidence linking despair to increased mortality risk, particularly from suicide and drug poisoning.
  • This research enhances understanding of life course contributors to working-age mortality.