PAC-10-BEAR said:
According to the great Michael Savage, liberalism is a mental disorder.
Again, Claude with evidence, notes that this is not credible and not peer-reviewed:
"The specific "four times more likely" claim doesn't appear to come from a credible peer-reviewed study. Here's what the actual research landscape looks like:
What legitimate research does show:There is a genuine and well-documented finding that self-reported mental health tends to be worse among Democrats/liberals than Republicans/conservatives. Gallup polling found that 58% of Republicans report having excellent mental health, compared to 43% of independents and 38% of Democrats a gap that persists across income, age, gender, and education levels. A peer-reviewed study published during the COVID-19 pandemic also found a clear partisan distress gap, with Democrats consistently reporting worse mental health than Republicans.
GallupPubMed CentralBut the "4x" figure is not supported:A Johns Hopkins study found that 25.2% of Democrats screened positive for depression compared to 20.5% of Republicans a modest gap that was not even statistically significant. Nobody in the credible literature is finding a fourfold difference.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public HealthA major caveat the research highlights:The stigma surrounding mental health among conservatives is likely inflating their self-reported evaluations conservatives may view mental illness as a sign of weakness, and in describing their own mental health, may want to reinforce separation from those with mental illnesses. When researchers substituted "overall mood" for "mental health" in survey questions, the ideological gap disappeared entirely.
Tufts UniversityNewsweekBottom line: The "four times" figure sounds like it may have originated from partisan commentary or social media misrepresentation of real but much more modest survey findings. There is no credible peer-reviewed study supporting that specific claim."
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