The instruction helps reduce the risk of depression, according to OECD annual report Education at a Glance. In fact, the higher the level of education, the less likely individuals are to be unemployed and to have a low salary, risk factors for mental health issues.
The conclusions of the OECD Education at a Glance report were established using data from a large-scale health survey interviewed (EHIS) in several European countries in 2014. They reveal that 8% of individuals aged 25 to 64 reported having suffered from depression in the twelve months preceding the survey and that “the prevalence of depression reported by respondents varies significantly depending on the level of training”.
Education against depression
Indeed, this report announces that in France, the percentage of people with depression is twice as high among individuals who have not graduated from upper secondary education (12%), and among people who have not. the baccalaureate, than among graduates of higher education (6%). “The percentage of adults who say they suffer from depression decreases with each successive stage of education,” says the annual report of the OECD.
If the number of women declaring themselves depressed remains higher than the percentage of men, “it decreases more sharply than that of men under the effect of the increase in the level of training”.
Unemployment, inactivity and money problems being risk factors for depression, “raising the level of training gives individuals better tools to cope with this risk factor”, recalls the report “Education at a glance”.
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